At this moment, we could look back in time and recall the periods of trouble and turmoil when we were inundated with anxiety and depression. Those were the days when we may have lost all hope, at wit's end, yearning for someone to bring us out of the darkness. When we had turned our faces towards the people around us, we might have wondered why there was none amongst them who would step up to rescue us. However, recounting those memories now, we could appreciate how the source of our strength, the bestower of the peace and tranquility in our hearts had delivered us from our pain. 

As we replace old troubles with new ones - every examination, every loss of life, every heartbreak - they will all be settled just as they were before. We ought to remember how the life in this world is temporary and ultimately, one day if God wills it, there would be no more troubles and our hearts would be at peace forever.

Every word is so genuinely true. Thank you for putting the reality in words so precisely.  
جَزَاكَ ٱللَّٰهُ خَيْرًا‎

In the corporate world, it can be very difficult to see the CEO, even for a brief two-minute conversation. Layers of appointments and priorities make access almost impossible. If reaching someone who manages a company is that hard, what about a governor, or a president?

Now imagine the One who manages everything. Not just a company or a country, but the entire universe. He governs the rising of the sun, the movement of the stars, the life of every creature, the thoughts in every heart, and the unseen realms beyond our reach. Every moment, He is attending to infinite matters without distraction or fatigue.

By all logic, He should be the most inaccessible. There should be endless gates, countless intermediaries, impossible waiting lists.

Yet He is the easiest to reach. No appointment, no position, no protocol. A whisper from the heart, a sincere turning, and He responds.

But His response is not always about granting what we want. It is about turning His attention to us with mercy and wisdom. You may ask for something unaware of its consequences, but He responds while seeing the full picture, protecting you from harm you do not see.

This is not just a Lord who gives. This is a Lord who listens, cares, responds, and remains near.

As He says in the Quran:
When My servants ask you about Me, indeed I am near. I respond to the call of the caller when he calls upon Me. (Quran 2:186)

SubhanAllah. I feel a sense of pride (honored) that Allah is my Rabb. He is exactly the Lord I longed for. May He shape me into the servant He wants me to be.

Ya ALLAH:: I pray that you bring the people of Palestine out of hardship.
Ya ALLAH:: Our brothers and Sisters in Gazza have been afflicted with ......................... There are no words to describe what they are going through. Ya Allah, we ask you to relieve their affliction and make them successors on earth. Ameeeen

#ReflectingInCrisis

Who responds?

I recently had to do an unpleasant task at work and it was making me feel miserable for hours. Suddenly, my negative thought cycle was interrupted by the thought that there must be an ayah of the Quran I could turn to in this situation. I remembered this verse from Surah Naml which changed my outlook.

'who responds to the distressed when they cry to Him'
Why was I just grumbling to myself, when I could use this as an opportunity to remember Allah and call upon Him in this state of neediness?

'relieving their affliction'
Why was I jumping to thinking of strategies I could use to evade this task in the future when I should first turn to Allah SWT to ask Him to do what is best for me? 

'Who makes you successors in the earth?'
The task is unpleasant but it is for a good end. Instead of hating it, why was I not showing gratitude for being in a position to serve others though my work, and develop humility through doing something unpleasant but necessary? 

'Is it another god besides Allah? Yet you are hardly mindful!'
Do His servants know anything other than benevolence from Al Rahman? If He had put me in this place, there must be some goodness in it.  Which of His attributes are being manifested? How must I respond to the destiny that Allah has decreed for this moment? Being mindful of Allah in this moment was transformative and when I had to repeat the same task on another day,  keeping the above in mind,  it was easier to get through it. 

I think this ayah is a profound source of shifa (healing) from all sorts of ills. It combines Quranic principles of tawakkul (reliance), moral agency and reflection to empower us and in the difficult situations we face.

May Allah SWT make us from the fortunate ones who turn to Him in every moment and fulfil the role of khulafa with excellence! Ameen

اَللَّهُمَّ صَلِ عَلىَ سَيِّدِناَ مُحَمَّدٍ

اللہ تکلیف میں انسان کی پکار کتنی محبت سے سنتا ہے اس کا اندازہ کل ایک واقعہ دیکھ کر ہوا۔ گھر میں بلی کا چھوٹا بچہ بیمار ہے۔ تکلیف سے چیختا ہوا چھوٹا سا بلی کا بچہ جب چیخ رہا تھا تو اس کے ساتھ کے باقی بلے آرام سے سو رہے تھے۔  سر پر ہاتھ پھیرا تو اسے سکون ملا، تھوڑی دیر بعد پھر چیخنے لگا تو اس کی ماں آگئی۔ اس نے پیار سے اس کو صاف کیا۔ اگر آپ کی زندگی میں آپ کے گھر میں باقی لوگوں سے زیادہ آپ خود کو تکلیف میں پاتے ہیں تو یاد رکھیں۔ اللہ آپ سے بہت زیادہ محبت کرتا ہے وہ الودود ہے۔ ہر وہ مومن جو ایسی تکلیف دل میں رکھتا ہے جسے وہ کسی سے کہہ نہیں سکتا۔ اللہ سنتا ہے اللہ محبت سے سنتا ہے۔ وہ اپنی رحمت مختلف سمتوں سے بھیجتا ہے۔ اپنے بے قرار دل کی باتیں اس سے کریں نماز کے بعد، تھجد میں، چلتے پھرتے اسے بتائیں آپ کیسا محسوس کرتے ہیں پھر وہ جواب دیتا ہے اپنی نشانیوں کے ذریعے۔ انسان تو کمزور ہیں کبھی نظر انداز بھی کردیتے ہیں لیکن اللہ کبھی نظر انداز نہیں کرتا نا آپ کو نا آپ کی تکلیف کو۔ انسان کتنا بھی گناہگار ہو اللہ اپنی رحمت سے اسے ڈھانپ لیتا ہے ہر طرح کی تکلیف دور کردیتا ہے۔ اپنی محبت سے دنیا کے دھوکے سے بچا کر اسے اپنے قریب کرلیتا ہے۔

No doubt it is Allah، Who helps a person when he is in distress. If you reflect, there was a moment when you were distressed  with no way out and then suddenly, it disappears. 

It may come again and drag you back to Allah swt , but it is removed again. Allah swt reminds us that it is He who listens to His slave while he is in this low position in his life. 

And to mention that in the surah named after an ant . Something we see to be very small. But we know with our current circumstances that Allah swt can use something very small to show us How magnificent He is or how weak we are. 
(As this surah mentions the ants and the hoopoe . And a live example is the covid-19 virus) 

اللهم أحفظنا من كل شر حتى مثل ذرّة

#CoronaVirus

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I don’t know if everyone one has experienced the moment that Allah Describes in this ayah. Distress! That compels you to cry out to Allah! Only Him knowing fully well that non other than Him can remove your distress. For me it’s almost impossible for me to read this ayah without feeling that moment, when I couldn’t get my head off the ground in sujud, as though if I left the position, His 'presence' would leave along with it, or perhaps I couldn’t muster the energy to get up because it felt safest there.  That moment where you feel there’s no where to turn except to Him; the One the Answers the call of the distressed one. Every one of us whether we recognize Him or or not. Whether we Thank Him or not. Only He (Azzah wa Jal) Answers our calls and removes our stress and doesn’t tire from it. We Pray that we do it forget afterwards and give thanks and praise to others instead.

One said(yusuf a.s) وَقالَ لِلَّذي ظَنَّ أَنَّهُ ناجٍ مِنهُمَا اذكُرني عِندَ رَبِّكَ and he forgot him as soon as he is out of prison فَأَنساهُ الشَّيطانُ ذِكرَ رَبِّهِ

But the other said (musa a.s) رَبِّ إِنِّي لِمَا أَنْزَلْتَ إِلَيَّ مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَقِيرٌ and he didn't even have to go and ask anymore, the help itself came to him فَجَاءَتْهُ إِحْدَاهُمَا تَمْشِي عَلَى اسْتِحْيَاءٍ قَالَتْ إِنَّ أَبِي يَدْعُوكَ لِيَجْزِيَكَ أَجْرَ مَا سَقَيْتَ لَنَا


أَمَّنْ يُجِيبُ الْمُضْطَرَّ إِذَا دَعَاهُ

الوجه في إجابة المضطر أن ذلك الاضطرار الحاصل له يتسبب عنه الإخلاص وقطع النظر عما سوى الله، وقد أخبر الله سبحانه بأنه يجيب دعاء المخلصين له الدين وإن كانوا كافرين؛ فقال: ﴿حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا كُنتُمۡ فِي ٱلۡفُلۡكِ وَجَرَيۡنَ بِهِم بِرِيحٖ طَيِّبَةٖ وَفَرِحُواْ بِهَا جَآءَتۡهَا رِيحٌ عَاصِفٞ وَجَآءَهُمُ ٱلۡمَوۡجُ مِن كُلِّ مَكَانٖ وَظَنُّوٓاْ أَنَّهُمۡ أُحِيطَ بِهِمۡ دَعَوُاْ ٱللَّهَ مُخۡلِصِينَ لَهُ ٱلدِّينَ لَئِنۡ أَنجَيۡتَنَا مِنۡ هَٰذِهِۦ لَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلشَّٰكِرِينَ﴾ [يونس: 22]، وقال: ﴿فَلَمَّا نَجَّىٰهُمۡ إِلَى ٱلۡبَرِّ إِذَا هُمۡ يُشۡرِكُونَ﴾ [العنكبوت: 65]؛ فأجابهم عند ضرورتهم وإخلاصهم مع علمه بأنهم سيعودون إلى شركهم. الشوكاني:4/169
السؤال: ما سبب إجابة الله دعاء المضطر وإن كان كافرًا ؟

ضمن الله تعالى إجابة المضطر إذا دعاه، وأخبر بذلك عن نفسه؛ والسبب في ذلك أن الضرورة إليه باللَّجاء ينشأ عن الإخلاص وقطع القلب عما سواه، وللإخلاص عنده سبحانه موقع وذمة، وُجِد من مؤمن أو كافر، طائع أو فاجر. القرطبي:16/193.
السؤال: بيّن ثمرة إخلاص الدعاء لله -سبحانه وتعالى-.

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Ouch.
What's wrong?
My existence hurts.
Yes. I've dug myself deep 
Yet my heart hasn't surrendered. 
I make wudu and raise my hands in prayer 🤲
He سبحانه saves.
He is .العفو الكريم الجبار the Pardoner ( Al afoo) , the most generous (al kareem) al jabbar ( the compeller) 

Right when things seem bleak I rip away from the tugs of despair and know with certainty that Allah the Most High is here for me-- closer than my closest friend ---and He is the Most Powerful and All Able al Qawee al Qader al Muqtadir
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