Bismillah wa salaamunalaikum.
If you don't care to read or don't read long posts (literally seems like a lecture to me now that I've finished typing)... i suggest to just go back to your Facebook... in no intentions do I want you to go cross-eyed from reading this or just hate me for wasting your time. Nope, no hard feelings, simply a friendly warning :)
Alhamdulilah, I can never run away from people who continuously reminds me of Him i came from and to Him i will return. However, today at 7:30am, was a time where life took a pause, needed time to sink what the ears had heard. Those words traveled from the ears down to the heart... not the tangible heart, but the heart that is below the mind as i say "He is the greatest", the heart that is of the same level as the mind when i recited "Praise be to my Great Lord", and the heart that is above the mind when i cry out "Oh our Lord, to You is the praise due".
It was not to who was the person I lost was to me but to who he is to Him. Yes, he was like an uncle to my family and I, and he was a dear friend to many and i mean many, masha'Allah. And today we continuously prayed that he will be among the best of His's believers. Because it is with Him that it matters.
Though we know that this life is temporary, we are still afraid to talk about death. But it is never death as the end of life as we know it that we shouldn't be afraid of, rather it is death as the beginning of life we should look forward to. I would be lying if I said that when this topic comes up I do not get goosebumps or humanly afraid... no, not at all. I do. There's so many things I need to work on as a person still... forget the dreams I want to achieve, that's all in His hand. But is just believing enough? What about the practices based on sunnah-tul-quran and sunnah-tul-nabi? What about the ultimate destination, Jannah al-Firdaus?
I can ramble on and on about religion or my weaknesses... but for all I know, I'm the only one reading this. Hehehe. No problem. "Tempat mengadu selain dpd kpd tuhan" as the malay would say it.
My point is to remind the readers of this blog and ESPECIALLY myself to do everything for the sake of Allah and to constantly thank Him. All the good are from Him and only the good are from Him. And, we do not take anything with us when we are six feet beneath the earth. So when we love for the sake of Allah, we learn to love eternally and unconditionally; when we eat for the sake of Allah, we learn to not to feel gluttonous ; when we earn money for the sake of Allah, we learn to be donate and help more... These are just some that are coming at the top of my head and ones that I definitely need to work on insha'Allah.
So, if you ever notice me forgetting these things, remind me... tears will form in my eyes, trust me... but not at being mad or upset or offended, rather it is because of failing to realize that while I can enjoy taking trips, or chatting, or texting, or eating, I need to constantly remember that doing everything for the sake of Allah so that insha'Allah khair it will make our meeting with Him lighter.
...I too just get too caught up in this worldly worries too much, too often.
It's been awhile since religious talk or religious read made me "come back to reality". But today was definitely a much needed big-fat wake up call for me.
Fi'amanillah.
"And he (Sulaiman) said: 'Truly, I love the good things, in order to see the Glory of my Lord.'" (As-Sad, 32)
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