The One Thing That Got Me Through All My Difficult Times

There is one thing that is so vitally important when we are going through an emotionally difficult time because it is the only thing that keeps us going, that makes us seek help, that helps us heal and helps us to ask ALLAH for help and support.

That ONE THING is HOPE. Without hope, there is no path to healing and there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

So today I want to share with you a reflective piece I wrote and a painting I did while I was healing and it is about hope:

A REFLECTION:

The other day I was reflecting on life and I saw this picture in my mind. I took the cue and started painting.

It represents hope.

It’s about looking upwards to ALLAH, appreciating the light around you that comes from HIM and shining bright in the darkness. It’s about standing tall and standing in your your own power and beauty regardless of what surrounds you and what the naysayers say. It’s about keeping faith in yourself and in ALLAH.

It is remembering that “surely with difficulty comes ease”, after every dark tunnel there is light and that after every sin there is a chance for forgiveness and repentance.

There is always a chance to hope in the mercy of THE ONE whose mercy envelopes all things. It is remembering that HE is the one who said: “Do not despair in the mercy of ALLAH”.

It is remembering that:

“Surely, ALLAH forgives all sins.”

It is to live in the hope, not admire it from a distance but rather live under its roof knowing that ALLAH is always there. He never sleeps. He is the EVER LIVING the EVERLASTING. He hears all you say, he knows all you wish for and he knows what is in your heart better than you do.

It is knowing that whatever you hope for, dream for, wish for is not beyond HIS power. It is to remember that “HIS affair is that when HE says to a thing, Be! It is.”

It is remembering that HE is the one who says:

“And if my slaves ask you about me then I am near, I answer the call of the one who asks when HE asks me, so let them answer me and let them believe in me, so that they may be guided”.

It is remembering that, all that is impossible for you is not only possible but rather it is easy for HIM. It is to align yourself with that hope so that from now on nothing remains out of your reach because the one whose heart is with ALLAH, ALLAH is with HIM too.

It is to remember that HE is the one who says:

“So remember me and I will remember you.”

It is to eternally thank him, to eternally live in the HOPE that HE is with you every step of the way, rewarding you for your every sincere intention that you make and every action that you take for HIS sake.

It is to hope for not only Jannah and eternal bliss but to hope that you are among those who are pleased with HIM and among those that HE is pleased with too. It is to hope that you are among those who will be in Jannah on that day when HE will say:

‘Where are those who worshipped me without seeing me? This is the day of increase so ask me and I will give you.

Among those who will reply:

‘We are pleased (with what you have given us) so be pleased with us’.

May ALLAH make us among those that will gather that day, in Jannah and be overwhelmed by the light of ALLAH when HE, the exalted reveals himself to his beloved servants who believed in HIM, did for HIM, and kept hope in HIM and only HIM. Ameen.

It inspires me and I hope you can find some inspiration in it too. Keep hope in ALLAH and keep going till you find your way.