Distress

Aaoodhoo billahe minashaitan rajeem 

Aal-e-Imran 3:154

ثُمَّ أَنزَلَ عَلَيْكُم مِّنۢ بَعْدِ ٱلْغَمِّ أَمَنَةً نُّعَاسًا يَغْشَىٰ طَآئِفَةً مِّنكُمْۖ وَطَآئِفَةٌ قَدْ أَهَمَّتْهُمْ أَنفُسُهُمْ يَظُنُّونَ بِٱللَّهِ غَيْرَ ٱلْحَقِّ ظَنَّ ٱلْجَٰهِلِيَّةِۖ يَقُولُونَ هَل لَّنَا مِنَ ٱلْأَمْرِ مِن شَىْءٍۗ قُلْ إِنَّ ٱلْأَمْرَ كُلَّهُ‌و لِلَّهِۗ يُخْفُونَ فِىٓ أَنفُسِهِم مَّا لَا يُبْدُونَ لَكَۖ يَقُولُونَ لَوْ كَانَ لَنَا مِنَ ٱلْأَمْرِ شَىْءٌ مَّا قُتِلْنَا هَٰهُنَاۗ قُل لَّوْ كُنتُمْ فِى بُيُوتِكُمْ لَبَرَزَ ٱلَّذِينَ كُتِبَ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْقَتْلُ إِلَىٰ مَضَاجِعِهِمْۖ وَلِيَبْتَلِىَ ٱللَّهُ مَا فِى صُدُورِكُمْ وَلِيُمَحِّصَ مَا فِى قُلُوبِكُمْۗ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌۢ بِذَاتِ ٱلصُّدُورِ 

Then after distress, He sent down upon you security [in the form of] drowsiness, overcoming a faction of you, while another faction worried about themselves, thinking of Allah other than the truth -  the thought of ignorance, saying, "Is there anything for us [to have done] in this matter?" Say, "Indeed, the matter belongs completely to Allah ." They conceal within themselves what they will not reveal to you. They say, "If there was anything we could have done in the matter, some of us would not have been killed right here." Say, "Even if you had been inside your houses, those decreed to be killed would have come out to their death beds." [It was] so that Allah might test what is in your breasts and purify what is in your hearts. And Allah is Knowing of that within the breasts.

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I just fall in love in this ayah all the time. Allah o Akbar.

I will try to share how I feel about this ayah and how blessed I feel to have this ayah.

First thing I appreciate that Allah mentioned the when a person is distressed, it is beneficial for him to take a sleep or slumber or somehow Allah makes him drowsy. Subhan Allah and even that can happen with the help of Allah. People in distress have hard time sleeping and Allah due to insecurities of some form. And blessed this one group with security in form of drowsiness or sleep or slumber. Alhamdolillah if we are able to sleep in our distress that a blessing alhamdolillah. But the second group was thinking about Allah without the truth. That's the condition of people of insecurity or weak iman. They feel bad on losing control. They question if they have any control. Allah o Akbar. Allah has the full control. And yet sometimes we feel sad loosing control. And what a beautiful ending of this ayah. That Allah did all this to test what is in the breast and to purify what is in the heart. May Allah purify our hearts. Ameen.

Day night and sleep

أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم

Assalamoalaekum السلام عليكم

I am sharing an ayah below and my reflection on it which inspired me today. If it is of any benefit then all praise to Allah. All the discrepancies are due to me and satan. Oh Allah help us use the day and night and sleep in correct way. Ameen. Oh Allah help us learn from the wisdom of Your ayahs. Ameen.

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وَهُوَ الَّذِي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ اللَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا وَالنَّوْمَ سُبَاتًا وَجَعَلَ النَّهَارَ نُشُورًا
And He it is Who made the night a covering for you, and the sleep a rest, and He made the day to rise up again.
(Surah Al-Furqan,25:47)

وَهُوَ And He  -  ٱلَّذِى (is) the One Who  -  جَعَلَ made  -  لَكُمُ for you  -  ٱلَّيْلَ the night  -  لِبَاسًا (as) a covering  -  وَٱلنَّوْمَ and the sleep  -  سُبَاتًا a rest  -  وَجَعَلَ and made  -  ٱلنَّهَارَ the day  -  نُشُورًا a resurrection.  -
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Allah made night as a covering and sleep as rest and day to rise up again. What does a night cover? For me it covers every bad that happened during the day. For example if I am having a bad day today. I won't feel it as bad tomorrow inshaAllah because night covers every bad. Night is like a clothing. Like in a clothing we cannot see what is behind clothing. During the night I cannot see what happened during the day.

A covering is supposed to cover everything and yet sometimes I don't find it covering everything. Why? Because me or somebody not using the night to sleep. Allah mentioned sleep as rest after mentioning night as covering. That means I need to rest during night. But my nafs or satan tricks us to do work during night.

And yet no matter how hard i try i cannot stay awake for two continous nights.  I tried it in my last umrah trip. SubhanAllah even if night is spent in doing good deeds like tawaf or Salah or reciting Quran, still i needed sometime to sleep during the night, otherwise my day will be ruined. That's why tahajjud is the prayer made after waking up from sleep. If I don't use the night to sleep then either I miss  I miss Quran of Fajr or I sleep after Fajr which is a time to rise according to Allah. And if I sleep after Fajr, I get lazy and that's what we find in Prophet Muhammad's صلى الله عليه وسلم Saying.

Allah made the day to rise up and if i dont rise up when day begins then I miss the time of most Barakah which is early morning. And I also miss the beauty of nature because Allah makes the day for everybody to rise up and not just humans. And every morning when I hear the birds chirp in the morning, I notice even if all humans sleep especially on the weekends, birds still rise up as soon as the day begins. سبحان الله

 I wonder why is the sleep cycle of human is affected. And this reminded me of a day when light went off just before sunset and I began the night in dark. That was a different night SubhanAllah. I got the chance to wind up the kitchen early because running the kitchen is difficult without light. I got the chance to sit with family in quite alhamdolillah because everybody is free due to no electricity. And alhamdolillah  everybody went to bed early. So with advancement of technology we got the light even after sunset and we are distracted to use that light and keep ourselves awake during the night after isha and that affects our productivity during the day. And we dont even realize. Actually that affects our complete sleep cycle and many people end up having insomnia and there are many windows treatments available today in the market to do black out in the room during the day and are sold quite expensive. Why? Because  they knew that human needed complete black out to sleep. And who could know this better than Allah. That's why Allah سبحان و تعالى does a complete black out during the night so that we rest. Alhamdolillah الحمد لله

Day and nights and rest are great blessings of Allah because if there is no night and all time it's day, it's going to be very difficult for human being to sleep with the sunlight. People living in countries which have very short nights can tell the difficulties of having short nights or no nights. And if it's all time nights and no day then it will be very difficult to work during the dark. We experience this in winter days when sunset happens early and we feel dull after dark. Those who work during the night shifts can tell how hard it becomes to work during the night.

Also the night covers all our work or worries we have during the day and gives us the chance to recharge ourselves for next day. Alhamdolillah. Alhamdolillah الحمد لله think no words of appreciation and thanks  can express the gratitude we should have to Allah to make night as a covering, sleep as rest and day to rise up.


This ayah also reminds me of death and rising up again and my jobs while I am awake.

Oh Allah help us use the night to rest and day to work. Oh Allah help us do something during the day that earns us Your pleasure. Ameen.