Musings of Sumi

The beauty of being broken. The beauty of being broken is knowing that only Allah truly understands. Those that are going through difficult times, know that with hardship will come ease. Use these difficult times to turn to Allah. Truly He is the Most Merciful and if we have Him then everything will be okay. Here is something I wrote during a testing time. She found comfort when she knelt to the ground She didn't want to get up again She wanted to feel close to her Lord She found comfort when she opened the Quran The words of Allah she read Such beautiful words had never been said She was hurting in a way she had never hurt before Sometimes she felt her heart was gonna break And she realised her mistake She was looking for comfort in creation When all the time she had her Creator And as long as she had Him she would be okay

Smashing the Jewel There was a king who had many servants. One of these servants, who went by the name of Ayyaz, was especially beloved to him. There came a time where the king told his servants he wanted to test their IQ. He placed a jewel in front of them with a sledgehammer next to it. He then told his servants to break the jewel. One by one, the servants spoke about the value of the jewel and gave a reason why they would not break it. At last it came to the king's most beloved servant Ayyaz. Ayyaz placed the jewel on the floor and smashed it to pieces. The king asked Ayyaz why he did so. Ayyaz explained that he had two choices: to disobey the king or to smash the jewel. Ayyaz further explained that in his eyes the king's orders were worth far more than the jewel. Now let us compare this to our lives: how do we respond when the King of King orders us to do something? Our forbidden desires can be likened to the jewel. Are we willing to "smash our desires" fo...

Beauty of Creation And I gaze in wonder at the beauty of Your creation And I wonder sometimes How beautiful must You be my Creator How beautiful must You be oh my Maker And for those of you who ask for signs Have We not given you enough signs Which of Allah's favours can we deny? Just look at the beauty of the sky   And the trees, the sun in the day and the moon at night How every single person is different, so beautiful in their own way How some people are filled with beauty in everything they say And I gaze in wonder at the beauty of your creation And I wonder sometimes How beautiful must You be my Creator How beautiful must You be oh my Maker

Sacrifice Our religion is a beautiful religion. A beautiful religion that requires sacrifice sometimes. Are we willing to sacrifice our desires, hopes and dreams for the sake of Allah?  Islam is a perfect religion and we have been taught clearly about what is right and wrong. Sometimes what is right may not coincide with what we want. It is at this point we need to assess our priorities. Are we a slave to Allah or are we a slave to our desires? On the day the scrolls are read, will we be happy with our decision? If we chase the world, we will lose out on the world and the hereafter. The next world is eternal. To jeopardise our eternity for this temporary world is foolish indeed. Decisions may be made in life that people do not understand. People will not lie in our graves. We will lie alone and the only thing we will take with us is our deeds. There are three questions we are going to have to be able to answer. The first one being: "Who is your Lord?" Let us ask ours...

Salat the second most important pillar of Islam I remember standing up to pray one day and someone saying to me: "Are you excited to pray?" I had never thought of it like that. When we pray we are meeting the King of Kings. We are meeting the Lord of the Worlds. We should be excited to pray. We are speaking to our Creator. Salat is not a burden, it is a beautiful gift from our Lord. The sad reality is today many Muslims do not pray five times Salat. Salat is the second pillar of Islam. It is second to faith. Our Lord has bestowed so many favours on us, yet many of us cannot even bow down our heads to pray. Five times Salat is compulsory wherever we are. Is it really worth disobeying our Lord simply because we are at work or a wedding? Iblis was the first one who refused to prostrate and he was thrown out of the heavens. We do not want to make Iblis happy by not prostrating. We want our Lord to be happy with us. For those of us that do pray five times a day, this is not...

To those that are struggling To the people who feel like they cannot go on To the people who feel all they want to do is cry To the people that feel like sometimes they want to die To the people who need something to believe in To the people who sometimes struggle breathing To the people who feel like they are worthless To the people who feel like they are a burden on those they love To the people who feel like the world would be better off if they were not in it I want to tell you You are a fighter You are a survivor You are amazing and beautiful People love you and you make a difference You are special and you are unique So keep on smiling and keep on fighting May Allah SWT help all those that are struggling around the world

Weddings This was a message I received the other week: "Moulana Yunus Patel rahmatullahi alaih mentioned : A sister wrote a letter to him stating, ‘As much as we wait for weddings in the family, the problems that come with them far supersede the true joy that should be experienced at the time of a wedding. So when my first cousin got engaged, the decision to make it a wedding to remember brought on the same financial, social and other burdens, which weddings, that are held to keep up a high standard, bring. There was plenty of expenditure. A lot of cost was incurred. Since I have a little Deeni knowledge, Allah Ta’ala gave me the ability to understand that if I attend a wedding of this nature, then despite everything, I am also part and parcel of all the sins that will take place and that I am no exception. I realised it was necessary that I adamantly refuse to attend. Even though I initially did, I was pressurised and told by my mother that I will have to attend. We were ...

Madinatul Munnawarah Our hearts have been left in Madinatul Munnawarah The place where our Habeeb SAW is laid to rest Our hearts have been left in Madinatul Munnawarah Where there walked Al Amin whose character was the best We are yearning to go back Our hearts have been left in Madinatul Munnawarah Its beauty we cannot explain From the peace in the air To the echo of KalamaAllah and the beautiful Azan We could have walked where our Beloved PBUH walked We could have sat where he talked The only place where we can say Assalamualayka Ya Rasulullah And though we know we are not worthy of meeting him We pray we meet him again and again Oh Allah take our souls away in Madinatul Munnawarah, with the kalima on our lips when You are pleased with us. As it is Friday send abundant Durood and do not forget to pray Surah Kahf.

Friendship What is friendship? Before you read on I would like you to answer the question yourself. If you asked me this question years ago I would have said “Friends are people that are there for you no matter what.” Recently my mindset has changed. A very inspirational woman told me in Palestine “If your friends don’t support you when you try to become closer to Allah, they are not really your friends.” Friendship is supporting each other in religion. It is encouraging towards good and forbidding evil. On the Day of Judgement friends will run from each other if they have influenced each other in a negative manner. Friends should remind us of Allah. What use is a gathering of friends if it is devoid of the remembrance of Allah? A bad friend has been likened to a blacksmith whilst a good friend has been likened to a perfume seller. Some of the dirt may end up on your body from the blacksmith or some scent from the perfume seller. If we have friends that use disgusting swe...

Surah Hijr Surah Hijr Hazza Al Balushi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UaYKCA2-ZM This truly is a beautiful recitation and translation.

Losing my brother On October 31 st 2017 I got a call to say that my brother passed away. Innalilahi waina ilayhi rajiun. May Allah elevate his status in Jannatul Firdaus and grant my family sabrun Jameel. Losing my brother taught me a lot of things. He passed away at the age of 23 and it was a reminder that life is so so short. Tomorrow could be the day we return to our Lord. When we hear about the death of older people it is almost as if we expect it. My brother was only 23. Every single one of us will return to our Lord and be answerable for our deeds. May Allah make us from those that enter Jannatul Firdaus without reckoning. My brother passing away is a reminder to all those close to him, a reminder that tomorrow could be our day. One and a half years prior to his passing, my brother became very ill. Prior to his illness he used to hibernate in the masjid for large periods of life. He was always telling me if I did something Islamically wrong. This led to me getting my back...

The month of my healing I am going to tell you a story and it is a story of my healing. I am going to tell you a story about the way I have been feeling There were days so dark that I could not get out of bed And voices in my head told me I would be better off dead There were days when I would just cry and cry And there were days where I just wanted to die There were two times in my life where I wrote a message saying bye And then came the most beautiful month And I knew that it would be the month of my healing I feel like a completely different person There are people that won’t understand The words that they will say Are why don’t you pray? But I know it’s hard Because I have been there And I didn't want to move I could happily lie there for hours and not do a thing But then I read and heard  the Quran Made Dua to my Lord every single day Attended gatherings which told me the meaning And through...

Why is following Allah’s commands looked down upon? Why is following Allah's commands looked down upon? Why is the lady who covers ups from head to toe seen as too much but the one who keeps up to the latest fashions looked up to? Why is the woman who segregates herself from men seen as odd but the woman who talks openly seen as sociable? Why is eating in a place that serves alcohol acceptable, (when our religion completely forbids it) but refusing to be seen as being awkward? Why is the word “religious” seen as an insult? What is so wrong with trying to get closer to Allah? Do we love Allah? If the answer is yes shouldn’t we be trying to follow his every command? This a short post I wrote about being a lover of Allah. We call ourselves lovers of our Creator We call ourselves lovers of the One who made us But are we lovers in actions too? Do we stay away from that which displeases Him? Do we remember Him before we sin? Do we take enough time out to stand ...