Why life is a prison for a believer ?
Life is a prison for a believer, I've heard it many times but I would used to wonder how is it possible for life to be a prison, and obviously, how would know it as this is something only a true believer experiences?
Now, I don't know whether I'm a true believer or not, but I know what it means and how it feels like to be in the prison of life.
Love of this world and its belongings breaks a believer in every single moment of his life. Nobody can become a believer just by saying, Oh, hello! I'm Mr. or Ms. Believer...Because that's not how it works as to get something you've to pay something...
The case of a believer is different; he sees good in every bad and good in every good. In every second of his life, he is on the battlefield or in a kind of examination hall, where you'll find him either struggling with himself or with his surroundings.
He can't tell whether he would or has passed the trial inflicted upon him and perhaps most of the time he doesn't know whether he is in the trial or not but his struggle is constant and real.
His love for worldly affairs breaks him and tears him apart into pieces, but this breaking too is for good as it opens up and widens his chest and enhances his vision, through which can look at the bigger picture and aim to reach the heights of taqwa.
A believer is sometimes more like a little innocent girl with her toy to play with. Sometimes she knows how to play while other times she doesn't know!
It's easy to play when you know how to play but the difficulty comes when you don't know how to play and still choose to play...
The innocent girl whenever chooses to play, as she is designed to do so, she breaks it most of the time, and, then the most beautiful part begins.
Whenever she breaks it, she grabs her toy tightly in her hand, with reddish teary eyes, and runs with a rush towards someone she knows who'll make it whole again.
When she gets her toy back, she tries her best not to break it again. But she is designed to break it again and again and so on until she grows to heights of high morals and is strong enough to decide to stop playing with it and give it to one who deserves it.
So, who's more worthy than the one who designed it in the first place?
The heart of a believer (little girl) is the toy with which he plays. He breaks it by his disobedience or transgression against the highest power and then regrets overcomes !
So, whenever his heart gets attached to this dunya, even for a while, he breaks it, and his soul scatters.
But, a true believer knows his origin and to whom he belongs.
So, this breaking is necessary as coming back to the origin is then more intense and stronger than before...
The heart is a sacred place, so be careful of whom you make in charge of it and reside in it!
