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. :)