Being Attached ...

Through my life, I've been always attached to things around me.. and I used to get my personal stability and some times my self esteem from things around me.. 

I remember those days, when I cried for leaving my school, cried when left my home and went to new one, when my friend traveled abroad, when my Grandma passed away, and even when my favorite mug was broken. Also I remember when I felt miserable for not having the Eid day prayer with my friends as I used to do for  the past 10 years, .. it seems that it's not easy for me to let it go.

The worst thing about this, when I feared to leave my comfort zone and move to new one, let me miss a lot of other new opportunities and experiences that would have happened if I just let it go..adapting easy with change, and being courageous enough to turn on a page of my life, and start allover again with a new blank one.

My Mum once told me.. "Love whatever you want, and you will leave it or it will leaves you one day. And do whatever you want, but be sure you will have your deeds written and be faced with it in the day of judgment".. I didn't listen to her  by that time, although it was true, but day after day, I started to see people around me disappearing, many things changed, those who traveled, married, my relative died very young while being pregnant, my very successful friend who ran a business died in a car crash, and more of this was happening very fast around me.. It was certainly a message from Allah.. just to wake up.

The point that I didn't realize that this life is a temporarily thing..a bridge.. this is not the end.. so being so attached to things, to people, to a lifestyle, to my family, to my work, didn't make my life any better.. it just made it worse and worse..

So, the truth is that, the only one worthy to be attached to is, Allah (Subhanh we Ta'alah), He is always there, this is the "true" attachment.Those many things around us, are just images that come and go, as a test from Allah, to see how are we going to act. So, if one forgot the main goal, which is to pass the test, and got busy with those images and illusions, life will end up to be so empty, with no purpose, and eventually we will fail in the exam Allah set for each one of us, the exam of life.

In surat Al Kahf (Chapter 18 - verse 45), Allah Subhanuh wa Ta'alah says:

(وَاضْرِبْ لَهُمْ مَثَلَ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا كَمَاءٍ أَنْزَلْنَاهُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَاخْتَلَطَ بِهِ نَبَاتُ الْأَرْضِ فَأَصْبَحَ هَشِيمًا تَذْرُوهُ الرِّيَاحُ ۗ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ مُقْتَدِرًا)

(And set forth to them parable of the life of this world: like water which We send down from the cloud so the herbage of the earth becomes tangled on account of it, then it becomes dry broken into pieces which the winds scatter; and Allah is the holder of power over all things.)

When thinking that way, relationships to the physical things around us will begin to change. We need to be fully aware that they really didn't belong to us. They are a gift from Allah. And that how short a time we really have on this planet, and how lucky we are to have the bountiful blessings we are surrounded with, so that we enjoy it, but being aware that the Real life, is in Jannah "Heavens" (May  Allah bless us with it)..