Bismillah ir Rahman ir Raheem
Mama is leaving tomorrow. May Allah subhanawatala take her and my sis under His protection, and bring them back to us with khair and A3fiya. ameen.
I think I should start searching good resources for kids. A**** was quite entusiastic about learning Quran this morning. Recited complete Surat Shams to me, alhamdulillah. We were looking for a fun and easy software which was once mentioned on www.productivemuslim.com for learning and memorizing Quran, but couldn't find it. Now just came across this website http://www.learningroots.com/lr/ mentioned by Shaykh Muhammad Alshareef. Haven't went through it but by the looks of it seem pretty cool mashaAllah!
Heard a very, very disturbing news today. Can't get over it and shouldn't or I 'd be a heartless person. But the injustices in Pakistan have peaked to an unbelievable degree. I was reading surah I'raf today, and SubhanAllah was talking about nations "Qura" I believe was the word that was used. One Ayah that particularly struck to me was that if the people BELIEVED and had TAQWA, then Allah subhanawatala had poured Na'ma over them. I thought so the solution manual has been presented and been summed up pithily in 2 words Belief and Taqwa. Now comes the time to take actions for me and others, but how many of us will really pay heed? Sadly very few, and it just makes the figure of billions feel ridiculous. So many fruits without any juice. Inna lilllahi wannia ilehi rajioon. InshaAllah I start action now. Bismillah. Mamo advised me to do one thing "Ask Allah to be pleased with you". Alhamdulillah. Mamo knows where to kick to bring me right back and he hits me at my weakest point, so that I can know the problem area an get right back up, inshaAllah! So Allah subhana watala I ask your pleasure, that YOU be pleased with me. ANd to do that I shall go inside and see if mama needs any help. InshaAllah!
BTW this is the video, it is VERY DISTURBING AND SAD. I couldn't watch it, but it is a very effective and rude call for me to open my eyes and brain to the things happening around. mm I decide not to post it...Should I? Ya Rabbi rahm!
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
The Temptation of Adam
Bismillah ir Rahman ir Raheem!
I know this is a hat trick. :) Three posts in one day. Alas yes ;p I have been trying to catch up and get with the flow. I always slack at the beginning and then weep and rush at the end. Bismillah I hope this habit of mine ends today, inshaAllah.
Just on a sidenote, I am trying to learn to practice typing through this series of posts, too. InshaAllah ya Allah!
A life of passion and longing is better than eternal quiet,
Even a dove that is caught in a trap, but keeps flapping its wings, changes into an eagle.
You do no more than bow down in humility;
Rise like the tall cypress tree, you who are slow to act!
The waters of Kausar and Tasnim have robbed you of the joy of action.
Take wine from the jug, real wine clear as crystal, made from grapes.
'Good' and 'bad' are figments of the imagination of your Lord.
Take pleasure in action, step out and take what you desire.
Come, rise up, so that I may show you a new kingdom!
Open your eyes and go about seeing the sights the world has to offer.
Now you are a drop of water worth nothing, become a luminous pearl!
Come down from the heavens, and live in the ocean.
You are a flashing sword, strike terror into the world's soul;
Come out of the scabbard and show your mettle.
Spread an eagle's wings and spill the pheasants' blood;
For a falcon, living in the nest spells death.
You do not yet know this, but with union comes the end of longing:
What is eternal life? To burn - and keep on burning!
زندگی سوز و ساز بہ ز سکون دوام
فاختہ شاہین شود از تپش زیر دام
ہیچ نیاید ز تو غیر سجود نیاز
خیز چو سرو بلند، اے بعمل نرم گام
کوثر و تسنیم برد، از تو نشاط عمل
گیر ز مینائے تاک بادۂ آئینہ فام
زشت و نکو زادۂ وہم خداوند تست
لذت کردار گیر، گام بنہ، جوئے کام
خیز کہ بنمایمت، مملکت تازہ ئی
چشم جہاں بین کشا، بہر تماشا خرام
قطرۂ بے مایہ ئی گوھر تابندہ شو
از سر گردون بیفت، گیر بدریا مقام
تیغ درخشندہ ئی، جان جہانے گسل
جوھر خود رانما، آے بروں از نیام
بازوئے شاہیں کشا، خون تذرواں بریز
مرگ بود باز ار زیستن اندر کنام
تو نشناسی ہنوز شوق بمیرد ز وصل
چیست حیات دوام، سوختن ناتمام
I know this is a hat trick. :) Three posts in one day. Alas yes ;p I have been trying to catch up and get with the flow. I always slack at the beginning and then weep and rush at the end. Bismillah I hope this habit of mine ends today, inshaAllah.
Just on a sidenote, I am trying to learn to practice typing through this series of posts, too. InshaAllah ya Allah!
The Temptation of Adam
A life of passion and longing is better than eternal quiet,
Even a dove that is caught in a trap, but keeps flapping its wings, changes into an eagle.
You do no more than bow down in humility;
Rise like the tall cypress tree, you who are slow to act!
The waters of Kausar and Tasnim have robbed you of the joy of action.
Take wine from the jug, real wine clear as crystal, made from grapes.
'Good' and 'bad' are figments of the imagination of your Lord.
Take pleasure in action, step out and take what you desire.
Come, rise up, so that I may show you a new kingdom!
Open your eyes and go about seeing the sights the world has to offer.
Now you are a drop of water worth nothing, become a luminous pearl!
Come down from the heavens, and live in the ocean.
You are a flashing sword, strike terror into the world's soul;
Come out of the scabbard and show your mettle.
Spread an eagle's wings and spill the pheasants' blood;
For a falcon, living in the nest spells death.
You do not yet know this, but with union comes the end of longing:
What is eternal life? To burn - and keep on burning!
[Translation by Mustansir Mir]
اغوائے آدم
زندگی سوز و ساز بہ ز سکون دوام
فاختہ شاہین شود از تپش زیر دام
ہیچ نیاید ز تو غیر سجود نیاز
خیز چو سرو بلند، اے بعمل نرم گام
کوثر و تسنیم برد، از تو نشاط عمل
گیر ز مینائے تاک بادۂ آئینہ فام
زشت و نکو زادۂ وہم خداوند تست
لذت کردار گیر، گام بنہ، جوئے کام
خیز کہ بنمایمت، مملکت تازہ ئی
چشم جہاں بین کشا، بہر تماشا خرام
قطرۂ بے مایہ ئی گوھر تابندہ شو
از سر گردون بیفت، گیر بدریا مقام
تیغ درخشندہ ئی، جان جہانے گسل
جوھر خود رانما، آے بروں از نیام
بازوئے شاہیں کشا، خون تذرواں بریز
مرگ بود باز ار زیستن اندر کنام
تو نشناسی ہنوز شوق بمیرد ز وصل
چیست حیات دوام، سوختن ناتمام
So this time I commented third which is nice as I can now keep track of what everyone else is saying. I said
Bismillah!
This so resounds with me. I find it personally compelling. For the longest time I have been hearing this rhetoric that "if there is a will, there is a way", that every possibility is within reach if you stretch your arm enough. If you really want it, then you have to work for it, and if you work for it, you will get it.
On the deeper level, I have always been wondering that what is the limit where action stops and faith begins? Iblees here is giving the same carrot to Prophet Adam elehi salam that we are given in present times that action brings all good...yet the irony is hadn't all the poems of Allama been encouraging youth to do the same as Iblees? To not to wait for the things to happen, but to take the initiative.
"Take pleasure in action, step out and take what you desire."
"Open your eyes and go about seeing the sights the world has to offer"
Quite intriguing and bemusing...I wonder how will it all come about?
This so resounds with me. I find it personally compelling. For the longest time I have been hearing this rhetoric that "if there is a will, there is a way", that every possibility is within reach if you stretch your arm enough. If you really want it, then you have to work for it, and if you work for it, you will get it.
On the deeper level, I have always been wondering that what is the limit where action stops and faith begins? Iblees here is giving the same carrot to Prophet Adam elehi salam that we are given in present times that action brings all good...yet the irony is hadn't all the poems of Allama been encouraging youth to do the same as Iblees? To not to wait for the things to happen, but to take the initiative.
"Take pleasure in action, step out and take what you desire."
"Open your eyes and go about seeing the sights the world has to offer"
Quite intriguing and bemusing...I wonder how will it all come about?
I will add to the post later, InshaAllah. For now I will call it a day.
I have to thank and Praise Allah in a written form because He has been the only and the Best Aide to me today. Alhamdulillah.
PS: I really wish to find a cut and dried answer to this question: where is the line drawn between tawakkul and khudi?
The Devil's Refusal
Insolence! That what came to my mind upon reading this
The Devil’s Refusal
I am not such a foolish angel that I would bow to Adam!
He is made of dust, but my element is fire.
It is my ardour that heats the blood in the veins of the universe:
I am in the raging storm and the crashing thunder;
I am the bond that holds the atoms together, and the law that rules the elements;
I burn and give form - I am the alchemist's fire.
What I have myself made I break in pieces,
Only to create new forms from the old dust.
From my sea rises the wave of the heavens that know no rest –
The splendour and glory of my element fashions the world.
The stars owe their existence to You, but they owe their motion to me:
I am the soul of the world, the hidden life that is seen by none.
You give the soul to the body, but I set that soul astir.
You rob on the highway by causing sloth, I guide along the right path with burning passion.
I did not beg paupers to bow down before me: I am mighty, but do not need a hell;
I am a judge, but do not need resurrection.
Adam - that creature of dust, that short-sighted ignoramus -
Was born in your lap but will grow old in my arms!
[Translation by Mustansir Mir]
انکارِ ابلیس
نوری ناداں نیم سجدہ بہ آدم برم
او بہ نہاد است خاک من بہ نژاد آذرم
می تپد از سوز من خون رگ کائنات
من بہ دو صرصرم من بہ غو تندرم
رابطۂ سالمات ضابطۂ امہات
سوزم و سازے دھم آتش مینا گرم
ساختۂ خویش را در شکنم ریز ریز
تا ز غبار کہن ، پیکر نو آورم
از زو من موجۂ چرخِ سکوں ناپذیر
او بہ نہاد است خاک من بہ نژاد آذرم
می تپد از سوز من خون رگ کائنات
من بہ دو صرصرم من بہ غو تندرم
رابطۂ سالمات ضابطۂ امہات
سوزم و سازے دھم آتش مینا گرم
ساختۂ خویش را در شکنم ریز ریز
تا ز غبار کہن ، پیکر نو آورم
از زو من موجۂ چرخِ سکوں ناپذیر
نقش گرِ روزگار، تاب و تب جوہرم
پیکر انجم ز تو گردش انجم ز من
جاں بجہاں اندرم، زندگی مضمرم
تو بہ بدن جاں دہی، شور بجاں من دہم
تو بہ سکوں رہ زنی، من بہ تپش رہبرم
من ز تنک مایگاں گدیہ نکردم سجود
قاہر بَے دوزخم، داور بے محشرم
آدم خاکی نہاد، دوں نظر و کم سواد
زاد در آغوش تو، پیر شود در برم
پیکر انجم ز تو گردش انجم ز من
جاں بجہاں اندرم، زندگی مضمرم
تو بہ بدن جاں دہی، شور بجاں من دہم
تو بہ سکوں رہ زنی، من بہ تپش رہبرم
من ز تنک مایگاں گدیہ نکردم سجود
قاہر بَے دوزخم، داور بے محشرم
آدم خاکی نہاد، دوں نظر و کم سواد
زاد در آغوش تو، پیر شود در برم
But subhanAllah! Allama had used some pretty powerful vocabulary and style here.
I am not such a foolish angel that I would bow to Adam!
He is made of dust, but my element is fire.
It is my ardour that heats the blood in the veins of the universe:
I am in the raging storm and the crashing thunder;
I am the bond that holds the atoms together, and the law that rules the elements;
I burn and give form - I am the alchemist's fire.
He is made of dust, but my element is fire.
It is my ardour that heats the blood in the veins of the universe:
I am in the raging storm and the crashing thunder;
I am the bond that holds the atoms together, and the law that rules the elements;
I burn and give form - I am the alchemist's fire.
This made me realize that indeed we depend on fire for such a variety of things. I mean heat is one of the main focuses of science and this heat energy is like ubiquitous. Reactions cannot happen without the exchange of heat. Science apparently runs on heat, yet it was the first time that I have found Devil claiming all this credit to himself. It makes me step back and think whoa..so that is why he dared such a major disobedience against Allah subhana watala...this hubris, this prejudice on him was based on his assumption of being the rudiment of the Creation, of apparently running everything.
What I have myself made I break in pieces,
Only to create new forms from the old dust.
From my sea rises the wave of the heavens that know no rest –
The splendour and glory of my element fashions the world.
Only to create new forms from the old dust.
From my sea rises the wave of the heavens that know no rest –
The splendour and glory of my element fashions the world.
Now this all relates back to the previous section. Dust, break , make were the themes that we saw in the creation of Adam (elehi salam). Is the Devil trying to undermine the phenomenons that we found sparking and amazing in the last scenario?
Nature was distraught because, from the dust of a world without will,
One had been born who could make and unmake himself, and watch over himself.
Perhaps in the last passage the nature itself was aware of the capabilities of human being. It knew and realized the worth of him, and by being shown distraught it was actually testifying to the potential and power of the humans. In contrast, all we see here is the devil admiring and gloating over himself. The elements inside humans are the witness and proof of its greatness, while Iblis is stretching his words solely to sound at par rather more excellent than human being . Moreover, Adam elehi salam had not said a word here. You know as they say empty vessels make more noise, the pride in the Cursed one could not sit silent.
The stars owe their existence to You, but they owe their motion to me:
I am the soul of the world, the hidden life that is seen by none.
You give the soul to the body, but I set that soul astir.
You rob on the highway by causing sloth, I guide along the right path with burning passion.
I did not beg paupers to bow down before me: I am mighty, but do not need a hell;
I am a judge, but do not need resurrection.
Adam - that creature of dust, that short-sighted ignoramus -
Was born in your lap but will grow old in my arms!
I am the soul of the world, the hidden life that is seen by none.
You give the soul to the body, but I set that soul astir.
You rob on the highway by causing sloth, I guide along the right path with burning passion.
I did not beg paupers to bow down before me: I am mighty, but do not need a hell;
I am a judge, but do not need resurrection.
Adam - that creature of dust, that short-sighted ignoramus -
Was born in your lap but will grow old in my arms!
Sheer insolence! I don't understand the highway and sloth part, and who is he referring to as paupers?
wow is he claiming to be better than Allah subhanawatala naudbillah? Is He saying that unlike Allah subhana watala he would not require hell fire, resurrection and prayers?
Adam will grow old in my arms!!!! This is challenging the Raboobiat and Lordship of Allah subhanawatala...I wonder why allama dramatize this passage? In the Quran the ayahs are
And We created you, then fashioned you, then told the angels: Fall ye prostrate before Adam! And they fell prostrate, all save Iblis, who was not of those who make prostration. (11) He said: What hindered thee that thou didst not fall prostrate when I bade thee? (Iblis) said: I am better than him. Thou createdst me of fire while him Thou didst create of mud. (12) He said: Then go down hence! It is not for thee to show pride here, so go forth! Lo! thou art of those degraded. (13) He said: Reprieve me till the day when they are raised (from the dead). (14) He said: Lo! thou art of those reprieved. (15) He said: Now, because Thou hast sent me astray, verily I shall lurk in ambush for them on Thy Right Path. (16) Then I shall come upon them from before them and from behind them and from their right hands and from their left hands, and Thou wilt not find most of them beholden (unto Thee). (17)
I have not yet read the comments. Wonder what other Ibna-e-Adam (sons of Adam) are saying!
The Birth of Adam
Bismillah
SO yesterday I kind of took the day off. I shouldn't, I know! But I became overwhelmed and the flow of negativity ensued and I thought it rather best for the peace and sanity of my mind to not to burden it much. Alhamdulillah for everything. Alhamdulillah.
Yesterdays lesson was on Birth of Adam (A). It is a poem from the second book of Iqbal called "piyam-e-mashriq" and it is in Farsi. They have started giving the original text in Persian alongside the translation. ALhamdulillah. I really wanted that, and somehow liked the Persian version better. Poetry, more than anything else, loses its soul when translated. It becomes like a second-hand object. Something is already lost when the words of soul are put in the alphabetical order, and when even that is altered, you know something far worse results.
Anywho, this is the part of the poem we were doing for June 7th
Love exclaimed, 'Now one has been born who would roll his heart in blood!'
SubhanAllah yes!! Love is something enchanted, no really. How can you describe love. It is given to humans by Someone divine, and it cannot be grasped totally by any means by any word. Animals love, but when humans love, the love is so pure. I just can't say anything. It's so majestic and ethereal. Have you seen the eyes of a believer filled up with tears at the mention of the name of his Lord, that is Love. Love is what made Companion Ali (R) sleep in the bed of Prophet salalhu elehi wasslam. Love is what made Companion Talha (R) "the living Martyr". Love is what binds us with Allah. Ibn al Qayam (R) said that I don't remember exactly, but it was something like, there is a bird, Taqwa and hope are its two wings, and love is its head. (I should check for I may be saying it wrong) Beautiful! MashaAllah
Beauty trembled when she realised that one with a penetrating look had been born!
Beauty tremebled!! hmm why could that be? Yes It feels to me that we humans have been given the ability, the eyes to see the real inside of people. It is not the facade and sham appearance that matters, but the internal light is what is actually beautiful.
Nature was distraught because, from the dust of a world without will,
This is pretty much self-explanatory, and it is the one which resounds the concept of Khudi the most in this passage. But is very powerful, indeed... the maker of destiny :) Legendary. a leader. A Leader :) Prophet slalahu elehi wasslam said that everyone is a leader to the people under him. We all are leaders.
From the heavens the news went out to Eternity's sleeping-chamber:
This one I found a little difficult to understand first, for I was thinking that eternity is only for Allah subhanawatala so what is the purpose of bringing this on here? But I guess, it is because even when humans die, people die, their deeds live. A person can live for thousands of years, or maybe millions (like Prophet Adam elehi salam) in the memories of people. This is kind of a long life to live. Then there is Heaven and Hell where our deeds will live forever. So eternity in a very restricted and particular sense is applicable here. But the main reason to use it here is to motivate individuals, that they are no longer slave of the time is a sense that good travels and their one hasanah done with sincerity may live till the end of times.
Yes desire is what makes us human. :) What is desire? Khuhaish? Nafs? or something more subtle or a combination of everything? a Passion? Desire can make new worlds. When you want something really hard, want it with full heart, you can do wonders. Everyone will get what they work for. If I desire to go to Jannah, then it requires action. A new "world" is born everyday on facebook, when the desire to do good to people encourage or drive people to make islamic pages, and commit to it. Look at Brother iPoet, and Sheikh Muhammad Alshareef. Desire is something forceful. Alhamdulillah. I desire to meet Allah and may Allah desire to meet me. Ameen.
At last, life has come which one might have thought is the whole of all the different elements previously mentioned. Though it is the truth. But here, I believe, Allama has just used it in the sense of being alive. I will say it again that all the other life cannot really justify the true purpose of this Creation and the Earth. It is with the birth of Adam elehi salam that life is truly given meaning.
SO yesterday I kind of took the day off. I shouldn't, I know! But I became overwhelmed and the flow of negativity ensued and I thought it rather best for the peace and sanity of my mind to not to burden it much. Alhamdulillah for everything. Alhamdulillah.
Yesterdays lesson was on Birth of Adam (A). It is a poem from the second book of Iqbal called "piyam-e-mashriq" and it is in Farsi. They have started giving the original text in Persian alongside the translation. ALhamdulillah. I really wanted that, and somehow liked the Persian version better. Poetry, more than anything else, loses its soul when translated. It becomes like a second-hand object. Something is already lost when the words of soul are put in the alphabetical order, and when even that is altered, you know something far worse results.
Anywho, this is the part of the poem we were doing for June 7th
The Birth of Adam
Love exclaimed, 'Now one has been born who would roll his heart in blood!'
Beauty trembled when she realised that one with a penetrating look had been born!
Nature was distraught because, from the dust of a world without will,
One had been born who could make and unmake himself, and watch over himself.
From the heavens the news went out to Eternity's sleeping-chamber:
Beware, you who are veiled, one has been born who will tear away all veils!
Desire, resting in the lap of life and forgetful of itself,
Opened its eyes, and a new world was born.
Life said, 'Through all my years I lay in the dust and convulsed,
Until at last a door appeared in this ancient dome.'
[Translation by Mustansir Mir]
میلادِ آدم
نعرہ زد عشق کہ خونین جگرے پیدا شد
حسن لرزید کہ صاحب نظرے پیدا شد
فطرت آشفت کہ از خاکِ جہانِ مجبور
خود گرے خود شکنے خود نگرے پیدا شد
خبرے رفت ز گردون بہ شبستان ازل
حذر اے پردگیان پردہ درے پیدا شد
آرزو بیخبر از خویش بہ آغوشِ حیات
چشم وا کرد و جہانِ دگرے پیدا شد
زندگی گفت کہ در خاک تپیدم ہمہ عمر
تا ازین گنبدِ دیرینہ درے پیدا شد
حسن لرزید کہ صاحب نظرے پیدا شد
فطرت آشفت کہ از خاکِ جہانِ مجبور
خود گرے خود شکنے خود نگرے پیدا شد
خبرے رفت ز گردون بہ شبستان ازل
حذر اے پردگیان پردہ درے پیدا شد
آرزو بیخبر از خویش بہ آغوشِ حیات
چشم وا کرد و جہانِ دگرے پیدا شد
زندگی گفت کہ در خاک تپیدم ہمہ عمر
تا ازین گنبدِ دیرینہ درے پیدا شد
Again there were some fabulous, ingenious comments. And after reading them, I was like now what should I write? Everybody has alhamdulillah so well articulated their feelings and thoughts that not only I have been agreed upon by many people, but have also learnt so much from them. MashaAllah, TabrakAllah! But here is my reflection. I won't go into the beauty of the eloquence and the power of the scenario and the scene depicted. it already has been done much better than I could have tried to do, so instead I'll say what this passage taught me:
Khudi
wow SubhanaAllah I read it again slowly. Such a powerful message of human worth. These are the elements of human nature. Things that make up humans, not life, because life is in animals and plants too. But being a human is something totally different. We are put on an elevated status. Just the thought that all the angels bowed down to a being made of clay seems to suggest that Allah subhanawatala has made us special.
Love exclaimed, 'Now one has been born who would roll his heart in blood!'
SubhanAllah yes!! Love is something enchanted, no really. How can you describe love. It is given to humans by Someone divine, and it cannot be grasped totally by any means by any word. Animals love, but when humans love, the love is so pure. I just can't say anything. It's so majestic and ethereal. Have you seen the eyes of a believer filled up with tears at the mention of the name of his Lord, that is Love. Love is what made Companion Ali (R) sleep in the bed of Prophet salalhu elehi wasslam. Love is what made Companion Talha (R) "the living Martyr". Love is what binds us with Allah. Ibn al Qayam (R) said that I don't remember exactly, but it was something like, there is a bird, Taqwa and hope are its two wings, and love is its head. (I should check for I may be saying it wrong) Beautiful! MashaAllah
Beauty trembled when she realised that one with a penetrating look had been born!
Beauty tremebled!! hmm why could that be? Yes It feels to me that we humans have been given the ability, the eyes to see the real inside of people. It is not the facade and sham appearance that matters, but the internal light is what is actually beautiful.
Now the trembling of the beauty contrasts with the first line which suggested that love became alive and got reinvigorated with the birth of Adam (A). This alludes to the falsity of common mistake that love and beauty go together. Humans were given love, and a true love is capable of discerning true beauty. It is not made delusional by physical features but is much more meaningful and deeper than that.
Nature was distraught because, from the dust of a world without will,
One had been born who could make and unmake himself, and watch over himself.
This is pretty much self-explanatory, and it is the one which resounds the concept of Khudi the most in this passage. But is very powerful, indeed... the maker of destiny :) Legendary. a leader. A Leader :) Prophet slalahu elehi wasslam said that everyone is a leader to the people under him. We all are leaders.
From the heavens the news went out to Eternity's sleeping-chamber:
Beware, you who are veiled, one has been born who will tear away all veils!
This one I found a little difficult to understand first, for I was thinking that eternity is only for Allah subhanawatala so what is the purpose of bringing this on here? But I guess, it is because even when humans die, people die, their deeds live. A person can live for thousands of years, or maybe millions (like Prophet Adam elehi salam) in the memories of people. This is kind of a long life to live. Then there is Heaven and Hell where our deeds will live forever. So eternity in a very restricted and particular sense is applicable here. But the main reason to use it here is to motivate individuals, that they are no longer slave of the time is a sense that good travels and their one hasanah done with sincerity may live till the end of times.
Desire, resting in the lap of life and forgetful of itself,
Opened its eyes, and a new world was born.
Yes desire is what makes us human. :) What is desire? Khuhaish? Nafs? or something more subtle or a combination of everything? a Passion? Desire can make new worlds. When you want something really hard, want it with full heart, you can do wonders. Everyone will get what they work for. If I desire to go to Jannah, then it requires action. A new "world" is born everyday on facebook, when the desire to do good to people encourage or drive people to make islamic pages, and commit to it. Look at Brother iPoet, and Sheikh Muhammad Alshareef. Desire is something forceful. Alhamdulillah. I desire to meet Allah and may Allah desire to meet me. Ameen.
Life said, 'Through all my years I lay in the dust and convulsed,
Until at last a door appeared in this ancient dome.'
At last, life has come which one might have thought is the whole of all the different elements previously mentioned. Though it is the truth. But here, I believe, Allama has just used it in the sense of being alive. I will say it again that all the other life cannot really justify the true purpose of this Creation and the Earth. It is with the birth of Adam elehi salam that life is truly given meaning.
Alhamdulillahilladhi tatimmu bissalihat
All praises and thanks to Allah through Whom all the good things reach culmination
whew I really couldn't have written this yesterday. It is nowhere near good even today or could be in the near future, but it is something. And I ask Allah to improve it and make me progress, InshaAllah.
Things I have learnt:
- We can change our destiny.
- Love is when you roll your heart in blood. When you are ready to give sacrifices.
- You can lie with your actions. So do good. Do sadq-e- jaria.
- Be not listless. Burn with desire, and ask Him to guide you.
I will now post my reflection on the blog, iA
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Javaid Nama: Dialogue with the Martian
| Return to God the property of God | |
| so that you may loose the knot of your involvement; | 2010 |
| for why is there poverty and want under heaven’s arch? | |
| Because you say what is the Lord’s belongs to you. Today we worked through the passage Murghideen. The juxtaposition of the arguments is brilliant. A world was trusted to the martians when Barkhiya did not get tempted by the evil sorcerer Farzmarz into believing that there is world better than Jannah and which is free of rules and regulations. Murghideen is perfect. It is a world worth living. Yet when i read it I did not find it as appealing as one might have thought. It lacked the luster of mercy and repentance. And that is the true essence of the creation of this world, isn't it? Allah subhanawatala told the angels when they asked that what is the purpose of the Creation that will spread corruption in the land and spill blood, that I know what you don't know. This is it. To create the world as we see today was the Mashia of Allah subhanwatala. Yes there are injustices, vices, and evil, but through this only light of goodness shines bright and outstandingly. One brother pointed a quote from a movie "when there is no suffering, how will there be compassion" (sorry for misquoting..I can't find the comment again" The comments are all MashaAllah very thoughtful and thought provoking and inshaAllah through this project I will
I have to go pack things with mama, now. I want to read and write more, but what good is this knowledge if it does not help me put the words into actions and strive rather than just talk the talk. so for now FiamanAllah aasalamoalikum warahmatullahi wabarakatu |
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