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I Am Enjoying Being A Muslim

I learned to take everyday as a chance to become a better Muslim.

To some, Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations. But, to those who understand, it is a perfect vision of life. This world cannot break us—unless we give it permission. And it cannot own us unless we hand it the keys—unless we give it our hearts. And so, if we have handed those keys to this world for a while—we should take them back. This isn’t the End. we don’t have to die here. Let's reclaim our hearts and place it with its rightful owner: God.

I must realize that nothing happens without a purpose. Nothing. Not even broken hearts. Not even pain. That broken heart and that pain are lessons and signs for me. They are warnings that something is wrong. They are warnings that I need to make a change. Just like the pain of being burned is what warns me to remove my hand from the fire, emotional pain warns me that I need to make an internal change. I need to detach. Pain is a form of forced detachment. Like the loved one who hurts me again and again and again, the more this world hurts me, the more I inevitably detach from it. The more I inevitably stop loving it. God gives us gifts, but then we come to love them as we should only love Him. We take those gifts and inject them into our hearts, until they take over. Soon we cannot live without them. Every waking moment is spent in contemplation of them, in submission and worship to them. The mind and the heart that was created by God, for God, becomes the property of someone or something else. And then the fear comes. The fear of loss begins to cripple us. The gift—that should have remained in our hands—takes over our heart, so the fear of losing it consumes us. Soon, what was once a gift becomes a weapon of torture and a prison of our own making. How can we be freed of this? At times, in His infinite mercy, God frees us .. by taking it away. As a result of it being taken, we turn to God wholeheartedly. In that desperation and need, we ask, we beg, we pray. Through the loss, we reach a level of sincerity and humility and dependence on Him which we would otherwise not reach—had it not been taken from us. Through the loss, our hearts turn entirely to face God.

There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave me, if I am free inside. And all the external 'freedom' in the world won't liberate me, if I am chained inside. I should let go. And I'll know freedom.
ScoobyScoobydoo · 51-55, M
Too mmuch to read cba but what ever floats your boat
NickiHijab · F
This touched me🙂

Thank you.
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
Be a Christian instead. At least at the end of life you won't be expecting to be kept in a zoo.

 
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