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Sweet Sixteen
The bright neon needles of the German-engineered deafening clock shone on the dressing table of my unusually ‘cold’ and eerie room. Half the night had passed without even a wink of sleep. Spending the entire day at the mall, where I ‘shopped till I dropped’… I was exhausted, weakened and drained. So badly was I ‘bushed’ that I thought that my eyes would slam shut even before my head hit the pillow.
Tossing and turning since 22:30, I tried to cool myself, pacify my brain …
Do we REALLY Care?
It was winter and a very bitter one after many years. It was not a sight that I wished for. A severe blizzard was striking up outside and I needed to take out the garbage before the garbage truck could pull up.
As I stepped out, I noticed in the distance the figure of a poor homeless woman clutching on to her baby, with nobody to take care of her. She was standing all alone at the traffic light waiting …
Repentance
Correspondence of Hazrat Moulana Yunus Patel Saheb (rahimahullah)
Letter:
As Salaamu ‘alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakaatuh
Maulana, despite having spent 5 years at madrasah, and being occupied in the service of deen, I still find myself weak with regard to nafs (the carnal self) and Shaitaan. I still fall into some sin or the other. This makes me very despondent and a feeling of darkness envelops me. I carry out some good actions and then spoil …
