Sunday, November 25, 2007

Living for Dunya and Painful Reminders

24/11

Subhan’allah. If I am living for the dunya, Allah swt has truly given me a small insight into my situation in the hereafter. I feel as if I am being flayed alive! Everything is burning, hot, sharp, stinging pain… I’m sunburned – again! Subhan’allah, every year I do this to myself, even though I say I won’t. Maybe I forget the pain – its not as bad as last year though, al-hamdoulillah. I’m trying to dunk myself in cream in a hopeless bid to ward off the peelies, I know it won’t work… Haven’t been swimming yet, the water is like ice – and a little dirty after the rain we had yesterday afternoon and last night. A couple of groups of “schoolies” have arrived – we have a group of girls in the house on one side, and a group of boys on the other… Not much sleep tonight methinks.

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I was sitting on the balcony having dinner this evening when I saw a dark shadow in the waves about 2 metres off the shore. The next thing I knew, there was a dolphin jumping into the air and riding the waves almost all the way to the sand, masha’allah it was so beautiful.

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Kevin07: its pretty much official. Tomorrow I’ll wake up and we’ll have a new PM. Definitely time for a change (or at least the disappearance of JH) but not to sure about the Ruddster. I just wasn’t feeling their foreign policy announcements pre-election campaign – especially their stance on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (conflict is such a mild term). I must say, voting absentee is the way to go – no queues, no waiting, just “here’s your paper, off you go”.

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Practiced my Arabic today, God knows I need to – its pathetic really, in 4/5 years I haven’t even mastered basic reading. Kheir insha’allah now I have no choice – better get a wriggle on since there’s only three weeks till I’m off.

Oh yeah, I’m going overseas *yay*! Really need to get organised insha’allah.

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May Allah swt heal my pain, grant my family hidayah and make my trip a productive one for His swt sake.


(Hmm, sleeping early tonight, I think the burn has sapped my energy - I'm shifting from burning sensations to goosebumps and the chills...not good)

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