Death is certain…. And life is not. This life is temporary
Each day we wake up, go to work, wait for Friday, so we can enjoy the weekend.
It takes a lot of emotional and spiritual energy to stop, pause, and reflect on what is happening and where we are going and indeed where we are.
We often escape from the thought of our end.
Death is a reality for every single living creature we will all experience death.
No one’s health, wealth, status, or riches has ever saved them from dying and being buried with nothing.
NOTHING
So why do we give so much energy, time and attention to this Dunya ?
We always seem to plan for the things like work, college, marriage and yet we never plan for the one thing we know is certain… death.
Personally I think we are scared of the unknown and are more comfortable with what we know like buying the next gadget, the next car , holiday the next distraction or escape from the very thing we chase..this dunya.
Its made us drunk and we have lost focus on what is important
honestly today this really got me thinking today about how many signs we dismiss or excuse, instead of listening due to past conditioning.
The child who was told they were lazy may simply keep going for fear of being seen as lazy or a failure, when they should possibly just give up the current direction or change direction entirely. The abused may give too many chances through feelings of failure of guilt or simply not trusting their own judgement so they become easier to manipulate, instead of leaving at the first red flag.
The truth is in all of these situations we have simply lost touch with Allah, we have become so fearful of making a mistake that we keep going when in all honesty we should pause and turn to Allah knowing that in his signs we will find the right path for us.
We need to learn to trust ourselves again and listen to the signs all around us no matter how small, as they come from Allah.
Turn to the Quran
“And the Earth, We spread it out, and cast therein firmly-set mountains and We have made to grow therein of all beautiful kinds; giving insight and a reminder to every servant who turns [to Allah]” (Qur’an 50:7-8).
What an odd time Xmas is for. REVERT in the uk. especially the only revert in your house.WORSE if you have children who you haven’t been forced to revert as many reverts do to their children, yep shakes my head .
It’s not only a time of your pages being flooded with xmas posts and twinkly lights but also muslim pages bashing anyone that dare to uphold family traditions connected to the time of year and their culture.
This is the thing I think that gets missed allot and thats that whilst yes many do celebrate Christmas for the religious reasons many of us celebrate XMAS with absolutely zero religious attachment to it what so ever.
For many of us this was always a time of year where all the family had a few days off we would get to see people we hadn’t for a year all come together and eat and share time with each other. there were no church services or prayers or nativity sets in the house nor were there any greetings other than the usual happy XMAS then it was never mentioned again all day, we didnt watch religious tv in fact we would usually watch die hard or the great escape a war based movie or Oliver Twist all xmas classics in my home growing up and then listen to your great uncle and grandparents bang on about ‘in my day in the war’ as they sip on they gin and tonic or port
Whilst some have then go on when disproved and argued oh its a pagan tradition I would argue having been a pagan for 35 years before I reverted that actually NO xmas day and Yule are not only two totally different things but also they fall on two totally different dates.
So its a weird one as we have our cultural ties and family traditions calling us on one hand and misunderstanding and attempts at Shaming us for them on the other in the form of public judgements and social media posts
one thing needs to be made clear, at no point as children growing up did many of us associate the time of year with god so why would be now as reverts ???
I think the need for understanding doesnt fall on the head of reverts this time of year and instead falls up on muslims to educate themselves as some of the posts are simply ignorant and narrow minded and having been on both sides of the coin…. embarrassing.
This needed to end so I could be alone with only Allah, to understand his mercy and how it is only him that can fill any void.
When we put more importance on this dunya and we fill our hearts with people and things of this world we set ourselves up to feel pain.
To be stuck in an endless loop of heartache and sadness.
Nothing or no-one else can be relied upon as they are temporary in this dunya, only Allah is the everlasting, flawless and absolute.
The heart is his rightful place. Nothing else has the right to reside there except him. When we empty our hearts of everything from this dunya and fill it with Allah, only then can we escape this prison this dunya tries to keep us in.
In this place of freedom we can no longer be broken, our hearts can no longer be weak. we will no longer suffer for Allah is there
When I wrote this I had just decided to stop speaking to someone for the sake of Allah, to someone I felt very deeply I would also walk with in Jannah, so strong were my feelings for him. Sadly it became messy and his past interactions all came back to feast and I dont want to eat at that kind of table.
Its ending didn’t affect my decision to travel, in fact it confirmed for me that it was indeed by the will of Allah that this person came back to disrupt the situation, as it caused me to turn back to Allah and away from temporary things. It brought a realisation that I had put this person in the wrong place in my body.
“Only Allah should reside in our hearts”
Despite the situation leaving me to feel like I was stranded in the middle of the ocean I now saw this as a blessing from Allah, for out of his mercy I turned to only him in full acceptance of his will and he placed in my heart something better, something everlasting and perfect
HIMSELF
“And when adversity touches you at sea, lost are all these you invoke except for him “[17:67]
This love transcends the mind and heart, forming an eternal, soulful connection that endures beyond life. It’s unwavering, resilient, and not bound by physical or emotional limitations. True love is a spiritual journey, where we recognize the divine in each other, embrace the soul, and love selflessly. This pure, transformative love elevates us, heals, inspires, and connects us to our highest selves.
Allah is always watching us. He knows what we do, whether it is good or bad.
Then He will tell us of that and will reward or punish us accordingly on the Day of Resurrection, as He says:
“Have you not seen that Allah knows whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is on the earth? There is no Najwa (secret counsel) of three but He is their fourth (with His Knowledge, while He Himself is over the Throne, over the seventh heaven), — nor of five but He is their sixth (with His Knowledge), — nor of less than that or more but He is with them (with His Knowledge) wheresoever they may be. And afterwards on the Day of Resurrection He will inform them of what they did. Verily, Allah is the All-Knower of everything” [al-Mujaadilah 58:7]
Allah Alone knows the unseen and the seen, what is secret and what is open, as He says of Himself
It is always my most powerful tool before any surgery or tests
The nurses or surgeons always kindly find me a quiet room to pray before I go in.
Often someone will pray with me as im laid on the bed in that room where they put you to sleep before the doors open to the operating theatre, as with emergency cases ive no time left and yet I never want to miss prayer but also at this time I ‘need’ Salah or to at least say “la ilaha illallah muhammadur rasulullah“, those final words, that connection to Allah always feels so final at that moment and yet the very words calm my fear, worry and doubt, and that is one of the most beautiful things about Islam, that no matter where you are you can call on him
Seeking Sakina 