Insight of the Soul

By Sanniah Hassan

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

Carl Jung

“Her thoughts are preoccupied – with agony, loss, pain, and suffering. Why has the world she has always known to be hers, come to this? How can someone watch the horrific ordeal of a child being snatched from its mother’s arms with calm and ease?

She hears such stories everywhere. Images are literally scattered all across the internet. Fathers and mothers crying for their lost child. LOST. Completely lost. An end to a life.

She can’t bear it. This pain. Why must the world be like this? Why couldn’t it be all sunshine and roses? Why can we not have more happiness, she thinks.

Her thoughts revolve around the thousands of kids who were abducted… the thousands that must have been taken while she thinks about the kidnappings. Why isn’t anyone doing anything she asks her mother? She is a little girl herself after all. She worries. If grown-ups won’t then we must.

Someone must!

Her last thought every night is a prayer for the grieved. Her childhood is LOST. Like all those children in pain. Like all those parents that die every day in the remembrance of their babies. Those families grieve the loss of their beloved.

Every day she fears. Not for herself but for the people in pain. The poor. The sick. The lost. Allah always listens to her prayers. But this time is different. Allah listens to her yet her prayers are not being answered. Allah is taking His time. It is as if this must be a punishment from Him. He is punishing the people. He is telling them that this life is temporary. It is for a few days and that we must return to him.

Allah is reminding the people that when night comes and a man goes to sleep. So must man return to the Almighty Sovereign when the day of life dies into night.

A tear escapes her eye as she feels more afraid. Not just for the grieving but for herself. This tear is invaluable. It is a reminder that Allah is watching, protecting, and loving her. Allah is keeping her safe. So she must be grateful to him for one day she must return to Him forever. But till then, she must do all she can to please Him.”

Although this is just a piece of fiction, I have been forced to look within myself and question why we, mankind that is, only remember Allah in our moments of pain? Why do we forget the Almighty's presence otherwise? It has made me think that I should at least work on myself to mend this gap because as they say, "Charity begins at home!" If you also agree, please start from today.

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