NO STORM CAN LAST FOREVER

Often the rain drops fall so gently on the roof that you aren't able to tell it's raining if you don't draw the curtains of your bedroom. Sometimes the rain is so heavy and excessive that it drives people to evacuate their houses and they are forced to stay in temporary shelters. Yesterday I got caught in heavy rain, an unpredictable outburst and a turmoil which was hard to handle while walking alone along a street. It seemed as if somebody was standing over my head and pouring buckets of water on me. For a moment, I got terrified after hearing the sky roaring and the dark grey clouds hanging over me. I really felt the absence of my parents and really wished they were there like they have always been in every storm of life. I didn't realize the fact that parents are like umbrellas in life. They can only stop you from getting wet in the rain but can't stop the rain. Fortunately, I had my umbrella but it was in my car which was parked a mile away. While I was running to get the umbrella, I thought about the strange signal that I was getting from ALLAH. We often have the necessary resources to face the storm that life throws at us but most of the time, those resources are locked up in the depth of our heart and we waste our time in trying to find them. By the time we find them, we have already been defeated by adversity. Often we become apathetic in life until we face a severe storm. Whether loss of a job, health crisis, death of a loved one or financial struggle, ALLAH often brings storms in our lives to change our perspective, to shift the focus from ourselves and our lives to Him. We are like a little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting that we are a tree -- deeply rooted to withstand all of life's upheavals. Without rain, nothing grows so learn to embrace every storm of your life singlehandedly and courageously.