You're still alive, so do something about it.

When I decided to become a Muslim, I thought I would lose my family entirely, but I didn't.

When I was being an undercover Muslim, I thought I would never be able to come out to my family because I'm afraid I won't have the strength to face it, but I did.

When I was falling into depression because of what happened in 2010, I thought I would never recover and that I would never heal, but I did.

When I was left alone without no financial support because of a misunderstanding with the sponsors, I thought I would have to quit university, but I didn't. 

When I was told that I would be too complicated to marry, I thought I would never find someone who would want to marry me, but I did.

So many things that I assumed would happen to me, but it didn't. So you see, in the end, what will prevail is His plan and to be exact, it was never your plan in the first place. You may plan all you want, think what you want, assume whatever mishaps that may happen to you, but in the end, if He wills it, only then it will happen. 

If Allah should aid you, no one can overcome you; but if He should forsake you, who is there that can aid you after Him? And upon Allah let the believers rely. {3:160}

Even when things are going so wrong for you and you feel that you are wronged in so many ways, try not to feel down about it. Things will pick up real soon and it will be over before you know it. 

Even so, I believe that no matter how bad things are for you right now, I think what matters is that we are still alive, and better yet, we are still well to carry out our ibadah. 

You sin, so do I and everybody else. Your sins might be different with mine, but that doesn't change the fact that Allah is there to grant you forgiveness. Your very existence is His way of telling you that, "Come on, I'm giving you time to repent, won't you try to understand?" 

And I guess that is where the subject of gratitude comes in. We feel that something as simple as waking up from sleeping is a small thing, perhaps some might not even think of it, because let's face it; how many of us actually thanked Allah the moment we open our eyes? 

He's giving us more time to correct our mistakes and we should realize that, by that, He is giving us hope that we can still change, we can still become better, so you should be glad that you woke up today.

Start small, change our habits, then perhaps we won't regret that much once the time has come for us to die. 

It sounds so morbid isn't it, thinking about death? But let's face it; the only thing that we know for sure that's going to happen in our lives is dying. 

Now is the time to change, to take action, because you won't have a snooze button to dismiss your death.

Last week before the end of Ramadhan. Stay true. 

Salam alaykum and peace out.