The soul is a dynamic entity that many people do not understand. We barely know our own selves, let alone enough to contemplate what the soul is.
Have you ever woken up in the morning and just wanted to cry because you were so overwhelmed? Not overwhelmed in the negative sense, quite the contrary. Allah has blessed you with so many blessings, most of them uncounted for. You are free of need, and sometimes even want. Our brains adapt to our surroundings and we start to take things for granted. The soul, however, never forgets and is always grateful because it holds fast to the fitra (primordial state).
I remember once at a gathering, a scholar told us that if you ever feel like crying in instances like this, then go ahead and cry. Tears are a sign of mercy and soften the heart. I’d like to add that they can remind us of what we should be grateful and our ignorance of what do not know what to be grateful for.
Anony Sufi
Irving Said:
on August 31, 2007 at 12:12 am
How true your words are brother
Such tears are a blessings indeed. When I first became initiated, I wept for a year at the enormity of my wasted life, and the blessing and bounty and mercy of Allah.
Ya Haqq!
juhah Said:
on September 8, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Those who do not have the blessing wake up with the opposite!
Irving Said:
on September 16, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Ramadan Mubarak to you and your family, dear Brother
Ya Haqq!
EternalWanderer Said:
on February 25, 2008 at 11:26 am
Subhanallah,
I have been feeling this way for the past couple of days.
This morning I got up….I felt a pain in my heart….the one of extreme sadness, for no apparent reason. And its been there the whole day today!
Alhamdulilah Im not depressed or anything.
Im worried what it is? No its not angina pain or heart attack sort of problems….but more like a deep sadness, I can FEEL my heart paining, like its being pressed or something.
Anyone knows what it is??