Read and Think about it (^___^)*

" However GREAT you are, however HIGH you climb.. your FOOTSTEPS still lead to the same DARK GRAVE and to the JUDGEMENT of GOD"

"Be GREAT if you can, but be GOOD as well as GREAT. Take no man's LIFE because you are GREAT and HATE him. Remember that the BEGGAR CHILD playing in the sand may have fate MUCH GREATER than YOUR OWN"

"Do not weep. SEPARATIONS are NO new thing. DEATH is NO new thing. Live out your life HAPPY if the days are GOOD, CONTENT if they are BAD. Regret nothing but WRONG-DOING. FEAR NOTHING, EXPECT NOTHING, since all things are FIXED by FATE and NOTHING can be CHANGE".

("taken from a novel 'Morning Star')

"You can't SHAKE hands with a CLENCHED FIST"

-Indira Gandhi-

"I destroy my ENEMIES when i make them my FRIENDS".

-Abraham Lincoln-

Love in Islam

In Islam, the concept of love is one of the most important concepts. This fact manifests itself in Islamic philosophy, theology, mysticism and ethics; indeed, in some aspects, it plays the crucial role.

 For example, in defining the Islamic point of view on the relation between God and Universe in general, and between God and Mankind in particular, love has the most significant and profound place. Love is so central in Islam that it is seep as;

 "the firmest handhold of faith" and "faith (Iman) is nothing but love for the sake of God and hate for the sake of God".

Ibn Abbas reported that Messenger of Allah (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "The strongest faith is to be sincere for the sake of Allah, to hate for the sake of Allah (Tabarra), to love for the sake of Allah (Tawalla), and to discard for the sake of Allah."

There is a tendency among some people to think that there should be no hate at all. These people assume that excellence and nobility of character and "being sociable" consist of having all men one's friends. Certainly Islam recommends Muslims to love people and optimize compassionate and sincere relationship with them, even if they do not believe in Islam or in God. However, it is not practical for a person who has principles in his life and has devoted his life to realize sacred values to be indifferent to evil and oppressive deeds of wrongdoers and make friendship with everybody. Such a person certainly will have some enemies, whether he likes it or not. There are always good people in the society and bad people. Good and bad are two opposite poles. Attraction towards the good is not possible without repulsion from the bad

When two human beings attract each other and their hearts wish for them to be friends and companions with one another, there should be a reason for that, and the reason is nothing other than similarity and resemblance. Unless there is a similarity between these two persons, they cannot attract one another and move towards friendship with each other, as saying goes, Birds of same feather flock together.

As these statements and traditions indicate, love plays an important and significant role. Hence it deserves our close attention in order that we may discover the real meaning of the concept of love in Islam.

First of all, some questions come to the mind. What is the kind of love that has been
emphasized by Islam? Who is the object of this special kind of love? Why should the believers have this kind of love and what purpose does it serve?

Love in Islam can be broadly categorized into: Love for God, love for Prophet Muhammad (saw) and his Household (Ahlul Bayt), and love for the faithful.

Sources: Islamic Website

** True love came from God and only God that own the true love, and to receive true love we must truly love our God then our heart will be sent to the person who also truly love God. *(^__^)

Paradise is at the feet of Mothers

The Arabic word for womb is "rahem." Rahem is derived from the word for mercy. In Islamic tradition, one of Allah's 99 beautiful names (Asmaul Husna) is "Al-Raheem," or "the Most Merciful."

There exists, therefore, a unique connection between God and the womb. Through the womb, we get a glimpse of the Almighty's qualities and attributes. It nurtures, feeds and shelters us in the early stages of life. The womb can be viewed as one manifestation of divinity in the world.

Each of us should appreciate what we have in our mothers. They are our teachers and our role models. Every day with them is an opportunity to grow as a person. Every day away from them is a missed opportunity.

In other words, the debt we owe to our mothers is magnified due to the difficult nature of pregnancy - not to mention the nurturing and attention paid to us in infancy.

 

source : Islamic Websites

** It’s really hard to describe how I really feel about my mother, because I feel like she deserve to be describe better, all the sweetest and the most lovely words is just not enough .. Only God Who really knew exactly how I feel.. and in this post today all that I can say is I love my Mother.. *(^__^)

ALLAH Knows (lyric)

When you feel all alone in this world
And there's nobody to count your tears
Just remember, no matter where you are
Allah knows
Allah knows

When you carrying a monster load
And you wonder how far you can go
With every step on that road that you take
Allah knows
Allah knows

No matter what, inside or out
There's one thing of which there's no doubt
Allah knows
Allah knows
And whatever lies in the heavens and the earth
Every star in this whole universe
Allah knows
Allah knows

When you find that special someone
Feel your whole life has barely begun
You can walk on the moon, shout it to everyone
Allah knows
Allah knows

When you gaze with love in your eyes
Catch a glimpse of paradise
And you see your child take the first breath of life
Allah knows
Allah knows

When you lose someone close to your heart
See your whole world fall apart
And you try to go on but it seems so hard
Allah knows
Allah knows

You see we all have a path to choose
Through the valleys and hills we go
With the ups and the downs, never fret never frown
Allah knows
Allah knows

Every grain of sand,
In every desert land, He knows.
Every shade of palm,
Every closed hand, He knows.
Every sparkling tear,
On every eyelash, He knows.
Every thought I have,
And every word I share, He knows.
Allah knows

by: Zain Bhikha

** ALLAH Knows.. me and you will never be able to hide anything from ALLAH..

Changing The World With Kindness, Justice and Peace.

Can we change the world with kindness, justice and peace? Is it possible? How can these three words help in changing the world? Try to think about it, actually this three words were connected to each other. If one of it been practice, automatically the other two will get along too.

Peace, what do you know about peace? To translate it with word, peace means a situation or a period of time in which there is no war or violence. How can we achieve peace? Rationally we can achieve peace by having the sense of responsibility and appreciation. Each of us has that responsibility to be concern of and we must take that responsibility, as for an easy example that I can take is, by keeping the city clean.

Nowadays on the television the issues of garbage problem is becoming serious, why do you think it happens? Because lack sense of responsibility, same as the sense of appreciation we can take the same example. If people have that sense of appreciation they would make sure that they’re not condemning the clean and beautiful city because they appreciate what they have and will make sure that it were taking care of. Just imagine if everybody have that sense of responsibility and appreciation problem can be avoid and every activities will run smoothly,and when everything run smoothly it will bring peace to everybody, don’t you think so?

How about justice? As we know justice means fair treatment. Being just is a good value of a character, because it can prevent hatred and revenge. Justice also brings the people together because it creates good relationship between the people, it can prevent unsatisfactory which can create revenge among people. It will improve security of a country and keep the citizen happy.

The hardest part that usually hard to do by certain people is kindness. There once a story of kindness which happened to a doctor during he was still a little boy, when one kind lady gave him a glass of milk at a time that he was so hungry and the lady feed him without asking for any payment, and that day was remembered until he became a successful doctor.

Until one day he met that lady again, and she was sick, so he repaid her by giving her a treatment for her illness and paid all the charge of the treatment. From this story we can see how kindness can really affect someone deeply. Because deep down we know this one thing: What matters in this life is more than thinking for ourselves. What matters in this life is helping others lived, even if it means giving something of what you have. Pure kindness can actually motivate a person, that's why there always a saying which said. “Don’t do evil to the evil doer” because its only bring more problems but if we brought kindness to them, they might change! Even kindness is something that difficult to do but actually it always came back to us.

Kindness is a quality of being kind and it will throw away the selfishness in our selves, at the same time justice and peace will come along, why? Because a kind person will always love justice and also peace, now we can see that kindness was the most valuable value that we must have in our self in order to experience justice and peace.

But how all this three values help in changing the world? It’s easy! Kindness bring justice and peace and what else that more better than that? When everybody have a kind heart, treat others fairly and have the sense of responsibility and appreciation what else that more precious than that?. If all these are practice, I believe, problems can be easily solved and there will be no reason to be a war in this world, isn’t that looks like changing the world? There are saying that good to always be remind of which said, “We are not human beings going through a temporary spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings going through a temporary human experience”. So why not we start to change in order to experience more good value in our life and at the same time might help to change the world?

Obstacle in our Path.

A fact of human life is that from time to time we face difficulties. These can be small day to day annoyances or calamities that push our patience and will power to their limits.Sometimes it is hard for a person to understand the reason behind these horrible events, especially when he/she knows there is God maintaining order in the universe and Who is Merciful.

In such a situation a person may even resent God asking why. He is making life so dofficult, especially when He is supposed to love His devoted servants.

It is important to remember that when making a judgment about a situation we should think about whether or not we have enough knowledge to do so. Something that is bad in our minds may actually be good, and we may only think it is bad because of our limited perception and knowledge.

For example, imagine a person who has lived all his life in the rain forest He has no knowledge of technology or civilizations and only knows what he has learned from experience and from those around him. If we were to take him and bring him to the city and showed him skyscrapers, cars and computers, he would be overwhelmed and overhead by the extravagance.

Now, if he were to be taken past construction site where cranes and bulldozers were demolishing a building, he would think that something bad was being done. In his mind the construction workers would be destroying a perfectly good building for no reason at all and this act would be considered senseless by him. But he is not aware that the old building is being torn down so that a better one can be erected in its place, and if he knew this, he would not think badly of the construction workesr tearing down the old building, he would be happy that that they are bringing something better and would now consider the destruction of the old building as something good and necessary.

The hardship that the people living around the site must bear having to look at the ugly torn down building for months, having their streets closed down and traffic tied, is only something temporary. some people may actually curse the construction workers for bringing this hardship on them but they not keeping in mind that these hardships will be followed by ease and improvement. Instead of viewing these things as hardship and becoming annoyed and angry, one could see these as a sign that soon there will be ease in progress.

An artist can relate to having people look at his work in its beginning or middle stages, and without knowing what the end product will be, they give unwarranted criticism. That is when he asks them to wait for it when it is finished. In the beginning or in the middle the work may not be pleasing or have much meaning, but once it is completed then everyone can see what he was working towards.

We human can attain only such limited amount of knowledge in our lives. So how can we look at a hurricane, tornado, flood, Tsunami or volcano and blame God that He is doing something cruel and unjust?

How can we know what His ultimate purpose is for all of these happenings? In the same way that the man from the rain forest would be unjustified in the viewing demolition of old building as wrong, we would be unjustified to view calamities of nature as cruel acts of God.

As for that matter, we should not judge blindly.. before thinking about it, because every small/big things that happens in life came with a purpose that only God knows and surely God know best! So lets just face it with patience and then surely something good will happen in the end.

Struggle, parable to Pencils

Pencil will become the best pencil it can be.. only if ..

1. It allows itself to be held in someone's hand, then it will be able to do many great things.

2. It willing to experience a painful sharpening from time to time, then it will become a better pencil.

3. It can manage to correct any mistakes it made.

4. It be able to leave a mark and continue writes on any surface and at any condition

5. And the best part of the pencil is always be what's inside it.

Now replacing the place of the pencil with you would make you the best person you can be..

1. you will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to be held in ALLAH's (SWT) hand. and allow other human beings to access you for the many gifts you possess.

2. You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time by going through various problems in life, but you will need it to become a stronger person.

3. You will be able to correct any mistakes you might make.

4. On every surface you walk through you must leave your mark. No matter what the situations, you must continue to do your duties.

5. The most important part of you will always be what's on the inside.

Never allow yourself to get discourage and think that your life is in significant and cannot make change

S M I L E (^___^)

When you wish to take revenge, think first before you lose your patience especially with someone you love. Trucks can be repaired..

Broken bone and hurt feelings often can't!

Too often we failed to recognize the difference between the person and the performance.

We forget that forgiveness is greater than revenge..

People make mistakes..

We are allowed to make mistakes..

Because we are human beings..

And we are not perfect... but... we must remember..

Every actions that we make while in a rage will haunt us forever!

It takes 72 muscles to frown and only 14 to smile! So keep smiling. After all, we only live once!

 

S - Set you free

M - Makes you special

I - Increase your face value

L - Lifts up your spirits

E - Erases all your tension

Good life starts, only when you stop wanting a better one! So be grateful for what you have now.. because you'll never know when it will be taken back from you!

A smile makes us younger, while prayers make us stronger.

Even a smile or a kind word is considered charity.

So lets us SMILE and give SMILES to others,

we'll never knew it might help to make

a better day for someone!