YOU ARE SO VALUABLE………

Let me take you through a beautiful thought

If your heart hurts, be thankful

At least you know that you will not inflict pain on others because you know how it feels.

You know that you will not love yourself if it means hurting someone else.

You know that you will not break someone else's back just to get to your destination.

If your heart hurts,

Love it back to peace - Najwa Zebian

What defines who you are? When you care about someone, you feel that you care too much and when you love, you drown them in your love. Could you please take a step back and remind yourself that what you give is an indication of what you own. So if you give too much of anything that really and truly comes from somewhere within you. The same is with love. If you love too sincerely, that love comes from somewhere within you. And this is what is defining you and your worth. Regardless of knowing that you might not get anything in return which is ultimately a sad truth. But a good soul with a clear heart doesn’t get offended by this. It was all by their willing heart, not to impress nor showcase it to the world.

What is more sensible and will raise up your standards? What if some has a disrespectful view about you? I would certainly not own a same view and be unkind to him/her. Why would you step down to a level where you do not belong to what so ever.

Never give up on what has once defined you. Whether it is love, respect, attention or understanding. If the other person is not giving you anything in return then it is certainly their problem. And this is in light of situations I have been through .

Sometimes your heart may hurt just because the other person has not come up to your expectations. But that is essentially not something to be heart broken about. You have been setting up standards and drawing up lines the other person is not even aware of. May it be the silliest of expectation you have kept.

The point everyone needs to be aware of and accept is do not love anybody for them to love you back with the same passion. Do not do good to them and expect them to do good to you. What you are doing whether it be loving or caring about someone is out of your own heart. And that is defining you.

It is okay if he/she doesn’t wants to open up. We do not know what he is going through. What it feels like to be him/her. And it is not right to aggravate a fight on why he/she is not discussing their problem. Girls should understand and act more sensible to give guys their space in a relationship and so is the case with guys. Behaving sensibly and not losing your cool will let you lead your path smoothly and save upon valuable relations. Respecting others, their views, their comfort zones will ultimately build up a place for you in their hearts.

Ofcourse everyone has valuable relations in life. Who would like to loose them. Not you right? It doesn’t matter they do not recognize you or your heart. But someday they will. Sooner or later they will learn to recognize your worth. And even if they don’t then you certainly know what you got to do. It is nothing to be sad about if someone doesn’t recognize your worth. It is their loss for they don’t value you. Our value isn’t anytime going to be less just because someone has an inability to see it.

Don’t let someone who did you wrong make you think there’s something wrong with you. Don’t devalue yourself because they didn’t value you. Know your worth even if they don’t.

Balance between our efforts and ALLAH’s help

                 

Every single success you achieve is a combination of two things: Allah’s help and your Effort. When you don’t put in effort, ALLAH does not give his barakah. And sometimes you might put in a lot of effort but you may not see the result you expected. That, also is ALLAH’s barakah –  Nouman Ali Khan

As muslims we are to completely trust ALLAH that means to have tawakkal for all our affairs. We also believe that ALLAH’s will can supersede our plans. 

By this I mean we should have complete faith in ALLAH to help us in our affairs because without his will and help no result can come to fulfillment. When we completely put our trust in ALLAH believing that all success can come only when he intends it to be so, we can earn ALLAH’s pleasure. And in parallel, we should use all our god granted faculties in every affair that we choose to pursue.

We are indeed the most blessed one’s. As ALLAH is individually concerned with each one of us and we are important to him. He is so close that he responds when we call upon him. It is mentioned in the book of guidance he is closer to you than your jugular vein.

Never never give up! Realize that the help of ALLAH is nearer than you think. When we are immersed in the dunya we tend to think we can do everything on our own. We forget ALLAH’s wisdom and might. Do we take in a moment to realize, if ALLAH is to help us no power in existence can overcome us, and if ALLAH leaves us who is there to help us.

And sometimes you might put in a lot of effort but you may not see the result you expected. That, also is ALLAH’s barakah. ALLAH knows the best. He knows what’s behind us. Whenever we make an appeal to him, we express it by keeping faith in his wisdom and might, and we believe that ALLAH will always provide us the best solution. Sometimes it may be in favour of us and at other times a disappointment for us, but whatever the decision taken b ALLAH is the best for us.

Seek help from ALLAH and do not loose heart, and if anything in the form of trouble comes to you, don’t say if I had not done that, it would not have happened so and so, but say ALLAH did that what he had ordained to do , and your IF opens the gate for the shaitan.

TAWAKKAL AL ALLAH

                                          

                                                                                                                                      AMAL ANSARI.

Ramadan Iftar Ideas – Samosa/Sambosa

Ramadan Iftar Ideas – Samosa/Sambosa

Hello everybody, I am here with yet another favorite of our family. It is such a popular iftar item in every household and in many countries across the world. so it is samosa or sambosa which can be prepared with any filling of your choice or whatever is available in your pantry.

I am here to share with you people my take on the very popular samosa with a mixed filling ( veg & non-veg ). Everybody across my family loves it and I’m pretty sure you will love it too..

Starting off with the veggies I prefer to use carrots, beans, cabbage and bell peppers. Now you can customize it according to your taste. I have been making sambosas with these veggies for years now and I do swear by the taste.

Keeping it very simple we just have to start by heating up 2-3 tablespoons of oil. Drop in the beans and carrots. Sauté it for a while and add in salt. So that it fastens the cooking up of the veggies. For the flavours add in coriander powder, some sought of meat masala (be it mutton or chicken really doesn’t matter), red chilli powder ( I used garlic infused chilli powder which I bought from a local store) and a pinch of nutmeg and mace pounded and made into powder.

After the spices are well combined with beans and carrots add in a bit of water and cook it on medium heat for about 10 mins. Remember not to add in lots of water. Once the veggies have cooked through add in the cabbage and bell peppers and let it simmer for about 5 mins. We don’t want the bell peppers and cabbage to cook thoroughly. We want them to be crunchy yet flavorful.

For the non-veg part, I prepared the regular minced meat as it is done in regular Indian-cum-hyderabadi households (kheema). Cooking the minced meat with onion and basic spices and topping it off with cilantro.

Then we complete the filling for our samosa by combining the veggies and the kheema and simmering it for another 5 mins until all the flavours are well combined.

Now coming on to the pastry sheets we can either make it at home or get it from a store. Store bought pastry sheets are lot easier to handle and give good results. I prefer using the switz pastry sheets which are probably available at any local store.

I hope this was of some help to you guys. see you again with yet an other idea for iftar in Ramadan.
                                                              Amal ansari
                                                             xoxo

A PERSONS WORLD - ONLY AS BIG AS THEIR HEART!!

A PERSONS WORLD - ONLY AS BIG AS THEIR HEART!!

Did any one of you in life wonder about a person’s behaviour or any gesture towards you? Of course wondering because it is weird and you would not expect it any time from that particular person. And ponder how come they did this and reach to conclusions if I were in their place, I would never ever do that. What if the person has a clear and thoughtful intention and you are being unaware of it?

It is mean but its true right? We have been doing this and seeing it all day around. We don’t even take a minute to think about what circumstances the person is in?  Does he really intend to do that? And moreover what is the meanest thing we tend to do. Change your behaviour towards that person. Change your perspective towards that person. The person who was so good in your eyes a few days earlier tends to be a bad person all of a sudden. You never know what’s in a person’s heart until they’re tested, do you? And it’s a lot of responsibility to hold a person’s heart in your hands.

I've learned over the years that sooner or later a person’s physical appearance comes to resemble whatever is in their heart. A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long. Who you are on the inside will eventually show up on the outside. If we are pure at heart, we would not wish one person well and not another. We never see any difference between two of our friends. And surely by this our pure thoughts can be evenly spread between all people.

A persons most beautiful asset is not head full of knowledge, but a beautiful heart which is bound to love, an ear which is ready to listen and a hand willing to help others. When we start looking at people’s hearts instead of their face, life becomes clear. But most importantly to know in my heart what kind of person I am, and you are happy, thats good enough.

XOXO,
AMAL ANSARI

JUST TAKE IN A MOMENT TO THINK ...WHAT IF........??

Can we ever enumerate the countless blessings which the almighty has bestowed upon us? I mean just think about it. What if we didn’t have a house to live in? What if we couldn’t afford to eat once….Not even thrice…just once? What if we were physically challenged? What if you were not bestowed with good health? What if you were not the same person as you are today? What if u didn’t have the luxuries you are enjoying today? What if everything you have in life just flies off within a second? What if there was no one you knew in the world? What would you do? Where would you go? Whom would you ask for help? Having somewhere to go is HOME. Having someone to love is FAMILY. Having both is such a BLESSING. What if you didn’t have them?

If ever you find a person who is ready to help you, he could help you for that moment. Will he be taking continuous responsibility of how you are for the rest of your life? No he wouldn’t because he wouldn’t know who you are. You are not so important to him. You are just a random guy to him. But for my ALLAH you are so special. He wants to help you; however bad you have been to him .Why wouldn’t you just take in a moment and call on to ALLAH. Why wouldn’t you weep like a baby in front of your creator? Do you think anybody in the world knows you better than ALLAH? Do you think anybody understands your condition better than ALLAH?

No one in the world understands you as much ALLAH does. Ask him for everything even the silliest of things in life. Thank him for everything. Just take in a moment, say ALHUMDULILLAH. Why do you think ALLAH doesn’t has time to listen? Take in a moment to realize do we have time to pray on to him? Do we have time to praise and please him? And if you ever find it hard to appreciate what ALLAH has blessed you with, spend a day with someone who doesn’t have the things you have. When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less. Praise him; praise him for his boundless pleasures.

Wish not for the people of the world to be pleased with you. Wish for the creator to be pleased with you. Wish not for company of people in  this world. Wish for the company of the most beneficial, most merciful ALLAH.

No amount of guilt can change your past; no amount of worry can change your future. But trusting in almighty and having tawakkal that he alone is enough for us…..can make our paths easier.

Ya ALLAH, Alhumdulillah for all the pleasures you have granted us. Alhumdulillah for all the difficulties we have been into. Alhumdulillah for everything and we seek guidance from you and only you in every step of life. And we believe only you are sufficient for us. May all our dua’s and prayers be accepted. Ameen

                                                                                           Amal Ansari.