Toshinobu Kubota - La La La Love Song (arranged)

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)