Last Year

First of all I can’t believe that I have kept this blog running for over a year now hamdulillah. I hope it has helped or impacted at least one person out there. July 23rd, 2006 was when I created this blog and throughout the year I have learned much from this very interesting blog world and hamdulillah have benefited from it as well. This day last year [August 13th, 2006] I posted a video, a video that I’m sure many of you have seen. I came across this video through one of those e-mail forwards and when I watched it tears came rolling down my face. I am not sure what it was, perhaps it was the faces of the people in the pictures, maybe it was the words of the song in the background, maybe it was the shocking truth to the words in the background, or perhaps it was juss all of them combined; Allahu Alam. But whatever it was it still happens each time I watch the video and I think this video is just a reminder of how thankful that we all should be. If we take a look at ourselves, the life styles that we have, the places we live in and realize how truly blessed we are and that there are not enough Thanks that we can give to Allah and yet there are some that do not even give a single thanks throughout their whole life time we should feel some sort of shame taking over us. Growing up my mother always told me, “Look at those below you.“ This is definitely one of those, “Easier said than done,” situations but I know first hand that it is very beneficial if we keep this in mind throughout our everyday tasks. I mean when I’m shopping, or having dinner, or having a family dinner party, or even when I’m driving by myself I wonder and begin to think to myself of how spoiled I am. Hamdulillah I have so much but I don’t give my Rubb the time that I am supposed, I don’t give the thanks that I am supposed to, and yet at times I have the nerve to say that I need more.

رب اغفر لي و ثب علي اءنك اءنت التواب الر حيم

Rabbighfirlee was tubt ‘alayya innaka antat tawwaabur raheem

Forgive me and pardon me. Indeed you are the Oft-Forgiving with compassion ad Ever Merciful.

Well here is the video, the song in the background is called Look Into My Eyes by Outlandish:

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