, God's Kindness
BY MAHEEN RIAZ
Chapter 1
The Creator Who First Loved Us
The One Who Loved Us Before We Knew How to Love Him
There are moments when a person becomes tired of everything.
Tired of explaining.
Tired of pretending to be strong.
Tired of searching for a place where the heart can finally rest.
And sometimes, in the quiet of the night, a question rises from somewhere
deeper than words:
“Does anyone truly know what is inside me?”
The answer is yes.
Allah knows.
,He knows the thoughts you never spoke.
He knows the tears you wiped away before anyone could see them.
He knows the prayers that never became sentences.
He knows the fears you hide behind a smile.
And He is not a distant Creator who brought you into existence and then
abandoned you to find your own way.
He is Ar-Rahman, Ar-Raheem—the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
The Qur'an begins by reminding humanity of this mercy:
“In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most
Merciful.”
— Qur'an 1:1
And these words are not merely an introduction.
They are an invitation.
Before the Qur'an tells us about commands, warnings, struggles, or judgment, it
repeatedly introduces our Lord through mercy.
As though the human heart needs to know first:
Your Creator is not unaware of you.
Before You Knew His Name
Think about the beginning of your own story.
Before you could speak, you were dependent.
Before you could ask for food, you were fed.
Before you understood the world, you were protected by means you could not
even recognize.
You did not create your own eyes.
, You did not design your own heartbeat.
You did not command the sun to rise.
You did not teach the earth to produce food.
You simply arrived—and found an entire world prepared for you.
The Qur'an asks us to look at the signs surrounding us:
“And in the earth are signs for those of faith with certainty, and in
yourselves. Then will you not see?”
— Qur'an 51:20–21
Every breath is a reminder.
Every sunrise is a reminder.
Every moment in which your heart continues to beat without your command is a
reminder:
You are being sustained.
You may forget Allah.
But your forgetting does not make Him forget you.
You may become distracted.
But His knowledge does not become distracted.
You may turn away.
But the door of repentance remains open.
This is one of the most astonishing realities of faith:
We are dependent upon Him at every moment, even during the moments
when we fail to remember Him.
BY MAHEEN RIAZ
Chapter 1
The Creator Who First Loved Us
The One Who Loved Us Before We Knew How to Love Him
There are moments when a person becomes tired of everything.
Tired of explaining.
Tired of pretending to be strong.
Tired of searching for a place where the heart can finally rest.
And sometimes, in the quiet of the night, a question rises from somewhere
deeper than words:
“Does anyone truly know what is inside me?”
The answer is yes.
Allah knows.
,He knows the thoughts you never spoke.
He knows the tears you wiped away before anyone could see them.
He knows the prayers that never became sentences.
He knows the fears you hide behind a smile.
And He is not a distant Creator who brought you into existence and then
abandoned you to find your own way.
He is Ar-Rahman, Ar-Raheem—the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
The Qur'an begins by reminding humanity of this mercy:
“In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most
Merciful.”
— Qur'an 1:1
And these words are not merely an introduction.
They are an invitation.
Before the Qur'an tells us about commands, warnings, struggles, or judgment, it
repeatedly introduces our Lord through mercy.
As though the human heart needs to know first:
Your Creator is not unaware of you.
Before You Knew His Name
Think about the beginning of your own story.
Before you could speak, you were dependent.
Before you could ask for food, you were fed.
Before you understood the world, you were protected by means you could not
even recognize.
You did not create your own eyes.
, You did not design your own heartbeat.
You did not command the sun to rise.
You did not teach the earth to produce food.
You simply arrived—and found an entire world prepared for you.
The Qur'an asks us to look at the signs surrounding us:
“And in the earth are signs for those of faith with certainty, and in
yourselves. Then will you not see?”
— Qur'an 51:20–21
Every breath is a reminder.
Every sunrise is a reminder.
Every moment in which your heart continues to beat without your command is a
reminder:
You are being sustained.
You may forget Allah.
But your forgetting does not make Him forget you.
You may become distracted.
But His knowledge does not become distracted.
You may turn away.
But the door of repentance remains open.
This is one of the most astonishing realities of faith:
We are dependent upon Him at every moment, even during the moments
when we fail to remember Him.
