Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Toshinobu Kubota - La La La Love Song (arranged)

Monday, December 12, 2011

When Time Is Done With Us



"When Time is Done with Us"
By Ruhudeen Ali
12/12/11

The peculiar thing about the passage of time is that when we're young we focus on getting through the year so much so that our days pass by unnoticed. When we're older we focus on getting through the day so much so that the years pass by unnoticed. What you focus on stays in sight, what remains in the periphery slips by unannounced. What you wish to speed up passes ever slower and what you wish to slow down passes yet faster.


While burning aflame 
the firewood sees not the pyre wane 
But when the fire is gone 
And the smoke remains alone
What care do ashes have in which way they are blown?
When the fire is gone
The days and nights will moan
And everything and nothing goes wrong
Swaying to and fro, either way I mourn.

When time is done with us
We realize over what we fussed
But all that was, was enough
When looking back, why'd we ever scoff and lack trust
When all that ever was, was but a moment with love?

Beautiful Dua

"O God, forgive me my sins of which you are more aware than me. And if I commit these sins again, even then forgive me. Whatever promises I had made with myself to follow Your commands have not been fulfilled. I seek Your forbearance if I have sought Your proximity with my tongue, but my heart did not keep pace with my tongue, overlook my lapse. O God, forgive me for my futile talk, vain desires and lapses of the tongue." (Ameen)
- Dua of Hz. 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (ra)