No doubt, this is not a climbing exercise, but the spiritual journey of uplifting! Notably we are doing this together... in Ramadan. This is one of the wisdoms of Ramadan, as I think, to give people the feeling of “togetherness” and “belonginess” as in any other rituals in Islam... Allah SWT knew what people life will turn to one day. This is one of the major thing that brought West down far before this last financial turmoil. It just took some time to appear on the surface. People stopped to trust each other, they do not do things together, they do things individually and the individualism is praised.
However, there is nothing more beautiful than cooperation of people trying to achieve some higher states for their own spirits and the societal life as whole. This idea runs through the entire teachings of Islam—which is not merely a religion, it is the way of life—to make human being humble. There is individual responsibility, but collective well being! Everyone is khalifah as everyone has his/her share in everything what is happening. The realization how that share is relatively small in comparison with the integral results—this is what brings humbleness to a conscious human being, but also motivation to increase it, to do something good for the well being of “whole” at the end. I am happy to see this among those people with whom I have happiness to study in GSM, both among staff and students. We do make things together Alhamdu li-Llah! Somebody brings the idea and then all around hurry to support and to make it HAPPEN. This is why the official motto of DBA was always “together we make impossible things possible”.
The phrase “mountain climbers always help each other” belongs to Zig Ziglar and reflects the same spirit. Mountain climbers help each other because they know their entire lives depend on each other... unfortunately only in some extreme situations this appears to human race clearly :(, but it is in every life situation. And then... where do mountain climbers aim? They do near impossible to them—achieve new heights. There is a great wisdom behind this metaphor.
This Quran co-journey through the Ramadan is like that too... no one denies the spirituality of it. Together we climb higher and what is easier to do when you climb higher?! To see things around... so for every climber the spiritual experience is very different. I could not say better than “a pleasurable journey of self discovery laden with serene nuance of existence, purpose and life”! We do not know which views are revealed to our journey companions even though they are walking next to us as that is between them and Allah!
More than one thousand four hundred years ago one mountain climber was sitting in a cave on the mount Hirrah. He found there his serene place to contemplate about this world. From there he could observe Qaabah and how his own kin were worshiping idols in it... he was crying and supplicating to Allah from there about mercy to the human race :(... and this was Mount of Hirrah where angel Jibril AS came to the Prophet SAW with the first ayat “Iqrah” by bringing this mercy to the worlds... and this was month of Ramadan... and this is what we do one thousand four hundred years later, together... performing this spiritual climb!
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