Enough Honor For You Is That You Are The Slave Of Allah — And Enough Pride For You That Allah Is Your Lord:
The Greatest Blessing that Allah(swt) bestows upon His slaves is blessing them with guidance to His religion that He has chosen For His slaves and commanded them to Follow.
Allah(swt):“This day I have perfected For you your religion and completed My Favor upon you and have approved For you Islam as religion”.(Al-Maa’idah 5:3).
Ibn Katheer (May Allah have mercy on him) said:
This is the Greatest blessing that Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, has bestowed upon this Ummah, when He, may He be exalted, perfected their religion For them, so they have no need of any other religion or of any prophet other than their Prophet(saw).
Hence Allah made him the last of the Prophets, and sent him to humanity and to the jinn — So nothing is permissible except what he permitted, and nothing is Forbidden except what he Forbade, and there is no religion except what he prescribed.
Everything that he has told us is true, and there are no lies in it, as Allah, may He be exalted, tells us : “And the word of your Lord has been Fulfilled in Truth and in Justice”. (Al-An‘aam 6:115).
In other words, it is true in what it tells us and it is just in its Commands and prohibitions. When Allah perfected the religion For them, He completed His favour upon them.(Tafseer Ibn Katheer — 3/26).
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (May Allah have mercy on him) said:
The Greatest blessing that He bestowed upon them was Commanding them to believe and guiding them to Faith. They are the people of the ultimate blessing that is mentioned in the words:
“Guide us to the straight path –
The path of those upon whom You have bestowed Favor.”(Al-Faatihah 1:6-7).
He is the First (nothing is before Him) and the Last (nothing is after Him), the Most High (nothing is above Him) and the Most Near (nothing is nearer than Him).” [57:3]
The Prophet (saw) said: “You are the Most High and there is nothing above You…”
There are many similar ayat (verses) and ahadeeth (prophetic narrations). But at the same time, Allah tells us that He is with His slaves wherever they are:
“Have you not seen that Allah knows whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is on the earth? There is no najwa (secret counsel) of three but He is their Fourth (with His Knowledge, while He is over the Throne, over the seventh heaven), — nor of Five but He is their sixth (with His Knowledge), — nor of less than that or more but He is with them (with His Knowledge) wheresoever they may be.” (58:7)
So, the point is that — this is enough and a matter of pride For us to Obey our Lord that Our Creator is the Lord of the Universe.
Everything in the universe is under His control. Therefore, by disobeying our Lord, we will Fail in this world and the Hereafter.
May Allah(swt) include us among His Obedient and beloved servants.(Ameen).
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