Constantly within our book we are reminded of Allah t'ala ni'ma upon us- that He send down pure water from the skies, that He created us in the wombs of our mothers and fashioned us with due care, and in due proportion, and so much more.
But what is interesting about the narrative contained in our book is the *manner of gratitude that is incumbent upon us.*
For Allah t'ala wants for you to act, and to be grateful for the opportunity that He provides to you.
For when He makes accessible to you an opportunity, then only a fool would squander it.
So He reminds us for the pure water that He sends from the sky, and a grateful believer does not squander that bounty. But instead irrigates his land so that he might have provision.
He provides for us the night so that we might rest, and the day so that we might seek our livelihoods, so a grateful believer does not squander those opportunities and instead works hard to provide.
And when you are put to trial, a grateful believer is happy that he has the opportunity to prove his true worth, that he will act morally, stand up for truth against falsehood, pay the due of those to whom a due is owed, even when his means are straightened, that God might know who he is.
That is what Allah t'ala means when He says that *He does not change the state of a people until they change themselves*, that gratitude is not about Allah t'ala providing you with water, and nourishment, gushing straight into your mouths (Surah Raad, verse 14), but true gratittude is about you being thankful for having the opportunity to do good, to go that extra mile, to change the face of this country, and our people, as no one else can.*1
That we are actors,
That we supplicate the Most Merciful, and then thank Him for the opportunity, and ability, that He affords us and then act to remove oppression from this country of ours, from those that surround us.
So much so, that this be a rudder that changes the course of our World's history, that we might stand as a Nation again that removes oppression from our Holy Lands- the Lands of Ibrahim (as) and his progeny.
And that is what Islam was meant to be,
not a flash in the pan, a power that had it’s day and now wanes
not a religion for a byegone era,
but a force of change for the future.
And that is not an empty promise, for indeed the Promise of God is ever true, that when we change ourselves, are forever grateful for opportunity, and means,that He gives to us, and then seize that opportunity that presents itself to us, then He will change us in ways that no one will understand.*2
That we are the cusotdians of this World, by God's leave and with His permission.
And these others, these faithless people who oppress and wrong, and have no shame in oppressing and wronging.
Away with the faithless ones.
Knowledge is gained through study and deliberation. Not solely this above, but when you act to fulfil the opportunities that God presents you with.
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The true supplication is for Allah, but those others that you ask from, they cannot respond at all; it is like you stretch out your hand for water thinking that it will gush forth into your mouth.
Deliberate deeply upon this similitude, that we are not to be like the disbelievers mentioned here.
And then when we remember how the Most Merciful reminds us of their nature following on from Ayah t’ul Kursi.. that they are the Auliyyah, helpers, of the oppressors that oppress them.
That they willingly like sheep, or worse than sheep, allow themselves to be oppressed.
Not so the Mumin, we act and it is through action that Allah t’ala elevates us and blesses us with sure knowledge.
For that is the true way to come to know.
Updated Notes
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S Rad, verse 14- The true supplication is for Allah, but those others that you ask from, they cannot respond at all; it is like you stretch out your hand for water thinking that it will gush forth into your mouth.
Deliberate deeply upon this similitude, that we are not to be like the disbelievers mentioned here.
And then when we remember how the Most Merciful reminds us of their nature following on from Ayah t’ul Kursi.. that they are the Auliyyah, helpers, of those oppressors that oppress them.
That they willingly be like sheep, or worse than sheep, and allow themselves to be oppressed, and then support and aid that oppression of others and by extension their own selves.
Not so the Mumin, we act, and know that moral action is an incumbent duty on each and every one of us, and it is through that action that Allah t’ala elevates us and blesses us with sure knowledge.
For that is the true way to come to know.
*2 Read the story of Dawud (as) in Baqara, when he stood against Goliath (Jalut), and he was elevated by degrees for standing against oppression.
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