The Best Anti Depression : Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi Rajeoon...

The Best Anti Depression : Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi Rajeoon...

by Nisaar Y. Nadiadwala on Saturday, June 18, 2011 at 11:11am

   Kerela a prosperous south Indian state boasts of being the only Indian state with 100 percent of literacy and many Educational Institution as compared to other Indian states. Japan is the most indutrialised nation in the world with its unmatched Suzukis, Sonys, Nokia, Panasonic….Bangalore the cyber city of India which hosts a large number of Multi national companies in it boundaries. Yet all these three places have one thing in Common. They lead the world in suicide statistics. And suicides come from affluent class. They also include the frustrated students who fail to get up to the mark..

Since the results of Matric and Secondary schools are out,  news of students committing suicides are pouring in.  Quite surprising, these are not the failures in exams but those who are not able to get into medical and engineering are killing themselves. The success of a student is restricted to the grades he gets! 'Career Worship' is being cultivated as new form of  Godship by many parents and institutions.

 With the rate race towards a prosperous job intensified , the expectations of the parents from children also get hyper. I was stunned to see the improvement in achieving percentages in this year's Mumbai results, one in HSC and the other in SSC got 100 out of 100 in Maths! The t Times of india says that there is a climb in the number of students getting 90 percent and above !

    A professor in Bhavans College Mumbai once took the introductory  lecture of the students of BSC first year. He announced " I believe that this is the most frustrated batch in the entire college ! Raise your hands those who don't agree with me .. Everybody agreed. That batch was of those students who worked extremely hard from ninth standard and sacrificed all the social activities  and confined them selves to their books, coaching classes and buried themselves  beneath the piles of books and guides. Yet they did not manage to get admission in medicine and engineering. Every Indian college of science has this batch. No one is exempted.

    So with this, the parameter of failure has drastically gone up. If you cannot secure an admission in  Medicine or IT inspite of getting 80 percentage then you are a failure! 

   Let me take an anlystical stock of the situation from Islamic perspective  so that those who  have missed the bus may not sink into depressions. Islamically.. failure in this word is not the end of the road to success. Note the most encouraging words of Qur'an.. the last verse of Surah Imran.. Ya aayyuhal lazina aamano fas beroo was saberoo.. Oh you who have believed! be patient and remain patient.... In other translation.... O you have believed perserver and endure and remained station and fear Allah that you may be successful 

   If you analize the early set backs or hardships of Muslims you will discover that many failures are the early signs of success. For those who feel that success should be fast and immediate then consider this : In first thirteen years of early Islam, only a handful of people becamse Muslims, in the next decade almost the whole of Arabia submitted to Islam, and the next decade saw empires like Rome, Persia and Egypt loosing out to Islam.

 Many students have formulated a wrong version of success in their minds.  They relate it with their grades.If success is directly proportionate with your acheivements then what about those prophets who did not have followers except  a handful ! Would you call them failures ? Many companions of the Prophet (pbuh ) were  killed or remained poor while other perished in the hot sands of desert and a few even lived to be victims of various trials and tribulation . yet they were entitled to get a merit card from Allah.. Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Allah... This is the supremed success says the second last verse of Surah Maidah. 

 Today ,people measure your scucess by counting your wealth, shops, and assets. This is a materialistic grading.

  Islam de attaches you from materialism. It teaches you how to handle failures and deal with it and let not failure cause you a loss in yur moral , in your motivation and in your attitude towards your life...And it is very simple.. SABR  PATIENCE... IIf you loose some thing,, a relative to death, wealth  in business loss or a chance to build a career which you were dreaming of for years.. you only have to say.. Innalillahi wa inna ilahi rajeoon.. Indeed we belong to Allah and we shall return unto him....The same verse is the best 'anti depresion assurance' from Allah .. those are the ones upon whom are the blessings from their Lord and they are the rightly guided.. Surah Baqarah ch 2 verse 156-157..

  AUTHOR : Nisaar Nadiadwala speaks and writes on soio-educational issues from Islamic perspective. He can be reached at nisaar_yusuf @yahoo.com.

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