Sunday, April 20, 2014

The Storm is COMING!!

Assalamu'alaikum everyone, lately I have been busy with my studies and my finals are coming soon. Recently, I had watched this video called 'The Storm Is Coming' by Yasmin Mogahed on YT. Her words really made you think "Have I done enough in this world?". This is the script that she said in the video...

There is an honor in serving the one you love, there is Tashreef [honor].
And it is only that once that love is gone or weakened that serving that person goes from being an honor to just being a burden...It goes from tashreef to only takleef [burden].
Sadly our worship to God is like this: just a BURDEN.

We don't pray to seek refuge from the storm of our lives. If we pray at all,we do it to get out of the way or maybe because our parents won't stop nagging until we do.. Somehow we have forgotten that if we pray, we harm no one.
Not Allah, not our mother, not our father, we only harm our selves!

On the day of judgement, every man and woman will stand ALONE in front of Allah and there is nothing that anyone can do for you - except by His permission. On that day, a mother would be willing to throw her own child just to save herself.

Pleas understand the reality that we have forsaken because we are so caught up with our phones, apps, friends, our parties and our highs! We're so caught up with the cute guys and the pretty girls..
Please understand that ignoring a reality does not make it any less real
It is still going to HAPPEN!!
 being unprepared for something doesn't stop it from happening.
If you choose for example, to stay up all night partying instead of studying for your final exam it doesn't mean that the final exam won't happen. it still WILL and you'll only end up FAILING!
If we spend this life just partying pretending that the final isn't coming, it wont stop it from happening.
nothing will stop DEATH. Nothing. Nothing will delay the Day of Judgement
Like that final exam,the question's only: Are... We..Prepared?? or Are We Too Busy Playing?

Imagine for a moment, that a news reporter tells you that a huge storm is coming.
Imagine that you're told that unless you seek shelter, you and your family will be destroyed
What would you do? if we really believed that a storm was coming,  we would run to shelter, right?
Only a person who didn't believe the forecast would continue playing, ignoring the countless warnings.
Only if you thought it was a lie, or you were too drunk to realize! only if you didn't really believe or you really didn't really understand!

But how could someone know - really KNOW - that a storm was about to hit?! and do absolutely nothing to protect themselves and those they love!
would anyone say:"I'm actually too busy hanging out right now", "I'm too busy on my phone or on facebook to run for shelter."
NO ONE WOULD SAY THAT
and yet, every single time... we put off our prayers! put off our hijab! put off giving up dating! put off leaving our poisonous bad company! put off abandoning alcohol or smoking or getting high! or pornography! - that is exactly what we're saying!
The fact that we cannot put off these haram things, the fact that we insist: "I will never give up on alcohol drinks""I will never give up Illegal Sexual Intercourse!" " I will never give up dating and all the so called pleasures associated with it!"

The fact that our worship has become a burden, is a sign there is a problem internally.there is a problem with our sight! We don't really see the storm is coming! We don't really see The Day of Judgement. We haven't purified and rectified the lump of flesh the Prophet (PBUH) spoke about.
And as a result.. the rest of our bodies, the rest of our actions, the rest ofour lives have become corrupted.
We don't really see Allah with our hearts and we haven't built our love for Him. We haven't used the heart for the very purpose of which it was created: to know, to serve and to love God (Allah).

Remember the very first verses revealed were not about haram and halal. They were not about dating or drinking or smoking pot.They were about the fact that as a matter of certainty..
Just as I am standing in front of you today, that YOU and I will meet our MAKER.
You and I will stand in front of Allah and will be asked:
"What did you love most in this world? what did you spend yourlifedoing? What did you run after? Will it.lasts? The things that you chase..will.. they..last? Will they help you or will they hurt you?  When the illusion of this life has passed?"

we need to come back to Allah before it is too late.

and often what keeps people from turning back is that they believe that their sins are too GREAT for Allah to FORGIVE. but to this, Allah SWT Speaks:
"Say, 'O my servants who have trasgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Indeed Allah forgivesall sins.Indeed He is the Most Forgiving, the Most Merciful.'" (Quran 39: 53)

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