Hibernating months are over

Hibernating months are over, now its Rising above the Storms. Finally it’s time to meet beautiful inspiring souls like sister Yasmin Mogahed, the author of Reclaim your Heart. Insha Allah. We have not met before, but she is one of the amazing souls who inspires me to write, to move on courageously and love for the sake of Allah.So, come let us join the program by Yasmin, an inspiring sister. We can register online through http://almaghrib.my/ilmnight/

May Allah ease.

Each day is a gift

Each new day is a door to a new world

(The Words, p. 280)

Each new day is a beautiful gift from God; let us learn to accept the gift; let us open it with great joy and with deep appreciation, trusting that the door of each new day opens for us to keep on learning; believing that only the Giver of life can teach us the true meaning of life.

This is freedom

Bismillah

Sharing my final musings in my final months  
in Universiti Putra Malaysia (2006-2016).

Someone asked me: How do you feel after you have converted to Islam? I answered: I feel free. How do you feel after you have been deprived of your rights? I answered: I feel free. How do you feel being thrown into the middle of the ocean? I answered: I feel free. How do you feel being pushed down from a 24 story building? I answered: I feel free. How do you feel when you are left on your own searching for the meaning of life and quest for knowledge? I answered: I feel free. How do you feel being an immigrant? I answered: I feel free.

Then the person said: But why my friend???

Live and Believe

In the name of our Most Merciful,Compassionate God
Positive people attracts us while negative people distracts us,
Positive actions encourages us while negative actions discourages us
Positive aura is inspiring but negative aura is draining
Stay close to the positive ones and avoid the negative ones.
Never let them ‘burn’ our energy, ‘kill’ our enthusiasm
Just be strong, move on with passion and full Trust in God
Keep striving; we will never be deprived of mercy and compassion
As God is the Most Merciful,Most Compassionate,
Seek His touch of love and His touch of mercy,
Believe in what we are doing; believe that God’s Promises are true
Only the believers are those who have survived
‪#‎myfinalUPMstudymonths‬

beautiful autumn age smile

23th April 2014 at University of Istanbul

The Istanbul Foundation for Science and Culture arranged an outing program for us and Talha and Yucel guided us for the short trip… The cool air with the summer heat correlates into a beautiful summer breeze whirling the tulips in the land where beautiful historical places set silently despite the years of the struggle for humanity, morality and most of all for spirituality settings………While walking on the streets in Fatih, Istanbul, with friends from every angle of the world, we reached at University of Istanbul..we saw a group of young ladies gathering to capture the moments in front of the main building..and suddenly from the midst of these young ladies an old women appeared...she was struggling down the steps with her bags..and I told Talha, that lady might need our help, then all of a sudden he ran up the stairs but to our surprise she refused any help, and she smiled beautifully and walked down the stairs with Talha…and she kept on saying something in Turkish as she placed her hand on her chest as we left her…she is a mother, a grandmother…her beautiful heart is reflected through her beautiful autumn age smile..Masha Allah, Allah has beautiful plans for beautiful souls.

The amazing lady we met at the uni

Sharing an amazing extract from Risale-I Nur:

“One time at the start of my old age, desiring solitude, I retired to Yusha Tepesi, Mount Joshua, away up the Istanbul Bosphorus; my spirit was seeking ease in loneliness. One day on that high hill, I gazed around me at the broad horizon, and I cast a glance from the high position of the forty-fifth branch, that is, the forty-fifth year, of the tree of my life to my life’s lower levels. I saw that down on the lower branches each year were the countless corpses of those I had known and had loved, and with whom I had been connected. Feeling a truly piteous sorrow arising from parting and separation, thinking like Fuzuli-i Baghdadî of the friends from whom I was parted, I wept:
As I recall their company I weep,
So long as there is breath in this dry body, I cry out...
I sought a solace, a light, a door leading to hope. Suddenly belief in the Hereafter came to my assistance, shedding an inextinguishable light, offering an indestructible hope.
Yes, my brothers and sisters who are elderly like me! Since there is the Hereafter and it is everlasting, and it is a better world than this; and since the One Who created us is both All-Wise and All-Compassionate; we should not complain and regret our old age. On the contrary, in so far as with old age one reaches perfect maturity through worship and belief, and it is a sign one will be released from the duties of life and depart for the world of mercy in order to rest, we should be happy with it.”
(extracted from The Twenty-Sixth Flash Treatise For The Elderly[This Flash consists of Twenty-Six hopes, lights, and solaces.])

Sorrow Prepares us for JOY

Going through emotional  stress, pressure,  tensed moments can be very stressful..but calm down, we just need to pause for a few minutes, and seek God’s help deep from our heart…and Remember God as it can ease our stress…..God knows our pains, He wants us to remember Him..don’t give up, move on with faith…Truly God is with us, He will guide us through…we just need to have Faith and move on in openness and acceptance that God’s test is to bring us nearer to Him.

A beautiful message

I received a beautiful message from a beautiful soul which inspires me each time when I read it making me realize that Allah has beautiful plans for beautiful souls and  Allah beautifies the beautiful souls with the fragrance of roses through His love and mercy….. .

Here is the beautiful message by a Turkish imam which was sent to me on the 3rd of February 2014:

“May Allah always help you. And He will always help you as long as you are at His door knocking and begging. If every single one of His creation rejects you He will never forsake you for He is the Most Merciful Most Loving. Every difficulty He sends your way is to draw you to His Nearness if you endure it bear it lovingly and patiently. This is His way. Do not complain Him to His creation . Build/repair/fix your relationship with Him, then he will give you tranquility and peace in your heart beyond measure even if your physical being was in turmoil and pain. You will be a perfumed garden of roses in your inner although your outer might be going through tribulations of life even being tested  by your closest ones. May Allah open your path…”

with much love and light,
nur

Profound lessons

One of the beautiful but sad hard truth that I have learned since I have  reverted to Islam is people can lose their sense of humanness, humility, compassion, empathy and sensitivity when their hearts are unable to internalize the Islamic morality no matter how EXPERT they claim to be in their field directly or indirectly. And another beautiful sparking truth that I have learned is those who reveal their sense of humanness, humility, compassion, empathy and sensitivity are those who are able to internalize the Islamic morality making themselves the extraordinary amazing beautiful souls who spread the fragrance of roses…Masha Allah... Thank you Allah for the profound lessons of life....

with much love and light,
nur

Walking in God's Light

Watching the beautiful dawn unfolding at Jugra Hills near my home.

On a beautiful hill at the moving coolness of  dawn, a perfect time to contemplate on our imperfectness...I rekindled and reflected on my experience as a revert sister going through intense emotional hardship and stress as God's test for me, i realized that i was actually blind all through out the years of my reversion to Islam.  When i turned my face to Him, He lead me to a spiritual awakening and opened my heart and the healing process begins.

When we our opened hearts, ever seeking Allah's love, mercy and redha on this spiritual journey by God's will, we will go through an amazing experience where no words can heave as we grow in spiritual maturity.One the lessons that i have learned is when we have Allah's love in our hearts..we will have no worries of this worldly affairs..we will not feel the hurt and pains as  when we put Allah in our hearts the amazing healing process brings us serenity and happiness...yes, Allah is all sufficient for us and when He truly becomes our lover, we will have no rooms for another lover..making us lead a gentle, beautiful harmonious and serene life in the realms of Allah's love and light.....Hasbunallahu wa ni'mal Wakeel    Allah is Sufficient for us and (He is) the most excellent Trustee (Q3:173)

May Allah grant us humble hearts filled with His illuminating Light...
With comfort and serenity,
Nur