♡♥Enlightening Souls♥♡

☆BE THE REAL YOU☆

In an age of Instagram, selfies, and photoshopped Facebooks, it's hard to resist the persistent need to display our false perfection. Perfect figure. Perfect skin. Perfect lives. Somewhere along we've bought into this false meaning of happiness and perfection. So we put on our happy masks and photoshop our Facebook. But it's all just a farce. What we don't realize is that true happiness only comes when we put aside the false kind. We can only experience geniune happiness when we put away the mask.

Why can't we admit that we *aren't* perfect?  Why can't we admit that our lives aren't perfect?  That our relationships aren't perfect?  Why can't we admit that we struggle too? That we are human, living a human existence in a painfully imperfect world?

If there's anything that this Ramadan did for our ummah around the world, it is this: it has torn away at the veils over our eyes, showing us the Reality of Dunya. So maybe we can stop pretending. It's okay to be broken. If all the horrors and tragedies of this world don't break us, maybe our hearts are already dead.

Maybe it's time to set aside our masks and just be real. This world isn't perfect. We aren't perfect. Our lives aren't perfect. And that's okay. If all of these things were perfect, how would we ever know our need for God? How would we see it?
Our utter, desperate need.

But you see, that's just it. It is only through that need, that we are given. It is only through breaking, that we can be made whole. Tears can be like medicine. Tears to God--the only cure. Salvation doesn't come through feigning perfection. It comes through humility, through admitting defeat, and utter need, to the only One who can save you. To God. And God alone.

Look at the stories of the Prophets and how they were each saved.  Look at the duaa of Nuh (AS) and Yunus (AS) and Ayoub (AS). They didn't pretend. They didn't feign strength and ability and perfection. They humbled themselves completely and admit that they had no strength or ability, because they knew that truly, truly, all strength and ability comes only from God.

I recieved this message and it really opened my eyes. May Allah help us to protect ourselves from all the bad and make us HIS righteous and obedient slaves.