Trials and Tribulations

TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS

My name is Oyeleke Jubril Kolawole. I am writing this article in response to what some people do says that they lives in a kind of perfect life, they never feels hungry before and they never trek for a long distance in their life.

                Sometimes ago according to my view, people with this kind of thought are extra-ordinary in nature, they must belong to the kingdom of the riches whereby it is almost all things that can be done with the power of money. No wonder that there is always a great distinction between the riches and the poor, hence the riches no longer want to have anything to do with the poor again. They neither marries from the poor neither do they attend the same schools with them anymore. This phenomena has make so many people to be thinking that it is a must for someone to be richer in life and as a result, most of the Yoruba people names their possessions after money such as; Owo ni koko, Ola nbi won ninu, Owolabi, Abiola, Olayiwola, Bukola, Kolawole, Esaanu aje, Orita naira, Waso etc. but after thinking about all these distinction between the rich and the Poor, then I was amazed by one thing, which is the fact that we both share some common qualities together which cannot be eliminate from mankind. Such qualities includes; defecation, Urination, Flatulent and ability to sweat. So therefore, money possession cannot stop a rich man from polluting the atmosphere with Flatus, and finally money possession cannot stop a rich man from dying and from contagious diseases. I can now realize how true that it is that “death is inevitable” no matter how poor or rich that we may be. I can now understand the reason why the Scientist, after stating the characteristics of Living thing, they end the characteristics with Death (the destroyer of desire).

More-over some people do say that hungry is meant only for the poor, trekking over a long distance without shuttle is sufferings. I could remember my days in the University (the highest citadel of learning) when I do experience the life of waking up in the morning without meal until afternoon time, the place where I experienced the life of trekking over a long distance to read but after landing at my reading destination, I won’t be myself until about 30mins – 1 hour of relaxation before the actual reading begin. At times I do think that why can someone be destined to be poor while others choose to be rich in life? But when I started experiencing the life after campus, I realized that there are other things that are poorer than poverty, some things that are more Obnoxious than poverty which are called TRIAL AND TRIBULATIONS. I pray that all- mighty Allah should protect us from Trials and Tribulations. This is the time that I realize that it is possible for a Multi-billionaire to be spending days without meal, a situation whereby the gravity of fearfulness in one’s mind will never allow him/her to drink a drop of water not to talk of eating food.  A practical experience of this can be illustrated as thus;

Get 2 goats, name them as ‘goat A’ and ‘goat B’, allow them to be starve for about two days while inside a conceived cage, after that, release and provide maize shaft for Goat A, then study how voracious that Goat A will adopt while eating. As for Goat B that has also been starved for two days, release it from the cage and tie it to a place that is very near to an aggressive hybrid dog that has been bounded with a net that is made of wire mesh, then place another maize shaft in front of the hybrid dog in a way such that it can be accessible by Goat B (which is not bounded by net). After this, study the differences between the behavioral pattern of Goat A and Goat B towards food (maize shaft), from  this illustration, it will be obvious that Goat B, after been starved for 2 days will not want to eat in the front of an aggressive dog, then, hunger will become a minor threat to “Goat B” unlike Fear.

So it is now that my eyes become open that there is no man without skeleton in his Cupboard, it is now that I realized that there are numerous gifts from the Creator that are enough as wealth to man kinds. Oh lord of the universe, I seek refuge in you from the evils within ourselves and from the wickedness on my own deeds, after all, I am an upright Homo sapien, I can run whenever I feels like running and I can sit whenever I feels like sitting, I can jump, I can eat and I can excrete without any artificial support. The master of all is that I have hope.

So it is tribulations that make one to be moving without having any destination, some people are even seeking for death while some are ready to bribe death if they are opportune to see it. No wonder that multi-billionaires do die when their days become lapse. I wonder why some great lovers of Allah died when their time reached, people like King Sulaimon (Solomon) “peace be upon him” upon his integrity and wealth,  Prophet Muhammod “peace and blessing of Allah be upon him” and her wife Khadijah upon her wealth and even Mansa Musa of the past millennium, from Mali. Death has made every Creation to become equal for the fact that every Soul shall taste it.

O death, I know and I believe that you are not among the corrupt creations of Allah, If not for that, I know that you would have become tempted by some Nigerian Billionaires after reaching Nigeria. I wish I could be able to follow your foot path in terms of transparency and Obedience to your Creator.