They have the power, they can decide

They can destroy and they can hide 

They can laugh, when it suits them

They can be sad and can always cry

They know the things, they know them all

They can do evils, and can still stand tall

They make us cry, they make us sad

They have all the right to declare us mad

And we,

We are the powerless, we are the used

We are the ones you have most bruised

We can’t decide nor can we choose

We have no fate, it all seems loose

We know nothing, we have no clue

We have the world, that’s all so blue

We have most cried, we are so sad

 And you have all the rights to declare us mad

Death of Stephen hawkings have left most of the world sad. That wheel chair bound man spent 55 years of his life in constant misery, apparently, but the same suffering led him to a great deal of breakthroughs as well.
Stephen hawkings liked to explored universe. He liked to know what universe is and most importantly, he wanted to know why it is the way it is?
Well, I and professor hawkings shared this interest in knowing the universe.... With a little difference of him knowing alot of it, and I on the other hand, knowing none of it.
I also liked this man so much because he always appeared to me a man with strong will power.
But don't know where he lost it when he said he doesn't believe in God. I used to pray for his Iman because I really liked him. But.. whatever has become of him is only known to Allah now.
Through him, Allah SWT. Has shown us all that even when you are unable to move a muscle, if you want to make a difference, you CAN . Better it be the one that helps us in akhira too. Its always the matter of our own choice and Robert devalia, chose Allah

What is the most horrible thing a human can possibly go through? Pain, Fear, Suffering? To me, the absolutely most horrible thing a human can under go is Grief. Its a state of constant chest congestion and heart ache. The moment grief strikes till its over, one gets through hell.

Can grief be used as punishment? YES. It is written in Quran that on the day of judgement, some people will be grief stricken. 

[003:106]  That day, some faces would be bright (and radiant with joy), and some faces would be darkened (and grim with grief). Those with darkened faces (will be told), “Aren’t you those who rejected (the truth) after having believed (at first)? Now taste the torment! (It is) the result of your rejection.”

When sad, nothing looks good. Hope vanishes and future looks bleak. World looks dark with nothing good to ever pass through this wormhole. Interesting thing is, world outside is the same, its just the perspective that changes. Imagine living in this state of mind for ever and ever. With absolutely no chances to ever recover ! This will be the punishment of those who will be destined for hell.

May Allah save us all from such a state where there is no chances of death  with constant suffering. 

ADULTERY

our age unlike all the other ages in cursed with adultery so much that over 75 million people across the globe have become porn-addict.
if we were able to travel back in time, we would see that 20 years ago people still had to spend some pennies to satisfy their evil desires but today with a huge amount of data on pron available on internet just one click away, people do not have to spend so much as a penny compared to what they can see and get from internet. the number of porn addicts is rising day by day and the amount of material as well.
mostly, youngsters are found indulged into these activities more than the aged ones, why? because the age where thoughts are still shaping and childhood is not completely lost, young minds find thrill in knowing what according to them is forbidden. and some opportunists have grabbed this opportunity and have bombarded the internet with free ( almost free) pronographic stuff.
how can we save ourselves from such attractions? OR how can you save others from this evil?
the answer is simple, our religion provides us with multiple cures the best of them is to love and fear ALLAH. when we love ALLAH we look for every possible way to please HIM and when we fear ALLAH, we avoid every possible evil act.
our beloved prophet Muhammad saww said;

BUKHARI Volume 8, Book 77, Number 609:

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:
I did not see anything so resembling minor sins as what Abu Huraira said from the Prophet, who said, "Allah has written for the son of Adam his inevitable share of adultery whether he is aware of it or not: The adultery of the eye is the looking (at something which is sinful to look at), and the adultery of the tongue is to utter (what it is unlawful to utter), and the innerself wishes and longs for (adultery) and the private parts turn that into reality or refrain from submitting to the temptation."

so,  to avoid it 100 percent is not possible, but this hadith makes it easy for us to understand that we can still avoid this sinful act as much as we can. on another place Prophet Muhammad saww said;

MUSLIM Book 033, Number 6422:

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying. Allah fixed the very portion of adultery which a man will indulge in. There would be no escape from it. The adultery of the eye is the lustful look and the adultery of the ears is listening to voluptuous (song or talk) and the adultery of the tongue is licentious speech and the adultery of the hand is the lustful grip (embrace) and the adultery of the feet is to walk (to the place) where he intends to commit adultery and the heart yearns and desires which he may or may not put into effect.

this hadith further explains what befalls into the category of adultery, and from this hadith we see that the things we thought nothing are actually adultery. so here we find further help into this matter. then in another hadith beloved prophet Muhammad saww indicated the last age of human race on planet earth and how would be the affairs then;

MUSLIM Book 034, Number 6452:

Qatida reported that Anas b. Malik said: May I not narrate to you a hadith which I heard from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) which no one would narrate to you after me who would have personally heard it from him (the Holy Prophet) (as I have the good fortune to do so)? -" It is from the signs of the Last Hour that knowledge would be taken away, ignorance would prevail upon (the world), adultery would become common, wine would be drunk, the number of men will fall short and the women would survive (and thus such a disparity would arise in the number of men and women) that there would be one man to look after fifty women.

from the above hadith the current state of affairs in our world reveal. don't we see adultery as a common thing today,  which has become  close to nothing!
with all unlawful material at hand, we might not fear our society or even our families but we still need to fear ALLAH. ISLAM is solution to every problem, the need is to find it out.

ultimate

neither my beauty nor my logic
nothing could work for me
when i tried to try my self
i found no way to flee
we never like to think of the realities
we always have a world of fantasy
world of fairies and world of myths to see

deceased souls

if soul dies too early....earlier than the body
what is to survive
what is to last
what is the loss and what is the gain!!

what is to cry for
what is to fear
what is to join and what is to tear
what is to live and what is to remain!!

what is to look for
what is to hide
what is to seek, and for what is to strive
what is to have and from what to abstain!!!

if soul dies too early, what is to remain!!

a visit to my soul
i was on stairs and it was pitch black, i could not see anything at all. i was taking each step carefully , it was so hard to judge the depth i was going into because i was going down and down, all by my will not because some one had compelled me. 
finally steps were over, it was plain floor now. i was bit relieved because all the way down in pitch black, i feared to fell down. 
any way, i moved ahead. still it was dark --- dark and silent. now it was not darkness which scared me but that silence was scary. i could hear my blood pumping through my veins--- yes that silent. 
i might have walked for 5 more min. when for the first time in hours i saw a tiny white dot. i stopped and guessed what that tiny white dot was, but could not make any sound guess. so i went further and further till that white dot grew and grew and at a point i understood that it was light, and there i was so exited and happy to see light for the first time in hours of my travel in pitch black silence. 
now i was walking briskly because my eyes wanted to see something, any thing. after covering some more distance, now darkness was disappearing and i could see shadows. i had never seen such shadows before. they were tall pillars like objects but light was not enough so i could not think more. 
as light grew more and more, i was now able to see things more clearly. it was as if some one has turned on a torch light in dark room. there were things i had never seen before. they were strange structures. some horrible faces, some bushes of thorns and some dead bodies and some tall buildings which was so de-shaped that i was extremely terrified by looking at them. 

i wanted to go out , go to some where, any where but out of that horrible place. i moved fast , and was desperately looking for an exit when i took a turn and there i saw a green tree, which was covered with yellow followers and beneath that tree there was a small patch of lush green grass, on that grass was sitting a man in white clothes. his clothes were so white that i never saw such a white color in my life before. 
that grass was so green that i could never think of any green, which could be compared with that green. and the tree, it was also something so beautiful that i could not think of any tree to compare it with. 

i moved towards the man and when i reached near him, i asked him about the place i was. he heard me and looked above, WHAT---it was me!! yes it was me, but that ME was so beautiful so different and so pure that i went speechless. i could not say a word , my eyes were wide open. after recovering from that sudden shock, i got scared again, and this time i was more scared than ever before. 
i said in almost un-audible voice "who are you?" but that man could hear me, he said "i am you." i stepped back a little, i wanted to run away but he suddenly spoke up with gentle tone "don't be afraid and sit down here, with me". i sat down as if all my powers to think were jammed. 

he said; "you have come a long way to meet me. the way you have crossed to reach me was your heart and mind. and i am your soul." 

but when did i came there to meet him, i thought , but he could hear my thoughts as well , he said "yes, you wanted to meet me. remember before you went to sleep tonight, you were crying and you wished to meet me and see me and ask me what was i doing inside you."

"yes, i was thinking all that but how could i be different from my soul." i replied, and now i as not that scared, but very puzzled. 

"you made a wish and here i am. you called you LORD and HE has this ability to do anything and every thing which we can not imagine." and then paused for a min and said.

"you are not happy with your life. you think world is the worst place to live and that your stay here is not making a point. you have recently lost the girl you loved for last 5 years. she left you because you are not that rich. your friends are not sincere with you, as you think. your peers are plotting to let you down in the eyes of your boss so that your upcoming promotion can be stopped. you always run out of cash and have to pay heavy interest on your credit card. and there are many more problems with you".

"yes, it is true, but why are you mentioning all this? what is this place? why am i here? why only this place , where you sit is bright and every other place is dark?" i asked him.

he said ," you are inside you, as i said, you wanted to meet me, so to reach me you have covered this distance from your mind and then from your heart. this is my place inside you. and why my place is so small is only because of you. why your mind and heart are so dark is also only because of you. those ugly faces, dead bodies, and those horribly de-shaped buildings are you actions, small and large, and your true face." 

"what are you talking about?" i was angry thing time, but he did not loose his polite tone and spoke in soft voice again

"yes--- you know you are so un-grateful for what you have. and what you have in not achieved by a huge number of people. you earn well, but spend without thinking. you earn from haram and halal sources alike. you spend your money on haram and halal without fearing ALLAH. you do not think about your akhirah, you only want to live in this duniya happily. you only want to die when you fail in achieving something. you blamed ALLAH, and you cried and you complained tonight for your losses without thinking that it was no one's fault but your's. all that darkness in your mind and heart is your suffocating thoughts and wrong intentions. because of your attitude, today i am left with only this small place inside you. when you were born, you were bright from inside, you started to grow darker and darker when you forgot ALLAH and lost yourself into this world which is not reality. your reality is me. i will be there with you on the day of akhirah, not these desires. wake up before you sleep for a long long time. because of you, i don't want to burn in hell, please save me from that horrible place, please change your attitude"

and he started crying, and i too was crying. and then---- i woke up, my face covered with tears and my heart beat extremely fast. that was a dream. 
was that a horrible dream or a reminder... for me that was reminder. 
a part inside me was still pure , so i decided to be pure and be bright again. it was my right to be bright, it was my responsibility to be bright and it was my success to be bright. 

CATHARSIS

sitting alone i give a thought
to the time that could not last

how i spent my life so far
how can i erase those sinly scars

how much time i spent in vain
how much time that was never plain

as i think my tears fell down
as if a king is to give up his crown

how much i loved those few
who could not give my share that was due

as i think on further and further
i believe i was alone with no other

i was alone when i stepped into this world
i'll be alone when i leave this place

what i cared for was not for me
and now, who can hear my cry and plea

all those buddies are busy somewhere else
probably doing the same more or less

i am alone despite of the crowd
of which i was once so happy and proud

my dear LORD forgive me for all my deeds
YOU are the one of i'm always in great need

THE WIN WIN CONDITION

"And how can you have patience about a thing which you know not?" (18:68) Al-quran 

this is the most beautiful explanation ever, of the human psyche on uncertainty. how? a simple example is when you are about to know your result, those few last moments will be the most lengthy and irritating moments of your life. 
when you are planning to do something, you will remain under constant fear of negative outcomes.
you are taking a decision and the other options continue to haunt you.
you are to choose between two things and your heart does not seem to satisfy on either.

i.e. you want win-win condition for yourself in every walk of like, simply because the unseen future haunts you. the coming unseen makes you restless and you are always impatient.

the above verse is taken from surah kahaf of al-quran. this verse is taken from the story of hazrat moses a.s. and hazrat khizer a.s. khizer a.s. was given the knowledge of unseen from ALLAH swt. while moses a.s. joined him in order to learn that knowledge. but since, he (moses) was unaware of the happenings and outcomes and reasons of happenings, so he continued to show his impatience. 

so, for ALLAH swt there is every thing certain and sure but for us things have been kept uncertain for the simple fact that we should keep our trust in ALLAH and we should be sure that whatever HE does, is for the betterment only.

apparently, somethign might look bad or cruel, but the reality behind it is neither cruel not bad , its always in our favor. in reality we are always in a win win condition. there is no loss IF only do not loose our hopes.

that bird which flies so high
in that mighty sky
why it does not go down
what keeps it to fly
i always wonder why
that bird does not die
when it touches the height
its move might not be right
but there is an answer there
which says there's some one to care
that someone who can hear us all
when we think ahead is a deep fall
that someone loves us right!
with all HIS power and might
i love you oh my ALLAH
for your love, and care which you have for all