Posted by
Nurhidayah Abdullah
at
19:47
THE STORM IS COMING
When you love someone, you do what pleases them. And your greatest joy
is in pleasing and serving the one you love. It is an honour to serve the one
you love. There is tashreef(honour). And it is only once that love is gone or
weakened that serving that person goes from being an honour to just being a
burden. It goes from tashreef(honour) to only takleef(burden). Sadly, our
worship of God is like this : just a burden.
We don’t pray to seek refuge from the storm of our lives. If we pray at
all, we do it to get it out of the way. Or maybe because our parents won’t stop
nagging until we do. Somehow we have forgotten that if we don’t pray, we harm
no one. Not Allah. Not our mothers. Not our fathers. We harm only our own
selves.
On The Day of Judgement, every man and woman will stand alone in front
of Allah. And there is nothing that anyone can do for you except by the
permission of Allah. On that day, a mother would be willing to throw away her
own child just to save herself.
Please understand the reality
that we have forsaken. Because we are so caught up with our phones, our apps,
our friends, our parties, our highs. Please understand that ignoring a reality
does not make it any less real. It’s still going to happen. Being unprepared
for something doesn’t stop it from happening. For example, if you choose to
stay up all night partying instead of studying for your final exam, it doesn’t
mean that the final exam won’t happen. It still will! And you only end up
failing! If we spend this life just partying, pretending that the final isn’t
coming, it won’t stop it from happening. Nothing will stop death! Nothing will
delay The Day of Judgement! Like that final exam, the question is only : Are we
prepared? Or are we too busy playing?
Imagine for a moment, that a news reporter tells you that a huge storm
is coming. Imagine that you’re told that unless you seek shelter, you and your
family will be destroyed. What would you do? If we really believed that a storm
was coming, we would run to shelter, right? Only a person who didn’t believe
the forecast, thought it was a lie would continue playing, ignoring the
countless warnings. But how could someone who really know that a storm was
about to hit and do absolutely nothing to protect themselves and those they
love. Would anyone say : “I’m actually too busy hanging out right now”, “I’m too busy on my phone or on facebook to
run to shelter”, “I’d rather check out this guy’s profile than protect myself
from this storm”. No one would say that!
And yet, every single time, we put off our prayers, put off wearing
hijab, put off giving up dating. That is exactly what we’re saying! The fact
that we cannot leave these things. The fact that our worship has become only a
burden, is a sign that there’s a problem internally. There is a problem with
our sight. We don’t really see the storm coming! We don’t really see The Day of
Judgement! We haven’t purified and rectified the lump of flesh the
Prophet(PBUH) spoke about. And as a result, the rest of our bodies, the rest of
our actions, the rest of our lives have become corrupted. We don’t really see
Allah with our hearts. And we haven’t built our love for him. We haven’t really
used the heart for the very purpose for which it was created : to know, to
serve, and to love God(Allah).
Remember, we will meet our Maker. We will stand in front of Allah and we
will be asked : What did you love most in this world? What did you spend your
life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chase
will they help you? Or will they hurt you? When the illusion of this life has
passed? We need to come back to Allah, before it’s too late. And often what
keeps people from turning back is that they believe that their sins are too
great for Allah to forgive. But to this, Allah SWT speaks : Say, “O my servants
who have transgressed against themselves(by sinning), do not despair of the
mercy of Allah indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, he is the most
forgiving, the most merciful.” (39:53)
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