'Do you think I am a disbeliever?'
This was Ahmad's comment when his teacher told his sisters to pray and did not tell him to do so.
Ahmad is an eight-year old boy. Though he does not pray on a regular basis, he was very angry when his teacher did not ask him to pray when she asked his sisters to pray.
He kept on repeating these words,
"Do you think I am a disbeliever?"
What was the message behind this reaction and repetition?
Was it a spontaneous reaction of a child, who was saying, "I need your attention too”?
Was he saying, ‘Even if I do not pray on a regular basis, I still pray and need encouragement to keep on praying until I pray regularly?
Was he saying, ‘Change needs time to take place. Do not rush me to be the person you want me to be. I will change at the right moment. You just need to be kind and help me be a good person’?
Yes, change needs time to take place. However, sometimes, we forget this simple fact and act as if those whom we love are objects in our hands that we can form in the manner we want and at the moment we want forgetting that we only can control our own selves.
To love means to give opportunities.
To love means to help those whom we love be what they want to be, not what we want them to be. We can help them see and discover their negative characteristics, but we cannot force them to change. They must take this step by themselves at the time they feel they can do so,
Was the message that we should invite people to what bring them happiness regardless of our attitude towards them?
We may disagree with them about one or another thing, but they are humans just like us who want to be treated justly.
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