Time in Islam: Time is very precious utilize reading Noble Quran

Since last night my youngson has been unwell. When I got back from
work this evening I decided to take him to hospital despite my
exhaustion. There were many waiting; perhaps we will be delayed by
more than an hour. I took my number and sat down in the waiting room.
There were many faces, young and old, but all silent.
Some brothers made use of the many booklets available in the waiting
room. Some of those waiting had their eyes closed, while others
werelooking around. Most were bored. Once in a while the long silence
was broken by a nurse calling out a number. Happiness appears on
theone whose turn it is, and he gets up quickly; then silence returns.
A young man grabbed myattention. He was reading a pocket-sized Noble
Qur'an continuously; not raising his head even once. At first I did
not think much about him. However, after one hour of waitingmy casual
glances turned into a deep reflection about his lifestyle and how he
utilizes his time. One hour of life wasted! Instead of making benefit
of that hour, it was just a boring wait. Then the call for prayer was
made. We went to prayer in the hospital's Masjid (Mosque). I tried to
pray close to the man who was reading the Noble Qur'an earlier in the
waiting room.
After the prayer I walked with him. I informed him of how impressed I
was of him and how he tries to benefit from his time.
He told me that most of our time is wasted without any benefit. These
are days that go from our lives without being conscious of them or
regretting their waste.He said that he started carrying the
pocket-sizedNoble Qur'an around when a friend encouraged him to make
full use of his time. He told me that in the time other people waste
he gets to read much more of the Noble Qur'an than he gets to read
either at home or in the mosque. Moreover, besides the reward of
reading the Noble Qur'an, this habit saves him from boredom and
stress.
He added that he has now been waiting for one and a half hours. Then
he asked, when willyou find one and a half hours to read the Noble
Qur'an? I reflected; how much time do we waste? How many moments of
our lives pass by, and yet we do not account for how they passed by?
Indeed, how many months pass by and we do not read the Noble Qur'an? I
came to respect my companion, and I discovered that I am to stand for
account and that time is not in my hand; so what am I waiting for? My
thoughts were interrupted by the nurse calling out my number; I went
to the doctor.
But I want to achieve something now. After I left the hospital I
quickly went to the bookshop and bought a pocket-sized Noble Qur'an. I
decided to be mindful of how I spend the time.

Quran Stories for Children: Who will take the Noble Qur'an?

A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had
everything in their collection, from Picasso (Spanish artist who lived
in France) to Raphael (Italian painter). They would often sit together
and admire the great works of art.
When the Vietnam conflict broke out, the son went to war. He was very
courageous and died in battle while rescuing another soldier. The
father was notified and grieved deeply for his only son.
About a month later, just before Eid ul-Fitr, there was a knock at the
door. A young man stood at thedoor with a large package in his hands.
He said, "Sir, you don't know me, but I am the soldier for whom your
son gave his life. He saved many lives that day, and he was carrying
me to safety when a bullet struck him in the heart and he died
instantly. He often talked about you, and your love for art."
The young man held out this package. "I know this isn't much. I'm not
really a great artist, but I think your son would have wanted you to
havethis."
The father opened the package. It was a portraitof his son, painted by
theyoung man. He stared in awe at the way the soldier had captured the
personality of his son in the painting. The father was so drawn to the
eyesthat his own eyes welled up with tears. He thanked the young man
and offered to pay him for the picture. "Oh, no sir, I could never
repay what your son did for me. It's a gift."
The father hung the portrait over his mantle. Every time visitors came
to his home he took themto see the portrait of his son before he
showed them any of the other great works he had collected.
The man died a few months later. There was to be a great auction of
his paintings Many influential people gathered, excited over seeing
the great paintings and having an opportunity to purchase one for
their collection.
On the platform sat the painting of the son. The auctioneer pounded
his gavel. "We will start the bidding with this picture of the son.
Who will bid for this picture?"
There was silence. Then avoice in the back of the room shouted, "We
want to see the famous paintings! Skip this one."
But the auctioneer persisted. "Will somebody bid for this painting.
Who will start the bidding? $100, $200?"
Another voice angrily, "We didn't come to see this painting. We came
tosee the Van Goghs (Dutch painter), the Rembrandts (Dutch artist).
Get on withthe real bids!"
But still the auctioneer continued. "The son! The son! Who'll take the
son?" Finally, a voice came from the very back of the room. It was the
longtime gardener of theman and his son. 'I'll give $10 for the
painting.' Being a poor man, it was all he could afford.
We have $10, who will bid $20? Give it to him for$10. "Let's see the
masters...." $10 is the bid,won't someone bid $20?
The crowd was becomingangry. They didn't want the picture of the son.
They wanted the more worthy investments for their collections.
The auctioneer pounded the gavel. "Going once, twice, SOLD for $10!"
A man sitting on the second row shouted, "Now let's get on with the collection!"
The auctioneer laid downhis gavel. "I'm sorry, the auction is over."
"What about the great paintings?"
I am sorry. When I was called to conduct this auction, I was told of a
secret stipulation in the will. I was not allowed to reveal that
stipulation until this time. Only the painting of the son would be
auctioned. Whoever bought that painting would inherit the entire
estate, including the paintings. The man who took the son gets
everything!
Allah (SWT) gave His Noble Qur'an hundreds ofyears ago to guide us.
Much like the auctioneer,His message today is: "The Noble Qur'an, the
Noble Qur'an, who'll take the Noble Qur'an? Because whoever takes the
Noble Qur'an gets everything."

The Basis of the Bible Is Also "Belief in One God"

It is revealed in the Qur'an that Jesus issued the following message
to the Jews:
..."O Tribe of Israel! Worship God, my Lord and your Lord…" (Surat
al-Ma'ida, 72)
The expressions of Jesus calling to oneness of God are present even in
the gospels of the New Testament, which were exposedto distortion and
falsification. For instance, Jesus answered a teacher of law who asked
him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" as "The
most important one is this:
'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your
God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind
and with all your strength.' (Mark 12:28-30)
The following passage, again from the gospel according to Mark, shows
that Jesus prevented not just the ascriptionof divinity to him but
even praiseof him:
As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees
before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit
eternal life?" "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is
good-except God alone." (Mark 10:17-18)
In fact, this passage alone is sufficient to show that belief in the
Trinity is a violation of the New Testament. Rejecting praiseand
stressing that only God is worthy of praise Jesus openly stated that
he too was a servantof God.
In fact, Jesus is a prophet of God,sent to tell people of the oneness
of God following the corruption of the revelation brought by Moses and
that thereis no other god but him. He called upon the Jews, who had
corrupted the true religion brought by Moses, to abandon their bigoted
traditions and superstitions and to submit solely to God. This message
of Jesus to the Children of Israel is revealed thus in the Qur'an:
And when Jesus came with the Clear Signs, he said, "I have come to you
with Wisdom and to clarify for you some of the things about which you
have differed. Therefore fear God and obey me. God is my Lord and your
Lord so worship Him. This is a straight path." (Surat ash-Shura,
63-64)
"I come confirming the Torah I find already there, and to make lawful
for you some of what waspreviously forbidden to you. I have brought
you a Sign from your Lord. So fear God and obey me. God is my Lord and
your Lord so worship Him. That is a straight path." (Surat Al 'Imran,
51)
It is the duty of Muslims, Christians, Jews and everyone in the world
to abide by this divine call.

The Pressure on Those Who Denied the Trinity

One interesting point is that the various individuals and movements
which have opposedbelief in the Trinity and maintained that Jesus was
only a prophet of God were subjectedto great pressure during the
course of Christian history. Thesemonotheists fiercely opposed those
who said that Jesus was the son of God, and openly stated that this
was "ascribing partners" to God. For that reason, they were for
hundreds of years described as "heretics" and even "enemies of
Christianity," and those who supported them met with the same
reception. Yet those who believe in the oneness of God have always
been in a minority compared to the proponents of the Trinity in the
Christian world.
Even those neutrals who have researched the subject have established
that real Christianity is the monotheistic Christianity that was
suppressed throughout history. A large part of the independent Bible
researchers, which began in the 18th century in particular, concluded
that the Trinity, confession of sins and other Christian dogmas had no
place in true Christianity. In their studies of the Old and New
Testaments and other Christian sources, experts have revealed that
traditional Christianity has very different features to that of the
time of Jesus, and was shaped centuries after that time.
Christians Who Have Denied the Trinity
It is under the influence of thesesources that some Christian sects
today reject the Trinity. The Unitarian Church, for example, which
maintains churches all over the world, is one major Christian
community which rejects belief in the Trinity. Although they may hold
various different views, the members of that congregation deny that
Jesus is the son of Godand say that Christianity demands belief in a
single God. Many of them emphasize the mistaken nature of the claim
that Jesus was crucified to redeem the sins of the world.
One can find opponents of the Trinity among Christians of various
different persuasions and churches. The opponents of the Trinity are
growing in numbers, particularly in America, every day, and there is a
rapid rise in the numbers of people who are openly expressing the
truth in the Christian world. Among these, the "Worldwide Church of
God" is particularly noteworthy. Herbert W. Armstrong, the founder of
the church, maintainsthat the Trinity is a pagan doctrine which
entered Christianity from pagan cultures.
The most noteworthy point on this subject is that there is no trace of
the belief in the Trinity, portrayed as the foundation of
Christianity, anywhere in the Bible. It appears neither in the Old
Testament, the holy book of the Jews, nor in the New Testament, the
Christian sacred text. Belief in the Trinity depends on the
interpretation ofa number of statements in the Bible, and the word
itself was first used by Theophilus of Antioch at the end of the 2nd
century. This belief became fully incorporated into Christian
belieflong after that. For that reason, Bible researchers and those
opposed to the Trinity concentrate on the questions of "Should not
belief in the Trinity, described as the basis of the Christian
religion, be openly stated in the Bible?" and "If this belief were
really true, should not Jesus have openly spoken of it?" The answer
they provide is clear: No belief which does not appear openly in the
Bible and was thus unknown to the first Christians can form the basis
of Christianity. This is nothing morethan a myth which formed after
Jesus and under the influence of Greek culture. It has nothing to do
with the essence of Christianity.
This truth can be seen from a careful reading of the Bible.