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Today, I got a good piece of advice from my ustaz. He said, " Great people don't cry ".
Masha Allah. I was taken aback with his words. Great people are the one who has good and intimate relationship with his Lord and also with the people around (Hablun minallah wa hablun minannas). Great people only cry when they're in front of their Lord, in the early morning at which time others are asleep and they are prostrating to their Lord and hoping for His pleasure.
Tahajjud prayer is like a poisonous arrow, because you shoot at all your problems, at all your enemies. Isn't it so awesome to tell our problems, difficulties and hardships to the One who creates us, the One who knows everything about us, be it our past or the future? Masha Allah. May Allah give us the strength to pray tahajjud and feel the intimacy of a good relationship with Allah.
On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said:
If Allah has loved a servant [of His] He calls Gabriel (on whom be peace) and says: I love So-and-so, therefore love him. He (the Prophet peace be upon him) said: So Gabriel loves him. Then he (Gabriel) calls out in heaven, saying: Allah loves So-and-so, therefore love him. And the inhabitants of heaven love him. He (the Prophet peace be upon him) said: Then acceptance is established for him on earth. And if Allah has abhorred a servant [of His], He calls Gabriel and says: I abhor So-and-so, therefore abhor him. So Gabriel abhors him. Then Gabriel calls out to the inhabitants of heaven: Allah abhors So-and-so, therefore abhor him. He (the Prophet peace be upon him) said: So they abhor him, and abhorrence is established for him on earth.
It was related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari, Malik, and at-Tirmidhi).
May Allah make us among the people of Jannah.
Amin.
