A Marathon Runner

“ Doing a good deed is not so easy, but doing a bad deed is very easy”

When I was on the bus on the way to give the private course, I saw marathon runners in the street. They made the traffic slow because there were many persons in the street that wanted to see that event, and my bus was moving slowly. That was the time for me to get the lesson again.

            I saw the first runner of marathon was guarded by the police in the left and right side. Perhaps the police did it to save him from the persons who did not want him to be the winner. We know that there are always the persons who are jealous to others.

            Then the lesson that we can get from that lesson is if we do the righteous deeds, Allah always protects and guards us from the bad persons. So it is not necessary for us to be afraid to do the righteous deeds. Allah will command angels to accompany us in the left, right, back and front of us. And actually doing the good deeds is not so easy for us, because there will be obstacles that often test us or try us not to do the good deeds.

 

 “ Except a messenger whom He has chosen: and then He makes a band of watchers march before him and behind him “. ( Surah Al Jinn 72: 27 )

Allah has written down the good deeds and the bad ones. Then He explained it ( by saying that ) he who has intended a good deed and has not done it, Allah writes it down with Himself as a full good deed, but if he has intended it and has done it, Allah writes it down with Himself as from ten good deeds to seven hundred times, or many times over. But if he has intended a bad deed and has not done it, Allah writes it down with Himself as a full good deed, but if he has intended it and has done it, Allah writes it down as one bad deed. ( Hadith Qudsi )