Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil servants he said, "We can't keep the Muslims from going to the Mosques. We can't keep them from reading the Qur'an and knowing the truth. We can't even keep them from forming an intimate, abiding relationship experience with Allah. If they gain that connection with Allah, our power over them is broken. So let them go to the mosques, let them have their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can't gain that relationship with Allah."

He said "This is what I want you to do, servants. Distract them from gaining hold of their creator and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!"

"How shall we do this?". Shouted his servants.

"Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds," he answered. "Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow. Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6 - 7 days a week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family fragments, soon their home will offer no escape from the pressures of work!".

"Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that small voice. Entice them to play the radio or cassette player while they drive. Encourage them to keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs running constantly in their homes and offices. And see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays vulgar music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with Allah".

"Fill the coffee table with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail-order catalogues, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and emotional offering of free products, services, and false hopes. Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return from their recreation exhausted, disquieted, and unprepared for the coming week. Don't let them go out and observe nature to reflect on God's wonders. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, concerts and movies instead. Keep them busy, busy, busy!! And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotions. Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Allah. Soon they will be exhausting their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of ill conceived unsatisfying causes".

"It will work! It will work!" he said. It was quite a convention. And the evil servants went eagerly to their assignments causing Muslims everywhere to get busy, busy, busy and to rush here and there.

I guess the question is: "Has the devil been successful at his scheme? You be the judge!

B - Being

U - Under

S - Satan's

Y – Yoke

ARE YOU BUSY?