" Every one is a born creator
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In the name of Allah, the Most-Merciful, the All-Compassionate
"May the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon You"
Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala Rasulillah
As-Salaam Alaykum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakaatuh
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" Every one is a born creator
A medical doctor came to the Khanqah on a Saturday evening and met Shah Baba before the Assembly. He brought his 12 year old son with him . and said :
" Shah Sahab this is my son Aslam , he does not take any interest in his studies at school and continuously getting bad grades ..I am a doctor and I want my only son to be a doctor too, but his mind is not into studies.. "
Shah Baba asked Aslam why he is not taking interest in his studies ? Aslam said :
" I do not want to be a doctor , I want to be a Painter . I love painting. "
Shah Baba asked the doctor to wait and attened the Assembly , he will address the problem :; In the Assembly he started his bayan saying :
" Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny - he or she has something to fulfill, some message that has to be delivered, some work that has to be completed. You are not here accidentally - you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. Allah swt. intends to do something through you. The purpose is your ability, what you can do in the best way is the purpose. so find it out and fulfill that purpose .. BUT the seed cannot know what is going to happen, the seed has never known the flower. And the seed cannot even believe that he has the potentiality to become a beautiful flower. Long is the journey, and it is always safer not to go on that journey because unknown is the path, nothing is guaranteed. Nothing can be guaranteed. Thousand and one are the hazards of the journey, many are the pitfalls - and the seed is secure, hidden inside a hard core. But the seed tries, it makes an effort; it drops the hard shell which is its security, it starts moving. Immediately the fight starts: the struggle with the soil, with the stones, with the rocks. And the seed was very hard and the sprout will be very, very soft and dangers will be many. There was no danger for the seed, the seed could have survived for millennia, but for the sprout many are the dangers. But the sprout starts towards the unknown, towards the sun, towards the source of light, not knowing where, not knowing why. Great is the cross to be carried, but a dream possesses the seed and the seed moves. The same is the path for man. It is arduous. Much courage will be needed. Besides,every human being is a born creator. Just observe children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity; we force wrong beliefs on them. We distract them and make them more and more political and ambitious. That’s when creativity disappears --
If you believe that you are not creative, you will become just that -- because that belief will obstruct, continuously negate, all possibilities of flowing. It will not allow your energy to flow because you will continuously say: "I am uncreative."
Drop wrong conditioning.... suddenly, you’ll see you are creative. To be and to be creative are synonymous. It is impossible to be and not be creative.
Our attitude about life is money-oriented. And money is one of the most un creative things. A man who is after money will become destructive, because money has to be robbed, exploited; it has to be taken away from many people, only then can you have it. Secondly our whole approach is power-oriented too ,and power is destructive, not creative. Power simply means you have to make many people impotent, you have to destroy them -- only then can you be powerful.
A creative act enhances the beauty of the world; it gives something to the world, it never takes anything from it. A creative person comes into the world, enhances the beauty of the world -- a song here, a painting there. He makes the world , enjoy better, love better, meditate better. When he leaves this world, he leaves a better world behind him. Nobody may know him; that is not the point. But he leaves the world a better world, tremendously fulfilled because his life has been of some inherent value.
Your creativity may not give you power, prestige, money. I can promise that deep inside, you will be the richest man possible; fulfilled, full of joy and celebration, continuously receiving blessings from Allah SWT. Your life will be a beneficial for everyone .
It is possible that outwardly you may not be famous, but to succeed in this so-called world is to fail deeply. And what are you going to do with the whole world at your feet if you have lost your own Self? A creative person possesses his own being; he is a master.
He then told the doctor to let Aslam be a painter and Insha'Allah he will be a better painter than a bad doctor ..
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Compiled, edited and adapted by Khalid Latif, www.thekhalids.org