I can’t say that I love this video that much. In fact, this is Lupe’s third video from his album “The Cool”, and I must say that I have enjoyed the video for ‘Hip Hop Saved my Life’ best, which I will also post below the ‘Paris,Tokyo’ video.
I love the song for the above video, but not feeling the video that much. However, I love both the song and the video for ‘Hip Hop Saved my Life’ below:
Peace,
* AM *
Yesterday I went with my Imam to the regional medical center to visit a brother who is dying of pancreatic cancer. I have visited a lot of individuals in hospitals over the years with my Imam, and it is something that is considered a good deed in Islam to visit the sick. However, most visits to the hospital are visiting individuals that I don’t know that well, or people who are temporarily in the hospital and are to get better and be discharged. Yesterday’s visit was very different however. Memories came flooding back to my mind of when my dear friend Nabeel Khan (may Allah have mercy upon him) passed away, as for the second time in my life, I was visiting a friend (or family friend) whom I had known in better times, and was shocked to see what the cancer had done to his health.
Seeing this brother in the hospital was not easy for me, and it really made me feel ashamed of myself. It seems like every day of my life, I go throughout my days worrying about things. Whether it be worrying about school, work, or other things, I realized my times are consumed with things that really don’t matter in the bigger scheme of things. The day will come when we will all be lying on our death beds, and all the day to day activities will have been a speck on the glass of our lives. This brother really made me want to cry when we visited him yesterday, because his spirits were so high, and he kept praising Allah (swt), and was so strong in his faith that I felt meager in comparison.
Later on in the day, I talked with my friend E about this, and he had told me it had been on his mind a lot lately as well. E made a good point as well, saying that death is the one thing that is certain for every human being on this earth, and we all know that we are heading in that direction, however it is the hardest thing to be prepared for. This made me begin to think why this was. What makes it so hard for us, as human beings, to always live our lives with death in mind. To me, it would seem, that if we did live each and every day as if it were to be our last, then we would probably be more productive, worry less, and take advantage of each and every opportunity that came out way. But, for some reason, this is a major challenge, and one I am struggling to figure out.
* AM *
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