The Wrappings of Gratitude

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

In the Name of Allah Most-Compassionate, Most-Merciful

I pray you are all doing well insha’Allah. Its been a while since I’ve committed pen to paper during these times of deep reflection. A gift from Allah, a gift of time to reflect on ideas that many have not been granted for which I am eternally grateful. It has indeed been a pleasure and honour for me to have written these posts over the past few months, and to have shared my thoughts and ideas with you. And insha’Allah I will continue to do so for long as my Lord wills. What I would like to begin with is a retrospection of the ideas I have written about. These ideas that are universal and timeless. Like a well crafted time piece, if defined with precision, it is unaffected by time or space. Likewise are the eternal concepts of love, the highest of which is Divine love; beauty, the highest of which is Divine beauty; and knowledge, the highest of which is sacred knowledge.

The Quran, one way to look at this book of guidance and wisdom, is as a book of universal and timeless concepts. Our lives are governed by concepts, and given that over nine-tenths of the Quran deals with concepts and not laws, in this alone is a sign. It is essentially these three concepts of love, beauty, and knowledge, that will appear as the thread that binds itself to the fabric of the constant of all constants. The One Who is eternal, everlasting, without limit, beyond infinite. Allah. Because these are concepts not constrained by anything, being governed by Allah Himself, is the reason we love them so because their truest definitions are not subject to change. And this is because neither the Quran or Sunnah change, although how we understand them can and does over time. This is where we are in this moment in time in history. A time where there is general confusion about the true defintions of these ideas. Thus, it falls upon us to seek the best for this beautiful faith by searching for the highest, noblest, and purest definitions of the concepts such as love, beauty and knowledge. And how could this faith not be beautiful and blessed and honoured, if the prophet, salallahu allayhi wasallam, the best of creation himself, has been chosen to be its leader…..