Re: What does religion mean to you?
Peace Masi Museebtay
Nice question …
Think of a deep hole in the ground … imagine there are children at the bottom and they can’t come out … then someone drops a rope down to them that they can climb to get out. This rope is called a “life line” - and verily Islam for me is none other than the “rope of Allah” that if I hold tight to it - (the life line is how this rope offers “life” in the Hereafter), then I will be out … Although I can climb this rope I will never be able to get out by climbing because the hole is too deep … However, as long as I hold tight … it means later when the rope is taken out (which is The Day of Judgement) all those who are holding the rope will be taken out of the hole with the rope (Mercy of God) …
So to me religion is a “life line” and in the capacity of a “Mercy” if I didn’t have it I would never be able to come out of the hole that I am in. This worldy existence is that hole and I see some children are playing on the floor of that hole who look up to the rope and see it going upwards without ending and who fear the effort to climb it resorting to leaving it and continue playing their games in the hole …
Some children try to come out of the hole without using the rope and slip back down (such is the case of those who choose a religion other than what is true, or who say they have earned their virtues or those who do not attribute their success to God) … some children think they can come out of the hole by digging downwards or by cutting the rope so other children who are not playing with them can play with them. (Those children do not know that they dig their own graves - setting themselves up for the Torment) … for if you dig too deep the ground becomes hot and then like fire.
Religion is the EXIT sign that is lit with a green light in a deathly smoke filled room …
A LIFE LINE
What a horribly pessimistic and negative approach to life. This is an awesome life.. not some terrible hole or smoke filled room. This is an awesome planet. Live life.