I Am In Complete and Utter Need of Allah, Most High

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum

Dear Friends

I pray that you are well.

Everything we have is from our Lord and we should be grateful and thankful to Him. We are in complete and utter need of Allah, Most High, in every single moment. Were Allah, Most High, to withdraw His maintaining us in existence for even a second, everything will cease to exist.

Allah does whatever He wills. He is the Creator. Whether you like it or not things happen. Bad things happen. Good things happen. But we are responsible and accountable for our actions. Allah created choice within us to choose between doing good and doing bad, between obeying Him and not obeying Him.

When we obey Allah, we are grateful and thankful to Allah for His tawfiq. We focus on the fact that Allah created the good act. We don't focus on the fact that we acquired it because we will become proud and will have this sense of self-consequence or self-deserving. This is not becoming of a slave. A slave should have a deep sense of duty and deep sense of need for His Master. A slave does not feel independent of His Master.

When we make mistakes and disobey Allah, we are remorseful and immediately turn towards Allah in regretful repentance. We look and focus on the fact that we acquired the disobedience and we are responsible for it.

We don't do the opposite like the Shaytan. When Iblis disobeyed Allah, he looked at the fact that Allah created the action and he didn't accept responsibility. When he did a good act (he worshiped Allah for long time before the creation of Adam, peace be upon him), he looked at the fact that he acquired the action and he became proud. And look where he ended up.

"Whoever finds good let him thank Allah and whoever finds anything else, let him blame no one but himself." (related by Muslim)

قَالَ يَـٰقَوۡمِ أَرَءَيۡتُمۡ إِن كُنتُ عَلَىٰ بَيِّنَةٍ۬ مِّن رَّبِّى وَرَزَقَنِى مِنۡهُ رِزۡقًا حَسَنً۬ا‌ۚ وَمَآ أُرِيدُ أَنۡ أُخَالِفَكُمۡ إِلَىٰ مَآ أَنۡهَٮٰڪُمۡ عَنۡهُ‌ۚ إِنۡ أُرِيدُ إِلَّا ٱلۡإِصۡلَـٰحَ مَا ٱسۡتَطَعۡتُ‌ۚ وَمَا تَوۡفِيقِىٓ إِلَّا بِٱللَّهِ‌ۚ عَلَيۡهِ تَوَكَّلۡتُ وَإِلَيۡهِ أُنِيبُ

"He (Prophet Shu'ayb, peace be upon him) said: "O my people! see ye whether I have a Clear (Sign) from my Lord, and He hath given me sustenance (pure and) good as from Himself? I wish not, in opposition to you, to do that which I forbid you to do. I only desire (your) betterment to the best of my power; and my success (in my task) can only come from God. In Him I trust, and unto Him I look." Qur'an Hud 11:88

May Allah grant us tawfiq. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.

And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam