Like a caged up wild animal, we too are enslaved. We are restricted by our lower desires. We are imprisoned by the insidious machinations of shaytan. We are confined by the attractions of this alluring world.
All the while thinking we are free.
The caged beast acknowledges its condition, constantly looking for a way to free itself. What about us?
We must aspire for true freedom.
We must free ourselves from our spiritual shackles.
And when the wild animal sees an opening, it pounces on the opportunity, never looking back, never thinking twice.
We, too, must make the jump. We, too, must flee to freedom. We must flee to the Source of freedom, Allah (swt). We must run without any hesitation. We must escape our chains of spiritual bondage.
Thus flee towards Allah (51:50)
Where else are you going to flee?
Who else is more merciful and compassionate?
Did He not command his prophet Musa to speak words of gentleness and softness to the defiant one (Pharaoh) who so arrogantly claimed to be the lord, most high (20:44)?
Then what about us, who humbly prostrate ourselves while glorifying Allah the most High? Will Allah not show us even greater gentleness and softness?
So indeed, we all should flee back to Allah, where we shall find true freedom.
And never look back.
Just don’t call it genocide
1 week ago
1 comments:
This reminds me of something else.. I read a book called "Wild" by Jay Griffiths. It's an interesting book, although rather anti-religion. In it, she speaks of humankind's wild-ness and the various ways we have become lost to our wild selves. She makes some interesting points, but she feels religion is one of the things that has stifled and opressed our wildness, which has in turn contributed to so many of the world's ills.
Being a Muslim, I disagree with this particular outlook. It occurred to me that she's got it the wrong way around. Wild = nature. Therefore, anything that is natural is wild. And Allah is the essence of 'natural', Allah is where nature and wild-ness comes from. And to have an understanding of our natural or wild selves is to have an understanding of Allah.
So, by this philosophy, when people stifle, opress or ignore their wild/natural self and surroundings, they are in fact moving away from Allah... it is surely THIS which is contributing to the world's ills.
Anyway, I liked your imagery and it made me think so I thought I'd share it :-)
Assalamu alaikum
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