Sunday, June 2, 2013

Navigating the Quagmire...

The life we lead. It is not a known quantity.
Quality, tempered by achievements, and the lack thereof. Or so we think...
The human mind is small. Insignificant in fact. Comprehension of the vast untold is an unobtainable fantasy. One best left undesired. A firmly stated fact, one our scientific minds have yet to accept.

Today I saw a tree, Bent in ruku (well, not today...this post has been sitting, drafted, for far too long). I pass this tree almost everyday(when I pay campus a visit that is), yet one glance, one enlightened glance, and this sublime act of worship was breathtakingly manifested.
Like a cataract, sometimes we look but don't 'see'.

We strive, we struggle. The question to be answered though: for what?
It is an ill purposed, misaligned guidance that leads our lives.
Like the moth, drawn to the allure of light, we let this fantastical temptation more commonly known as 'the world' lead us.
We lie down, the martyr;  unsuspecting, unknowing...to what have we sold our soul?
This world. Hooked as we are, everyday...
A fallacy.

This guile of deception that is Dunya. An attack on the very spirit of who we are, Who we ought to be.
When a man no longer recognizes truth, he fights...with ardor...The willing martyr of a deluded course.
Our barriers are shorn...to draw us in has become no tough ask.
Drawn in, on journeys of wavering convictions. Journeys of perceived joy, imagined ease, and ill-defined success. A veneer of happiness. Nothing, but surface coating to the deeply rooted rust of our lives.

I think it is time we break these shackles. Stand defiant to worldly expectations, and live for truth and sincerity.  Perform that operation maybe, remove the blinding cataracts of deception.
Like that tree, submission.
In simplicity lies the key to this success, or so I'm told. Stand tall in submission.
Let the quality of our life be defined, not by the misinterpreted success of a false life, but by definitions of success as yet unknown to us at a personal level. The annals of history are replete with shining examples. For us though, our success, we need nurturing. Definition, at a level compatible with the thought processes of you and I.  For this.. to be defined.. guidance is in order.
Tangible guidance.
A challenge, to you and I!

Our logic is no true guidance, we would do well To accept, To understand, To believe, To follow this simple truth.
Logic would have us believe, Have us act. Induce mannerisms contrary to all ethics and principles of Deen.
Our logic is nothing but arrows of the devious. 
No man is safe from temptation, more so in a world of ludity and crudity.
Like the ignorant martyr. We are all guilty.
A sad day when the struggle is, in fact, nothing but a tumor. An obstacle to true benefit.

So once again. A challenge to us all.
Seek that guidance. Reap those rewards. Define that success!