There are many different schools of thought out there all professing to be the correct school. Now reason dictates that two conflicting sides can be wrong, but no two conflicting sides can be right. Naturally then the question that should be asked is, am I on the right path?
Perhaps we have been blessed and Allah raised us amongst those people who identify themselves with that one correct path which resulted in our joining them. However, in such a case can we really claim to be any different from those that follow the wrong path?
We ask this because after acknowledging that there is so many schools of thought out there with only one of them being right, how then can the mind be so careless and readily able to identify itself with the school it was raised up with? In reality what are the chances it is correct? Are we one of those minds that has become akin to that fallen leaf at the mercy of where ever the wind takes it? Meaning given another time and place, do we possess such minds that would more than likely believe in that which is different from what it believes now? If we are one of those minds, then the only thing separating us from those that follow the wrong path, assuming we are on the right path, is luck.
In the Holy Quran we read that games of chance are forbidden. Perhaps we can appreciate this verse in a new light. Life and our beliefs are not a game of chance, yet the human being's refusal to question the origin and validity of our assumptions often treats it as one.
