food.. to worms

One Day...

We will all be food to worms.
I looked at pictures today, pictures of dead people. I realized one day that will be me. I will be food to worms too. Will I leave behind a legacy? {واجعل لي لسان صدق في الآخر}
If you listen closely, the pictures talk to you, they tell you.. do the right thing before you die.

I don't get it. I don't understand how people can live for the near tomorrow. I don't understand how people have the motivation to excel in life, or even just to live, when they know we're all going to die.

What I do understand fully though, is that this is the inspiration for da'wah. Da'wah will have an effect on people because it is bringing truth to them, that they are lacking something... lacking a knowledge of what will happen after life, what the end of the matter of life is.

If we step out from the world, for just a minute though, we will look at it differently.. we will see people scattered every where rather than a group of a united nation. We should not be intimidated by masses, and resist conformity.

A muslim should realize that they have the most precious gifts of all, the understanding of life and the chance to live a good one... but if we don't share that with the world who will?

As you walk out everyday, to school, to work, to the supermarket .. you will see people whom to you will seem like they have the same goals and aspirations... they want to live... and they see what others do and do it.... its sad. Its sad that they don't look beyond materialism and beyond this life.

You might think, but there are religious people out there from different religions who do have goals and beliefs in life. But... {إن الدين عند الله الإسلام} and our job after reading the qur'an is realizing the secrets that happen behind closed doors and who rules those religions and how their books evolve(!!) based on what people want!

Our deen will remain the same because it is the truth walhamdulilah. The Qur'an will not change because it is the ultimate truth.

May Allah keep us steadfast.

a realization... :

the ultimate fruit of (beneficial) knowledge is to constantly prepare for its departure, and for that matter, your departure.

how i view islamic knowledge:
i used to think that you had to climb the tree, quickly! i still think you need to reach the highest fruits...
but there are those who remain in the bottom... but have a more clear view of the fruit than the climbing ones...
they are closer to life, but they could build something more sustainable to reach that fruit...
because, they are afraid...
afraid that they could get lost or scattered like you... or like the fruits you found on your way up and munched on them for too long... forgetting your ultimate goal...
the one fact remains: no one knows which one of the two will reach first... only Allah does... and only your heart condition is the determiner....
{يوم لا ينفع مال ولا بنون * إلا من أتى الله بقلب سليم}
how many people were pricked in their journeys and were counter-attacked for being mislead.
{فإنها لا تعمى الأبصار ولكن تعمى القلوب التي في الصدور}

journey of a stone...

(new life...)

the qur'an gives life to things that seem dead to us, and takes away life from living beings who have no eiman in them; hence changes our view and understanding of the world!
everything around us makes tasbeeh and i wonder what the extent of 'nonliving' things feelings? do they feel when they are surrounded or used by a kafir rather than a muslim?
or do they merely do tasbeeh of allah without consciousness outside that realm?

strange thoughts i guess..

anyway, verse 74 surat albaqarah is very interesting:

وإن من الحجارة لما يتفجر منه الأنهار

(interesting: Geysers and hot springs are common expressions of a hydrothermal (hot water) system, but sometimes changes in “plumbing” result in large volumes of water suddenly flashing into steam, causing violent hydrothermal explosions. A large hydrothermal explosion can hurl water and rock thousands of feet and create new landscapes of hills and craters. In Yellowstone’s geologic past, hydrothermal explosions have occurred countless times.

وإنها منها لما يشقق فيخرج منه الماء

(interesting: life can spring again, also, from cracks!

وإن منها لما يهبط من خشية الله

(notice the graduation in the verse...)

likewise..... Allah can bring life to a hardened heart!

al'anaam 122 { أَوَ مَن كَانَ مَيْتًا فَأَحْيَيْنَاهُ وَجَعَلْنَا لَهُ نُورًا يَمْشِي بِهِ فِي النَّاسِ }

~if Allah can give life to stones, boulders... then he surely can give life to a disbelieving heart; don't hesistate in da'wah!~