CUL DE SAC

"To know thyself is to know God." One of the greatest lessons pilgrimage has taught me and I would like to share is the power of letting go of yourself. Imagine you're jumping from a tall building with no parachute or even safety net to save you, you will surely be scared and panic. But I somehow experienced the opposite. Everything that happened to me, be it good or bad, they are all good. They are simply destined to me so that I could learn to survive. And I did.  To have an openess to life tests is not easy. But once you admit that you have no power to handle everything, and let God does the trick, you will eventually understand that God loves His servants greatly. Imagine the countless times God has saved us from troubles. He even gives us more time to do more deeds to cover up the sins that we have committed.  Pilgrimage has taught me that, I am nothing without God, I am nobody without the Prophet (SAW), I am lost without the Al-Quran and I am empty for as long as I ...

They say "change is good" and I agree. You can be yourself for as long as you could but the sense of contentment has to be there. Surely, everybody has different definitions of contentment. However, until you truly know what death is all about, you want nothing but to get close to God. I didn't really know what death is until one day I woke up and decided to change and when I was deeply determined to change, things around me automatically evolved on its own. I was tested and lost, but surprisingly, I held on to nothing else but God. For the first time in my life, I felt the sweetness of being tested. I was neither stress nor depressed at all. As a matter of fact, I had nothing to be worried about because I have God -- the greatest victory out of all the problems occurred as soon as I decided to change. Life is a journey. You can be happy and sad for whatever reasons but in the end you just can't deny that, all that you have, they are the blessings from God. Rather tha...