How to Trust in Allah?

“Allah is Sufficient for the needs of whoever trusts in Him. (65:3)”

In Islamic traditions, tawakkul (trust in Allah) has been highly praised as the firm sign of one’s faith, piety and complete trust in God. Only those who enjoy true friendship of God can always trust Him, under all conditions in their lives.

Our tawakkul in God guarantees our success in world and hereafter, no matter how difficult the task is and how severe and harsh conditions we are going through in our lives or how powerful are the enemies we are facing.

In order to develop trust in God, we should change our view about our own existence, life of this world, human relationships, hardship and happiness, health and disease, wealth and poverty, success and failure, life and death, and become realistic about ourselves, being a mere creature of God and his Creator, God, the Almighty, Who has created this Universe, from tiniest particle to the mightiest of creatures.

We should realize that God is the ultimate source of every bounty, every success, and every benefit, and no harm can reach us even from the most powerful enemy except with the permission of God and similarly no benefit. We should often ponder about these basic issues of our lives and slowly develop our faith in God, place our hope and trust in Him, often pray to Him and nurture realistic thinking about our future and make a plan for doing good actions, keeping in view both this world and hereafter. In order to do that there are four theoretical recommendations:

Human being though is the most superior creature on Earth, in fact has a very fragile existence. Humans like any other creature are never independent. Additionally, humans like others have no control over their birth, aging and death.

Similarly, disease, failure, sorrows, poverty and other hardships are inherent in human life, from richest to the most powerful human beings, no one can avoid them. Life of this world is meant to test human beings and is not a place of reward and permanent stay.

A person who forgets God as his Almighty Creator and Provider and attributes his successes, possessions, wealth and other worldly things solely to himself is more likely to suffer from harm if he loses them. On the other hand, a believer who places his trust in God is actually saved from anxiety, stress, and depression and other physical and psychological illnesses because of his relationship with God. His hope in God provides him strong support under most difficult moments of his life and gives him strength.

For every living creature, living in this world, life will end one day and the time of death is also not known. It is better that a person should always keep his heart in a state of complete trust with God and not be influenced by physical causes, materialistic things and transient successes and failures, rather one should attach himself to the eternal values set by God.

And there are also four practical recommendations:

Keep in mind the Verses and traditions that confirm the virtues of trust in God. Such as “Allah loves those who trust Him. (3:159)” or as our Prophet says:“Whoever wishes to be the most powerful person among people must trust God.”

Strengthen belief in God, trust in His good turn, and consider His being the source of goodness, originator of reasons, and able to do everything.

“If Allah is your helper, no one can defeat you. However, if He abandons you, who would help you? The true believers trust in Allah. (3:160)”

Pay attention to the nice doing of God and His outstanding care for man all over stages of life, and keep in mind that God will surely guard anybody who depends upon Him and save anybody who seeks His help.

“(Muhammad), say, ‘Nothing will happen to us besides what Allah has decreed for us. He is our Guardian. In Allah alone do the believers trust.’ (9:51)”

Learn lessons from the changeability of this life. Many poor people have become rich, many rich people have become poor, many celebrities have become paupers, and many paupers have become celebrities.