A freedom that cannot be bought

 
   Have you seen he who has taken as his god his [own] desire, and Allah has sent him astray due to knowledge  and has set a seal upon his hearing and his heart and put over his vision a veil? So who will guide him after AllŒh? Then will you not be reminded? [Al-Jathiyah: 23]

Do you think you are free?

When you get angry and shout,

When you experience desire and feel weak,

When people praise you and you become arrogant,

When they criticize you and you fall apart...

Where is freedom in all this?

The Quran does not speak to the body only, but also to the soul.

It tells you with incredible softness: Free yourself from yourself before you ask for other people’s freedom.

Free yourself from the fear that prevents you from speaking the truth.

From a desire that deprives you of your balance.

From a habit that puts out your light every day while you smile.

Being an adoring servant to Allah is not being in shackles, but being liberated.

When you prostrate, you are not being crushed… but healed.

And when you submit to Him, you are not humiliated… but elevated.

True freedom is not doing whatever you please,

but choosing to do what pleases your Creator.

The nearer you get to Allah,

the further you move away from the chains imposed by other people.

That is the freedom that can neither be bought with money nor granted by the powers that be,

but is rather bestowed… upon those who say from the bottom of their hearts:

"There is no deity but Allah," and who understand understands what it means.