Everywhere You Turn Is The Face Of God

Everywhere You Turn Is The Face Of God

"So wherever you might turn, there is the face of Allah"
Al-Qur'an 2:115

In every moment, Allah is communicating with you, He is presenting you text for you to understand so that you can move forward.

It's as if Allah sends you an instruction set up as a puzzle. The puzzle appears as a recurring situation or an ongoing situation or a new situation, which causes distress.

As long as you are entangled and mired in the situation, you don't see the puzzle.  You need to distance yourself, detach yourself a little before you can see it.

As soon as you pull back a little  and decide to reflect, to witness the situation - not so much as something that's happening TO you, but more as something that is speaking/ reflecting back to you - you begin to see pieces of the puzzle.

You put two pieces together and a bit of the picture becomes clear. You find another piece that fits...and another.... and another ... until the picture is complete.

The instruction appears clearly and you realize it deeply within yourself.

Your seeing makes that specific issue disappear because it has taught you what you needed to learn.

The key is to find that space to pull back into where you are the seer, not the seen. To remind yourself that whatever is happening is text from Him, everywhere you turn is His face.

And to ask, what is He showing me now? What does He want me to do? What does He want me to learn?

and AllahuAlim

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Forgiveness Is About Setting Your Own Self Free

Forgiveness does not mean that you condone what was done to you.  It does not mean that what was done was justified or correct.  It does not mean you were guilty or deserved what happened.  It does not imply that the act or the person you have forgiven is/was virtuous.    

Forgiveness means that you no longer hold any resentment in your own heart against people or life.  It means you are tired of the burden and the pain that resentment causes in your own self and in your life. It means that you choose not to be vindictive to deliberately harm others in reaction to their having deliberately harmed you. 

It means you choose to let go of what has already gone, what is over.

Forgiveness means that you may have seen the benefit or lesson or growth you received despite the pain and the suffering that was inflicted on you.  And transmuted your resentment to gratitude.

It means that even if you choose not to work with or associate with the people who hurt or damaged you deliberately – because they demonstrated that they cannot be trusted – you may still choose to serve them unconditionally if required.

Forgiveness is about freedom.  Freedom from resentment.  Freedom to act consciously in the unconditional service of others, no matter who they are and what they did, and therefore, in your own highest interest.

Forgiveness is about setting your own self free.

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