editorial
editorial
Sarah Joseph, editor
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The last decade was vividly with tiny babes crawling in
“We must recount
treated one another. How we
played out to me on a the room. loved and cared for our fellow
video at my grandmother’s The screen and the room
our time on
travellers in this world. How
funeral. As we mourned her danced together, as more his-
Earth and how
we faced every new day.
passing and celebrated her life, tory was played out with more The past months have been
my uncle played a video of her films from decades further
we treated one
a period of extraordinary
90th birthday. For those that back, each film showed some
another; how we
learning for me. I have had to
follow these pages, you will of the same people through open up my heart to exam-
know that we celebrated my the years. “100 years have
loved and cared
ine it and find what truly it
grandmother’s 100th birthday come and gone so quickly,”
for our fellow
is made of. God tests us. And
and then mourned her passing Nana says in the video, “and He has tried to show me that
a mere few weeks later. I have seen so many changes
travellers in this
only He is permanent, all-per-
I watched the screen as in that time.” It was a decade
world.”
fect. Our aim is to meditate
family history played itself that had for all of us in that on Him and strive towards His
out before my eyes. My Nana room passed in the twinkling sorrow, for they quickly pass, perfection. He is Love, and
was not the only one who had of an eye. and we fly away.” Or 90 years we must love. He is Just, and
passed away; many others in The newspapers, and or a 100 - it does not matter we must strive for justice. He
the video had died in those 10 indeed this very edition of for “100 years have come and is Forgiving, as we endeavour
years. My daughter gurgled on emel, will show you this past gone so quickly,” as my grand- to learn in this world that for-
the screen, newly born. Now decade as played out in the mother had said a few weeks giveness is the final form of
she stood beside me, a young public arena. But that arena is before her passing. How many love, and it is His Forgiveness
lady quite grown. My son, mere theatre, with politicians years for each of us, and what that we will depend on in the
chubby-faced with curly hair, and celebrities as the leading will we do in that time? Hereafter.
danced with glee on the screen actors on the stage. These ‘big The Prophet Muhammad A decade past. The first
a mere four years old. Before stories’ are a backdrop to our said, “Live in this world as a decade of the millennium. A
my eyes now there stood a lives. The real decade is played traveller who has stopped for momentous 10 years with talk
teenager almost as tall as me out in each of our homes. shade under a tree.” His saying of civilisations clashing, and
and offering me his support. Our family history is the is a similitude for our time in so many dead in wars and acts
Teenage cousins smiled with reality which is close to our this world, a period of tempo- of brutality. But so many born
youthful exuberance on the hearts. And when we reflect rary rest. The Qur’an talks of too, each a hope for the future,
screen; and now they stood, on our own personal decade this world being “as an hour,” each one with their decades
men with babes of their own and of those whom we love, the Hereafter being our per- ahead of them - perhaps; each
in their arms. the passing of time will be so manent home. with their allotted time.
Mother, aunts, uncles, apparent; the changes so stark And there, in the Hereafter, And who knows what the
brothers, sisters, cousins, and clear. we must recount our time decade ahead will hold for
friends: the screen displayed “Three score years and 10,” on Earth. And what will we each of us. I know if my fam-
so many others who were in was the lifespan my grand- show? It won’t be the hours ily gathers in 10 years from
the room. But each of us had mother would always quote in the office. It won’t be the now more will have passed
moved forward ten years. Grey me from the Biblical Psalms. money we gathered. It won’t on, and more will have been
hairs had replaced dark curls; Seventy years to live your life, be the trinkets and pretty born, such is the pattern of
some that walked tall then or as the Psalms continue “80, things of this world which we life. It is what we do with the
now needed sticks; tiny babes if we have the strength; yet will bring forward to our Lord. short time that we have that
crawling in the film competed their span is but trouble and It will be our deeds. How we matters. l
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