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| bhaloo |
| 11/06/02 at 09:08:39 |
| [slm] This morning I was just looking over some emails from my friends, and I came across this beautiful piece in one of them from an awesome friend that I had to share with you all. :) -== this day ==- Not one day in anyone's life is an uneventful day. There's no day without profound meaning, no matter how boring and lame it may seem, because in every day of one's life there are opportunities to perform khayr, both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example. Each small act of khayr - even if it's just speaking well of someone, smiling at your brother/sister, making dua for someone - reverberates across huuge distances and time, affecting lives and things unknown to the one who was the source of this echo of khayr. So much so that a simple act of goodness, something that took so little effort to commit, becomes a significant act years later and far away - becomes the driving force behind someone's bravery in the battlefield, patience in time of adversity, or gratitude in a time of baraka. And in the same way, each small meanness, each little sharr, each thoughtless expression of hatred, each envious or bitter or petty or sinful act, regardless of how minor, can inspire others to do wrong. Each little act is a seed that ultimately produces evil fruit, poisioning people you've never met nor ever will. All human lives are so profoundly connected, so intricately intwined. SubhanAllah. Those dead, those living, those generations yet to come - the fate of one lies so intimately connected to the fate of another. Each small deed we commit carries consequences we can hardly fathom. so every time we fail in this struggle for good, we need to strive for success in the next jihad. Everytime we commit an evil deed, no matter how shameful, we need to blot it out with khayr. With the end of one part of our lives, with that feeling of despair and frustration, we need to build something new and better from those ashes. From pain and grief we must weave strength, steadfastness, and sabr. If we really think about things, I mean *really* - we realize that every hour of our lives contains so much -often unrecognized- potential. Those days, those truly awesomely significant days for which we in our dissatisfaction so often yearn - are already here. All great days and amazing possibilities are combined in *this* hugely momentous day, this one we're living in right now. So we just need to go out there and make the most of it. InshaAllah. |
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