Rain

Amidst the blessing of Rizq in the form of rain that You have given to the Earth,
I appeal to you to give me the blessings of Rizq also.
As Your humble servant, I am nothing without You,
You are the granter of Rizq, Rahmat and all things.
Give me what which I require, that which is good for me,
and deny me that which is not good for me.
Verily, I am weak of heart, strengthen my heart to accept,
accept all that You have given, and to accept all that You deny.
Soften my heart so that I will only seek and ask of you for that which is good for me.
Soften my heart so that I will only seek and ask for the Hereafter,
for verily the Hereafter is ever-lasting and the World is temporary.

Rabbana aatina fiddunya hasanah wa fil akhirati hasanah waqina 'adzabannar

O my Lord, grant me that which is good for the World and good for the Hereafter, and protect us from the punishment of Hellfire

Wrong doings

"The likeness of what they spend in this world is the likeness of a wind which is extremely cold; it struck the harvest of a people who did wrong against themselves and destroyed it. 

Allah wronged them not, but they wronged themselves."

Al Imraan (3) - Verse 117

We are a strange creation, we have been bestowed with Knowledge and Intelligence.

Yet, we still do not listen and do not heed to advise and warnings and act upon our desires.

What drives us to do that which is evidently not good for us that we still do, I wonder.

Is it the desire to not be under an authority, to pursue the wants of the Soul and simply not care?

Consequently, we extol the virtues of freedom and independence; the freedom of choice and the independence from dependence.

We act how we wish to, we do what we want and we bow to no one.

We decide what is right and what is wrong, and all that is, is our doing

Our desires, our unlimited desires, what else is there to do? Satisfy it! 

Our laws and our beliefs, we dictate their coming to existence, indeed!

The Soul is fleeting and liquid, easily it is guided, and easily it is corrupted. Our basal nature is inherently that of an animal, but our inherent nature is rise against and above that.

Hungry? Eat

Thirsty? Drink

Lustful? Sex

Desire? Take

Angry? Let out

Sleepy? Sleep

Do as you wish, animal.

With Knowledge and Intelligence granted, we have the capacity to take control of our animalism, our unrelenting desires. Ilmu and Aqal gives us the ability to be higher than animals, to aspire to be more:

To be better a human being.

That which lies in between.

Peekholes

Today, it is seemingly possible to cure a person of blindness. Cornea implants and laser corrections, they seek to repair what is 'broken', thus granting Sight.

How generous of technology.

What about the blindness of the Heart? What apparatus is capable of granting Sight to the blind Heart?

How generous of the All-Seeing One.

Like patients who had just undergone an eye surgery, my vision is still a blur, it pains and it confuses me, but hopefully

Sight been granted.

Solitude

It is in the hours that lie between day and night, when death comes visiting with slumber, when the world seems to be spinning endless in a void that is defined by the rising rays of light by the horizon, and by the fleeting departure of the stars.

That, is the time when death opens the door. The door of profound solitude and severance from the world that we soak ourselves in. The door that leads, strangely enough, to the cavity of the Heart. The space of silence, not quiet - silence.

Step through the door that death stands guard, and let enter the self.

the self that is the secret to itself.