If You Realized How Powerful Your Thoughts Are — You Would Never Think A Negative Thought:
The Prophet(saw) said, “Allah the Most High said, ‘I am as My slave thinks (expects) I am. I am with him when he mentions Me”.
In other words, Allah will do as we think of Allah — Have we made dua and think Allah is not going to respond? Chances are that He won’t! Are we thinking that Allah will not get us out of our situation and help us get back onto life? Then He won’t.
As Muslims, we are Firm Believers that our hopes, dreams and aspirations are ultimately in the hands of Allah — And if our thoughts are negative about Allah, then our life will not really be the life that we are looking For.
While if our Thoughts are positive, and we know and Trust al-Wakeel, the Trustee, to take care of our affairs, and we Fully trust in al-Qadir The Powerful One to be in Full control over whatever obstacle it is that we are Facing — then what is preventing us From achieving our success in this life and the next?It is the thoughts.
Your Thoughts Make Or Break You:
“Our Life is what our thoughts make it”, said Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor who lived nearly 200 years ago.
He also said, “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
Psychology today, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy specifically Focus heavily on our Thoughts and Thought patterns.
Dr. David Burns says that the difference between sadness and depression is that — Sadness is just that- sadness over a life even that happened to go wrong.
Depression on the other hand is a pattern of negative thinking associated with a certain life event.
Some of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (saw) came to the Prophet (saw) and said to him, ‘We Find in ourselves Thoughts that are too terrible to speak of.’ He said, ‘Are you really having such thoughts?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘That is a clear sign of Faith.’”
(Narrated by Muslim, 132 From the hadith of Abu Hurayrah).
Al-Nawawi said in his commentary on this Hadith (prophetic tradition): “The Prophet’s words, ‘That is a clear sign of Faith’ mean, the Fact that you think of this waswas as something terrible is a clear sign of Faith, For if you dare not utter it and you are so afraid of it and of speaking of it, let alone believing it, this is the sign of one who has achieved perfect Faith and who is Free of doubt.”
And it was said that what it means is that the Shaytan only whispers to those whom he despairs of tempting, because he is unable to tempt them. As For the non-believer, he can approach him in any manner he wants and is not restricted to waswas, rather he can play with him however he wants. Based on this, what the hadith means is that — the cause of waswas is pure Faith, or that waswas is a sign of pure Faith.
To get rid of bad Thoughts about Allah, you should say, “Amantu Billahi wa Rasulihi (I believe in Allah and His Messenger).”
Try to stop thinking about that as much as possible, and keep busy with things that will distract you From it.
Think powerfully. Think that Allah(swt) will make you the means to bring Goodness in this world and He will. Think that Allah(swt) will make you happier and solve your problems For you and He will. Put in your effort and leave the rest to Allah(swt).
So,the point is that — our Thoughts have a profound effect on our lives, so we should keep our Thoughts pure and positive and have good Thoughts For our Lord.
May Allah(swt) enable us to do Good deeds and do Good to others. (Ameen).
JazakAllah (May Allah Reward You [with] Goodness)For Reading.
