His mercy has no limits!
Ramadan Mubarak Guys!
I pray Allah grants us everything we seek this month and continues to spare our lives to experience more Ramadan on earth, Amin!
I would like to share something that happened to me recently before I go deep into this write-up.
I was having a conversation with someone, and I made a statement I am not proud of — not sharing the statement here — but to anyone who would hear that statement, it naturally translates to me diminishing the power of Allah's decree/guidance.
Now, when I made the statement, I didn't think much of it until the next day, and when I thought about it thoroughly, I felt guilty, said my istigfar, and made tawbah. I had to ask myself, did i really mean that and the truth is no, i did not but i still said it, this made me sad and i consoled myself with this “Allah knows me more than anyone, He hears my thoughts before i even voice them out verbally, and He is the most merciful and He will forgive me for things i meant to say or not”
So, yes, Allah is Ar-raheem; his mercy has no limits!
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Allah is not like us, not like me and you, beings who would exhaust every form of mercy that we can bestow on fellow humans. Imagine having someone offend you every 3 business day and they apologize every time. Yes, you may tolerate it every single time, but I believe at some point you may run out of forgiveness (which is a form of mercy).
Well, that is not Allah for you. He is so merciful that the Prophet (pbuh) testified to this by saying, “Allah divided mercy into one hundred parts. He kept ninety-nine parts with Him and sent down one part to the earth, and it is because of this one part that there is mutual love among creation.” — Let's think about this statement for a second, if as a result of this “one part,” billions of people and animals are sustained, now imagine how vast His mercy is.
This reminds me of a conversation i had as a teenager with my maternal grandmother during Ramadan, I randomly asked her — what if farting, urinating or even defecating nullifies our fast and her response in Yoruba was “Oba ala nu ni olohun” which translates to “God is a merciful king” which clearly makes sense because He did not design fasting to be difficult for us, knowing outrightly farting, urinating and defecating is beyond our control — that is mercy in a very neglible way in our life.
Recently, I heard Sheikh Jangja say we don’t need oxygen, we need Allah's mercy, because breathing is a result of Allahs’ mercy! And when I listened to the first episode of Dr. Omar Suleiman’s Ramadan Series, I was very motivated to write about this.
I hope that as you finish reading this, you look around and reflect on the bountiful mercy that Allah has bestowed on us — your faculties, your loved ones, your career, your meals, technology, air to breathe, a comfortable bed to sleep in, and many more that we overlook.
I ask Allah to continue to shower His mercies on us and be among those who can show mercy to one another, Amin!
