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WHERE DOES THE HUMILITY OF BELIEVERS COME FROM?
In the Qur'an, Allah commands believers to be humble. Our Prophet, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, also states in one of his hadiths as follows:
"Allah has revealed to me that you should humble yourselves to one another.
One should neither hold himself above another nor transgress against an-
other.'' (Muslim)
Believers are those who know that Allah created everything, that all things belong to
Him and that it is He Who gives to human beings their every blessing. For this rea-
son, no matter how good-looking, rich, intelligent or respected they may be, they
never become arrogant. The Qur'an tells us that believers are humble:
The servants of the All-Merciful are those who walk on the earth in humility
and, who, when the ignorant speak to them, say, "Peace." (Surat al-
Furqan: 63)
Allah announces the good news to the believers of the reward
for this good morality:
… Your God is One God so submit to Him. Give good news
to the humble-hearted. (Surat al-Hajj: 34)
HOW CAN WE REMEMBER ALLAH?
Believers know that Allah sees and hears them at every moment and that He creates everything
that happens to them. Every moment of their lives they remember to think about Him. They
do this by trying their best to keep Allah in their minds, to know that He has created every-
thing and every event that comes their way, to consider what meaning He intends for them in
these events, to try to understand the hidden meaning of creation, and they tell other people
about all these things. Allah tells us in the Qur'an that believers remember Him at all times:
[People with intelligence are] those who remember Allah, standing, sitting and lying on
their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the Earth [saying]: "Our Lord,
You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the pun-
ishment of the Fire." (Surah Al ‘Imran: 191)
In a hadith, the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, describes
the remembrance of Allah as below:
Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, stated: "As my servant thinks about Me so will I be
for him. I am with him if he will remember Me. If he calls on Me in himself I will call
him in Myself, and if he calls on Me in a group of people, I mention him in a better
group in My presence. If he approaches Me one handspan, I will approach him one
arm's length; if he approaches Me one arm's length, I will approach him by a cubit; if
he comes to Me walking, I will come to him running." (Bukhari and Muslim)
