Recalim Your Heart, Al-Musawir Contd.

Right after my last post see : http://hudawritess.blogspot.com/2012/08/al-musawir-subhanallah.html

 

I came across the following in Yasmine Mogaheds book, Reclaim Your Heart- page 25-26

(If you want this book, you can find it on amazon.com, I can order it for you if you need it!)

 

I think its important to read what she writes as it adds important details and a deeper and better understanding  to what I wrote in my last post.

 

She writes,

 

" The purpose of the glorious sun, first fallen snow, crescent moons, and breathtaking oceans is not just to decorate this lonely planet.  The purpose is far deeper than that. The purpose is as Allah told us in the Quran: (She quotes the same aya I quoted in my post, but I added them on this post also)

 

 

All this beauty was created as a sign- but one that can only be understood by a select group: those who reflect (think,understand,use thier in intellect) and remember God in every human condition (standing,sitting, lying down).

 

So even the sunset must be looked through. Even there we cannot lose ourselves. We must look beyond even that majestic beauty and color to see the Beauty behind it. For the beauty behind it is the True beauty, the Source of all beauty. All that we see is a reflection.

 

We must study the stars, the trees, the snow-capped mountains in order to read the message behind them. Because if we do not, we are like the one who finds a message inside a beautifully decorated bottle, yet become so enamored by the bottle, that he never even opens the message.

 

But what is that message, stuck inside the intensity of stars? There is a sign- but a sign of what? These signs are a pointer to Him, to His greatness, His majesty, His beauty. A pointer to His might and His power. Study, reflect, absorb the beauty and majesty of whats created-but dont stop there. Dont lose yourself in beauty. Look beyond it and consider that if the creation is that majestic, that great, that beautiful, how majestic and great and beautiful must be the Creator.

 

Finally realize, experiential that "You have not created all this without a purpose, Exalted is You" -3:191.

 

Purpose, everything has one. Nothing in the heavens and the earth or inside of me or inside of you is created without purpose. No event in your life, no sadness, no delight, no pain, no pleasure...no loss, was created without a purpose. So just as we must read the " message inside the bottle" of the sun and the moon and the sky, so too must we examine the message in our own life experiences.

 

We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to  "speak" to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always "speaking". The question is whether we are listening.

 

 

Verily! In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, there are indeed signs for those of understanding- 3:190

Those who remember Allah always, and in prayers, standing, sitting, and lying down on their sides, and think deeply about the creation of the heavens and the earth, (saying): "Our Lord! You have not created (all) this without purpose, glory to You!

Give us salvation from the torment of the Fire" -3:191