When a friend, a relative, or an acquaintance invites us to their house or to a social event, we usually tend to respond in two ways. Either we graciously accept their invitation, or we politely decline because we simply have other commitments. It also often happens that when we respond in the negative, we tend to feel bad while turning down an invite. Imagine a situation where your friend invites you over for lunch. You turn down the invitation, but he or she invites you again the next day. Obviously, the friend is interested in spending time with you because he or she must really like you. You refuse again. The next day, your friend invites you once more for lunch. You will respond in either of two ways. You will feel bad and finally accept the invite, or you will decline once more. After having his or her invitation rejected the third time, the friend will cease inviting you because, fortunately or unfortunately, he will notice that you are not interested.
Hayya ʿala ‘l-falāḥ, Hayya ʿala ‘l-falāḥ! Come to success, Come to success!
A call. An invite. A call that we have always heard, continue to hear, and will always hear five times a day until the Last day. It is an invitation that we casually decline without even feeling the slightest guilt. Yet, no matter how many times we reject this call, we will receive this invite several times in the same day, till we cease to exist. The CALLER, the Invitee, must really love us to never quit calling us to HIM. But what kind of humans are we? Ignorance and rude?, turning down one call after another?. How unfortunate some are! This is not an invitation to a petty social gathering or a lunch. It is the ultimate invitation to real success. While we spend our lives running after people whom we want to impress for a promotion, a salary raise, friendship or other personal gains, we have the Almighty, who wants us to come to ultimate success. It is the success that far outweighs all other worldly successes. But in our lack of eemaan, we simply turn down the call to real success, the success that will save us from calamity and failure. We decline this invite from a Creator who will never fail us, never leave us, and, in fact, will give us more than we could ever ask for.
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