This Friday

This Friday, we managed to take one enormous step toward another essential family goal that had been started four years ago.

It feels scary, overwhelming, and incredible all at once. Looking at such numbers, it gave me goosebumps to see, countless times, how Allah made many things possible beyond calculation.

Life over the past ten years has been quite hard to explain and make sense of. The ups and downs, the highs and lows, they were all incredibly amazing. The Best Life Planner and Designer beautifully crafted every detail.

The roads we have traveled are rarely easy. In fact, there have always been external and internal situations to deal with throughout the years we asked for and pursued huge things in life.

Since I really get used to dealing with hard things, I feel insecure and think it’s fishy when things are easy😅.

What keeps me grounded is knowing and comprehending that in Islam, trials don’t always look like turbulence. It can be disguised in many forms, including what we see as blessings.

Tried my best not to tie everything we received to the efforts we have made. I feel more peace when I reframe things and zoom out, giving credit where it’s truly due. Not because of our efforts, not because of our good deeds, but it’s simply because Allah has always been The Most Merciful and the Most Powerful to allow us to make it and be where we are. Efforts and good deeds matter at some point; doing our math right is important, but they don’t make much difference without His approval.

In pursuing many of my life goals from my 20s through the 40s, those are when I experience the lessons of tauhid in real life. In witnessing how this life journey sails, I experience how the wind brings us to many ports and stops to allow us to fetch a bit of this and that, lessons here and there, then brings us to where we are supposed to be, more often than not, it has always been better than the initial request.

Bismillah for everything onwards. May Allah make it easy and keep us on the straight path, protect us at every step of the way, and throughout the journey.

Amin. Amin. Amin.