Ramadan 2025 Day Eleven: Restoring the Balance

“It is Allah who made the sun self luminescent radiance
and the moon a reflector of light,
and established phases/orbits for them
so that you may know the number of years and how to calculate.
Allah did not create all of these without purpose and balance,
God explains the Signs in detail to those who understand.
In the succession of the night and the day,
and in what Allah has created in the heavens and earth,
there truly are signs for those who have great taqwa/God-consciousness.”
- Sura Yunus

Creation creates so creation can continue creating. Try saying that 10 times fast.

But truly, what does it mean to examine this world and experience the patterns it contains as intentional? As designed, maybe not by a bearded old white man in the clouds, but by a Love that wanted us to exist as part of its design? A Love that willed us into being through and for an ongoing cycle of creation?

If there is a purpose or design behind all existence, and not merely our own…how are we doing, fam? How are we, as creations of and for Love, supporting the intention to keep things balanced? How are we humbling ourselves with curiosity and gratitude to a reality that exists for us AND for us to sustain?

Humanity today seems to have largely lost our understanding of how to exist in right relationship with Creation. We’ve lost that sense of balance in how we experience the design that brought us about. Rather than use the knowledge that Love has brought us into being to revere the ways we can engage Creation to power our imagination, we use that knowledge to take from Creation as though it is a lesser resource we owe nothing to. We’ve lost the sense of balance that reminds us that what we receive isn’t for us to consume, but to engage in a mutually nourishing way.

​We’ve failed to recognize that part of the purpose behind our existence is to create alongside Creation - to enhance Life and Love, not to extract from them.

The good news is that there are ways to restore balance. Maybe not the balance that was possible 10 or 5 or even one year ago. But a new balance that puts Love at the center of how we choose to return to our purposeful world.