بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
Dear Friends
I pray that you are well.
Allah wants you to know Him. When you know Allah you will love Him and when you truly love Him you will worship Him for Him. Your life will center around Allah. Everything now becomes all about Allah.
The way to know Him is through the Qur'an, His Messenger and your life. So seek to learn the sacred knowledge and pay attention to your life and try to recognize what Allah is telling you.
When Allah wants His slave to know him, He will let him go though things throughout his life, albeit "bad" or "good", so he can know Him better. One poor man maybe complaining about his poverty and another man becomes happy that he lost all his belonging life savings. He is happy because he knows that Allah want to teach him that He is al-Ghani and he is the poor. The problem is that human being is always looking at what is in front of them and when they see something bad, they see it bad--because they could not see God behind what they see.
When an affliction comes to you and that make you realize that this affliction is a manifestation of a name/names of Allah then this is actually a Divine gift. When you recognize the living names of Allah behind this test then you should be thankful to Allah because it drove you closer to knowing Allah.
So when you have a problem with your husband or your wife or your loved ones--when he/she saying all the bad things, you can't bear to hear them, then if you see the Qahhar (Al-Qahhar, the Subduer) the Jabbar (the Compeller) that is bigger and the smaller of that person who is yelling and screaming at you, that person who is bugging you, that should remind you of Allah who is far bigger and greater than that person and everything else. So you would not respond in kind or make your voice louder than that person, making things worse than it is.
When you see your beautiful self in the mirror, the poor man on the street, when you see the people waiting for the bus in a very hot weather while you are driving in a nice air conditioning Mercedes, when you see the lining of the palm trees on the street, when you feel the gentle breeze, when you see your paperwork piling on the desk, you should see Allah, Ash-Shakur (the Rewarder of Thankfulness), Al-Karim (the Generous One), Al-Wadud (the Loving One), Al-Qhani (the Rich One), Al-Halim (the Forebearing), As-Salam (the Source of Peace) and so many other beautiful attributes of Allah. There is a lesson to be taught in your every gaze and your every feelings--Allah is always there if only you know.
When you look for something and you cannot find them, or you are in a hurry to get somewhere and your car couldn't start, don't get upset. He is the Lord of Majesty. He decides and you do not decide. He decides what to let you have and what not to let you have, whether you car work or not work today, whether you go or not go. All for your own good. When you realize and understand that He is behind all these, then you are actually in ihsan, that every moment He is there. A story of the pious--A man was insulted on the street. He went home and asked Allah for forgiveness, "O Allah, forgive me the sins that have caused you to allow me to be insulted." When you reach this level of ihsan, you are with the creation but in reality you are with the Creator. May Allah grant us ihsan.
In the famous hadith Jibril, the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, Ihsan is to worship Allah as though you see Him, and while you see Him not yet, truly He sees you.
So, pay attention to your life and try to recognize what He is telling you and seek sacred knowledge.
May Allah guides us to know Him better and guides us to ihsan. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.
Wassalaam
