Faith

By Hammad Anwar

Faith!! What exactly we mean by the term “Faith”, without going into any religious meaning or anything, we can generally say that faith is something which you believe in, the Divine Power, the trust you have in your loved ones. It varies from simplest of examples to the deepest, you throw a child in air only to catch him back, he laughs because he has faith in you that when he falls back you’ll be there to catch him, or to the very simplest one, you hit your bed every night with believe that you will indeed get up tomorrow and carry out the plans you just decided. Bottom line, faith is very much interrelated to your beliefs and trust.

I still remember very well, during my intermediate I had medical subjects, in one of the biology classes, our teacher who was a very intelligent and smart man and more importantly a balanced man between the war of science and religion, told us this incident. It was related to a prominent scientist of our country whose son was diagnosed with a rare cancer type. He took his son to all the places in world, but with no success. Eventually, he was back in Pakistan, and someone in his circle mentioned a woman in Gujranwala city, who was wife of a butcher there and they said that she has this thing of curing people. Out of desperation the “scientist” ended up there with his son, the woman gave the boy water to drink after reciting some few verses. And then it happened, something which no one could ever believe, his son was completely cured!!

In a similar incident to this, which happened in the United States itself, a woman was diagnosed by fatal disease, but the woman then became religious and recited and comprehends bible and the teaching of God, and then the world saw the recovery signs and eventually she recovered fully. Special searches were carried out after that proved the fact that the biggest healing power lays within the human body and its in the human mind, which once if “actually” believes that it can fight back when everything is falling apart, then miracles do happen.

The purpose of narrating the above two incidents it, that no matter how much badly life treats you, there is indeed a dusk after dawn, and light after darkness. You can be down and low but there comes a point when you hit the bottom and then there is nothing but a revival from there. This concept is also mentioned in Greek philosophy which states that after a certain bottom level you do hit back, an explanation can be that its at that point you “actually” start fighting back.

Concluding this huge and wide topic, I must emphasize the fact that to blame everything on the fate i.e. God is hugely unfair, as I always say, life may be seen cruel and harsh to you but it’s NEVER unfair. Who knows what you think is bad for you turns out to be the best thing ever for you. If God isn’t answering your prayers today, may be he is busy in writing a better script for you. Life is just like a two faces of a single picture. Consider this example; you cry not only when you are sad but often when you get a sudden happiness, not only abnormal people laugh madly in insanity but so do the normal with joy, the same fire that burns everything, helps in molding and forming gold, the coal which brings you dirt indeed converts in diamond. But if you have faith and believe that everything does happen for a reason and you will eventually get the share you deserve, then your positive thoughts will always be prominent over negative i.e. strong faith. Never loose faith because this is the first and the last step towards success in life, so lets remove the darkness in you own and other’s life and look a new morning is waiting for you!!