– Er. Huzaifa Ahmed Javed (AMU)
People nowadays are living a life full of depressing thoughts, a fallen level of morale & belief, and a lack of faith. Still, no one is willing to find out the actual reason behind all this demotivation. Today’s fast and flowing life doesn’t permit them to settle and inspect the blunders going on, hence no effort is made in providing a barrier to those mistakes. But Allah SWT responds to all the ill feelings and ideas which prevail in any human being by just saying that “Is Allah not sufficient for his servant”(Quran 39:36). So it is mandatory to follow some points to get the backing of an eternal, loving, and most powerful Lord.
The first requisite here is to become the loyal servant of the Lord. As we all know, a servant is that individual who quits all his liberty for the sake of his Lord, and the Lord has all ownership upon his servant. In today’s scenario, the basic problem is that people are willing to live their life on their manufactured standards but not on the standards of Allah SWT. That’s why they fail to fulfill the very basic criteria by which they avail the support of Almighty for themselves. Besides this, the best servant is the one who is under one Lord only, otherwise, he gets multiple intersecting orders from different lords. Hence he can’t follow each and individual Lord.
Once a person posts himself on the job as a worshipper, then surely he must have fear of his Lord, and also there is a hope of mercy from his Lord.
Allah SWT says, “Whoever fears Allah – He will make for him a way out. And provide for them from sources they could never imagine. And whoever puts their trust in Allah, then He alone is sufficient for them.” (Surah Talaq: 2-3)
This is the gift that Allah SWT give to those of his servant who have fear of Allah.
The primary outcome of fear of the Lord is that the person never wishes to disobey and never wishes to face the anger of his Lord. In return, Allah SWT eases the path of his worshipper in this life and hereafter too. Almighty just makes way from nowhere so that person can calmly surpass all the hurdles and difficulties which he faces in this world.
In another verse Allah SWT says, “When My servants ask you O Prophet about Me; I am truly near. I respond to one’s prayer when they call upon Me. So let them respond with obedience to Me and believe in Me, perhaps they will be guided to the Right Way.” (Surah Al-Baqarah: 186).
In this Allah almighty gives a ray of hope again that he is truly near to those who make calls to him but Allah almighty says that those who want that their calls to be answered must show obedience and believe in the lord.
Most of the verses which give hope to the depressed mankind have certain rules too which are needed to be fulfilled to gain maximum benefits from Allah SWT.
The firm belief in Allah and the final messenger ﷺ created the ability in the Bedouins of the Arabs to govern, rule, and emerge as the world’s best leaders. But nowadays, due to lack of belief in the above-mentioned points and increasing materialistic approach, people don’t rule over themselves properly. This is the reason that the principles which we adopt today for our betterment are erased by ourselves the next day just to gain little profit in this limited life.
So it is necessary to look beyond the hasty nature, pictures of the living world, and temporary unsatisfactory goals. InshaAllah when we try to bow down completely in front of our Almighty, then he makes a path through darkness into the light. Hence we must strengthen our beliefs in Allah SWT to live a calm, cool, and perfect life here and also be able to shift a bundle of good deeds for the next never-ending eternal life.
