Friday, February 11, 2011

Life is a Moving Target: Storms in a Coffee Cup.


     Assalamualaikum, readers (May the peace and mercy of Allah be upon you). Subahanallah (Glory be to Allah). As I look through one of the library windows, I can’t describe how magnificent creations of Allah are- the evening sun is setting, the clouds are floating in the sky, the red and white rays of light are perfectly blending and most of all, the heart in my body is still beating strong. Alhamdulillah (All praise be to Allah).

     In the hustles and bustles of life, we humans always forget to realize other great things that Allah bestows on us and we tend to focus on the bad things and unfortunate events that are happening in our own lives. As we cruise through our lives, we learn many new things- some are pleasant and some are not. That’s life. Ever-changing challenges keep raining on us. They can make us or break us. Life lets us choose who we want to be. That’s why we better consider life as a moving target and not a stationary one. Don’t ridiculously stick to a stationary goal without considering to amend it. Learn to adapt with current situations and events that you are right into.

    When time gets rough, I always try to imagine problems that I experience as storms in a coffee cup. No matter how big they are, the biggest and scariest storms they can be just as big as my coffee cup. Yet we cannot deny that life often try to swallow us whole. If you feel your storms are too big for your coffee cup, find “real” friends to talk about them and let them out. Don’t bottle up till you may go haywire one day. Among all the best friends that you have, always believe Allah is the best One. Seek His guidance and help. After all, Allah is the Most Powerful and Omniscient. The best way to supplicate to Allah is through invocations (du’a). Below I list a couple of invocations that are good to be practiced by us again evil forces out there.

Invocation against an enemy


What to say if you fear people may harm you




May Allah protect us from any evil intentions and deeds of humans. 
Insyaallah (With Allah’s will).

p/s: The invocations were quoted from a book entitled 
Fortress of the Muslim by Said bin Wahf Al-Qahtani 
and published by Darussalam

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