Badr Ali Qambar
The burdens of life are many, its pains are many, and its worries are endless, and with them the breath of a new day emerges before us, new in all its circumstances, and new in people’s beliefs, opinions, and the ways they deal with us, and the reflections of their love and the impact they left in our lives. Every new day we discover something new, and we realize that we are in dire need of correcting the course, relieving pressures, removing the pitfalls of the soul, staying on the path, and the covenant that we made to be good within ourselves, living for God Almighty alone, leaving behind all other boring evidence, and setting clear boundaries for toxic relationships or those that we discovered are no longer what they were, because we have gone out of the framework of the space of daily interaction, and they have become mere memories on the margins, the effect of which has faded with time.
* Imam Hassan Al-Basri says: “O son of Adam, you are only days. Whenever a day passes, part of you disappears.” The greatest wealth a person possesses is his time. We must be very careful that time has value, impact, and is a good investment in the life of our journey. Let us be careful to leave our mark and impact everywhere we set foot. We purify our intentions, and make all our deeds sincere for the sake of God Almighty. We are honest with God Almighty in all our endeavors. We are like a mole among people. We do not care about pleasing people, and our names are not linked to specific places. Rather, they are linked to the impact we leave, which will be said later. A long time ago: “He was here and left the most beautiful impact.”
* Our lives go by quickly, and our times pass like clouds, and we lose loved ones and friends in the blink of an eye. These are divine messages that we fight the poisons of heedlessness and the whispers of Satan, avoid attachment to this world and its enjoyments, and turn to attachment to the afterlife, and to be tools for goodness in every field. We seek to beautify our times with goodness, and adorn the hour of departure, so that we journey toward goodness at all times, and prepare for the beautiful departure with the most beautiful ending, after a long life in obedience to the Most Gracious.
* My dear friend, do not stop at every incoming and outgoing thing to examine its signs, and interpret everything that passes in front of you as negative suspicions. Then you burden your heart with worries, and burden your heart with tracking down pitfalls. Then you do not trust yourself, nor those around you. Rather, you believe that everyone who works with you is in the circle of “accusation,” so trust only some minds whose style you like that is close to your heart. We need to rise above all of this and change in a way that requires good for us and develops our outlook on life. We are happy with the moment, with loyal loved ones, with close family, with unforgettable moments of giving and impact, and with times of obedience, worship, and celibacy in the hands of the Most Merciful.
* We need to address the abandonment of lost battles, in which we lose our psychology and our health above all else. These are battles whose burdens we must throw to the abyss of eternal oblivion. We need to say: “No” to many things, and stay away from those bad stations that are full of suspicions, reproaches, reprimands, and inappropriate, vulgar words. We stay away from those personalities who excel at insulting and belittling the value of others. Such personalities do not deserve to be given the time of our lives.
* I miss Friday, this beautiful, peaceful day, full of goodness and rewards, the weekly holiday, in which we must make the best investment. A day of contemplation, self-examination and life lessons, and contemplation of life, its seasons and conditions. A quiet day gives you great energy for other days of your life if the breath of life remains, and pushes you to more determination, effort and giving. The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, says: “The best day on which the sun rises is Friday. On it Adam was created, and on it he was entered into Paradise, and on it he was expelled from it, and the Hour will not come except on Friday.” The day of reciting Surat Al-Kahf, giving alms, praying for the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and supplication, according to the words of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace: “Indeed, there is an hour on Friday, during which no Muslim asks God for good, but He gives it to him.” He said: “And it is a light hour.”
* Life is beautiful with people who appreciate your giving and production, and consider you an influential assistant in their lives. It is beautiful when someone sits in front of you and listens to your chants of feelings and sensations, while you talk about everything that is on your mind, and about your influence and mature experiences that you learned from in years past. It is beautiful to constantly renew your life, with a comfortable family session, a trip with friends, and a trip in which you renew your faith or activity. It is beautiful to have a Qur’anic session in which you teach others to read the Book of God Almighty, memorize it with a new memorization, or review a previous memorization. Beautiful morning and evening remembrances, and praises in which you remember your Lord: “Indeed, in the remembrance of God do hearts find peace.” It is beautiful to make your family and loved ones happy with a beautiful gift, a kind word, a sincere smile, a compliment to moral beauty, and laughter at situations that lacked joy. Beautiful with the kindness of our hearts, our sensitive feeling, and our sincere love for the faithful and loyal, and with those places full of beautiful memories, and with our safe homes, when we change their furniture from time to time to enjoy in the lush shades of the world.
A flash of hope: Sheikh Ali Al-Tantawi, may God have mercy on him, says: “Every passing life teaches us a new lesson, but the wise man is the one who memorizes his lessons and does not repeat his mistakes.” He also said: “Be careful not to underestimate a small act of kindness. How many a kind word has changed a person’s life, and how many a smile has saved a desperate heart.”
