You know we had a couple of weeks of lovely HOT weather and we are having to make up for it now. Clouds, clouds and more dreary clouds. The world is seeing the affects of global warming now - the unpredictability and weirdness of the weather can have no other explanation. Floods, droughts, more floods..... I mean look at Sudan. Drowing in rain water.... in SUDAN! Subhanallah.
If you sit down and think about the world today - you'll get scared. Its going mad; and i'm not just talking about the weird and wonderful weather patterns. The fighting, the wars, the depression, the greed, the deception, the genecides, the ongoing holocausts, the stripping of civil liberties and deprivation of human rights, not to mention widespread disease, malnutrition and starvation.
Yet here I am sat at home (well ok my friends home) comfortable and well fed. Why do i not feel the needs of my people? Why do I not feel their pain and their suffering?
Did the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) not say that the Muslim ummah is one body, when one part of it hurts, it all feels the pain? Thats a legitamate hadith.... yet the Ummah is not only fragmented but uncaring and apathetic. Hence it is pathetic.
I speak to myself first. What am i doing to improve the conditon of my people???? Me, who cannot even improve my own condition! Ha! Its a joke....
Allah tells us in the Holy Quran in Surah 3 Ayah 200 that "O ye who believe! Persevere in patience and constancy; vie in such perseverance; strengthen each other; and fear Allah. that ye may prosper."
So what are we doing? What am I doing???
My own life is a mess. No job, No home. Nothing. What do I have? Belongings scattered all over the country. Living on the charity of friends. What could I do to help anyone?!
On the other hand, I have been blessed; Allah has given me a wonderful Lord, Himself, He has given me Islam and Iman. I have been blessed with friends who care for me and help me in my time of need. I have been blessed with my loved ones, a magnificent sister. I have so many blessings i could not name them all....
So why am I not an obedient and grateful slave to Allah???
(PS Ribbon pics on their way!)
"When Allah decreed the Creation He pledged Himself by writing in His book which is laid down with Him: My Mercy prevails over My Wrath" Hadith (Muslim; al-Bukhari)
4 comments:
subhanallah, i can't wait to hook up with you over tea and chocolate library all over again
salam hun. wana get together?
you gotta feel! i watched this film once...drew barrymore got pregnant at 15 and she told her friend, when her kid was a toddler, that she didn't love him. Her friend (Brittany Murphy) said (para-phrasing here!):
"Sometimes you love someone so much that you feel numb, because if you felt how much you loved them you would explode! it is not because you are a horrible person, it's because you have a big heart."
I hope that's what's happening with you sis :-)
aww do u rly think i is magnificent??? I feels good now!
I is loving this!
lol, maybe i should stop saying "I is"....
Post a Comment