Assalm o Alaikum
Shab-e-Juma Mubarak on the eve of Milad un Nabi SAW, the day becomes extra special.
Nothing is in our control. Even our own control is not in our control. Yes, a downer for our concept of freewill. Let's examine this. Our capacity is limited. So if we submit, the control is completely passed on to the Safest Hands of Allah swt. Realistically speaking, none of us has the capacity to stand any pressure (social, professional and financial), trouble (invited intentionally or inadvertent), illness (physical, psychological and spiritual). But if we insist on keeping the control in our hands, we might exhaust or perish. There is ongoing cat and mouse for ‘control’ in hearts. As much space we give to Allah swt, space of our open enemy shrinks and vice versa. As we know, Allah swt lives in our hearts where he puffed the most beautiful thing i.e from his Rooh. Likewise, the enemy has the permission to run through our blood. It is a serious situation. We tend to take it very lightly. Resultantly, our enemy, plays tricks on us. His eavesdrops work like magic (the wrong type of magic). And straight talk of Allah swt makes us uncomfortable. We tent to avoid it. We avoid paying heed to it. Like a cunning salesman, Iblees sells his merchandise to us on cheap price and we get sucked into his fancy false promises. But Allah swt can't adopt the tactics of sales cadre, He swt is the King of Heavens and Earth. He swt is straight talker. He swt differentiates right from wrong for us. Gives us the choice to submit (what we think is freewill). And being the King that He swt is, also gives us freedom to try our luck, knowledge and tricks. However, in submission lies the salvation.
Above pretext in mind, Allah swt, while continuing story of our heroes, The Kahf Boys, tells us what distinguishes them from others i.e their sincere submission.
What our heroes did, they solved the riddle of life. They must be the most intelligent of the lot who identified their Lord in polytheistic society. They stood witness to Oneness of The Only One. Also emphasising that any deviation from Tauheed would tantamount to excessive transgression. In short, if we submit and give control to the King of Heavens and Earth, He swt will definitely make good of us. Look at Kahf Boys, we may not know their exact names (which may be known to many, as their details including name of their dog is given below in a poster), but we still celebrate their act of sincerity today as I write these lines and you read them. They shall be celebrated till the end of times Insha Allah.
May Allah swt guide us to submission like the way He swt bestowed it upon Al Kahf Boys. Ameen
Names around circle are of our Heroes. In center, Qitmeer is Dog.
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