Month: February 2012

  • I once held this naive notion that underneath everything and anything, there was a discernible purity that nothing could displace. I thought that if you could only peel back our layers, no matter how thick and crude they may be, we were all just luminous and waxy, glowing under moonlight. I believed that we were…

  • seinedoll replied to your post: Personal Reflections Cheer up please! Everything is in your head. 🙂 thanks…it is mostly in my head…except for the weight gain! That’s definitely not in my head! I decided tonight that I’ll write the story of me…if not for any reason other than the hope that it will lighten the…

  • Personal Reflections

    I’ve realised recently that I’ve been distracted. These distractions have worn me down to a point of almost total lethargy and painful effort to do almost anything constructive. I’ve succumbed to the same self-defeating tendencies that I’ve always encouraged others to simply snap out of. Worse still is that I realise that this is what…

  • Begin with Yourself

    nowandthehereafter: A man went to Ibn ‘Abbas radiAllaahu ‘anhu and said, “O Ibn ‘Abbas, I want to enjoin people to do good and forbid them from doing evil.” Ibn ‘Abbas said, “And have you reached that level?” He said, “I hope that that is so.” He said, “If you do not fear to be exposed…

  • O Allah , I seek refuge in you from grief and sadness, from weakness and from laziness, from miserliness and from cowardice, from being overcome by debt and overpowered by men (i .e . others).

  • Water lily in my fish pond. (c) Cynically Jaded

  • The coolness of my eyes The garment of my soul ‘tis all I need to make me whole My lips on her lips From whence she sipped Will fill the void, between cup and lip Beauty reserved For the beholder beholden Elevates her words, still unspoken Bejewelled with modesty But never frigid ‘tis a treasure,…

  • The Evils Which Will Befall the Muslim Ummah During The Last Days

    ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar said, “The Prophet, peace be upon him, came to us and said, ‘O Muhajirun, (emigrants from Makkah to al-Madinah) you may be afflicted by five things; God forbid that you should live to see them. If fornication should become widespread, you should realise that this has never happened without new diseases befalling the people which…