Bubble

Happiness is one thing that we wish stays constant and never fades away. In a particular day we feel so exhilarated and on cloud nine that we are dead sure that whatever we'll face in the future is sure to be hit smack on its face. This is what feels like a bubble inside of us. Happiness turns to hope and then becomes determination! The bubble is now impregnable. Durable.

Then comes The Test the very next day. All our positive gets beamed down the negative channel. Our bubble which was so strong now gets wispy and fragile. The bubble just lost all its juice! We feel depressed beyond words to the extent we wonder how in the world we were happy just the other day. And will we ever experience joy again.

This is the time we go seeking an external support and a helping hand. Most of us go in search of our families or friends. We yearn for someone to extend their hand out towards us and we wish to hold on to it so tight that just the sense of touch makes us feel better. The physical sense when stimulated makes us feel secure and the bubble slowly forms up again. It finds a small space inside of us dwindling between life and death. 

We start depending on others to an extent that we think that they can make us overcome the trauma. To rephrase it we put ourselves into their mercy. A very wrong attitude on our part. No man can avail another beyond a certain capacity. Then rest is up to the One Who created Us. Yet we are dead sure that they will lead us through the misery. How much can they though?  

So when do we turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'alah? When we extinguish each and every possible help from humans? Yes. We make Allah our last and final resort. How fair is that? Yet, He is so Merciful and Compassionate that He makes our difficulties cease. When we trust people can deliver us from the hard time why do we have a lack of faith in Allah's Ultimate Power? When he has given us the distress as the test can't He elevate it from us? Why is that so hard to comprehend?

When our lives get back to what it was i.e. carefree and mindless of Allah, we lose the connection we had created with Him during that period. Neither do we try to revive the bond with Him nor do we develop on it. We promise ourselves that will we surely return to Allah for everything and we fall short on the promise once we feel relieved of the test.

We think that we did a huge favour for Allah by remembering Him and turning to Him when in fact we did a favour for ourselves (As Allah needs nothing from anyone) and we, in fact, turned to Him as a last resort. Subhanallah! How frivilous we act and think!

As Allah says in Surah As Sharh

" فَإِنَّ مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْراً - إِنَّ مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْراً "

5. Verily, along with every hardship is relief, 6. Verily, along with every hardship is relief. 

A very special person reminded me this verse.