Tuesday, April 29, 2003
The Gift
The greatest gift from our Lord to mankind is faith and the greatest gift of faith is as-Solat. Our souls are like motors engaged in tedious processes; generating an enormous flow of adrenalin for the puspose of functioning; All directed from the vital source of the soul's core: the heart. The fuel is nur (light), granted by the Heavens. As-solat is the thirst quencher; the source of replenishment of nur poured into the soul through its core : the heart.
Birth and Death
As you woke to the sight of the smiling faces, your heart spilled tears of longing and seperation. While you lay on your death bed calm and content to return, they spilled their hearts out in grief and despair.
The greatest gift from our Lord to mankind is faith and the greatest gift of faith is as-Solat. Our souls are like motors engaged in tedious processes; generating an enormous flow of adrenalin for the puspose of functioning; All directed from the vital source of the soul's core: the heart. The fuel is nur (light), granted by the Heavens. As-solat is the thirst quencher; the source of replenishment of nur poured into the soul through its core : the heart.
Birth and Death
As you woke to the sight of the smiling faces, your heart spilled tears of longing and seperation. While you lay on your death bed calm and content to return, they spilled their hearts out in grief and despair.
Saturday, April 26, 2003
Tests
Sometimes when He graces you with a test, what matters more would be not how you react to it but whether you acknowledge that it came from Him for you. How you react to it would matter only to a certain degree. After all, the test would have come and gone; and with you either being ever-ready to ward it off and not feel anything or fight it with all your might wouldn't make much of a difference if you never acknowledged that it was His Mercy that brought it down upon you. Ultimately, it's all about faith. That's what the test was meant for. To shake your faith and to see whether it still stands in rememberance of Him or topples in forgetfulness.
Choosing to Love
You don't choose whom you love. He chooses them. If you had that choice to choose; then the road would be simple. Whom he puts in your life, is part of your test: to bear with them, to accept them and most of all to love them despite all that they may agitate you with. After all, they come from Him and they return to Him, just like you did and will do. "...And We have made some of you as a trial for others: will you have patience? And your Lord is Ever All-Seer (Surah al-Furqan:20)
Sometimes when He graces you with a test, what matters more would be not how you react to it but whether you acknowledge that it came from Him for you. How you react to it would matter only to a certain degree. After all, the test would have come and gone; and with you either being ever-ready to ward it off and not feel anything or fight it with all your might wouldn't make much of a difference if you never acknowledged that it was His Mercy that brought it down upon you. Ultimately, it's all about faith. That's what the test was meant for. To shake your faith and to see whether it still stands in rememberance of Him or topples in forgetfulness.
Choosing to Love
You don't choose whom you love. He chooses them. If you had that choice to choose; then the road would be simple. Whom he puts in your life, is part of your test: to bear with them, to accept them and most of all to love them despite all that they may agitate you with. After all, they come from Him and they return to Him, just like you did and will do. "...And We have made some of you as a trial for others: will you have patience? And your Lord is Ever All-Seer (Surah al-Furqan:20)
Friday, April 25, 2003
Those who Desire
There are those who don't desire this world. For them satisfaction comes from reliance on Him only. Hasbun Allah wa ni'mal Wakil! (Allah is enough for me!) They live their lives away from the senses of existence, devoting their selfs to constant remembrance and engulfing themsleves with the pleasure of being in solitude. They are few in number and when you find them, their hearts will speak to you like a river of sweetnees at your doorstep quenching your longing thirsts. He has given them nothing of the world because they are beyond it. They belong to the Heavens.
Then there are those whom He has given the world in one hand and the Heavens in another. These people are the commonly blessed. They strive for what they need of this world knowing that it is what they really want to reap for in the Hereafter. To excel lies in two dimensions: with the inner and the outer. The scale is fairly balanced and their potions are attained with contentment; never ungrateful for what of the world He offers and always weary of what they should never pick up for disaster.
Of those who are the most unworthy, they remember not and simply drown in the pleasures of the world, drinking more than they can gulp. To them patience is an enemy as satisfaction is for the moment. The means to pleasure will be sought at all extent. Difficulty is alien and status is a bliss. He gives them all they want but only of the world, for that is all they ask for. Despite possessing all that they want, they sense a longing deep down inside. Ignoring the wails of their tormented souls, relentless as the capacities of their containers overflow with what they barely need. For them there is no share in the Hereafter. Leave them to eat and enjoy themselves. Let false hope divert them. They will soon know. (Surah al-Hijr:3)
There are those who don't desire this world. For them satisfaction comes from reliance on Him only. Hasbun Allah wa ni'mal Wakil! (Allah is enough for me!) They live their lives away from the senses of existence, devoting their selfs to constant remembrance and engulfing themsleves with the pleasure of being in solitude. They are few in number and when you find them, their hearts will speak to you like a river of sweetnees at your doorstep quenching your longing thirsts. He has given them nothing of the world because they are beyond it. They belong to the Heavens.
Then there are those whom He has given the world in one hand and the Heavens in another. These people are the commonly blessed. They strive for what they need of this world knowing that it is what they really want to reap for in the Hereafter. To excel lies in two dimensions: with the inner and the outer. The scale is fairly balanced and their potions are attained with contentment; never ungrateful for what of the world He offers and always weary of what they should never pick up for disaster.
Of those who are the most unworthy, they remember not and simply drown in the pleasures of the world, drinking more than they can gulp. To them patience is an enemy as satisfaction is for the moment. The means to pleasure will be sought at all extent. Difficulty is alien and status is a bliss. He gives them all they want but only of the world, for that is all they ask for. Despite possessing all that they want, they sense a longing deep down inside. Ignoring the wails of their tormented souls, relentless as the capacities of their containers overflow with what they barely need. For them there is no share in the Hereafter. Leave them to eat and enjoy themselves. Let false hope divert them. They will soon know. (Surah al-Hijr:3)
Thursday, April 24, 2003
Love: The Light of the Prophet
Where does all this love come from? Why is it coming? The answer is nothing but He. He brings it to us. That love that He gives us is our life support system and He is the Owner of it. Ya Muqallibal qulubi wal absar! (O Turner of hearts and eyes!)
The heart is a centrifugal organ. Continuously generating emotions and energy out, not just to the senses of our bodies but out to all that our senses extend to: to the touch of a loved one, to the wail of an infant, to the sound of a hum, to the taste of a fruit. All connected to the heart. That's where we are.
Our beloved Prophet Muhammad, peace and blesings of God be upon him, said: "Truly in the body there is a morsel of flesh, which, if it be whole, all the body is whole, and which, if it is diseased, all of it is diseased. truly, it is the heart."
The hearts that grasp one another come together for the love of the beloved one, Muhammad, peace and blessings of God be upon him, uniting together like a binding chain ever illuminating nur ala nur (light upon light).
The next time you wonder why you love someone, turn your hearts towards the Causer of the Causes, and acknowledge that it is that love; that which is light, which He created from the very begining, that light of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wassalam.
Where does all this love come from? Why is it coming? The answer is nothing but He. He brings it to us. That love that He gives us is our life support system and He is the Owner of it. Ya Muqallibal qulubi wal absar! (O Turner of hearts and eyes!)
The heart is a centrifugal organ. Continuously generating emotions and energy out, not just to the senses of our bodies but out to all that our senses extend to: to the touch of a loved one, to the wail of an infant, to the sound of a hum, to the taste of a fruit. All connected to the heart. That's where we are.
Our beloved Prophet Muhammad, peace and blesings of God be upon him, said: "Truly in the body there is a morsel of flesh, which, if it be whole, all the body is whole, and which, if it is diseased, all of it is diseased. truly, it is the heart."
The hearts that grasp one another come together for the love of the beloved one, Muhammad, peace and blessings of God be upon him, uniting together like a binding chain ever illuminating nur ala nur (light upon light).
The next time you wonder why you love someone, turn your hearts towards the Causer of the Causes, and acknowledge that it is that love; that which is light, which He created from the very begining, that light of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wassalam.
Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Need for an Introduction
This is the begining of a journey along the bytes of a dispensible virtual existence. For those that seek by this means, may they find what their hearts truly desire without being lured by tempatation and deceit waiting to devour their egos. For those who are led to the discovery, may they be content with the fruits He nourishes their hearts with. From our Lord do we always seek protection and aid. Ameen.
This is the begining of a journey along the bytes of a dispensible virtual existence. For those that seek by this means, may they find what their hearts truly desire without being lured by tempatation and deceit waiting to devour their egos. For those who are led to the discovery, may they be content with the fruits He nourishes their hearts with. From our Lord do we always seek protection and aid. Ameen.
