#thebeliever

For you, my dear Asad. With all my love and prayers.

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I look into your pained eyes

My dear Asad

And marvel

How

Along with the 1.2 million bits of information

That we wordlessly process

Every second

I passed on to you

This curse of self reflexivity

That overwhelms you

Just like me

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An analysis

An emotional one

Followed by a dispassionate one

Can allow

Multiple opportunities

Of reassessment

Of this curse

That makes your thoughts

Flutter

Like a bird in a cage

Of words

Unable to fly.

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And as you try

And clutch at the straws

Of your many well-worded rationalizations

Hoping they can save you

From the paralysis

That descends

Upon the mind

Trying to continuously grapple with the dysfunction

That defines the worlds

It inhabits

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All I can offer you 

Are these observations 

That can perhaps give you 

A perspective 

On each encounter

And each painful collision

With the dysfunction

Which predictably returns 

With its predictable patterns  

Each time

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To observe 

And keep watching 

The noise

While you are 

In it 

To the brim

Can make you see 

How you

As the observer, 

Can step out of it.  

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And as you do  

You can clearly see 

Your dysfunction 

As you experience it 

And once you see

You know 

The choice 

To allow yourself to engage or not engage with it 

Will always be 

Yours.

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The success of the Hereafter is for the believers

It has been said in Surah Al-Mulk of the Qur'an that Allah Almighty has given existence to this world for a specific purpose. He is managing the created worlds with absolute wisdom and rationality. People have been sent to earth for a certain period of time to test who is the best in action. Only by faith and good deeds will man be able to attain the ultimate success in this test of his worldly life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGMqD0DIO5Q&t=101s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i222AMmtPRE&t=100s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoujWFhCf54

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8PZD7THj4E