Indeed, they are enemies to me, except the Lord of the worlds, Who created me, and He Who guides me. And it is He who feeds me and gives me drink. And when I am ill, it is He who cures me. And who will cause me to die and then bring me to life. And Who I hope will forgive me my sins on the Day of Recompense. [al-Shuara: 82] This is the start of a long and beautiful passage in Surah al-Shuara where Ibrahim speaks about his Lord, and then supplicates to Him. Hisspeech is not only deep but it also sets out a print of peoples lives here on earth. He declared everything that people worshipped as being his enemies because they only serve to harm a persons Hereafter and ruin him forever, except the worship of Allah. Ibrahim lays out a number of things and this these follow the course of our lives: 1) Allah is the One who created us all, and 2) our guidance is set from before birth. When the soul is breathed into each of us, our fates are written. 3)As we grow, we grow with the rizq (provision) of Allah; He grants us our daily food and drink as well as all other rizq. 4) As we age, we become more prone to illnesses and He is the One who cures us and grants us aafiyah (health). 5) Then we ultimately die and leave this world behind only to 6) be resurrected to face a reckoning which 7) we all hope to be forgiven in. In a few ayaat, Ibrahim (as) pretty much sums up the life we all go through. The words he uses is very interesting, because in Arabic, all the above are listed as actions of Allah azza wa jall - i.e. Allah created, guided, fed, gave to drink, cures, causes death, brings back to life, forgives - they are all afaal (verbs), except for the term used for illness. For this, Ibrahim simply said When I fall ill... - despite knowing that it is by the Will of Allah that he falls ill. This was the gentleness and etiquette that the Prophets observed with their Lord when it came to making du’a and speaking of their distress – they would associate the illness and any evil that touched them to either their own selves, to Shaytan, or to the problem itself – out of love, high regard, and respect for Allah `azzawa jall.-Ramadan Reflections by Fajr Blog
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 14:00:10 +0000
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