Bint-e Abul Khair Azmi

We are breathing, walking around, we even laugh and speak.
But the question is, are we really alive?
Or are we merely living a life in which the body is moving but the heart is silent, the eyes are open but the insight is asleep, and the conscience, despite being alive, has become insensitive?

Spiritual negligence is the rust that slowly climbs onto the heart.
 It doesn't come suddenly; it knocks on the door silently, and we don't even hear its footsteps in the noise of our busyness.
Then a day comes when prayer feels like a burden, supplication becomes merely a collection of words, and sin... sin is no longer a sin, it just becomes a habit.
This is the first sign of the death of the heart.

The death of the heart does not mean that tears stop flowing; the real death occurs when the desire to shed tears also dies.
When the heart does not tremble upon seeing injustice, the soul does not quiver upon hearing the truth, and no movement arises in the heart upon hearing the name of the Lord, then understand that the heart is breathing, but not alive.

We have entangled life so much in the race of successes, engagements, and desires that the purpose of life has gone into the background.
We make time for everything except our Lord.
We hear every voice except the call of our own heart that says: Return.
This is the moment where the ray of awakening bursts forth.

Spiritual awakening grows from a tear and finds life in a prostration.
When a person admits his weakness, when he acknowledges that "I was as good as dead while alive", then he goes to the door of mercy again.

Let us ask ourselves this question:
Is our heart inhabited by the remembrance of Allah?
Does our solitude bring us closer to our Lord or further away from Him?
If the answer is silence, then now is the time to wake up.

Because life is not just the name of breaths,
Life is the name of that heart that beats in the presence of its Lord.