A TIMELY REMINDER TO SELF

News of sickness, especially sickness which carry the penalty of imminent death strikes to the core of your being.

Be it a stranger, more so of a loved one, your first reaction would be to deny the reality. Try as you may, to push it away, it just wouldn't budge.

But think of it...knowledge of sickness actually empowers you to draw strength from the well deep within. Somehow, time is such a luxury, every breath is a gift from GOD as it should be, and nothing...nothing you wouldn't give to bring back yesterday when you didn't know and it's all okay. But time, past will not return.

Al `Asr (Time) Surah 103

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Time is witness that, surely, mankind suffers loss,
except for those of faith,
Who do good, and become a model of truthful living,
and together practice patience and constancy.


All these may propel you forward..to become a solihin or push you to the brink of despair.

In Yusuf Ali's translation of the Holy Quran Al Baqarah (2:286)

On no soul doth God Place a burden greater than it can bear. It gets every good that it earns, and it suffers every ill that it earns. (Pray:) "Our Lord! Condemn us not if we forget or fall into error; our Lord! Lay not on us a burden Like that which Thou didst lay on those before us; Our Lord! Lay not on us a burden greater than we have strength to bear. Blot out our sins, and grant us forgiveness. Have mercy on us. Thou art our Protector; Help us against those who stand against faith."


HAVE FAITH...AND PRAY. WHILE THERE IS LIFE, THERE IS HOPE