Learn to see each moment as it’s own birth–entirely separate from the moment that proceeded it, and from the moment that will follow. Each moment is a new existence, a new world in which we will be born and will die. Our problem is that we become enslaved to the moments that have passed, enslaved to old worlds that have already passed away. But in reality, more than a thousand times a day, we are born. Yet many of us choose to just let ourselves die again and again, as each new moment fades. We forget that each birth is a new opportunity to start over, to turn around, or to keep going. To rise higher, to heal, to grow. To be different. Better. Each new moment calls for transformation, renewal, return. Tawbah. But we’re too busy dying.
- Yasmin Mogahed.
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I agree with the sentiment, especially since we could die at any *moment*, but I don't really like how it's phrased. It just make me think of everything being all broken up, into tiny pieaces. Not being whole. Missing the bigger picture. I prefer the whole living each day as a new day, a new chance thing. But if in that day, you get bogged down, there's no reason why you should decide to stay down for the whole, when at any moment, you can decide to pick yourself up again.
"How many people find fault in what they're reading and the fault is in their own understanding" Al Mutanabbi
I don't get it, how are you supposed to cry over your past sins if you supposed to just forget it and carry on?
Hadhrat Uqbah bin Amir (Radhiyallaho anho) once inquired of the Prophet
"What is the way to salvation?"
He replied: "Hold your tongue, stay indoors and cry over your sins."
Hadhrat A'ishah (Radhiyallaho anha) once inquired of the Prophet
"Is there anybody among your followers who will go to Paradise without reckoning?"
"Yes," replied the Prophet, "the person who often cries over his sins."
There is another Hadith, in which my dear Master, Muhammad
has said:
"No drop is more dear to Allah than two drops; a drop of tear shed
in the fear of Allah, and a drop of blood shed in the path of Allah."
The above blog may not be talking about sins. And if it is, it's not gna be against repentance. It is just saying to pick yourself up instead of staying down.
"How many people find fault in what they're reading and the fault is in their own understanding" Al Mutanabbi
Think of it like this - Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day, so see the goodness and rise above all those not-so-good moments.
And i've just read something i like and i don't know where to plonk it, so it'll just go here: 'Be like walking feet. The foot in front has no pride and the foot behind is not ashamed because both know, their situation will change'.