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What Makes Allah Happy
What Makes Allah Happy
extremely happy?
Prayers?
Fasting?
Hajj?
No.
It’s true that Allah(SWT) loves these actions, but they are not the thing
that makes Allah (SWT) extremely happy.
By Allah, it’s an amazing reflection for this one thing is none other than your
REPENTANCE. Have you heard the beautiful hadith:
HE, HAVING LOST ALL HOPES (TO GET THAT BACK), LIES
DOWN IN SHADE AND IS DISAPPOINTED ABOUT HIS CAMEL;
WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN HE FINDS THAT CAMEL STANDING
BEFORE HIM.
HE TAKES HOLD OF ITS REINS AND THEN OUT OF BOUNDLESS
JOY BLURTS OUT: ‘O ALLAH, YOU ARE MY SLAVE AND I AM
YOUR RUBB’.HE COMMITS THIS MISTAKE OUT OF EXTREME
JOY.”
[RIYADH AS-SALIHEEN, MUSLIM]
What is comparable to such happiness? No one can truly relate to such joy
except one who was in the same situation. Indeed, it is great joy; joy of life
after death. For this reason he took hold of its reins and cried, “’O Allah, You are
my slave and I am Your Rabb!’” He wanted to praise Allah saying: ‘O Allah, You
are my Lord and I am Your Slave’, but due to his extreme joy, he made a
mistakenly switched it around.
Allah(SWT) relates this story to tell us that He (SWT) is even happier when you
REPENT than this man who is granted a second chance at life after complete
desperation.