Need a Blessing?* [[---- Part 4 ----]]

 *Need a Blessing?*

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Barakah is the divine grace that infuses our efforts with meaning, efficiency, and ultimate success. It is the difference between earning a fortune that brings only anxiety and earning a modest income that brings profound contentment. It is the difference between a house that is merely a building and a home filled with peace and love. Without Barakah, our achievements become hollow, our efforts feel futile, and our lives, no matter how outwardly perfect, feel strangely empty and misaligned.

My People,

The Quran and Sunnah highlight several actions that can lead to this spiritual poverty of having Allah's blessings removed from our lives:

*Action No 2:* Disobedience and Sin:

Major sins, and the persistent commitment of minor sins without repentance, create a barrier between a believer and Allah's mercy. Sins harden the heart, darken the soul, and can cause blessings to evaporate from our lives, leaving us with hollow achievements. Allah (swt) say in surah Ar-Rum 30:41

ظَهَرَ ٱلۡفَسَادُ فِي ٱلۡبَرِّ وَٱلۡبَحۡرِ بِمَا كَسَبَتۡ أَيۡدِي ٱلنَّاسِ لِيُذِيقَهُم بَعۡضَ ٱلَّذِي عَمِلُواْ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَرۡجِعُونَ

"Sins has appeared throughout the land and sea by reason of what the hands of people have earned so HE [i.e., Allāh] may let them taste part of [the consequence of] what they have done that perhaps they will return to righteousness".📚Ar-Rum 30:41

This reminds me,

He was known as "The Man With The Golden Hour." For years, Ustadh Ahmed could sit with students for a single, focused hour, and they would grasp religious knowledge others took weeks to learn. His small garden produced a breathtaking harvest from a handful of seeds. Time, health, and provision seemed to stretch and expand for him. People whispered that his life was filled with a profound barakah.

Then, a subtle change began.

He started skipping his pre-dawn prayers for extra sleep. A harmless white lie slipped into his speech, gossip, then another. He began to look at the donations to the mosque not as a duty, but as a burden.

He didn't notice the change at first. But the student who once learned in an hour now needed three. His garden, though tended with the same care, yielded only a fraction of its former fruit. His days felt rushed, his wealth never seemed to stretch far enough, and a constant, low-grade anxiety filled the space where peace once lived.

One evening, looking at his meager harvest, his young daughter innocently asked, "Father, why has the blessing left us?"

The question struck him like a physical blow. He had prayed for rain, for growth, for success, but he had never prayed for protection from the small sins that had quietly built a wall between him and the Source of all Blessing. The problem wasn't the sky; it was the state of his own heart.

The Major Lesson:

Our actions are the faucets through which Allah's barakah flows into our lives. Righteousness opens them wide, while sin, even the "small" ones we ignore, slowly tightens the valve, until one day we are left wondering why our efforts feel so barren, never realizing we have been slowly cutting ourselves off from the Divine Source.

To be continued.