Ihsaan Magazine May 2020 Issue - Living your best Life | Page 38

Surah Al Mulk
expect.
Remembering our Ultimate
Destination and Moving
Steadfastly Towards It
“Who is better guided:
someone who falls on his
face, or someone who walks
steadily on a straight path?”
(Qur’an 67: 22)
Because of the fear and
uncertainty of the global
pandemic, many people have
found themselves panicking or
feeling low and depressed. We
need to challenge ourselves
and truly recognize that this
world is not the end. We’re not
going to stay here forever. This
shall pass, like everything else.
“We will certainly test you
with a touch of fear and
famine and loss of property,
life, and crops. And give
good news to those who
patiently endure—who,
when faced with a disaster,
say, “Indeed we belong to
Allah and indeed to Him,
we will [all] return” Those
are the ones upon whom are
blessings from their Lord
and mercy. And it is those
who are rightly guided.”
(Qur’an 2: 155-157)
The emotional and spiritual
impact of remembering the
destination is that one feels a
sense of relief from sadness.
Not necessarily because
the situation has ended, but
because regardless of how bad
it is, it’s not the end. Therefore,
the person gets internally
strengthened and comforted
due to connecting their hearts
and souls with their Creator
and remembering the vast
relief that He has prepared in
the destination to come.
Lesson #5: Look up to Him
and have hope in Him and
keep moving towards Him. Try
not to spend too much time
looking down in this world and
getting absorbed in sadness,
stress, and anxiety over
matters beyond your control
(and certainly don’t look
down to your phones and get
sucked into endless cycles of
negativity). Do as much as you
can and leave the rest to Him.
Finding Mercy and Peace in
the Trust & Submission
“Say, “He is the Most
Merciful; we believe in Him
and we put our trust in
Him…” (Qur’an 67: 29)
The Name of Allah that He
chose to use in the above
verse is Ar-Rahman, it is a
superlative form of Merciful.
It means the incomparably
Merciful. The name of the
womb in Arabic is extracted
from this specific Name of
Allah, Ar-Rahman.
‘Abdur-Rahman bin ‘Awf’
said: ‘I heard the Messenger
of Allah saying: “Allah, Most
Blessed and Most High,
said: ‘I am Allah, and I am
Ar-Rahman. I created the
Rahim (womb) and named
it after My Name.…’” [Jami’
at-Tirmidhi]
In the aforementioned verse,
we are asked to say that we
rely upon and put our trust in
Ar-Rahman. If we reflect on
this early stage of the womb:
who was supporting the child
in its mother’s womb? Who
was feeding it and moving it
around and taking care of it
completely? It is Ar-Rahman.
Even the mother, the most
merciful upon her child, was
not able to plan and do that on
her own. It was a matter left to
Allah to create all conditions
of comfort for the child’s
sustenance and survival in
the mother’s womb, and He
completely took care of that.
This is The One we believe
in and trust now. And He is
perfectly capable of taking
care of us now like He’s taken
care of us before.
Lesson #6: In remembering the
vastness of His mercy, one can
submit and trust in peace.
Does this mean we ignore
public health measures?
Of course not. We are
rewarded to take the