Irreversable Steps towards Allah!

صِبْغَةَ اللَّهِ وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ مِنَ اللَّهِ صِبْغَةً

[Al-baqarah:138]

This verse means that we should colour ourselves in HIS colour because its the best. When I read this verse it felt amazing, I dont know, I had read this before but it never struck me like it struck this time. Maybe its because this verse gives a new meaning to 'colour', and I love to play with colours. It was as if this was Allah's ultimate demand from us, the ultimate reason of life, the ultimate direction, The puropose of Islam i.e. that we colour our lives in His Colour. We make this our goal, our objective and reason to be and it ultimately becomes our strength. But its difficult to maintain His colour in the presence of so many tempting colours of the world! But we can pray & try for it! Though the colors of the world are tempting but their reality is nothing.
It is His colour that is explained in Quran and demonstrated in the life of the Prophet Muhammad S.A.W.W.

Because of all these reasons I tried to draw this whole concept, bring it to paper, express it somehow. Though the result was not as good, since I am not an artist and have no expertise in caligraphy, but I think I expressed it atleast. 

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Last Ramzan while I was sending people messages at the start of Ramzan, I though hard and prayed that May the effect  of Ramzan never wear off, May it last forever, May we move steps ahead towards Allah that are irreversable. For that we need to colour ourself in His Colour! Though its impossible to completely colour yourself  but atleast we should start moving in the right direction. Its a wonderful jouney, journey worth spending all your efforts for! So now is the time to take steps towards Allah before the final irreversible step i.e. death! To attain His colour should be the greater focus of life towrds which other intentions should be directed, thats what I have concluded so far. But we should that its a journey, it about knowing how to keep moving in the toughest of times, but again direction is very important, the direction should be towards Allah.

This way is not easy, it demands sacrifice of wishes and desires it demands a complete fanaa.

May Allah deepen HIS colour in our souls! AMEEN

I really want people to comment & share their thoughts even though my blog has very limited readers!

Modesty & The Internet

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Modesty in todays's world is not just the covering of the female, hiding behind a specifc dress. Because a Burqa or veil would be of no use if you are not modest at heart. So perdah or veil turns out to be and 'attitude' rather than a mere 'outfit'. So along with proper dressing we need to have the proper attitude as well.

First we need to understand the resons behind Islamic concept of chastity, modesty and perdah (Veil) It is all to stop the spread of immoralities. For women it offers protection rather than confinement. Today internet is also a place where we spend time and interact with people and we need to show our modesty here as well. I've often seen very inviting profile pictures, vulgur 'about me' sentence on the social media, and also not so acceptable status messages, cover photos and so on.

So we need to deepen our concepts of perdah and apply it to all places of influence. Especially for women, they should not be so easily avalaible, not for everyone to see and comment! I remember one of my friends very upset as she got a wide range of comments from unknown people in her facebook inbox, the day she put on her new profile picture, enventually she came to know she could actually disable this option of messages. So it must be realized that its a protection rather than confinement. So here are the rules I have set for myself: Keep my profiles everywhere private, & even if its public a very to-the-point and eligible content is shared. Which has no effect even if its public. I try not to make my profile a 'personal advert'! well that was the jist of it all!

'Haya' or 'Modesty' appears to be a forgotten value, seems to be losing its place. The words we used to avoid in the former days, today our conversations are never complete without them infact its 'trendy'. I wonder if it is because of western infulence or loss of Islamic values which is gradually making us immodest or 'bey-haya'.  

When I scroll down my Facebook home page, cover photos of my friends, the jokes and pictures being shared are not which I can see and share with my family. It sure is a pity.

In offices where communication is through messegners, people would often put up unreasonable things in their status messages, which in turn gives room to others to show unecessary frankness and indulge in   unecessary discussions. This should be avoided.

Hence there is a need to have a proper atitude because with the internet opportunities of all sorts of activities good and bad are multiplied!