Forwarded to me... i loved it and thought to share it with you all..

> I dreamt that Im went to Heaven and an angel was showing me
> around. We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom
> filled with angels.
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> My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and
> said, 'This Is the Receiving Section. Here all petitions
> to Allah, said in prayer, are Received.'
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> I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with
> so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous
> paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world.
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> Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the
> second section.
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> The angel then said to me, 'This is the Packaging and
> Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings the people
> asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons
> who asked for them..'
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> I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many
> angels working hard at that station, since so many
> blessings had been requested and were being packaged for
> delivery to Earth
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> Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped
> at the Door of a very small station To my great surprise,
> only one angel was Seated there, idly doing nothing.
> 'This is the Acknowledgment Section,' My angel
> friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed
> 'How Is it that there is no work going on here?' I
> asked.
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> 'So sad,' the angel sighed. 'After people
> receive the blessings that they asked For, very few send
> back acknowledgments .'
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> 'How does one acknowledge Allah's blessings?' I
> asked.
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> 'Simple,' the angel answered. Just say,
> 'Thank you, Allah.'
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> 'What blessings should they acknowledge?' I
> asked.
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> 'If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your
> back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer
> than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in
> your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the
> top 8% of the world's wealthy .'
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> 'And if you get this on your own computer, you are part
> of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity.'
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> Also ......
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> ' If you woke up this morning with more health than
> illness ... You are more blessed than the many who will not
> even survive this day .'
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> 'If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the
> loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the
> pangs of starvation .. You are ahead of 700 million people
> in the world.'
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> 'If you can attend a Mosque without the fear of
> harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and
> more blessed than, three billion people
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> In the world .'
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> 'If your parents are still alive and still married
> ...you are very rare .'
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> 'If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not
> the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt and
> despair.'
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> Ok, what now? How can I start?
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> Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you want,
> pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all
> are.
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> A TTN:
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> Acknowledge Dept.: 'Thank you Allah, for giving me
> the ability to share this message and for giving me so many
> wonderful people to share it with.

Being grateful is to render one’s thanks to someone who has shown favor, to express gratitude and to appreciate. The concept of being grateful to Allah, on the other hand, is to grasp and express that every kind of grace and favor is granted exclusively by Allah. In the Qur’an, the opposite of being grateful is defined by the term “disbelief”, which is synonymous to being ungrateful. Only this definition indicates the importance attached to being grateful as a worship and the detrimental consequences it may have for a believer.

Gratefulness to Allah is one of the concepts mostly emphasized in the Qur'an. In almost 70 verses, the importance of rendering thanks to Allah is stated, the examples of those who are grateful and ungrateful are given and the end they face is related. The reason why so much importance is given to this concept is simply because it is a mere indication of one’s faith and affirmation of the unity of Allah. In one of the verses “being grateful” is described as “worshipping only to Allah”:

O you who believe! Eat of the good things that We have provided for you, and be grateful to Allah, if it is Him you worship. (Al-Baqara, 172)

In another verse giving thanks to Allah is described as the opposite of idolatry:

But it has already been revealed to you,- as it was to those before you,- "If you were to join (gods with Allah), truly fruitless will be your work (in life), and you will surely be in the anks of those who lose (all spiritual good)". Nay, but worship Allah, and be of those who give thanks. (Az-Zumar, 65-66)

The statement of the Evil emphasizes the importance of giving thanks to Allah :

He said: "Because you have thrown me out of the way, lo! I will lie in wait for them on your straight way: Then will I assault them from before them and behind them, from their right and their left: Nor will you find, in most of them, gratitude (for your mercies)." (Al-Araf, 17)

As stated in the verse above, Satan devoted his life to mislead people due to his envy. His ultimateaim is to make people not to be grateful to their Creator. When this ultimate purpose of the Satan is considered, it becomes more comprehensible how a man goes astray when he does not render thanks to Allah.

Gratefulness is a part of the test by Allah. Man is surely endowed with favor from Him and is informed about how he should benefit from all this favor. In return, he is expected to assume a submissive attitude towards his Creator. However, it is again only man himself who chooses to be grateful or ungrateful to Allah:

We created Man from a drop of mingled sperm, in order to try him: So We gave him (the gifts), of Hearing and Sight. We showed him the Way: whether he be grateful or ungrateful (rests on his will). (Al-Insan, 2-3)

As the verses suggest, the choice of a person in this world, namely being grateful or ungrateful, is explicitly a clear sign of his faith or disbelief.

Gratefulness is also closely related to the punishment in the Hereafter. No punishment shall befall those who have faith and are grateful:

What can Allah gain by your punishment, if you are grateful and you believe? Nay, it is Allah that recognize (all good), and know all things. (An-Nisa, 147)

I say thank you to "The Force" by action and not words by helping someone whenever I can.

I know that "The Force" is happy with me because I am happy with myself for I am a reflection of it.

To me "Heaven" and "Hell" is what you make of your life here on Earth and that's why no matter how little or how much I have I am always happy with myself.

This will be hard for some of you to understand but I reached "Nirvana" five times and unless you have been there then you don't know what it is.

But................. it sure makes life easier to have money and no debts.

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"To be ready is not"... Ponce

"If you don't hold it, you don't own it"... Ponce

Paddy, you impressed me your answer and comments from Quran really were impressing
Ponce i have experienced death while i was 6,still i can remember it till now,i am 27,
it was an electric shock,i saw my soul infront of me! it is weird but it's truely what happened
some years later,my cousin had an electric shock and he experienced what i had!
i heard a lot of stories about such things,i would have believed if i didn't experience.