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Labayk
Allah (‘Azza wa Jal) is not your personal butler who waits on you and caters to your every vain desire when and how YOU please. He is our Lord, whom we ask out of humility and great need out of hope from His abundant generosity. It is only because we are in such dire need of Him and because we know how generous He is that any of us even has the nerve to ask of Him anything.
You are speaking as if Allah owes you a favor and He doesn’t owe you anything. It is you who are indebted to Him. The sin of your ingratitude has overshadowed the nobility of your good deeds and has left them not worth a dime so you shouldn’t speak as if this is any great thing that makes you deserving of anything.
I reemphasize: Allah never betrayed you. Allah never wronged you. You wronged him by your ingratitude and, how Silas rightfully pointed out, your arrogance.
Your suffering is internal not external. Many if not most of the people on this forum have gone or are going through much worse than you in terms of hardships, but they are not suffering like you are. You are suffering inside because of the curse that comes with being ungrateful to Allah for His Generous Bounties that He Bestows on all without measure whether Muslim or not.
The rule of ingratitude is: whoever is ungrateful, Allah Will take away His Favors but whoever is grateful, Allah Will give him more:
"And [remember] when your Lord proclaimed, 'If you are grateful, I will surely increase you [in favor]; but if you deny, indeed, My punishment is severe.'"(Ibrahim: 7)
What is Jahanam except the complete deprivation of Allah’s favors? And what is Jannah except the complete fulfillment of all favors. This petty pathetic dunya that you are dishonoring yourself in desiring is neither of those. Everything in this dunya is a mix of both benefit and harm, pleasure and pain. If a person wants to be ungrateful, he can focus on the negative as there is truly a negative aspect in everything here. Why? Because this is not Jannah. This is not the goal and not the objective. It is you that failed to realize this and put your heart where it doesn’t belong and now you want to blame Allah for that when He told you to do otherwise. If one wants to he/she can find much to be grateful for. Every single one of us can do that. Why? Because this place also isn’t Hellfire where there are no favors of Allah at all.
How much more do you think you will have to complain about when you’re burning alive for all of eternity due to your abandonment of God’s religion and your massive ingratitude towards Him. Then you will know what you have now but as the saying goes: You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
Allah said:
"O you who have believed, whoever of you should revert from his religion - Allah will bring forth [in place of them] a people He will love and who will love Him..." (al-Maidah: 54)
There is no greater favor that Allah has given us than making us Muslims. Allah gave you Islam for free and gave you the ability to do good deeds the likes of which are difficult for even some sincere religious Muslims to adhere to, and now you’re throwing that all away for literally, absolutely nothing.
It is only shaitan that has told you that suicide will bring you relief. On the contrary! Your pain will only just begin!
“Whoever kills himself with something will be punished with it on the Day of Resurrection.” Narrated by al-Bukhaari (5700) and Muslim (110).
You think drinking bleach for the rest of eternity is easier than what you are going through now?
Nah, you have no choice and no way out except to turn around and repent to Allah before it is too late. You have come to a clear fork in the road. You had better fear Allah and make a full 180 degree turn otherwise it will just become more difficult and more dark than it is now and things will steadily get worse for you until you end up in HellFire and then you will be rightfully blaming yourself instead of Allah but it will be too late then.
Don’t worry. You won’t hear that from me. Except unless you turn around and repent to Allah and become grateful to Him for His favors, then you will find Him Merciful, Forgiving, and Generous and if you are patient and grateful will give you a good spouse sooner or later (although this is the least of your worries at the moment). Then, and only then, will everything be all right.
“And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty). And He will provide for him from sources he never could imagine. And whosoever puts his trust in Allah, then He will suffice him. Verily, Allah will accomplish His purpose. Indeed Allah has set a measure for all things.” (Surah At-Talaq 65:2-3)
It’s not going to be all right at all for the one who abandons his religion.
Why do you keep asking for a miracle? What do you want a miracle for? Do you want a miracle to show you that Allah Loves you? I already gave you an ayah that told you that Allah does not Love the ungrateful and a Hadith that shows that the one who strives to obey Him and do good deeds will earn His favor. Again, Allah is not your personal performer to show you magic tricks so that you will believe in Him and worship Him. He has already shown you His abundant favors and you rejected them.
The Hadith I quoted earlier is sufficient. This Dunyah is the blink of an eye and then it’s over. It’s of no value whatsoever. Therefore, who cares what those whom Allah is angry with get? It’s meaningless. This is a prison for the believer and a paradise for the disbeliever. The opposite is true in the end. So let them have their ease and plenty. Let them have their wealth and fortune. Let them have their women. For us is our Islam, and this is the greatest fortune that Allah Gives anyone in this life and you are trading that for ingratitude and injustice.
"By the racers, panting, And the producers of sparks [when] striking And the chargers at dawn, Stirring up thereby [clouds of] dust, Arriving thereby in the center collectively, Indeed mankind, to his Lord, is ungrateful. And indeed, he is to that a witness. And indeed he is, in love of wealth, intense. But does he not know that when the contents of the graves are scattered. And that within the breasts is obtained, Indeed, their Lord with them, that Day, is [fully] Acquainted." (al-'Adiyat)
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