FOREVER.

Ephemerality;

Let our love,

Transcend it; Forever.

The Wordless Language.

Immense joy and merciless gloom.

Destructive despair and glimmering hope.

Reassuring future and gnawing past.

Soothing respite and shattering pain.

Mocking criticism and sincere appreciation.

Faithful acceptance and humiliated denial.

Heart-rending let-down and heart-warming pride.

Fortuitous bounties and annihilated desires.

Miracular revelations and ruthless obscurity.

Real illusions and illusioned realities.

Sin-begotten guilt and mercy-engendered gratitude.

Multifarious emotions; share a single language.

The universal expression. The silent prayer.

A Tear.

LOVE.

I am shocked at the fact that I can come up with such things! :o
Read on...

Let us carve,

A world of our own;

You and Me.

Engulf me,

For Eternity,

In your trance.

Euphony to me,

Is your voice; so enthralling,

Playing love-music.

                                     

Come and fill the space,

In my heart; awaiting it's,

Fair, mystic ruler.

Is it your way of conveying love-

These covert expressions; or my perception,

That we are sailing on the same boat?

So Close Yet So Far...

As I passed by the "temporary resting place" of my grandparents, there was a sudden pang of separation that aroused, in me, .... A longing. A childish hope. A hope that if I reach my hand out for them, I will find them clasping it in theirs and slowly embracing me and holding me with so full of affection and joy that they will never let me go.... 

I know that they are there. Just 20 feet away. I know it! I need to cover a mere 20 feet and I will be there! Near them! Close to them!

Alas! A childish hope it is!

Helplessness creeps in as it dawns on me that I have to travel through infinity after those 20 feet to reach to them! A devastating feeling!

In the next instant, I realize that there will come a day when I too will rest along with them. But, by creating a gap of infinity between the world and me!

The only thing that joins both the dimensions is Infinity. 

Separated and Joined by Infinity!


So close yet so far....


                      So far yet so close...

MIRAGE.

Mirage is what "this life" is. Attractive yet illusory. Promises to meet your expectations and satisfy your cravings but never does it fulfill them. Slowly dragging you towards it, it takes you so far that you lose The Way.

But, it's not late until your ephemerality ends. So when you are face to face with the truth, acknowledge it and defeat the Deception. Expect and crave for The Unseen.

The Reality.

Now, This is What I Call "Attitude"!

“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to these teachers.”
— Khalil Gibran


It is beautiful how these words deliver their message without a trace of negativity. I hope it's not wrong to term it as "positive sarcasm". :)

Coming to the message conveyed by these words, I can decipher two of them.

1. Learning cannot be confined to particular sources. One can learn from anywhere and everywhere, anybody and everybody, anything and everything.

2. There is positivity in everything that seems glum and contradictory.

Not going into the depths of all the apparently preachy stuff, let me just conclude by highlighting the purpose of this post.

Sail through life by learning what you should and unlearning what you should not have.

I guess this sums it all up. And, do ponder over the quote that introduces the post. If you have grasped the meaning of it, then, the next time someone tries to flaunt their  "smartness" ( you know what I mean by that ) in front of you, you know what to do.

Knock them off with yours! ;) 

Believe me, it works! And, that too, with absolute positivity! :)


Stay virtuous. Stay peaceful. :)

A QUESTION-THE ANSWER TO ANOTHER ONE.

Many a time, we find ourselves in situations where silence speaks. Words struggle to adjust themselves to form a meaningful sentence. And, then, all is expressed through silent mutual understanding which is just so beautifully miracular.

Similarly, there arise questions whose answers cannot be put into words. They just have to be understood. Felt. And, sometimes, another question directs us to the answer of such queries. A silent answer to a loud question.

A part of my brain, suddenly, voiced a question that falls in the above category.

What is the name of the relationship that we share with our Creator?

In the next instant, another part of my brain volunteered to answer it (of course through another question).

What is the name of the relationship that you share with yourself?

I think the first part of my brain got its answer. :)

ALHUMDULILLAH! :)

Slave of Acceptance- Past.

How much ever, to bury, I try,
Somehow, the agonized Past comes by!

Stubbornly clinging on to gloom, it torments,
Depriving, of appreciation, the serendipitous moments!

By, painfully, marring my spiritual grace,
Ruthlessly, It shoves away Present's solace!

By pricking holes of 'could have been',
It, sadly, eclipses my faith in the unseen!

Nevertheless, the struggle to learn, goes on,
Though, It may seem oppressive with many a con.

"Nip it in the bud", as they say,
Is done to refrain from going astray.

So, how much ever, to come by, Past may try,
Somehow, Acceptance bids It a firm bye-bye! :)

ACCEPTANCE.

The path to Happiness. The key to Contentment. The secret to Serenity. 

"Knowing, believing and implementing the irrefutable fact, God's Will is what 'was', what 'is' and what 'will be' " is its definition.

Placing Faith, having Hope and Believing in God's Will are its properties.

Forcefulness and Negativity find no room in it.

Two simple steps comprise its procedure: "letting go" and "moving on".
Letting go of Ego and moving on with Life.
( You can't emerge victorious and joyous from trying times until you let go of your Ego that engenders the destructive feelings of 'why me?', 'could have', 'shouldn't have', 'what if', etc.
Life moves on. Are you moving along with it? Or are you being dragged along by it?)

No, 'it' is not some preachy, boring and theoretical method for pursuing happiness.

'It' is ACCEPTANCE- the easiest and the best practical method for pursuing (or let's say 'experiencing') happiness.

So, are YOU in a state of consistent ACCEPTANCE?


  

HOPELESS?

If your present perception towards life (or anything for that matter) conforms to the above disgusting feeling, then order your mind to stop this right now!

Do you know why I term it as a "disgusting" feeling apart from the obvious reason that it makes you feel like... umm.... an utter loser?

Because you are plunging yourself into it and making yourself feel it!
Yes, you are!

How difficult is it to have hope?

Now, that is a pretty difficult (seemingly easy) question.

Is it, really?

Yes it is, for the non-believers (people who say "I have absolute faith in The Almighty" but their words, actions and reactions don't depict any of it).

No it isn't, for the believers (people whose way of life emanates that which they claim).

P.S:- I am sure you know what to do after reading this. Please do. :)

I know the sort of comments coming my way.

1. Yeah right! Do you even know what I am going through?!
2. It is easier said than done!
3. May be you have got it all easy and that's why all this is easy for you to say!
4. There she goes again with her jargon!
5.Why does she have to be such a dramatic, boring and preachy lecturer?!
   Etc. etc. etc...

Replies:

1. May be I don't know what you are going through but if you try to look around you, there will be, atleast, a single person that is going through (with a hope) that which is similar to your case more or less. If that person can do it, so can you!
If you can't find any such person, then there will be millions of people facing trials much more severe than yours and that too with a true smile of hope.
What do you have to say then?

2. Is it easier said than done? How do you know? Have you tried doing it in the first place?
If you have, then you will never come up with such comments and if you do find yourself questioning the circumstances in life, then you haven't put in the thorough submission that is required for your success. You did it because you were told to. Not because you meant to.

3. I have got it all easy, you say? FYI, nobody has got it easy (NOBODY!!!). It's upto you to make it easy or surround yourself with unnecessary misery. If I am making everything look easy, then that is what faith does!

4. The above reason supports my "jargon". And people who know what I am talking about will see the meaning right through each and every single word. This is what I do on hearing tidbits from various people in life about "living life". Grasp all good you can and fill your life with it. You are surrounded by a lot of it. Open your eyes, minds and hearts!

5. Finally, I am not here to preach. I am not a lecturer either (though I feel I can be a good one ;)). It is just what has been taught to us by our beloved Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) and many other great people who had been given the responsibility to do so by Him. It is mandatory here for me to mention that I am not the one to preach because I am not the one with complete knowledge. No, I am not. Infact, I consider myself with nil knowledge about The Way of Life. There is sooooo much to learn and implement. God is making me learn. From everywhere. From everyone. Something or the other. And whatever is learnt has to be taught to others for the sake of ALLAH 'azzawajjal only!!!



A very simple logic:

You create a machine. That machine belongs to you. You have full authority over it. You know its limits and so you push it till those limits only, because you know it can't bear more than that. If you do, then it might hurt your machine and you love it too much to let it get hurt. Because, YOU CREATED IT!

Try this analogy (for praise of ALLAH 'azzawajjal):

God created you. You belong to Him. He has full authority over you. He knows our limits and so He pushes you till those limits only, because He knows you can't bear more that that. If He does, then it will hurt you and He loves you too much to let you get hurt. Because, HE IS YOUR CREATOR!

How difficult is that to comprehend?

Just remember:

"If you feel that you are being tried and tested then, understand that you are capable of bearing more. Because even you don't know your limits. Only God does. He won't put you through more tests than you can go through. He loves you 70 times more than your mother does. Now, just imagine!!!"


Don't tell your God how big your problems are. Tell your problems how Big your God is!


You will find your peace atlast if you just have Faith in Him. :)

 

REASON EXTINGUISHES ADMIRATION! :(

Yes it does!

Let us see how.

You are at home and engrossed in some work of yours. Or you are out on the streets. Or travelling by some vehicle.

It starts raining. What do you do?

The romantic souls put aside everything and jump at just the unimaginably beautiful earthly scent that greets them before thay can savour the RAIN. :)
Isn't it amazingly magical how this fragrance acts as the natural telegram delivering the news of the lovely rain's arrival beforehand? :)

And a few irritatingly moderate ones give an expression of equally irritating moderation with words like, "Oh raining, is it? So what's new?".
It's quite a task to resist the urge to shake these people up out of their feelingless caricature!

Not to mention the utter resentment you feel towards some of those outright despisers who ruin the bliss of the rainy experience with their querulous remarks about how they can't step outside and how it makes life difficult. Idiots!


Now, why do the last two categories of people display such a stony behaviour?
One of the reasons that imparts this type of perception is knowing or finding the reasons behind everything. There are two ways you can reason out things (let's talk about that as we progress through this post).

So now, cause of such a view (I am restricting this particular statement for rain. Nevertheless, it is applied to all aspects of life in various forms):-
Water evaporates from all water-bodies on the surface of the earth that combines with the particles present in the atmosphere to form clouds which then undergo condensation and hence the rain.
You know what I feel like saying after reading this? LOL!
Why? Because this is just sooooo logical, theoretical and rational (read irrational) that snatches away the lusture of amazement that had to be aroused on viewing the spectacular phenomenon called "rain".
P.S:- I am not denying this reasoning.

It's not that you remind yourself of this whenever you experience rain. But, it is etched in your memory as a result of your precious education in school. And subconsciously, this fact overpowers the surge of awe trying to come to the fore!
It's like a thought bubble of admiration being pricked with a needle of reason even before its complete formation! BURST!

Where is that admiration, adoration, awe, amazement, bewilderment lost?
Have you forgotten that this is nothing less than a miracle?
Can you see where the water is coming from when you look up at the sky?
No. It is infinite. There is no end. You gaze at the sky and feel you are lost in the depths of eternity. You can keep looking to find that place where rain resides and it will take you more than forever.
One moment, the sky is clear and the next, clouds cloud the sky.
Now it's all dry and then it's all wet.
How? Ever thought about it?

This "how?"  can be of two types which brings us to the concept of two types of reasoning.

1. A "how?" that questions your intellect and challenges you to unveil the mystery leading to you questioning your faith.

                                                                      OR 
2. A "how?" that stirs your human instinct of astonished awe to life directing your thoughts towards praising the mightiness of The Almighty.    


The first involves reasoning without limit whereas the second involves reasoning within limit.
A limit that is imposed on us by our Creator. How dare we try to cross it?

We say that we are overcoming the blindness and ignorance by discovering the reasons behing every happening.
I say we are treading on the path towards blindness. Becoming blind to the miracles of God. Blind to the beauty of Nature.


I am not a part of some "anti-reasoning group" or something like that as you might think after reading all that. No I am not!

All I am saying is, reason but remember your limits. Look at it this way. The logic behind rain is so simple. Right?
Now, why don't you admire the simplicity of it? 
Who made it that simple? Isn't the Creator absolutely praise-worthy for making us understand the concept behind such a beautiful phenomenon in such a simple way?
If not for His Will, would you have been able to comprehend it?
No! Ofcourse not! Thank Him for that! For His mercy on our little minds! 


If you have been given the power to reason then utilise it for seeking the pleasure of knowing the purpose of  our existence to praise our Lord and not for labelling yourself as "intelligent"!
Reason has its own domain. It can work only in that. And how much ever you reason you will end up in a state where you will have two choices.
                                                       DENY  or  ADMIRE.


I would like to share one thing that God made me notice while I was pondering over this. May seem naive and idiotic to the scientific minds but I think it's a sign of faith.

One of the mathematical properties used in Algebra called "Transitive Law" is stated as follows:
                                              x=y and y=z then x=z.

Now reason this:
Let '=' denote "created".

Then, the law will be,

God created human and human created machine then God created machine.
Result: God created human and God created machine => God created everything!

I started with God because He is the beginning of everything. I am sure nobody will have a doubt about that.

So, if you can reason, then use every reason to praise The Creator.
Admire all that you see around you with the beautiful eyes that have been given to you by the Beautiful Creator to view all the beauty in His creations.

Remember:

There is a lot of beauty around you that is worth appreciation, admiration and awe if you open your eyes, minds and hearts attributed to God.

                      Isn't this proof enough for us?
                 Are we so blind to push it all aside?
             Extinguishing admiration with rationalism?
                   Not praising the Praise-worthy?
                Killing Beauty with reason's poison? 


Ponder on.....

REALIZATION.....

In the Name of ALLAH, the Benificient, the Merciful.

    "Laa ilaaha illallahu Muhammadur rasool ullah"

Innumerable times have we uttered these words of attestation. We shall all thank ALLAH ta'ala for He has granted us the ability to do so. ALHUMDULILLAH.

At the same time we shall pray to ALLAH ta'ala to give us the opportunity to question ourselves, "Do I truly acknowledge the essence of the vow I take?".
Undoubtedly, an immediate answer, by ALLAH's ta'ala grace, would be, "Yes I do because I believe in the Almighty and follow the Sunnah of our beloved Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa aalihi wasallim).

Okay. We believe. We follow. Agreed. ALHUMDULILLAH. 
Next set of questions to be asked:
Do I practise the holy Sunnah?
Do I live each moment of life in the holy way shown to us by The Light of Guidance?
Do I curb my worldly desires and don't act according to my whims for the sake of ALLAH ta'ala?
Do I attribute every virtue of mine and every favourable circumstance to The Bestower (Al-Wahhaab) and hold myself responsible for every vice and weakness of mine?
Do I realise and repent for my sins with an oath of never repeating it and do I, then, fulfil the oath?
Do I look down upon fellow beings or do I regard each and every life as the creation of The God who created me?
Do I indulge, regularly, in thanking and being grateful to The Ever Providing (Ar-Razzaq) for the trivialest of blessings and favours?
Do I, undeterred, cling on to hope and faith in The Guardian, The Preserver (Al-Muhaymin) even in times of rigorous trials and tribulations?
Do I, constantly, remind myself that Death may be waiting for me in the next moment and do I live according to this reminder?

I am obliged to answer for myself and nobody else. So after contemplating upon these questions, I realized that I believe and I follow but I do not find myself in absolute practice of The Way of Life! ASTAGHFIRULLAH!

I thank ALLAH ta'ala and nobody else for this realisation!

And now, by ALLAH's ta'ala Will, I am putting in efforts to rectify all mistakes and implement the belief. I pray that all of us be granted this opportunity of clear-sightedness because there is a difference between believing and practicing. Ofcourse belief is the first step. Then? Then how do you transform the noun form of your belief to the verb form? How do you ascertain your belief?
By practicing all that you claim to believe in.
By depicting it through your deeds.
By carrying out every action only after acquiring a positive answer for the question, "Will ALLAH ta'ala be pleased if I do this?".

This act of discovering and realising is a process whose end will come only with our end. There is always something to be thankful for and when it comes to pleasing Him, there is no end, for He is our Creator. This fact, itself, should suffice for thanking Him every moment till our last breath! Then, is there ever enough gratefulness for His uncountable bounties and benevolence? Should we not bow in shame and awe and honour of The Most Merciful when He forgives and pardons our unpardonable sins and gives us another chance to live?

A quiet moment of such reflection every day is worth it and can be even more if ALLAH ta'ala Wills. Let us all try to take out a little time each day for discovering the purpose of our existence and act accordingly IN SHA ALLAH.

In conclusion, I would like to convey a thought of knowledge of a great person:

"Faith is never constant. It either goes on becoming firm as a result of good deeds or deteriorates due to bad deeds."

Let us all strive to:

              Reflect.  Realise.  Implement.  Practise. 

     IN SHA ALLAH 'azzawajjal, victory will be ours!

MURDERER OF MANKIND.

I wish I have an insight,
Into your mind, so savagely bright,
Perpetually generating thoughts so vindictive,
Does it never halt to get a bit introspective?!

How doesn't grief in your heart, fill,
After you've made another go still?!
How do you walk with a face so brave,
While remnants of your menace, lie unmoving in their grave?!

How doesn't your soul, for once, shiver,
On hearing the cries of anguish and fear?!
How does your conscience become a silent spectator,
When you don the hat of a ruthless destructor?!

How will you shield yourself,
From the curse of a mother,
When she sees her dead son,
Who was a target of your gun?!

From where shall a father,
All his courage gather,
To bury his young heir?!
Do you think it's fair?

Who will console the wife,
Stabbed with agony's knife,
On the death of her partner,
A victim of your slaughter?!

How will the children bear,
The loneliness and despair,
After losing their daddy forever,
'Cause of your fiendish behaviour?!

Oh you barbarically heartless monster!
By causing so much havoc and disaster,
You have lost the one and only trait,
Differentiating a human and its inhuman mate!

Blinded by animosity, deprived of humanity,
You fail to acknowledge the sad reality,
That if you kill even one of your kind,
You are no less than the murderer of mankind!!!

KEEP IT SIMPLE, SILLY! ;)

Leonardo da Vinci  once quoted, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.".

Making life simple or complicated is in our hands. The Almighty has given us the power to do so but we refuse to utilise it to our benefit.

Now, how do you make life simple with all the heart-breaking problems, opposing circumstances and rebellious people surrounding you?
The answer is as simple as saying, "just be simple". Simple in terms of your reactions. Reaction is the key. The key to a lock that can open two doors. That is the choice. Absolutely your choice to unlock the door that offers you a pleasant and happy atmosphere or the door that opens up unnecessary complexities.
How is it your choice? Keep your reactions to situations and people simple. That's it!

You hear a good news. So good that you feel you can be happy with it for the rest of your life. Your reactions echo the above feeling, unfortunately. Forgetting that everything will pass. Is temporary. Be it a cheerful moment or an unhappy one. Same is with a person when he/she makes you happy. And this leads to complications. Naturally, the bliss of the good news fades with time and then you cannot enjoy its true essence which you could have by not over-reacting to that situation. By keeping it neutral. By embracing it with a simple smile. By expressing gratefulness to ALLAH ta'ala. By thanking Him for it and praying for more of His uncountable blessings. This would have helped you to take pleasure in the goodness thoroughly and also to cherish it lifelong with the same level of satisfaction.

Similarly, when you find yourself in not-so-pleasant situations or with not-so-appreciative humans, you go completely crazy. Violence and negativity dripping from every action of yours, every word spoken and every thought in your mind. All of this engenders regret. Regret because you tend to do something reckless that stays with you like a thorn in the foot reminding you endlessly of your foolishness. Instead, if you just react with a harmless frown and perceive it as the Almighty's will and forgive and forget, then the bitterness will be replaced by a sense of ease  and normalcy that will gradually turn into serenity.

One more case of over-reaction would be when you are told about something or some person that is supposedly bad and negative and you assume similar (more bizzare) things out of your imagination without even knowing the facts. This kind of thought process emanates devastating reactions that might irrevocably mar your relationships and even you as an individual. The best way to avoid this  self-inflicted gloom is to refrain from jumping to conclusions. Comprehend and process everything with an open mind and an open heart and firm belief in the Almighty. And then chances of you being in an undesirable plight will be as good as null.

All you need to do is to try and open the door of simplicity by suppressing the urge to unlock the opposite one. This will make everything easy and comfortable for you and everybody around you. Again this is something you will develop through practice.

So let us all strive to keep our reactions as simple as possible (after all, SIMPLICITY IS BEAUTIFUL, isn't it?) and always remember to thank ALLAH ta'ala for everything (whatever it is!).

Injecting this ubquitous statement in your mind might be advantageous to your effort:

                                   "Keep it Simple, silly!" 

GIVING UP ISN'T EASY!!!

I am sulking in one corner of the room unaware of what is going on around me, or so it seems to my spectators. I answer their queries with a dull, "I feel restless to the core.". Sometimes the reply is, "It will pass.", and I say to myself, "Yeah right!", because I am, involuntarily drained out of all optimism at that particular moment which seems to drag on and on. I feel crushed under the darkness. I feel I can never straighten myself ever again. I feel helplessness and despair coil around my neck like a snake waiting to suck the life out of me. I feel every dismal and morose thought being injected into my brain against my will. I feel some draconian power trying to push out the little hope, firm and surprisingly strong, from each and every single cell that I am made of. I feel, with a sudden pang of fear that, this absolutely pathetic and atrocious emotion is what I have to live with till the end. And it is all the more disgusting because this is not me! This is not the way I let my thoughts unwind no matter what!

And, some other trying times, I have, "Oh! It is just what you think. It is all in your mind. Just try to divert it and think positive.", thrown at my face. On listening to this (listening, not hearing), I can feel anger blazing through my veins ready to burst out if I open my mouth just slightly. I want to scream at the top of my lungs, "What do you think I am doing???!!!! How, do you think, am I standing in front of you putting up with your nonsense despite the strangling inner turmoil?!!! What is it, if not positive thinking, that makes me seem so normal??? How difficult is it to understand that this is something over my control!!?? And, above all, which human on the face of planet Earth would want to fill his/her life with killing gloom intentionally while all the people around are leading lives normally??????!!!!!".

But I don't open my mouth and let the fire burn me only because I dont want to regret anything I said in a trance later and also because somewhere deep down I know that the people saying this are well-wishers and they wouldn't hurt me knowingly whatsoever. They just have a different school of thought and can't put themselves in my shoes. Nobody's fault and therefore I tell myself to shut up and stop myself from doing anything reckless. ALHUMDULILLAH.

I might seem perfectly normal to the people around me. Someone who has got everything she needs. The best parents ever. A perfect family. Good education (after all I am going to be a software engineer in another 6-7 months and nobody cares what I have learnt in these 4 years!). No problems and no trials. But still she keeps on cribbing without an end as though she is going through all the problems in the world. What an ungrateful creature!

I don't deny any of that except the part, "no probems and no trials". Infact I consider myself the luckiest for having been blessed with EVERYTHING. I sincerely thank and praise ALLAH ta'ala for every small and big gift He has bestowed upon me. Neither do I question anything nor do I wish to change anything.

Yet, it is very challenging to close my eyes to the fact that I have lost so much. Loss in terms of preparing for the Hereafter and not the materialistic one. And this loss is something, only I (the only human) can truly sense and acknowledge. It has been tiresome trying to cope up everytime I am dumped into the devilish sadness. I have reached a stage where I feel I can cry at the drop of a hat. Actually, I do. It is burdensome even now but I never say "why me?" ALHUMDULILLAH. I never say I am the one with all the problems. Never ever. I have seen people with issues that are insane. I have felt their pain to an extent. I know there are many people with problems I don't even know of. And I am thankful for every trivial thing in every sense. But it is not easy for me. Neither is it easy for me to give up. Optimism flows in like fresh air with the mesmerising scent of hope that fills every part of me as though it found its abode. All thanks to the undeterred faith, given to me by the Almighty, that stays calm until pessimism crosses the limit.

 I am fortunate enough to be blessed with people who understand me. As I say this, I realize the harsh truth. They are not going to be with me forever (depends on my death time :)). Under normal conditions this would be the case. So, with a fear of the reverse, I wish that I continue to be blessed in terms of understanding from the people to whom I will be related..... IN SHA ALLAH.....

I pray that my mindset is kept intact or be improved for everyone's good!

Reading the above sentence, I think people who know me will remark, "Itna paagalpan kaafi hai!". Let's see.... ;)

THE FINAL DESTINATION...

"In a sense, everybody is aware of their final destination. Yet, it can't be denied that it is as mysterious as it is evident."


This is not my abode. I am at a loss when I try to describe "this". Ofcourse every sane human knows that this world is a place where one stops by to gear up for the "end" (or the beginning?). But even on this earth, "this" is not my dwelling place. I am not sure whether it has got anything to do with the residence of my visceral part. On second thoughts, it might even be the most important prerequisite for me to actually "live". A place, or more precisely, a state of my being where I can be directly connected and related to "THE ONE" has to be my habitation. As direct as it can't even be defined or put into words. Just felt. A feeling of excruciatingly pure purity. To be a part of that place, in this Illusion, which is the beginning of the "ultimate establishment" is a longing I had since everything started making sense (which is long long ago) and now I can feel it in almost every thought of mine.My objective, of merging with the other dimension (or so it may be called due to my inability to term it aptly) even while my time in this transient dimension is not over yet, shoves away all the restraining weakness.  But, I doubt my capability as I fail to start or I can say start and fail everytime I try. Yet satisfyingly, as though it is inherent, hope never dies and I cling on to it and try again with a new determination and a feeling of distant yet inevitable victory. Hope never dies! :)


And IN SHA ALLAH I WILL REACH MY FINAL DESTINATION.

WHAT IS FAITH?

Let's try to answer this apparently difficult question.....

"Whatever happens, happens for one's own good." This may sound very clichéd but on giving a little thought to this million dollar sentence, you can understand its depth and sophistication. Analyzing every situation, bad or good, of your life by keeping this in mind will make you realistic and will widen your mind's horizon with respect to optimism. I have come across many people who refuse to believe in it because they are not able to find any 'good' in a particular situation. My reply to such sceptics is that if we, humans, would have been given the power to understand reasons behind each and every happening in our lives, then we wouldn't have been called human beings. Not we, but God is the omniscient. The popular phrase "humans are mere puppets in the hands of God" is in itself the perfect answer to all questions borne out of a human’s logical mind. A simple fact that we fail to understand is that though our brains have come up with mind blowing technologies which are being called ‘godly’, there are a few questions and codes written by God that are indecipherable. I feel they are best left to our imagination. At this point I would like to quote a verse from the Quran-e-pak, "He knows what appears in front of and behind His creatures. Nor can they encompass any knowledge of Him except what He wills." Ultimately, all these points can be summed up into a small yet powerful word called ‘faith’. Faith does not require any reasons. There is no room for questions in the house of faith. Laying complete trust, confidence and belief in God and His doings in all phases of life, how much ever oppressive they may seem, is what I call faith.

It isn't an arduous task to assess a situation by keeping the cliche (whatever happens, happens for one's own good ) in mind.

Unless it's natural, implementing it will seem tough at first undoubtedly. But as the adage goes, "Practice makes a man perfect"( woman too! the joke seems so stupid now! lol), developing faith will also require practice. Gradually, you get used to it. And there will come a time when negativity will seem distant. Positivity will be automatically generated. And you will hear yourself saying, "It wasnt that difficult after all...Infact, it's easier than bearing the pain of pessimism.".

So, to make life worth living, let us all strive to make faith the basis of our existence in sha ALLAH....

Let us practise and feel the change. :)

CONSOLATION....

I struggle to give everything my best shot,

But,unfortunately, feel it is never a lot!

"Be Optimistic" has always been my anthem,

Yet there are situations,I can't fathom!

Eyes perceive only the external rebel story,

And unfortunately eclipse the unseen glory!

Despite the knowledge of my heart being virtuous,

There is never a lack of thoughts,a little vicious!

Efforts to make each and every soul contented,

Now,being prudent,make me feel indebted!

I have, forever,had a longing for empathy,

Is this a trait that attracts pitiful sympathy?!

All these conflicting thoughts make me very confused,

And,in me,a sense of vagueness is induced!

Inspite of the crazy heart-mind conspiracy,

The following truth makes me live in ecstacy.

God judges us humans by our intentions,

Though fellow beings just notice evil in our actions!!!

SYMPATHY VERSUS EMPATHY.....

On seeing people in difficult and problematic situations and conditions, an emotion, that we humans possess, comes itno existence. SYMPATHY. Out of sympathy, we try to help people in distress. But, we fail to realise that no human would like to be felt sorry for! Infact, every human longs for understanding......EMPATHY. You put yourself in that persons' shoes and then you will know what he/she is going through and only then will you be able to help that person truly.
An undeniable fact is that a human can never feel what another human feels but he/she can understand and share the feelings instead of feeling sorry. Understanding and sharing helps a lot more than feeling sorry for someone.
Sympathy will slowly fade away unlike empathy which will stay as constant as ever.
I am sure that the following line echoes the voice of each and every human:
" I do not want people to sympathize with me......empathy is what I long for! " :)


                             Don't break hearts with sympathy,
                             Join broken hearts with empathy! :)