happy one year less

Assalamualaikum wrb 

bismillahirrahmanirrahim

alhamdulillah thumma alhamdulillah.. all praises and thanks belong to Allah, Most Merciful, Most Forgiving. we ask of Allah to forgive all of our sins and guide our hearts to true repentance and replace our sins with good deeds, ameen. complete greetings and salutations upon Prophet Muhammad SAW.

today i'm starting the age of 22. it feels surreal to have settled at early adulthood already masyaAllah! sometimes i still feel younger. but anyway increasing in age should remind us that we are one year less in this world and closer approaching the end. it may be a bit dark and gloomy and birthdays are supposed to be a joyous occasion, but I guess we shouldn't overdo it much.

they may say it's your day, they may say whatever you wanna do, it's your special day. 

but if anything.. we should humble ourselves more. bow down to our Creator, Allah Azza Wajal, more. it is a day that we expect to be given, to receive.. but really, it is our day to give. to give not to just anyone... to give to Allah.. even though He doesn't need anything from us and regardless we give Him or not, it would not diminish Him. But what giving Him represents is our love for Him, our sacrifice against our desires for Him, our putting Him before anything else. our strive to put Allah as our number one. and on the day we increase in age, our submission to Him should only increase and fall more in love with Him, and instead of the day being about us.. it shall be about us being a better slave to the Lord of all the worlds, Allah Azza Wajal, than yesterday. 

i am a weak slave, and i have nothing to show for, so please don't judge me. and don't think of me as high either. my character and status is for Him to judge and in this case, i can only strive to be a better slave, so maybe today is a start. insyaAllah. and may you and I be on the path of istiqomah. ameen.

may Allah equip us the best of things in this dunia for the best of things in the Akhirat, may Allah help us to earn His love and pleasure, may Allah resurrect us with Prophet Muhammad SAW and the righteous ones in the Hereafter, may Allah be pleased with us all and our parents and families, and may Allah keep us firm, sincere and steadfast in His path and may Allah choose us to live and die carrying the legacy of Rasulullah SAW. 

i ask of your forgiveness and may we be more forgiving to each other for His sake. and all that is good is completely from Allah Azza Wajal, the Most Knowing, the Most Merciful. and all that is flawed is derived from my own inadequacies and ego.  

p.s: thank you so much for all the well wishes, for the remembrance and the doas. may Allah bless us all dunia Akhirat and may Allah guide us continuously to righteousness and His pleasure and may Allah accept all our good deeds and may Allah include us amongst those who He is pleased with and grant us Jannah ameen. 

wassalam