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The Hidden Reality
Taqwa FM
August 14, 2025
Bismillah.
📖 One Verse
"There they found a servant of Ours, to whom We had granted mercy from Us and enlightened with knowledge from Our Own."
(Surah Al-Kahf 18:65)
📜 One Story – Mūsā (AS) Meets Al-Khiḍr (AS)
Mūsā (AS) — the man who spoke directly to Allah, split the sea, received the Torah, and was perhaps the most knowledgeable man alive — is told:
“There’s someone who knows what you don’t. Go learn from him.”
Think about that.
A Prophet, already the teacher of an entire nation, now steps into the role of a student. And Allah doesn’t even reveal the teacher’s name. Just: “one of Our slaves.”
Here’s the twist: This wasn’t knowledge of revelation — Mūsā (AS) already had that.
This was knowledge of reality — the unseen wisdom behind events, the hidden reasons why things happen.
Al-Khiḍr (AS) had been gifted this knowledge directly from Allah — something no human could acquire through study alone.
From the start, Al-Khiḍr (AS) warns:
“You will not be able to have patience with me.”
This is the same Mūsā (AS) who faced Pharaoh fearlessly, who reassured his terrified people by the sea: “My Master is with me; He will guide me.”
Yet he’s told: You don’t have enough ṣabr.
And Al-Khiḍr (AS) was right.
When a poor fisherman’s boat is damaged, Mūsā (AS) protests.
When a boy is killed, Mūsā (AS) protests again.
When a wall is repaired for a people who refused to host them, Mūsā (AS) questions again.
But in each case, Al-Khiḍr (AS) was acting with mercy:
The damaged boat was spared from being seized by a tyrant king.
The boy’s death spared his righteous parents from a devastating future.
The repaired wall protected treasure meant for two orphans until they matured.
Mūsā (AS) saw the front-end of events — the visible screen.
Al-Khiḍr (AS) saw the back-end — the divine code Allah had written.
Allah is showing us: there is always a reason, but He chooses not to reveal it most of the time.
💡 One Lesson
Most of life works like this:
We see the visible events. We don’t see the invisible wisdom.
We lose a job.
We get sick.
Someone walks out of our life.
A door we prayed for stays shut.
And we think: Why, Allah?
Because in our minds, if we knew the “why,” we’d finally be at peace.
But this story is Allah’s way of saying:
There is always a “why.” You just don’t get to see it now.
The test isn’t in understanding the plan.
The test is in trusting the Planner.
And if Mūsā (AS), a Prophet, struggled with that patience — you and I will too.
That’s why it’s a mercy to know: unseen wisdom exists, even when it’s hidden from us.
So next time you face what feels unfair and unexplainable, tell yourself:
“I am seeing the front of the screen. Allah sees the code.”
And that is enough.
❓ One Question for You
When I resist Allah’s plan while seeing only the front screen — am I claiming to be wiser than Al-Ḥakīm, more merciful than Ar-Raḥmān, and more just than Al-‘Adl?
🕋 Dhikr of the Week
قَدَّرَ اللهُ وَما شـاءَ فَعَـل
Qaddarallāhu wa mā shā’a faʿal
Allah has decreed, and He does whatever He wills.
“When you are stricken by some setback, do not say: ‘If only I had done such and such,’ but say: ‘It is the Decree of Allah and He does whatever He wills.’ For indeed, saying ‘if only’ opens the door for Shayṭān.”
(Muslim 4/2052)
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p.s. May Allah cultivate in our hearts complete trust in His Qadr. Also shoutout to Ustadh Nouman for doing a Khutbah on this.
Until next Thursday, in shā’ Allāh.
— Aaira