Many ask me how I remain focus and positive.
How I stay the cause and do not give up easily. Why I seem to always have Hope.
Always optimistic and positive about the future. So today I will share with you
about Hope. Tomorrow, a related subject – Commitment, or shall I say how to
stay committed.
One of my favorite verses in the Quran is at
Chapter 3:139. Yusuf Ali translated the verse this way, which I like, “So
lose not heart, nor fall into despair: For ye must gain mastery if ye are true
in Faith.” This verse is my constant mantra whenever I
have face difficulty. When it gets even harder, I will remind myself that a
Merciful God will never test me more than I could bear (Quran 2:286). And I am
confident that if I do the right thing, I will be okay (Quran 41:46) and
hardship never last!!! (Quran 94:5-8)
There are many other verses that constantly
help me to stay focus and have hope. Hope you too can make full use of them.
Keep them in your phone if you cannot memorize them yet. They will become handy,
anytime, any day, anywhere.
So here are the verses for you.
All emphasis are mine to help readers focus on
a particular message.
1. In
the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most
Merciful. Quran 1:1
2. God does not
burden any human being with more than he is well able to bear: in his favour
shall be whatever good he does, and against him whatever evil he does. O our Sustainer! Take us not to task if we forget or unwittingly
do wrong! "O our Sustainer! Lay not upon us a burden such as Thou didst
lay upon those who lived before us! O our Sustainer! Make us not bear burdens which we have no strength to bear!
"And efface Thou our sins, and grant us forgiveness, and bestow Thy mercy
upon us! Thou art our Lord Supreme: succour us, then, against people who deny
the truth!" Quran 2:286
3. [In
all these respects,] let him who has ample means spend in accordance with his
amplitude; and let him whose means of subsistence are scanty spend in
accordance with what God has given him: God
does not burden any human being with more than He has given him - [and it may
well be that] God will grant, after hardship, ease. Quran 65:7
4.
And, behold, with every hardship comes ease: verily, with every hardship
comes ease! Hence,
when thou art freed [from distress], remain
steadfast, and unto thy Sustainer turn
with love. Quran 94:5-8
5. (But]
do you think that you could enter
paradise without having suffered like those [believers] who passed away before
you? Misfortune and hardship befell them, and so shaken were they that the
apostle, and the believers with him, would exclaim, "When will God's
succour come?" Oh, verily, God's succour is [always] near!
Quran 2:214
6. WHOEVER does what is just and
right, does so for his own good; and whoever does evil,
does so to his own hurt: and never does
God do the least wrong to His creatures. - Quran 41:46
7. (Hence,]
O my sons, go forth and try to obtain some tidings of Joseph and his brother; and do not lose hope of God's life-giving
mercy: [verily, none but people who deny the truth can ever lose hope of
God's life-giving mercy. Quran 12:87
8. AND
SO, [when you fight in a just cause,] do
not lose heart and [never] beg for
peace: for, seeing that God is with you, you are bound to rise high [in the
end]; [40] and never will He let your [good] deeds go to waste. Quran 47:35
9. Wealth
and children are an adornment of this, world's life: but good deeds, the fruit whereof endures forever, are of far greater merit
in thy Sustainer's sight, and a far better
source of hope. Quran 18:46
10. So lose
not heart, nor fall into despair: For ye must gain mastery if ye are true in
Faith. Quran 3:139
Without hope, we cannot move
to the future.
Peace, anas
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