In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
Dear Friends
I pray that you are well.
Whoever Allah wills, he picks up that person and takes him by the hand and within a very short space of time this person becomes an elite on this earth. Whoever Allah puts barakah (blessing) into his age, Allah puts barakah into his time. He will realize in a very short time tremendous matters that words cannot express and fingers cannot point.
These are all Allah's manifestation.
Allah chose for Prophet Nuh (may Allah grant him peace) that he would preach for 950 years and only a relatively small number of his people would believe in him after all those years of preaching and the rest were destroyed but He chose for Prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and grant him peace) 23 years after which he was victorious and His religion spread in the lands and he is the Prophet until the end of time.
Allah puts barakah however He wills in whatever He wills. He has no need for the slaves but when He wants to take someone by the hand He creates a means for it. How do we acquire the means for Allah to take us by the hand and show us the way to our advantage? We take steps towards Him.
Allah has promised that "He who draws close to Me a hand's span, I will draw close to him an arm's length. And whoever draws near Me an arm's length, I will draw near him a fathom's length. And whoever comes to Me walking, I will go to him running."
By the authority of Abu Dhar that Allah's Messenger said that Allah said: He who comes with a good deed, its reward will be ten like that or even more. And he who comes with vice, his reward will be only one like that, or I can forgive him. He who draws close to Me a hand's span, I will draw close to him an arm's length. And whoever draws near Me an arm's length, I will draw near him a fathom's length. And whoever comes to Me walking, I will go to him running. And whoever faces Me with sins nearly as great as the earth, I will meet him with forgiveness nearly as great as that, provided he does not worship something with me. (This Hadith is sound and reported by Muslim, Ibn Majah and Ahmad in his Musnad). Another prophetic tradition says: (He who met Allah associating anything with Him, will enter Hell) (Muslim)
All of this indicate that if the slave takes a step towards Allah, He takes him by the hand.
In the story of the companions of the cave, in Surah Al-Kahf, despite their youth and despite the difficulty of their age they still came towards Allah. So Allah received them graciously, and He made them a sign for all of time.
نَّحْنُ نَقُصُّ عَلَيْكَ نَبَأَهُم بِالْحَقِّ ۚ إِنَّهُمْ فِتْيَةٌ آمَنُوا بِرَبِّهِمْ وَزِدْنَاهُمْ هُدًى ﴿١٣﴾ وَرَبَطْنَا عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ إِذْ قَامُوا فَقَالُوا رَبُّنَا رَبُّ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ لَن نَّدْعُوَ مِن دُونِهِ إِلَـٰهًا ۖ لَّقَدْ قُلْنَا إِذًا شَطَطًا ﴿١٤[Qur'an Al-Kahf 18:13-14]
It is We who relate to you, [O Muhammad], their story in truth. Indeed, they were youths who believed in their Lord, and We increased them in guidance. (13) And We made firm their hearts when they stood up and said, "Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. Never will we invoke besides Him any deity. We would have certainly spoken, then, an excessive transgression. (14)
That is the way of Allah. He guides whomever He wills and whomever He chooses to guide he is guided towards a tremendous good. The means we achieve that good is to take steps toward Allah and asking Him and be impoverished before His kindness.
Whomever Allah wills He leads them astray and He has no need for them. What is the method to be led astray? It is taking steps away from Him, ignoring the warner of their own conscience. Allah put a warner inside human being. Let us pay attention to our warners and let us put a warner in people's hearts when they start veering and straying away from the straight path.
Somebody who wants to be the subject of Allah leading them astray is extremely easy. The person just turn away from the teachings of the Prophet, turn away from his conscience and decency and fight the warners. The steps towards sins are heavy. The steps toward lying or theft or corruption or zina or murder are heavy but if the person struggles against that and make that first step, making the second step is easy and the third easier. He will find that each step becomes easier until he breaks free from all constraints and then he becomes a free bird. And whatever he wills, he does. If he continues further, he becomes deaf, and further still, he becomes blind, and further still, he becomes finished.
Allah facilitates the way to do good and Allah lead astray the evil doers. If someone turns away from Allah the first time, they will feel guilty, the second time they will feel easier and much easier the third time until it becomes a habit. Their conscience dies for Allah puts a seal in their hearts.
يُثَبِّتُ اللَّـهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِالْقَوْلِ الثَّابِتِ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ ۖ وَيُضِلُّ اللَّـهُ الظَّالِمِينَ ۚ وَيَفْعَلُ اللَّـهُ مَا يَشَاءُ ﴿٢٧[Qur'an Ibrahim 14:27]
Allah keeps firm those who believe, with the firm word, in worldly life and in the Hereafter. And Allah sends astray the wrongdoers. And Allah does what He wills. (27)
ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمُ اسْتَحَبُّوا الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا عَلَى الْآخِرَةِ وَأَنَّ اللَّـهَ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْكَافِرِينَ ﴿١٠٧﴾ أُولَـٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ طَبَعَ اللَّـهُ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ وَسَمْعِهِمْ وَأَبْصَارِهِمْ ۖ وَأُولَـٰئِكَ هُمُ الْغَافِلُونَ ﴿١٠٨[Qur'an An-Nahl 16:107-108]
That is because they preferred the worldly life over the Hereafter and that Allah does not guide the disbelieving people. (107) Those are the ones over whose hearts and hearing and vision Allah has sealed, and it is those who are the heedless. (108)
One of the ways Allah will humiliate the sinful in Hell is by gathering them on Judgment Day on their faces, blind, deaf, and dumb.
وَمَن يَهْدِ اللَّـهُ فَهُوَ الْمُهْتَدِ ۖ وَمَن يُضْلِلْ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءَ مِن دُونِهِ ۖ وَنَحْشُرُهُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَلَىٰ وُجُوهِهِمْ عُمْيًا وَبُكْمًا وَصُمًّا ۖ مَّأْوَاهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ ۖ كُلَّمَا خَبَتْ زِدْنَاهُمْ سَعِيرًا ﴿٩٧[Quran Al-Isra' 17:97]
And whoever Allah guides - he is the [rightly] guided; and whoever He sends astray - you will never find for them protectors besides Him, and We will gather them on the Day of Resurrection [fallen] on their faces - blind, dumb and deaf. Their refuge is Hell; every time it subsides We increase them in blazing fire. (97)
May Allah take us by the hand and save us from the Hellfire. Ameen.
Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.
And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam
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