Life & Contradictions - don't worry, sunshine!

Frangipani in Kiara Cemetery.

Life and Contradictions

Do not seek too much structure,

For your body has no straight lines,

Do not be afraid of contradictions,

Because Your God is both

The Apparent and The Hidden.

Do not be overly earnest,

Because only a thin line rests

Between being earnest

And being overbearing.

Do not crave death

Because it is rude

To He who gave you life,

Nor cower in fear

When death's invitation

Is finally given,

Whether swiftly or 

In slow measure.

If you desire the end of contradiction, you shall have to wait a little longer. But the human mind rebels against contradictions, judging contradictions as irrational and odd. But God is One, and He is the Odd One, Absolutely Unique and beyond our faculty to distinguish from any other, because simply put, God is Incomparable. In an interesting irony, the Incomparableness of God is the only true comparison we have of Him... knowing that we truly know nothing at all.

I spend a lot of time in the almanac confessing I know nothing. But in this nothingness of our existence, God has created the Earth and the Sun, the Air, the Fire, the Wind and the Water. He has filled our world with living creatures, beautiful and bountiful, our delightful friends and family. To God, this is nothing. But to us, it means everything. If this is the Divine Grace of existing in nothingness, dare you imagine what God has for us in the Divine Presence?

Have a super Sabbath, sunshine.

wa min Allah at-taufiq

Hate has no place in Islam

Love will show the Way