PURITY

A life just for the sake of living is no life at all. Instead, a life lived for dying is the only path to purity.
The state of being free from moral wrong is the simple definition of purity, but if you go deeper, an
inner voice calls out to you saying THAT 'purity is incomplete without the idea of death'; it is far
beyond than just a state of "being free from moral wrong."
When a child comes to this world as an infant, he is indeed in the purest state he could ever be. As
the life cycle takes us to childhood, purity starts evanescing and the part of sinfulness beings. After
that, he reaches adolescence, the most crucial part of his life, where he can either re-purify his
contaminated purity or just stop bothering anymore, kick it away and move on with his life. In his
adulthood, he is much more sensible to understand what purity actually is, but still does not manage
to understand the simple fact that: “Purity is directly connected to spirituality.”This is because of
some grim realities that a youth faces today; realities like discontentment, ingratitude and
restlessness. These states are there just because he denies the one simple fact that purity of mind,
heart and soul is undoubtedly and strongly linked to spirituality.Purity is voice that echoes inside
you whenever you are tempted towards an evil. In the quest for finding logic and reasoning in
everything, behind the existence of mankind in the world, wise men has managed to find the
essence of purity as “the closer a person is to God, the purer he is". It means that we should know the
reason of our coming to this world; we must remember that there is a Creator above, watching us all
the time. We should know that there is an end to this so-called charming world; only then we shall be
able to embark upon the lifelong pursuit of purity. A stage comes in our life when we start treasuring
everything we love- family, friends, belongings - the part where positivity and hope complement
each other to make us pure. That part is the purest of all.
What really is purity? Purity is the feeling which hits your core when you listen to an Azan, the
moment when you can't help tears roll down your face. Purity is the feeling when you prostrate
before the Almighty and cry in helplessness. It is the name of that satisfaction which you get at the
time of helping someone out in his hardship. It is the name of that bliss when you become a father
and it is the name of that calmness when you put down your head in your mother's lap.
The examples are many and in abundance, but they all speak of one simple fact i.e. purity does not
end here, it only starts with this. Just as spirituality, there is no end to purification of the soul as well.
Hence, death walks hand in hand with purity, for purity without the fear/remembrance of death, is
not achievable. We can safely say that the purest person is the one who is dead: devoid of all sins and
worldliness. You and I cannot achieve that level of purity as we are not that close to selflessness.
Purity is a struggle, a continuous fight. Purity is the pursuit of being pure and never actually the
acquirement of it, as the day you will be "pure" in the real sense of the word will be the day you are
merely a soul without the body.
                                                     
                                                                                                                         Raffey Ismail Khan
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