Getting Over The Past

The past is gone.

But by brooding over whatever tragedies happened, you just make yourself insane - a sickness that can destroy resolving it to live for the present, the now. Some Muslims with a firm purpose file away and forget past occurences, which won't see light, or be brought up in arguments, or exposed for re-trial. Episodes of the past are finished with; sadness can't retrieve or heal them, and depression will never bring the past back to life, a life that makes sense.

Do not live in the nightmare of mulling over what you missed. It is not worth it. Save yourself the ghostly anxiety of 'what ifs'. By constantly dwelling on what happened with regret you place yourself in a tragic state of mind. So reading too much into the past - without learning the lessons - wastes your current time.

When Allah mentioned the affairs of the previous nations He said,

'That was a nation who passed away...' (Qur'an, 2:134).

You gain nothing but misery by carrying out an autopsy over your yesterdays. Some of us still live in the past, we're like someone trying to saw sawdust. Our tragedy is that we are incapable of dealing with the present.

Everything on earth turns forward preparing for a new season - so should you.

Book: Don't Be Sad, by Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni
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Image {Thought of the day}

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Bait-Ullah, The House of God.

My only photograph of performing Hajj in 2005. Love. It.

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Signs, A Poem

A window misted the outside picture; his blurred eyes heard blurred sounds.
Twilight shrouded ferns and houses, the moon blazed over what it found.
Plasmic clouds hung from 10,000 watt stars that Allah threw in skies,
Beneath, the suburbs' streets and lamps shone a million lies.
Light is for the seeing, he mused, a reality incomprehensible for the blind.
Night is a sign too, he progressed, signs to illuminate minds, or the searching, seeking to find.
They denied him like a blatant untruth, spat that the window like constellation was built by chance.
In opposition he hummed with the leaves who sang, praises of Allah, glorification in their midnight dance.

© Zaufishan's soul.

Image: Babak Tafreshi, Iranian astrophotographer

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The Personality of Imam Hussain

Notes from an `Ashurah gathering at Al-Markaz in Bradford. The following is taken from Ustada Shamila's talk on 17th November 2013, entitled 'The Personality of Imam Hussain'.

Imam Hussain, radhi-Allah `anhu (may Allah be pleased with him). The leader of the youth in Jannah.

Alif, Lam, Meem. This is the Book about which there is no doubt, a guidance for those conscious of Allah - Who believe in the unseen, establish prayer, and spend out of what We have provided for them. - Qur'an, 2:1-3

How did Imam Hussain know that he would die in Kuffa? Prophet Muhammad, Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, had said Hussain's demise would be on 'red dust'. And when Imam Hussain reached a land that was a reddish desert, he had no fear in his heart.

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