بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
I pray that you are well.
Our life here is only to worship Him. Part of the worship is to do what is commanded of us, no questions ask, no equivocation. No WHYs or BUTs because He is our Lord and we are His slaves. End of story.
Although our inquisitive nature want to know WHY, many things have no logical answer--we cannot use our brain to understand this. Some examples of this are obvious and easy to let go, e.g. why are we commanded to pray 3 raka'a for Maghrib and not 4? But some commands are more subtle and perhaps there is a good answer as to WHY but is it so important to know WHY? This is your test--Do you truly believe in Allah? If you truly believe you don't question, you take His word for it. Some things may be a good topic for discussions but these discussions typically leads to arguments and becomes counter-productive. Life is too short to be wasted in arguments.
If somebody give you a gift would you ask him why this gift, why are you giving me a gift? If you do this, it would be very poor manners. One thing to understand--Allah knows what is good for you and His commands are for your benefit--i.e. His commands are His gifts to you. It is bad manners to ask, in essence asking Allah "Why do you give me this gift and not a different gift?" "I don't like this gift", etc. You cannot pick and choose a gift. Instead you say thank you and enjoy it because it is from your caring and loving Lord. Although you may not see the benefits, it is for your own good nonetheless. It is wise for you to accept it and thank Him at the beginning. If this is an affliction, then you save yourself the suffering for however long it may be because one day you will say "Indeed I would not exchange that affliction for anything different," because by this time--perhaps 10 years down the road--you would have realized the full benefits of that "gift." So do what wise people do at the beginning which others do at the end and save you all the months, years of agonies and to benefit even more.
If you are still not convinced that you simply do what Allah commanded you to do, go on reading. Now what will happen if your friend who give you a gift found out that you don't like your gift and you throw it away? He/she won't give you another gift. You wouldn't want Allah to remove you from His favors? So to avoid this from happening, be grateful with whatever you have, whatever befalls you. if you truly believe in Allah, you must take His word for it and do what He tells you to do. When you take His word for it, your life becomes very simple and you will have more time to worship Him. SubhanAllah.
If you see anything that come in the way of you worshiping and coming closer to Him, you will have no problem avoiding or removing it from your path because you only have one Lord and He is all you need. If you are thankful to your Lord, He swear that He will give you more. Being thankful to your Lord is to use what He gives you for what they were created--they are means for you to worship Him not a means to disobey Him.
May Allah give us a sound understanding of His religion and increase us in all good. Ameen. Please don't forget me in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.
Wassalaam
