Footsteps by Umm Zakiyyah

Author:Umm Zakiyyah
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: love, marriage, muslims, divorce, islam, muslim women, polygamy, muslim fiction, polygamy in islam, islamic fiction
Publisher: Umm Zakiyyah

Tamika thought about Dee as she listened to Sister Nusaybah talk about Allah’s wisdom in granting humans only a short time on earth. The Creator had made life short, and signs of its transience were all around for those who had eyes to see. The burst of life in the spring, the drying, colored leaves in the fall, and the naked, barren trees covered in snow and ice in winter. All were indicators that nothing could be taken for granted. Even the excruciating heat of summer was a reminder that there was a coolness of eternal life promised to those who bore with patience the heat of life on earth. Everything in life was a test. Money, beauty, children, even a husband or wife. None of these should take firm root in the heart as to inspire one to lose focus on the brevity of life itself. Nothing the human possessed was worth anything if not aiding him, or her, in drawing closer to Allah. Life was akin to sacrifice, and sometimes sacrifice was not physical, but of the heart. With children, one had to realize they did not belong to the parent, but to the Creator himself. They were but loans from Allah to test His servants on how they would fulfill, and pay, this significant trust. The same applied to one’s money, beauty, and marriage itself. Tamika found herself pondering the latter and wondered how, and if, she were fulfilling her trust.

Allah’s Ulooheeyah, the Creator’s sole right to worship on the earth, was a vast topic, Tamika was learning, that stretched far beyond prayer itself. It was the last of the three categories of Tawheed and it delineated the creation’s relationship with the Creator, the only one worthy of worship, and the only one worthy of one’s ultimate love, hope, and fear. Every word spoken from the lips, every movement of the limbs, and every action of the heart was, for the believer, a form of worship in this world. Prayer was the most evident form of worship, but it was not the only form. Worship was not limited to a formal recital and prostration before one’s God.

Allah created in all humans a fitrah, an in-born nature that recognized Him alone as their Lord. This fitrah endowed the human with worship as an innate trait. Thus, worship was not, in essence, a choice for the human, but a matter of fact. Pagans consciously worshipped an idol, animal, or human being. Believers consciously worshipped the Creator of the stone, animal, and human being. Each disbeliever believed his object of worship to be the manifestation of or means of closeness to the One true God. Some pagans even claimed monotheism if the object of worship was singular as opposed to plural, even as it was creation and not the Creator himself.

What was compelling about the nature of the human being was that, in reality, he had no choice. He had to worship something. This was the nature with which Allah created him.

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