she said
he wrote
they read
you commented
we discussed
he didn’t mean
she surmised
I speculated
they typed
we reacted
click….scroll….click….scroll…
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innuendo
grew
time vanished
irreclaimable
he said
she argued
they asked
a frivolous debate
ricocheting accusations
haranguing, ranting, analyzing, prattling, blabbering
pummeling the soul
and all the while the grave is saying
and all the while the grave is saying
and all the while the grave is saying
welcome to my house of worms
welcome to my house of loneliness
welcome to my house of darkness
I am the place of solitude
I am the lodging of wilderness
I can be a pit of hell
squeezing ribs,
releasing venomous vipers
or a garden of paradise
spacious and fragrant
now is time to
devote time to
assess, amend, strive
assert, testify, proclaim:
LA ILAHA ILLA ALLAH MUHAMMADUR RASULULLAH
"O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that Your pen recorded and Your knowledge encompassed, every one that I have committed and that I am to commit until the end of my life. I seek Your forgiveness for all my sins: the first and the last, the intentional and the unintentional, the few and the many, the minor and the major, the subtle and the noticeable, the past and the recent, the secret and the open and the public, and all those I am to commit throughout my life.
O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin of mine. I ask You to forgive me all the injustices against Your servants that You have enumerated against me; for Your servants have against me many claims of violated rights and injustices to which I am held captive. O Allah, even if these evil deeds of mine are many in number, they are a paltry few in sight of Your forgiveness. O Allah, any male or female servant of Yours who has against me a claim of injustice, that I forcefully seized from him something of his land or wealth or honour or body, whether he was absent or present, or whether he or his representatives demanded from me compensation for it but neither was I able to return it to him nor did I seek to be pardoned for it, I ask that You, with Your benevolence, generosity, and abundant treasures, satisfy them on my behalf; and do not give them over me power to take away and decrease my good deeds. For indeed You possess what can satisfy them on my behalf, and I do not. And do not make a way for their bad deeds to overcome my good deeds on the Day of Judgement.
I seek forgiveness from Allah, besides Whom there is nothing worthy of worship, the Living, the Self-Subsisting Sustainer of all creation. And I turn to Him in seeking forgiveness that increases one hundred million times with every blink of the eye and with every breath, that remains as long as Allah remains and lasts as long as Allah lasts; for his Dominion will never, for all of eternity, come to an end, cease, or die away. O Allah, accept this prayer. O Allah, make mine a prayer that meets with Your acceptance and a request that meets with Your blessing. Indeed You have power over all things.
O Allah, send blessings on our Master Muhammad SallAllahu alaihi wasallam, and upon the family of our Master Muhammad, and upon his Companions; and grant them abundant peace. Grant them abundant blessings and peace that remain as long as You remain and last as long as You last, that have bounds only You can know, blessings that please You and him, and by which You are pleased with us, O Lord of the Worlds! And for this, all praise is due to Allah.
Glory to your Lord, the Lord of All-Eminence, [Who is far above] what they claim. And peace be upon all the Messengers. And all Praise is due to Allah, the Lord and Cherisher of the Worlds."
All good is from Allah Ta’ala whereas mistakes are from this humble speck. May Allah Ta’ala Bless all readers, bringing you all closer to Him and His Rasul SallAllahu alaihi wasallam. May He accept our humble efforts and grant us the capacity to be good and do good. Ameen.
assalamualaykum ww dearest sister, i am so glad that you are back!!missed you.may Allah grant you strength and barakah in your time so that you able to spare a minumum amount of your time for the blog-its always so good to hear from the illuminated city:) but if you choose to use you time otherwise, plzzzzzzzzzzzzzz remember my famil and i in your special dua always, as you’re in mine!how i yearn to be there!plz make dua that Allah allows to be the residents of madinah sharif in our livetimes and burial in jannatul baqi ameen, may Allah forgive all our sins and replace them with good deeds ameen.may Allah grant us all the favour of making the most of this blessed month, may we all emerge on the other side of ramadaan purified, in and out ameen (or otherwise an easy death with iman whilst fasting in salaah-ameen).
requesting duas from all who comment on this blog for my family and i plz, as you’re al in my dua.and plz forgive me for anything i may have done to offend or hurt anyone-it was unintentional..luv and duas,ws tasnim
Comment by tasnim — September 11, 2007 @ 10:22 pm
As-salamu’Alaykum.
Amin to all the prayers.
Really happy to see you got to go to that place you were telling me about to take the pics! Masha’Allah, beautiful.
Lots of love
Your beti
Sidra
x x x
Comment by Sidra — September 11, 2007 @ 10:34 pm
Assalamualaikum dear sister.
LA ILAHA ILLA ALLAH MUHAMMADUR RASULULLAH… a proclamation weightier than all the heavens and earths combined!
Ameen thuma ameen to all the duas, the more we beg of Allah Ta’ala the closer He Azawajal will inshallah bring us to Him!
Once again sister such beautiful words piercing the heart with reminders of what truly is important. May Allah Azawajal etch all those words into your scrolls of goodness and forever allow this seed of Iman to grow within our hearts, ameen.
Comment by ikramuddin — September 12, 2007 @ 6:13 am
Assalamu alaikum Dear Tasnim….and great to see you back also! Alhumdulillah…Ameen thumma Ameen to your usual stirring message and heartfelt desire to be in the blessed City of Nur, may all Du’a from the entire Ummah be answered during this Mubarak month, Ameen.
Dearest Bheti….yes I made it to take the photos….now I need your Du’a so I make it into one of the graves in Jannatul Baqi! Insha’Allah. Making extra Du’a for the special qabr of your loved one. May our Merciful Rabb fill it with all the delights of His Garden, Ameen.
Dear brother Ikramuddin, Ameen thumma Ameen for the usual gems you share with us. May we all complete this Ramadhan our scrolls deleted of all that is of no benefit, and weighted with efforts that gains the pleasure of Allah Ta’ala, Ameen.
Wassalamu alaikum
almiskeenah
Comment by almiskeenah — September 12, 2007 @ 11:08 pm
Alhamdulillah! Amin to your prayer, dear Sister. Without the mercy of Allah, surely we are lost and without hope. And what a mercy it is, encompassing the universe and all that is therein.
And I am so happy you are back
You were really missed 
Ya Haqq!
Comment by Irving — September 12, 2007 @ 11:32 pm