بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
The vast majority of time has passed where you and I were completely irrelevant. ٍSo much human history has passed and no one in that history knew who we were. We were never mentioned.
هَلْ أَتَىٰ عَلَى ٱلْإِنسَٰنِ حِينٌ مِّنَ ٱلدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُن شَيْـًٔا مَّذْكُورًا ﴿١﴾
إِنَّا خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ أَمْشَاجٍ نَّبْتَلِيهِ فَجَعَلْنَٰهُ سَمِيعَۢا بَصِيرًا ﴿٢﴾
Has there [not] come upon man a period of time when he was not a thing [even] mentioned? (1) Indeed, We created man from a sperm-drop mixture that We may try him; and We made him hearing and seeing. (2) [Quran, Al Insaan 76:1-2]
This is Allah's way of reminding us that the few moments that we do exist after we came out of our mother's womb, we want attention. This desire that Allah put inside human beings that is driving the multi billion dollar social media industry. If human beings didn't want attention, you couldn't have social media. It wouldn't exist. Why do people look for acknowledgement all the time? Why do people feel something is missing if they don't get acknowledged? Allah says,
إِنَّا هَدَيْنَٰهُ ٱلسَّبِيلَ إِمَّا شَاكِرًا وَإِمَّا كَفُورًا ﴿٣﴾
Indeed, We guided him to the way, be he grateful or be he ungrateful. (3) [Quran, Al Insaan 76:3]
There is a time that's coming pretty soon where you and I are going to be in the grave and some people will remember us and they will cry over us and then time will pass, we will be forgotten. We become irrelevant again. We remember famous people like scholars in the Islamic history. They had a big family but nobody remembers them. A lot of those people are invisible to us now. We don't remember the rulers, the millionaires, the billionaires, the good looking people, the popular and famous people. They are gone and they become irrelevant again.
Allah is teaching us that you are running after this thing to be relevant, to be remembered, to be recognized, to be acknowledged, but Allah reminded us that you were created to be irrelevant and you will be going back to irrelevant again.
Life is a journey towards death. Every single day passed is one day closer to death. That journey is happening on auto pilot, that's not controlled by you. That's already been decided by Allah. There is another journey, not the journey of your lifespan, but the journey inside our hearts and our minds. Allah wants us to make a journey back towards Him in our heads and in our minds but the mind is too preoccupied wanting to be acknowledged by someone else. Allah wants that heart and that mind to first be busy looking for the acknowledgement of Allah -- Is my Rabb pleased with me? Is my Rabb looking at this good deed and is He happy with this deed? Is my Rabb happy with this service? Am I living my life in a way that eventually when this life journey ends I am going to get to meet Him?
Allah gives the ability for everyone to go on this journey with two choices, either we are grateful or we are ungrateful.
إِنَّا هَدَيْنَٰهُ ٱلسَّبِيلَ إِمَّا شَاكِرًا وَإِمَّا كَفُورًا ﴿٣﴾
Indeed, We guided him to the way, be he grateful or be he ungrateful. (3) [Quran, Al Insaan 76:3]
When Allah gave you guidance and if you are not using the guidance, you can say alhamdulillah all you want, but it is meaningless because you are not using His gift to you. Living a life of gratitude to Allah, Allah will acknowledge you one day. Allah says,
إِنَّ هَٰذَا كَانَ لَكُمْ جَزَآءً وَكَانَ سَعْيُكُم مَّشْكُورًا ﴿٢٢﴾
[And it will be said], "Indeed, this is for yoR u a reward, and your effort has been appreciated." (22) [Quran, Al Insaan 76:22]
May Allah make us of those who are grateful and follow His guidance. Aameen.
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