The meaning of being the guest of Allah

The month of Ramadan as the holy Prophet of Islam said, is the moth in which we are invited into the feast of Allah.

There is a Narration in which the holy Prophet of Islam said:

There are some breezes from Allah throughout your lifetime. Be aware, make yourselves exposed to them.

It means that throughout our lifetime there are some opportunities given by Allah, if we do not use them properly in fact we have deprived ourselves from the bounties of those opportunities. Among these breezes is the month of Ramadan. There is a likening that can help us so much to be prepared for the feast of Allah i.e. the month of Ramadan. Let’s Imagine that a messenger from one of the greatest kings of the world has come to us and says: The king has invited you to his feast and he has so much attention to you, he wants to give you very precious gifts and governorship of some regions and above all of these honorable gifts the king is so satisfied with you and so eager to see you and get near to you and even wants to assign you as one of his nearest ones, so in this situation what will be our reaction? How can we make ourselves ready for this very important meeting?

Then we must compare the greatness of this king to the King of the kings, the Lord of the lords, the creator of the worlds and everything in them, the one that is the real Owner of everything that is known as a being. Now we refer to the starting part of this essay. We are invited to the feast of Allah. If we really and honestly believe that there is a God and if we believe that the messenger of Allah does not tell any lie, so what is our reaction to the call of the Prophet of Islam on this invitation?

There is an important point here, when we refer to some Narrations that describe the great rewards of some deeds like the rewards of different deeds of the month of Ramadan it might seem unbelievable for some of us or hard to be believed due to the very vast mentioned rewards of them. For example the Narration that says:

Solving a problem of a believer is better (and has more rewards) than releasing one thousand slaves. Another example is the Narration that states:

The rewards of a man that helps his wife in the house, are as this: he will be rewarded per every hair that is in his body, the rewards of one year of worship in which he has fasted all of its days and has worshiped Allah through all of its nights.

There is a story that is so much meaningful and is the answer to this doubt. Because you know that a lot of times just one likening or story can be very helpful. The story is as following:

Once upon a time a king wanted to go to a land in order to conquer that land, in the way he encountered a little boy. The king asked the son: O little son, what is your name? The son replied: My name is Nasr Allah (meaning: the help of Allah). The king got happy and regarded this name as a good omen, and said that we God-willing will be the winner of the war. The king asked the son: Where are you going? The son replied: To the school for learning the Quran. The king asked the son: Which chapter are you learning? The son replied: The chapter of Fath(meaning: victory). The king regarded it as a good omen too and got so happy and gave a small bag of coin to that son as a gift. The son started to cry. The king asked him: Why are you crying? The little son answered: Because when I go back to the home my mother will beat me and will say: You have stolen these coins. The king said: So, say to her that the king has given me these coins. The son replied: She won’t believe my words and will say that if a king wants to give a gift, due to his great position of kingdom he does not present a little thing but rather he gives something that deserves his great position of being a king. So the king got interested by the answer of this little boy and gave him many coins.

Someone might say that this is just a story that it might not be true, but we say that the trueness or falsehood of this story does not harm our intention from narrating this story, because it is a true fact that the gifts of the very generous people are due to their level of generosity.

Now let’s notice to the All-Mighty Allah, the Owner of the worlds, the being that is not in need of anyone or anything, the One that gives sustenance to all beings, the King of the kings, the most generous of all the generous, so it is very natural and usual that such a generous has so much giving, and as much as our Tawhid or believing in the oneness and unity of Allah gets stronger and deeper, the above mentioned doubt gets solved more easily.