THE DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS. Yaumul Ahad, 6th Jumaadal Aakhir. (Sunday, 9th of January 2022).

DO NOT REJECT THE CALL TO REAL SUCCESS. BismilLaah. 

When a friend, a relative, or an acquaintance invites us to their house or to a social gathering, we usually tend to respond in two ways. Either we graciously accept their invitation, or we politely refuse because we simply have other commitments. It also often happens that when we respond in the negative, we tend to feel bad while turning down an invite. Imagine a situation where your friend invites you over for lunch. You decline the invitation, but he or she invites you again the next day. Clearly, the friend is interested in spending time with you because he or she must really like you. You decline again. The next day, your friend invites you once more for lunch. You will respond in either two ways. You will feel bad and finally accept the invite, or you will turn it down once more. After having his or her invitation rejected the third time, the friend will stop inviting you because, fortunately or unfortunately, he will realize that you are not interested.

Hayya ʿala ‘l-falāḥ, Hayya ʿala ‘l-falāḥ! Come to success, Come to success!

A call. An invite. A call that we have always heard, continue to hear, and will always hear five times a day till the Last day. It is an invitation that we casually turn down without even feeling the slightest guilt. Yet, no matter how many times we reject this call, we will receive this invite multiple times in the same day, till we cease to exist. The CALLER, the Invitee, must really love us to never give up calling us to HIM. But what kind of humans are we? Ignorance and rude?, rejecting one call after another?. How unlucky some are! This isn’t an invitation to a petty social gathering or a lunch. It is the ultimate invitation to real success. While we spend our lives running after people whom we want to impress for a promotion, a salary raise, friendship or other personal gains, we have the Almighty, who wants us to come to real success. It is the success that outweighs all other worldly successes. But in our lack of eemaan, we simply reject the call to real success, the success that will save us from calamity and failure. We reject this invite from a Creator who will never fail us, never leave us, and, in fact, will give us more than we could ever ask for. We reject the invite to real success. HE is our Creator inviting us to real success, but unfortunately, we see some going away from these calls for success. At least if you don't fear the punishment of our Creator for failing his invitation, don't you want HIS Jannat?. Please remember, the biggest problem on earth is that TIME FLIES BUT WE ARE THE PILOT OF THE TIME TOWARDS DEATH. 

May ALLAH aid us to be able to respond to HIS invitations to our 5 daily salaat. Aameen.