Before We Move On To Surah al Qamar..........Madarij as Salikin, Station Repentance ,1 & 2

your excellency,

we are all fellow travelers  on this planet earth.
correction: technically, we, who have said the shahadah, are all travelers.
those without shahadah are not traveling, until allah open them up to that possibility of taking the shahadah.

a motley group indeed we are.
with varying levels and levels of ghaflah.
on the extreme left of the spectrum , most of us who are running on the threadmill, not going anywhere.

some wayfarers,  like you and me, your excellency, have initially gone quite far ahead in our past lives,but  by virtue of changing circumstances and fortune,have receded far backward because of our  excessive love for the duniya.

we are in limbo, suspended between the pleasures of the flesh, the glittering neons and signage of this duniya, and on the other side of the equation, the incessant reminder of the akhirah.

a great majority in the middle still stuck between heedlessness and aimless, unfocused and inappropriate  ambitions.
.....and the very rarefied select group out there to the very extreme far right....
they are the chaps who are going to fly across the sirat, with the mercy and rahmah of allah , of course!


we join prof anjum yet again in his discourse of ibnu qayyim's opus magnum, madarij as salikin.
we are now moving on to station al taubah.
an important station in our journey to eternity.
too important that prof anjum splits it into two discourse.

at my age and yours , despite our heedlessness, we oftentimes wake up in the wee hours of the morning in cold sweat, move on over the edge of our bed, saying:

'astagfirullah! astagfirullah! omg,  laila hailla anta subha  nakainni kuntuminaz zolimin!'.

alhamdullillah your excellency!
as long as we are in this state, this state of going back and forth, back and forth, like a yo yo, our souls are still salvageable.
insyaallah!

rabb bana atina fiddunya hasanah wa fil akhirati hasanatan wa kina azaban nar!

may your ramadan and mine be a blessed one, your excellency!
ma'af , zahir , batin.

yours humbly,
nik howk



part 1:  [  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGjR-9-wg2M  ]


part 2: [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Ylqh06XwE  ]








[  http://drnikisahak.blogspot.my/2017/01/just-visiting-part-2.html  ]

'just visiting...part 2 ', has nothing to do with prof anjum's discourse on al taubah nonetheless
it is a collection of about 15 to 20 ranting and thought of mine over the issue of 'death and dying', well spread over 40 years of medical practice and a life full of barbs, and blessed with pain and pleasure at the same time.

giving thought to 'death and dying' brings one closer to HIM.
repentance is an automatic response to such thot.
it is a 'substation', emerging from every station, an important one i would say.