A “Good Word” according to Quran

Cafe Bistro by Anubhav Shekhar

Have you not considered how Allah presents an example, [making] a good word like a good tree, whose root is firmly fixed and its branches [high] in the sky? It produces its fruit all the time, by permission of its Lord. And Allah presents examples for the people that perhaps they will be reminded.
- Surah Ibrahim verse 24,25

Above verse has following major parts

1. Advise; Speak Good Word

2. Advantages; Fixed, High, Fertile

3. Submit; Surrender to your Creator

1. Advise

Kennedy Space Center, United States by Bill Jelen

In a gathering, class room, home, school van, the court or a club; be gentle. Speak truth. Act sober. Live humble. Bow. Submit. Act easy to crush.

Not an easy task. You are provoked and you are expected to lower your voice. I accept, not easy. It takes nerves.

Build temperament, slowly, gradually you will make it. I haven’t yet seen what it is like. But, the good words, the good life style, the goodness made louder, bears fruit.

2. Advantage

McCall by Eric Muhr

1 Fixed

Do not move after you have spoken good words. Not alter. Not shift. Stick to your footings. Hardened and head high. Today on, it is a Power that is backing you.

2 High

You are teenager. Or a kid. Doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what limits confine you. Your strength or your courage is not in question here. You can be weaker than an ant. Or you can be one broken / disfigured human being. You can also be a homeless or discarded member of your town. Doesn’t matter.

Good words spoken louder, consistently, courageously will make you bigger and higher. Your days will change. Your income will rise. You will be elevated in your town, city and your nation. You will be regarded, decorated and crowned. You will stand victorious if you speak good, even when you are told you will die.

3 Fertile

The essay written by you. The tire repaired by you. The tucks sold by you. Your words, your products, your scripts will bear fruit. Your doors and windows will show you gardens of oranges, mangoes and apples. Your life will bring you abundance. You will not be able to tell it, prove it or show it. But the abundance, will make you smile sitting inside a chaos and feel fine.

3. Submission

Humble by Ben White

It started raining. I was sitting in the garden and writing this blog. And thick black clouds surfaced. Initially it was pretty. Later it became dread-ly. Now it is all water. Tapping down the metal sheet. Thundering clouds and no birds chirp or wind. Just that, water in all its might.

If you see it, the work of Allah, you will go in awe. You will not undermine yourself. Neither your work nor your talks. In the skies it is all good. The sin you committed and the good you did. All is just an act and God is awaiting your humility to forgive you. To liberate you and to make you rich.

He doesn’t want you label yourself Muslim. Your people Jew. He wants you be good. That is all he asks you to be. To be a good person. Who sees the nature, then his hands, blinks, taps, thinks and talks, only to grasp “He is bigger” then all of it in front of himself. As you hit it, the love for your creator, you really do not stay poor anymore.

The broken mat, the muddy roof and the wood stove doesn’t bring you misery. You do not have the eyes that can see poverty around you. The abundance makes you go lost inside it. You do not value the song, the rhythm and the drum beats. And everything, on Allah’s directives, throws all of its wealths, jewels and crowns towards you. Your “life” comes at you with only “luxury”, as it doesn’t have anything else to give you.

Conclusion

Masjid Abdullah Shaleh by Utsman Media

Your daughter marriage not working out? Your business is coming cracking down? Your loved one died? You are sitting in your prison for an eternity? You are snubbed, pushed or attacked?

Quran. The solution is only inside it. The book. It will elevate you. Liberate you. Decorate you. Make you rich. Humble. Human. And one amazing leader. Whose talk bears fruit. Whose act sets others lose. Whose emotions are songs and whose fights are stories.

Be the Hero Quran wants out of you. Be it. And Enjoy the Freedom of an eternity. Not in next life. Not 10 years from today. Not tomorrow. Become the hero Today, that Allah magically transforms you Today!