Surrendering to Allah with absolute faith and unwavering trust is a difficult breakthrough to experience. It requires daily practice.
It is natural to yearn for certainty in outcomes but the more you obsess over the uncertainties of tomorrow, the greater the intensity of the symptoms of anxiety you are bound to experience.
Shaitan likes to feast on your mind’s chatter and expand your fears and your anxieties and lead you further away from surrendering to Allah.
Take comfort in knowing that Allah has given one beautiful certainty to believers – that Allah and only Allah is the knower of all and the planner of all that ever was, is, and will be.
Surrendering your anxieties to Allah will ease your heart and mind.
So what exactly does surrendering look like in action?
Imagine that you have been given a storm warning. It is estimated to be in your location in a few hours.
One of the first things we do in that case is to prepare for our safety. We make sure that all windows and doors are shut, all outdoor furniture is stored away or appropriately covered. We ensure we remain in a safe and secure space.
And then we wait for the moment of the storm. We listen, we try and remain calm while the storm is happening. Once the storm passes, we then begin the big clean-up. We spend hours, sometimes days restoring everything back to normal.
In the above scenario, there is a precise moment which teaches us surrender.
Allah has blessed us with our mind and body to prepare for the storm and to clean up after the storm. But He has showed us that the actual moment of the storm belongs only and only to Him alone.
It is Allah that knows exactly when the rain, winds, thunder, and lightening during that storm will occur and with what force.
The moments before the storm and the moments after the storm we use our skills, logic, our mind, and body, to control things but there is absolutely zero control any creation has in the precise moment of the storm’s occurrence.
That moment belongs to Allah. Accepting this knowing and acting without resistance to it is what surrendering means.
It is to know and accept without resistance that you can prepare for your day, and you can analyse the events that occurred in your day, but you can’t control everything in your day.
You will be required to pause during your day, every day, and realise that whatever you’re trying hard to control through anger or fear or shame or guilt or blame is only going to cause more pain and anguish.
Take a deep breath and as you exhale, surrender in the knowing that it is Allah who can help you feel calmer.
Turn to Allah and surrender your “storm” to Allah. This too shall pass.
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