Commentary on my last post.
And a lot of people keep saying they can’t (ie they can’t memorise the Quran, they can’t wake up on time for fajr etc) but it’s not true, you can; you just don’t want to.
What I wrote here was wrong (about some people at least) so I want to correct myself and help another struggling soul in shaa Allah.
So Bismillah
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And sometimes it might be that you want to and you’ve tried but couldn’t and then gave up.
I can’t remember where I read this story or how exactly it was told but I think it went something like this.
So there was a man that wanted to learn the language of the Quran but he found it was too difficult for him so he gave up. So one day as he was going about his day he saw an ant that was trying to climb the wall. The ant was so persistent, it’ll try to climb the wall and fall then it will try again and fall yet again and try again until it was finally able to climb the wall. And the man thought to himself that this ant had so much determination to climb this wall that it kept trying until it finally did, yet he tried to learn Arabic once and was unable to and gave up. From that moment he promised himself to learn Arabic and not give up and subhanaLlah he worked so hard he became an Arabic lecturer.
So the lesson I want us to take from this story is that no matter how difficult it is, keep trying don’t give up and in shaa Allah with the aid of Allah you’ll be able to achieve your goal.
What inspired me to write this was the fact that I was also struggling to achieve a goal I’d set for myself and I was just crying about my incompetence when I remembered reading this somewhere and it made me realise that I shouldn’t give up and I should pick myself up and try harder and if I fall short again then I should pick myself up and try twice as hard, learning from my past mistake and thus progressing because Allāh is worth the hard work, Jannah is worth it.
Any time I feel like giving up again, I’ll remember why I’m doing this in the first place and I’ll remember it’s not going to be easy because nothing good comes easy.
اَللّٰهُمَّ أَعِنِّيْ عَلَىٰ ذِكْرِكَ وَشُكْرِكَ وَحُسْنِ عِبَادَتِكَ.
Allāhumma aʿinnī ʿalā dhikrika wa shukrika wa ḥusni ʿibādatik.
O Allah, help me in remembering You, in being grateful to You, and in worshipping You in an excellent manner.