UEFA 029 – Evil Balloon
The train ticket to Paris valid for 1 week, which means, I could actually stay a few nights, along the way, in any interesting cities of Switzerland.
I stopped in Zurich and wandered around the city centre which is also Swiss world business centre. I must admit that there were many items that would tempted you to spend all your money. With Paris in mind, I quickly caught some bread, dough-nuts and coke for lunch at MacDonald’s.
There were many busy people in Zurich. There were also many foreigners. It was very much different from Heerbrugg. There were many tram buses that ran on tracks, and had cables lines along the road. I saw for the first time in my life a double-decker train, at the Zurich Train Station.
I had calculated my time and made it easily in time to catch the next train to Basel, another town in Switzerland. I had planned my trip, with the help of Swiss Train Guide. According to the train guide, the night train to Paris will leave Basel at 6:30pm.
I reached Basel at around 4pm. So I had 2 hours to prowl the hustle and bustle of Basel.
Basel was not as busy as Zurich, which made me easier to go around.
Basel was not as busy as Zurich, which made me easier to go around.
Once again, I wish to stress that this post is not for you to follow my mistakes. I confess these
mistakes to warn you that there are many dangers awaiting us, if we do not strengthened
our faith and fear of GOD.
GOD is repeatingly warning us that this world is a test for us. It is required from us to prove to GOD that we will prevent ourselves from doing things that GOD forbid us from doing. The challenge is to uphold our faith when we are alone in places where there are so many evil.
In Chapter 18 Al-Kahfi of the Quran, GOD said that great rewards will be awarded to anyone who fear GOD when he/she is alone and prevent themselves from doing evil.
Unlike my condition in 1986, this time in 1994 I was cheated and fooled by the satan, who were given the permission by GOD to misguide us.
Unknowingly and unexpectedly, I walked into a phonographic cinema. As I was confessing earlier about my changed attitude, my curiosity managed to win me over, to see what is inside the cinema.
There were 2 big screens in 2 mini theatres. There were about 50 seats in each theatre. Different movies were running concurrently in both the theatres, and one is free to hop from one to the other as he like. There was no guard or usher.
Next to the theatres were rows of about 10 cabins, like the telephone booths. In each cabin there was a TV screen and many buttons to select hundreds of porno movies.
In these cabins one had his own privacy, while, in the theatres there are many other people.
Anyway, there were not many people in the theatres and cabins.
I left the theatre thinking, “Where could the peep-show be?”
My friends were saying that "the peep-show is peeping at real life models performing the sinful act. You can see them, but they could not see you."
The thoughts, however, reminded me of the devils. They can see us, but, we cannot see them. Thus making us easy prey for them, and we do not seems to be able to avoid them.
Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was reported to have said that the devils run in our body, like the flow of the blood in our veins.
No wonder, I was so easily following my corrupted desires, because I had allowed the devils to run in my blood veins. GOD did helped me,and I managed to pierce a pin in my evil balloon and proceeded straight to Basel Railway Station.
With the help of GOD I consoled myself with the thoughts that, at least, I only look at evil, but I did not get involved in any evil. GOD really protect me from evil. I must confess that with the thoughts and remembrance of GOD we can be prevented from evil and dangers.
I checked in at the counter and booked a sleeping cabin to Paris.
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Drafted on 07.04.2007
Edited on 22.07.2007 at 0752hrs
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