Seeing Allah in Events

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

Dear Friends

I pray that you are well.

Allah is the Possessor of every might and every majesty. Allah's power and His strength surround everything. No one can outdo Him. No one escapes His grasp. He is the One who overcomes everything with whatever He wills.

We see this overcoming of Allah in Surah Yusuf. The brothers of Yusuf wanted to kill him, the owners of the slave caravan wanted him as a slave, the aziz (governor) who bought him wanted him as his helper, the aziz's wife wanted him as her lover, and so on. Everyone tried to make what they want in Yusuf's being to happen. But Allah foiled whatever they wanted, and all that happened was whatever He wanted.

Allah is the Ghaalib. Everyone reaches out for a matter but Allah always gets to it first and whatever He wants happen despite we might think is happening.

وَاللَّـهُ غَالِبٌ عَلَىٰ أَمْرِهِ وَلَـٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ ﴿٢١ ...

And Allah is predominant over His affair, but most of the people do not know. (21)

[Qur'an Yusuf 12:21]

It looks like Yusuf's brothers, the slave caravan, the aziz, the aziz's wife, Yusuf's jail's companions and others are getting what they want, but at the end of the day all that happen is what Allah has wanted. All of these people were but playing a role so that they can take Yusuf to the destiny that Allah has chosen for him. All we see is Allah won and everyone lost.

There is no real benefit nor harm except from Allah. He is the conqueror. He is the majesty. He is the dominion. He is the judgment. He chooses. He creates. All that happen is whatever He has chosen to happen.

If we realize Allah's Rahmah and Lutf, we don't worry about other people, we don't take other people personally, and we realize all that is happening to us is the Will of Allah. We are not scared of what's happening but we turn to Allah and see His hands in every matter. We realize that we do not outdo Him. We are not capable but we are incapable. We are not strong but we are weak. We are not invincible but we are overcome. When we realize that about ourselves, we become humbled before Him. We see Him in events and become humble within ourselves.

The one who knows that Allah is Almighty, the One who is unique, venerates His commands through hearing and obeying. The one who knows Allah has complete Majesty, he is grateful when he is denied, patient when he is tried and finds humiliation from His destining delightful and being denied sweet. This is because hearts are inclined to bear difficulties from the AlMighty.

رَبَّنَا وَلَا تَحْمِلْ عَلَيْنَآ إِصْرًا كَمَا حَمَلْتَهُۥ عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِنَا ۚ رَبَّنَا وَلَا تُحَمِّلْنَا مَا لَا طَاقَةَ لَنَا بِهِۦ ۖ وَٱعْفُ عَنَّا وَٱغْفِرْ لَنَا وَٱرْحَمْنَآ ۚ أَنتَ مَوْلَىٰنَا فَٱنصُرْنَا عَلَى ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ ﴿٢٨٦

... Our Lord, and lay not upon us a burden like that which You laid upon those before us. Our Lord, and burden us not with that which we have no ability to bear. And pardon us; and forgive us; and have mercy upon us. You are our protector, so give us victory over the disbelieving people." (286) [Qur'an 2:286]

Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.

And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam