Trust of being guided, getting direction

أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم

Assalamoalaekum السلام عليكم

I am sharing an ayah here which inspired me today. If it is of any benefit then all praise to Allah. All the shortcomings are due to me. Oh Allah help us remember and benefit from Your ayahs. Ameen.

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Surah Ash-Shuara, Verse 62:
قَالَ كَلَّا إِنَّ مَعِيَ رَبِّي سَيَهْدِينِ

He said: By no means; surely my Lord is with me: He will show me a way out.

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My Lord is with me. He will show me a way out. That was the statement of Musa عليه السلام at the time of great calamity. I can't imagine myself at the bank of a sea and Army of the cruelest king just behind me almost there to catch me and my companions telling me we are overtaken. But I can imagine myself in a situation where I made a important decision and my companions agreed to be with me but when calamity  strikes that my companions start to loose hope. It happens all the time. Start a new task, gather people on a common objective and then one starts to loose hope. Doesn't it impact everybody? Of course it does.


This ayah teaches me the kind of Faith I should have when my companions start talking hopeless stuff and when opposite group is about to overtake me and all who are with me. It teaches me a lesson of leadership. Alhamdolillah.

I have no strength and power except with Allah. لا حول ولا قوة الا بالله But the companions play a very important role. And if the faith of companions start to shake then leader needs to be super strong.

First of all it is hard to visualize the situation Musa عليه السلام was in. He knew he will be followed up by Firon because he made him angry because people started to believe in Lord of the worlds. Now he is next to sea and Army of Firon was behind him and his companions are saying, we will be overtaken.

It must be really hard to keep the morale high in such a difficult situation. But he had a strong faith. That's why he said "my Lord is with me and He will guide me".

SubhanAllah. Whoever Allah wants to save, He will save. And Allah saved Musa عليه السلام and those who were with him. And this is the first story being shared in Soorah الشعراء
Further in this Soorah, stories of many others will be shared where Allah saved the believers.

While doing anything if I have a strong belief that He will guide me, then He will guide, provided what I am doing, I am doing it for Allah's sake.

As a leader, Musa عليه السلام showed confidence and transferred his confidence to his companions instead of panicking. And that's what I need to do when things seem to go wrong. Also sometimes, it feels like things are not going right but then Allah helps all of a sudden just like Allah helped Musa عليه السلام. SubhanAllah. 

Oh Allah guide us all and keep us firm on Your path and help us help our companions as well. Ameen.

Bringing up a child and his many years with us

أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم

Assalamoalaekum السلام عليكم

I am sharing an ayah today that inspired me today. If it is of any benefit then all praise to Allah. All the shortcoming are due to me. Oh Allah help us remember Your favors on us and help us expect reward only from You. Ameen.

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Surah Ash-Shuara, Verse 18:
قَالَ أَلَمْ نُرَبِّكَ فِينَا وَلِيدًا وَلَبِثْتَ فِينَا مِنْ عُمُرِكَ سِنِينَ

(Firon) said: Did we not bring you up as a child among us, and you tarried among us for (many) years of your life?

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Did we not bring you up as child? Sound familiar?  That was Pharoa's question to Musa عليه السلام

I wonder why did he say so? He was a king. He must have many servants who must have taken care of Musa عليه السلام

Or may be it is her wife who must have taken care of Musa عليه السلام or may be it was mother of Musa عليه السلام who must have brought him up while he was a child to save him from every evil that must have been present there in presence of Pharoah. SubhanAllah.

But both of the mothers  didn't say "didn't I bring you up as a child". Why? Because they expected thier reward from Allah. Allah o Akbar. May Allah help us become mothers like those. Ameen.

I seek refuge that I ever utter this statement "didn't I bring you up as I child and you tarried among me for many years of your life".

I wonder why could a king say that "didn't I bring you up as a child? May be out of arrogance, or self sufficiency or may be out of self reliance, or may be due to ungratefulness (He should have been grateful to see a baby growing up) or may be out of resentment, or because of his Qadr or due to lack of tawakkul trust, or may be because he adopted him.

Whatever it was, it was wrong to say statement like that.

I need to remind myself to seek refuge to have such mentality. It is natural to expect from  somebody, you suffer sleepless nights, pains, fatigue and they remain with you for many years and you take care of them for many years.

But I need to remind myself that it's Allah blessings to have them whether it's your own or adopted. Ask somebody who doesn't have a child. It's a blessing to see their first steps, their first smiles, giggles, babbles, to listen to their first words, to see their first mischief, their first day of school, college, their marriage, to see their first baby.  No other joy can be compared with these. Also I need to remind myself that if I have the opportunity to bring them up, it is a gift from Allah that I can serve His creation. And I need to make my intentions pure that if I am bringing them, that is for Allah, not for the expectation that they serve me back or say whatever I want them to think or say.

I need to remind myself that having resentment when they leave your ways was a style of Pharoah. May Allah save us all from the footsteps of Pharoah.  Ameen.