Alhamdulillah! As I was looking back to my gallery of pictures, I came across this beautiful picture of Niagara falls which I have captured back in Ontario in the year 2023.
SubhanAllah! Was thinking about this, these beautiful flowers (daffodils) didn’t get to choose where they sprouted, they are right next to a deafening noise, the noise of the (Niagara) fall. Still, they bloomed boldly. A reminder that sometimes, our environment isn’t ideal, and we cannot sometimes even choose it, like in my case, sometimes I think that why am I born in a time where there is so much suffering in the world, and especially in the ummah to witness, literally the fall, but then I realized later that the growth, the beautiful bloom is still possible. If we are placed in such a time of immense collective fall then there is a purpose behind it by Allah Al-Hakeem. It is all about perspective.
For some the Niagara Falls is just another breathtaking tourist site, but for others it might be a symbolism or lessons in disguise about our collective fall and rise!
Watching the falls of Niagara. One can notice water rushes downward with incredible force, after all it is a sheer fall. To the eye, it might seem like pure descent, all loss, all gravity pulling down.
But if you pause, and look closer, and keenly. You will see, as the water crashes below, it doesn’t end. Particles from that very fall rise back up, lifted by the energy of impact, turning into a mist, like a cloud that soars higher than the fall itself. What looked like a complete collapse creates something that ascends!
The muslim ummah has experienced its share of falls. Once a global beacon of justice, knowledge, and dignity we then witnessed our fall, due to external and internal interferences, division, political decay, cultural confusion, and mainly due to separating deen and dunya.
It looked like a fall. And it is indeed a big one!
But falls aren’t ends. They are moments of transformation.
Just like the waterfall, parts of the ummah are beginning to rise again. Muslims are reclaiming their faith with sincerity and purpose. Young people are seeking truth, not trends. They are realising Islam as a complete system, complete deen as a mercy for all the worlds. Hearts are waking up, even if institutions are compromised.
InshaAllah, a collective rise where we remember, that the Holy Qur’an is not a slogan but a lived reality. Unity is not uniformity, but a shared vision of living with dignity devoid of man made boundaries, Dawah isn’t just words, but re-establishment of complete deen.
Just as the mist doesn’t rise alone, it rises because of the intensity of the fall, our collective fall has shaken us awake to ascend.
Let’s introspect which part are we going to be – The part that crashes and settles?
Or the part that rises to the clouds?
We collectively need to rise through the impact of our collective fall. Let all the hardships fuel our ascent.