Ramadhan - Creativity Twenty-Seven

Twenty-Seven Day

Wudu

Look at the water in my hands,
It comes closer, between my palms,
It gets darker around my hands,
The shiny water near my face,
The wet cool water on my face,
Bye-bye self, washed away.

"Do you build a tower on every hilltop, just to amuse yourselves...?" (Qu'ran, Surah 26 'The Poets', Ayah 128)

"I am free of what they do"

I look to my right and see dancing sex.
I look to my left and see quiet mountains of arrogance, not yet deflated.

I look beyond the horizon and see exploding bodies. Blood-burst.
I look in my shopping center and see exploding stomachs. Burger-burst.

The simple fools wants to find someone to blame.
The intellectual fools wants to appear intellectual.

True knowledge is inside a box. The masses, the general populace here in England, take the box in hand every once in a while, clumsily attempting to open it with rubber fingers. They want to have access to it for utility, for practicality, for the world, for ego. They don't open it for its own sake, they do it because knowledge is a means to a dank, distracted end. 'Knowledge' is a way to impress someone of the opposite sex,
Or their friends,
Or their superiors.
Or it is a way to impress their own opinion of themselves,
Which is already far too high.

And what an end it will be,
When the end is nigh.

I read an article on the train today about peoples regrets. It was one of those trashy articles you find which are solely based on some organisations survey, each paragraph of this so-called article basically frames a sentence around the statistics that this survey has discovered. What trash. But this was one I was destined to read and not ignore. The question was, what do you most regret from your youth. They asked it to old and younger people. The elderly (in Britain) said that they wished they had travelled the world, made love more, fell in love again etc. The article found it suprising that the young people were far more conservative in their regrets, ie the twenty/thirty-somethings all regretted things like 'not getting on the property ladder when it was still hot' and other such things. I don't think it's surprising that young people had more business minded regrets, because most younglings, even thirty, fourty, fifty year olds, are too dumb to realise that life is about more than making money. This culture makes us think that money is the most important thing. It's only when these young, or should I say childish people, finally grow up, get older, and lonely, that they realise they missed out on quite a lot of the real, important things.

I look to my old age and see that the path is straight, for me. I have a guide, I have an inspiration, and for as long as I'm here it's a never-ending candle. That's my spirituality, my faith, all the things associated with Islam. The family as an important institution has been fading away in the consciousness of Western Europe for a very long time now. As I said to someone the other night, so much depends on family.

Travel.
Be alone more often. (This helps you appreciate your loved ones more, and deepens you as a person.)
Pray to God and ask Him for all the things you desire, wish, hope. Ask him first-thing, not as a last resort.
Become more aware of your faults, and then speak to those whom you trust or look up to, they will help guide you in correcting your faults.
Do whatever it is you think you might really love doing. Do it well.
Blame yourself if it goes wrong.

These are a few things that work.

Peace.

Y.Misdaq, Ramadhan 27, 1427