Better Today?

BismillahirRahmanirRahim. A Muslim’s today ought to be better than his yesterday, and his tomorrow better than his today. So why ‘Better Today’ and not ‘Better Tomorrow’? Everybody talks about a ‘Better Tomorrow’, but the fine print reads ‘Tomorrow Never Comes’. I was once thinking what the best time is to do something good – Ramadan, the days of Haj, Lailat-ul-Qadr, … And then it hit me… of course, the best time is now! What other moment can you be sure of? Do I mean we should restrict ourselves to the realistic and the achievable? Certainly not! If an act would lead to a better tomorrow, the mere thought of that act constitutes a better today. If you slide ‘Think Globally, Act Locally’ to the fourth dimension, it becomes ‘Think for the Future, Act for the Present’. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one footstep, and unless I believe I can make a difference, I cannot. ‘Better Today’ is a board for me to chalk out my ideas, discuss them, refine them, spark other ideas, then scrap some and InshaAllah launch some as viable projects.