I Is Back…

Who Am I? What Is My Place In The Universe? Would My Departure From This World, Really Make Things Difficult For Anyone?

Now, these are questions I am sure many of us entertain, and I guess, some of us may delude ourselves that we would be missed. Why is that? Having thought about this a great deal, I realise, that this stems from a fear of facing the realities of one’s insignificance. When we walk through the pages of history, we find the example of people, which lived lives which are so far from our own that they actually seem like fairy tales to us. We reconcile ourselves in a way, pardon the parallel, like the disbelievers in Makkah, when on hearing the revelation, they would say;

 

And whenever Our messages were conveyed to them, they would say, “We have heard [all this] before; if we wanted, we could certainly compose sayings like these [ourselves]: they are nothing but fables of ancient times!” Quran, 8:31

 

Is that not frightening, is this not our inner most response when we here about the example of our beloved companions; Harith Ibn Hisham, Iqrima Ibn Abi Jahl and Suhayl Ibn Amr? Let us remember them here, as in the Battle of Yarmouk, Harith Ibn Hisham, Iqrima Ibn Abi Jahl and Suhayl Ibn Amr all fell to the ground severely wounded. Harith Ibn Hisham asked for water to drink. One of the soldiers brought water to him. When he saw that Iqrima was looking at him, he said, “Take this water to Iqrima.” As Iqrima received the water he saw that Suhayl was looking at him, and he declined the water, saying, “Give it to Suhayl.”  But Suhayl died before the water could reach him. At that the water-bearer ran to Iqrima, but Iqrima had also died. He ran over to Harith, but he had expired, too.

 

Allahu Akbar.

 

What would we do? Hmmm. I think we know, and that is why in our time these example are seen as stories of the ancient. Allah Al Musta’an.

So here we are, with our self centered, ego driven and self-deluding outlook, we have convinced ourselves that we are important. Today, I realised that myself, when I pondered over my own significance – or the lack of it. Convinced of being a superhero, I saw a true superhero on a video, and was humbled.

Check the video, meet the hero, and join me on a journey of reformation, and building a significance to benefit humanity.

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