on a fight and a dismissal of a great gift

Why do we think everything takes so long, when it's really all over before you can even blink.?The chances we've been given still give us that ability to change the problems of the past. A repentance will always be accepted, unless we leave it too late...

In a month were fasting is prescribed, and the chance has been given to self-rectify, we find so many just letting this chance slip away, and putting themselves on the edge of a chasm which they can very easily fall into. Their patience, if there was ever any, is totally unexistent; they seem to have no control over their own self. The demons are chained up in this month, so that moment of insanity comes from within and cant be blamed on any other.

On three occasions in the past few days, this author has witnessed some angry instances of inhuman impatience - and by the way, in any other month it is extremely rare to see these things, where people are moved almost to physical violence against their brothers by verbal exchanges and heated egos.

Now one might concur that the Arab 'temperament' is proud, and that these behaviours can be excused because of their history etc, but come on - we're not talking Palestine here, but small money exchanges and petty queue-jumpings!

These people are supposed to be brothers in Islam, and the best of humanity (after all God sent the Qur'an in their language) but it is definitely far from that. The previous post sort of encapsulates how the Arabs have lost their way, and the beauty of Islam that they once had to a great extent.

Lets extend our gripe - for example on a visit to a home when asked a simple question about the Qur'an an Arab brother couldnt answer, in fact had neve heard of the ayah, or the story (which in this case was Surah al-Kahf (which it is recommended to read every Friday) and the story of Moses and al-Khidhr - a very famous story). Then the brother proceeded to divulge that he'd never read the Qur'an through! So how do we understand this, when it defies logic?

You are an Arab. You are Muslim (which means 'being in a state of submission to God). God sent down the Qur'an in your language, and in it is guidance for life and how to reach Him and be successful in this life and the Here-after. So how can you not have read it? It is utterly senseless.


However, it could be argued that this explains why problems have been ongoing in Palestine, Iraq, etc. as the people have dismissed the Qur'an from their lives. Things will never improve until the Qur'an is the centre of our lives, and we live up to it's commands..

Let's ask Allah to make the Qur'an the light of our hearts and our companion along the way. Amen.

stranger

Here sits a stranger,
a reflection,
of a perfection he wishes to acheive.
Hoping to embody
a fragment of light-
perhaps even outshine the sun.


While sons of past seekers wander 'round;
Their ancestors were
keepers of the keys,
to open mysteries,
beyond second sight,
of What was before anything was begun.


Sadly now the keys
have been passed on,
But the keepers imagine them,
in their hands-
Because matter has dulled their hearts,
and they think they've nothing left to find.


Now they see the stranger,
and he sees them-
But perhaps they exist
on different plains.
Maybe he
has inherited the keys,
Still waiting for history to unwind.


They laugh at the stranger's strangeness,
Living in a past they've left behind.
While he calls them back to gnosis,
To them he's a lost shadow of ancient times..

old poem i found in drafts

we've forgotten where we came from, and where we're going to,

and taken things easier than they were ever meant to be.

born into a vastness we dont have a clue,

open your heart and your eyes will see.

every breath breathed is another chance-

a beautiful unrecognised grace,

turning back to the path enhanced

love's warm and welcome embrace.

so eyes heart and universe in tune,

what then, our soft gaze lost in perfection?

if the path taken is out of gloom.

then you're going in the right direction.