Befuddled!

تم بھی چلے چلو یونہی، جب تک چلی چلے

dunia ney kiss ka rah~e~fana mein diya hai sath

کہ سرکار انسان کو پناہ کہاں پر ملتی ہے؟

.تو فرمانے لگے "ماں کی آغوش میں! اگر وہ میسر نہ ہو تو والدین کی دعاؤں میں!! اگر وہ بھی بد قسمتی سے نہ ملے تو علم میں!!! وہ علم کتابی یا حساب الجبرے کا ہی نہیں، ایسا علم جس سے آپ کی ذات، روح اور دوسروں کو فائدہ پہنچے۔ وہ خدا کی مخلوق کے لیے زحمت نہ بنے۔

کہتے ہیں جس کو عشق خلل ہے دماغ کا

Prem ke rung mein aisee doobi,

آتے نہیں ہیں راس مرے بال و پر مجھے

ay hum qafas na mang duaen bahar ki

Does He love the woman who teaches Quran all day without charge more? Or the man who works all day so he can financially support her ability to do so?

Does He love the elderly father who is caring for his disabled adult son more? Or does He love the custodian of the masjid who cares for His House?

Does He love the woman who is working night and day in the hospital saving lives more? Or the teacher who makes his classroom a safe space for kids in high risk areas?

There is no way to know who is the most beloved to Allah. But He gave us a gift; in that almost every action can be turned into a form of continuous worship through our intention. And that in every wide expanse of this earth is a place to prostrate and worship Him. And in that every tongue or every ear or every eye can recite or hear or see His words and remain in His remembrance.

You might think those most beloved to Him are those who can worship Him in the masjid every moment of the night and day and perhaps they are.

But if you didn’t have the responsibilities of life, would you be doing so as well? Make that intention. You living, serving, working, giving- you do all of it for His sake while wishing you were making Tawaf and praying in front of the Kaba and praying in the Rawdah of AlHabib ﷺ and begging Him to be of the people He loves and honors to choose to see His Blessed Face in the Highest Paradise سبحانه و تعالى

You dealing with the joy and the struggle and the trauma and the blessings and the pain and the hope and the fear and the excitement and the craziness of life and still remembering Him through every second of it- perhaps that is what makes you beloved to Him.

“Say. Surely my prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are (all) for God, the Lord of the worlds” (Quran 6:162)

کسی کے وعدہ فردا کی گفتگو ہی سہی

If it is so difficult, then as we wait,

woh jo andar ki mazbooti culture ada karta tha ya mazhab ata karta tha. andar ka jo culture hota hai woh mazhab pe baitha hota hai. jab andar se mazhab kam hone lagta hai tou jo darkht ka sayp hai na woh patla ho jata hai. woh madad nahi karta darkht ki. darkht k bare rang barange phal hote hain, rang barange paude, patte lata hai laikin usmain woh mazbooti nahi reh jaati. tou aaj k culture main yeh cheez ho gayi hai k hum ne bachoon ko kuch nahi bataya k aapko complication pare gi zindagi main. uske liye kya karna hai.

jab 400 khoobsorat larkiyaan hoon tou aik larki k saath kaise itefaaq karna hai. jab tumhari naukri chali jaye tou tumne kis ki taraf daikhna hai. jab accidents hoon (jab itni cars chalain ge tou accidents tou hoon ge) tou jab taang toot jaye tou kya karna hai.

woh muqamaat culture ka andar ka roohi hissa bataya karte thay. woh naani daadi bataya karti theen k beta sabireen k saath hai Allah. shakireen k saath hai Allah. mazboot rehna. kuch nahi. museebat aati hai chali jaati hai.

humare aaj k maujooda drame main isi cheez ka fukdaan hai. beyrooni bohat acha hai. jo beyrooni culture hai ussi ki akaasi ho rahi hai. jo kuch aap din main daikhte hain. wohi dramoon main aa raha hai. laikin unn museebatoon se. un nahumwariyoon se hum ne kaise deal karna hai, kis hathyaar k saath deal karna hai. yaani darkhtoon k andar chalne wala jo paani hai woh khushq ho gaya hai.

بات چاہے بے سلیقہ ہو کلیمؔ