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One Verse. One Story. One Lesson.
Taqwa FM
February 09, 2026
One verse.
“And I have selected you for My service.”
(20:41)
That one line changes how you look at your entire past.
One story.
We have all reached a point where we stop arguing with people and start arguing with Allah—quietly, shamefully, in the privacy of our own thoughts.
You look back at what happened and the same sentence keeps repeating itself, not loudly, not dramatically, but with a dull persistence: This doesn’t make sense. You replay the moments again and again, hoping that if you stare long enough, some hidden wisdom will appear. Instead, the questions turn personal. Why did this happen? Why in this way? Why to me? And eventually you arrive at the thought that frightens you most—I see no good in this at all.
But what if the problem is not that there is no meaning, but that meaning has been delayed? What if these events were never meant to explain themselves while they were breaking you? What if they were not punishments, nor accidents, but preparation—quiet, severe preparation—for something Allah intended you to do long before you ever asked why?
There was once a man who walked through the night with nothing except fatigue and responsibility weighing on him. He was not thinking about destiny or miracles. He was thinking about survival. About how to get through the cold. About how to protect his wife. About how to reach morning without losing what little strength he had left.
The desert was dark, the kind of darkness that offers no direction, only distance. And then he saw it—a fire.
This is a man just trying to survive the night.
Perhaps someone was there. Perhaps, at the very least, there was a way to endure the night.
He said to his wife:
“Wait here, for I have spotted a fire. Perhaps I can bring you a torch from it, or find some guidance at the fire.”
(20:10)
This was Mūsā عليه السلام.
Walking toward a light, with the simple intention of easing the cold and finding direction
not knowing that he was walking toward
the largest moment of his existence.
A moment that would change his future and his mission forever.
Little did he know
he was walking toward an appointment
with the King of Kings.
Little did he know
he was about to hear the Voice of Allah—
the Creator of the heavens and the earth.
And then it happened.
“Ya Musa! It is truly I. I am your Lord!”
(20:11–12)
In that moment,
prophethood was placed on his shoulders.
He asks Allah to help him in the task.
He seeks support and makes some requests.
And Allah responds:
“All that you requested has been granted, Ya Musa. And surely We had shown you favor before.”
(20:36–37)
Before.
Then Allah explains :
“When We inspired your mother with this: ‘Put him into a chest, then put it into the river. The river will wash it ashore, and he will be taken by an enemy of Mine and his.’
And I endeared you with love from Me so that you would be brought up under My Eye.
When your sister came along and proposed, ‘Shall I direct you to someone who will nurse him? So We reunited you with your mother so that her heart would be put at ease, and she would not grieve.
Later you killed a man, but We saved you from sorrow, as well as other tests We put you through.
Then you stayed for a number of years among the people of Midian.
Then you came here as pre-destined, O Moses!
And I have selected you for My service.” (30:38-41)
Nothing in his life was ever random.
Up until this conversation,
Mūsā AS had no idea why any of this happened.
And now, standing there, Mūsā عليه السلام begins to understand why his life had always appeared so fractured, so relentlessly broken at the seams.
Born with a death sentence. Torn from his mother’s arms. Placed, with unbearable irony, inside the very house of the enemy who had ordered his death. Then accidentally he did something irreversible—forcing him to flee. He became homeless, hunted, stripped of status and protection, reduced from the luxury of palace life to the weight of ten long years of manual labor, working not toward ambition but simply toward survival.
Until this very conversation, he had no idea why any of it had happened.
But now—now he knows.
Allah had always been overseeing him. Protecting him, guiding him in ways that looked, from the outside, like loss. Preparing him.
None of it was wasted.
The hardships were actually a carefully planned training.
Allah was preparing him. For Himself. Allah selected Musa AS for his service. He was chosen for a mission and to be able to carry that, he needed the training. Nothing was random.
Musa AS must have felt behind in life because of all that happened before this moment. But Allah said : “you came here as pre-destined, Ya Musa.”
Not early and definitely not late. Exactly on the time Allah destined.
One Lesson :
Now bring this into your own life.
Not every separation is a loss.
Some separations are extractions.
Allah removes people, paths, and attachments because they would have weakened you where you are going. What feels like abandonment is sometimes protection you cannot yet recognize.
Not every delay is a denial.
Some delays are structural pauses.
The soul has weight limits. If Allah were to place the future on you too early, it would crush you. So He reinforces you quietly—through waiting, restraint, and unanswered questions.
Not every humiliation is disgrace.
Some humiliations are detachment training.
Allah loosens your need for approval, applause, and validation. He teaches the heart to stand without being held up by people.
This is how preparation works.
Like Mūsā AS, you may not understand why you were placed where you were.
Why you were removed from what felt safe.
Why life pushed you into versions of yourself you never asked to become.
Preparation is rarely gentle.
It is precise.
The river did not drown Mūsā.
It carried him.
Your river may look different:
discrimination,
rejection,
obscurity,
being misunderstood,
being unseen.
If you are in a season where nothing makes sense, hold onto this:
Suffering is not proof that Allah is distant.
Sometimes it is proof that He is intimately involved.
One day—perhaps suddenly—clarity will arrive.
Patterns will emerge.
The past will stop looking chaotic.
And you will realize:
You were being prepared.
Mūsā AS was among the most beloved of Allah’s creation, yet Allah allowed him to suffer deeply. That tells us trials are signs of Allah’s love—not abandonment.
Mūsā was separated from his mother—and reunited.
And we too may be separated:
Just as Mūsā was reunited,
we too will be reunited—
today, or tomorrow,
or in a way Allah knows is best.
One Question for you :
What if every moment I call failure—the losses, the delays, the rejections, the doors that closed and left me feeling behind—was Allah deliberately undoing the version of me that could not carry what He is preparing me for, shaping me not for ease or recognition, but for His service?
Dhikr of the week:
رَبِّ اشْرَحْ لِي صَدْرِي
وَيَسِّرْ لِي أَمْرِي
وَاحْلُلْ عُقْدَةً مِّن لِّسَانِي
يَفْقَهُوا قَوْلِي
Translation :
“My Lord, expand my chest for me,
and make my task easy for me,
and untie the knot from my tongue,
so that they may understand my speech.”
Reference:
📖 Surah Ṭā-Hā (20:25–28)
This is the duʿāʾ of Mūsā عليه السلام before confronting Firʿawn—seeking inner expansion (ṣadr), ease in responsibility, clarity in speech, and true understanding from those who hear.
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