Would You Let the Most Powerful Day Pass You By?

This Isn't Just Another Day..

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Picture yourself standing in the heat of the scorching sunlight, all drenched from head to toe with beads of sweat forming on your forehead, your clothes covered with dust , throat dry from thirst yet you are not bothered one bit.

Because, you're standing on the plains of Arafah.

Tears stream down your cheeks, lips trembling, arms raised with hopes sky high, pleading for mercy from Allah. No other distractions. Just you and your Lord.

You're not asking with elegant words. You're not even speaking in full formed sentences. Just whispers. Broken tears. Fragments. And still, you know He hears you.

Because this is the day of Arafah. The day when Allah draws nearest.

The day when Allah boasts of His servants to the angels, the very angels who obey Him day and night while we sin and falter.

The day when He forgives more people than on any other day of the year.

Jabir reported: The Messenger of Allah, (SAWS) said, "No days are better to Allah than the first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah." A man said, "O Messenger of Allah, are they better or time spent waging jihad in the way of Allah?" The Prophet said, "They are better than time spent waging jihad in the way of Allah. No day is better to Allah than the day of Arafat. Allah descends to the lowest heaven and He boasts to the inhabitants of the heavens about the inhabitants of the earth, saying: Look at My servants, appearing disheveled and dusty. They came from every mountain pass hoping for My mercy. They do not see My punishment, yet they do not see that on no day are more saved from Hellfire than the day of Arafat."

Source: Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān 3853

But now... You open your eyes. And you're not there.

You're not actually there. There is a barrier, a screen, between you and that sacred place. You are not standing on the plains of Arafah neither are you surrounded by billions of pilgrims.

You're in the comfort of your home, the shade of your room's curtains. Caught in the blur of routine, noise, and distraction.

Yet by Allah's will, He chose you to be alive today. To witness this prestigious day. This one day still came for you too. You may not be present there with your body. But your heart can still stand there.

If Laylatul Qadr is unknown, then the Day of Arafah is known!

This is the day that has the power to change your life. Your duas to be answered. Your sins from the past and present all to be wiped away. A day where Allah's Mercy descends to the lowest of the lowest skies. The day where Allah boasts about His vicegerents to the angels, to the angels! A creation that not a nano- second passes by that they do not stop praising and obeying His commands. Can you imagine the speciality? A day where Allah looks at His servants, sinful, struggling, broken but still loves them anyways. A day where Ar-Rahman (The Most Merciful) and Ar Raheem (The Most Compassionate) frees His servants from the blazing fire of Hell the most than any other day.

Now that you've been gifted to witness this day.. What will you ask for?

Because if there was a day to fall into sujood and pour your heart's deepest desires, it is this day.

If there was ever a moment to ask for healing, for guidance to the straight path, for peace of mind, for strength within, for forgiveness it's now.

This isn't the day to act all composed and strong. No, it's not! It's a day to let out all those buried emotions, those tears. It's a day to be vulnerable. This is not the day to be perfect. It's the day to be honest. To be real.

It's the day to ask Him for the kind of peace that reaches parts of you that you don't even understand.

To ask for clarity in those paths, those areas of life you don't seem to comprehend.

To ask Him for the kind of future where you don't just survive but thrive with faith. Where your faith is alive, where your worship isn't a burden, where you run to Him when life falls apart, instead of collapsing at the hands of people.

It's the day to ask for everything even the things you thought are too impossible.

Because nothing is impossible for the Creator of the Heavens and the earth.

Ask for the people of Palestine 🍉 for their justice, for their victory, for freedom from the occupation. For those mothers who hold pieces of their little ones and still say "Alhumdulillah." For the child who wakes up to rubble instead of breakfast. For the father burying his entire family with hands covered in dust. Ask like it's your brother trapped under the rubble, your own mother sleeping on the hospital floor, your very home burned down to smoke and ashes.

Don't just make du'a. Feel it deep within your heart.

Let your heart bleed for them in prayer because their pain is real, and this day is too sacred to pass by in comfort and silence.

Ask for the dream that keeps you up at night , the job you desperately need, the career you're unsure about, the success you feel so far from.

For the marriage you're hoping for, the soul you want to build a home of Sakina(peace) with.

For your child , the one you hold, the one you lost, the one you long for but haven't yet been given. Ask for their protection, their guidance, their faith.

Ask for your past sins to be forgiven and your future to be blessed with righteousness and taqwa (Fear of Allah).

Ask for a death upon the Shahdah not just from the tongue but also from heart, and a standing before Allah where your record is filled with sincerity of intentions , not just action.

Last but not the least don't forget to hold on tightly to the greatest du'a ever made on this day, the du'a every Prophet (AS) before you made. The du'a our beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAWS) called "The best supplication made on the Day of 'Arafah."

Recite it in abundance and repeat it often. Let it settle into your soul. Say it like you're speaking to the One you love most without pause, without running out of energy, like your heart could echo it forever just like you can talk all day and night with the one whom you love, telling them how precious they are to you.

Let this be the day your heart turned back to it's Creator. The day your soul awakened.

The day your du'as pour like rain and your sins fall off like autumn leaves from branches.

Even if you ended up wasting the rest of Dhul Hijjah was"This one day could still save you".

May Allah (SWT) forgive us, wash away our sins, free us from the hellfire, allow our hearts and our tongues to be filled with His remembrance and allow us to make the most of this blessed day, Aameen.