In the middle of doing something, I left the fragrance bottle there on the window pane.
As I saw it, as an opened bottle, I recall listening to my Ustaad (teacher) who once used it as a parable to explain Islam when not established in muslim lands as a complete deen (complete system of living life) as an UnOpened itar bottle.
“No matter how good a fragrance is BUT if it is not opened then it is just a soothing, refreshing, therapeutic fragrance sealed inside a closed bottle, as a mere theory, just as a mere claim for others. You can stand in a room and tell everyone about it. You can use the most eloquent words, the most convincing tone. People will nod, some may even believe you. But for a lot it won’t be a conviction as for them it would be like a theory only, mere words, that’s it. But, the moment you open the bottle, everything changes. You don’t need to say a word. The fragrance will settle into the room. People will now witness it. And that witnessing is something no preaching can ever achieve, it nullifies skepticism entirely.”
So here is the question I am left with, looking at that opened little bottle on the windowpane which reminded me of the parable given by ustaad.
What as an ummah we are keeping sealed? And why?
Especially, when we know the world needs it?
The fragrance is what it is- Pure, serene, therapeutic. It only needs to get opened up, in order to establish its fragrant beauty.
That UnOpened bottle of fragrance today is of Islam as a deen, a complete socio, political, economIc system which is missing its establishment in muslim lands.
The closed bottle of fragrance needs to be opened up peacefully in muslim lands, for the room/world to feel it, experience it. Then inshaAllah we will be in a state to experience surah nasr’s which is a madani Surah, yes, madani period where people entered into Islam in huge crowds as they were able to witness the implemented, established beauty of Islam as fragrant deen.
وَرَأَيْتَ ٱلنَّاسَ يَدْخُلُونَ فِى دِينِ ٱللَّهِ أَفْوَاجًۭا ٢
“and you see the people embracing Allah’s deen in crowds.”