One Path to Jennah

It is narrated from Abu Huraira, Anas ibn Malik and Abdur Rahman ibn Awf that the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said, “If a woman prays five times a day, fasts the month of Ramadan, guards her chastity and obeys her husband it would be said to her, ‘Enter Paradise from any door of Paradise that you want’”.

[Reported by Ibn Hibban, Tabarani, Ahmad and Bazzar and authenticated by Sh. Al-Albani]

Had I lived in the sky

Had I lived on a cloud, like an island above the world, I would have loved differently. 

The treasures of the worldly life indistinguishable at such an altitude, I would have valued differently.

My days and nights spent in solitude drifting across the sky, sailing with birds. 

I would have wondered at the true wonders of the world, 

The earths climbing peeks, rolling hills, vast plains...

cut up by winding rivers, oceans, and clusters of human life.

Unhindered by earthly life my work became prayer; play, dhikr. 

Had I lived above the world, like a traveler in the sky, I would have dreamed differently. 

Alien to the accumulation of wealth, surely I would have desired differently.

Id dream of running across the earth like earthly beings dream of flying. 

O, Had I lived in the sky.