Chaotic Venting – Part II
June 26, 2006
I just finished praying fajer and lay back in bed, trying to fall asleep…..when my cellphone rang.
It’s been a really long time since I’ve gotten a call in the early hours of the morning. I looked at the caller ID, to find that there was no number…just a “Call”. I was actually contemplating whether to pick up the phone or not – eventually I did.
Miles away, I heard the voice of a very good, old friend. He was breathing heavily….and painfully….so painfully that I could feel his agony.
He told me that he had leukemia.
June 26, 2006 at 11:18 am
Well Farah looks like life is showing you its ugly face ….I can’t think of anything that can explain why these things happen to good ppl or at least to those we know they’re good. I thought about this many times and I never got a reasonable answer except that life is not fair and we have to face it with faith. Hope ur friend gets better wo inshalla he will heal from leukemia.
June 26, 2006 at 12:51 pm
Farah Inshalla he will be in good health soon! Inshalla!
But I do have 1 comment, Life is NOT fair and we have to face it with faith? contradiction?
Isn’t ALLAH (that we believe and which is supposed to be our faith) the one who makes life?
In my humble opinion, Life IS fair, but we dont understand the reasons.
June 26, 2006 at 9:38 pm
I don’t believe that we should always look for answers. Sometimes we never get to understand why things happen to us – and that is in most cases for the better.
Allah created this universe to perfection – I love calling it His Perfect Design. It really is. Every little detail that is beyond our scope is accounted for. So why hassle our indespicable minds with issues that are way beyond our comprehension?
I don’t know how to pass a judegement on Life’s fairness or unfairness. I don’t even know if it really matters. If things were perfect for us, Allah would not have put us on earth in the first place. If we didn’t know what it’s like to be Sad, we’d never know what it’s like to feel Happy. The same goes for other emotions.
Faith is the most beautiful spiritual asset a person can ever acheive. Because it brings with it immeasureable strength, patience and even optimism, to pass what most would generalize as an “unfair life”.
June 28, 2006 at 10:06 pm
Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone’s eyes.
UNKNOWN
May allah see it just to cure your friend and may he have all the happiness any human requests and honours .. Long life anf Liberty from pain ..
Arr. Derci
Look to this day,for it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.
For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore to this day, such is the salutation of the dawn. —
The Sufi
July 1, 2006 at 8:29 am
Im sorry about your friend. But as you said Farah, life is fair and all happens for a reason. Hang in there with your faith and prayers for him. Faith alone can cure the incurable.