Letter to my Muslim sister

Dear sister,

We are living in difficult times, severe trials, when parents do not care about the future of their children, when mothers, no matter how worried, pay no attention to their daughters, when father and son do evil deeds, and in the process, commit great sins.

We are living at the time when deep ignorance prevails. People, including Muslims know little about their religion; they speak words which their hearts do not support. The minds of the people are blanked by greed and lust of this world.

We were warned that a day will come when Muslims will be more in number, but just like the sea foam. This is all, because many people pretend to be Muslims, while their deeds are completely against purity, against natural cleanliness, against the words of Allah and His Messenger.

Dear sister we are witnessing a lot of people wake up in the morning and say “Bismillah”, but by evening denying the existence of Allah; perhaps their tongues do not deny, but their hearts and minds are disconnected from His guidance, as if God does not exist (Allah guide us!); unbridled, they violate their principles, and their actions become obstacles in the way of God, commit major sins and are not concerned at all. The Messenger of Allah Sallallaahu ‘Alayhi wa Sallam warned us, that a time would come when people will wake up as believers, but become disbelievers by evening.

Is it not our Lord and His Messenger sufficient for us? Did not Allah say that, the Qur’an is a guide for the righteous? Did not our Lord say that you have the best example in His messenger, Muhammad peace and blessings of Allah be upon him?!

We have to become steadfast and firm. When?!  During these times of great trials. When society is overshadowed by ignorance, unconsciousness, immorality and evil, we must persevere, not only that, but also challenge those and pronounce proudly: “I am Muslim! My God is Allah, who protects and nurtures me, and Muhammad is my teacher, who advises and leads me! While you are mired in ignorance and desires, be aware that you have forgotten your Lord, Who created you”. This is the most appropriate time to utter these words!

What is the graduation day? Who are those who organize it? They are creatures. They were nothing, and Allah created them. There were drops of water, and then Allah with his mercy and unlimited bounty allowed them to rise. Today we find them acting against Allah. These people are guided by their lust and worldly desires and not the Qur’an and the Sunnah. They posses no knowledge of Qur’an nor Sunnah, furthermore they don’t even posses a healthy brain with which to judge.  They only consist of tummies, lust and greed, and they are hurdles of the accursed devil.

Allah, guide us!

Sister,

It is enough for you to be proud of your faith, your purity and your dignity. You should not even care for your parents, if they are the ones that endanger your future, personality and dignity. Be aware that everyone will one day disown you. Think of the moment of death, no one will join you. You will be alone, just as you came alone into this world.

Your friends and relatives need you. They need your word of advice and criticism, to remind them of their Lord and the day of reckoning, to remind them of the gifts of Allah, and the purpose of this life.

Do not let them to take away the peace with which Allah blessed you. Do not become trapped by the accursed devil, who, through your friends, these notorious events.. wants to bring havoc, hate, pain, infidelity… in your life. He is your sworn enemy! He swore to lead people away from the path of Allah, and he will, with the exception of a special category of people which Allah protects: the true believers!

Sister, the moment has come for you to prove that you are a sincere believer!

Testify!

May Allah guide and strengthen us in His path!

Written by:  Avni Tafili/zgjim.org

Translated by brother Qamil Muja

Tranquility

“It is He who sent down tranquility into the hearts of the believers, that they may add conviction to their Faith…”– Qur’an, 48:4

Disoriented. Disturbed. Annoyed. Punishable! Why do you bother yourself? Why are you killing yourself with your own hands?

By:  Avni Tafili

Find your tranquility in the warship of Almighty Allah!

Orientation! Effort. Movements in all directions. What am I looking for, what do I want, why do I write and read. Who do I like and who likes me. Who do I wish well and who wishes me well, why do I live and what is my goal, and if I reach there, what then, what is my gain or accomplishment. What enhances your life, its ornaments, the cloth that covers it, or perhaps the heart and mind whose cloth is not made out of matter? Who are you, where are you headed, which way are you going, and where are you going to end up!

Observe. Listen and hears. Feel uncomfortable. Agitated. Indolent!  Your feelings got heavier and thicker. You are lying on the ground. Don’t need a thing, but feel depressed. You are bored of the life you are living. Everything bothers you. Have no desire to write or read. The thought of thinking terrifies you. When you think, your conscience gets overburdened. How incapable I am, you say to yourself. You keep staying still in silence, estranged from people, most of whom you hate. Why, you don’t know.

Time passes, while for you the day does not begin. Every morning is the same. You wake up just like any other day. Monotony! Loaded and overloaded. The soul cries, while the tongue is speechless. You stand leaning against the wall. Want to be alone, immersed in thoughts. What a destiny! What a life was cooked up for me! How weak I am. Words keep flowing into your thoughts, while you surrendered to the wall of darkness; the darkness of desperation and constraint.

Say enough to this memory, this kind of thinking! Get away from the wall, before it turns you into a ruin.

Change your everyday’s pattern. Break your monotony! You can do this by being faithful to the daily prayers. Did you practice the nap between Dhuhr and Asr? It is a time called “kaylulah”, a time this, when a little sleep rests and rejuvenates the entire being. Allah’s Messenger (SAWS) said: “Observe Kaylulah (nap between Dhuhr and Asr), truly satan does not observe Kaylulah (don’t nap during this time)”- Hadith: Sahih al Jamiah as Sagir, Al Albani. Kaylulah does not only calms, but also strengthens you to be a true worshiper of Almighty Allah, especially during the night hours.

Use miswaq! The heart wanders around. Make her firm in the path of your Lord. Supplicate time and again: O Allah! O Transformer of hearts, focus my heart onto Your religion! Allah is He, Who’s Majesty causes the entire being to calm, ask, while sincerely leaning and longing with full conviction on Him.  Close your eyes in absolute silence and attentively listen to the Holy Qur’an.

Continuity, success! When you feel overburdened, carrying excess weight, rest a bit, do not torment yourself because everything exceeding your ability, is harmful. Rejuvenate, then, continue your mission.

Conviction! Builds and insures. When you are convinced in a matter, you proceed doing this task with certainty. Doubt brings loss and stagnation. When you lose your way or get stranded, you get worried, crying, you stop and think, and by way of scolding you punish yourself. Security and conviction, brings tranquility. The truth opens pathways.

You’re torturing yourself. Your thoughts are in disarray. Have no idea where to start, which way to turn, where to lean or what to do. Can’t think straight, same thoughts come end go in repetition. You are waging a war against time, but the time is eating you from within. You think you are fighting your yesterday, but while submerged in thoughts, you don’t realize how you are overburdening your tomorrow with your present.

Confused, disturbed, worried, chastised. Why do you bother yourself? Why do you assassinate yourself with your own hands? You have a life, do not belittle it. If your effort is required, exert yourself, if an undertaking is required, engage, if sweating is needed, sweat if a sacrifice is called for, sacrifice, pain is required, feel the pain, if forbearance is asked of you, persevere, if you need hope, hope! Engage the storm head on, don’t fall, lean on the Lord of heaven and earth, and don’t lean on thoughts and bad memories.

Don’t allow others to instill trouble and insecurity in you! If this ilk talks to you, do one or the other: say peace and tranquility to you, or keep silent and move away. Don’t laugh and don’t talk too much. Engage with low voice and a light smile. Excess talk and loud laugh, troubles and shakes up your heart. Run away from noisy places. Do not be a part of gatherings where talk and laugh resonate! Guard your heart’s tranquility, before you lose it, and spare yourself from suffering.

When you surrender, when you enter the depths of darkness, and don’t even attempt to rise up and get out of the abyss which you created, then, nothing grows in you except the unease. The unease causes mental and spiritual balance disorder. Free yourself from the abyss, fly away from it in order to feel vitality in your life. You need tranquility, every person needs it. No one needs to settle for crises and exasperation. Tranquility is a spiritual, mental heartily repose of the entire being. Can not reach it just by keeping the balance; but need give everyone the rights it deserves with justice and by not taking sides.

Is tranquility something unattainable. No, tranquility is there, so when you don’t seek it, and don’t steer towards it, then it is not lost but forgotten. You search for lost items, and when you are conscientious about the loss and its value, you will search for it till you find it, and never lose hope. He, for whom tranquility is a forgotten thing, demands so much from himself, but don’t offer anything in return. He wants to do this and that, but nothing brings him the most needed thing: his tranquility.

Feelings are at ease, when in contact with tranquility. A heart, whose owner is overfilled with sorrow, can not experience peace. The opposite of sorrow is happiness, whose prerequisites are to be peaceful, and not hostile or hateful. Stay close to others and accept other people’s faults, as you can, likewise, be filled with faults. This way your heart can accept and be accepted, and when this takes place, it feels closeness, love and respect, and then reaches tranquility. Likewise, the mind and heart while thinking light, peace, flowers, hope, purity, love and respect find their ease. Tranquility is not something you touch, eat or drink. It is felt deep within your being.

When you experience anxiousness, when you are worried, feel loneliness and daily annoyance, you realize that material possessions don’t bring you peace and tranquility. You realize that you are not just flesh and bones, but you also possess a soul, heart and feelings. They need nurturing just like the body. The body feels warmth when covered with warm cloth, but the heart and soul also long for their cover. The cover which warms your heart, mind and soul is security, peace and tranquility. These are nourishments. You can not buy them, but obtain through feelings and clear thinking.

Seek this nourishment from the One that created you. Your creator also secured your provisions, so provide. Search your tranquility in worshiping your God. He causes you to feel secure and tranquil. There are solutions for everything. When you feel angry and nervous, freshen up with water – perform ablution, remembering your Lord. If your heart is infatuated, remember its Lord often and continuously. If your mind is disturbed and wanders, and feelings are experiencing tremendous weight, don’t be lazy, ask for Allah’s support, pray two rakaahs, and Allah willing you will find tranquility.

The messenger of Allah (SAWS) said: “Those who gather in one of the houses of Allah, read Allah’s Book and study it amongst themselves, Allah’s tranquility will reach them, His mercy will cover them, angels will look after their security, and Allah will praise them to the ones closest to Him”. Hadith: Muslim.

The true tranquility is the one attained through remembering Allah the Merciful with the entire being!

O Allah, make us from among those who find their tranquility when remembering You!

Translated by: Qamil Muja

The Hate

Be just: that is next to Piety: and fear Allah For Allah is well-acquainted with all that ye do. – Quran, 5:8

Satisfy your human good model with educate and character, with knowledge and wise, with dignity and moral. Hate sluggish and weak.

Written by: Avni Tafili

Enemy weapon is hate maker. When you hate, you should know that enemy harassment you.

Hard. Cold. Heart wound, makes them dead. Hate cools your feelings. It hazards your soul. When you hate, you are not warm. You are with no mercy. Dark energy. Make that empty by apologize to GOD, Merciful, Domesticated, not by twisting in our hearts and others. Hate, souls sluggish. Clean people demoralization. Isn’t frighten from God, man who hates?!

Hate has no place on clear religion of God, Islam. Allah is Domesticated. He is Merciful. Why don’t people take lessons that accepted Islam as their religion? But those, people that hate, they don’t have image Allah’s Messenger, which was patience, domesticated, merciful, forgiver attended to believers, but even merciful, careful attend to people at all.

You win nothing when you hate. People that hates, are unconsciousness. They are prejudice. The others blame, listening to voices that comes out from hearts that hate. Listen to voices of worse, voices which whisper on their minds and hearts. People who hates are also followers of lust. Some of them call them-self clear, and righteous. They should have fear of that day, when they’re going to be in front of God!

Hate is vice of people with diseased hearts. They are people who have lost their hope and faith. They don’t regret. They hear and believe every word that whispers. When they hat, they forget that Allah is all around! Perhaps, they who hate think that they are some one else victims, even blaming and hating?

A man who hates should know that nothing can be solved by hating. Hate gives much pain, slows down your blood move, it cools from inside. Replace hate with love, love but don’t hate! You will win for sure. They who are fulfill with benevolent, they are staying in peace. Those are right guideline, because devoted Muslim is loved, Allah’s adorer, which is Loved of His creatures.

When someone disorder your temperament or fling that you don’t have to hate. You arrive nothing with hate. Satisfy your human good model with educate and character, with knowledge and wise, with dignity and moral. Hate sluggish and weak. People who hates are people with low moral, default on minds, empty with love on their hearts. So you go after good human model.

Don’t prejudice, because prejudice against others is weak, don’t think doing bad to others; our religions teach us to pray for guideline, and being forgivers. It’s not right to spill guilt on people who are not guilty. People, who prejudice, are hurry and immaturity; those have also hated on their hearts. Allah’s guideline!

Hate makes people enemy of each other. Why God gave to people thinking and speaking, because things solving by peace. Communicate under divine guideline shadow. People who are right guideline have no reason to keep their hearts hate. When they are adorers and slaves of Allah, which have no Hate, but He is Domesticated of His creatures, is Wise and Merciful! Allah is Patience!

When Muslim is awareness, prays and forgives, and being a dignity believer, honest and right, even his heart get rich with love, with tolerance, with warmth and with domesticate. Is patience, doesn’t hurry. Judge with fulfill love and compassion heart, and with benevolent eyes. Muslim tolerate, forgive, doesn’t hurry, and why to imputation his heart and aggravation his soul with what weakening and feeling bad.

Hate brings nothing but hate. Hate doesn’t give life, but death. Enemy weapon is hate maker. When you hate, you should know that enemy harassment you.

I advice my self and you for benevolent, for patience, for domesticate, for wise, for tolerance, for forgiveness, for respect  and compassion. We don’t need hate. We should become statement of good model. The Judgment Day certainly is a real happening and sure; let’s help each other for goodness, to stop each other from worse wise and domesticate.

Allah gives us Grace!

Translated by: Kreshnik Shehu

The Internal Conflict!

“Help ye one another in righteousness and piety, but help ye not one another in sin and rancor; Fear Allah: for Allah is strict in punishment.” Qur’an, 5: 2

Written by: Avni Tafili

The internal conflicts cause devastating animosity within ranks. Their initiators tend to label people, but fail to even recommend righteousness for their families.

The enemy with no name is a human one. Those who do not declare war on themselves, but others! Those, who sneaking, monitor others, listens, moves and breathes in silence not to arise suspicion. While he abandoned himself, among others forebodes animosity. Quarrelsome people; always preoccupied with other peoples problems, exposing their weaknesses, belittling their power. They live their life hiding within the society; their faces look gloomy because of their backbiting, feel deep malice of the unconscious, and smell the naiveté of the ignorant.

A human, but not an honest one. Guided, but ignoring the guidance, worshiper who hates to submit. Eloquent, but spreading fire! These men are forgetful! No, they are unconscious! No way, they are neither forgetful nor unaware, but people with conflict prone souls, eager to spoil, divide, eat human flesh, destroy their dignity, insult their honor, weaken the sincere, despise the smart, belittle the great people! These individuals, who only bring conflicts among people, are drunk with their injustice, yet, feel innocent and rightly guided.

Woe! They are forsaken! Their punishment increases! If they only knew what kind of horrible pain awaits them in the Hereafter! No, they can not be vindicated! Their age or time does not allow them, because time and again, death comes unannounced. What are they going to say to Allah, their Creator, for the lousy job they did? They won’t say a word, because the time to receive their painful punishment would have arrived. Even on the Day of Judgment, they will try to excuse themselves, but no success this time, because that day everything is in the open, nothing can be hidden; it is the Day when Justice will be served.

Internal conflicts always caused animosity among Muslims. They label others. They unjustly appropriate other people’s wealth. They have disrespect for orphans, and are not gentle with their parents. They don’t even advise their families to be just. Their eyes and mind are preoccupied with other people’s homes and families. No one, justly or not, is spared from their criticism, scolding and insult. They forgot themselves, no; they are other people’s enemies! Those people do not understand the greatness of Islam, and as e result they reject Allah’s bounties!

What do you know about stratums within the ranks of Muslims! Be aware that they mold them, and wherever they are, they create groups. They do not unite people, they divide them, and they break hearts, waste souls. When the Muslims unify for a good cause, they separate in their formed groups. This group of people is a group of the irresponsible ones the one that declared war on the Ummah. Even when they pray, they do it while hating others. When they do dhikr, their hearts are infatuated. They barely read, barely think, and are but a little thankful.  They are merciless, with their words flaming more than the fire itself!

What do you know about the ignorant ones within the ranks of Muslims, who destroy the pure and useful knowledge with their ignorance! They read a little, or not at all then make believe they think more than anyone else. When they speak, they feel that truth is on their side. Whoever does not embrace them is cast aside. But, who would ever in his life want to assemble under the umbrella of the arrogant and ignorant group! You were incited by the instigator. He made you believe that you are rightly guided. There is no bigger loss, nor darkness that penetrates everything greater, then the position of a person who invokes distraction upon himself, while thinking he is inviting others to paradise.

Conflict, who but the lazy, the herald, the unreal, the hopeless and weak, the involuntary and unruly, the disobedient and disrespectful, would plant conflicts within society. They are the group of lazy ones among the Muslims. They talk but don’t act, believe, but can not feel the power of faith, read, but don’t change. When invited to do something, they come up with excuses. They are associates of a group which declared war on the Ummah, and, unconscious about their responsibilities!

What do you know abut the group which ignores the enlightened minds! Insult the scholars. They spread hate among people. An association of fanatics! They raise their head and extend their tongues against honorable and pure which “endangers” them, attacking their honor and purity without fearing the Almighty Allah. The Ummah for these people is so insignificant. They have knowledge, but no thought. Their minds do breaking but not repairs. They curve, whatever is in harmony with the straight path of the mainstream Muslims! Yes, because they dishonor the honorable ones, they pollute the clean ones. No, the truth is, they themselves dishonor and show their own filthiness.

Which groups are those which did not give themselves a label? Yes, because they feel unique, selected and untouchable. They have no name, they’re name is unknown among the people, and it will remain unknown and forgotten in the Akhira, unless Allah bestows mercy upon. Allah’s mercy surpasses His affliction, but the ones, who with their dishonesty and filthiness try to dishonor and pollute others, will not escape His affliction.

They remember Allah, but a little, and don’t leave their warm beds for His sake!

O Allah, save our Ummah, from the tongue that burns, from the ear that dishonors and the eye that pollutes!

O Allah, You are the Forgiver, You like forgiving, so forgive us!

Translated by: Qamil Muja

A Youth without a day after!

“But stop them, for they must be asked: “What is the matter with you that ye help not each other?” Nay, but that day they shall submit (to Judgment); And they will turn to one another, and question one another.” – Qur’an, 37:24-27

Written by:  Avni Tafili

No of course you are not inspired by the circumstances. Parents don’t read because they are over loaded with problems. Yes, exactly because your parents had the same youth you have, the one that you still have, and you are not learning a lesson!

What! What confused them! Who played magic on them! What happens with the young one who; eat, drink, speak, and go around hopeless, confused, noisy in silence. What it is with the youth who themselves, friends, and even the family are turning upside-down! Why is that even the future you are putting into a grave! Don’t you have some time to stop and think. Where are you going and where you headed, don’t you have eyes, that see the lip of the abyss! On the edge of the abyss, and not on the edge of the men kind! Aren’t you angry, to humiliate yourself, and to sit low with regard of creatures!

What is it and what confuses and puzzled. What is it, why are you infatuated why don’t you read the letter until the end! Patient, change today, to have peace in the day after.

You wake up and go straight to the mirror. You don’t like yourself. For whom are you fixing and dressing! Who said that you are not beautiful, you are a human! Your friend pushes you! No, what pushes you is the modern youth that have fallen in ecstasy. And you are wearing a chain of disdain, and run after that brand.  A brand that is pulling you from the bright future that could have been yours.

Why do you hope on things that have no value! The strength of youth you spend on a foggy unconsciousness, when you can be conscious for every second of your life. Today you run like you will always be young, strong and full of life. No, you should know that youth is a phase that would go by quick, and you should have been unconscious toward that. You have a life to live, fill your heart and mind for the other phase of life, the one after youth. When there will be no planting, but there will be harvesting.

So, use youth before getting old! The old age is not an age of an adult. but a phase where there is no more life to be filled with. Whoever was conscious, responsible, he in the phase after youth will have a life life full of life.

Why don’t you read! What made you think that reading is a virtue of a talented people! And what made you think that knowledge is for a number of selected people. No, reading and capturing knowledge are not virtues for selected people, but it is for every human born. You have been given a language, teeth, eyes to witness, and you can hear, you have also been given an intellect not to only differentiate a day from night, but also also to read the letters without notes being played during the day or night time. To think and not just to eat.

No, most certainly you are not inspired by the circumstances that you are surrounded by. Parents don’t read because they are over loaded with problems. Yes, exactly because your parents had the same youth you have, the one that you still have, and you are not learning a lesson! Knowledge rescues, prevents problems. Knowledge is a light, with which you walk carefully the roads of your life.  What type of stimulation you are waiting for! Parents don’t read, very few in the family read. You should stimulate. You should be the one that instead of buying a sweater, you’ll buy a book. Set up a good example! Don’t expect from others, when you are true to yourself,you can do it.

Yes, a friend is really a friend or an enemy! You spend most of your time with him/her. He is a mirror for you! You can feel bad for the friend that you have, but you do not attempt to teach them, and continue to be friends with them. No, maybe you interested to burn time, time that could have made you enjoy a lot of success. You are the enemy of time! An enemy of yourself! Friends have stolen your world inside you, they stole your dreams, they made your future foggy.

No, you do not have an inside world, you do not have dreams, you do not have a future! If you had a heart that thinks, and if you had a soul of conscious, and if you had a mind that reads, no one would have messed your future.

You try to present yourself! Your presence is not recognized in the family, when you are with friends combing your hair, the clothes you wear, and not even when you try to repeat your name! No, but you are not patient, you try to plant and try the fruits at the same time! A plant of hair people are looking at you. The clothes, the modern clothes that you are wearing are likeable. Speaking “mature” people are proud of you.

A fruit that you taste, but does not live! You are bickering yourself!

What made you to sell yourself! What if people like your body! Who are these people more than creatures like you. They cannot do either good or bad, besides that what is said in the Safe Book! And what do you know about the Safe Book! There is confident information about everything that in Reality happens, Also, there is information about you and everybody else. People are unknowledgeable just like you feel unknowledgeable. Unknowledgeable people sell themselves to the unknowledgeable people. Unconscious people sell themselves to unconscious people. Round and round they go amongst them.

You can escape these circumstances, that go around itself. For you today could be important to be friendly with good looking people, gossipers, etc., and would not be important friends that call for a bright future and blame you!

The choice you make, that choice would lead you! If you hang with good looking people, their looks will diminish, if you hang with gossipers, you become one. Justice, purification, sincerity are virtues that do not die.

The killer of your future is the feeling of love for the human creature, when it attacks. It robes you and it makes you unable! You are in love. You lose your time thinking about your loved one. So, what is the feeling of love for one human in the time of youth, nothing but strength oriented in the wrong direction. You attack your whole human body, it makes you passive, it makes you confused! You can love but don’t fell in love. When youth fell in love is like having a cancer, that destroyes the future. You should know that sincere love for creatures never existed, and does not exist, only if it is for the love of God and of the creatures.

Wake up, open your eyes, get out of smoke that has blinded you! Don’t let today die and be without a day after! You have so much to do. Do them today so that tomorrow you do not regret it! In the name of God, that selected this phase of youth, never will you have a day after, full of life, and full of silence, and full of success if you are not conscious and awake today.

O Allah! Protect our youth from the youth of unconscious and irresponsibility. Also, conscious our youth for their own responsibilities! Amen!

Translated by: Kastriot Shehu

An unstable personality!

“There are among men some who serve Allah, as it were, on the verge: if good befalls them, they are, therewith well content; but if a trial comes to them, they turn on their faces: they lose both this world and the Hereafter: that is loss for all to see!” – Qur’an, 22:11

Written by:  Avni Tafili

He is so powerful so that nothing breaks him. No, euphoric. Knows how to be weak, to the point where the needle of a zool could break him! When these people feel “unbreakable,” they pass all kinds of imaginations, but when actions are needed, they became enigmatic!

A gentleman, An aggressive man. Strong-weak, obedient-disobedient! Becomes gentle when is recognized and awarded, and he becomes aggressive when he is questioned and he is not respected. How strange man can be! Switches his character according to his body’s needs. When he needs something that cannot be reached other than by being gentle, he becomes gentle. When he realizes that the kindness will not help him, he raises his head and becomes aggressive. He thinks that by being aggressive he’ll get the answer. No, he thinks that it is his right to grab whatever he wants, even though what he wants is unjust.

A man with two sides; he adapts both sides according to the circumstances. Personality changes according to the circumstances. When in front of gentlemen, sometimes he shows kindness, so that he can adapt to them, or if he finds weakness in them, immediately he switches to aggressive and tries to rule them; and when he is present with people that have an aggressive character, he becomes soft. He plays two characters, two personalities.

People with double personalities, are the ones undecided.  They do not know what it means to be patient. They are eager to speak about either happiness or sadness. They express themselves fast, and they do not feel sorry if they hurt someone. They are brutal and they are happy. But, their happiness is short, and their brutality is continues and hidden. A hidden character. It is even worse than a crafty fox. They grab what they want and act like nothing has happened.

Yes, they are under the influence of everything that surrounds them (except of the same thinking), under the influence of place and time. They do not have a stable personality. Cannot trust them! They fell pretty fast for kindness, but also at the same time cool off and become neglected. Their eyes are flattering. Their hearing is programmed to accept words that do not move their instable cupidity and their thirst. They became terrible upset when something bad happens to them, they scream and blame everyone except themselves, and when something good happens to them, they still make noise, while proudly embracing others.

He is so strong that nothing breaks him. No, but euphoric. He knows how to be weak, to the point where the needle of a zool could break him! When these people feel “unbreakable,” they pass all kinds of imagination. However, actions mean something else: to be written and to be gossiped.

They do not run from themselves, and they do not justify from their inability. But, when something shakes them to the point that they cannot take it anymore, they begin to take an oath. No, they do not take an oath, it is a tactic of these people: to hide the other side of their character-unstable. Yes, people without curtains in their face. Without curtains of conscience and accountability.

People with multi-personality, do not stand in either side. Moveable and unstable in what they say that they are thinking about. These people are bankrupt, because they speak and change their words and cannot expect an action from them. All they can do is speak words that wind blows them away, and an action that anything can shift. Bankruptcy, there is nothing of importance that they can do.

Yes, doubtful, hesitate. These characteristics make them to stay still and do nothing.  They do not have a clear mission in life. So, how can these people accomplish anything, when that “something” is lost and has no name! No, they know how to live, speak and think, but only to feed their unstable personality.

God, protect us from instability and contempt of the purpose that you created us, and of the mission that needs to be done!

Translated by: Kastriot Shehu

Do not despair, Allah is Oft-forgiving

“Say: O my servants who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not of the Mercy Of Allah: for Allah forgives all sins: for He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful”. – Qur’an, 39:53

Written by: Avni Tafili

Do not despair, Allah is even more merciful than your mother, who supported you through hardship; she gave birth to, fed and raised you. She worries about you, but it is Allah, who created those feelings in her heart, so you could feel loved, happy and protected;

Do not despair, Allah is most forgiving. Even if your sins are the size of a mountain, he will forgive you, but don’t be wrongful towards Him. Do not assign Him partners in your worship, for He created everything, you included, so why wouldn’t He forgive you. Know that His mercy by far surpasses His affliction;

Do not despair; train yourself to submit to Allah and obey Him only, because whoever obeys His commands, forever will have a blissful life, and not only in this temporary abode;

Do not despair; rest assured that Allah will guard you from anything bad; none will have the power to harm you, not even if all the earthly creatures join against you;

Do not despair, you are an honored creature, and Allah does not break His promise, if you betrayed this honor and were neglectful toward Him, you have done it because of your ignorance, wise- up. Allah accepts your repentance; therefore a stress-free and happy life awaits you;

Do not despair; even if everyone neglects you, you are not alone, Allah is by your side. He is Gentle and Merciful, he never sleeps, nor does He drowse;

Do not despair, Allah will guide you again. As long as you sincerely ask for His guidance, He will guide you. Possessing un-matched mercy, He would be ashamed not to answer your call;

Do not despair! If you are annoyed and worried, thinking that life makes no sense, be aware that not all things are the way we see or feel them. People living under the shade of Allah’s Mercy, do not feel that way, they are enjoying their peace and happiness;

Do not despair. Each time darkness and hopelessness engulfs you; turn towards the One that is Alive, and from Whom all life originated. Open your heart toward the heavens, breath with ease, and call: O Allah, un-slave me from your slaves, so I can serve only You! Guide my vision with the light of truth, and strengthen my obedience toward You!

Do not despair; just because some people hate, and insult you, just for saying:” My God is Allah, and I’m a Muslim!” Certainly, those people would very much like to take away your peace and resistance of this world, and if they only knew what awaits the rightful believers in the hereafter, they would fight you with all they’re might for that. Be firm! Great awards await you, Allah willing;

Do not despair; when observing sinners, do not wish them ill, but pray that they repent and better themselves. Their sinning perhaps derides from their hearts which are filled with darkness. Shine a light into their hearts!

Do not despair, just because your brothers in Islam lack in their responsibilities, don’t turn away from them, smile and show them your love, so they understand how much you love them for the sake of Allah;

Do not despair; stand by people who don’t but would like to know about the path of Allah, do not let their words of ignorance bother you, advise and correct them, and who knows, maybe from among them, we will have people that will surpass our expectations in goodness;

Do not despair; Allah has everything under His command: life, provisions, knowledge and wealth, no one will ever be able to take something that is yours, unless that is better for you;

Do not despair; Allah separated night from day so you could change for the better, made Ramadan a month of fasting, a month during which the ultimate evildoers are chained, so you can have time to reflect, by repenting, improving, and returning to your Lord, Allah!

He said “And who despairs of the mercy of his Lord, but such as go astray!” – Qur’an, 15: 56.

InshaAllah, you are not from among the losers, therefore do not lose your hope in the Mercy of your Lord, Allah the Most Merciful!

O Allah, You are the Oft-forgiving, the Beneficent! To you we repent and only for Your forgiveness we ask! Shine Your Guiding Light into our heart and mind!

* Translated by: Qamil Muja