One of my most favourite pictures. I have loved taking coffee as a photography subject for a simple reason that I love making and drinking it. A coffee and newspaper morning, preferably with a crossword puzzle is surreal. One of the simplest most pleasurable pleasures.
These days I have been doing a lot of thinking. And I mean A LOT. I have been more sensitive to the things around me, have realized a lot of things about myself my religion and the world around me, and I feel its made me a totally different person. But I wanted to share my thinking with people in an attempt to make them see the world from my eye for starters, but every time I looked for a way to do it I stumbled along the way. Therefore I decided I can never ever completely right whatever I have thought and explored about myself.
But one thing I have realized recently is how beautiful every little thing in this world is. And this realization has led me to a plane totally different from what I used to tread upon previously. Suddenly, I am transported into people’s minds, into lifeless things and to places I have never been to. But most of all, the realization that nothing in this world can be taken for granted. Nothing. Not even a particle of dust. God’s creation and the beauty in everything He has created, the science in each molecule, atom and cell has brought me closer to realizing myself. There is now an urgency. To explore the world around me, because we don’t have much time. To see the reality of everything behind the superficial material layer. Once we realize the importance of realizing the reality only then can we get closer to God.
Imagine a particle of sand infront of you. Imagine its components, the silica, the minerals in it. Imagine its age. Imagine the beauty of this single nothingness. Imagine it could be home to a million creatures. Imagine, it in itself is a part of the desert, so it has the spirit. Imagine the exactness in its composition, its relationship with a hundred billion other particles. Now, understand how beautifully Allah created it all. And this is just a sand particle. Nothing else. Everyday it stood idle on your doorstep you maybe whisked it away. You never realized it came to knock on your door, to wake you up, get you out of your world. And this is nothing. This is just a tip of the biggest iceberg. This is just a sand particle. Imagine how beautifully complex would things get.
And imagine yourself, the best thing Allah created. Have you ever realized how beautiful you are? How beautiful are the people around you? There is photographable scene in each and everything you set your eyes upon.
The time is running out. There’s only one way to realize the importance of yourself, break free from your little worlds.
