one more day in Cali....
Assalam `Alaykum ya alls!
`Alhamdulillah I have one more day in Cali! I don't think I will be able to sleep tomorrow night! Please everyone insha'Allah pray for the sisters who are coming from Canada as their passports were not stamped with the visa to enter Saudi! Unfortunately, the organizers just told them they will have to delay their flights and leave on August 3rd (which is a day after the program actually starts)! Insha'Allah may Allah make the rest of their journey easy for them and may He reward them for their patience and struggle inshaAllah! Ameen!
I can only imagine how these sisters may be feeling right now. I know that even when I was reading the e-mail that had a list of those who had their visas approved and stamped from the U.S., my heart was racing just so I could see my name. What was even worse was that I was checking my e-mail on my blackberry (this cool gadget that work has provided such that we can use it to check work email wherever we go, and make any work related phone calls), and I was scrolling down the list to see my name, and just when I clicked so it could go to the next page, the phone stopped working because my battery was too low! So I had to wait in anticipation until I got home to check my e-mail just to see that my name was on the list, and alhamdulillah it was! I know that I would be devastated if I found out that I didn't get my visa and that I would have to wait and be missing part of the program! So insha'Allah may we all keep these sisters in our dua` [prayers]!
Alhamdulillah today my boss had a division retreat at her house for us (there's about 8 girls who work in the department I work in), and I realized how trully blessed I am to be working with such genuine individuals and I really am spoiled for this to have been my first career-job after finishing school. I can only pray that everyone else is able to work with such sincere and good-hearted people who you truly enjoy working with and can learn from their goodness! My boss treated us out to manicures/pedicures and we ended the day with going in her pool (or just putting feet in)! [This was after the fact that we spent a morning going over our division's values and doing some team-building exercises.. so yes we did work!]
Anyway, I have been making some "goodbye" phone calls, and I never realized how hard it would be. I'm not good at saying goodbye, and inshaAllah this is more like a "see you later" deal, but in all reality, I've had soooo many feelings emerge inside of me this past week, and these feelings just enumerate immensely on their own as minutes go by. SubhanAllah just to reflect on the past and learn from those lessons and I pray to continue to dedicate (yet increase in my dedication of course) my life to working for Allah. As the hadith goes, Allah wants us to take advantage of 5 things before 5 things, one of which being our youth before our old age. I've also been thinking that seriously we should be living every day as if it is our last; rather, every second as if it is our last. We should constantly be repenting for our sins and constantly be improving ourselves and be watchful of our actions and what we say, what we see, what we listen to, etc... such that we are not afraid to die because of our wrong actions/deeds! We should yearn to meet our Lord; so really, what have we prepared for it? The asahaba [companions of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him] and many true believers die/have died with a smile on their face; why? Because at that point when they're dying is where they know where they are going to go inshaAllah--either to Heaven or to Hell-- and at that point they can die having faith that their struggle will now be rewarded by meeting their Lord and inshaAllah going to Heaven! I can only pray that I too die in this state, uttering the shahada [testament of faith that there is no God but God and that the Prophet Muhammad is his last and final Messenger] as my last words, and yearn to return to Allah!
SubhanAllah I can only pray that my `umrah [lesser pilgrimage] be accepted and insha'Allah if it is, it is known that you return with your sins forgiven. Insha'Allah may this happen so it's like we're starting off with a clean slate in a sense. SubhanAllah just to think that if we knew what we know now (not to say we really know anything because there's soooo much more we need to learn about this beautiful faith!) when we were born... how much we would have done differently. So now, it's like inshaAllah after returning from hajj/umrah, our hearts are pure, and we better give our ownselves the due justice our soul deserves!
One more day you guys... one more day.... insha'Allah.....
`Alhamdulillah I have one more day in Cali! I don't think I will be able to sleep tomorrow night! Please everyone insha'Allah pray for the sisters who are coming from Canada as their passports were not stamped with the visa to enter Saudi! Unfortunately, the organizers just told them they will have to delay their flights and leave on August 3rd (which is a day after the program actually starts)! Insha'Allah may Allah make the rest of their journey easy for them and may He reward them for their patience and struggle inshaAllah! Ameen!
I can only imagine how these sisters may be feeling right now. I know that even when I was reading the e-mail that had a list of those who had their visas approved and stamped from the U.S., my heart was racing just so I could see my name. What was even worse was that I was checking my e-mail on my blackberry (this cool gadget that work has provided such that we can use it to check work email wherever we go, and make any work related phone calls), and I was scrolling down the list to see my name, and just when I clicked so it could go to the next page, the phone stopped working because my battery was too low! So I had to wait in anticipation until I got home to check my e-mail just to see that my name was on the list, and alhamdulillah it was! I know that I would be devastated if I found out that I didn't get my visa and that I would have to wait and be missing part of the program! So insha'Allah may we all keep these sisters in our dua` [prayers]!
Alhamdulillah today my boss had a division retreat at her house for us (there's about 8 girls who work in the department I work in), and I realized how trully blessed I am to be working with such genuine individuals and I really am spoiled for this to have been my first career-job after finishing school. I can only pray that everyone else is able to work with such sincere and good-hearted people who you truly enjoy working with and can learn from their goodness! My boss treated us out to manicures/pedicures and we ended the day with going in her pool (or just putting feet in)! [This was after the fact that we spent a morning going over our division's values and doing some team-building exercises.. so yes we did work!]
Anyway, I have been making some "goodbye" phone calls, and I never realized how hard it would be. I'm not good at saying goodbye, and inshaAllah this is more like a "see you later" deal, but in all reality, I've had soooo many feelings emerge inside of me this past week, and these feelings just enumerate immensely on their own as minutes go by. SubhanAllah just to reflect on the past and learn from those lessons and I pray to continue to dedicate (yet increase in my dedication of course) my life to working for Allah. As the hadith goes, Allah wants us to take advantage of 5 things before 5 things, one of which being our youth before our old age. I've also been thinking that seriously we should be living every day as if it is our last; rather, every second as if it is our last. We should constantly be repenting for our sins and constantly be improving ourselves and be watchful of our actions and what we say, what we see, what we listen to, etc... such that we are not afraid to die because of our wrong actions/deeds! We should yearn to meet our Lord; so really, what have we prepared for it? The asahaba [companions of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him] and many true believers die/have died with a smile on their face; why? Because at that point when they're dying is where they know where they are going to go inshaAllah--either to Heaven or to Hell-- and at that point they can die having faith that their struggle will now be rewarded by meeting their Lord and inshaAllah going to Heaven! I can only pray that I too die in this state, uttering the shahada [testament of faith that there is no God but God and that the Prophet Muhammad is his last and final Messenger] as my last words, and yearn to return to Allah!
SubhanAllah I can only pray that my `umrah [lesser pilgrimage] be accepted and insha'Allah if it is, it is known that you return with your sins forgiven. Insha'Allah may this happen so it's like we're starting off with a clean slate in a sense. SubhanAllah just to think that if we knew what we know now (not to say we really know anything because there's soooo much more we need to learn about this beautiful faith!) when we were born... how much we would have done differently. So now, it's like inshaAllah after returning from hajj/umrah, our hearts are pure, and we better give our ownselves the due justice our soul deserves!
One more day you guys... one more day.... insha'Allah.....
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