Sep 13
13
Life is an Echo of our Thoughts!
A son and his father were walking on the mountains. Suddenly, his son falls, hurts himself and screams: “AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”
To his surprise, he hears the voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain: “AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”
Curious, he yells: “Who are you?” He receives the answer: “Who are you?”; And then he screams to the mountain: “I admire you!”;The voice answers: “I admire you!”
Angered at the response, he screams: “Coward!”. He receives the answer: “Coward!”. He looks to his father and asks: “What’s going on?”. The father smiles and says: “My son, pay attention.” Again the man screams: “You are a champion!”. The voice answers: “You are a champion!”.
The boy is surprised, but does not understand. Then the father explains: “People call this ECHO, but really this is LIFE. It gives you back everything you say or do. Our life is simply a reflection of our actions. If you want more love in the world, create more love in your heart. If you want more competence in your team, improve your competence. This relationship applies to everything, in all aspects of life. Life will give you back everything you have given to it.”
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Jul 13
14
Ramadan and the ‘Misri Fanous’
Among the unique aspects of Ramadan in Egypt is the lantern that decorates most of the Egyptian streets during this season known as the Ramadan lantern or fanous, which is the Greek word for light.
The Fatimids, who ruled Egypt more than a thousand years ago, had issued a law requiring shop and house owners to clean the streets in front of their property and hang a lantern on their doors all night. Women were not allowed to leave their houses at night unless accompanied by a boy carrying a lantern. This led to a boom in the lantern business and deepen its attachment to the Egyptian culture.
Egyptians are said to have first used the lantern in 358 Hijri (24 July 968) when the Fatimid Caliph al- Mo’ez entered Cairo at night and Egyptians carried torches and candles as they went out to welcome him, it was 5th of Ramadan. In order to shield the candles from the wind, some of them placed the candles on a wooden platform and wrapped the platform with palm fronds and leather making a lantern. Which explains the link between the ‘Fanous‘ and ‘Ramadan‘.
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Jul 13
13
Nourishment of the body and soul
A Masjid goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to Masjid. “I’ve gone for 30 years now,” he wrote, “and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 Lectures. But for the life of me, I can’t remember a single one of them.
So, I think I’m wasting my time and the Imams are wasting theirs by giving Lectures at all.”
Then someone wrote this clincher.
“I’ve been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this: They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work.
If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to Masjid for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!”
When you are DOWN to nothing…. Allah is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible!
Thank Allah for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment.
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Jun 13
11
Birth, the fear of the unknown
The birth and death of a human being is a single phenomenon having two different names. On the contrary, there are several occasion a human is born several times during his life time. Each time a new change occurs it simply drags a person into the same state of mind as at the time of birth. The child when it takes its first breath in this world simply sheds tears to reveal his or her fear of the unknown. The fear of not knowing everyone that is around and the times to come. Most of us, in fact fear death due to the unknown that awaits us in the hereafter, not that we self destruction, as every soul loves of be immortal and knows the fact of its presence in its self aware state. However, after a long period of stay in this materialistic world and getting relaxed in its own self created comfort zone it fears the unknown that the change of death will bring upon it.
Die before your death, is not an instruction to kill ones self by simply getting rid of the flesh and blood attached to this soul. It is a path, a guidance to elevating the soul by suppressing its fear of the unknown. That which it is destined to do, being a part of a huge jigsaw puzzle, and fit into its place; has to be done with courage. Courageous people are not the fearless, they are simply those who conquer it or rather command it. For fear is just a result of self awareness and the love for immortality.
Each time a soul enters a new dimension of change weather self inflicted or by the time and space that revolves around it, the cycle of birth and death is replayed into our lives. To transcend into this cycle smoothly, requires the courage that differentiates the successful few from the masses. Therefore, every human should remember to embrace change it time it occurs and to face the unknown because it is simply another phenomenon of birth and death. Believe in destiny and understand that if there was no fear what would have been done and how would have the birth embraced. Not with tears of a crying new born, rather by the welcoming smiles of the beholders.
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