Glory to Allāh and Salutations on Rasulullāh Sallallāhu ‘alayhiwasallam
This
Dunyā, with all its glitter and glamour, is a very enticing place. At
times we get so carried away by it that we become its slave and forget
our Rabb. We start living a life that is totally against the commands of
Allāh Ta’ala and the Sunnāh of Rasulullāh (Sall-Allāhu ‘alayhi
wasallam).
It
is at this time that Almighty Allāh with His infinite mercy may decide
to give us a jolt or a shove so that we may come to our senses and
realize our mistakes. This jolt may come in the form of an accident, an
illness, loss in our business or setback in any of our worldly affairs.
As
soon as any one of the above calamities strikes us we get up from our
deep slumber and start wondering with much apprehension, “Why such a
thing has happened to me, what wrong have I done?”
At
that moment if we have a little bit of īmān, we start realizing how far
we have gone away from Allāh Ta’ala. This realization may lead most of
us turn to Allāh Ta’ala for His help. We profoundly start making Du’ā.
Our lifestyle gets drastically changed, our ‘Ibādat gets intensified,
our giving of Sadaqāh increases, we become very regular in reciting the
Qur’an and our piety level reaches a new height. In short, we try our
best to invoke the mercy of Allāh in every respect. And Allāh Ta’ala,
Ghafoor-ur-Rahim that He is, listens to our supplication and very
gracefully wards off the problem and normality starts returning to our
life.
This
in real fact is a very delicate and a decisive period. It is the time
when Allāh Subhānahu wa ta’ala is actually testing our sincerity. He
wants to know if His slave permanently maintains the piety level that he
has just achieved in his life or does he return to the same old life
full of disobedience of Allāh that he was used to, prior to the
calamity.
However,
human nature is such that as soon as our Du’ā is accepted and the
catastrophe starts shifting away from our life, most of us start
forgetting the favours of Allāh and gradually begin to return to our
past life of disobedience of the āhkām (commands) of Allāh. In other
words we become the same old selves. We forget the hard times we have
just gone through and how desperately we were pleading Allāh for His
divine help. This attitude can turn out to be very dangerous for our
Dunyā as well as for our Ākhirat as it can invoke the wrath of Allāh
Ta’ala.
Allāh Ta’ala in His sublime manner describes the situation thus in Qur’ān Majīd:
He
it is Who enables you to travel through land and sea, till when you are
in the ships and they sail with them with a favourable wind, and they
are glad therein, then comes a stormy wind and the waves come to them
from all sides, and they think that they are encircled therein, they
invoke Allāh, making their Faith pure for Him Alone, saying: “If You
(Allāh) deliver us from this, we shall truly be of the grateful.”
But
when He delivered them, behold! They rebel (disobey Allāh) in the earth
wrongfully. O mankind! Your rebellion (disobedience to Allāh) is only
against your own selves, – a brief enjoyment of this worldly life, then
(in the end) unto Us is your return, and We shall inform you that which
you used to do.
(Surāh: Yunus Verses: 22 and 23).
How
can we express our thanks to Allah with all sincerity for accepting of
our Du’ā when we were in a very precarious position? The best way is to
bring permanent changes in our life in conformity with His commands and
the Sunnah of Rasulullāh Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wasallam and also, very
importantly, to invite others to the same.
With
plenty of Istighfār let us all make Du’ā to Allāh Ta’ala that He may
forgive all our shortcomings in obeying His commands and also make Du’ā
that He does not put us to any test and if at all He decides to test us
then we may pass that test to His satisfaction…Ameen.
…and Allāh Ta’ala Knows Best
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