Eccentric Human's Eccentric Thoughts on New Year
Assalamu Alaikum WRT WBK.Its the first of January and the new year.I opened my mailbox to see it flooding with new year wishes. samething happened to the inbox in my cell fone. Like others, u wud be expecting me to say Happy New Year now, but that's not what i m writing this for. Its just that on this day of new year my eccentric mind has got blocked with some eccentric thoughts and i was just thinking if i cud block your minds as well.
I know its new year, and many of us have wasted lotsa money and time wishing others 'happy new year', but i want to know if this new year is 'HAPPY' at all. maybe it is, for me, it really is. cos what don't i have? a closet full of 'good' clothings, 2 drawers full of'normal' clothes, a rack full of shoes, .. a loving family to love and take good care of, a full bunch of friends to roam around and share all bits and pieces of my colorful life with, and to eat- don't ask me- few days back we had Eid, and I am not finished yet with the feast..... And what don't i have...hmm... i will tell u later.. have to think abt that.
Now lemme tell u abt this sister of mine, who had more than what i do, who used to study like me, who had a loving family, good food , good clothings, and everything to live happily......... but, suddenly, just because she is an Iraqi/Afghan/Chechen Muslima, she had to lose everything.. she still is more beautiful and brilliant than me, but she has lost everything else-friends, family, home, love, education.... dreams! i guess her luck was worse than me.... now she has no home, no food, no family.... IS IT A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO HER?????
Its winter here now, and i brought out 3 jumpers,don't know when to wear those though.. and each night I sleep so cosily, its a hard task to get up in the shivering cold and pray the fazr prayers.. and after the prayers i feel like going back to that cosy bed for another sleep..when i m sleeping, i see good dreams, but never do i think of those people, those who lived always in the footpath-who don't have a single cotton dress to cover themselves from the shivering cold.. who spend their nights outside in the fog.. who never can think of affording a jumper to wear... those people might have been covering themselves with the last piece of torn cloth they have, while some of my brothers and sisters were dancing beside them, celebrating 31st night. Do they know it's 'HAPPY NEW YEAR'??
Mayb u didn't forget to thank your friend who gave u a tiny new year gift- but did u remember to thank Allah who has kept u living till this new year??(actually His gifts are so common and great in number that we take it as granted, and never remember to think what wud have happened without those)
Lets think abt those people who lost everything in the recent SIDR or the months-long flood that had prevailed in our country.. Thousands were left alone without any shelter, any home, any food. Though the government is assuring and re-assuring that none has died from lack of food-we know the reality is totally different. Many are still struggling to recover.... IS IT A HAPPY NEWYEAR TO THEM???
Did we remember to thank Allah for not including me among those unlucky people? did we ever think what big mercy He has done to us? where wud we have been if we were among those death people?Let's just close our eyes for a minute and think... (damn, i can't dare to do that , not for even a second).. but that IS an eternal truth.. That IS our last address..the dark grave..where we ALL will have to go one day. can we think abt that?? well, i can't..
So lets cum back to new year... well, who knows, Allah forbid, mayb this new year will take us to that address..is it time for us to celebrate new year? still, when we don't know what is going to happen to us in the coming year...mayb u r saying, we r celebrating cos we are still living, and have overcome the obstacle of the last year... u remain with ur ideas..
Did u lose any of ur relatives last year?mayb not anyone close to u, but u may have lost someone a far-relative to u, what are their close relatives thinking.. ?? many lost their mothers, fathers.. or anyone close,. are they celebrating a 'HAPPY NEW YEAR'?let's imagine ourselves in their positions.......................teet.. my imagination software is not working- i haveto stop imagining.ok, now the year has gone, and it is never gonna comeback..
lemme think abt the past year,, how many good deeds did i do?? (i think i can count with my hands) how many Ayahs did i memorize, how many nights did ispend in zikr of The Almighty, did i ever bother torecite the Quran with its meanings and try to activate upon it? how many Islamic books did i read, how many islamic programs did i attend? If i start writing the answers, it won't cover up a page, ask these questions to urself.. is it same to u? on the contrary,what if i ask, how many nights did i spend watching movies? how many movies did i watch (or shud i ask how many didnt i watch, to make the list small??) how many hours did i spend watching 'bogus' dance programs or music programs? how many songs did i memorize (is it more or less than the number of Ayahs of the Quran?) how many concerts did i take part in?how many new friends did i make in the net.. how many hours did i spend chatting worthless subjects like 'weather' with them? i don't think i can finish counting... pls forgive me. give me a minute to stop and start thinking.. these hours will never come back, i will never get that 2007 that went away. i will never get back those wonderful times i have spent with my friends and family, never ever again.. and the time i have wasted.. there is no use rather than to regret for it.. even if i repent, that time will not be mine again.. Do I feel like celebrating a 'HAPPY NEW YEAR?' .. for me, the answer is no, think the answer for urself.
just imagine, what if u were in that place of your iraqi/Afghan/Chechen sister, or ur poor cold-stricken brother, or ur brother who lost everything in the devastating SIDR.. put your feet in their shoes.. what wud be ur new year plans??? wud it be 'to live' or to'suicide'??or celebrate????
the new year that has come, do i know what is gonnahappen to me this year? the muslim (terrorist) world is under threat of the HUGE Superpower.. what if ur country is the next target?? what if an earthquake hits and half of the world gets under the ground.. ... think for urself.. i can't type anymore..had i been among those who died in SIDR,would i go to hell or heaven?? did i ever have to think that in my busy days?? think, and just imagine what wud happen if u were not allowed to add anymore good deeds to ur bag- wud it be enuff to take u to heaven?? if not, what wud u do.. can u think??
well, i m trying to, but my mind is getting blocked.
Now that another new year has come to our lives and weare still living by the Grace of Allah to think and decide.. what should we do this new year?? isn't it time for us to start doing the accounting? if we don't have enuff good deeds to balance our sins, thanks toAllah that we are still living.. but this might be our last chance-let's not forget to utilize the best of it!!
If this writing was able to touch your hearts and make u move, don't start thanking me, go thank the Almighty..all praise be to Him. and pray for the muslims.. sothat they all can realize what they shud do on this day of new year, include me in your prayers.. so that i don't just stop here, transferring my thoughts(whichi m good at).and that i can start activating as well (which i m worst at).May Allah help us all realize, and grant us the right path! Ameen!
And for those who came home late after celebrating 31st night, and are thinking i have wasted ur time by with this loooong and boooring post, .. its up to u to decide.. when u won't be able to go to heaven just for the lack of a few good deeds,( i pray we all can make it to heaven), don't blame me on that day. and if u r thinking , "ok , i agree with u, but i can't miss the new year party my friend is holding today", - i don't have anything to say.. except-"enjoy!-life is short and meant to enjoy, but when it will end, don't regret!" its not end yet..
one more fact to add.. well, mayb ur thinking i m a great thinktank, or so and so, but actually i just have these eccentric thoughts sometimes (so i post them up in my blog).. but i m really a very bad person.. so please pray for me, so that i can activate whatever good i m thinking..
and for those who are still thinking u shud celebrate new year, do u celebrate the 1st of Muharram?? or didn't u even know there is such a day?well there is ,and that is our new year. thanx for spending (is it completely a waste?) ur valuable time, reading this.
"WE CAN ONLY SEE WITH OPEN EYES,
WE CAN ONLY HEAR WITH OPEN EARS,
WE CAN ONLY THINK WITH OPEN MINDS"
MAY ALLAH OPEN THE MINDS OF ALL THE PEOPLE ON THIS DAY.
AMEEN.
(don't mind the spelling mistakes. I had written this as a mail on New Year 2005 and sent as a mail to my contacts-didn't know how else to express as I wasn't a blogger then. This year the same thought came back to me- so I did slight modifications and published again here-couldn't get the time to correct all those brief words)
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posted by eccentric_human @ 5:26 PM
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