I Am Enjoying Being A Muslim
I learned to remedy my heart, for Allah’s desire for human beings is the soundness of their hearts.
We must beware of what we let enter our hearts. There will come a day when we'd give anything to remove it. [b]O Allah, You Are my Lord, make my soul a sanctuary, a fortress within. That no one and nothing can disturb. A place of calm, silence, and serenity, untouched by the outside world. The soul that Allah calls the reassured soul. Amen![/b]
Sometimes, the ocean floor is only a stop on the journey. And it is when we are at this lowest point, that we are faced with a choice. We can stay there at the bottom, until we drown. Or we can gather pearls and rise back up — stronger from the swim and richer from the jewels. Allah separates me from what I love, to teach me about the nature of this world. Then Allah returns to me what I love, to teach me about the nature of the next.
Ultimately, the question is about the nature of this world as a place of fleeting moments and temporary attachments. As a place where people are with us today and leave or die tomorrow. But this reality hurts our very being because it goes against our nature. We, as humans, are made to seek, love, and strive for what is perfect and what is permanent. We are made to seek what’s eternal. We seek this because we were not made for this life. Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a part of our being. The problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on—in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be.
We must beware of what we let enter our hearts. There will come a day when we'd give anything to remove it. [b]O Allah, You Are my Lord, make my soul a sanctuary, a fortress within. That no one and nothing can disturb. A place of calm, silence, and serenity, untouched by the outside world. The soul that Allah calls the reassured soul. Amen![/b]
Sometimes, the ocean floor is only a stop on the journey. And it is when we are at this lowest point, that we are faced with a choice. We can stay there at the bottom, until we drown. Or we can gather pearls and rise back up — stronger from the swim and richer from the jewels. Allah separates me from what I love, to teach me about the nature of this world. Then Allah returns to me what I love, to teach me about the nature of the next.
Ultimately, the question is about the nature of this world as a place of fleeting moments and temporary attachments. As a place where people are with us today and leave or die tomorrow. But this reality hurts our very being because it goes against our nature. We, as humans, are made to seek, love, and strive for what is perfect and what is permanent. We are made to seek what’s eternal. We seek this because we were not made for this life. Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a part of our being. The problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on—in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be.
