Struggles in life are wonderful

One day I saw a cocoon, of a butterfly, with a tiny hole

I sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it

Struggled its body through that tiny hole

Then, it seemed to stop making any progress and appeared as if

It had gotten as far it could and could do no more

So, I decided to help the butterfly and snipped off the remaining cocoon carefully

The butterfly then emerged easily but with shriveled wings and a huge belly

I continued to watch the butterfly, expecting the body to shrivel and the wings to grow

Neither happened, it crawled around for the rest of its life, never flew, what a blow

In my misplaced kindness, I tampered with Mother Nature, my folly

You see, the restricting cocoon and the struggle required getting through the tiny opening

Is God’s way of forcing fluids from the body of butterfly in to its wings

So it would be ready to fly once it achieves freedom from the cocoon

Believe it or not, sometimes struggles are  exactly what we need in our life

without obstacles, we would not become strong and that would be a miserable life.

My children, listen carefully when I say, while I have the steam to blow off

Cherish the tiny hole in your cocoon, don’t let your parents snip it off

First acquire then force  your ilm into amal, so you can fly on the wings of amals

We all have to struggle as best as we can and work around the obstacles

Struggle hard in deen & duniya with good amal, and then float like a butterfly in Jannat.

You are in Jannat bil fael now  if you are a follower of Syedna  Mohammed Burhanuddin

Misaq and amal on seven daims with sincere niyyat is all that is required for jannat bil quwwat

Do not  ignore your secular education and profession, earn lots of money for khidmat

Having the opportunity to do khidmat of Dai and dawat is a big neamat

And always do doa for our Dai to live long and healthy life ta qiyamat.

Abd-e-Syedna, TUS

Shk. Husain Jamali

Anjuman-e-Burhanee

Los Angeles, CA