[Across from Willams Cofee Pub. Student Centre. MAC]
Reminded of the sophistication of the ancients, I feel entrenched in what I consider to be the height of culture and civility . It is obviously, a stretch for most around me today to associate this today with that seemingly timeless yesterday. But I am living today and I have full cultural and historical Isnad. How wonderful it is to sit in peace and tranquility with no bothers. I am a free man, living the life of kings and royalty one is accustomed to seeing in the leafs of history books. My circumstance, one of modern western civilization, is within my domain (or perhaps I am in its domain) and I am in control.
Freedom is a love and a high. I may eat, think, read, worship, enjoy and appreciate whatever I want, whenever I want. It's simple really. Any restrictions that are placed upon me are futile: true freedom is in the mind; and no one has the right nor the ability to ever take it away from me. My mind, intermingling with my heart, feels like a nexus of countless emotions and thoughts: I feel a throng of invinciblity. and I am free.
Reminded of the sophistication of the ancients, I feel entrenched in what I consider to be the height of culture and civility . It is obviously, a stretch for most around me today to associate this today with that seemingly timeless yesterday. But I am living today and I have full cultural and historical Isnad. How wonderful it is to sit in peace and tranquility with no bothers. I am a free man, living the life of kings and royalty one is accustomed to seeing in the leafs of history books. My circumstance, one of modern western civilization, is within my domain (or perhaps I am in its domain) and I am in control.
Freedom is a love and a high. I may eat, think, read, worship, enjoy and appreciate whatever I want, whenever I want. It's simple really. Any restrictions that are placed upon me are futile: true freedom is in the mind; and no one has the right nor the ability to ever take it away from me. My mind, intermingling with my heart, feels like a nexus of countless emotions and thoughts: I feel a throng of invinciblity. and I am free.
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*squeels*
I love you.
You are now one of the smarter ones.
"freedom" - even (especially) of thought - would be knowing exactly how every incident in your life affects you.
for instance, you're never aware of the things you take for granted, until they are no longer things you can take for granted. that implies that you've acceped things subconsciously, without really thinking about them. so how is that being free?
your claim to freedom requires that you remain aloof from everything around you - allowing any one thing to affect you may than any other means you aren't as free as you think you are.
ok, i haven't quite thought out that last sentence fully, but i do believe no one is free, because freedom requires total awareness. which is impossible.
reminded me of that nasheed. excellent post, i love ur writing style. mashallah..
And he answered:
At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom,
Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them.
Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff.
And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfillment.
But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
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And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free?
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And if it is a care you would cast off, that care has been chosen by you rather than imposed upon you.
And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.
freedom in selflessness (nonexistence)? emotional freedom versus intellectual freedom?
the people demand more.
but i think that was a nice post. now update.