My new favorite Islamic Song!

The link of the song I'm talking about:

* This one is the video clip for it but no translation in the video

* This one has the translation in the video. (I found it after I translated below...so my translation might be different in words...but the meaning is the same :)

Asalamu Aliekum brothers and sisters,

I was listening to different Islamic songs a few minutes ago and I just had the sudden urge to write, to express what emotions went and are going through me. One of the nasheeds I was listening to was talking about Islam and what it truly is. The words were just so beautiful and I just went wow! In such simple words this song actually captured the simplicity and beauty of our religion. I'll quickly translate the words so you can see what I mean; it goes like this:

No, No don't assume that Islam is far away from love and life

and that by not following Islam you will live what your heart desires

or that the days will be better and more beautiful and that life is what will save you and bring you to happiness

For your religion is a sea of hopes with a beach for your dreams

Islam is not what you fear; just full of obligations and things forbidden

For truly Islam is beautiful, and not what you assume

All the orders God gives us are things to guide us and call us for what is right and good for us

He tells us to leave things that would lead us to evil and hurt

For Allah is Al-Raheem (The Most Merciful ) and Al-Haleem (The Forbearing ) and calls us to good things

In Islam there's prayer and fasting...and also happiness and joy

and the religious person is the one you find smiling and full of light

always trying to build this life...with a personality so gentle and patient

Islam is inside us growing and nurturing our love for others

Islam is a ship of sweet love and peace pushed by the most beautiful of feelings

What a beautiful life this would be if we live with Islam as the base of our life!

So these are the words (I translated as best as I could) of the song I'm talking about. And it's as if I was awaken...for that's so true! When Allah tells us to leave something it's not because He wants to make our life hard and miserable! It's because He wants to make it happy and full of peace and comfort! He doesn't want us hurt. He created us and He knows what is best for us more than anyone else including ourselves. For who better knows us than the One who created us?

For example, Don't do drugs. Look around, it's the cause of problems worldwide. Even people with different religions or non-religious people still look at drugs with hate, for it ruins a person and his life and the life of those around him!

Then comes alcohol which at one point years ago, even the USA wanted to ban due to it's negative results but couldn't because the people wanted it. As humans we run after our desires and these desires aren't always good for us..these desires can't be controlled unless we are willing to control them and we have a bases in life to help us do that...and that's what Islam is! Our lifeline! What does alcohol really do except break up families? Or make the person drinking it lose consciousness of what is around him? What does it really do except silence the desires of humans to forget? We are talking about the majority of people in this world. Rules are never put just for the one or two people who might be different than the rest.

As for having relationships in a haram way meaning by having boyfriends/girlfriends and such instead of the right way which is marriage. This leads to broken hearts and again broken families! One of the many scenarios that would come would be; A girl has a sexual relationship with a guy and if she ends up with a kid the guy might not want to get married, or might say he doesn't want to take responsibility...this leaves the kid with no real family name...he doesn't know his dad...the mom has to work to raise the kid. And even if he did accept the kid as his own, what sort of relationship is it when the girl or the guy are always unsure if this will be forever or not? There's no real thing that actually ties them together like a marriage certificate and ceremony...so the uncertainty is there and that leads to instability....why put yourself in a situation like this? This isn't respect for the woman is it? Of course that's just one of many scenarios of real events that happen out there due to the uncontrolled life that people choose to lead, giving it the name 'freedom'. When in reality a person is just shackling him/herself to an unstable life that won't lead to happiness.

Those were examples of things we are forbidden to do. Then there are the things we are ordered to do.

Like the prayers (Salah) for example. Some just choose not to do it, others do it while feeling like its a burden. But why? If we were to think of it this way...each day has 24 hours right? And our day is just filled with things we do for this life...sleep...eat...go out...study...work...have fun...read books...watch movies...etc. And how many prayers do we have? Five. Let's say each one took about 5 minutes. That's 25 minutes! 25 minutes that are spread during the day to act as reminders of why we are really here, to remind us to go back to God...to remind us to do good deeds...to remind us of who we are and what our purpose is...and we feel burdened! God isn't in need of our prayers but He ordered us to do it for our sake! So we have time out for a few minutes from this life to just feel at peace and talk to the One who can help us more than anyone else, the One who is always there to listen, always close...and who loves us! The One, might I remind everyone including myself, who provided us with everything in our life that makes us happy. You're going out with money you got from work, the work you got from your degree in university...etc etc and all that was because God blessed you with that success and He can as easily take it away. And what about your health, you're healthy enough to work and have fun...but that health is also a blessing from God. See what I mean? This whole life and your happiness and success is from God and yet you don't want to thank Him by praying these 5 simple prayers? I'm not even talking about the extra prayers that we are given a choice to do or not....just a way to gain more merits and thank God more. I pray that you and I have better and stronger faith to not only do the 5 prayers with love and patience and concentration...but also to do more and aim more! To search for more ways to thank Allah! Ameen!

Then the fasting, oh the fasting. The month that truly feels full of blessed days. I pray that the minute one Ramadan ends we start feeling excited for the next one to come. The month where we actually stop being selfish thinking about ourselves and feel with other people. The month we actually remember to give and be thankful. I don't know what we would do without Ramadan!

And of course Eid is a beautiful celebration that I don't think anyone out there doesn't like it or enjoy having fun with family and friends during the days of both Eid's during the year!

Finally...even though there are many points and I could carry on but I think we all got the picture...so finally I want to talk about The Holy Qur'an. Sometimes, and I'm talking about me included, life just keeps us so busy that days pass without us finding time to read a few pages of the Qur'an. Even though we do find time to do something fun, watch tv, read a book...etc yet we don't find 15 min or half an hour to just sit there and read the Qur'an. Why? I mean we have been given this miracle, this beautiful book...that has ALL the answers we need, that has precious advise in life, precious rules to follow to organize our life. Precious life style to follow that would lead to happiness and success...and even stories that one could not only enjoy but learn from and relate to!

And memorizing Qur'an is an essential thing, I pray for me and all of you that we have the patience and willingness to sit there and start memorizing even if we go slow, but it's better than nothing!

My husband once said (and I quote) :

“Memorizing Qur'an and having it in your chest is a blessing that will guide you no matter where you are and regardless of your friends. When it is anchored in your chest, it has to come out sooner or later and reflect on your manners and personality.”

And when he said that to me...I was like wow....and I had to write it down because it was so true! If we have that there inside us then even when we do fall into error in life and make mistakes, which we will because we are human after all, this will help us to swim back up before we sink in too deep!

So subhanallah, Glory be to Allah, how one Islamic song triggered this. I really hope me and all of you try to work on ourselves to better ourselves. Islam will bring happiness in every household if followed and understood right like Allah wants us to.

I pray that we all benefit from this talk and I pray that with every passing day our faith increases. For faith isn't steady, as my uncle once told me, it's a moving scale always on the move either going up or going down a certain point...so if we make that point high up there, then even if it goes down we are still in the safe zone. So let's all work on bringing that point higher and higher.

Whatever I said that is right is from Allah and whatever I said that is wrong is from me.

Till next time.

Take care everyone!

{Only in the remembrance of Allah (swt) will your heart find peace} (Surah 13: Verse 28)