Allah (swt) has several beautiful names. These are the
attributes that He possesses. I shall mention briefly two of these attributes: Al-Khafidh, which means the One who
humiliates and, Ar-Rafi, the One who
elevates. Almighty Allah has the capacity to degrade/humiliate someone or to
elevate him, raising him in position. It is Almighty Allah who has the power to
degrade someone by dishonouring him and to elevate him and making him
honourable.
Man is ever changing. He does not stay the same. There
is a time when he is young, courageous and solid, and after the passage of
time, he becomes unrecognizable. You may see that his courage has disappeared
and he has lost his charm. In the past people used to need him and rush to him,
and now nobody knows that he exists. Dreams become reality and reality becomes
a thing of the past. Therefore, there is the high and low in life, and all this
is found in the hand of Allah the Almighty.
Do you know who you are? All the
noises/publicity/boasting that you are making… you can be a Minister, Prime
Minister or a King. You can be whatever you want to be, but do you know that
you are a slave? All the bossing around that you do, but verily you shall
always remain a slave. You shall live like a slave and die as a slave. You
shall never succeed in liberating yourself from that slavery. What remains to
be known is what kind of slave are you! If you are not a slave for ALLAH, then
you must be in a way or another, a slave of another thing/person. You can
become slave of your passions, desires and vices. Then, if you have to be a
slave, why do you become a slave for another slave? Why do you become a slave
who makes you become the worst of slaves?
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Today I want to talk to you about a subject
that relates not only to Africa but also to the whole world. It is the
Ebola Virus that has emerged and our little Mauritius also is threatened by the
transmission of this virus.
