circles of life
Amal El Minshawi
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November 10, 2022
Fate draws it fairly around us, overlapping thin lines, and leaves us with a wide choice to fill its void and color its diameters and perimeters.
Its center is rooted in faith and above petty things, and it allows us to have spaces and comforts that can accommodate us and those we love, and it expands as our hearts expand with goodness and love for all, and it narrows to suffocate us with pain and sadness whenever our souls add discontent and aspiration to what is in the hands of others.
It multiplies with the extension of life and the length of the road and branching, here a circle for the family and another for friends, a third for neighbors and a fourth for work, and so on until the journey ends, carrying with it the book, the address, and the destiny.
Words, deeds, and intentions are preserved and hidden for a day when seats and roles will change, for good or evil, righteousness or disobedience, giving or stinginess. “Every leg will be watered with what is irrigated.”
She smiles at evil and harm, no matter how intense it is, with certainty that it will not last, and she sees tomorrow through the eyes of experience and the experience of the past, for the light must win no matter how dark the darkness becomes.
Its vicissitudes overwhelm us and transform its conditions and demand that we repay what we owe and what our hands have done, and do not forget no matter how ignorant we are or pretend to forget.
Such are the circles of life, how swiftly they turn, and how painful their blows are, and how harsh they do at the time of retribution, and how wonderful they are when they preserve friendship, preserve righteousness, be happy, and give without limit.
The circles of life usually await us before the end, when the road weakens our bones, the passion and enthusiasm subside, and the struggles with asceticism and surrender recede, then we realize that loss or gain are both eternal, and neither of them can tolerate a second chance or a new attempt.
The circles of life give us many choices, and put before us one opportunity after another for the good within us to triumph.
The circles of life reflect what we present to ourselves and to those around us, either bright and shining light or darkness and sorrows, and all of that is alive in the memory of time waiting for us no matter how late the arrival.
For each of us to look inside the circles of his close and extended life sincerely, and sow love, goodness and justice, and purify himself from envy, strife and conflict over things that are “temporary” and never last for anyone.
The circles of life, the hand of God outstretched in justice, the beginning of the reckoning, and the perfect judgment from eternity, is that “every soul is a hostage of what it has earned.”
• For each of us to look inside the circles of his life, and sow love, goodness and justice.
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