On Eid Ul Fitr 2011

First of all, I would like to wish the whole Muslim Ummah a very happy Eid, and I pray to Allah, may he forgive all our sins on this glorious day and i send a lot of tributes, Salam to our beloved prophet.

You will find this post to be unusually cool and calm, and I, myself do not wish to spark another debate by saying a word on burning topics like Gaddafi and Hazare on this special occasion. This is to tell you a very interesting thing, yesterday, while i was busy in Eid shopping, I suddenly felt that I am a big sinner, i had not utilized the sacred month of Ramadhan. My heart raced with fear and my breath just got deeper and deeper and at once I felt my lips fluttering, reciting this:

"O Allah, We praise you, you are the praiseworthy alone. Surely I have done many sins, knowingly and unknowingly, but my lord, I seek your forgiveness as you are the most merciful, O my lord, save me from the Satnic provocations, the Satan out there and from the Satan that is within me, Save me from fire."

After this, I felt like a cold breeze blew all over my blood and i was feeling like blessed. The purpose of telling you all this is that, when you are really and really regretful and guilty of your sins by heart, there is no reason that our Supreme Lord will not forgive us. May Allah guide us to the right path and may this Eid bring you a lot of happiness, blessing. Thank you for reading.

Love and its goal

When I talk of love I don't mean something that you might have seen in movies. The real love is a bit different, or at least in my case. I don't hesitate to accept the fact that a strange new feeling that is non-expressible, which we often call love, has been to me one time earlier. Consider my case, there is a girl I liked, I had a big secret LIKE for her since long, but i did pay no attention toward anything else. For example, even being a classmate i didn't talk to her, i would say nothing, and so she would. And I kept liking her. Day by day, this strange new feeling increased. Whenever i would think about her the heart beat raced. Why did not i say anything? The problem is, i have a deep 'respect-like thing' for her and next, my heart starts throbbing in front of her. It may sound a little weird but it is true that one may have such feeling for the one he/she loves.
Finally one day, i thought about telling this to her and then came up a question atop my senses: what is the final goal of this LOVE? This left me puzzled, do I want physical relations? No, currently, not at all. Do I want anything else? There is nothing to wish. so what do I want? What is the goal of love? The ultimate goal of love is sacrifice or to give away, the goal of love is the willing to share all of what you can, since no one, nor any thing last forever. And in fact, there is no need to create the goal of love, the goal is love itself. If you have an attraction towards someone’s beauty, not the whole existence, character, behaviour and all other things, then it is not love. This is what I believe. Most of the times, we notice 'love' only with an opposite gender person of our age but love has no such restrictions, it may happen with your mother, father, teacher or a professor. Here I would like to quote one answer to this: "The Ultimate ‘goal’ is to love without limits, boundaries, conditions, or expectations. Expectations can lead to disappointment which can in turn lead to hate. Now whether this goal is realistic or not is another question."