I look at him and I look at her and I can't help but feel this indescribable feeling. A different city, a different homestay, but this feeling is the same, this feeling never changes because this feeling comes from an eternal place. This place where our separate bodies go back in time to the moment before the Big Bang, before the entire universe blew into being to that place where everything was the size of a single pea. I go further still travelling to that pre-eternal state where all souls were one in the witness of God. This feeling makes me look passed their bodies, makes me look passed their words and their stories, their triumphs and their failures, nothing they do can affect this feeling of reverence. It feels like worship listening like this, it feels holy just to be in their presence. I feel it so viscerally so tangibly the part of me that resides in them and the part of them that resides in me. I feel like that pea, where there is no distinction between me and all of existence, and then I sink deeper passed the world of tangible forms and I feel the soup of spirits, where everything is the breathe of God, then I lose even that grasp of myself and I feel the place where nothing exists but only God. In this place, the literalists will say I am wrong to want to bow at their feet. The strict will say that only God should be bowed to. But I finally see what the angels were told to see in the human being. I can't help but bow to that breathe they carry inside. I can't help but bow because in this place where a soul sees itself in another person love is born and the other is annihilated and only unity exists. And I see so purely how at the level of the Soul all are lovable, it is not based on belief or action because this love has no conditions for it is a holy love and the love bloomed from Divine soil is independent of everything. In this witness of Oneness I feel the stone parts of my heart part into a spring, I see how easy it was for God to let Jesus bring the dead to life, I see how the virgin could give birth, I see so easily how...👇🏽👇🏽
The seas could have parted, because in the Unity, in the dispelling of our differences everything becomes a part of everything so nothing is impossible because every possibility is present and every single person becomes an axis of this infinite holiness. In this place I do not see race or religion I only see beauty, I only see love. Everything else is just bad translation.#lovedoesntdiscriminate
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Ramadan was my best friend and she just left for a year long vacation. I miss her already. I miss the way she woke me up before dawn, the way she protected me from this world that keeps calling my name, from the whispers in my brain, from the devils that roam free again. As I sit here my heart is so full, so full of all the things I desire and all the faith that I have acquired, but in this conflict of good and evil I miss the emptiness. I miss having the singular goal of appeasing God with every call of my desires, I miss feeling the pain and knowing with such certainty that only God could fill me with the eternal food of faith and patience. I have never felt as full as when my body is empty of this world, and full of this Divine love. I hear the Azan here, thousands of miles from home, I see the hijab here on millions of heads, I notice the beard graced on all these faces and yet I can't seem to find Islam the way I felt it when I was with Ramadan, the way I felt it in the mosque of my heart. I pray to a qibla pointing to Mecca but when I am truly with my Lord this Heart becomes my Kabaa and I pray inside, and inside this Kabaa there is no qibla. The true prayer is in this place, where every direction is sacred, where every where you turn you face your Lord, where the qibla loses all meaning because there is no longer two because all illusions disappear and there is only the singularity of Allah. But here in this outer world, in this Islamic country, in Morocco, in Iran, in Saudi Arabia I don't see the heart of Islam I only see the body, the actions, and the words. I can't feel the heart, the feeling, the living out of these words. And this year too another Islamic country, another reminder that no country, no place, no person, or community will give me the peace that only God can gift. In this moment instead of longing for Ramadan I will live her, instead of waiting for Ramadan I will make her a part of me and live every moment facing Allah with my difficulties, with my bodies hunger, and ask that He bring the endless table of provision He brought for Jesus to appease my hunger with a sustenance beyond the physical 👇🏽👇🏽 I will ask on bended knees this time, I will ask with my face planted like a seed in the dirt this time, I will ask for His Mercy to rain upon my dust made body and make a garden of faith of me, this time I will ask with all of me, this time I will not wait for Ramadan to save me because as much as I love her, I am not sure if I will still be in this land when she returns. And unlike the seasons of this Earth Allah knows no spring or winter when it comes to faith. Every season you can plant seeds of love and every season you can reap the peace watered by sincerity. So today is my day, here and now is my Ramadan, time is no longer my jailer because time only applies to this mortal body and I now seek to live in this eternal spirit. Now I seek to live not in the worship of God but in the giving away of all that is me, of all that is illusion so nothing exists but God. Here I find peace, here where the worshipper with the act of worship pass away and only the One worshipped remains. La Illaha IllAllah #oneness
It’s sad to see Ramadan; such a beautiful month come to an end. A month that brought us all close, as a family, closer to our religion and to Allah. This Ramadan has definitely been a test and surely a blessing also.
Lets pray that Allah SWT carry on blessing our hearts and keep strengthening our imaan and may everyone be blessed to experience such a beautiful month again next year. May Allah accept our ibadah and fill our Eid with nothing but happiness and joy with closed ones and family. The past 30 days have been hard on some of us but at the same time I hope everyone have had gained a lesson or two from such a beautiful experience that Allah have granted us with. May Allah bless all our brothers and sisters around the world with everyday struggles and ease their affairs for those in pain and may He grant us to be the reason for the happiness of others, helping one another to follow on the righteous path and enable us to follow the teaching of Prophet Muhammed SAW. I pray for everyone’s well being today, to have nothing to worry about, other than having good food, good clothes on, looking beautiful and nothing but your close and loved ones around you. Many around the world are unfortunate, as they may not have the opportunity like we do so do not take anything for granted and appreciate the littlest things, as there are many people who are in such heartbreaking situations and for them I pray that Allah continues to watch over them and shows them mercy. Insyaallah we can one day see our Ummah come to the end of Ramadan in peace and happiness wherever we are. Eid Mubarak once again everyone! With lots of love and *coughs* rendang ☺ Please share this page with your friends and family-May Allah reward you for that. Anything helps. Please keep this family and all those who are suffering in your duas.
May Allah reward you and replace for this family what they lost with what is better in both this life and the hereafter. Ameen ya Rab! May Allah protect us and our loved ones from such calamities. Should anything befall our brothers and sisters, may it serve as a reminder and a way for guidance. May Allah forgive us all, ameen. This is a Dua by Mishary Rashid Al-Efasy for the people in Gaza.
Allah is sufficient for us. He is the best disposer of affairs Oh magnificent, oh honored one Save the Muslims of Gaza Oh Allah!!! Oh Allah, be for them a guardian and helper Our Lord, strong are those who are near to you Glorious is your praise And sanctified are your names ... Oh Allah free the Muslims of Gaza Oh magnificent, oh honored one Oh Allah make loose their chains Heal their sickness And uncover their torture Oh Allah replace their fear with safety Oh magnificent, oh honored one Oh Allah strengthen Islam and the muslimeen ... And protect the territories of Islam And unite the word of the Muslims in truth, oh lord of the worlds Oh Allah saves the weak and powerless of the muslimeen everywhere Oh Allah improve the situation of the muslimeen in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and everywhere Oh Allah bring together their hearts Guide them on the paths of pace And lead them from darkness into light, Oh magnificent, oh honored one Al-Fadl ibn Sahl said:
There is a blessing in calamity that the wise man should not ignore, for it erases sins, gives one the opportunity to attain the reward for patience, dispels negligence, reminds one of blessings at the time of health, calls one to repent and encourages one to give charity. Laylatul Qadr - Top Tips "The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months. ..." [Qur'an - 97:3] Among the month of Ramadan is a very, very special night - Laylatul Qadr. It is this very night that was sought after by our Beloved Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and those that came after him due to its countless blessings. Many scholars are of the opinion that it lies within the last 10 nights of Ramadan, and in particular, during the odd nights. Not only is worshiping on this night equivalent to 1000 months of worship, but should one stand in worship while catching Laylatul-Qadr then there is much to be forgiven! The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Whoever spends this night in prayer out of faith and in the hope of reward will be forgiven his previous sins.” Narrated by al-Bukhari, 1901; Muslim, 760 It is important therefore, that we exert ourselves in worship for than we have before, make lots of Du'a, recite lots of Qur'an and perform more good deeds. So what can you do during Laylatul-Qadr, and most importantly, how can you catch it? Here are some top tips: What not to do
If you perform the following example acts of worshipevery night during the last 10 nights, you're more likely to catch Laylatul-Qadr and the rewards will be as if you performed them for 1000 months! Wow!
Have high hopes, for Allah's SWT Mercy and Bounties have no limit! Keep the Ramadan Legacy team in your du'as! May Allah reward the team, ameen! Please share!
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