INVISIBLE SCANNER

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

May peace and blessings of Allah be upon Muhammad, the final messenger

Salam & hi to all,

i have only 10-15 minutes for this, and i promise i wont write long, i hope.

i have started my weekends arabic class near my place for almost a month now, and the text book reminds me of the kindergarten colorful books which full with photos haha...anyway, still at level 1, and yesterday's mid test, my score was 59/60, Alhamdulillah...(yippy !!)

what i like about my arabic teacher, Mr Ihab is, he is teaching not just the language, but also the islamic fikrah (understanding / ideology) which sometimes stunned my mind. among them was about an invisible scanner. he said that we have the most advanced technologies with the MRI to scan any ailment or decease in our body, but nothing can scan our iman and taqwa. its a fact, but i never thought about it, i mean having a specific machine to do the scanning thing..

he mentioned about a hadith, which points out the equality of all human beings, notwithstanding arab or non arab, white skinned or black, man or woman, all are the same in the eyes of Allah SWT except for his or her piety. he said that nobody knows on who Allah SWT likes/prefers better, could be the building sweeper , or the shopkeeper rather his employer...a student could be more pious than his teacher who teaches 'tasawwuf' subject...

i drove home thinking about this. i knew about this few years ago, but when someone told me right infront of my face, i find this as a reminder from ALlah SWT, indirectly.

the other point he highlighted was, eventhough he is an arabic teacher himself, he always find something new in some of the words everytime he recites/read the Quran. i like the idea said, if guided by Allah SWT, we might see something in the Quran which others dont and we might accomplish some miracles others dont get. i told myself that one of the miracles could be the sweetness feeling of the iman itself. could it be?

with my shallow tasawwuf knowledge and in my humble opinion (to my understanding), Al Quran is the best 'tool' to get to the iman where the thought  derived from the understanding of the God's words would trigger the motion of fear and hope for Allah SWT. this is when we feel 'piety' and that is when the 'invisible scanner' receives the 'frequency', as an analogy. it sets a border line of any actions either to be transformed correctly/righteously according to the syariah understanding or vice versa. we might feel uneasy even after doing some small mistake/unintentional doings, for example laughing at the cripples or jokingly belittling the less unfortunate etc..

no creation can measure the deeds of the hearts of the person who works to please his Creator but the Creator himself. whats my point i want to highlight today? seeing is believing? NOPE, we are talking about something intangible here....so, feeling it is believing it.