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Saturday is Seerah Day in our Free Learning Platform (click here to join us 💚) and I was reflecting on the Seerah and the Qadr of Allah and how things are not what they seem.

To me the seerah highlights the fact that we, as humans, do not know the outcome of a situation. The question here is what should we do about that fact? What is our role in this? 

Our role is to trust Allah and to rely on Him fully while understanding that the outcome for the believers is always positive and that is His promise! 

Our role therefore is to be positive about the outcome even though we don't know what it's going to be and at times things seem rather bleak!

A situation may not be exactly what we want but what we want does not mean it's good for us! Allah knows and we don't. However, we know for sure that the outcome is going to be good for us and it will absolutely be positive beyond our understanding because we believe in Allah Azza Wajal. 💚 

Think of Musa Alayhi Salaam's response to Bani Israail in front of the sea right before it parted:

قَالَ كَلَّاۤۖ إِنَّ مَعِیَ رَبِّی سَیَهۡدِینِ﴿ ٦٢ ﴾

• Sahih International:

[Moses] said, "No! Indeed, with me is my Lord; He will guide me." Ash-Shu'ara, Ayah 62

Musa Alayhi salaam had no way of knowing what was coming next, but He knew Allah! He knew He believed in Allah and that was sufficient! 

Wondrous is the affair of the believer for there is good for him in every matter and this is not the case with anyone except the believer. If he is happy, then he thanks Allah and thus there is good for him, and if he is harmed, then he shows patience and thus there is good for him.

Source: Sahih Muslim 2999, Grade: Sahih

When things seem hopeless, the Qur'an, the Sunnah and the lives of the prophets are greatly helpful in that they remind us to hold on to Allah and not act as desperate people would act.

In today's post we will only look at one example and in shaa Allah part two of this blog will focus on another example from the Seerah.

One event from the Seerah that really stood out for me was the supposedly sacrifice of Abdullah the father of Muhammad ﷺ . His name came up 10 times as the one to be sacrificed and every single time, 10 camels were sacrificed instead. Finally, after the 10th time, his name no longer came up and a total of a hundred camels were sacrificed to spare his life.

I'm just putting myself in the shoes of his family as they keep pulling his name! It's not as if they pulled Abdullah once and then they pulled another sibling like Abu Talib or Abu Lahab! Abu Lahab could definitely have been pulled right ...but, there was a time and place to deal with Abu Lahab and his name was not even mentioned.  However, Abdullah consistently kept coming up. How many of us, after just three times, would have quit and said 'you know what, this is it, it's meant to be" ??! 

The Qadr teaches us that they kept pulling his name without quitting subhanallah.  The family members of Abdullah did not want Abdullah to be sacrificed so they kept trying for an alternative outcome and that alternative option finally came up. Allah had a plan! Abdullah had to live, he had yet to father the Seal of the prophets!!! 

This always blows my mind. You just never know the huge outcome that is there for you!

When I came back from the hospital empty handed because I had lost Jibril Yahya, I was very low, very low and felt as if life no longer meant much. I felt an emptiness that went beyond the physical emptiness of my womb. Alhamdulillah the Tafsir of surah Yusuf and the pains of prophet Yacub Alayhi Salaam as a parent separated from his beloved child really comforted me. The entire story of surah Yusuf acted as an antidepressant for me and I never filled the prescription I was given. Alhamdulillah for Qur'an. If I reflect back, all I can think of is how much I would have missed out on if my life had ended there. I would never have tasted the sweetness of reciting the Qur'an because then I didn't know how to read the mushaf. I would have never met so many amazing sisters and help them in their painful moments. I am grateful for these years Allah Azza Wajal granted me. 

The huge lesson here again is to not despair but instead keep going, keep trusting Allah, do not quit or do not act as a desperate person. 

Trusting Allah, Hoping for a positive outcome and holding on to Allah always pay off for the believer!  All that I am facing are just steps leading me to something good.

Trusting Allah in every single situation is the winning move! 

As-Saffat - 37:172-173

[That] indeed, they would be those given victory

And [that] indeed, Our soldiers [i.e., the believers] will be those who overcome.

May Allah grant us tawfeeq! Aameen!

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