The Ultimate Mercy of Allah ﷻ

 Allah ﷻ is the most merciful to His creation, believers & disbelievers included. He is in charge of provision and life for all of them, blesses them with nourishments, health, well-being, happiness, luxuries, wealth.

Without keeping the Islamic Golden Age (العصر الإسلامي الذهبي) - 800s to 1300s in mind, noticed how all nonbelievers across world are more successful than most of the believers, in this current era?

Look at the west, USA, UK, Canada, and the likes. They possess military, technological, capitalistic, medical, and AI supremacy, alongside research and banking dominance. Their intellectual influence has permeated every Muslim household to the point of each family in the East contains some sort of Muslim subconsciously engrained with liberalistic values who won't stop listening to music, neglect the 5 prayers, obsess themselves in fashion, all while drowning in the hedonistic hole of entertainment and social-media, while frying their dopamine receptors, and losing تقوى of Allah.

Disbelievers are fully focused in the Duniya. They neglect focusing on the Creator, their Rabb (ربهم) and our Rabb (ربنا) created us from sounding clay moulded from black mud [15:28] and regardless, subjects them to the breath of oxygen, ray of sunshine, drop of rain, moment of motherly love, act of kindness, averted tragedy, as one of the observable manifestations of this mercy. However, does that mean disbelievers don't feel the empty void in their heart? The feeling of emptiness and blankness of the Soul not recognizing their Rabb?

وَمَنْ أَعْرَضَ عَن ذِكْرِى فَإِنَّ لَهُۥ مَعِيشَةًۭ ضَنكًۭا

But whoever turns away from My Reminder will certainly have a miserable life...

[20:124]

One of Allah's 99 names is the most Just (Al-Adl), despite their disbelief, gives them the reward in the Duniya:

"Whoever desires this fleeting world ˹alone˺, We hasten in it whatever We please to whoever We will;"

But then,

then We destine them for Hell, where they will burn, condemned and rejected. [17:18]

So whenever we hear Surah Al Ala being recited in Jummah prayers, perform Tadabbur (contemplation of the meaning) of this ayah:

بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا ١٦

But you ˹deniers only˺ prefer the life of this world,

وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌۭ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ ١٧

even though the Hereafter is far better and more lasting.

[Surah Al Ala 16-17]

Richness of the Arabic Language

 Allah (الحكيم) chose the Arabic language for His final book to the mankind the Qur'an (الْقُرْآن) for a reason. While English, French, and Russian languages have around 500,000 words, 150,000 words, and 130,000 words in its vocabulary respectively, Arabic language اللغة العربية

has 12.3 million words in its own, making it the richest language in vocabulary, by far. To give you an understanding, there are around 500 names in Arabic for a lion, more than a 100 for love, 80 for a sword etc. no other language competes with Arabic in richness. Ibn Faris says, “When Allah the Exalted chose Arabic to explain (His words), it showed that the other languages, abilities and levels were below Arabic.” (As-Shahibi fi Fiqh al-Lughah, 1/4) Not knowing the Arabic language is the main why we all have sects in Islam! Especially in the Asian subcontinent, every beginner, student of knowledge is coming up with his/her own interpretation of Quranic ayahs and ahadith. The Quran was revealed in Arabic. Prophet Muhammad ﷺ spoke in Arabic. The Sahabah spoke in Arabic. Start learning Arabic to understand the religion of Allah in the purest form. People read a single translation of a single translator of a Hadith or Quran ayah in English, Urdu, Hindi, Turkish, Malay, etc and misquote it in a completely different example without knowing the context of the Hadith or Ayah and the literal meaning of the Arabic words. Give at-least 30 minutes of your day in learning Arabic (MSA) / Classical Fusha. I recommend first starting with learning Arabic from the Quran. You will never recognise the beauty of Allah’s word unless you learn Arabic, the raw pure form in which the Criterion was revealed! At least learn the language to an extent to understand the context and theme of the ayah whenever the Imam recites in prayers. Umar bin al-Khattab [May Allah be pleased with him] said, تعلموا العربية فإنها تثبت العقل وتزيد في المروءة “Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct” Source: Shu’ab al-Eemaan, al-Bayhaqi (4/187)