LETTER TO MY SON

Dear Son,

My son you are growing up and as I see you emerging into a handsome, smart and loving boy. I see beauty that in itself how it is reflecting with such affection of your parents. Me and your Mamma love you always and always will. Keep bringing good change to yourself and to the people around you that one day the world would change for the better as What Allah May Will! I love you son and I'm feeling this heart beating in your chest as if it is mine! May Allah give you all the happiness of the world! All the goodness within you and around you! All the health that you deserve and be healthy with affection! And all the serenity of life and the hereafter Insha'Allah! 

Umar, you have been the reason I can say I have lived with pride! Keep your parents in your prayers always and pray 5 times a day without thinking twice! Recite the Qur'an daily if not after every prayer! Read books and gain knowledge as the people around you would want to debate you with ignorance, and might even win. You should lose with facts instead and your parents will be the proudest from the millions cheering the ignorant!

Teach people around you if they are asking you to. Do not keep the knowledge within you since this knowledge is not ours to keep. It is to spread to people of all religion, color, race, sex. To even aliens who think different of you and how would they know any better if you don't show them What Allah has willed and what is the main purpose of it all, the reality, the facts and the most important of all the reason of living! I love you Son! You will always be watched and loved! 

May Allah always guide you to the best paths! Aameen!

By the way! When you fall in love with a good girl! Fall in love for her religion and she will give you everything Insha'Allah. Maybe along the way you will find hurdles to go through and tough times but do not worry, Allah test the ones He Loves! Life is nothing but a test and we all have to pass it smartly. Qur'an is the prescribed book that has all the solutions to your problems. Be wise when deciding, if you are unable to decide, discuss with elders, friends, family and do not decide with emotions! Your decision should be firm!

Live well my Son!

Live with dignity and live with happiness!

Dream for the beyond and pray to Allah! Beyond will fall to your feet!

Remember my Son! I Will Love Always Love You!

Your Heart,

Baba...

PURPOSE OF LIFE!

PURPOSE OF LIFE

BY: FALAH ALAWI

To find a purpose of life and do things accordingly to that what you have found, should give you benefit in every aspect, be it moral, ethical, liable, practical, and even understandable that your actions will have positive and collective reactions on this earth after you’re gone. In this life finding a purpose is not hard and neither easy and if you ask how is that possible since many people end up dying during finding this purpose. The only way this can be answered is by knowing there is no escape from death and when death will come, it will come unannounced. So, anything that you’re trying to find or getting towards at you’re also limiting your life span. Human life being limited in this world will always have limited desires and nothing that he thinks will exceed the point towards knowing that, this is first thing humans should know. Secondly, life of any human coming in this world was not an accident. If you don’t even think from a religious point of view, you will know that the person you’ve been hanging out with or your brother, sister, your parents, they all are connected and brings out your personality, either in a positive way or negative, but know that every human has a brain to decide which path to follow and this fork in the road in not worst of a calamity than that of death.

            I have lived long enough to come to this maturity that life without religion or without believing in GOD/ALLAH/LORD in any way will leave a human living a life without purpose, or his purpose will always be limited within the boundaries of this life.

Muslims believing in the hereafter, believing in a purpose that if they do good, will have good and who do bad will get bad that today scientifically proven by Newton’s third law of motion. But as the life span of humans is limited so is the life of this world and it will one day perish and all that left will be our actions that will be given to us on the Day Of Judgment.

            We have given a picture of life how to live it and make it towards the end of it and the picture is as clear as day, that if we believe in ourselves and we trace it well and live it as exactly as the last Prophet (Peace and Blessings Be Upon Him) did, we will surely reach to the point where there is no doubt. And if even after looking at the picture instead make it our own, that will make us our own god that will make us fall in the pit that we were not suppose to be from. But we willed and so the reaction will.

            Surah Asr, is such a beautiful Surah that if we concentrate our lives on just this surah and put our actions in it, we will make our life worth living and happily dying to meet our Creator (ALLAH).

             This is what purpose of life is all about since man is in loss of time and death is inevitable. Death will come like it came to the people before us and to before them.

In the Holy Quran (Surah Baqarah Verse 28):

  In the Holy Quran (Surah Al-Imran Verse 185):

In the Holy Quran (Surah Al-Anbiya Verse 35):

And death is like sleeping, where the conscious is alive and awake but the soul is out. We will know when we will be getting buried and could not scream out. When the slap is closed, that is the end and people will walk away but what will happen to us in the grave, the questions will start. While the people who we left behind; after a period of time, when the grieving has ended. They will start their normal routine till the day comes and they will die.

             Our lives are based on deeds, and we will be judged accordingly on the Day of Judgment and we will be distributed either among the people of paradise or the hell fire. May Allah have mercy on us and guide us to the right path which Allah loves and give us courage to follow the Last Prophet Muhammad on whom this beautiful book “Al-Qur’an” was revealed and is still intact as it was before till the Day of Judgment.

The Broken Violin (Short Story - I)

There used to be a boy and his mother who lived alone a bit far away from the city. They were poor who had less means to eat every day yet they tried and were happy together.  The mother used to work part time with a tailor who used to give her something to do and paid her in a dime or few. The boy was 8 years old and worked as a newspaper delivery boy in the city. He used to pass by this shop where he used to buy a loaf of bread. He would find a man standing there with a violin in his hand, playing the music of pure heartfelt noise. The boy used to sometimes forget why he was there and just be mesmerized when the street violinist played his music, standing there for hours.  He thought to himself that one day he would buy himself a violin and become rich with his music,  people will stand before him and tell him that they are cured with such soulful sound that he could play.  The boy used to work in the mornings and went home at night. His mother asked him almost everyday

“Where do you go all day?”

 And the boy told her,

“I want to play the violin and make you rich and not let you do a thing.”

All day he dreams of the music he'll play when he grows up. His mother with tears in her eyes said,

“You will be a miracle child that will make your mother proud one day.”

But then seasons came and passed, their situation was getting a bit better, the tailor had more work which he would share with the boy’s mother and she had been saving some money for her loving son, for some time now she had fallen ill and the boy had grown almost 4 years older now, doing the same thing as he had been doing.  Dreaming of the day he would play his violin. This year his birthday came when he was about to turn 12. His mother had saved some money and the tailor had given her some loan to buy her son a gift he's been waiting for. The boy came home early that day and his mother told him to stay home because she is going in the city and she will be right back. The boy’s mother went in the city and bought him the best violin she can and while coming home that day of surprises brought a storm and the storm had lifted its plan to be heavy. She tried to rush home in her weak health and she almost had reached when she slipped and fell down the riverbank and into the river yet holding tightly to the violin case. The tailor was passing down that road when he heard a gasping scream and ran towards with a lantern in his hand and saw her there and rushed towards her to save her. He wrapped her in his coat and ran towards her home. A loud bam on the door made the boy jump and he ran and opened it and saw his mother trembling with fever and cold and held firmly by the tailor yet she did not let go of the violin. The boy saw her in so much pain asked the tailor while crying in shock,

“What had happened?”

 The tailor ordered the boy,

“Get the water warmed up and put on some tea, your mother was bringing you a present when she fell into the river. She was already sick from before.”

But her being all wet in this storm took the turn for the worst. His mother lying in her bed as the clock struck 12. She pulled her son near and said,

 "Happy Birthday, this is for you my dear.”

And she gave the violin in his hands while holding him near to her cheek.  She said,

"I love you my son... here, play a tune so I can hear".

Tears in her son's eyes told a story how he did not want what he had been dreaming of like this. She thought he would be surprised but that became the darkest day of his life. He played the last note that his mother heard as she died on a day that brought surprise of pain to the boy’s heart. He screamed for his mother to return.  He sat on her bedside till the morning came and wished he hadn't wished for something he would never gain. Now he sits with his violin on the table and thinks this is a curse and not a tune enabled. He opened the case to put the violin back in. It had a letter, saying “To My Son”.  He opened the letter and as he read tears poured down his cheeks. It was a letter that his mother wrote to him before buying him his surprise. She wrote that

“My time has come to go far away from you where your father is and we will be listening to your music. The dream you had shall never fade away. You will make us proud standing in front of a huge crowd as they will never want you to stop playing your violin. I wish I had lived for more years to see you grow and find a pretty girl and have children, ha’ my grandchildren. Never be sad as I am with your father now, in a better place and we are always with you and looking over you. You will grow up to be a fine young man.

Goodbye my dear child,

Your loving mom.”

Happiness And Virtue - A Perfect Combination Into "Life"!

I have understood one thing about life is that persistence, obsession and passion could lead you to either a heart attack or top of the world, success. In this world Inspirations are hard to find and develop those few inspired substances within yourself, so that you don’t lose it and keep yourself motivated to keep doing what your heart is telling you to. Usually people lose hope, faith and at times that moment which made them decide what they were missing. We need to believe in ourselves and those ambitious moments that got us up and made us felt, “Today Is The Day When Everything Will Change.” Innovative ideas are a Godsend, finding means is like finding excuses. Get a paper and a pencil, write a plan, procedure, steps and make it happen. Time is old and we’re getting older. Moments are short and our lives getting shorter. Live your life as if it is your last day. “Love, Live Life and Let Live.” Happiness is a choice which will get you to inspire and be inspired by people around you and even strangers, soon they wont be strangers anymore. Those couples that are living together should get married, who knows how long this life is, why wait and see things, when you have the moments with you. If you have failed in doing something and you want to die, you’re sad but you need hope, go outside and don’t think about your failure, just embrace it all in. Learn from your mistakes and take another step forward. I’ve learnt “It Is Important To Laugh At Your Failures Instead Of Putting Yourself Down For Them.” If you’ve lost money, don’t ponder over it. Look forward and make time worthwhile instead making yourself dragged down to depression. There is more to do than to worry, and you will know that life is worth living every moment and not wasting any because every moment you breathe and live is a blessing.

I'll Get Through!

Tossed across limits, shattered with anger and sound of feelings scattered on the floor. Last emotion left to keep but freed so many more. I’m running, running empty on the broken glasses, happiness, sorrow; moments that were forgotten revive senses of my heart. “Run, run, just run in the darkest place my love”, says the heart. With terror I start to shake, every emotion stares at me just to find a way to devour. Walked and ran, walked and ran, there was no way out and I had no strength. Voices kept telling me, “take it; do it”, yet I knew nothing. Tremble with fear as I was bitten by it. “LET THEM ENGULF ME!” I screamed with madness. Scattered feelings, senses of healing, they all said to be one with me. I knew then what I had given up, the forgotten moments, the time I could never turn back. Every tear for a memory, every smile for a memory, every hate for a memory, even a lie for a memory… and all the moments I lived. Emotions beat my senses to a pulp, I had felt enough and wanted no more. A voice says, “take it”, I took a shard of shattered glass, “do it”, and I did from which I had been painted red but that color did not make the end of my memories yet I left myself bleeding instead.

Greatness In Us!

The uniqueness that lies within us all has a way to tell from everyone else about a huge difference it shows. All of us need time to know ourselves, our capabilities, our powers, strength and weaknesses. Our expressing ability is always hidden in our unconsciousness, the darkest silent life that we're living without us knowing that comes out when we're asleep in forms of dreams. Our flights to excel in this world and become a better person, we come across people like us with whom we interact, gain trust, make bonds and know them for years. People have this cruel tendency to gain and regain trust but will always make your self esteem down to its last drop of hope and rip your trust into judgment. We are created vulnerable which opens our 6^th sense to judge one another for keeping ourselves in a sane peace of mind; as hurt is an abnormal feeling but natural that can either make us into a better person or break us into a darkest being.

We are born innocent and our capabilities in this world that are activated in actions actually change people. If one takes time to think about how reality is connected with every action we make for (someone or ourselves) or against, that action will change its atmosphere accordingly which will affect people around us and them. People who go through hard situations yet still hold ground, he is benefitted and so are others with him. We are the solution to any problem and vice versa. Our happiness affects others because we're happy and just like our sadness. In this life moments come and go and we should live those moments instead trying to work them right because we're missing life. No matter who keeps pushing us down, our strength is us, ourselves. Always believe in yourself, we are born with greatness.