The Seeker and What is Sought are Both Weak

22:73

“People, here is an illustration, so listen carefully: those you call on beside God could not, even if they combined all their forces, create a fly, and if a fly took something away from them, they would not be able to retrieve it. How feeble are the petitioners and how feeble are those they petition!” (22:73)

The message of this ayah (verse) is deeply profound. Every time you run after, seek, or petition something weak or feeble (which, by definition, is everything other than Allah), you too become weak or feeble. Even if you do reach that which you seek, it will never be enough. You will soon need to seek something else. You will never reach true contentment or satisfaction. That is why we live in a world of trade-ins and upgrades. Your phone, your car, your computer, your woman, your man, can always be traded in for a newer, better model.

If something finite, temporary and fading becomes the center of our life, the raison d’etre (reason for existing), we will surely break. The imperfect object that we place at our center will—by definition—fade, let us down, or pass away. And our break will occur as soon as it does. What happens if, while climbing a mountain, you hang on to a twig to hold all your weight? Laws of physics tell us that the twig, which was never created to carry such weight, will break. Laws of gravity tell us that it is then that you will most certainly fall. This is not a theory. It is a certainty of the physical world. This reality is also a certainty of the spiritual world.

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4 Comments

  • Eman

    جزاك الله خيرا

  • Ummmatthew

    Really beautiful, I posted it on Fb along with a verse from the Bible. Alhamduli Allah that He guided us to islam.

  • Samia Arooj

    Now I have known, why I cannot find perfection in this world?Thanks dear sister.

  • Haajar

    This Ayat always brings tears to my eyes. It is so very powerful, it portrays so very clearly how weak we humans are and how great the Creator is. Indeed, weak is the pursuer and the pursued.

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