Sometimes you just have to let go

Salaam alaykum

Today, I made a decision to let go of something, something that had become so important to me. Sometimes we get attached to things in this world that might not be good for us even though they masquerade as if they are. The Quran says "...But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth and ye know not" (2:216).  

We should never put things in this world before Allah. We should always love and obey Him over ALL things. Sometimes we get caught up in this world forget that the life of this world is but "amusement and play"! This dunya is not lasting! We will surely meet our Lord and we should strive to please Him and worship Him and draw close to Him so that on the day of that meeting we will get to experience the sweetness of being with Allah. So, I choose not to take this life too serious, I choose not to be deceived by the life of this world. I am choosing Allah because I love Allah and only want to please Him. 

"...But proclaim to them this truth: that every soul delivers itself to ruin by its own acts, it will find for itself no protector or intercessor except Allah..." (6:70).  There are things in this world that we begin to love and value that grow into means of disobeying Allah or neglecting Allah. It is our choices that affect our relationship with Him. We all have to be able to identify these things in our life and let them go and "turn to Allah with sincere repentance, in hope that your Lord will remover from you your ills..." (66:8). We are lucky that Allah is the most merciful and most forgiving. It's time to let it go now and devote ourselves entirely to Him. This is what I plan to do. InshaAllah! May Allah make it easy for me and all of us. Amin

“Our Lord! Forgive us our sins, remove from us our iniquities, and take to Yourself our souls in the company of the righteous.” (3:193)