Allah Loves the Doers of Good (Muhsineen)

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

Assalaamu alaykum

Allah Most High said in the Qur’an,

...فَٱسْتَجَابَ لَهُمْ رَبُّهُمْ أَنِّى لَآ أُضِيعُ عَمَلَ عَـٰمِلٍ مِّنكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ أَوْ أُنثَىٰ ۖ بَعْضُكُم مِّنۢ بَعْضٍ

And their Lord responded to them, "Never will I allow to be lost the work of [any] worker among you, whether male or female; you are of one another...

[Qur'an, AleImran 3:195]

هَلْ جَزَآءُ ٱلْإِحْسَـٰنِ إِلَّا ٱلْإِحْسَـٰنُ ﴿٦٠﴾ فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ ﴿٦١

Is the reward for good [anything] but good? (60) So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny? (61)

[Qur'an, Ar-Rahman 55:60-61]

From the mercy of Allah Most High is that He will never forget what we do. Whatever we do for His sake raises our station with Him and it pleases Allah Most High; and the best way to please Him is by doing good to His creation. And the greatest way to realize that is by being good to our parents, even if they are not living, because this is Divine commandment.

Allah Most High said at the end of Surah Al-Ankabut:

وَٱلَّذِينَ جَـٰهَدُوا۟ فِينَا لَنَهْدِيَنَّهُمْ سُبُلَنَا ۚ وَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَمَعَ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ ﴿٦٩

And those who strive for Us - We will surely guide them to Our ways. And indeed, Allah is with the doers of good (Muhsineen).

[Qur'an, Al-Ankabut 29:69]

The doers of good are those who not only do good, but also those who love, enjoy and perfect all that is good.

Keep doing good and enjoy it. Gravitate from one good to the next. Whatever you do for the creation of Allah Most High, you are actually doing it for Allah Most High, as He said in a Hadith Qudsi:

I was sick, and you did not visit me, I was hungry and you do not feed me, and I was oppressed and you did not help Me. They will say: ‘How is that possible?’ So-and-so was sick and you did not visit them, so-and-so was hungry and you did not feed them, and so-and-so was oppressed and you did not help them!

Thus, it is a great honor for us to do something for others, and this is how Allah Most High raises our station.

Allah Most High will never forget the good that you offered to someone, the anxiety of someone you helped to ease, the happiness you gave to someone who was broken and tearful, the smile you shone in someone’s face, and your keeping company of someone lonely.

But, when you feel you cannot help, tell them how much you wish you could help them, and remind them of the One who can help them and Who is always watching them.

Let us live this life by the principle of spreading goodness (ihsan). Even when we do not get goodness from people, let us still choose goodness, because Allah Most High loves the doers of good.

May Allah Most High facilitate for us His Divine Assistance to implement good in whatever time we have left on this earth. Ameen.

Allahumma salli 'ala Muhammad wa 'ala aalihi wa sahbihi wasallam.

And Allah knows best and He alone grants success.

Wassalaam