Don’t cry because its over, smile because it happened.

I am a guy who follows some rules in my life and one of the important of those is early to bed early to rise. But last Friday, I wanted that the night of Friday should not end because I did not want a Saturday morning, indeed a painful morning. Because Amal fellowship, which was my life was going to end on Saturday morning when we were supposed to have our last session of 3 months beautiful journey. But my wish was not fulfilled and Friday night ended with a beautiful Saturday morning. I was sad and my mood was off. And then I thought why not make this last day memorable and be happy for what I had in the last 3 months. I changed my mood and started to get ready for the last session. It was the first time in my fellowship when I was the first person to log in and that too at 8 25 am. I was anxiously waiting for the session and at last, the session started with everyone entering the session with silent and sad faces. No one wanted this beautiful and amazing journey to end. But it is the harsh reality of the world that everything has its end and will reach its end one day. “Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends that we don’t desire, but they are inevitable, we have to face them. It’s what being human is all about.”

Also, Gautama Buddha said,

“Everything that has a beginning has an end. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”

The last session of our fellowship was very enjoyable because there was not PW discussion. Everyone was wishing good luck to all the fellow fellows and also everyone was feeling so grateful to ma’am Ayesha and sir Anas. These were the two people who brought a change in our lives. We were connecting our dots from the fellowship and reflecting on our performance. What we were at the start and what we are at the end. The thing which helped me by this from the session was that I turned optimist from the pessimist in the fellowship and I promised myself that I will end all the negativity from myself as soon as possible. Due to Amal Academy, I am loving my dreams and am confident to fulfill them one day. The thing which we enjoyed most was taking a group picture in ghost style to end the fellowship with a perfect style. It was full of fun. Everyone was so happy and enjoying making different funny poses making everyone smile. Those were the memorable moments.

We also had some funny activities in which we were given tasks to take pictures of the given scenarios which were so interesting and amazing. The fellows were divided into two separate teams and it was one of the best activities which we did in our fellowship to end our 3-month session on a high note. The resulting pictures were so funny that some of the guys made memes on them.

If I can connect my dots from this fellowship, I will say that there is a lot of change in my behavior, in my personality and in my way of thinking. My life before and after the fellowship is totally different. A guy who feared failures now loves them just because he has become a lifelong learner. He tries to learn from failures. This is why connecting the dots is important. It plays an important role to become a successful person because a person who did not learn from its mistakes can never be successful. No one is perfect in this world except the Holy Prophet Muhammad SAW. The persons whom we admire also have done mistakes in their lives. They also have faced failures but they also learned from them which played a key role in their success. Thus it is one of the best things I learned from this fellowship.

Amal fellowship is not just a fellowship for me in which we studied and have learning but in fact, it is a family for me, a beautiful and caring family. The love, humility, kindness, and compassion found in this family are not even found in real families. Thus it will be not a big issue for me to be in contact with this beautiful family from where I have found some most beautiful persons in my life such as Ariba, Hassaan, Hamza Zaman, and Nimra Babar. These persons have helped me a lot in different regards while I have disturbed them a lot with my problems and they were always ready to help me. I will also be disturbing them in the future and will never let them live in peace. Having these people is like having a blessing of Almighty Allah. I am blessed to have them, not only these but also whole batch 159. They all are kind-hearted persons. The way Fatima led my group was also brilliant. We as a group have decided to continue our sessions with the slum kids throughout our whole life. Thus we as a group will continue to meet on weekly basis. Also, we as a batch are going to have a meetup as soon as possible when sir Anas will be back in Lahore. I have also many meetups pending with my fellows. So we will meet whenever we are free. Also, Amal fellowship has taught us to be humble and kind to others while helping them whenever someone asks for help. I will always be ready to help them and ask for help whenever needed. So being in touch with Amal family is inevitable for me.

And at the end, I will like to remind the first of four principles of Amal fellowship which is Amal itself. I will like to act and practice all the things which I have learned from this fellowship. Because all this hard work of 3 months will be wasteful if I never practically imply the things which I learned. I will love to help others. I will be humble with others and I will try to find positivity everywhere even in negative things following sir Awais Farooq. I will also urge my circle for helping the needy peoples, for being kind and humble with others. But individuals make society and with these little steps, we can bring a change in our society by spreading love and removing hatred from our society. Because as Rumi said it is one of the rules that,

“It’s easy to love a perfect God, unblemished. What is far more difficult is to love fellow human beings with all their imperfections and defects. There is no wisdom without love. Unless we learn to love God’s creation, we can neither truly love nor truly know God.”