Allah does not turn away You may turn away from Allah (God), but He does not turn away from You. He is the Most Forgiving and the Most Merciful. He waits. When you make the smallest motion to return, Allah carries you the rest of the way. In a famous Hadith Qudsi, the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said that Allah said: “I am as My servant thinks (expects) I am. I am with him when he mentions Me. If he mentions Me to himself, I mention him to Myself; and if he mentions Me in an assembly, I mention him in an assembly greater than it. If he draws near to Me a hand’s length, I draw near to him an arm’s length. And if he comes to Me walking, I go to him at speed.” – (Sahih Bukhari) You may turn away from Allah, but He does not turn away from You. There have been times when me and you have turned our backs on Allah – or you could say we turned our side, since we still believed perhaps. But we were not practicing well. We walked in a different direction, getting far away from the Muslim we should have been and wanted to be. Perhaps we knew in our heart that wr had to get back to the deen, but we felt powerless to change. The amazing thing, the glorious thing, is that Allah NEVER turned away from us. He kept on guiding us. He preserved that small flame of faith in our heart, Al hamduliLlaah! Forexample; Ramadan is one of the tools that Allah gives us to bring us back to the faith. The constant flow of excessive food and drink burdens the spirit and buries it beneath a layer of sugar, salt, fat and processed junk. When we abandon all that, the spirit revives and emerges like a flower in spring. And when we turn back to Allah, we find that He was there all along, waiting for us.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 04:21:16 +0000
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