Quran Reflection -- Just Ask Allah For Your Forgiveness and The Sky Will Open Up For You

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

Before we ask Allah for everything else, we should ask Allah for our forgiveness. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala recorded in the Quran for us about Prophet Nuh's asking his people to seek Allah's forgiveness.

قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى دَعَوْتُ قَوْمِى لَيْلًا وَنَهَارًا ﴿٥﴾ فَلَمْ يَزِدْهُمْ دُعَآءِىٓ إِلَّا فِرَارًا ﴿٦﴾ وَإِنِّى كُلَّمَا دَعَوْتُهُمْ لِتَغْفِرَ لَهُمْ جَعَلُوٓا۟ أَصَـٰبِعَهُمْ فِىٓ ءَاذَانِهِمْ وَٱسْتَغْشَوْا۟ ثِيَابَهُمْ وَأَصَرُّوا۟ وَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ ٱسْتِكْبَارًا ﴿٧﴾ ثُمَّ إِنِّى دَعَوْتُهُمْ جِهَارًا ﴿٨﴾ ثُمَّ إِنِّىٓ أَعْلَنتُ لَهُمْ وَأَسْرَرْتُ لَهُمْ إِسْرَارًا ﴿٩﴾ فَقُلْتُ ٱسْتَغْفِرُوا۟ رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ غَفَّارًا ﴿١٠
يُرْسِلِ ٱلسَّمَآءَ عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًا ﴿١١﴾ وَيُمْدِدْكُم بِأَمْوَ‌ٰلٍ وَبَنِينَ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ جَنَّـٰتٍ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ أَنْهَـٰرًا ﴿١٢﴾ مَّا لَكُمْ لَا تَرْجُونَ لِلَّهِ وَقَارًا ﴿١٣

He said, "My Lord, indeed I invited my people [to truth] night and day. (5) But my invitation increased them not except in flight. (6) And indeed, every time I invited them that You may forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their garments, persisted, and were arrogant with [great] arrogance. (7) Then I invited them publicly. (8) Then I announced to them and [also] confided to them secretly (9) And said, 'Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Indeed, He is ever a Perpetual Forgiver. (10) He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in [continuing] showers (11) And give you increase in wealth and children and provide for you gardens and provide for you rivers. (12) What is [the matter] with you that you do not attribute to Allah [due] grandeur (13) [Quran, Nuh 71:5-13]

If you ask Allah to be forgiven the sky will open up for you. The sky has more than water -- the sky has forgivenness, faith, tranquility, your provision, the solution to your problem. When you ask for forgiveness, Allah will open the floodgates and everything held from you from the treasures of Allah because you haven't been seeking forgiveness will open up.

You and I don't even know some of the problems we have but Allah knows them. If we become people who genuinely seeking forgiveness from Allah, those problems will start going away by Allah's intervention. Allah will give you good wealth and children. He will further your legacy with wealth and children and this will not take you away from Allah because it is in the context of you seeking forgiveness. He will give you money that will lead you to do more good that will benefit you in this world and the next. Your children will respect you and show you love, obey you and make you proud. They will give you happiness and even when you are gone they will continue to do good deeds which become a continuous investments for you in your grave.

قَالَ نُوحٌ رَّبِّ إِنَّهُمْ عَصَوْنِى وَٱتَّبَعُوا۟ مَن لَّمْ يَزِدْهُ مَالُهُۥ وَوَلَدُهُۥٓ إِلَّا خَسَارًا ﴿٢١

Noah said, "My Lord, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children will not increase him except in loss. [Quran, Nuh 71:21]

Money and children is a loss but if they come after seeking forgiveness from Allah they become gain. On top of that Allah will provide you with gardens and rivers.

وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ جَنَّـٰتٍ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ أَنْهَـٰرًا ﴿١٢

And give you increase in wealth and children and provide for you gardens and provide for you rivers. [Quran, Nuh 71:12]

So, you can ask Allah for other things or you could ask Allah for forgiveness and everything is covered inshaa Allah.

May Allah forgive us and our children and make us of people who sincerely seeking His forgiveness and grant us good in this life and the next and save us from the Hellfire. Aameen.

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

And Allah knows best and is Most Wise, and He alone grants success, and to Him is the final return of all.

Wassalaam