Setting Goals

Assalaam 'Alaikum wa Rahmatullah!

Reading Goals-1 and Goals-2 has motivated me a lot...

Forming Goals in our lives and striving to attain those goals is indispensable to a person's life.

A life without a purpose, a goal is a life not worth living...Setting certain goals and then strategiic planning helps us in accomplishing those goals..Hard work is another factor which leads to success.

It's ironical how we set goals for the worldly life, but when it comes to our eternal, never ending life, we are unsure of what direction to steer to...Most goals are confined to the realm of this world, we all want to have a good education, a big home , the latest cars and ofcourse we also want the very best for your kids...

But do we even have a goal for our after life? Sadly, many of us are so occupied with bettering our lives in this temporary abode that we often overlook and completely forget where we are heading...

The above mentioned artocles are very thought provoking, after reading them, I knew I had to set a certain goal which would contribute to securing me a place in JANNAH...Jannah is what I seek so desperately and every Muslim should too... I decided to pursue and undertake Qur'an memorisation with a firm resolve...I made some calculations, and if I even memorised 1/2 a page per day, I would, insha ALLAH, with His help, be able to finish memorising the whole Qur'an in 5 years time....and all it would take would be approximately 1/2 an hour a day,That much I can do, that much I should do, if I really seek Jannah...

We all ought to set either long term or short term goals to enhance and enrich our spiritual soul and to better our after Life which is after all, our true Life...Life on the earth is merely a test and we certainly cannot afford to engross ourselves with our wordly lives when our eternity is at stake, no sane person can justify doing that and yet, we all, are doing just that and regettably, without even realising that!

Some other goals we can pursue:

• Praying on time if we are of those who delay our Salah or are negligent of it.
• Concentrate on acquiring enough wealth(ofcourse earned my halal means) so we can build a Masjid, and let it be a Sadaqah Jariyah on our part rather than collecting the money to buy the latest car.
• Try to learn and understand what the Holy Qur'an says(learning the translation), giving ourselves a year's deadline.
• Try to make a resolve about going for Hajj the next year.
• Leave smoking within the next six months.
• Memorise Qur'an.
• Start wearing Hijab.
• Work for Islam, engaging in Da'wah, helping people revert to Islam, that is the second most coveted goal for me.
• Resolve to make our children good Muslims and for that we have to be their role models, thus we are required to arm ourselves with proper Islamic Knowledge and actions and learn how to instill Islamic values in our kids.

Ofcourse, these are just a few of the many, if we take it upom ourselves to accomplish our Islamic goals within a set period of time, we can succeed in changing our lives for the better, and Insha ALLAH, in the process, change the lives of those around us too.

May ALLAH guide us to The Straight Path! Ameen!