Allah knows

When I was in Cork, I was asked in an usrah I attend on how does my studies relates me to Allah. I was really surprised by the question since most of the people in that usrah were medical students who’d always have close relation to Allah in whatever they do.

But as for me, I never really ask that question until someone brought it up, although at first I was clueless of what to answer – the answer I made up on the spot left myself wondering later on of what I am doing.
Does it make me closer to Allah or does it bring me away from Allah? And if it did – how? If it doesn’t – does this means I forget Allah?
Well, my answer that time was that since I always with my video camera which I like to shoot peoples image to get a story, one of the things that will remind me of Allah is the video camera itself.
The camera be it a camera or the video camera works like our eyes, they have their own optic, retina, lenses and several part of the eyes which was applied during the invention of video camera. But the question is not the function of camera like the eyes but the fact that no matter how highly advanced the inventions made by us humans will never match the High Al Mighty’s creation.
Even up till now, we can never find any camera which can capture 180 degree view without ‘panning’ (the term when you shoot from 180 degree angle of an object we shoot) not even the stereoscopic view where humans see their vision or the visions that only animals do.
Because from my own personal experience, to only get a 5 minute documentary, I had to take at least 3 angles of the same view, a medium shot, close up and extreme close up for a more dramatic impact. If it were a short story I’d have to repeat the same action and repeat again if the action does not meet the director’s satisfaction.
Not only that, we’d have to take account on the lights whereby if we don’t get enough day light, we’d use the camera lights to give more lights to the subject. The lights itself would need at least 3 lights, with a ‘3 point lighting’ (position of lights) technique so that there wont have any shadows effecting the object we are recording.
That doesn’t include the make up and other factors that we have to take into account before we shoot anything. And only after a few days of editing process to add some sounds, voice over etc that we be able to view the video all in 5 minutes but actually 5 day to get a 5 minute video. All of the things mentioned will need to be used to get the ‘perfect’ visual but none of these were needed when we use our eyes – the most perfect creation by Allah.

Therefore, in whatever things we do, sometimes we may not be able to explain how our work does relate to Allah or even Islam itself.
But as long as our intention is ‘fissabilillah’ – for the cause of Allah, and that the work is not against the shari’ah (Islamic Law), it doesn’t matter because every action we do will be taken account by Allah. 
After all, Allah knows...

[A reminder to myself first and Foremost, in'sha'Allah]