Assalamualaikum!
I hope things are doing great with all of you even with all of the things that
is going on right now. Today, we are going to be discussing about duas or
easily known as prayers in English.
You
see, for the longest time, I feel like I haven’t really been the best version
of myself when we’re talking about faith. My relationship with duas was almost
non-existent. They were really just a habit that had been almost ingrained in
my go-to every time I prayed. It felt mechanical; it felt like something I
would do because I had to. And I know that I shouldn’t find faults as to why
this has happened but looking back, it was probably because I was never taught otherwise,
you know. All my life as a child, I was never taught that duas should be the
very core of everybody’s life. It would always be “you need to read this dua before
you eat, this dua after you’ve prayed, this dua before you enter the toilet” and
so on. And I have never got the chance to embrace the whole idea of these duas
especially due to the fact that it’s in Arabic. As a child, I was always taught
to memorise them and recite them whenever I do the things mentioned. From
there, I realised that I had been apparently taking goodness from myself – by
not comprehending the depths of it all.
As
I grew older and relearning Islam at my own pace, I have never failed to
make this one specific Dua. It was very personal and every chance I have to
make this Dua, every time I was in a rut or whenever Allah SWT moved my heart
to make that Dua, I would grab it and pray for it. Although admittedly some days
would be more sincere than the others, and some days it would be longer and more
personal, but I am always confident that He would always hear my prayers and
would eventually answer my pleads. The Duas would always start with “Ya Allah,
please….”, and then I found myself tearing up as I surrender to my Lord for
help. It has been almost 6 years now, and while there have been a few times
where I’ve seen a glimpse of hope, the thing that I’ve been hoping for has yet
to happen. Of course, as a powerless human being, there were many times where I
had doubts, where I would think “What’s the point of all this?” because let’s
be real, we’re talking about Him, you know, God of all Creation, He wouldn’t
just leave me out here point-blank, right? And it’s funny cause we would always
give up the second we don’t see a purpose to it. As a human, we would always
make this grave mistake of bringing Allah down to a “human” level so that we
could comprehend everything better. We forget that He is the Most Supreme, the
Most Divine, and there is nothing that we could actually do to comprehend all
of this other than just surrendering ourselves to Him.
A
few years later, as I continue to utter this very same dua, it finally dawned on
me. The 15 years old me would probably never look at this the same way I would now
but I finally understood why God has moved me to make the same dua time and
time again and why He has not “answered” the prayers yet. It has always been there,
but it took me years to see it. SubhanAllah, imagine, all these whiles of desperately
asking Him to just show me a sign, it has always been there. Allah SWT wanted
me to experience how it would feel like to be so close to him. Every desperate calling
for an answer, every time I cry to Him, Allah just wanted me to feel the
peaceful and soothing consolation of being able to totally surrender to Him. He
wanted me to develop and flourish during the entire process as I learn to rely
only on Him.
You see, even when I was on the brink of giving up and was so negative about the fate of my life, He forgives me and still provides me a lot of good in my life; I’m still alive, I’m still surrounded with the people who loves me, I’m still able to pray among other things, Alhamdulillah.
Rasulullah SAW said in a beautiful Hadith, "There is no Muslim who calls upon Allah, without sin or cutting family ties, but that Allah will give him one of three answers: He will quickly fulfil his supplication, He will store for him in the Hereafter, or He will divert an evil from him similar to it." (Ahmad)
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I
guess the thing that I want to address in this blog post that you should never give up on that
Dua that you’ve been making since Day 1. God’s timing is as perfect as it is and
it’s always reassuring. That's all the time I have for now, and until then, I hope you'll find the strength to believe in Allah and His timing, InshaAllah, things will be better.
