"Random Ramblngs"
Paki student of Electrical Engineering at University of Houston, Texas.
A day when i will wear hijab in public in front of the whole world including my parents…
A day when i can openly talk about my Muslim friends and Islamic events to my parents…
A day when my family will be okay with me having a “Muslim” husband…
A day when my parents will be proud of me…
A day…
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I love You.
You know who you are.
You are the “coolness of my eyes” (Quran 25:74)
I know that you will take me by the hand,
Or by the sleeve,
Or by the collar,
Even drag me if you have to,
Towards the straight path..
THE straight path.
I know that you complete me,
Fill my shortcomings with
the clay of your patience
Sand my sharp corners,
Until they’re smooth
And lift me up high
With your supporting gestures
You’re awesome!
I’m sure all of us have heard and read the story of the creation of Adam and Eve, and the argument of Satan, from the Quran. I will not get into that. However, let’s look at it from another angle. Lets see a little story.
Story 1: You joined this company as an intern, and worked really hard with all your sincerity. soon enough, you were offered a permanent job, and worked passionately. You climbed the corporate ladder based on your merits, and 30 years later you are the Vice President of the company. You are happy. But now, things change. You see the President, the owner of the company, walk in with this young, frail, highschool teen, who looks around the room with awe. It is obvious that the kid has never been into an office. The Owner tells you, that this, is the new Vice President, and is better than you; you must respect him. How would you feel??
Now, are you sympathizing with Satan? What did he do wrong?? Well, lets look at another story.
Story 2: Suppose there is another mediocre employee in the company. He performs his job well, never had any complaints. He has the utmost sincerity with the Owner. However, the Owner sends a company-wide email announcing that this employee will be transferred to the office in the this location near the Mexican border, considered HIGHLY dangerous, with no security provided, and a pay-cut. Everybody is aware of this, except the employee himself. The Owner walks to him, and declares: “Be sure to not be late ever.”. The employee is never late, however one day he gets a call on the way to work from a coworker, who tells him about the email, which causes him to lose track of time and he is five minutes late to work. The Owner comes to him, and declares: “Since you are late, against what you were ordered, you shall be transferred and receive a pay-cut”.
This was Adam. The difference was, he did not go: “No! You already knew I was going to be transferred! It isn’t because I was late!!”. Adam chose to bow down to the Owner, Allah swt, and agree to his orders no matter how “unfair” it might seem. He chose to “submit” (islam).
Satan chose the opposite, and reacted in rebellion, for Allah’s orders were not just in his opinion. He chose not to submit.
Our lives are the same struggle: To submit, or not to submit (Islam, or no islam). Peace of heart, or not the peace of heart? (islam, or no islam).
[This is a lose transcription / interpretation of one of Nouman Ali Khan’s talks, by Rameez Balagamwala]
It is awesome to think that Surah Rahman is a list of all the blessings that Allah wants you to think about, but what’s extremely interesting to realize that the order in which He listed them isn’t random; it is set according to the order of importance, and paying attention to that reveals a great deal of wisdom! Here’s a translation:
1. The Most Beneficent (Allâh)!
2. Has taught (you mankind) the Qur’ân (by His Mercy).
3. He created man.
4. He taught him eloquent speech.
5. The sun and the moon run on their fixed courses (exactly) calculated with measured out stages for each (for reckoning, etc.).
6. And the herbs (or stars) and the trees both prostrate.
7. And the heaven He has raised high, and He has set up the Balance.
8. In order that you may not transgress (due) balance.
9. And observe the weight with equity and do not make the balance deficient.
10. And the earth He has put for the creatures.
11. Therein are fruits, date-palms producing sheathed fruit-stalks (enclosing dates).
12. And also corn, with (its) leaves and stalk for fodder, and sweet-scented plants.
13. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
14. He created man (Adam) from sounding clay like the clay of pottery.
15. And the jinns did He create from a smokeless flame of fire.
16. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
17. (He is) the Lord of the two easts (places of sunrise during early summer and early winter) and the Lord of the two wests (places of sunset during early summer and early winter).
18. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
19. He has let loosed the two seas (the salt water and the sweet) meeting together.
20. Between them is a barrier which none of them can transgress.
21. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
22. Out of them both come out pearl and coral.
23. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
24. And His are the ships going and coming in the seas, like mountains.
25. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
26. Whatsoever is on it (the earth) will perish.
27. And the Face of your Lord full of Majesty and Honour will abide forever.
28. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
29. Whosoever is in the heavens and on earth begs of Him (its needs from Him). Every day He has a matter to bring forth (such as giving honour to some, disgrace to some, life to some, death to some, etc.)!
30. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
31. We shall attend to you, O you two classes (jinns and men)!
32. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
33. O assembly of jinns and men! If you have power to pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, then pass (them)! But you will never be able to pass them, except with authority (from Allâh)!
34. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
35. There will be sent against you both, smokeless flames of fire and (molten) brass, and you will not be able to defend yourselves.
36. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
37. Then when the heaven is rent asunder, and it becomes rosy or red like red-oil, or red hide.
38. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
39. So on that Day no question will be asked of man or jinn as to his sin, (because they have already been known from their faces either white or black).
40. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
41. The Mujrimûn (polytheists, criminals, sinners, etc.) will be known by their marks (black faces), and they will be seized by their forelocks and their feet.
42. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
43. This is Hell which the Mujrimûn (polytheists, criminals, sinners, etc.) denied.
44. They will go between it (Hell) and the boiling hot water!
45. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
46. But for him who [the true believer of Islâmic Monotheism who performs all the duties ordained by Allâh and His Messenger Muhammad , and keeps away (abstain) from all kinds of sin and evil deeds prohibited in Islâm and] fears the standing before his Lord, there will be two Gardens (i.e. in Paradise).
47. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
48. With spreading branches;
49. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
50. In them (both) will be two springs flowing (free)
51. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
52. In them (both) will be every kind of fruit in pairs.
53. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
54. Reclining upon the couches lined with silk brocade, and the fruits of the two Gardens will be near at hand.
55. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
56. Wherein both will be those (maidens) restraining their glances upon their husbands, whom no man or jinn yatmithhunna (has opened their hymens with sexual intercourse) before them.
57. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
58. (In beauty) they are like rubies and coral.
59. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
60. Is there any reward for good other than good?
61. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
62. And besides these two, there are two other Gardens (i.e. in Paradise).
63. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
64. Dark green (in colour).
65. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
66. In them (both) will be two springs gushing forth water.
67. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
68. In them (both) will be fruits, and date- palms and pomegranates.
69. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
70. Therein (gardens) will be fair (wives) good and beautiful;
71. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
72. Houris (beautiful, fair females) restrained in pavilions;
73. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
74. Whom no man or jinn yatmithhunna (has opened their hymens with sexual intercourse) before them.
75. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
76. Reclining on green cushions and rich beautiful mattresses.
77. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
78. Blessed be the Name of your Lord (Allâh), the Owner of Majesty and Honour.
