I was checking my father's e-mail for him and came across one he had written to his cousin in Islamabad. It contains some very valuable and simple words, which I wish to share with everyone. Here they are:

I do not wish to take any tensions so that the sleeping and digestive mechanisms work uninterrupted. Whatever is going to happen, will happen and most certainly, unless Allah changes or diverts it graciously. My belief is that you should not hurt anyone or be a cause of constraint to anyone. We have to complete our life, of whatever length, doing as much good deeds as possible, and say good bye to this world, as peacefully as possible. You have no control on anything, apart from your actions. You neither came into this world at your own will, nor would you exit from here as such. So, there is nothing in this world which you could plan and execute for sure. You do not have the slightest idea what could happen to you in the next couple of minutes. So why worry and take tensions. Just do good deeds, take it easy, ask forgiveness from Allah and depart light heartedly, when your time comes. Whatever you leave behind, you do not have to worry about. All that will be taken care of by Allah, and in the best possible manner.

The globe had already spinning smoothly for billions of years, when you entered into this world, and will certainly keep spinning even after you have made your exit from this world, until and unless, of course, Allah causes it to spin otherwise. The sum total is, we are not in control of anything, apart from doing good deeds.

Whenever I ponder about the universe and the phenomena it consists of, the creatures of all types around us, our placing in the vast universe, the coexistence of more than six billion humans alongwith other species, clinging to this huge spherical ball, with their trillions of problems, I reach the inescapable conclusion as to how insignificant we are! Certainly Someone has put us here and certainly He is watching us every moment with a meticulous system in place, and certainly He will judge us one day. He is none else then Allah, and we should worry about that day and be prepared for that day. We might die as a prince or a pauper. Both of them will go down with nothing but a few yards of plain cloth and nothing more, except the good or the bad deeds done, very meticulously recorded in a chip placed somewhere in our body, which will be replayed on the day of judgment. Yes, when you let your imagination have a freefall the possible configurations are endless. May Allah guide us all to the right path and end our lives entrenched in firm faith.

Ameen...