Like no one else
November 11th, 2003 byIn a quiet house, before a dawn insha-allah, I sit with silence my other companion on the bed. Hours before, I’m told to read the Quran, because “you know, it is His word, it is the truth afterall”.
To those whose salat seem empty, hollow, repetitious, even robotic.
To those whose mind distracts, deters and disturbs their salat endlessly.
To those who pray and pray yet seem to be without a prayer and dua.
To me.
13:14, YUSUFALI:
For Him (alone) is prayer in Truth: any others that they call upon besides Him hear them no more than if they were to stretch forth their hands for water to reach their mouths but it reaches them not: for the prayer of those without Faith is nothing but (futile) wandering (in the mind).
November 12th, 2003 at 12:53 am
*hears crickets chirping*
Waleed i think your entry was so deep that we are all too speechless to comment.
or maybe its just me.
its been six hours since i first read this post and i am still contemplating it.
subhanAllah.
November 12th, 2003 at 7:11 am
crud. Now I can’t go to sleep.
November 12th, 2003 at 8:53 am
anything not for Allah swt is just another exercise in futility.
very well written waleed.
November 12th, 2003 at 2:51 pm
mashAllah on your post bro
I will definately be thinking about that….
Erm, sometimes I can’t get onto your blog. It says ‘Gateway Timeout’ alot. Is this normal?
November 13th, 2003 at 12:57 am
excellent post… something to think about..
November 13th, 2003 at 6:52 am
Like Barsaat, I’ve read this entry multiple times today (yesterday, whatever), and honestly still don’t know quite how to respond to it.
But I do know that I needed that reminder.
Jazak’Allah khayr, Waleed.
Good luck with the deadlines, insha’Allah.