I cannot forgive my culture. For empowering the oppressors. And for silencing the voice of the victims.

Pay close attention, to those you reach to in moments of celebration, confusion or difficulty. 

When the unpredictable happens. It gives insight into the feelings you go to great efforts to suppress.

Life is too short to be indecisive
Life is too short to be uncertain about your feelings.
Life is too short to live in fear of what could go wrong.
Seek to better understand yourself, find where your happiness lies and follow that path.

Guard the gaze

Joy can be found with ease.

Everything we need to access it is within us.

Senses that perceive. A mind that is inspired. A heart that feels. 

Happiness has the chance of entry once we reject distractions.

Once we stop looking around, looking to others.

And instead divert our gaze to good that is in front of us.  

  

reflections

The grey areas. An inevitable part of the journey, but not the destination.
An area of transition, not residence.
As one who actively avoids the grey, to enter it was bold. Only possible when the doubts were silenced by intuition.
But the goal must be to move out of it.
Else risk being diverted to the path of the heedless.

A choice needs to be made. to choose God or this world. And to choose the world is to lose God.
But to choose God is to attain goodness in both.
Submit.
And return control in God's capable hands.

Let your qualities, heart and soul be your most striking features.
Be known not for status, looks or wealth,
but for the value you add to the lives of those around you.
The light which has been gifted needs to be seen.
And that is through rejecting the superficial
In favour of fulfilling purpose.
To be a means for which good is spread.
And to be one who's commitment is in servitude.

Ramadan: The days of Mercy

Put aside the preoccupations, the distractions, the ego.
Dismiss the self appointed labels.
Leave the temporary matters to one side.
The only way to access his mercy is by standing before him, with humility
In prayer.
In those moments there is no I.
There is only a soul, that seeks to connect with the one who created it.
And it is in that state that the purpose is fulfilled, to simply do as all other life does.
To know and to praise.