Humility and humbleness

Before I move to explaining the topic, a brief overview is required to explain the verse in discussion today. I read this tweet from Sahil Lavingia on twitter

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Simple is not easy. It is easy to read Quran, but it is not simple to work on it. It is easy to get a meaning out of its verse, but it is not simple to adopt it. Easy refers to judging others, simple means to taking responsibility for the change you want to see in others.

I recently had established a fact;

Holding tight to Quran, makes bearing losses easy.

However, after losing the instrument that was driving me forward in pursuing my purpose, I have realised I failed. I failed miserably. I am still worried, I am not prepared enough to bear such losses in future.

And as for those who believed and did righteous deeds, He will give them in full their rewards and grant them extra from His bounty. But as for those who disdained and were arrogant , He will punish them with a painful punishment, and they will not find for themselves besides Allah any protector or helper.
- Surah Al Nisa verse 173

It seems simple, to believe. It is easier to label myself a muslim, a follower of a book, but it is not simple to embrace. To put labels for heaven and hell is easier but to embrace to losses hinged with the beliefs are difficult. Life seems easy in a nutshell, but the shell is oval, porous and windy inside. It is not simple to construct and heal the porous shell of life.

Believing is a dangerous act. It leads to chaos, if it is done incorrect. The lack of faith behind our self imposed label, can prove destructive. The linking of faith and mask we are putting on our faces, needs tremendous effort to bridge. Our life is incomplete if we are putting on a mask of ‘Believer’ and letting ‘Faith’ go down a sloppy hill.

Faith > Humility

I can only become humble and embrace humility, if I build a better wall around my faith. The wall to protect me from confusions and detractions. This wall needs to be built every day where I am reminded of my ‘Belief’, my mask of ‘Muslim’ and its root inside me. Each day this wall needs to go higher and wider. The door to humility, humbleness, success and concentrated focus, only opens after I let my Faith in ‘Right’ grow strong.

I have reached a conclusion through these past failures, critiques, negativity and pulls, I need to keep moving more humble and more human. I need to build my wall of ‘Faith’ higher, behind my self imposed mask of ‘Muslim’ that I can live a life of colors.