In the name of Allah,
Most Gracious, Most Merciful,
Praise be to Allah,
the Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds,
and Peace and Prayer be upon the Final Prophet and Messenger. Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Quran
I sometimes think about life in a difficult way. Sometimes too difficult that I got lost in my own thoughts.
Have you ever thought that maybe what you're seeing is actually not as what it seems? Maybe when you see a caterpillar, perhaps in reality it was actually a table?
(I know this doesn't make sense but bear with me)
Maybe when you heard someone singing it was actually him or her screaming?
Or maybe when I touched a table, maybe it was actually a spider?
We have no memories of the first thing we saw when we were born. We are born into this world, being taught that an apple is red, the sky is blue and the Sun is hot.
Our interpretation of the world depends on our senses, and will you agree if I say, what if, your hand, that you see as it is, is actually a clump of earth in reality?
I mean, Allah have control on our senses so, He can make us see what He wanted us to see, what He wanted us to hear, what He wanted us to feel.
Even in a dark room, we can always tell if that something we touched is a table, simply because the receptors in our skin have been accustomed to what a 'table' felt like.
So when I was told that dunya was merely a temporary place to be, I get it, simply because I can relate that to the thoughts that I had. The dunya is merely a program that has been running from since the day the dunya is created. We are merely pieces in a chess set, and we are actually nothing. We don't exist because only Allah exists in reality. If you don't understand what I am writing about, please ask and not assume that I am trying to preach a new religion or something. Again, the rule of this blog, never assume. Ask.
The same goes to hidayah I guess. Allah chose to give it to certain people, even to people as clueless about Islam as me. I was not invited to this deen because I have the advanced knowledge of Islam. It was simply because I had no interest in my previous born-to religion. Maybe that is why, some great scholars, even though they had agreed that the Quran is the book to follow, and Islam is the way to go, they still haven't embraced Islam, simply because Allah did not 'show' them the Truth as it is. However, I am not implying that I saw the Truth. I become a Muslim not because of what I know about Islam, but simply because I can feel it in my heart that, yes, Islam is the way to live and believe. I can't prove it that Islam is the Truth, for I have almost zilch knowledge of that, but I can assure you, the heart NEVER lies. The eyes may be blind from the truth, but the 'inner eye', the heart, is directly connected to Allah and you'll always know when something doesn't feel right, and vice versa.
So I guess, that is our job, to keep on seeking the Truth, until you reached the highest stage of Imaan, that is when you feel as though you can see Him.
To end this post, let us raise our hands and make du'a.
"O Allah, please show me the Truth as it is, and don't let me waver once I am on the straight path. Ameen."
May Allah grant us with wisdom, and salam alaik.
We must hurt in order to grow, fail in order to know, & lose in order to gain. Because some lessons in life, are best learnt through pain.
Most Gracious, Most Merciful,
Praise be to Allah,
the Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds,
and Peace and Prayer be upon the Final Prophet and Messenger. Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Quran
I sometimes think about life in a difficult way. Sometimes too difficult that I got lost in my own thoughts.
Have you ever thought that maybe what you're seeing is actually not as what it seems? Maybe when you see a caterpillar, perhaps in reality it was actually a table?
(I know this doesn't make sense but bear with me)
Maybe when you heard someone singing it was actually him or her screaming?
Or maybe when I touched a table, maybe it was actually a spider?
We have no memories of the first thing we saw when we were born. We are born into this world, being taught that an apple is red, the sky is blue and the Sun is hot.
Our interpretation of the world depends on our senses, and will you agree if I say, what if, your hand, that you see as it is, is actually a clump of earth in reality?
I mean, Allah have control on our senses so, He can make us see what He wanted us to see, what He wanted us to hear, what He wanted us to feel.
Even in a dark room, we can always tell if that something we touched is a table, simply because the receptors in our skin have been accustomed to what a 'table' felt like.
So when I was told that dunya was merely a temporary place to be, I get it, simply because I can relate that to the thoughts that I had. The dunya is merely a program that has been running from since the day the dunya is created. We are merely pieces in a chess set, and we are actually nothing. We don't exist because only Allah exists in reality. If you don't understand what I am writing about, please ask and not assume that I am trying to preach a new religion or something. Again, the rule of this blog, never assume. Ask.
The same goes to hidayah I guess. Allah chose to give it to certain people, even to people as clueless about Islam as me. I was not invited to this deen because I have the advanced knowledge of Islam. It was simply because I had no interest in my previous born-to religion. Maybe that is why, some great scholars, even though they had agreed that the Quran is the book to follow, and Islam is the way to go, they still haven't embraced Islam, simply because Allah did not 'show' them the Truth as it is. However, I am not implying that I saw the Truth. I become a Muslim not because of what I know about Islam, but simply because I can feel it in my heart that, yes, Islam is the way to live and believe. I can't prove it that Islam is the Truth, for I have almost zilch knowledge of that, but I can assure you, the heart NEVER lies. The eyes may be blind from the truth, but the 'inner eye', the heart, is directly connected to Allah and you'll always know when something doesn't feel right, and vice versa.
So I guess, that is our job, to keep on seeking the Truth, until you reached the highest stage of Imaan, that is when you feel as though you can see Him.
To end this post, let us raise our hands and make du'a.
"O Allah, please show me the Truth as it is, and don't let me waver once I am on the straight path. Ameen."
May Allah grant us with wisdom, and salam alaik.
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