HOPE

I was watching a documentary yesterday. It was about a man, who had lived his life simply by hanging on to a hope he had deep in his heart, a hope that one day, a cure to his illness could be found. SubhanAllah, he taught me an important lesson yesterday.

The lesson of HOPE I realized from him, that hope is such a powerful feeling that Allah has given to us, His Servant.Could you imagine a life without hope? What would life be if the feeling of hope is absent from our heart? Imagine, an ill person, a sinful person, a sad person, a heart-broken person, a financially distressed person, an emotionally distressed person, a grieving person and many more who decided that there is no hope for them? What would happen to them? Nauzubillaah…
Because of that, Allah given us this important feeling of hope, don’t you think?Feeling of believing that there is a better future for us, feeling that things are going improve for the better, believe that the darkest moment is just before the crack of dawn…

He, the Al Mighty has instructed us with this instruction,
Call out to Him with fear and hope. (Surat al-Araaf 7:56)
He said call out to Him, pray to Him, ask from Him.

I remembered once, I was asked by a friend. Would Allah forgive him for all that he had done in his life? he said that there are too many sins he is ashamed off, to many rules he had broken, too many whispers of devil that he followed…whose that huh?

As I held his hands, I told him about this beautiful hadith from our beloved Prophet (may Allah; peace and blessings be upon him),“Allah the Almighty has said: 'O son of Adam, so long as you call upon Me, and hope in Me, I shall forgive you for what you have done, and I shall not mind. O son of Adam, were your sins to reach the clouds in the sky and were you then to ask forgiveness of Me, I shall forgive you. O son of Adam, were you to come to Me with an earthful of sins and were you then to face Me, without having associated anything with Me, I shall grant you an earthful of pardon.'" [Recorded by Al-Tirmidhi, who said that it is a good and sound hadith, Subhanallah

Tantrumtots:

Isnt that hadith just like water that is much needed in the desert we are all living in? Isnt that what we are hoping from Allaah, our Lord, our Creator? His Love, His Mercy and His Forgiveness?