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With Allah's mercy, even animals know how to love

I was at my friend house. We had  long talk after almost a year we been apart. I was sitting on my bike when I saw a mother hen and it cute little chicks were looking for food.

“I haven’t seen chicks for a decade. Real chickens at my house were long gone” I said

It was true. We used to have many chickens around the house when I was a little boy. When we wanted to have chicken for lunch, my mum would order us to catch one. My cousins and I would chase them around the house happily.

“I got one!” I yelled while holding a chicken on my right hand. My uncle slaughtered it, and we had chicken curry that evening. Ah, those moments.

I was looking at the mother and the chicks for a moment.

“They all were yellow except for that one” My friend was pointing at a dark looking chick, exceptionally different from the rest.

“Like in the Ugly Duckling” I said. We laughed.

The chicks would follow wherever the mother went, even the odd one. The mother looked so caring as she foraging the ground with her feet and started to look for invisible foods. The chicks would follow instantly.

It reminded me of something.

Salman Al Farisi Reported: The messenger of Allah, peace and blessing be upon him, said, “Verily, Allah has one hundred portion of mercy; because of one there is compassion between creation, and ninety-nine are reserved for the Day of Resurrection” HR Muslim.

It said, Allah had 100 mercies, but He gave one to humans, Jinn and animals on earth. With this one, there was love between His creations. Where the wild animals loved their young and humans loved each other.

I saw, with this one portion the hen loved its chicks.

If you think today you love your family sincerely, you love your best friend with all of your heart; remember Allah’s love to His servants is 99 times more than that. Could you feel it? If you think human loves is remarkable, with love humans are willing to sacrifice themselves, Allah’s love would be beyond imagination.

Ibn Qayim said, there are three signs of Allah’s love.

If Allah loves you, He puts you under trials.

When He loves someone, He gives them the “understanding” of islam

Whomever Allah loves, He deviates your heart for disobedient and sins.

Thus, whenever you are under His trial, be thankful as Allah wants you to remember Him. If you have chances to understand true purpose of human and a muslim, grab that chance as a muslim is more than fasting in Ramadan or praying 5 times a day. Be happy if your heart is cleans from the dots of sins.

Inshaa Allah, never have any bad thought on Allah as He always love His servants, especially those who are close to Him.

If today you are unhappy due to something, be thankful to Allah
If today you are tired of something, be thankful to Allah
As Allah is showing His love to you
And remember in every difficulty, there is ease.

Inshaa Allah 

Happy Ending Summer

Bismillah

Assalamualaikum wbt

This is just a few posts ahead from my previous joyful post of coming back home. Well, only two days left now. How strange the time passed, slow in the beginning, but faster at the end.A year ago, my close friend gave me a shirt. A long sleeved shirt with stripes of red boxes, yellow and orange. It looked cool and metro sexual. I wore those kinds of shirts back in Adelaide.

For that reason, after a while it made my arms looked fairer. My wrist and above had became equally radiant with my hands. I did look like a Chinese now. However, during the summer break in Malaysia the colour seemed to change drastically. Every single day, my skin was tanned by the blazing sun. The hot sweating weather made it impossible for me to don long sleeve anymore. Now, I realised why people said the price of Jannah wasn’t cheap. Deeply I admired women who covered themselves in such climate. They chose to please Allah and thus they deserved the most desirable paradise.

Alhamdulillah this summer had been great and filled with Allah’s love and blessings. He blessed my journeys, granted me opportunities and taught me priceless lessons.Despite two months passed like a fast moving train, I was totally grateful with the chance given to me.

A friend said, “Allah hides baraqah in your food everyday. It is there if you start with bismillah, and not if you aren’t. After you die, if people recognise and appreciate your contribution to this deen, means Allah has put baraqah to your age. If you study just for awhile, yet you gain lots, means Allah has put baraqah to your time” 

InshaAllah, by the same token, I pray Allah has put baraqah on me for the last two months.

He taught me that, not everything in life we are given right to choose. We never choose to be male or female, born as neither Malaysian or Korean, and we never pick the family to be born to. We never did.
Sometimes we can’t choose because it is rizq, assigned at our birth. Allah never let us choose because we never know which one will lead us closer to Him.

Port Noarlunga, Adelaide SA

My close friend told me that he never expected to end up in Sunway. His parents decided to put him in one of the local universities. Yet, Allah’s planning overwrote everything. So, in Sunway he was now for the next 2 years. Allah introduced him to friends that always remind him of Him, together sailing this life for the sake of Allah.

He told me he has never been good in study, yet he passed in every major exam.

“Study is always a choice, but result absolutely beyond our control. He decides it. It is rizq from Allah. He knows if He failed you in those exams, it will draw you further from him.” I told him one day.

No one will ever know what his rizq is today. Today, a fisherman will never know what kind of fish he will catch, a shopkeeper will never know how many customers will come and you will never expect what is your lunch today. So, wherever you’re today, be thankful. Because He knows, being there will put you closer to Him.

Be grateful to Him and watch Him as He gives you more and make you realise the blessings that slip through your daily eyes.

Till we meet again Inshaa Allah in next summer. Thanks for all the times, efforts and loves. May you always be in Allah’s blessing and protections.

Rizq=rezeki.