Ramadan Journal '18 | Week Three
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Day 15 | Ocean
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| Left: Baltic Sea Right: North Sea |
وَهُوَ الَّذِىۡ مَرَجَ الۡبَحۡرَيۡنِ هٰذَا عَذۡبٌ فُرَاتٌ وَّهٰذَا مِلۡحٌ اُجَاجٌ ۚ وَجَعَلَ بَيۡنَهُمَا بَرۡزَخًا وَّحِجۡرًا مَّحۡجُوۡرًا
"And it is He who has joined the two seas: one sweet and palatable and the other saltish and bitter; and He has set a barrier and an insurmountable obstruction between the two that keeps them apart - Holy Quran, Surah Furqan 25:53
مَرَجَ الۡبَحۡرَيۡنِ يَلۡتَقِيٰنِۙ بَيۡنَهُمَا بَرۡزَخٌ لَّا يَبۡغِيٰن
فَبِأَيِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ
"He unleashed the two seas so that they merge together, and yet there is a barrier between them which they may not overstep
So which of the favours of your Lord would you deny" - Holy Quran, Surah Ar-Rahman 55:19-21
Day 16 | Unbreakable
He chose you.
Do you feel the gravity of those words?
He. Chose. You.
The One who created the sun and the moon and the stars in all their majesty, who mapped out countries separated by the infinite depths of the oceans, who said "be" and so the flowers blossomed and the animals thrived and the first man to ever walk this earth took his first breath after being fashioned from just a speck of dust, He chose you.
He calls you back. Time and time again. Because billions upon billions of years ago, He chose your soul to be gifted with the gift of faith. He declared you worthy. By some miracle, against all the odds, He somehow deemed you and I worthy of believing...and tell me now, does that not make you of the unbreakable?
Do you feel the gravity of those words?
He. Chose. You.
The One who created the sun and the moon and the stars in all their majesty, who mapped out countries separated by the infinite depths of the oceans, who said "be" and so the flowers blossomed and the animals thrived and the first man to ever walk this earth took his first breath after being fashioned from just a speck of dust, He chose you.
He plucked your soul and breathed into it wisdom, whispered into it knowledge. He bestowed upon it an incontrovertible truth, placed within it faith in something not quite of the material world and spoke to it in a foreign language that your soul still clings to with a familiarity that it can't quite put its finger on. And sometimes the words are forgotten, the tongue slips, but yet somehow you always find your way back to Him.
He calls you back. Time and time again. Because billions upon billions of years ago, He chose your soul to be gifted with the gift of faith. He declared you worthy. By some miracle, against all the odds, He somehow deemed you and I worthy of believing...and tell me now, does that not make you of the unbreakable?
Day 17 | Death
“Do something instead of killing time, because time is killing you.”
—
Paulo Coelho
Day 18 | City
T H E G R A N D M O S Q U E | P A R I S
| mosquee de Paris |
Day 19 | Quote
if Allah (swt) can turn night into day he can turn your burdens into blessings
Day 20 | Illusion
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| "The life of this world is no more than an illusion" - Holy Quran, 3:185 |
Day 21 | White
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| INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE, PARIS
مَنْ سَلَكَ طَرِيقًا يَلْتَمِسُ فِيهِ عِلْمًا سَهَّلَ اللَّهُ لَهُ بِهِ طَرِيقًا إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ
“Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the path to Paradise" - Sahih Muslim, 2699 |
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