Surah An-Nisa - 104

Surah An-Nisa — Verse 104

Allah says in the Qur'an:

O Muhammad ﷺ, do not feel saddened by what people want and what they desire and what they're looking for. If you are in pain, then they are in pain just as you are in pain. But you desire Allah and they don't desire Allah.

You desire what you want from this world, you want it from Allah. And they are seeking the same thing from somebody else. We seek to please people.

We seek to make people happy. We are people pleasers. But the rare amongst us — the one who has absorbed the names of Allah and it has ignited his heart — is the one who on a daily basis is thinking, I know Him, I want Him to be pleased with me.

If the whole world abandoned me, I just want Allah to be pleased with me. Because people can never be pleased. As they say:

You can never please everybody.

And so there's a fire in your heart every day — How can I earn the pleasure of Allah?