Thursday, February 18, 2010

Mashallah

Ma Sha' Allah - arabic for As God Ordained.

Associate all your possessions, all your acheivements and all the things you love in this life with this realization and say it out loud everytime you take pride in yourself, in others and in all that you have and then see how everything you have and what is around you will be blessed.
Give the same to others when you see that they have something nice. To confirm and re-confirm in your admiration of something that this was ordained by God, you give it life and light.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

My Land..

What should I call my land? What is one's land? Where you were born or where you have lived or where you want to live? What then, shall be my land?

Mine would be what is permanent, and permanent is not even the grave one rests in. For we will rise one day and leave that grave too. So what is homeland?

We will know...in the next life, the permanent life.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Food

Your mind needs to be fed just as you need food. If you eat bad and if you eat a lot, you will be sick. So is the mind, feed it the wrong belief, the wrong notions and force the wrong perception on  it - let it drink the water of assumption and it will fall sick. It will find its peace in wrong once it gets used to this diet, and you will go the wrong way...a destroyed mind and a lost soul. For the mind is the house of your soul and if you break its only home then it will have no other place to go.

Flight

We look at the birds and some of us wish that they could fly like them. They envy the  bird that flies in the sky. Free of this earth we walk on. And the bird says : Oh Human, you can fly much higher than me. Just open your mind and soul, for they were given to you so that you can fly higher than me. But, you ruthlessly lock them in a cage! The cage of fear, desire and ego. Open that cage...and you will fly all over the beautiful universe.

Night

Darkness of the night is full of light for some and the brightness of the day is dark for some. Is it the night and day that show us and hide from us the world, or is it our own vision that plays tricks on us? The question is : DOES YOUR VISION SHOW YOU OR DO YOU SHOW YOUR VISION WHAT IT SEES?

Science of the mind

All that I have written here is an effort to define the mind. Observations and conclusions. Based on wisdom sent down ages ago and not on mere human intelligence. Human intelligence has proved itself to be weak though it was created to be the strongest. Thus, reminders and Prophets to nations. And finally, the Quran. Through descriptions, stories and commandments - through information and announcement it teaches the science of the human mind to us. Is a single lifetime enough to know? A single moment would do should God will it, but otherwise a single lifetime is not enough......

Rich

To be rich is to have what you need when you need it. A need does not require analysis. It is a need. To not have what you want is not poverty, because wants require scrutiny. For a need , when not fulfilled , causes deprivation and deprivation is poverty.Wants change with times and needs hardly. A need cannot be a want and what you want may not be a need. When you truly know what you need and what you want, you will be rich.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Manifest

It is really tragic..

Our fears have become our reality and we are guided by them. All our faculties work day and night to counter these fears that have become our reality. Fears that exist because we allow them to exist. Imagine a mind with no fear of anything.. a free mind. Now, would that not bring out the real human being from within?

Give your mind a moment of fearlessness.. you will feel wonderful.

Real Destruction and Loss

Losing lands, lives and treasures are not the real losses of a nation.. the real loss of a nation is when it becomes extinct simply because it ceases to produce humans and generations...and thus passes away unknown to the future...

The Whisperer

Ask your mind..is it you? Or is it someone in you that is creating a thought? Does the mind talk? Does it tell you what affects it and what guides it? Is it you, or is it someone you don't see?

Who whispers in your mind?.. what you believe and then act on..

Find that whisperer...

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Do You Believe?

As the sea split apart and made a path and the cane became a python and as the carpets flew in the skies and birds talked of nations - or when the world brought forth all of its water and an ark floated for days  and when the moon split in two parts- humans went from one era to the other. What was reality once, is mythology now. What was common sense once, is super powers now. What was the normal once, is fairy tales now.

Do we humans then not question our own books? And if we do, do we retain the right to call ourselves muslims? Or christian, or hindu? What is religion now?

I see a whole lot of muslims sitting in a hall, listening to a religious person reciting verses and quoting from the Quran - talking.. telling us stories and everyone is sitting there enjoying , or getting bored or simply in awe. Many muslims will easily say, oh we cannot do what the Prophet did. He was HIM, we are nothing. Our self worth is in the gutters now. And guess what the reason is? Not USA, not anyone - no one. Just our own hearts and minds - which we have corrupted ourselves, by giving in to our own lower self - thus discarding the wisdom of belief and replacing it with the hell of logic and unfounded responsibility. For no reason whatsoever, we have opted for stress, ugliness and pain rather than beauty, wisdom and peace. But what do I do when I have to provide for my family and there is no job? Go crazy, run around town - get stressed and beg people, lie cheat - anything? Got you a job? Yes. And then , I worked and worked and provided - then I grew old and no one cares. They gave me a golden handshake and I am home now. And all these years, I have done everything to build my home. And, no one cares. My children are lost in their own lives, and all those people I strived to please are no longer around. And today, I realize, their must be more to life than just this.

What if, dear friend, you had decided on that day, when you did not have a job or whatever your problem may have been - that you will reflect. What if you did not freak out and you meditated, prayed and reflected on wisdom we got over 1400 years ago. You would have found what you REALLY need, what you are REALLY responsible for and who REALLY cares. You would have found your labor of love and lost those "lovely" people who were oh so concerned about your pocket and appearances. You would have probably lost a lot of people you consider important, but you would have definitely found peace, tranquility and success in your own free of nonsense personality. You would have perceived situations differently and never experienced stress. Hey! You may even have been much healthier than you are now. And, surprise - its still not too late. Because to feel old is to think you are old - its just your perception. YOUR perception is YOUR reality. So be really careful about this perception. If that gets twisted or goes the wrong way, so does your life and relationships and your whole being. Your days and nights are about your perception. And your perception is the child of your inner deep belief system. Its that belief system and this perception that get caressed and nurtured and stabilized, by a higher intelligence - your GOD. And God speaks to you day and night, but you see - you cannot hear. Why? Would you be able to hear a screaming voice in a Disco filled with loud music and booze? The chaos in your mind does not allow you to hear.

So you see, if you truly believe in God - and ALL humans minus a minority of Atheists, claim this belief- then you would truly look for his words and wisdom, won't you now? Yet, you do not. And when you do hear it, you find it all so hard to believe. What? Humans flew? Dead were brought to life? Honestly , can we for a minute realize that all this existed or exists? They sound like fairy tales after you see todays news on CNN. We would rather believe what a bunch of unknown guys say on a high powered TV channel. We want the seen, not the unseen. We cannot use all our senses, we are too lazy to even know we have other senses.

A good word for the Atheist though - he is definite and not hypocritical like most of us- at least he believes in nothing and not just any nonsense. Most of these atheists end up truly finding the Real God one day. For to believe partially and be oh so inconsistent is to be unstable and be subjected to the currents of life. A slap here and you are in the North and a kick there and you are in the south. The true believer and the true atheist stand on firm ground - and surprisingly get along just fine. The reason is, there is no lies or deceptions in their mind. For to be firm in belief is to be fearless and to be fearless is to be honest. Honesty gets us trust and trust finally becomes compassion and love and we then coexist.

Tragedy of mankind people : We cannot control, refine or realize our own perceptions and minds. We let anything influence it and we cannot even decide what to believe in.  What kind of education do we get? The one we pay for? What is the CRITERION of thought now?

Everyone fears death, and everyone dies. We fear the inevitable. And why does that have to be the acceptable way of thinking? It makes no sense to fear what is to be. Do you know why? Because we DO not believe in fate and that death is decided and its time written. We say we do, but we do not. Because we do a great deal of research in trying to stop it from happening. We can cure everything, but we cannot cure death. To work on cures, is great - to work on avoiding death - is ridiculous IF the belief is right. But in this twisted belief, we start to perceive it all differently. Oh, if he was not standing on that side of the road, the car would not have hit him and he would still be alive - you hear this sort of talk a lot. Decide, do you believe it was fate or do you believe its simple cause and effect and could have been altered? You cannot hang in the middle of these two very different perceptions - because if you do - you are really disturbing your own mental balance - so one day you will not fear death and the next day you will freak out at the news and thus get stressed and eventually paranoid or something of that sort and join that confused population that has no more morals. Real belief is never something like : Oh I believe totally that this was destiny, on the OTHER hand IF he had not gone out that day.. this would not have happened.. .  This is simple confusion and leads to a damn mental debate that , if prolonged, can lead to a mental disaster. Either stick with " this was destiny, ALHumdulilah" or Stick with " The NUT should not have gone out". Because then you will have a strong base to work from. Either way, you will come to a solid conclusion: God is behind it all. The destiny guy will get to it quickly, the other guy will get their after a lot of experimentation in cause and effect. But someone hanging between the two, will do just that - hang till he rots and then fall off the branch.

So my question, dear reader , is : Do you believe?

Friday, June 12, 2009

Tomorrow..

Your tomorrow depends entirely on your mind of today. Mind is the combinations of acquired thought, knowledge , notions, perceptions and self definitions. Reasoning and analysis of a variety of useful and useless things, situations and views. Are you organizing these? Are you seeking forgiveness for housing the wrong idea based on the criterion you are supposed to be using for this mind?The criterion is your book of religion - words of God. Are you processing it all right? You can. If you are, then your tomorrow is ALL GOOD - otherwise the discrepancy will show..and then you will say this was destiny. It was not.

a happy thought

All that sorrow, and all that grief.. my reaction to it and my anger within.. my notions.. my perceptions.. people who I think don't like me.. people I am angry at.. all my fears..ALL that I hate.. everything negative in this world.. is just an ILLUSION. It is not real.. just an illusion..

sigh...pheww.. what a relief...
:)
Keep smiling.

Monday, June 08, 2009

SIN

Define sin to me.

One could present a long list of activities that would be classified as SIN. And the one who does them is a SINNER.
So, what did the sinner do? Kill? Cheat? Lie? Drink? Hurt? - yes, indeed- many sins. But what did the sinner do?
The sinner, violated against their own being. The sinner caused grief to their own heart.

Sin is defining one's self incorrectly. Sin is living in an illusion. Sin is forcing an issue on the heart - sin is hurting one's own soul. For its only when you are unfair to yourself are you unfair to all life. How can you love anyone if you don't love yourself? And how can you love yourself if you never loved God. And how can you love God if you never even try to understand yourself?
Sin is to ignore your own heart. Sin is to hate yourself so much that you allow yourself to create chaos within and around. And how does a human relay what is within except with words and actions?

The Provider

We seek riches, recognition, power and all the nice things of this life. We work so hard for it and take so much joy in getting even some of it. Do we ever define what it is?
It is a condition we seek to be in. Just like birth and death, what is in between is also a conditions. Allah is the provider and generator of conditions. However, he has set formulas for each condition- each state of being. If something is done, felt , desired and sought and if the seeker seeks Only from his creator, the formula is revealed. And, for each soul, the formula is unique.. So , see not what others have and how they got it. Know what you want and seek it from Him.

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

PATHS

raah e talab pe chalna to kehnay ko asaan hai
jub ghor andheray chaatay hain
aur rahi dur dur girta hai
to kehta hai bus yehi baat
kai raah ghalat hi chunli thi
wo girna haar samajhta hai
wo phir uthnay se darta hai

bus yehi khata hai rahi ki
ke girkay wo dur jata hai
hur ana ussay ye kehti hai
"tu chorday raho pe chalna
aur younhi baith ke rota ja,
ke rah pe chalna asaan tha,
pur kaun chalay in rahon pe,
wo chalnay walay koi aur thay yaro
jo rahon pe bus chul niklay"

Jin chalnay walo ki baat kari
wo kitna girtay padtay thay
pur yar meray ye jano tum
wo gir gir pul pul sumbhaltay thay
aur uth ke phir se younhi
us rah pe dil say chaltay thay

na girna koi jeet nahin!
aur girna koi haar nahin!
baat hai sari jazbay ki
jo talab teri suchchi hai
to rahain teri apni hain
in rahon ka koi khauf nahin
hur manzil teri apni hai....

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Conversation

Is it anyone else who conducts this conversation? Just you , and me. Yes, I have defined life. It is a conversation between you and me. It is a long conversation which is recorded in your books. You speak with a situation and I reply with an action and then you reply back with another situation and then wait for my answer to that. That is what life is. You talk to me with the people you bring in my life, I reply back in my dealings with them. You talk, all the time, I reply all the time. Then there are times when I talk and you reply. Action - situation. Cause - Affect. You created me to talk to me and you want to see the day when we both say the same thing - the cycle will be completed then. The conversation will become a complete agreement and turn into praise . A beautiful praise, wonderful exchanges of thought and emotion - yes- that will be the completion of this great debate.. we call life.

Thank you my God for making me worthy of this conversation....

Friday, April 25, 2008

A quiet moment for you...

In this chaos of life, where everyone is chasing someone or something - or even a thought. And in this debate within the mind, this argument that never ends - the constant evaluation of self - the moments of joy and the many many moments of sorrow - my love, I have a found a moment for you. A moment where there is no one, there is just you and me. I have taken this moment, I have stolen this moment from life - for you. And in this moment, I have found an eternity of love, and peace. Though I know that when I return, life will torture me even more for stealing this moment. Oh, but for this moment, I accept the torment... I accept the torment..

Friday, April 11, 2008

He brought you to me..

Every human association we have ever experienced in life is in fact a communication of God with us. Family, friends and people we meet. Some people hurt us and some people make us so happy. So , it is not the person that we should focus on so much, its who created that person and why they brought them to us. God shows his affection, His care and His wrath through people. He also tests people through people. And such has been my life. The last two blogs that I wrote were to Him- but they came out as something else and may have been misunderstood. I miss no one. Why miss anyone? We are eternal creatures - no one goes anywhere. The only thing that happens is Gods attention comes to you through other channels.

I am the luckiest person in the world, I got your love. You, my companion for life, are the amazing expression of Gods love and care for me. I love you and I love the one who brought you to me, eternally. I hope you do see that in my association with you. I hope you see His love, when you see me..

Sunday, January 27, 2008

ONE

How can you know God is one? When you know that the good times were His mercy, the Bad Times were His tests or reminders and whatever you have now is His will. And when this is your reality, then your personality is such: You do not complain about people, you never curse anyone, blame anyone. You never waste time dwelling on the negative or getting too happy about the positive. Your smile becomes real and your presence stable. You view things , situations and people more deeply and you are so much more forgiving and understanding. You are also smarter and you become the best fighter in the world, the one that never has to fight. Your level of stress goes down substantially, and you never get bored. You feel a quiet and serene joy in your heart most of the time and you enjoy little pleasures and moments.
When you are like this, life is very different with you. Your life will be blissful and you will inspire people and you will bring joy to lives. When you know God is One in this way, then your desires and wants, your questions and your complaints and all that you feel, you will present to Him. You will pray and you will seek His guidance - for when he tests you, you will seek forgiveness from Him, and when He gives you joy, you will thank Him - and when you are sick, you will seek His mercy and soon you will love Him so you will seek to please Him by taking care of His creatures - so your soul will connect to the whole universe to the hearts of all people. You will be a MOMIN. A Believer.

" And worry not , and fear not you are the Superior IF you are grateful and a Momin" This is God's promise in the Quran.

Try to stop the blame game and try and submit to the Creator. Life WILL change for the better.