what's in your gene

i have a friend who always complained about his genetic. he has lotsa genetic problem (he said).he asked me to watch gattaca; a movie about what will happen if human genome project is fully sequenced. Now i'm quite understand his situation. Just imagine when you want to have a driving license, it's all depends on your gene. Even to apply for a scholarship you have to make sure that there is no defect in your gene! not to mention when you want to choose your spouse (ziad remember to do the blood test. both u and ur ******)

This friend of mine said to me, sometimes he feels that this world is not being fair to him. like for example although he has this gene defect, he still passed his driving license test and can drive a car very well. moreover, he got a scholarship (of course after some incidents that cannot be reveal hehe secret ma) and he can be at par with other student who doesnt has gene defect.

But why they must still use a gene test as a prequisite for all these things. sometimes he feels shy of his condition and he thinks that he cannot succeed as anyone else (who has the good gene) until he realised that many famous people in the world also had a defect in their gene

for example

Abraham Lincoln- marfan syndrome

Emily Dickinson- manic depression

Vincent van gogh-epilepsy

Albert Einstein –dyslexia

John f kennedy addison’s disease

Rita Hayworth alzheimer’s disease

Ray Charles –primary glaucoma

Stephen hawking – amytrohic lateral sclerosis

Jackie joyner- kersee - asthma

in contrast take a look at our religion , islam. does islam requires those who want to be a muslim must have such and such gene? The answer is of course no it doesnt.

I just pick one example in surah luqman, Allah emphasised the advice that Luqman gave to his children.Some ulama sometimes comment on the apperance of Luqman al hakim. some say that luqman is a black skin man with a thick lip etc. As far as i knw there is no evidence from hadith regarding this physical appearance.

some argue that if Allah mentioned about the physical appearance of Luqman al hakim, how many people would you thing can follow this?

so that's why the message of islam is universal. it does not only specific to a certain kind of people or better if i say, what's in your gene is not going to be a determinant on whther you would make a better muslim or not.

everything islam teaches is applicable to evryone whether you have the good gene or the bad ones

wallahua'alam