Thursday, June 30, 2016

We are the Artists of our lives

      Everything starts with 'Faith'. Even a painting, when an artist decides to create a new piece of painting.
      With the knowledge of our own selves we aspire to see Him, to know Him, and to simply love Him; and eventually be His lover, for the sake of Love, and finally know what is the thirst of Ishq e Haqeeqi (the divine Love). Similar to the one who didn't see the water, ever, and when he drinks water for the first time, only then, he realizes how great his thirst was.
      We are simply artists of our lives. And 'Life' is a painting with two faces. One face of it is hidden from us and the other one is the one we see everyday. He has given us everything we need to paint our lives on this divine canvas. And the other side of the painting that's hidden from us is the one He has painted for us. Among His many names there is one called Al-Musawwir-the one who shapes everything- in the greatest way. Of course we cannot see it; nor can any fortuneteller reveal it to us. But we do aspire for it, and greatly. So there are two paintings on the same canvas on each side of it.
      We all are obliged to paint on it with the strokes of the brush of patience and the color of submission to His Will. For an ignorant the divine side of the painting, the one hidden from us, varies drastically from the visible one; because he chooses greed over submission.
      The contentment is the possibility of the two sides in coherence with each other. And this very thing is the aim of a true Sufi.