Bismillah
Here I am staring at the computer’s screen with a bag of ready-made, prepacked Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies in my hand, and I thought: they’re never quite the same, are they?
The prepacked Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies sold separately at the Supermarket, if you realised, were never quite the same – never as mouth-wateringly good; never as melts-in-your-mouth good – as the freshly-baked, hot of the oven “fresh” Famous Amos cookies sold at their own little tuckshop.
The former felt too bland; too…”cold”, like something was amiss; never quite as tasty and tempting as the real thing.
And this made me think of Islam.
No wonder the World today is so petrified with Islam.
The Islam presented today was so, so, far off from the real thing – that it was so hardly-recognizable.
And it was no wonder the kids today, Muslims, were more than too keen to shake it off from their skins. Almost like Islam is a “disease” they were more than happy to be departing from.
So much was added – and so much was taken away – that to be practicing Islam in its truest sense earned a flabbergasted stare right off the street, or anywhere you go.
But, just like one is eating the prepacked version and the original version of Famous Amos, one could tell you that latter tasted way, way better -almost an undescribable feeling that can only be felt if you have tasted it yourself. And so is Islam. One can only go as far as describing at length the beauty of living under the heed of the pure Islamic teaching – but in the end, you would have to try it yourself to truly feel its awesomeness.
Rayyan Islam
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