Nazias
08-08-07, 11:42 PM
Lessons From Inside
True freedom is the freedom to live for one's religion, beliefs and principles...
I pray you all read this in the best health and emaan.
How are you? I pray you're all safe and well by the Grace of Allah (SWT) Ameen.
I hope you all read my recent article based on crime & prison. I pray you take my advice and insh'allah change your ways if you feel they may lead to crime and result in prison.
Every man/woman is a prisoner: Ibn Al Qayyim said;"Just as a slave will be in turmoil if he had many masters to serve, the heart will be in turmoil if it is occupied by the love of anything other than Allah (swt)"
Depending on how one looks at it, there are many prison systems that people are imprisoned in without actually realising it. Some are imprisoned by the routine of earning money: - they have to earn whether they like it or not. Others are imprisoned by serving their families. Then there are also those imprisoned by their own desires and in most cases the one behind bars is the one whose heart is barred from His Lord.
The meaning of true freedom is not the ability to go where you want, sin when you want, disobey your Lord when you want & think how others want you to think. Rather true freedom is the freedom to live for one's religion, beliefs and principles. As one scholar said:-
"True freedom is to live with your head help up high, your forehead raised with self dignity, each day better than before, tomorrow better than today, no matter what may come to pass."
There is an eastern fable about a farmer who lived once upon a time in a faraway land. This farmer had a strong horse which would plough the fields for him and pull his loads. Within his farmland, was an unusual well. A deep dry, dark unused well. Since there was no benefit for the farmer he refused to maintain it and repair its boundary walls.
One day the horse fell into the well, and as it was a strong horse it survived the fall only to have scratches. It tried getting out of the well by jumping and climbing up the sides but it was useless. Eventually the farmer arrived after hearing it neigh and whine. He called his neighbours as he was unsure how to get the horse out. They all thought but weren't able to devise a plan until the farmer had a simple plan.
He thought he could kill two birds with one stone by burying the horse and filling up the well. "Let's bury the horse by filling the well up. He was a stupid horse and no good for me, falling into the well. The problem of the horse and the unusual well would therefore be solved. Furthermore, if we bury it quickly it will die swiftly."
The horse started to neigh as the crowd started shovelling in dirt. On hearing the screams the crowd shovelled faster and faster. When the horse realised the cries were in vain and falling upon deaf ears it had an idea. It suddenly stopped neighing leading the shovellers's to believe that it was dead. The horse shrugged off the dirt and trampled it underneath its hooves. As the dirt was being thrown in the horse continued trampling upon it, until he was being raised higher and higher until to the much astonishment of everyone the horse jumped out.
So o prisoners do you find yourself at the bottom of a dark deep hole? Do you find there is no way out of your situations, and that your cries are falling upon deaf ears? And if that's not enough, do you feel that more dirt is being thrown upon you? Financial problems? Forced marriages? Lies and allegations? Family problems and parents disowning? Sickness and suffering? What are you going to do about it?
Are you just going to sit there and let the dirt pile on and overcome you until it buries you alive and destroys you? Or are you going to do what the horse did and be positive, realise you are on your own and shrug the dirt off. Trample it beneath your feet, until that very dirt becomes a means for your salvation but never get CONFUSED with the hole and the dirt. Prison is not the hole but the dirt. The hole is your sins and the estrangement from Allah (swt). Prison is the dirt that will either enable you to cleanse our sins and return to Allah (swt), thereby saving yourself. Or is it the dirt that will eventually bury you alive and destroy you. What you do with the dirt is your choice.
The horse made the right choice the question is will you?
As I've said there are many types of prison. It maybe someone you love has died, your sexuality, your addiction to drugs, being forced to study or work, or even forced to stay at home. You may not feel it at times but if you put your conviction with Allah (swt) you will feel much safer. This is as much of a reminder to me as it is to you.
There are many times I feel depressed and alone, but then other times when I feel okay. When I feel bad and down I'll always do my best to think of the people who are in worse situations compared to me. No matter how bad you feel there's always someone worse off than you.
O Allah! Correct for us our religion, which is the protection of our affairs. Correct for us our worldly affairs, which contain our livelihood. Correct for us our hereafter, which contains our abode of final return. Make our life an increase for us in every good, and make our death a relief for us from every evil. Ameen. May He (swt) always shower His blessings And Mercy upon us.
Ameen
- by Abu Dharr
Source (http://www.hhugs.org.uk)
True freedom is the freedom to live for one's religion, beliefs and principles...
I pray you all read this in the best health and emaan.
How are you? I pray you're all safe and well by the Grace of Allah (SWT) Ameen.
I hope you all read my recent article based on crime & prison. I pray you take my advice and insh'allah change your ways if you feel they may lead to crime and result in prison.
Every man/woman is a prisoner: Ibn Al Qayyim said;"Just as a slave will be in turmoil if he had many masters to serve, the heart will be in turmoil if it is occupied by the love of anything other than Allah (swt)"
Depending on how one looks at it, there are many prison systems that people are imprisoned in without actually realising it. Some are imprisoned by the routine of earning money: - they have to earn whether they like it or not. Others are imprisoned by serving their families. Then there are also those imprisoned by their own desires and in most cases the one behind bars is the one whose heart is barred from His Lord.
The meaning of true freedom is not the ability to go where you want, sin when you want, disobey your Lord when you want & think how others want you to think. Rather true freedom is the freedom to live for one's religion, beliefs and principles. As one scholar said:-
"True freedom is to live with your head help up high, your forehead raised with self dignity, each day better than before, tomorrow better than today, no matter what may come to pass."
There is an eastern fable about a farmer who lived once upon a time in a faraway land. This farmer had a strong horse which would plough the fields for him and pull his loads. Within his farmland, was an unusual well. A deep dry, dark unused well. Since there was no benefit for the farmer he refused to maintain it and repair its boundary walls.
One day the horse fell into the well, and as it was a strong horse it survived the fall only to have scratches. It tried getting out of the well by jumping and climbing up the sides but it was useless. Eventually the farmer arrived after hearing it neigh and whine. He called his neighbours as he was unsure how to get the horse out. They all thought but weren't able to devise a plan until the farmer had a simple plan.
He thought he could kill two birds with one stone by burying the horse and filling up the well. "Let's bury the horse by filling the well up. He was a stupid horse and no good for me, falling into the well. The problem of the horse and the unusual well would therefore be solved. Furthermore, if we bury it quickly it will die swiftly."
The horse started to neigh as the crowd started shovelling in dirt. On hearing the screams the crowd shovelled faster and faster. When the horse realised the cries were in vain and falling upon deaf ears it had an idea. It suddenly stopped neighing leading the shovellers's to believe that it was dead. The horse shrugged off the dirt and trampled it underneath its hooves. As the dirt was being thrown in the horse continued trampling upon it, until he was being raised higher and higher until to the much astonishment of everyone the horse jumped out.
So o prisoners do you find yourself at the bottom of a dark deep hole? Do you find there is no way out of your situations, and that your cries are falling upon deaf ears? And if that's not enough, do you feel that more dirt is being thrown upon you? Financial problems? Forced marriages? Lies and allegations? Family problems and parents disowning? Sickness and suffering? What are you going to do about it?
Are you just going to sit there and let the dirt pile on and overcome you until it buries you alive and destroys you? Or are you going to do what the horse did and be positive, realise you are on your own and shrug the dirt off. Trample it beneath your feet, until that very dirt becomes a means for your salvation but never get CONFUSED with the hole and the dirt. Prison is not the hole but the dirt. The hole is your sins and the estrangement from Allah (swt). Prison is the dirt that will either enable you to cleanse our sins and return to Allah (swt), thereby saving yourself. Or is it the dirt that will eventually bury you alive and destroy you. What you do with the dirt is your choice.
The horse made the right choice the question is will you?
As I've said there are many types of prison. It maybe someone you love has died, your sexuality, your addiction to drugs, being forced to study or work, or even forced to stay at home. You may not feel it at times but if you put your conviction with Allah (swt) you will feel much safer. This is as much of a reminder to me as it is to you.
There are many times I feel depressed and alone, but then other times when I feel okay. When I feel bad and down I'll always do my best to think of the people who are in worse situations compared to me. No matter how bad you feel there's always someone worse off than you.
O Allah! Correct for us our religion, which is the protection of our affairs. Correct for us our worldly affairs, which contain our livelihood. Correct for us our hereafter, which contains our abode of final return. Make our life an increase for us in every good, and make our death a relief for us from every evil. Ameen. May He (swt) always shower His blessings And Mercy upon us.
Ameen
- by Abu Dharr
Source (http://www.hhugs.org.uk)