Oh my sister, what is it you seek?

Oh my dear sister, what is it you truly seek?
What do you desperately yearn to possess by next week?

Oh my dear sister, what is it you truly seek?
Let’s discover it before all becomes bleak

Oh my dear sister, is it Honour that you truly seek?
Is that it when you are academically at the highest peak?

Is it truly Honour you feel when you get your bachelor’s certificate on the stage?
Or is that when you earn your first wage?

Do you need more and more degrees to get it all?
Aren’t the Masters and the P.H.D certificates enough on the wall?

Oh my dear sister, is it Honour that you truly seek?
By being born into a noble family and getting married into one which is unique?

Oh my dear sister, if it is the real Honour that you yearn for
Know that it is only being through the servant of Allah, as Islam tells us so

It is when you are seated with the Most Honorable in Paradise
This is when you will most appreciate it and fully realize

Oh my dear sister, is it Beauty that you truly seek?
By bombarding on layers of makeup and eyebrows tweak?

Is it the fancy clothes, white pearls and high heels that show your Beauty?
Aren’t you tired of competing for every man’s attention when you are off-duty?

In this dunya, do the see-through tops and tight jeans give you an edge in this race of ‘I am attractive than her’?
In the Jannah, you will have no rival and would be the most beautiful of all the hoor-ul-ayn got together!

Oh my dear sister, is it the real inner Peace and Harmony that you seek?
Does the blasting music through the headphones drown the feelings of unrest, as a technique?

Does the excessive social life and the late nights means you no longer have to find yourself anymore?
Even in a quiet room, you can’t shut down all the inner noise, when that’s all you want at the core!

Oh my dear sister, if Sukoon and Tranquility is what you are looking for
Flee back to Allah; prostrating with humility is how you will open the Serenity door!

 

Envision Your Very Own Jannah

Bismillahi Ar-Rahmani Ar-Raheem

Allah promises the believers an eternal reward and endless happiness in Paradise. A significant amount of attention has been given to this subject by the scholars dedicating their whole lives in understanding the absolute breathtaking imagery that the Noble Qu’ran paints; the beauty and the delights that the believers will enjoy in the hereafter.

Allah says in the Qu’ran:

“Whoever does righteousness, whether male or female, while he is a believer – We will surely cause him to live a good life, and We will surely give them their reward [in the Hereafter] according to the best of what they used to do.” (16: 97)

“Their Lord gives them good tidings of mercy from Him and approval and of gardens for them wherein is enduring pleasure.” (9: 21)

With such an excellent destination in our minds, we are always striving to please and obey Allah and His messenger . However, the trials and tribulations of this world can be so distracting that the Paradise as our end goal seems distant and unattainable.

Sometimes, we become so engrossed in doing righteous deeds and avoiding the sins that we struggle to visualise the actual reward that Allah  has kept for us in the hereafter.

Waking Up In Jannah…

Dreams are short. Few fleeting moments and you wake up. Just like Life itself. You go through the ups and downs of life, joys and trials, smiles and tears – lots of surprisingly unprecedented moments – yet they never stay for too long. Life happens. Seasons of good and bad come and go; each leaving its trace in your life. Nothing is constant. You go through trials after trials, difficulties after difficulties, and are never exactly sure when they will end, when you will wake up from this bad dream.

The famous verse that many quote where the Lord of the heavens and the earth says:

“For indeed, with hardship [will be] ease.” (Qur’an 94:5)

“Indeed, with hardship [will be] ease.” (Qur’an 94:6)