One dua, huge Impact
Wait a minute
This is a post on that one nostalgic dua i used to hear my middle grade class assistant mutter almost all the time beneath her breath—so meditatively. Whenever we would, as a class cause disturbance or the boys would test her patience with their clown-act behavior. Or even when we wouldn’t know the answer to an obvious and easy question. These were her words:
اللهم صبرك يا روح
“Oh Allah will this soul to be patient”
I never forgot these four simple words because before i knew it they subconsciously already left a mark in my heart which eventually came unraveling from somewhere i couldn’t expect as a sacred and close-to-home remembrance that left a lasting impact on my small and unfettered heart at the time.
If there was any one experience of a dua that felt most sincere or effective to me personally, that was asking Allah for patience and relief from a trial in life. Because He knows just how much our soul can take before breaking entirely and without our reliance on He who has created us; our trust in His mercy and omnipresence we wouldn’t be able to tolerate one iota of this life’s turmoils (or perhaps only me).
This dua is a lifeline for me in times of pain and confusion. At times when life felt fairly intolerable and unexplainable. Days of strife towards a specific goal feeling endlessly excruciating. It came to me not as a dream or inspiration from some source outside me. Instead I felt it crawl out of my chest like a rabbit popping from its burrow into the wild. A bird released from its cage to fly away untouched.
My heart instantly feels lighter, softer, and clearer. To seek for his guidance first and for all is not easy especially when it can feel safer or more comfortable hiding behind our vices or self-fulfilling prophecies that work to keep us in this loophole of constant chasing after what is ‘true’ rather than grounded in the conviction that what is true is already the fact of out being. Which without Him, I contest would be impossible.
So muslim or not, the next time someone, or something is trying its uttermost to vex you
Just
Try to say it
Call upon the creator of the Universe to grant you the patience long enough to clock its wisdom and carry it forward with you.
When life feels begins to feel heavy and every interaction feels testing. Just sing this quiet melody under your breath and watch how it transforms your tolerance level to these inconveniences. The mountains that you felt like you were climbing become smooth pathways that you don’t feel tired or exhausted treading on anymore.
And always remebemer: God does not burden a soul beyond what it can bear. Because a burden can either teach you a lesson or lift you from a trial you hadn’t any idea was incoming.
