ACKNOWLEDGMENT DUE
A man dreamt that he went to Heaven and an angel was showing him
around. They walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with
angels. His angel guide stopped in front of the first section and
said, "This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God
said in prayer are received."
The man looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so
many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets
and scraps from people all over the world.
Then they moved on down a
long corridor until they reached the second section. The angel then
said to him, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the
graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and
delivered to the living persons who asked for them." The man noticed
again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at
that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were
being packaged for delivery to Earth.
Finally at the farthest end of
the long corridor they stopped at the door of a very small station.
To his great surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing
nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment Section," the angel friend
quietly admitted to him. The angel seemed embarrassed.
"How is it that? There's no work going on here?" the man asked.
"So sad," the angel sighed. "After people receive the blessings that
they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments".
"How does one nacknowledge God's blessings?" the man asked.
"Simple," the angel answered. "Just say,
"'ALHAMDULILLAHI RABBIL AALAMIIN,
Thank you, Allah'."
What blessings should we acknowledge?
"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof
overhead and a place to sleep ... you are richer than 75% of this world.
"If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in
a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
"And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in
the world who has that opportunity."
Also....
"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness ... you
are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day.
"If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of
imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ....
you are ahead of 700 million people in the world.
"If you can attend Masjid or attend religious meeting without fear
of harassment, arrest, torture, or death .. you are envied by, and
more blessed than, three billion people in the world.
"If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare.
>If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you
are unique to all those in doubt and despair."
If you can read this
message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was
thinking of you as very special, and, you are more blessed than
over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.
Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you want, pass this along to
remind everyone else how blessed we all are. "And Remember Our Allah
has declared that, 'If you are grateful then I will add (more
favors) unto you'". (Ibrahim 14:7)
