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Feel Ramadan - power tap!

Wednesday, 18 December 2013

The famous Indian writer from the South, Vaikkom Muhammad Baig, repeatedly wrote that his proudly used to talk about luck, he got from 'touch' Gandiji to his MOM. Is this a big problem for touch? What is hidden in a "touch"?

Look at how a doctor examines his patient. It is able to obtain information in touching on the diseased veins. There is a magic obscured in his 'touch '.

You look a weeping baby, how easy a baby stops crying and falls asleep in the snugness of the hands of his mother, while it won't be that easy in the hands of others. Try to comfort people in distress Pat fondly, at least for a few moments, they would feel relaxed. A word of applaud said with a pat on the shoulder would be remembered throughout his life. If someone Pats on our backs and consoles "won't be lost" when fold us with the burden of afflictions, without doubt, a rain of tranquility leave us. A "benevolent" button sometimes influence very positively the strings of the spirits.

Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) encouraged us to console people sick by tapping on them. Prophet (PBUH) used to comfort the sick by tapping on their hands, face and head. He was very keen in showing his paternal love for his daughter Faye (may Allah be pleased with her), even after she grew into a woman. Can you imagine on the beloved husband in him which fuck his wives as soon as he leaves or enters the House? The magic of touch would exterminate the animosities and beautify the relations.

Prophet (PBUH) did not teach us more welcome with a Salam and walk. On the contrary, to shake hands and unite. The locking of the hands as well as the greeting of salaam whispers that we keep no rivalry. There is no animosity that would not wrap in the snugness of a touch of caresses. We owe it to inspire love in everyone. All human beings, other creatures, flowers and plantations should also get to taste the sweetness of our love. We have to win the hearts with a kind smile. We talk with everyone with humility and simplicity.  We should shine like a reminiscence flawless, even in those have met us only once. Nobody is alien, just need to realize that we have not had the chance to meet them. Well, all these are easier to say than to do. However, we must strive to be at least closer to them.

We should be able to take care of foreigners as how we do for our brothers. Contrary, even now, people in families are behaving like strangers to each other. This is the case for many families around us. Even walking close to close, they are reluctant to exchange a few words or a friendly smile or greet co-wife sincere. Several times, the relationship between dads and children are more prone to collapse. Ramadan is means to revive those broken relationships and reinvent our ties.

When we apply the magic of touch, our relations will reach a new shine. Now introspect, how long is is since I have tapped or embraced our MOM, Dad, child, brother or sister?

Article written by Abdul Wadud delivered English!

Translation by: feel Islam

Posted on Sunday, July 28, 2013 at 23:30 | Post your thoughts ?


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Feel Ramadan – Relish Again and Again

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There was a King who loved paintings. Once he invited the very famous artist of his country and ordered him to draw a picture of a very rarely seen bird.

Days and months passed by. Whenever inquired about the picture the artist replied :”I am Still drawing it”. The enraged King finally appointed some spies and they found nothing but a plain canvas in the artist’s room. They conveyed this to the King. Yet, the King controlled his anger and continued his await.

Finally, the artist called everyone to his room. The King and his companions set off to see the painting. Artist fixed his canvas on a board and covered it with a clothe and began drawing. In fifteen minutes the artist finished his painting- a mind-blowing picture! Ecstatically, the King acquired the unparalleled composition and asked: “If you could draw it so quickly, why did you delay it all these days?” The artist opened his drawer and produced bundles of drawings. The feathers, wings, feet, nails, eyes, beak etc of the bird, numerous pictures of each. He was watching all those and was training himself to draw the best. At the end, he was able to draw an elegant picture swiftly.

We are suppose to exert more care in making our deeds best. We have this watchfulness in all mundane things. When we build a house or simply, even when we buy a pen we yearn for the best. When we bring the same yearning in the deeds we perform, they will start getting better.

Ramadan is the training period to indulge in good deeds by trying to reduce flaws as much as possible. Because fasting is a very personal act of worship and no one can see another person’s fasting, only our sincerity can make it flawless. It’s possible that sincerity could be deteriorated in performing Salah or other acts of worships which are seeable by others.So, we are asked to be very vigilant in those. And we are warned that if we are performing with the intention to show others, it would not be acceptable in front of Allah.

How many times we taste the food that we prepare for the guest?  Again and again, to ensure that the spice, sour, salt or sweetness is just perfect, not more or less. We can not taste it after it’s served on the dining table. We need to have the same recheck while we perform each act of worship. The delicacies we prepare for our meeting with the Most Exalted Lord, the One who is much higher than in status than our guests, should be revived constantly to make it flawless. Let’s make it perfect, in Sha Allah!

English rendering of article written by Abdul Wadud

Posted on Saturday, July 20, 2013 at 12:28 am | Post your Thoughts ?


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Feel Ramadan – Losses weren’t detrimental

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I could not sleep yesterday either. The pain was intolerable. Why is Allah making me suffer like this? I have never hurt anyone in my life, intentionally. I did not cause a difficulty to anyone. Yet, why am I going through these torments? Allah would have planned some goodness in everything, right? 

I don’t have much dreams for this life. Should work as much as possible and bring my children up, give them education and send my little girl to nursery, all dressed up in new clothes. I don’t think, I will be able to do any of these. I can not even move my leg a bit, nor can I gulp a sip of water. No one would have ever endured this harrowing pain…

This is just one of those thousands of families who endure in the torments of life. She is just one among thousands of patients who have befriended nothing other than the moments wrapped in heart wrenching ailments. Those who do not have any dream, hope and fortune! Those who are destined to come across unpleasant things always. Finding food for one time is a big deal for them. So do with their medicines. 

Those decayed houses and helpless children are not afar from us, rather they live very closer. The four year old daughter of aforementioned lady was sitting beside the bed, patting on her mom’s ailing hands. We went speechless in front of that withered little face. Through the thorny ways of tears, she is beginning her journey of life, detached from laughs and plays that kids of her age indulge in.

Meeting such people lights small lanterns of realization in our minds. Often, we whine that we have lost many things in life. We weep for the things we lost or never achieved despite our craving or hard work. Go and visit those live with such ailments. Then we will realize whatever we perceived as “lost” were never been real losses of life.

This life is not a big phenomenon. It’s just a duration of breathing, with a few countable breaths between the bridge of birth and death, amidst a handful of happiness, grieves, gains, losses, ties… Within these our life also ends. Through childhood, teenage and youth slowly lingering to senility and ailments.  This life is a few drops of rain water that spilled from the hollow of one’s hands. Distresses befall on us, even though we never long for.

Dr. Mustafa As-Siba’i, prominent scholar and social reformer from Syria says: 

“Visit a prison at least once in your lifetime, you will get to know the value of freedom that Allah has given you. Visit a court once in your lifespan, you will get to learn the value of justice that Allah has given you. Visit a hospital once in a month, you will get to realize the blessing of your health that Allah has given you. Visit a garden once a week, you can enjoy the beauty of this nature which Allah has made for you. Visit a library once in a day, you will realize the value of thinking power that Allah has given you. Each moment, be in strong relationship with Allah, you will realize the blessings he bestowed up on your life.”

Posted on Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 11:25 pm | Post your Thoughts ?


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Feel Ramadan – Watchfully the One!

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A ship was sailing from India to Britain, loaded with goods. One night while in the midst of Ocean, it was engulfed by an unexpectedly formed dreadful cyclone, lost its navigation and collided with a reef, causing major devastation. Using all the lifeboats and planks available on board,  the sailors traversed through the ocean, aimlessly. After a long while, they hit on a sandbank to realize the presence of a shore. Shivering in the cold, they spent a whole night in that unknown shore. When the dawn broke, they understood that it was an island with dense forest. They stranded on that alien land, seeking for something to eat. Frantically, they learned that it was a small island with no human inhabitation and less than 3 km in circumference. 

There were no way out, thus they wandered through the forest. In between, they came across varieties of fruit trees and the fruits were tasting heavenly. Later on, they found pure water streams and cozy caves. They ate in full and dwelled in the cave. They thanked the Almighty gracefully for all the forms of shelter He has bestowed upon them. They abided there without any difficulty until a helicopter came for their rescue, after 2 weeks.

Haven’t we all faced at least an incident like this in our life? Haven’t we received an unexpected assistance, when we were drowning in the swamps of calamities? Such a benevolence which would bewilder us even today. Those are the moments that make us comprehend that beyond the boundaries of our imaginations, there is someone, The Most Exalted, who is watching and guarding everything very closely and carefully. Unfortunately, even after having gone through many such astounding events in life,  most of the human beings fail to elicit the remembrance of that Guarder.

Even if we yell “All Praises to You, My Lord”, with every breathe we take, it won’t fill even one percentage of our indebtedness towards Him. He is the One who invariably protects us with His boundless Mercy and Love. Despite the fact that we, the humans, forget to praise and continue living through ingratitude, He still forgives us. The Qur’an verse “Indeed mankind, to his Lord, is ungrateful.” [Qur'an: 100/6] should be interrogated in our lives.

We keep gratitude for a lifetime to some people who have helped us in this world. How much gratitude do we preserve for the One, who made our life splendid with small as well as giant blessings?

Do we have an answer for that Day when each and every blessing will be interrogated? 

Posted on Sunday, July 21, 2013 at 11:43 pm | Post your Thoughts ?


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Feel Ramadan – Don’t get angry!

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Soorya Krishnamoorthy, a south Indian writer narrates a story of a father and a son in his autobiography “Murivukal”(“Wounds”). Both of them loved each other and they never wanted to be separated even for a short period. They used to roam around like friends. The father was an ill-tempered person and used to behave rudely to his son when he gets angry. One day, he bought a new car. After driving the car for the first time to their home, father decided to take his son for a ride in the car. Meanwhile, the son scribbled something on the car, with an iron rod. The father got angry and brutally clobbered the son. Later, he realized that his son’s fingers are broken as a result of his beating. He took the son to a doctor, but no avail. Doctors affirmed that his fingers will never go back to normal. He wept bitterly thinking about his son. It is when he entered the car to cry in loneliness, he noticed what his son has written with the iron rod. He had written ‘I love my Pappa’.

This is what happens if we fail to bridle our temper. With a wise contemplation for a moment, anybody can easily subjugate the flames of anger. Nevertheless, many times we fail to do so. Sometimes, the outrage of a moment would be making lethal wounds.

Only when we attain self control, our lives and minds will flourish with virtues. Prophet (May Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon Him) was always been able to attain self control, even at those worst moments that would make anyone outrage, and thus his life is always exemplary.

When his beloved wife, Ayesha (RA), hurled a bowl with his favorite dish in anger, he was able to smile at her, sit down and gather all broken pieces from the floor, thus brought tears of regret in Ayesha (RA). That response from Prophet (PBUH), indeed is an exemplary lesson of patience and wisdom, for the people of all ages. His vast heart showed the willingness to love even his enemies dearly. He taught us that with anger no one will achieve anything but with compromise and love, we will. Anas (RA), who spent nearly 14 years with Prophet like a shadow said “Prophet never got angry with me”…

Ramadan is the best school to learn self-resistance. In Sural Al- Imran, Qur’an says about pious people:
“Who spend [in the cause of Allah ] during ease and hardship and who restrain anger and who pardon the people – and Allah loves the doers of good;” (3:134)

English rendering of article written by Abdul Wadud

Posted on Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 8:32 pm | Post your Thoughts ?


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Feel Ramadan - lies of beauty on the inside

And after a history of Khalil Gibran:

"After a day beauty and ugliness met at the edge of a sea." And they said to one another, "swimming us in the sea. Then they disrobed and swam in the waters. And after a while ugliness returned to shore and are garmented with beauty clothing and traveled its way. And beauty too came out of the sea and found not its adornment and she was too shy to be nude, it's why she dressed with garments of ugliness. And beauty come his way. And to this very day where men and women confuse one for the other. Yet some who have seen the face of beauty, and they know it despite his clothes. Some will know the face of ugliness and the fabric conceals it not their eyes. »

Through the above history, Khalil Gibran presented a vision of great beauty. A beautiful body cannot be ensured by its talent or skill. To have a body attractive or admirable face should not be counted against the realization of the person. There is no possibility of any such claim for something that is purely innate. However, everything is accomplished through his fatigues, skills or knowledge indeed can count among his accomplishments and his individuality. The 'miss world' of a year generally loses Crown the following year, because the criterion is only the beauty of her body. If we try to assess his own individuality around his expensive garment, in fact we will be deceived. Because anyone can achieve a cheap garment so it can pay the money.

Ramadan has been shown to strengthen our concerns for the spirit, emancipated of concerns about our bodies. It is a month that feed us our minds while leaving our bodies to die of hunger.

We must consider the label provided by the religion as the greatest magnitude and accept it without reserve. Islam gave indications in our dress code and body language. Islam has removed the body languages so that we will be able to win the hearts of everyone. He reminded smile us to not keep avarice by offering a simple no longer. A believers face must always be nice and bright. It should display the simplicity that people should not hesitate to approach us. It must be humble enough to consider and smiling enough to accommodate everyone. Islam urged to maintain cleanliness and beauty. He urged us to be cautious on the cleaning of our inner being, and not the tasks of our body. He taught us many ways to clean our minds. He also warned display us not to display the beauty of our body rather the elegance and the virtue of our spirit to everyone. Essentially, when we follow these instructions, we transform beauty Kings and Queens. The beauty of our body will disappear with wrinkles, grey streaks or diseases. However, the beauty of our minds will never perish as well. A friendly smile is an easy way to beautify our minds and our faces.

Only those who have a virtuous spirit can reach an always smiling face. Those who have planted the seeds of affection in the interiority, exterminating weeds, others accept without reserve. Only these people will be able to maintain a pleasant personality throughout their lives. This is the reason why the Prophet mentioned smile as the symbol of a believer. We have learned from the Koran, prayer of the Prophet Ibrahim (peace be upon him), to include him in those returning to Allah with Qalbun Saleem, of his heart. (26:89)

Qalbun Saleem is a heart without danger, freed from all tasks and weeds. There is no great fortune to have the same. It means our beauty is on the inside, not outside!

English rendering of article written by Abdul Wadud

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Feel Ramadan – Wings are not a burden

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Once a biology teacher carried a cocoon (pupa) to the classroom to teach the life cycle of a butterfly. He asked them to wait for a few hours to watch the cocoon breaking and a butterfly emerging out. He particularly warned them not to help the butterfly when it struggles to come out of cocoon and walked out of the room.

The pupils waited anxiously. The cocoon began to move slowly. The butterfly began its arduous struggle to come out of the wrap. One of the pupil felt pity for the small butterfly and slowly broke the cocoon to help it come out. The butterfly came out and tried to move around, however, it died immediately. The teacher returned to find the grieving pupils. Learning what had happened, he said to the children: “See my children, the efforts that a butterfly exerts to emerge out from the cocoon in turn gives strength to its wings to fly thereafter. If you break the cocoon to help it come out, it won’t be able to fly. The initial difficulty helps in its future life. Anyways, leave it, you haven’t done it deliberately.”

If it’s the pain that a butterfly endure to emanate out of its pupa pours in energy for it to move forward, we are also somewhat similar to that. Behind the happiness one experience today, there are tales of the toils, troubles and famine he had lived in the past. We know that we can not gain something without losing anything. Though wings are a burden on the small body of birds, it helps them fly. The burdens and hardships will only help us excel. Happiness only comes for a visit, sorrows are our friends always. We may not be able to recall all happy moments in life but we hardly forget the sorrows we have been through. Those sorrows taught us what life is all about. Everyone who have been through distressful times in life knows very well that sorrows are the real experiences of life. Even a small bruise from a sorrow teaches us great messages. It is When a woman undergoes the excruciating pain of her life,  she would be blessed to have the ultimate happiness of her life – a child.

The torments endured in the beginning of the life of a butterfly wasn’t futile. There is a precise plan behind it. It’s the impeccable plans of it’s Creator. Such a planning is there behind every creation. For us, too. We and everything around us are the testament of the immaculate governance of an All- Loving, Creator. If we think like this, we will be able to swim out from the grieves,and the life will move without any worries. Look, only humans break their hearts at sorrows. No cat has ever committed suicide because it was not able to catch a rat despite umpteen tries. For it, the philosophy is, if it’s not today, trap one tomorrow. However, how many incidents we hear everyday about those who end their life without being able to withstand even a small failure. Often, don’t we perceive the plans of the Lord of Worlds with resentment?

May this Ramadan help us perceive the depth of capitulation and enslavement. To Pharoah, the defiant King,this was how Prophet Musa  said about God; “Our Lord is He Who gave unto everything its nature, then guided it aright” Qur’an (20:50)

English rendering of article written by Abdul Wadud

Posted on Friday, July 19, 2013 at 2:32 am | Post your Thoughts ?


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