A trust from the One above [Amanah]

Everything in this world is a gift from Allah. From the ink in our pens, to the food on our plates. Our own bodies and minds are a gift. Our children, our parents, our neighbours, the skies that shelter us, the trees that provide us fruit, the feet that carry us, and the birds that brighten up our day with songs of praise, are all a gift.

However, everything we have in this world, although a gift, is never, and will never be completely ours. Everything we have is not only a blessing, but its a trust. Its a trust, because we never deserved any of it. We never will. For we did not do something amazing which earned us the blessing of being put in this world. To deserve a refreshing blue sky, or soothing green trees, and bright beautiful flowers. It was all from Allah, He makes this world subservient to us. Its also a trust, because at any moment, He can take it all back, because it doesn't belong to us, it belongs to Him.

For with Allah belongs all the treasures of the heavens and the earth, and beyond.

Today, we live in a world full of deception and lies. Full of failed trusts and broken hearts.

Today, so many have forgotten the concept of Amanah.

The concept of trust.

Allah gifts and He entrusts. He entrusts us with a mind, to use it for His sake, to store it with knowledge, and then implement it. He entrusts us with eyes, so that we can look at the which is pleasing to Him, which will remind us of Him, and draw us closer to Him.

He also entrusts us with children, so that we can raise them well, so we can nurture them with faith, and so we can assist them in becoming beacons of light for the entire world. He entrusts us with friends, so we can work with them in righteousness, compete in goodness, so we can work with them to serve his religion. He entrusts us with knowledge, so we can spread it to others, and He entrusts us with bodies, so we can fill them with goodness, and as a result worship Him better.

If only we changed our perspectives and looked at everything not only as a gift and a blessing, but as a trust.

When someone trusts you with something valuable, or gives you something, and advises you do use it to the best of your ability, on the condition that they could take it back from you at any given time, how would you treat it? How would you use it?

And how would they feel if you broke that trust?

Allah has given things for us in order to enable us to worship Him better. In order for us to use these resources and tools, to better ourselves and the people around us.

How sad is to see that so many forget that that beautiful child is a gift from Allah? Instead, they feed it with garbage, abuse it, misuse it, and neglect its obligations, its rights, forgetting that the child is a trust; an amanah.

Yet, how many of us do this to so many other things we have been given?

Remember, one day you will stand before Allah, and He will ask you. Yes, He will ask you about the mind and how you used it, the tongue and what it said, that Facebook account and how you misused it, those children and how you neglected them. It will all be unfolded. All those hidden truths. All those broken trusts. All those neglected rights.

Ponder of this concept of Amanah, and remember that what you have in this world and been placed in your possession as a treasure, a gift. Don't abuse it. Cherish it, be grateful for it, and ponder over how it can help you on your road to Jannah.

A gift from the heavens, a trust from the One above.

Don't abuse it.

<3