We Hope That Once We Pass Away That Those Beloved To Us Will Do Some Kind Of Sadaqah Jariyah For Us To

We hope that once we pass away that those beloved to us will do some kind of sadaqah jariyah for us to honour our memory. But my recent reflection questions this notions;

Why do I wait for people to leave a legacy for me?

How dare I wait for my Lord to take me before I decide to do good that will benefit me in the hereafter?

What am I waiting for?

When will I take initiative and honour my own memeory?

It occurred to me that I don't want to wait until I pass for someone to honour me. He knows I love Him, but I am still in need of every good deed I can find so that I could enter into Paradise without any difficulty.

I thought it is time for me to take a hold of my own legacy. The point is, we know people will, or we hope that that those beloved to us will try their best to honour our memory by doing as much sadaqah jariyah for us after our passing, but we should not wait until death approaches us to do beautiful deed. Start now, do it for yourself and do it for the sake of Allah.

We all need as many good deed on the day of Judgement, so start leaving your own legacy and people will follow with the same after your passing. We ask Allah to take us when He is most pleased with us and to give us a good ending.

Over the years, I developed a habit of subconsciously reciting واللہ المستعان whenever I faced something that disturbed my peace. But I was never aware of the background story of such powerful word until only recently when I heard about it in a lecture by on Surah Yousuf.

The word, Wallahul Mustaaan, as mentioned in the Quran, was said by Yaqoob عليه السلام when his sons came up with a false story of what happened to Yousuf عليه السلام. Yaqoob tried his best to find the truth but his sons teamed up to defend their heinous act and lies. Tired of the situation, Yaqoob asked Allah for Sabrun Jameel (beautiful patience) followed by Wallahul Mustaaan.

According to the commentators of the Quran, Wallahul Mustaan is used to call for Allaah’s help when you find yourself in impossible situations, when people team up against you to defend their lies, when people accuse you of something false, when you have given your best and desperately waiting for desired results, when you feel you’re in a situation where there’s no way out. It’s literally saying to Allaah that I have given my best and now I am taking a backseat, I want You to take charge of the driving seat and solve this matter with your Divine intervention.

And patience automatically becomes beautiful when with all your heart, mind, and soul you leave the matter on Allaah.

Sharing it with you all because I thought it might brighten someone’s day. Don’t worry if the situation seems impossible, remember you’re asking the One who just have to say ‘Kun’ and it is.

You are asking the One who calls Himself, Al-Fattah. Who creates a way out when there seems to be no way. So take a backseat and let Allaah do the rest.

Wallahul Mustaan - “Allaah is the one sought for help”

واللہ المستعان 🖤

A beautiful dua.

سبحانك، لا علم لنا إلا ما علمتنا، إنك أنت العليم الحكيم.

Ya Rabb, there's no knowledge, at all, except by You, from You And with Your permission.

Ya Allaah, I repent to you from ascribing any knowledge to myself, my shuyoukh, or anyone of Your creation.

Ya Allaah, forgive me for relying on my efforts more than relying on Your tawfeeq.

Ya Rabb, I am but a Jahil, unless You teach me.

Ya Rabb, I am but a hypocrite, unless You grant my heart ikhlaas.

Ya Rabb, I am but a stupid, unless You open my heart and mind to Your light.

سبحانك ،لا حول لي ولا قوة إلا بك، فلا تكلني إلى نفسي طرفة عين.

3 things

Ibn al-Qayyim Says:

Three Things sickens the body:

1) talking too much. 2) sleeping too much. 3) eating too much.

Four things destroys the body:

1) stress. 2) grief. 3) hunger. 4) staying up late at night.

Four things dries the face and takes away its joy and respect:

1) lying. 2) insolence. 3) asking too many questions without knowledge. 4) indecency.

Four things brings to the face joy and respect:

1) piety. 2) truthfulness. 3) generosity. 4) self respect.

Four things brings Rizk (provision):

1) Night full prayers. 2) frequent remembrance of Allah before dawn. 3) continues charity. 4) the remembrance of Allah at the beginning and at the end of the day.

Four things prevents Rizq (provision):

1) Sleeping early in the morning (after Fajr). 2) lack of prayers. 3) laziness. 4) treason and betrayal.

Bab-al-Tib( Zaad Al Ma'ad ) 378/4

!!!This!!!

Strive for the best version of yourself, push yourself and comfort yourself whenever necessary,but don't give up on yourself, that's never an option. Always be there for yourself the external validation or support system is appreciable but don't depend on it, the passion, discipline has to come from within oneself not others, it's your journey make sure you are on the driver's seat of your life not others.

No one else cares for your success (as much as their own) so you have to care. You have to force yourself to get up early, you have to force yourself to turn your phone off and revise, you have to force yourself to workout, you have to care for the whole world because no one else cares until they start seeing results. And they won’t ever see your results if you don’t care enough first. It’s your life, they are your goals, your dreams, it will be your success but it has to be your effort and your work first and foremost x

An eye opening reminder SubhanAllah

You know, Allah hid Paradise from our sight, but He didn’t hide the path to it. He hid Himself, but He didn’t hide His words. He hides the future but compels us to learn from the past.  

Yet sometimes we’re so fixated on the ‘seen’ problem we fail to see the ‘unseen’ solution. Yes, everything is predestined and we drown in the ‘why me?’ heap of things, but didn’t Almighty Allah ever teach you that the door to call upon Him is always wide open?