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\r\n Al-Baqarah (The Cow) - Chapter 2: Verse 284 (partial)
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"All that is in the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah alone."
These few words, once fully absorbed, totally transform all our outlooks, attitudes and relationships with everything in the universe, including with our own selves. They are also enough to generate and sustain all the inner strengths that we require. These words mean:
\r\nOne, we are trustees, not the owners. Allah is the Owner of everything. Even our lives, bodies, all possessions and relationships, are His - not ours. Keeping this in mind, we find the strength to become His, and to live and behave as we belong only to Him.
\r\nTwo, being trustees and not owners, we must use everything in life in accordance with His Will. This gives us the strength to obey Him in everything.
\r\nThree, everything we receive or accomplish in life is from Him and because of Him. This enables us to remain ever thankful to Him.
\r\nFour, this also gives us the patience to face all adversities and tribulations.
\r\nFive, being trustees we will surely be called to account for our deeds and misdeeds in things and matters given in our trust. Even what we conceal in the deepest recesses of our heart we shall have to account for. Thus we always keep our eyes on that Day of Reckoning and Judgement, and prepare for the Hour when we shall stand face to face with Him.
\r\nSix, it is only in His power, and in no one else's, to forgive our faults and sins or to punish us. This makes us fearless of judgements passed by human beings like ourselves.
\r\nSeven, if that Judgement is the final arbiter of our ultimate fate, then we place all our hopes and fears in Allah alone, and turn only to Him for mercy and forgiveness, whenever we fail that test we are put to and commit a sin.
\r\nCompiled From:
\r\n \"Key to al Baqarah\" - Khurram Murad pp. 26-27