Don’t decorate your home with plastic flowers

 

 

This is not an advice for any one, I am just having a dialogue with me

If you listen-in the conversation and feel offended, please forgive me

 

Plastic flowers are for show, have no fragrance or natural beauty

we have them not only in our homes but in our character, behavior and duty

 

loose character, phony behavior and shirking your duty is plastic

The correct actions when no one is watching is true character, lies are elastic

 

The fragrance in human is not his looks, but his character and integrity

The plastic in human is his pride, ignorance, greed, bevafai and vanity

 

Joining the rat race, doing tohsa tohsi, putting someone down to get ahead

Are the signs of a plastic man, your merit and honest effort would surely get you ahead

 

In a dispute don’t get down & dirty or in the gutters, take the moral high road

Stand for your convictions, and speak your mind and don’t be someone else’s toad

 

At the markaz or masjid you see people sitting in first saf showing great inkesaari

At home they don’t even pray and don’t know where is their masalla or the sipari

 

It is not important where you sit in majlis or masjid, as long as you are inside the door

Concentrate on your purpose, strive for tawheed in every amal if you seek the shore

 

In jaman be sure to invite a poor person or family or a stranger to your thaal

Eating always only with high or mighty or with your relatives, let that not be all

 

Give up the bad habits of jealousy, anger, pride & Gheebat just to please some one

One to please is Allah and his Dai, if you keep that in mind, you have the battle won

 

Allah is closer to you than your jugular vein, he knows all your actions and reason

What you sow you will reap, all this will be clear when you become a grave denizen

 

You can’t retain all you hear, read about our culture and history on your own

Reading will make you reflect, reflection will destroy the plastic on its own

 

What you drive, what you make, and where you live is plastic and immaterial

What you DO with what little you have is what matters most and is essential

 

You talk too much to yourself, when will you act, you shock me Husain Jamali

It is about time you took your own advice; otherwise these are all vaato khali khali

 

Aye jaan, always do salwaat tasbeeh for panjatan, and doa of umr-e-khidar for our Dai

May he live healthy & long with his kutumb, if you don’t then you are committing bevafai

 

Abd-e-Syedna, TUS - Shk. Husain Jamali,  Anjuman-e-Burhanee, Los Angeles,  CA