as life goes on

Peace be upon you my dear brothers and sisters in Islam.

And to others, a very nice day.

All praise be to Allah, the lord of the world

and peace and blessing be upon Muhammad, His final messenger.

Dear brothers and sisters, 

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. 

This proverb is very beautiful in the sense that we are actually taught the basic principle of life. 

To master a skill is necessary for us to gain full benefit from it. We are, to use common words, fully in-charge of our life only when we have all the important skill. 

Lately, we have been bombarded with social problems such as baby-dumping, adultery, robbery, bribery and many more. You name it. These problems have create a great ruckus among the society. We are greatly concerned on the solutions of the problems. However, these are not the real problems that we are facing today. The real problem that we have actually lies in the understanding of our deen, Islam. 

For example, the issue of hijab is a famous topic among muslims. People talked a lot about tudung, asking the women to wear tudung and cover their head. However, as we can see nowadays, women do cover their head but they do not wear a proper attire. They wear tight shirts or tight jeans. They expose their arms. As we manage to solve a problem about covering women`s head, we are facing another problem with other parts of their body.

Why? One of the reason is due to the fact that people do not understand their actions. They do not understand why they have to wear hijab. They do not understand that covering aurat is a part of muslim`s obligations towards the deen. Undoubtedly most of them do know, but they do not understand.

While prayers, charities, fasting, pilgrimage and hijab are important components of Islam, there is actually bigger parts that we do not pay much attention to. The real foundation of Islam is not ritual. If we do not pay much attention to these foundation, then we not getting anywhere. We will face the same problem again and again.