On Paradise

“In this world, there is a paradise. And whoever does not enter it will not enter the paradise of the hereafter.” {Ibn Taymiyyah} I am content. In my having what I have, not having what I don’t. More content in my limits. In not having. In having less. In a state of peace and serenity….

A Liberating Love

One of the supreme weaknesses that Allah has created the human with is embodied in a desire to have love around him. Allah has created us to love, to desire love and to be moved towards the source of love. The more I see of this world, its days and nights, the more I breathe in…

Withered

And without notice, gradually, the pain subdued. Gently, unhurridely. At the mention of which your heart throbbed the hardest now failed to arose even the simplest sentiments of misgivings. Forgiveness worked that way. You didn’t decide that you forgive, concluded or made up your mind to it. But the pain just grew too old for…

Note to Self

Stop. Come back. You’ll find Me again. Do not wither yourself in this undestined search. What made you feel that this was the last time? The last time you’d lose my way and be lost forever without me. What made you feel that my guidance is for the sinless? Nay, it is for sinners. Sinners…

Reflections

Then your hearts became hardened after that, being like stones or even harder. For indeed, there are stones from which rivers burst forth, and there are some of them that split open and water comes out, and there are some of them that fall down for fear of Allah. And Allah is not unaware of…

Unfit for Love

I have always been a diary-person. Always. From the time I learnt to write broken meaningless sentences, I owned a diary. It was not uncommon for an introvert like me who was deprived of friendship and security to find a friend in my own words and a comfort in my accounts of the day repeated…

The Test of Repentance

I can’t give Mufti Ismail Menk enough credit for this wonderful lecture that I was privileged to get my hands (ears) on. The lecture was about the fake sweetness attached to sins which turns into regrets once the sin has been committed. Interesting, isn’t it? But there was something more so that caught my special…

Proudly Lost

If you don’t humble yourself before Allah, He has the means to humble you down before Him. And you can never be too cool for Islam. You can only be too ignorant of it to have that thought. There is a huge, huge chunk of muslim youngsters going in that line. And it saddens me…

Pressed upon the heart

I wish I could speak my heart at times. And accept what it holds. I wish I could lay down and count my flaws. I wish I had taken steps. Acted upon the wish of the heart and would have seen myself differently in these years. I wish my life could have more of a…