28/08/2020
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When Umar bin al-Khattab (رضي الله عنه) was walking in the market, he passed by a man who was supplicating,
اللهم اجعلني من القليل اللهم اجعلني من القليل
“O Allaah, make me from the few! O Allaah make me from the few!”
So Umar said to him, “Where did you get this du`a’ (supplication) from?” And the man said, “Allaah in His Book says:
و قليل من عبادي الشكور
‘And few of My servants are grateful.’
(Saba, 34:13)
So ‘Umar (the Leader of the entire Muslim world) wept and admonished himself,
“The people are more knowledgeable than you, O Umar! O Allaah make us from Your ‘few’ servants.”
Sometimes when you advise someone to leave a sin, they respond with “But everybody does it, it’s not just me!” But if you look for the words “most people" in the Qur’aan, you will find that most people:
وَلَـكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ
“And however most people do not know.”
(Al-A'raf 7:187)
وَلَـكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لاَ يَشْكُرُونَ
“and most people do not show gratitude”
(Al-Baqarah 2:243)
وَلَـكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لاَ يُؤْمِنُونَ
“and most people do not believe”
(Hud, 11:17)
And if you look for “most of them”, you will find that most of them are:
وَأَنَّ أَكْثَرَكُمْ فَاسِقُونَ
“definitely disobedient”
(Al-Ma'idah 5:59)
وَلَـكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ يَجْهَلُونَ
“ ignorant”
(Al-An'am 6:111)
بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ الْحَقَّ فَهُم مُّعْرِضُونَ
“turning away”
(Al-Anbiya 21:24)
So be of the “few”, whom Allaah سبحانه و تعالى
says about them:
وَقَلِيلٌ مِّنْ عِبَادِيَ الشَّكُورُ
“And few of My servants are grateful.”
(Saba' 34:13)
وَمَا آمَنَ مَعَهُ إِلاَّ قَلِيلٌ
“But none had believed with him, except a few.”
(Hud 11:40)
فِي جَنَّاتِ النَّعِيمِ ثُلَّةٌ مِّنَ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَقَلِيلٌ مِّنَ الْآخِرِينَ
“In the Gardens of Bliss, a [large] company of the former people, and a few of the later people.”
(Al-Waqi'ah 56:12-14)
