This Ramadan, MuslimMatters is happy to host the Institute Of Data‘s day by day Ramadan collection: Keys to the Divine Compass. By means of this collection, every day we are going to spend time connecting with the Qur’an on a deeper, extra non secular, uplifting stage.
Earlier within the collection: Juz 1 Juz 2 Juz 3 Juz 4 Juz 5 Juz 6 Juz 7 Juz 8 Juz 9 Juz 10 Juz 11 Juz 12 Juz 13
Juzʾ 14: Do You Worth Your Promise to Allah?
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Bismillah-ir Raḥmān-ir Raḥīm. All reward to Allah and peace and salutations upon his servant and last messenger Muḥammad (pbuh), Assalāmu ‘Alaykum wa Raḥmatullāhi wa Barakātuh! Welcome to a different episode of our Ramaḍān Reflection collection, Keys to the Divine Compass, the place we go over verses of the Qur’an from each Juz all through the month of Ramaḍān in order that we will derive classes and apply them to our lives.
InshaAllah right now I can be going over verses 95 and 96 from Sūrah al-Naḥl (Sūrah 16) through which Allah (swt) says, “Don’t promote the promise of Allah to achieve a paltry sum, no matter is by Allah (swt) is best for you, if solely you knew. No matter is by you is fleeting and no matter is by Allah (swt) is eternal, and we are going to completely reward those that are affected person in accordance with one of the best of what that they had performed.” In these two verses, Allah (swt) offers us the mindset of a believer in how we’re imagined to deal with and worth our Dīn. When Allah (swt) guided us, this blessing completely topped any blessing that He might give us, after the truth that He gave us the power to know, acknowledge, and undergo Him.
It’s the biggest blessing that now we have and if an individual finds themselves ready of compromising their Dīn to realize one thing of this world, the place the Dīn turns into a non-priority, the place we compromise our values to get forward on this world, to realize the approval of people that shouldn’t have the identical priorities and beliefs as us, Allah (swt) offers us a warning. No worth that you just pay in alternate for getting one thing on this world, if it means giving up the faith, if it means reneging on the promise that you’ve made to Allah it isn’t value it. Regardless that Allah (swt) after all says ‘a paltry sum’ it doesn’t imply that hypothetically if it was the next worth, it might be okay. Allah (swt) doesn’t imply that if it was a excessive sufficient reward then you possibly can deprioritize your faith and return on the promise you made to Allah.
Completely not! Nothing is value compromising the Dīn over, and Allah (swt) reminds us that what you are attempting to finally acquire on this world is just not worthwhile in the long term, and even intrinsically it isn’t worthwhile when in comparison with what Allah (swt) has saved for you within the hereafter. However you need to know what you’re giving as much as acquire no matter you need on this world. Allah (swt) says in verse 96 that no matter is by you is momentary, that hypothetically you undergo with this, you promote the Dīn of Allah (swt), you promote out the group, you promote your ideas to achieve some approval and worth, to achieve some goal on this world and do know individuals like this. Hypothetically you undergo with it, what you finally gained will finish as a result of it’s momentary, it’s fleeting. You would possibly really feel that you’ve achieved an incredible factor, you would possibly really feel that what you had given up out of your ideas and out of your beliefs was value what you gained, however that may solely final for so long as you’re alive on this world as a result of you possibly can lose it earlier as effectively. Even if you’re having fun with that profit and achievement all through the remainder of your life, if you find yourself gone you can not take it with you. Distinction to what Allah (swt) has stored in retailer for you, that’s eternal. It’s at all times there and value being affected person over any acquire that you just would possibly obtain on this world.
Typically, particularly for people who find themselves in very excessive positions, once they assume that they could be capable of have an effect on some sort of change, however to have an effect on change they need to surrender one thing, often the very first thing to be compromised is faith. No person thinks of taking a pay minimize, no person thinks of getting a demotion, no person thinks of leaving no matter they’re doing, however on the subject of compromise the very first thing that’s sometimes compromised are the non secular values, the ideas that Allah (swt) and the Prophet (pbuh) taught us. Allah (swt) reminds us to be principled in these verses, that no matter you assume you possibly can acquire by giving up in your values and ideas on this world is just not going to be value it, since you are giving up one thing that’s everlasting, eternal in alternate for one thing that’s momentary. Even when it was value it within the second, on the day of judgment when the believers are being rewarded for his or her persistence and for one of the best of their actions you’ll have wished you probably did the identical.
Could Allah (swt) shield all of us from compromising our ideas and values to achieve the approval of those that shouldn’t have the identical targets and priorities as us. Could Allah (swt) information, bless, and shield us all. Assalāmu ‘Alaykum wa Raḥmatullāhi wa Barakātuh.
