I live with a lot of ants and a pair of spiders. They reside in my bathroom. The ants have dug themselves a cozy little valley in one of the corners of the bathroom door. The spiders seem to reside under my washbasin or behind my shower. We try to live our lives peacefully. At least thats the case between me and the spiders. We respect each others privacy.
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But its the ants with whom I have a problem. First of all if they encounter my slipper during their morning walks, they try to climb it. And some time rather then getting off on the other side of the slipper they just keep climbing. And that irritates me a lot. And some time they even bite me.
Now this causes an all out war between us.
Jihad.
Ah! ha!
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I push them off and sometime kill them, but man they don't give up that easily. They just keep coming at me. It looks like as if they are running to save themselves. But I have noticed that I get busy stopping them from the front and they get busy attacking me from the sides and the back. Very ingenious.
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So I got tired of playing games. Since yesterday I have been thinking of closing the mouth of their valley. But today I realized one thing.
Would they stop? I mean even if I use cement to close the hole they will dug a hole around it.
So what else to do.
I got my answer today. If my feet are in the line of their duty, I should just put a feet their, shoo them a little and they would just go away.
I will continue doing this for two reasons.
First of all we human make mistakes and keep doing them to commit sins just because we are afraid of the unseen future. I could have killed them all just because some day they all may bite me. Or the spider may jump on me to bite me. I might turn into Spiderman but I am afraid of the pain of the bite.
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What I have learned from Quran is that when people fear other people with whom they live, they try to control the ones who are weak, to get the sense of security. So that at least they won't get hurt from these weak humans in the future.
We should not fear. If something or someone tries to hurt you, take action against them right then or after that. Not before. Don't punish someone or something just because you are afraid of the mistake they may make which they might not.
I will hurt and kill the ants only when they will hurt me. Other than that I would let them live and pray to Allah for them to go away.
Thats the teaching of Quran. Work according to your needs. Not according to your plannings. Because when we plan we try/want to achieve things we don't need. Planning is good but it should be done only for the task at hand. Not for the unseen future.
Second, its nature. Let it be the way it is. Mess with it and it will mess with you. Change it only according to your needs. Not to control it.