Safs world

This life is but merely a spec of your limitless everlasting life. Yet this spec of time and   the manner in which I spend this spec dictates my Afterlife and herein lies the dilemma of life. How do I make it meaningful? When survival on its own is so harsh! Don’t get me wrong though - I am by all means the most privileged (SubahaAllah!!) person. My dreams became a reality, a dream that I only ever imagined to be just that: “A DREAM” actually happened! I have a brilliant career and I work for a company that I only ever dreamt of working at. I am married to a wonderful handsome man. (this Allah through His infinite mercy blessed me with! I didn’t make this dua. My dua was for a wonderful understanding partner.. so good looks is my bonus! Alhamdullilah) I have been blessed with so much to be thankful for and I am thankful, but this great life is such a deterrence from what is truly important, the little things in life. The time to message my loved ones or the time just t...

I have always meant to read the great literary classics and finally I managed to read Great Expectations. It is truly the lesson of life in general. When we are young we have no expectations, then we grow up and we have these great expectations which we outgrow very late in life. We have this idea of wanting to be better than what we are and where we come from, to advance to something great, we chase social improvement but then again is it worth it? Perhaps Charles Dickens sums up the upper class society very well, as people who constantly use lower class people to their own advantage and fancies, like in Pips case, and everything he "thought" or perhaps "hoped dearly" didn't turn out the way he dreamed it would. In a nutshell it is the great misconception we live under- a romanticised life which we all dream of. Life will never be as glamorous as we hope it will be, as Pip finds out. It will be a simple life, like the lives of Joe and Biddy. Charles D...

It has been a hectic long couple weeks from the middle of March to now. Alot has happened, it has been hectic, sad and disappointing but nevertheless ... I have learnt along the way: That life is short and when it ends unexpectedly it will be a shock but there will be very few people who will realise that it's time for a re-evaluation! Make the most of your life, live it to its fullest and do whatever you can with the people you love most! What other people say about you is REALLY none of your business When people who you think really care about you say hurtful things about you, stand up and smile and be kind to them because my very wise sister told me:Whatever people may say about you is between them and God but How your react to what people say about you is between you and God! A very inspiring teacher once told me: "Don't hate the person who harms but only hate his action" I heard a moulana say on his Friday Khutbah: "You will never be accountable for y...

I read this quote in my work diary this week and it really sank into me. It's so true, Life never turns out the way you expect it to, in fact it rarely even lives upto half of your dreams that you had of it! Sadly its so true, there you are a quater of a century old and still trying to get somewhere in life, still stuck in the life that you hoped to grow into something more fuller, perhaps a a loving partner, a happy marriage,a good career and the hopes of starting your own family. It evetually hits hard that you still trying to get somewhere in life, still haven't met the person you've been waiting for, still haven't even finished that degree that you've been doing for the past three years, and there you are sitting and analysing your life wondering if you are ever going to get there! Wondering if in the next 5 years if you would still be at the very place procrastinating and stuck in the rut of a job that was only supposed to temporary, keeping it going for everyb...