Aturning point!
A person cannot confront events alone, nor can he deal with disasters and grave matters. This is because he is created weak and powerless, unless he relies upon his Lord, as he knows that He is the First Who had preceded everything, and the Last Who will remain after everything, and that He is the Manifest Who is above everything and the Hidden Who is closer to everything.
No heaven can hide another heaven from Him, nor can an earth hide another earth. Manifest cannot cover hidden things from Him because hidden things are manifest to Him, the unseen is seen, the distant is near, and the secret is overt for Him.
How blissful he is who gets attached to Allah Almighty, learns the names of his Lord, reforms his own inner self, performs his deeds with sincerity, clings to patience, and places his trust in the Creator! That is devotion along with pure love and affection.
Longing for Him grips and shakes me!
Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy upon him) said,“Learning these four names -the First, the Last, the Manifest, the Hidden - is the pillar of knowledge. It behooves a person to know them as much as his ability and understanding can take him.”
“Learning these four names -the First, the Last, the Manifest, the Hidden - is the pillar of knowledge. It behooves a person to know them as much as his ability and understanding can take him.”
He is the First and the Last!Nothing had preceded Him, and nothing will come after Him! Knowing these four names and their meanings have profound impact in warding off Satan’s whisperings.
A man called Abu Zumayl came to the prominent scholar of the Ummah, ‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Abbās (may Allah be pleased with him) and asked him, “O Ibn ‘Abbās, I find something within my heart.”He said, "What is it?" He said, “By Allah, I will not reveal it.” He said, “Is it something of doubt?” Then he laughed and added, “No one could be safe from that, until Allah Almighty revealed:
{So if you are in doubt [O Muhammad] about what We have revealed to you, then ask those who have been reading the Scripture before you. The truth has certainly come to you from your Lord; so never be among those who doubt.}
[Surat Yūnus: 9 4 ]
”Then, he said to me, “If you find something within your heart, say,
{He is the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden; and He is All - Knowing of everything.}
[S urat al - Hadīd: 3]
{So if you are in doubt [O Muhammad] about what We have revealed to you, then ask those who have been reading the Scripture before you. The truth has certainly come to you from your Lord; so never be among those who doubt.}
[Surat Yūnus: 94]”
Then, he said to me, “If you find something within your heart, say,
{He is the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden; and He is All - Knowing of everything.}
[Surat al - Hadīd: 3]”
O Allah, the First and the Last and the Manifest and the Hidden, reform our innermost selves, grant us a good end in all affairs, and save us from disgrace in this world and in the Hereafter!
