Friday, November 19, 2004
Looking to the weekend
About time its friday. Compared to the three day work week previously, this one seemed like an eternity.
I came across an interesting article yesterday. Two prominent figures in the world of sport and fashion are muslim but one would have never known. Zidane and a supermodel named Yasmeen Ghauri. Yasmeen Ghauri's story was of real interest as she was born in Montreal and her father was the imam of a local mosque. She even went for hajj with him when she was young. Well, to make long story short it was really saddening to see how people have forsaken their faiths for the glitters of this world.
And the worst part is that sooner or later (be it in this life or the next) they will realize the truth but it might be just too late. First of all, I don't think that anyone who goes away from Islam can ever live in real peace but for arguement's sake if they do enjoy this life to the fullest extent (in the unIslamic sense), they have to die sooner or later.
Then they will find out that even though they thought of themselves as the luckiest in this world, the real lucky ones are those who will enter jannah. I rather have the jannah where all your desires are satisfied and you are never sad when compared to the little "fun" that this world has to offer.
It does bring a hadeeth to mind, the meanings of which are almost mindblowing:
"I have prepared for My Pious slaves things which have never been seen by an eye, or heard by an ear, or imagined by a human being."
This whole situation has pre-occupied me for like the last two days.
Really looking forward to the Boyle St. dinner and also i'm taking my bro and sis. So hopefully it will be a good experience for them too.
I came across an interesting article yesterday. Two prominent figures in the world of sport and fashion are muslim but one would have never known. Zidane and a supermodel named Yasmeen Ghauri. Yasmeen Ghauri's story was of real interest as she was born in Montreal and her father was the imam of a local mosque. She even went for hajj with him when she was young. Well, to make long story short it was really saddening to see how people have forsaken their faiths for the glitters of this world.
And the worst part is that sooner or later (be it in this life or the next) they will realize the truth but it might be just too late. First of all, I don't think that anyone who goes away from Islam can ever live in real peace but for arguement's sake if they do enjoy this life to the fullest extent (in the unIslamic sense), they have to die sooner or later.
Then they will find out that even though they thought of themselves as the luckiest in this world, the real lucky ones are those who will enter jannah. I rather have the jannah where all your desires are satisfied and you are never sad when compared to the little "fun" that this world has to offer.
It does bring a hadeeth to mind, the meanings of which are almost mindblowing:
"I have prepared for My Pious slaves things which have never been seen by an eye, or heard by an ear, or imagined by a human being."
This whole situation has pre-occupied me for like the last two days.
Really looking forward to the Boyle St. dinner and also i'm taking my bro and sis. So hopefully it will be a good experience for them too.
Faraz Ahmed 11:35 a.m.