Life is a time-trodden journey of moments and experiences. Man glides through three natural stages; the weak child becomes an assertive adult, then transforms back to a weakling in old age. Sometimes stuck in limbo. Neither alive nor dead. Just barely there. But one thing's certain, no fountain of youth will erase years from your life, or fabricate the years of your existence.
Everything has an equal opposing element, it's only fair for life to have death. Light has darkness, man-woman, young-old, rich-poor, good-evil, peace-suffering, or yin-yang. Tangibles and intangibles co-exist, but man is a complex creation of God, the only creation given an independent choice to do as he/she wills and to find his/her individual journey on earth. Man's time is, therefore, limited.
I was searching the web, reading articles relating to people's experiences of grief in life, and generally about the physiological and psychological effects of grief. It's an emotion that hits you when you feel irreplaceable loss, most often when someone close to you dies. From the general information, I understood that grief's effect depends on the stage of life you're at, whether you're a child, an adolescent, or an adult, the effects of the emotion vary depending on the stage and the relationship with the deceased. How strong your bond was with a deceased, whether it's your son/daughter, parent, friend, brother/sister.
'Grief has a different face on everyone', quoted on a tv show as a police officer is seen interviewing a mother of a kidnapped girl, and she maintains a calm aura while answering questions. Here's my question to you, the reader, have you ever wondered what grief would look like on you? Most people refrain from thinking about such facets of life, but irrespective, it's a facet bound to happen sooner or later. Do you think about the time when it will happen? It isn't wrong to think about it because, in a way, you'll be mentally preparing yourself for an alien emotion, and no matter how much time you'll spend contemplating it, it will still wrangle your soul once it happens.
Grief envelopes your soul, and pinches every nerve cell with depressive cognitive messages, numbing the pain at times or reversing it or inflaming it to anger. Or it can become a painful psychosomatic feeling, making you quiet, aloof, and introverted with every thought or feeling. The feelings of hopelessness and loss mixed with a sea of memories and guilt play out differently for every human being. Grief cannot be expressed till a grieving moment arises in one's life. Till someone you love very dearly dies. There's no rector scale measuring grief, it's all very different yet similar. Its existence is a natural component of your small life.
Death is the real life most people wait for in this world (dunya), because the Faith warns you of becoming too involved with your life, as you'll forget your final resting place. Faith gives you the courage to accept your fate and your destiny. Faith prepares you to get unplugged from the earth.
In Islam when you bury the dead, the women don't accompany the men to the burial. Man digs a nine feet deep grave. Gets down in the grave. Helps lower the coffin. Everyone helping thinks of their own death, who will be the people lowering my coffin? Kind of weird thinking about it but yeah ever wondered who's going to lower your coffin into the ground?
Faith, religion, Higher Power, God, Allah, whatever you believe in or don't believe in is not my concern, but my spirit tells me that you all can be happier after death if you follow a simple rule in your life: 1 Good deed a day. It's a simple ritual. Self-explanatory. There is a plague of hate and corruption in the world, where people have begun thinking of themselves as demigods or gods on earth, challenging their evil nature to reach new heights of fame, torturing the innocent, and being uncaring towards the poor, and downtrodden. If every day of your life you spend it by being selfish, you've wasted your time. If every day you do even one deed that's selfless and caring, and to your understanding counts as a good deed, that's a useful day for you. Basically, you're buying cash for your soul through your good deeds. You need that soul cash once you konk off the face of the earth. That other world deals only in soul cash. Do your good deeds to earn it. =)
Death looms nearby every day, good deeds while you're alive equate to money after you die. Make sure you make each day count so that you feel confident about your wealth in the hereafter. Humans are made to be spiritual creatures, nurture your spiritual being. Everyone's going to their own grave 9 feet under.
Everything has an equal opposing element, it's only fair for life to have death. Light has darkness, man-woman, young-old, rich-poor, good-evil, peace-suffering, or yin-yang. Tangibles and intangibles co-exist, but man is a complex creation of God, the only creation given an independent choice to do as he/she wills and to find his/her individual journey on earth. Man's time is, therefore, limited.
I was searching the web, reading articles relating to people's experiences of grief in life, and generally about the physiological and psychological effects of grief. It's an emotion that hits you when you feel irreplaceable loss, most often when someone close to you dies. From the general information, I understood that grief's effect depends on the stage of life you're at, whether you're a child, an adolescent, or an adult, the effects of the emotion vary depending on the stage and the relationship with the deceased. How strong your bond was with a deceased, whether it's your son/daughter, parent, friend, brother/sister.
'Grief has a different face on everyone', quoted on a tv show as a police officer is seen interviewing a mother of a kidnapped girl, and she maintains a calm aura while answering questions. Here's my question to you, the reader, have you ever wondered what grief would look like on you? Most people refrain from thinking about such facets of life, but irrespective, it's a facet bound to happen sooner or later. Do you think about the time when it will happen? It isn't wrong to think about it because, in a way, you'll be mentally preparing yourself for an alien emotion, and no matter how much time you'll spend contemplating it, it will still wrangle your soul once it happens.
Grief envelopes your soul, and pinches every nerve cell with depressive cognitive messages, numbing the pain at times or reversing it or inflaming it to anger. Or it can become a painful psychosomatic feeling, making you quiet, aloof, and introverted with every thought or feeling. The feelings of hopelessness and loss mixed with a sea of memories and guilt play out differently for every human being. Grief cannot be expressed till a grieving moment arises in one's life. Till someone you love very dearly dies. There's no rector scale measuring grief, it's all very different yet similar. Its existence is a natural component of your small life.
Death is the real life most people wait for in this world (dunya), because the Faith warns you of becoming too involved with your life, as you'll forget your final resting place. Faith gives you the courage to accept your fate and your destiny. Faith prepares you to get unplugged from the earth.
In Islam when you bury the dead, the women don't accompany the men to the burial. Man digs a nine feet deep grave. Gets down in the grave. Helps lower the coffin. Everyone helping thinks of their own death, who will be the people lowering my coffin? Kind of weird thinking about it but yeah ever wondered who's going to lower your coffin into the ground?
Faith, religion, Higher Power, God, Allah, whatever you believe in or don't believe in is not my concern, but my spirit tells me that you all can be happier after death if you follow a simple rule in your life: 1 Good deed a day. It's a simple ritual. Self-explanatory. There is a plague of hate and corruption in the world, where people have begun thinking of themselves as demigods or gods on earth, challenging their evil nature to reach new heights of fame, torturing the innocent, and being uncaring towards the poor, and downtrodden. If every day of your life you spend it by being selfish, you've wasted your time. If every day you do even one deed that's selfless and caring, and to your understanding counts as a good deed, that's a useful day for you. Basically, you're buying cash for your soul through your good deeds. You need that soul cash once you konk off the face of the earth. That other world deals only in soul cash. Do your good deeds to earn it. =)
Death looms nearby every day, good deeds while you're alive equate to money after you die. Make sure you make each day count so that you feel confident about your wealth in the hereafter. Humans are made to be spiritual creatures, nurture your spiritual being. Everyone's going to their own grave 9 feet under.
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