Put Down the Stone Imagine you take something light – say a stone that weighs one pound – and hold it out at arm’s length, with your arm rigid. In the beginning it’s easy, right? But after a while your arm begins to tire. Your shoulder aches, your muscles tremble, and the stone begins to feel like a boulder. The pain becomes agony and the only thing you want in the world is to set the stone down. All other considerations are forgotten. Did the stone become heavier? In absolute terms no, but because you could not set it down, it became a mountain. That’s how it is with the burdens of life. You’re anxious about how you’re going to pay your bills or your debt, worried about your parent whose health is deteriorating, worried about your job or school grades, fearful that you will not find a good husband or wife, stressed about problems in your marriage, self- critical because you are not the kind of good Muslim you feel you should be… The longer you hold on to these worries the heavier they become, until life itself feels like a burden. We all know the feeling. Just as with the stone, you must set these burdens down. The only way to do that is to hand them to Allah. This is called tawakkul, or trust in Allah. It doesn’t mean that you flutter through life carefree as a butterfly, no. You strive to excel in every aspect of life, but you realize that the outcomes belong to Allah; so you trust Him to handle them. You hand over your fears to Allah. You set that stone down by giving it to Allah, Who feels no fatigue, and for Whom all things are easy. By Wael Abdelgawad | IslamicSunrays
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:26:39 +0000
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