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Sunnah_
05/12/04 at 14:14:05
Salam all!
I just wanted to let you all know one more time how much I love this place. It gives me comfort, and as one of the posts I had read the other day.....it's not just a board.....it's more than that. Thank you for letting me be a part of it.

I had posted once before about choices we make in our lives and things being 'planned' for us. I don't know how many of you receive the Friday Nasiha to your email, but I was reading one I received from last friday and I keep getting more confused!!! Here it is:


Relying on Allah
"...And whosoever puts his trust in Allah, then He will suffice him…"

When a person knows that Allah is able to do all things, that He alone makes choices for His slaves and runs their affairs, that the way He runs His slave’s affairs is better than the way the slave would do it for himself, that He knows better about the slave’s interests than the slave does, that He is more able to achieve them, that He is more sincere and more merciful towards His slave than the slave is to himself; and also knows that he cannot progress or regress any further than the limits that Allah has decreed for him, for nobody can change the will and decree of Allah – when a person knows all this, he submits himself to his Lord and hands over his affairs to Him. He gives the burden of his needs and interests to the One who is not concerned about how heavy or great the burden is. Allah will take care of it, instead of him, and will show him His kindness and mercy, without the slave getting tired or worried, because all his concern is now focused on Allah alone. He knows that Allah has guaranteed to take complete care of the one who puts his trust in Him, so he trusts Allah and has confidence in His promise. Thus his heart gains indescribable strength, his worries and anxiety disappear, hardship is replaced with ease, sadness turns to joy and fear turns into a feeling of security.

But as for the person who insists on running his own affairs and making his own choices, whose concern is only for his own share and not for his duties towards his Lord, Allah will leave him alone with the choices he has made, so he will be surrounded by concerns, worries, distress, grief, fear, exhaustion and depression. His thoughts will be confused, none of his deeds will be pure and none of his hopes will be fulfilled. He will gain no respite, and will enjoy no pleasure. He will never feel joy or contentment. He will be labouring like a working-animal, with no hope of gaining anything that could help him in the Hereafter.

Source:
“Dealing with worries and stress” - By Mohammed Salih Al-Munajjid

Before when I asked about this before (what do we control in our lives and what does Allah control)  Some replies were that we make our own decisions, but Allah know's what they will be..........but here it is saying that: 'He alone makes choices for His slaves and runs their affairs, that the way He runs His slave’s affairs is better than the way the slave would do it for himself, that He knows better about the slave’s interests than the slave does'

I'm confused!!! Thank you !

Sis Sunnah_





Re: Still confused! Explanation needed....
AbdulJalil
05/12/04 at 19:27:36
Assalamu Alaikum

maybe what is meant is that if you follow Islam, by putting your trust in God, you are in fact letting God run your affairs, in the sense that you are obeying his commands, his laws. Yes, you are chosing to obey these laws, but once you obey these laws, the direction you take, is the direction that God comanded you to follow.

If you give direction to a child, he is following your order/advice/direction, but you are in fact running the affairs of the child, in the sense that you are telling him what to do, how to do it, and what is best for him. You as an adult knows better than a child, therefore you run his affairs, even though of course he still has to follow what you tell him. But in our case, once you put your trust in God, this fact makes you automatically want to follow God as He intended you to follow Him, hence He(swt) runs your affairs.

Perhaps there is also another explanation, but inshallah this might help.

05/12/04 at 19:30:27
AbdulJalil
Re: Still confused! Explanation needed....
al-ajnabia
05/12/04 at 19:42:04
[slm]
as someone who is often acused of letting others live my life for me, I think I should put in my two cents.
every single day there are lots of multiple good choces to make, there are also often choices of several fairly equal lesser evils.
There are also multiple routs to take to the same basic result the diferences only being in the souviners that are in our packs when we get to where we would have ended up anyway.
The master knows if his slave has a lot of good imagination and if you are somone who is good at having lots of choices there are many ways you can still serve allah while seeming to be running your own show. Not even the disobediant slave is actually doing that, he just thinks he is, but the good slave or the bad slave can each seem to be doing the same things, only one is doing them for allah and the other for lord only knows.
to me I think the best way to have the best time is to do the best with what allah knows that you have, bearing in mind that you will fail to do this sometimes no matter how concientious you are.


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