Sunday, June 20, 2010

Back again after an awesome year



it's been a long time since i my last post)roughly a year).
this year was a year of change and triumph both in personal and social aspect.
let's start from from the most important part,my biggest decision yet(if choosing birth was no option.)
by standards of my society i should have sat for university entrance exam to probably enroll for medicine.but as I'd written in one of my earlier post,I'd been flirting with the idea of studying in hawzah (schools in which Muslim scholars study). I did it,decide to swim up the river,against the current. i received a good big support from my family especially my grandfather,who by reputation wants all his grand children to become medics.
hawzah,for sure,lived up to it's promises,flourishing atmosphere,like minded people.......
for the first six month i immersed myself into my studies(mostly Arabic literature of first sadr of Islam).I'll write about hawzah further.
beside changing my study field i've also changed my way of dressing.you will see in next posts.
moreover i had the chance to meet wonderful people:classmates,teachers office workers...
and i had definitely enjoyed arguments people start as soon as they find out you're a to be sheikh (which is usually as soon as they see you), ina cab or bus or anywhere.
above arguments is the fact that you become a subject of interest,people whisper about you,allude to you in their conversatoins.
on the other hand is the heavy responsibility you must shoulder.because you are no longer a mere individual,you,willy nilly,are a representative of a social class that society pay a lot of attention to its members and many frown upon.due to the effect of your actions(enhancing or damaging your social class's picture among others)very action you take must be accompanied by great care and thoughtfulness.
let's finish this post with a beautiful poem from Robert Lee Foster.I deeply believe I'm one embodiment of this poem.

 
 
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;        5
 
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,        10
 
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.        15
 
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


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