The Tale of a Silent Struggle
✒️ Mufti Muhammad Tasleemuddin Al-Mahmoodi
In this world, we all live with each other, meet, talk, smile, but the reality is that no one knows what kind of storm is hidden in a person's heart. Society always looks at faces, listens to words, but cannot hear the cry of the heart and the fatigue of the soul.
No one knows what happened in the background of your life. What was the incident that shook your safety? What was the trauma that took away the peace of your heart? What was the moment that scattered your spontaneous abilities? Society does not know how much you have lost, how many times you have cried in your inner battle, how many times you have tried to stand up, and how many times you have fallen silently.
Our biggest weakness is that instead of seeing the pain of others, we only judge their appearance. If someone looks successful, we think they are happy, but who knows how many sleepless nights, how many tears, how many failures, and how many heart wounds are hidden behind that success. If someone smiles, we assume that they live carefree, but have we ever tried to recognize the pain hidden behind that smile?
This is the social tragedy that we ignore the struggles of others. We forget that every human being is fighting their own private battle. Some with poverty, some with disease, some with loneliness, some with broken relationships, some with incomplete dreams, and some with their inner weaknesses. But we only look in the mirror of appearance, we do not feel the internal breakdown.
Society needs to learn to try to understand the sorrow hidden behind the smiles of others. Do not consider someone's silence as weakness, but believe that there is a whole world inhabited within the silence, which is full of wounds. We need to create this awareness that we should not make decisions without knowing the story of others. Because the struggle, the sacrifice, and the suffering that others have endured, only they know.
Every individual's pain is unique, and the story of every struggle is different. Therefore, if society really wants to become civilized, it has to acknowledge the pain of others, create empathy, and bring softness to its attitudes. We must remember that even a person who appears strong on the outside may be broken on the inside, and even a person who remains silent may be fighting the biggest battle.
Therefore, we should become a support for each other. If we cannot take away someone's pain, then at least do not become the ones who increase it further. Try to listen to someone's silence, dare to understand someone's silent eyes. This is the real service to society that we do not leave others alone in their private struggles.
May Allah Almighty grant us all the awareness to recognize the suffering and struggle of others. May He give us the ability to be the ones who apply balm to someone's wound instead of sprinkling salt on it. May He grant us such an attitude of patience, tolerance, and empathy that others find comfort from our existence, not torment.
Remember!
The real heroes of the world are not those who bring others down, but those who support those who fall. The real fragrance is not the one that is in the flower, but the one that spreads from the human being's behavior. Society will only prosper when every individual thinks that my one soft word, one sympathetic look, and one smiling face may become a new hope of life for a tired heart.