Lost Ones ... Lauryn Hill

Now
Now 
How come your talk turn cold

Gained the whole world for the price of your soul

Tryin' to grab hold of what you can't control

Now you're all floss ??? 
What a sight to behold

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

I was hopeless now I'm on Hope road

Every man wanna act like he's exempt

Need to get down on his knees and repent

Kyaan slick talk on the Day of Judgment

Your movement similar to a serpent

Tried to play straight, had yo' whole style bent

Consequence is no coincidence

Hypocrites always wanna play innocent

Always wanna take it to the full out extent

Always wanna make it seem like good intent

Never wanna face it when it time for punishment

I know you don't wanna hear my opinion

There come many paths and you must choose one

And if you don't change then the rain soon come

See you might win some, but you just lost one

You might win some, but you really lost one

You just lost one, it's so silly how come

When it's all done, did you really gain from

What you'd undone, it's so silly how come

You just lost one

Now don't you understand man universal law ???

What you throw out come back to you star

Never under estimate those who you scar

Cause, Karma Karma Karma come back to you hard

You kyaan hold God people back that long

The chain of Shaytaan wasn't made that strong

Tryin' to pretend like your word is your bond

But until you do right, all ya do will go wrong

Now some might mistake this for just a simple song

And some don't know what they have till it's gone

Now even when you gone you can still be reborn

And from the night can arrive the sweet dawn

Now some might listen and some might shun

And some may think that they reached perfection

If you look closely you'll see what you become

Cause you might win some, but you just lost one

How many people I have known ... 

If I wished, I could name them ... 

Who surrendered themselves to their desires and became prisoners of their lusts ... 

And forgot about death and their reckoning ...

Abdullah Ibn Abbas (ra) ...

You who commit a sin, do not feel secure about the results ... 
For what goes along with the sin is more serious than the sin itself ... 

Your lack of shame before the angels, who witness you when you committ the sin ... 
Is more serious than the sin itself ...



Your laughter when you sin, as you forget the punishment of Allah ... 
Is more seirous than the sin itself ...


Your delight if you get a chance to sin ... 
Is more serious than the sin itself ...


Even your disappointment, if you miss a chance to sin ... 
Is more serious than the sin itself ...

Aisha (ra) said ...

Aisha (ra), she said: The Prophet (pbuh), was sitting on the floor fixing his shoes ... It was very warm, and I looked at his blessed forehead, (pbuh) and I noticed that there were beads of sweat on it ... I was working with something in my hand, and I became overwhelmed by the majesty of that sight ... I stopped what I was doing long enough until the Prophet (pbuh), noticed that I was actually staring at him, and he (pbuh) said: What's the matter [Aisha] ???

She (ra) said: If Abu Bukair Al-Huthali, the poet, saw you, he would know that his poem was written for you" ...

And ofcourse the Prophet (pbuh), was not a poet and he said: What did he say ???

She (ra) said: Abu Bukair said that if you looked to the majesty of the moon, it twinkles and lights up the world for everybody to see ...

"So the Prophet (pbuh) got up," she said, "and walked to me and kissed me between the eyes, and he said: Wallahi ya Aisha, you are like that to me and more ...

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong ...

Not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich ...

Not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned ...

And not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity ... 

Sun & Moon ... By Abdullah Adhami ...

The word a-shams (the sun) is feminine ...

And qamar (moon) is masculine ...

The sun burns itself to give light and life to

everything around ...

And the moon is muneer, meaning it reflects the light ...

Within itself it has no light ... It radiates the brilliance of the sun ...

So when we shine as men,

the implication is that we are reflecting

the glorious light of our women ...

A Sufi Saying ...

Your remedy is within you

But you do not sense it ...

Your illness is from you

But you do not perceive it ...

You presume you are an insignificant entity

But within you is enfolded the entire universe ...

Thus, you have no need to look beyond yourself ...

What you seek is within you ...

If only you reflect ...

Friendship Brings Beauty Into Your Life ... Bahauddin ...

It is the depth and vibrancy of friendship that brings beauty to your life ... 

Friendship is the ground you plant your tree in, the fertile basis of your flourishing ... Friendship creates a continuous vitality around you, and in you ... 

The friend may be a bird, or a cat, or a frail person who is dying ... 

Still, if the friendship is strong, it will purify the circle of your living as a drop of the prophet's (pbuh) blood does the ground it falls on ...

True friends sacrifice wealth and reputation, everything, for each other ... 
When asked why, they say I wish I had more to give ... 
Abu Bakr and the other companions of Muhammad (pbuh) lived in such a friendship ...

Jafar Alam ...

Whatever we love in this visible world, we are sure to discover its flaws ... Though I feel that I struggle more when I follow Allah's way, I feel more lonely and empty when I don't follow Allah's way ... I feel like a prisoner trapped in this cage of illusions, that keeps promising me happiness, but leaving me miserable and lost inside ... The world keeps teasing me ... Drawing me in like bait, then throwing me right back in the ocean of passion and desire ... Ignorance is bliss ... The after effect is regret, discontentment and hollowness ... Short term pain for the long term pleasure is much better than short term temporary pleasures that do nothing but feed my lonely, empty self ... I'm struggling to fit into a world that doesn't even care about me ... Why am I trying so hard to get comfortable and even attached to a place that I know I won't be staying for too long in? ... The happiness I KNOW I want to feel, lays in my avoidance of things I THINK will bring me happiness ... I want to shut my eyes and heart to the world now, so that I can see and feel the things worth seeing and feeling ...



"And that is the secret of this world. If you remove love of dunya from your heart, the dunya is yours for the taking ... You can have the dunya because it's in your hand and not in your heart" - (Hamza Yusuf)



I pray that everyone feels or at least gets to experience once in their lifetime, the feeling of happiness ... The feeling of love, of fulfillment and joy ... To feel free without any limitations ... To experience the feeling felt by experiencing God ... To feel hopeful instead of hopeless ... I pray everyone finds in their lifetime, that one soul that gives them a feel of purpose, and companionship ... I pray that people will taste the sweetness and peace, of tranquility found in prayer ... Ameen ...

- Jafar Alam

Albert Einstein ...

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn ... For what purpose he knows not ... Though he sometimes thinks he senses it ...But without deeper reflection ... One knows from daily life that one exists for other people ... First of all, for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy ... A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men ... Living and dead ... And that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving ...

Describing A Taste ... Bahauddin (The father of Rumi)

Someone asked me what is the knowing I speak of ... 

And how does the love I mention feel ... 

I said if you don't know, what can I say ??? 

And if you do know, what can I say ???

The taste of knowinglove has no explanation ...

And no account of it will ever give anyone that taste ...

The things that will destroy us are: 

Politics without principle ...

Pleasure without conscience ...

Wealth without work ...

Knowledge without character ...

Business without morality ...

Science without humanity ...

And worship without sacrifice ...

al Jami (The Gatherer)

Your preoccupation with this world ... 

Eating ... Drinking ... Seeking more and more to eat ... To have ... To enjoy ...

Your slavery at the hands of your flesh and your ego have made you inattentive to everything else ... 

Only when the bird of your soul flies from the cage of the flesh will this dream evaporate ... And you will find yourself alone with your deeds ... 

Then you see that single companion whom you hug and press to your chest ... 

Is it something warm and friendly ... Or is it full of snakes and scorpions and poisonous thorns ??? 

Then you will know what you presumed to be good was Hell ... 

And what you thought was suffering was Paradise.

All the wise have said the same ...

The one who knows God

Is God's mercy to His creatures ...

Don't give your heart to anything

But the love of those whose hearts are glad ...

Don't go to the neighborhood of despair

There is hope ...

Don't go in the direction of darkness

Suns exist ...

Rumi ...

You keep complaining about others

And all they owe you ???

Well, forget about them

Just be in the presence ...

When the earth is this wide

Why are you asleep in a prison ???

Think of nothing but the source of thought ...

Feed the soul ... Let the body fast ...

Avoid knotted ideas

Untie yourself in a higher world ...

Limit your talk

For the sake of timeless communion ...

Abandon life and the world

And find the life of the world ...

The longer a relationship is alive, the longer it takes to get over its death ... 

But for all things, there is a time ... 

And sometimes, when we lose one love, we are really losing two ... 

And self-love can be the hardest of all to win back ...

Moroccan Proverb ...

Never mock any creature of God ...

For it might be beloved to He who ceated it ...

Only You ... Rumi

Only you

I choose among the entire world

Is it fair of you

letting me be unhappy ???

My heart is a pen in your hand

It is all up to you

To write me happy or sad ...

I see only what you reveal

And live as you say.

All my feelings have the colour

You desire to paint ...

From the beginning to the end

No one but you ...

Please make my future

Better than the past ...

When you hide I change

To a Godless person

And when you appear

I find my faith ...

Don't expect to find

Any more in me

Than what you give ...

Don't search for

Hidden pockets because

I've shown you that

All I have is all you gave ...

The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said:

The first folk among this nation will be saved by detachment from this world and short hopes ... 

While the last will perish by greed for this world and long hopes ...

During al- Mi'raj ... The Night Journey ...

Allah revealed to Muhammad (PBUH) : 

My end is in My beginning and My beginning is in My end ... 

Then the prophet (PBUH) knew that all doors were absolutely closed except those that led to God ... 

That God cannot be described within the confines of a place in speech ... 

And that God encompasses the everywhere of all places ... 

This is the secret that no tongue can be stirred to express, no door opened to reveal, and no answer can define ... 

He is the Guide to Himself and the Lord of His own description ... 

He is the Beauty of all beauty and the speech by which to describe Himself belongs to Him alone ...

As I write this ... My heart is heavy ... I've been quiet most of the day, just reflecting on life ... I drove to the Friday prayer with my dad today ... We made small talk, but I preferred to keep to myself and my thoughts ... I don't know what it is these days, but I'm sure even my father notices the distance that's been growing in between us ... I love my father to death, but even so, this seperation is something that I feel I have no control over ... A surge of emotions are running through me ... I want to scream, yell, cry, be alone, all while wanting a hug, love, someone to just listen to me and comfort me ... I just looked out the car window for most of the ride ... Looking at the tree's and the sky ... Taking in the sun and absorbing the warm, yet slightly chilly breeze ... Thoughts ran through my head in rapid succession ... That's one of the things I've noticed about myself when I'm out on a sunny day ... I can just stare at something and marvel at its beauty, and just doze off into childhood memories ... Memories of old friends, playing with cousins, the smell of fresh cut grass on the first day of school, eating those red, white and blue popsicles, being free without a worry in the world ... Not afflicted with the realities of a job and relationships, or where I'm going in life ... I just feel lonely ... empty ... Sad ... The more I contemplate, the deeper it's cutting into me ... Can't say I'm happy, and I think I've lost my smile ... But a good friend reminded me about a quote, which ironically, I wrote for them years ago ... It says "Don't wait until you're happy to smile ... But smile to be happy" ... God truly does put people in our lives for a reason ... His love for us is manifested through the love others give to us ... So why then, do we tend to hurt the ones we love the most ??? Why do we have hate and anger in us ??? Why do we lie ??? People lie because they are afraid ... But what are we afraid of ??? Why is it that people usually steal things that they have no use for ??? Why is it so hard to show the same face to everyone ??? Why do we pick and choose what we like about our friends or partners ??? Why can't we except people for who they are ??? Is it that hard to understand that everyone comes with their own stories and experiences ??? Can't we love without putting conditions on our love ??? Why are we so quick to point flaws in other people, but ignorant of our own short comings and faults ??? Why are we good at giving advice, but too blind to follow it ourselves ??? If everything is ultimately from God, then so are my thoughts, feelings and prayers ... So I'll leave it to Him and accept whatever He has destined for me ... Maybe these things are our tests ... Maybe people fail to see the blessings that are placed in front of them ... Maybe people need to come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love ... Something to think about ... The answers may be beyond our limited understandings ... It's absolute knowlegde belongs to the One Who created creation when creation was not worthy of mention ... (c)

As for my father ... I love you dad, more than words could ever be expressed ... What you've given me, I could never be able to repay you ... You are a father, a friend and a teacher ... I am honoured to call you my dad ... And I pray that you are elevated to the highest station in both this world and the next ... I don't know if I've ever made you proud of me, but my heart aches in anticipation to hear those words come out of you one day ... But I can say that I am the proudest son, because I have you as my father ....


I love you,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

- Jafar Alam

Un-noticed ...

Un-noticed ... Un-touched beauty ... That's the real beauty ... When the whole world is busy, caught up in their own drama, dealing with whoever they want, screwing up their lives and everyone else's who comes along ... I want to be the only one noticing the rain ... Watching the sunset ... Is there anything more beautiful than being by yourself and watching the sun fall ??? ... Looks like God put some kind of glow on the world ... Right outside my window, when the sun sets down, that's the most beautiful site I have ever seen ... It looks the same ... Nothing changes ... Same glow shines right into my window ... It's almost peaceful ... I want to notice the sun rise every morning, when the rest of the world is sleeping ... I want to notice the full moon and countless stars at night, when the whole world is partying ... Maybe somewhere, someone will be noticing all these things too ... Maybe, just once someone will notice ... Maybe we'll see the same thing at the exact same time ... And the same thought crosses our mind ... Or the same feelings sweep upon us ... Un-noticed (c)

Immortal Technique ...

The devil grows inside the hearts of the selfish and wicked
White, brown, yellow and black colour is not restricted
You have a self destructive destiny when you're inflicted
And you'll be one of God's children and fell from the top
There's no diversity because we're burning in the melting pot
So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never
Because the dance with the devil might last you forever

Rumi ...

My friend you thought you lost Him ...

That all your life you've been seperated from Him ...

Filled with wonder you've always looked outside for Him ...

And haven't searched within your own house ...

Some Rumi For Your Soul ...

Don't surrender your lonliness so quickly ...

Let it cut more deep ... 

Let it ferment and season you ...

As few human or even divine ingredients can ...

Something missing in my heart tonight has made my eyes so soft ...

My voice so tender ...

My need of God absolutely clear ...

The Happiest of People ...

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything ... They just make the most of everything that comes along their way ... The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past ... You can't go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches ...

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling ... Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying ...

Wheresoever Ye Turn ...

Do not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively, so that you may disbelieve all the rest ... Otherwise you will lose much good, nay, you will fail to recognize the real truth of the matter ... God, the Omnipresent and Omnipotent, is not confined to any one creed ... For He says, "Wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah" - (Qur'aan 2:115)

It is reported that the Messenger of God (PBUH) said:

God is beautiful and He loves beauty 

It is God who made the world and brought it into existence 

The entire universe is therefore supremely beautiful

There is nothing ugly in it 

On the contrary 

In it God has brought together all perfection and all beauty

He whom God has illuminated sees Him in all things ...

- The Sufi Mystic Ibn al-Arabi (born 1165, Spain), (May God sanctify his noble soul)

God is with you wheresoever ye may be (The Quran 57:4)

In My Soul ... Rabi'aa Al Adawiyya ...

In my soul

There is a temple ... A shrine ... A mosque ... A church ...

Where I kneel

Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist ...

Is there not a region of love where the sovereignty is illumined nothing ???

Where ecstasy gets poured into itself and becomes lost ???

Where the wing is fully alive but has no mind or body ???

In my soul

There is a temple ... A shrine ... A mosque ... A church ...

That dissolve ...

That dissolve in God ...