Alhamdulil Allah
Freedom
It took me time to realise that sand is sand
It took me time to realise sand cannot be gold
As we detach from what is wasting our time and energy
As we detach from what does not add value to our wellbeing
We become free
A life worthy to be lived can be worthy only
if its purpose is to please Allah SWT, The One who bestowed us with this life in the first instance
If our lives become focused on fulfilling the above, unhappiness will not have place in our hearts
It may visit us now and then, but surely will not settle in our hearts
As we grow older, time's value increases
the objective of this life should be clearer, we may take wrong turns, but the direction should be right
As you realise that no one is perfect and all setbacks in life can be value adds then you will be free
As you realise how imperfect and weak you are, you should become sure of the perfection and strength of Allah SWT, this should be enough to give you joy and smile with trust in Allah SWT
As you learn to smile, in shaa Allah a feeling of lightness will overpower you as you will realise that it is not you who is carrying the world but you have a Rabb Who is in charge of all the affairs and no leaf turns without His Will. So you will be light
You only have to move, you only have to do harakah with Allah SWT's guidance and barakah will not miss you
There is a plan for each one of us, we may walk together but our stories are different and this is the beauty of this journey
Yes, this journey
Do not forget that the story does not end here and in shaa Allah you want the end to be the beginning of something much better
Subhanal Allah
To Allah SWT we turn our hearts and thereby devotion, trusting in Him all our lives, all our affairs
Our mind, we do not allow to wonder, we return to Allah SWT with constant remembrance, otherwise we will become slaves of our thoughts and this might distract us from our path towards the pleasure of Allah SWT and a residence in the best neighbourhood, below the Throne of Allah SWT, in firdaus al ala
No one has seen tomorrow
Death is as close to a healthy one as to a sick one
What is apparent may not be the reality
There is only one reality that is worth living by and that is to know who is Allah SWT and then working to please Him; as you realise the sweetness in this remembrance, this constant return to Allah SWT, then maybe you have already tested the sweetness of paradise
Alhamdulil Allah Rabb al alameen
Wa Salato wa salamo ala Rasulil Allah.
Bismil Allah
Alhamdulil Allah
My journey
As you go through this life
For a moment, stop and ponder over your existence
Why have you come here?
Where do you stand now?
What is the purpose?
This is a beautiful journey if your focus is on yourself
This is a worthwhile journey
If you discover Who is Allah and who you are
If what you see around is darkness, then turn inwards
Al Khaliq has blessed you with a heart to understand the reality and the transitory nature of this life So why do you worry?
Your mission is very straightforward, to please Allah with what you have
Out of your nest, you will have to fly
Heavens you have to reach with ease or pain
When the world around pleases you, you smile
When the world around causes you pain, you smile and you move forward
If you have searched happiness in the smile of others, you are bound to cry
If the pleasure of Allah you strive for, happiness and tranquillity will be placed in your heart
Alhamdulil Allah will be uttered with sincerity and gratitude
No pain will be here to stay, patience will heal the wound and you will smile again
Like a bird, you will fly
No one will be able to stop you because your gaze would be towards the heavens
You will keep flying with vision and focus
Knowing your purpose and destination
Darussalam you will reach
In shaa Allah
Alhamdulil Allah
Wa salato wa salamo ala Rasulil Allah
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Bismil Allah
Alhamdulil Allah
Talking to my Creator
With my naked feet, I walk talking to my Creator, Al Khaleq
In this world full of superficiality and judgement
It is in Allah that I find the consolation and the hope as He is Al Wadood (The All Loving) and He is Al Fat'ah (The All Opener) and Ar Rahman (The All Merciful, The Owner of Mercy)
Who is what, I do not know...
I have failed to understand and judge the people, hence I turned my gaze to Allah, Who is Al Lateef Al Khabeer, Who is the The Most Gentle and Knows the secrets of the hearts
Friendship I used to hold in high esteem, but disappointment made me realise that this world is a jungle, who is my friend and who is my enemy only Allah knows
Sweet words we all use, we all express high emotions, and I question how truthful we are?
We look around and we see greed and we start running with others
Technological advances, whats up and messages have started to become our connection means
Time for each other we do not have
We have our commitments and we just want to fulfil those
Beyond the duty of call, I do not want to stretch neither my hand nor my feet
Out of my comfort zone, I do not want to come out
We are wired ...electronically
I wonder how connected are our hearts?
As I question the actual reality, I ask Allah to show us the truth as the truth and to make us follow it and to show us the falsehood as falsehood and to make us avoid it, ameen ya Rabb al alameen
Alhamdulil Allah Rabb al Alameen
wa salato wa salamo ala Rasulil Allah.
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Bismil Allah
Alhamdulil Allah
360 degree travel
From caravans to planes
From camels to cars
From Makkah to Jerusalem
From Arabia to the different corners of the earth...
I hear the echo...
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar...
...Haya alal falah...haya alal falah...
I see people running to the souk...
I see people running to sign the deal of the year...
I see people running to catch the flight...
Oh Allah,...we heard all the calls...
We also heard haya alal falah, but we missed the main call...
Haya alas salah, haya alas salah
We became slaves, yes slaves
Slaves of pleasure, slaves of money, slaves of power, slaves of greed
We forgot the most noble slavery
Lailaha ilal Allah
We were ready to rule the world...under the banner of Islam
We were conquering the hearts, minds, lands under the rule of the Prophet SAW
under the Caliphates of Abu Bakr RA, Omar RA, Usman RA, Ali RA
but we lost the Light, we let the Qur'an be recited without understanding and reflection
We started to count the number of complete recitations of the Qur'an
But we forgot to count the lessons
We forgot to apply the lessons
Allah opened His doors wide, wide open in the last third of the night
But subhanal Allah, we preferred to be sleeping on those blessed hours
in the hope of waking up in the morning to beg to an abdal Allah, a slave of Allah
We became so blinded that we lost the light and slowly the fitrah, our natural disposition became covered with the dirt of our sins...
We stopped differentiating the truth from falsehood...and then we asked...
Why is this happening to me???
Oh slave of Allah, time is running...but stop, for once, stop! Think...take a step back...and run...like you never ran before...fafeerru ilal Allah...run to Allah...run to His Mercy...run to His Forgiveness...run to His door...run to His salah...and create the silah, the connection with your Allah, your Wali
Subhanal Allah, the response will not be delayed...it will be at the speed of your truthfulness.
Alhamdulil Allah Rabb al alameen
wa salato wa salamo ala Rasulil Allah
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Bismil Allah Alhamdulil Allah
My mirror: what did I achieve?
We are approaching gradually the end of Ramadan
How has been the journey, dear traveler?
The caravan is reaching in shaa Allah its destination
The objective of fasting is for us to achieve taqwa, for us to become muttaqeen!
Did we reach it?
Taqwa is a very vast concept and achieving it might mean different things for different people
For some it might mean having more sabr
For others might be being more compassionate towards others
For some it might mean leaving some sins which have been committed consistently
Now is the time for reflection and also time to make additional amends
Has my taqwa increased?
How can I increase it further in the last two days?
You are your best judge, ask yourself!
In shaa Allah with the end of Ramadan, we want in shaa Allah a new rising, a new beginning of life
We want in shaa Allah to turn our gaze towards the pleasure of Allah SWT, in every word that we utter, in every step that we take, in every decision that we take,
As we say in shaa Allah see you next year beloved guest Ramadan, we seek Allah's forgiveness with the beautiful duaa of forgiveness and pardon for the lailat ul Qadr:
اللْهُمَّ إِنَّكَ عَفُوٌّ تُحِبُّ الْعَفْوَ فَاعْفُ عَنِّي
Oh Allah verily You are The Pardoner, You love pardoning, pardon me
We magnify, glorify and praise Allah SWT and we ask Allah SWT to change our qadar.
What better way to change our qadar than with the above duaa of Pardoning as recommended by the Prophet SAW to his wife, our mother Aisha RA.
Alhamdulil Allah Rabb al alameen
Wa salato wa salamo ala Rasulil Allah.
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Bismil Allah
Alhamdulil Allah
As I ponder through the concept and feeling of friendship
I question its reality
I question its truthfulness
I realise then, that there is only one friendship where there will never be a disappointment and that is the friendship of Allah SWT, Walyat Allah
This friendship is the most reliable in every moment of your life, during your last moments of life, at death and after death, up till beidhnil Allah paradise
Having witnessed the reality of a death of a loved one in front of my eyes not too long ago, I realised that at that moment how helpless we, family had become
We knew that at that moment, it was the person, her deeds and Allah SWT
Upon us was to ask Allah for the best end for our dear one, Subhanal Allah
Of all the relationships, probably the one least trustworthy
is the friendship to a human fellow
What is friendship?
Can you define?
Subhanal Allah, no!
However I go back in time and I remember the
"famous" friendship between two men which marked the history of Islam
Prophet Muhammad SAW and Abu Bakr RA, Subhanal Allah
It touches me, when I think about that moment where the two
brothers in Islam and two friends were hiding in the cave on their way to
Madina
Please read the extract of that moment in the lives of Abu
Bakr RA and the Prophet SAW:
The Prophet (SAW) said to Abu Bakr (RA): “Be not afraid, surely Allah is with us.”
It was not for his own life or safety that Abu Bakr (RA) was concerned – his entire life up to that point in time had proved that it was the safety of the Messenger of Allah (SAW) that was important to him; his worry was out of concern for the Message and the Messenger!
Abu Bakr (RA) later reported: “While I was in the cave, I said to the Prophet (SAW), ‘If one of them were to look underneath his feet (the cave lay below where the Makkans stood), he would see us.’ The Prophet (SAW) said, ‘What do you think, O Abu Bakr, about two, when Allah is their third?'”
The Prophet (SAW) had taken every measure to ensure that every part of their journey was carefully planned. A believer makes his best effort for the sake of Allah and then relies on Allah (SWT) for the fruit of his efforts. This is the sunnah (tradition) of the Prophet of Allah (SAW).
The polytheists however looked at the cave and saw upon its opening a spider’s web and near the entrance was the nest of a bird in which there were eggs. Looking at the spider’s web that looked untouched and the bird’s nest and eggs which lay undisturbed (they would have been sure to have been trampled upon where they were if someone had entered the cave), the polytheist Makkans concluded that nobody could have entered the cave in the past few days and left.
SubhanAllah!
Allah (SWT) says about this in the Quran:
“If you
help him (Muhammad SAW) not (it does not matter), for Allah did indeed help him
when the disbelievers drove him out, the second of the two; when they (Muhammad
[SAW] and Abu Bakr [RA]) were in the cave, he (SAW) said to his companion (Abu
Bakr [RA]): “Do not be sad (or afraid), surely, Allah is with us.” Then Allah
sent down His sakinah (calmness, tranquillity) upon him, and strengthened him with
forces which you saw not, and made the word of those who disbelieved the
lowermost, while the Word of Allah became the uppermost; and Allah is All
Mighty, All Wise.” (Quran Surah 9, ayah
40)
Allah’s ‘soldiers’ work against falsehood and for the Truth; the spider and the bird were Allah’s soldiers just like the small birds that destroyed Abraha’s army as it advanced upon the Ka’abah in Makkah more than 53 years before!
Allah says in the Quran (Surah 74, Ayah 31):
“And
none can know the hosts (armies, troops, soldiers) of your Lord but He.”
Thus Allah showed the polytheists of Makkah that it was not them who had the upper hand. Despite their best efforts they were unable to execute their own plan to perfection."
This is real friendship for the sake of Allah SWT, subhanal Allah.
There was no blood relationship between the Prophet SAW and Abu Bakr RA, but there was truthfulness in their friendship. And that was the secret of this lofty friendship, Alhamdulil Allah.
Alhamdulil Allah Rabb al alameen
Wa salato wa salamo ala Rasulil Allah
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Bismil Allah
Alhamdulil Allah
wa salato wa salamo ala Rasulil
Allah
I see sometimes smiles,
sometimes laughter, sometimes tears
I see sometimes suffering,
sometimes pleasure
I see sometimes abundance,
sometimes scarcity
I see sometimes humbleness,
sometimes arrogance
Then I ask myself
How should I behave?
How should I respond?
How do I gather my thoughts?
How do I gather my heart?
What do I believe in?
Then I find the response!
I believe in Allah, Ar Rahman
Ar Rahim
So all His actions are filled
with Mercy
Allah, Ar Rahman Ar Rahim is
Merciful all the time
This is one of
His attributes
This gives me the assurance
that my job is to live in accordance to His commands
and He will make clear to me
the reality of each and every situation
I realise that success is from
Allah SWT
I realise that success is in
obeying Allah SWT to the best of my ability
The world keeps changing,
people's behaviour is unexpected and changes
People's emotions' change
So what does not change?
Allah SWT is Ar Rahman Ar Rahim
and it is under the shade of
this Name that I want to live my life
People can change but In shaa
Allah I will only change towards coming closer to Ar Rahman Ar Rahim
and I ask Allah to make me more
forgiving and compassionate towards others
Ameen ya Rabb al alameen
Alhamdulil Allah Rabb al
alameen
wa salato wa salamo
ala
Rasulil Allah
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
الحمد لله
Get your focus right!
Wa salato wa salamo ala Rasulil Allah
Get your focus right!
Subhanal Allah, as we try, with the help of Allah
subhana wa t'Ala to live a good life, there are important considerations to
take into account and put into practice:
First, have faith in Allah and this will be
possible only if you know who is Allah and you are able to see His actions in
your daily life. Be sure, He is your Walyyi. Honestly, you cannot have a better
friend than Him. He is not going to leave you or deceive you. His actions are
between justice and generosity.
Second, Shaytan is your enemy. He wants to break
you, make you sad, make you complain about your situation and others; spoil
your relationships with good people.
Third, If you want a peaceful life, then try to
work on getting your relationship with Allah right, by having taqwa and tawaqul
and relying and expecting less from people. Allah SWT will sort out all other
relationships in your life.
Fourth, Avoid running after dunya, after people of
dunya, I mean do not run after power, prestige or money. Run after the pleasure
of Allah, even when working. Stop competing in an unfair way. The moment you
realise that at some point in your life and you do not know when, you are going
to be heading towards the graveyard. That should put things into perspective. I
am not saying this to make you sad. I ask Allah SWT to extend, to prolong our
lives in goodness and with His complete Mercy. Like you, I want to live and in
shaa Allah I want to live a goodly life and I ask Allah for a good end and for
a tranquil soul.
Honestly, it took me time to realise but maybe and
I hope in shaa Allah I have really realised that: the more you focus your
attention towards the akhirah, towards pleasing Allah, the more Allah will sort
out for you your dunya and akhirah. Honestly, this is beautiful. I have seen it
and I am witnessing on a daily basis. And I notice also, Allah, Ar Rabb how He
tried to put me back in track when He sees i am loosing focus and starting to
turn to dunya and my desires.
It is beautiful, when we start being taken care by
Allah, Al Walyyi.
I ask Allah to bless you in this beautiful day of
Jumuah and that He releases from every burden that is making your back heavy
and that He becomes you Walyyi.
Ameen ya Rabb al alameen
Jazakumul Allaho khayran
Alhamdulil Allah Rabb al alameenWa salato wa salamo ala Rasulil Allah
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بسم الله
الرحمن الرحيم
الحمد لله
Wa salato wa salamo ala Rasulil Allah
At Your door I sit all the time…
At Your door ya Allah subhana wa t'Ala, I sit all the time
I am a beggar without shame in front of you
What the world thinks has become secondary
Your pleasure is
what comes first
Life has become
meaningful as I have started to know you
I realise my
hopes are long and there is dunya in me too
But in
remembering you I find solace
All my worries
vanish for real
I know the
solution of my problems is in your taqwa
Tawaqul in you
gives me the assurance of your help and victory
My aim to be fair
in my dealings with your creation
My ideal to be
generous in my dealings with your creation
Your Generosity,
I do not have words to thank for
الحمد لله
Your love I witness in the way you have dealt with me
The people you bring in my life, the situations you create,
the family you have given me
الحمد لله
The destiny you decreed for me is beautiful
My destiny is not about what I do not have but about what I
have
سبحان الله
You have given me
so much
الحمد لله
That if I be in
sujood all day, I cannot thank-you enough
Love and care
from loved ones
Above all, your
love, your compassion, your forgiveness are the beautiful gifts I witness all
day long
On this blessed
time, I ask you, ya Allah subhana wa t'Ala,
to bless all my needy sisters and brothers and to relieve them of their
difficulties and to grant them peace, ease and fulfilment of their needs and
good wishes
They are your servants, you can give and forgive as you are
Al Wahab and you are also Al Ghafoor Ar Raheem
الحمد لله
Wa salato wa
salamo ala Rasulil Allah
Ameen
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