#27: Islamic Awareness 4 - Atikah's

In the trodden path of my life, IIUM is one of the most memorable rest house for my soul in the quest to gain Allah's pleasure. Before becoming an undergraduate of IIUM, my spiritual journey as a Muslim is only restricted to those of ritual devotions and what is haram and what is halal. Although my school has prepared me by injecting some spiritual sense to my empty soul, nothing can be compared to all those years spent in IIUM. It is like a match that ignites the fire that has long been frozen by the coldness of my heart.

I cannot exactly pin point where exactly I begin to find a new meaning to my life as the servant of Allah. I am engrossed, enthralled by the new dimensions in which IIUM has introduced me. A new passion. A new insight. On my own religion, on my own existence as a being. 

All these years of devotions, I must thank Allah for guiding my decision to admit to IIUM instead of flying oversea, for this experience has bring the answer for the question that had so long lingered within my heart. Why should we pray? Why should recite Quran? Why should we exist with a belief, with a fatih, a religion? Why?

Thanks to my lecturers, the courses, friends, the living environment, I found the greatest treasure any being could find. Allah. The Ultimate Love. The One and Only Love you could really depends on. His mercy, His grace, His love is incomparable, it shines more eminent than that of the rays of the sun. It burns more vigorously than any fire. It inspire more than any words of poetry could do to a human heart. 

Here in IIUM, I find love.

But not just any kind of love,

I find......Love.

I find Him
The One.

.Allah.