My 101st Post: Hunger

It is the month of Ramadan going around in the entire world...all the Muslims might be fasting during this month and keeping their stomach empty for hours and hours....this month is believed to bring blessings and motivates the followers from committing further sins....during a fast, there are certain rules and regulations to keep in mind and the most important one is not to eat or drink anything...
People might think that I am weak while fasting because this is the first month in all my years when I really am feeling lack of food in my stomach....it is somehow tough for me this year to keep up with the fast but still, Allah is supporting me to maintain my fasts and keep a hold upon my hunger....

The best part of feeling hungry for me is that in my entire life time, this is the first time when I have connected with the poor....Masha-Allah I have been brought up in a family where am blessed by Allah to keep me well fed and well dressed....He never made me go to bed without food and never made me shiver in the cold winds....I have always had a roof above my head and I thank Him from the depth of my heart....this year, while fasting, I am beginning to realise what it is to pass a day without food....though the fast is only for few hours, there are people who go hungry for days and nights....during these few hours, when I churned the desire for food, I started wondering that what would it be to be poor...how do people survive when they have nothing to eat or drink....it is really tough....the strength from the body starts deteriorating and everything seems to fade away with time....it feels as if I am going to collapse if I don't take a nibble....nothing seems to cool the mind off and each and everything seems tasty to the eyes.....
There are people in this world who have nothing to eat or drink....they work hard but still in the end sit with there heads in their laps without a bite to swallow....how would the ones feel who have their families to support but they can't even fulfil their own hunger....world is tough for them...on the other hand, there are people like you and me who are blessed with enough food to suppress our hunger and are blessed with enough drinks to flood our throats....we never really realised what would it be like without food and water....how would we ever survive....
Well, I thank Allah for giving me this chance of understanding the importance of food and making me aware about the blessings He has bestowed upon me and my family....if it weren't for this month of Ramadan, I might never had been thankful for all the food am provided with, from my heart....I would have just taken it for granted but insha-Allah from this day on, I would always respect food and keep in mind that how well am blessed....I intentionally wrote this post while fasting because I wanted to pour out my feelings when am being irritated by my hungry stomach...
May He bless us all and may each and everyone be thankful to Him.....

My 11th Post: Shades of Life

Life, a blessing from our Lord....who made us and gave us the authority to live the way we want but with little obstacles and then many rewards just in order to make it more beautiful and attractive....a person's life has limited validity, he can't be blessed with it till the end of time....and during that time, there are a lot of different templates which capture it and then give a chance to a next one.....
The main beauty of life is that it keeps changing and never moves with a constant pace...yes, at times we people want the life to go on as it is but trust me, that would really become boring and a time would come when we would lose our interest in life and would refer to some book titled "100 ways of quitting".....we really don't want that....life can be wasted but it shouldn't be ended cause once lost, we don't have a key to get back to it again....
There are times when are way happy and what ever we do goes in our benefits...we keep on moving like some kings of the world beyond the last man's sight but then comes a turn when everything goes against us and we fall in the depths of depression and misery....after a time, everything changes again and we are back on the track....if you could know the thought going in my head just now, I bet there would rise a smile on your face....some how I am finding this fact amusing....I mean how something changes from positive to negative without any hint and then back to neutral state....if life was simply neutral, we wouldn't really have the word known as emotions.....
Imagine a world where from a single coin to the colour of your hair, all to be in a same shade....I guess that would be boring and would irritate the eyes and mind after some time....just imagine the world in black and white shade.....at first that would be amazing but then it would be boring....I mean every car you would buy would be of the same combination.....the distinguishing factor would diminish and everything would be nearly the same....surely my mind can come up with advantages in the field of colours, but life in a same shade from your birth till death is just like wearing a same t-shirt from the first day of school till the graduation party....
So different shades no matter how harsh they might be, are necessary for a healthy living and for a healthy life....that would even maintain the balance of the human's mind cause then it would be strong and creative enough to know how to enjoy the moments of life....
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