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<\/p>\n25 February 2026<\/p>\n
4-minute read<\/p>\n
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We read Surat-ud-Duha almost every day, in some Salaah or the other, but do we understand that this is a love-story? Others are mesmerized by the love-story of Layla and Majnun, some are taken aback by the love-story of Romeo and Juliet but let\u2019s look at a love-story, that has no parallel. Nabi \ufdfa received a revelation, then the revelation stopped. The Makkans began to taunt him, and asked him, \u2018What has happened? Where\u2019s the revelation? Is your All\u0101h angry with you? Has your All\u0101h forsaken you? Has your All\u0101h deserted you?\u2019<\/p>\n
And the Nabi of All\u0101h became depressed.<\/p>\n
You and I become depressed when people talk negatively about us. A lot of what we do is designed to win the favourable opinion of others, to please others, to make them think good of us, and to make them have a positive viewpoint about us. When things don\u2019t go the way we want them to go, we become depressed. But the Nabi of Allah \ufdfa was not worried about the taunting of the Makkans, he was worried that it should not be that Allah was upset with him and that is why the revelation had stopped.<\/p>\n
In a relationship of love, you only worry about what your beloved thinks of you. You don\u2019t care about what others think and speak. Allah in His Wisdom stopped the Revelation. After a period, Surat-ud-Duha was revealed. Allah says:<\/p>\n
\u0648\u064e\u0627\u0644\u0636\u0651\u064f\u062d\u064e\u0649\u0670<\/p>\n
\u0648\u064e\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0644\u0650 \u0625\u0650\u0630\u064e\u0627 \u0633\u064e\u062c\u064e\u0649\u0670<\/p>\n
\u2018By the Light of Day and by the Night when it settles\u2019, meaning, there\u2019s an alternation between day and night, there will be an alternation, sometimes a revelation will come, and sometimes not. It is the system of Allah. It does not mean Allah is unhappy with you when the revelation stops.<\/p>\n
\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u0648\u064e\u062f\u0651\u064e\u0639\u064e\u0643\u064e \u0631\u064e\u0628\u0651\u064f\u0643\u064e \u0648\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u0642\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0649\u0670<\/p>\n
\u2018Your Lord has not forsaken you and your Lord is not angry with you\u2019. Allah first responds to the Makkans, and their accusation, \u0645\u064e\u0627 \u0648\u064e\u062f\u0651\u064e\u0639\u064e\u0643\u064e \u0631\u064e\u0628\u0651\u064f\u0643\u064e your Allah has not forsaken you, like they alleged. But Allah also understood that Nabi \ufdfa was not worried about that, he was worried that it should not be Allah who was upset with him. \u0648\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u0642\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0649\u0670, then, Allah gives consolation. Look at the tone of love!<\/p>\n
\u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0644\u0652\u0622\u062e\u0650\u0631\u064e\u0629\u064f \u062e\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0631\u064c \u0644\u064e\u0643\u064e \u0645\u0650\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0623\u064f\u0648\u0644\u064e\u0649\u0670<\/p>\n
\u2018My Nabi, you are going through difficulty and hardship, but what is to come, will be far better for you, than what you are currently having to endure\u2019. In this world, what is to come when you conquer Makkah is far better than what the Makkans are putting you through. Or in the greater scheme of things, what is to come in terms of the reward of the Hereafter, when these very people who are mocking at you will see you at the Haudhe Kauthar, when the doors of Jannah will not open except with your knocking and when the reckoning will not start except with your intercession. They will then bite their hands and wish to die out of regret that they did not understand how much Allah loves you. So, in consolation:<\/p>\n
\u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0644\u0652\u0622\u062e\u0650\u0631\u064e\u0629\u064f \u062e\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0631\u064c \u0644\u064e\u0643\u064e \u0645\u0650\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0623\u064f\u0648\u0644\u064e\u0649\u0670<\/p>\n
Then Allah steps it up and says:<\/p>\n
\u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0633\u064e\u0648\u0652\u0641\u064e \u064a\u064f\u0639\u0652\u0637\u0650\u064a\u0643\u064e \u0631\u064e\u0628\u0651\u064f\u0643\u064e \u0641\u064e\u062a\u064e\u0631\u0652\u0636\u064e\u0649\u0670<\/p>\n
\u2018Oh Muhammad, \ufdfa, I will give you so much, until you become happy.\u2019 Allah says, \u2018my love for you is so much that I will continue to give you, to bless you, until you are pleased.\u2019 So, Nabi \ufdfa was the recipient of this love but look at how he passed on that love.\u00a0 He said, \u2018Oh my Allah, if it is Your promise that You will continue to give me until I am pleased, then Allah, I am stating before You, I will never be pleased until the last individual from my Ummah has been entered into Jannah\u2019.<\/p>\n
What love! This is a Deen of love! Our Allah is a Creator of love! Our Nabi is a Prophet of love. The Qur\u2019\u0101n radiates the message of love: how Allah had love for Rasoolullah \ufdfa and how Rasoolullah \ufdfa had love for you and me.<\/p>\n
{Extracted and adapted from Volume One of the book In Pursuit of Purpose by Ml Sulaimaan Ravat}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 25 February 2026 4-minute read We read Surat-ud-Duha almost every day, in some Salaah or the other, but do we understand that this is a love-story? Others are mesmerized by the love-story of Layla and Majnun, some are taken aback by the love-story of Romeo and Juliet but let\u2019s look at a love-story, that has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":103793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,132,5453],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sabaahul-muslim","category-opinion-and-analysis","category-social"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IN-PURSUIT.webp?fit=493%2C662&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-r2u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 10:59:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}