The coming 1426 marked the already passive 'dead' Muslim community throughout the chaotic world. A billion Muslims but few gathered to be united under one faith. A billion Muslims but few remain ever faithful towards islam. A billion Muslims but few had the pride to be a true Muslim.
A sunset it seems to be, but hopefully it will be a solar eclipse. The evildoer reigned the globe and the pious ones become the scattered flocks. The light of truth seemingly becoming vague each day. The powerful sun seems to be abandoning the earth and the force of darkness prevail without any strong fight from the defender of truth.
all the noises that dumbfound us,
the clatter and the clamour of the clutter of our lives.
Cars and streets make silence shatter,
idle minds fill up with idle chatter,
if we fill our void that’s all that matters.
Why are the drums so silent?
Why can’t we hear the rhythm?
What’s wrong with you and I?
Why are the drums so silent?
Why can’t we hear the rhythm from the heals of believers
marching to the garden as they strive?
We’ve digitized The Revelation.
Does our rehearsed recitation
go any deeper than our throats?
go any deeper than our throats?
Our calls to prayer seem to rise up to the sky,
conferences and lectures, seminars for you and I,
the words that blow away with anasheed that make us cry yet,
Why are the drums so silent?
Why can’t we hear the rhythm?
What’s wrong with you and I?
What’s wrong with you and I?
Why are the drums so silent?
Why can’t we hear the rhythm from the heals of believers
marching to the garden as they strive?
If we can just be brave enough to be each other’s mirror
we may finally recognize the face of conscience that we fear.
And if we take the time to mute the noise we’ve built around ourselves
the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear,
If we beat the drum… (a whisper of peace…)
Beat the drum… (moving through the land…)
Beat the drum…
If we beat the drums of hope and faith
we will all fall into rhythm, I have faith in you and I.
If we beat the drums of hope and faith, then we will feel the rhythm
from our footsteps and our striving,
marching to the garden as we try.
Dawud Wharnsby Ali - Why Are The Drums So Silent?
The long remembered exodus/hijrah but few learned and practised the real essence of those hardship. The Companions are long gone and they have set the standard for us to emulate. They have achieved the peace and the serenity of this world through wisdom they gained and learned from Rasulullah and al-Quran, yet to many people today, al-Quran is just a matter of free time to be read once a year and an issue of tradition.
New year comes, but how many hesitate to progress to a better life?
One year gone, but to what extent are our achievement?
On the authority of Ibn 'Umar, radiyallahu 'anhuma, who said: The Messenger of Allah, sallallahu 'alayhi wasallam, took me by the shoulder and said:
"Be in this world as though you were a stranger or a traveler/wayfarer." Ibn 'Umar used to say: "When evening comes, do not expect (to live till) morning, and when morning comes, do not expect (to live till) evening. Take from your health (a preparation) for your illness, and from your life for your death."
[Al-Bukhari]
"Be in this world as though you were a stranger or a traveler/wayfarer." Ibn 'Umar used to say: "When evening comes, do not expect (to live till) morning, and when morning comes, do not expect (to live till) evening. Take from your health (a preparation) for your illness, and from your life for your death."
[Al-Bukhari]
Becoming a stranger is an easier choice than a traveller. The stranger is usually prepared to eventually go back to his original place or home town. His heart will always long for his home. His main concern will be in preparation to do whatever possible and beneficial for returning. A stranger does not look like the other people in his current environment - he is different.
Ibn Al-Qayyim, a famous Muslim scholar, says that a Muslim is a stranger amongst the disbelievers and the Mu'min is a stranger amongst the Muslims, and the Muhsin is a stranger amongst the Mu'mins.
A traveller is one that always travels days and nights without stopping and heeding towards his final destination. If he stops for a while, this is to provide himself with the needed power to continue his journey and to go farther until he achieves his main objective. A stranger might obtain and keep more things than he actually needs but the traveler takes as little as possible in terms of luggage or other things.
Yet many Muslims dare not to be neither a stranger nor a traveller. To them, the world is their ultimate dream and it is the final destination. Many people aghast when death struck. Prepare or not, the death will come to you eventually. Be prepared!
It is time for all of us to reflect and progress. Not the time for us to complain, regret nor lament on the past. Let bygone be bygone. Let us turn a new chapter into our life. Open it with endurance and fill it with wisdom. May the force of truth be upon us. May the light of truth shine again.
Let the vibrant of truth echoes throughout the vast universe....
wallahuallam.
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