The Only Streak Worth Keeping: When Allah Calls Five Times a Day | Islamic Spirituality
The Only Streak Worth Keeping:
When Allah Calls Five Times a Day
Imagine that today you pick up your phone, open your social media account, and begin checking your streaks. Suddenly, you notice that your loved one has not sent you a streak. Twenty-four hours are almost over, and your streak is about to expire.
You become worried. You begin wondering whether they might be occupied somewhere or perhaps feeling unwell. You choose to overlook it for the moment, wait a little longer, and eventually ask them about it. You tell them to maintain the streak because their absence makes you anxious. Perhaps you love them and genuinely care about their well-being. You want to know that they are alright, and you naturally expect them to show the same consideration and concern for you.
But then you discover that they are perfectly fine. They are not busy, nor are they unwell. They simply have no interest in maintaining streaks with you anymore.
Now you begin to feel as though you are being treated like a doormat, someone whose feelings and efforts are taken for granted. Your heart is bound to break, isn't it? Perhaps your loved one has simply lost interest in you.
So, what would you do in such a situation?
You would have to walk away from them, wouldn't you?
Now, let us reflect upon something far more important.
Imagine that someone sends you five streaks every single day, yet you do not respond to even one of them. You are perfectly healthy, you are not occupied with anything, and there is absolutely nothing preventing you from responding. You simply do not feel like it.
Nevertheless, the person sending you those streaks continues to send them, day after day.
You have no idea how many weeks have passed, how many months have gone by, or even how many years have elapsed. Yet those streaks continue to arrive every single day.
Then, one day, you die. You find yourself in the next world, standing before that very One who had been sending you those daily calls. But now, He does not speak to you in the way you expected, and you are left to face the consequences of having repeatedly ignored His invitations.
What answer will you give then?
If you have no answer today, you will not have one then either.
Yes, you have understood correctly. I am talking about Allah and the five daily Adhans (calls to prayer) that reach us every single day, like an unbroken streak, inviting us to respond:
Come. Let us meet. I am calling you towards My love.
Allah, who is As-Samad
The Absolutely Self-Sufficient,
The One upon whom all creation depends,
who has no need of anyone and is perfect in every respect — continues to invite you towards His love.
And yet, we find ourselves breaking our hearts over someone whose concern for us may not even exist.
Before it becomes too late, let us begin maintaining our streak with Allah. Let us respond to the call that comes from Him by bowing our heads before Him and acknowledging our love through prayer and devotion.
For He says in the Qur'an:
Surah Al-Baqarah (2:152)
فَاذۡكُرُوۡنِىۡٓ اَذۡكُرۡكُمۡ وَاشۡکُرُوۡا لِىۡ وَلَا تَكۡفُرُوۡنِ
"So remember Me; I will remember you. And be grateful to Me and do not deny Me."
And this invitation comes from the One who is entirely Self-Sufficient, who needs absolutely nothing from anyone.
SubhanAllah!
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