Assalaamu Alaikum Dearest Peeps in Islam

Date: 5th Ramadhaan 1438 & Oh my goodness…Ramadhaan is flying by soooo FAST! Alhamdulilah things are going great & I pray for the same for every Muslim Insha Allah!

During this beautiful month I decided to do a series of spiritual posts rather than food post, you know a little treat to feed the spiritual self…soul food!

Muslim’s feel incredibly inspired during Ramadhaan & much more connected to Allah Ta’ala. Just a thought to ponder on, remember its not Allah SWT who has become distant, but it is us who has moved away from HIM.

 

Bismillahir Rahmaan Nir Raheem

Almighty Allah was always there & will always be, now that our old pal “Shaytaan”is out of the way, life has so much of clarity-being solely submissive to the worship of Our Master Allah. In actual fact not only in Ramadhaan but for every second that the clock ticks, its our duty to live as a true believers, worship Allah The Greatest with true Ihsaan (worshipping Allah SWT as thou you can see HIM).

With the first 10 days of Ramadhaan half way through, if you haven’t had a chance to change its not too late to still seek the Mercy of Ar-Rahmaan. Allah SWT is flooding the earth with HIS Mercy right now & all we need to do is take maximum benefit of this time or else we will be amongst the losers.

Did you know the first thing to be created by Our Creator was the “Pen”.  The Pen of all things? Yes! And with the command of Allah SWT the pen was ordered to write on a paper “My Mercy Over Powers My Anger”. What a deep meaning to the first thing to ever been written down. Allah SWT than placed that paper on HIS Thrown. After which HE ordered the pen to begin to write down Taqdeer/Destiny. Allah Akbar!

Imagine the Greatness of Allah SWT that HE could have chosen to write anything as the first thing to ever be written down like “I am the King of the Worlds…” or what ever…But HE chose that line! That is more mighty, profound & faithful. A promise forever & Allah SWT does not ever go back on HIS promise.

Allah talks of Himself in the Holy Quraan as the Most Merciful not just Merciful but the supreme kind. Already we see this on the first page in Surah Al-Fatiha-2nd verse, when Allah SWT says : الرَّحْمـنِ الرَّحِيمِ (Ar Rahman, Ar Raheem) meaning The Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

The word الرَّحْمـنِ (Ar Rahmaan) comes from the arabic root word of رحم (Ra-Haa-Meem-meaning womb of a mother). Allah says in this verse, “I have derived a name for me taken from you” . Allah SWT here compares HIS love to a mother saying, “Allah SWT loves you more than a mother loves her new born baby”. Verily, Allah loves us 70 times more than our mother love for us.

Think about it, a mother’s love is so unconditional, so limitless & so weighty that no matter how much a child can do to hurt their own mother, disobey her or disappoint her, she will always posses that merciful heart. Soft by nature, ever ready to fall weak in the knees for her children, forgives & forgets about all the wrongs ever done & loves without even wanting to punish…That is the love only a mother has for her child. So imagine a love 70 times more than that.

Allah is Ar-Rahmaan & says to His slaves (us) who are so sinful all day & night, years after years: “No matter what you’ve done, how much wrong you have committed, how far you have disobeyed me, how much severe harm you have caused on yourself that you are drowning so deeply in sin…” Allah SWT further continues with something so beautiful addressing us with, “OH MY SLAVES, NEVER EVER LOOSE HOPE IN THE MERCY OF ALLAH!”. Basically saying you have done that, I know it all, but now the only thing I order you is,”Its forbidden for you to loose hope in My Mercy”. Allah Akbar.

Some times you might feel so unworthy of HIS Mercy, like the biggest looser or the biggest scum on the face of the earth because you are so deep in all this sin, there is no hope for you, beware! If Allah SWT wanted to punish us you & I, HE would have finished us off a long time ago, but HE didn’t & HE doesn’t want too. That is the trick of the Devils work, he makes us feel like we are unworthy to even repent or ask for Mercy from Allah SWT. Do not despair! Allah is waiting for us to return to HIM in order to shower us with HIS Infinite Mercy.

If we think of some one dear to us & they have wronged us in some way over & over again, its hard on us to keep saying: “its ok! I’ll forget what you did…”.  Not for Allah! Allah says, “I have 100 Mercies, 1 of those Mercies I have sent to earth & the rest 99 mercies I have kept for me on the Day of Judgement”. As you witness life today, the entire creation of Allah SWT is having mercy on each other, like a mother to her child, spouse to a spouse, a bird to a bird, an animal to an animal, a human to an animal & plants etc. The world’s mercy in totality adds up to that 1 mercy of Allah’s SWT that HE sent to earth, surely HE is The Most Merciful.

I recently heard a talk that made me just burst into tears for love for HIM. The story is a narration of Prophet Mohammed PBUH about the unseen that will happen on the Day of Judgement. On that day there will be a person that will be dragged to Hell Fire, the Angels will be carrying him away to throw him in the fire & Hell itself will pull back from this person. Allah SWT will say, “What is wrong with you that you pull back?” & Hell will reply, “My Lord he is seeking refuge in YOU from me!” than Allah SWT will say, “Than release my slave & let him go free!”~ Allah Akbar!

In another narration there will be another person also being dragged into Hell & this person will say, “My Lord I never expected this from YOU!” . Indeed, what a bold statement to say from this person! Allah will than reply, “Abdi (oh my slave) what did you expect from me? You did all of this, you committed the sin, you had the choice, you made the mistakes, what did you expect from me?” , that person will say, “I expected that your mercy will even reach some one like me!” Imagine! Allah The Most Merciful will than say, “Let my slave go free!Let him go free!”.~Takbeer!

We have to understand brothers & sisters, myself first! Allah didn’t create us for this world, HE created us for Jannah, but that choice is now put in our own hands, if we choose to go to hell its our own doing with our eyes wide open & if we go to Jannah its because we have a LORD that is Most Merciful & that’s the only way we will enter into Paradise by the Mercy of Ar-Rahmaan.

Still 5 Days left of Allah SWT Infinite Mercy showering on us! Lets embrace it!

 

Reference: Ummah Heart Madressah