You aren’t more difficult to see than a black ant, scampering over a black rock, under the cover of the darkest of moonless nights.
You aren’t more difficult to hear than Yoonus (as) was when he cried out in the belly of a whale, in the darkness and depth of the night sea.
What is inside you isn’t harder to know than every single leaf that changes colour and falls off of every autumn tree.
Allah (swt) sees you, hears you, and knows what is hidden so deep within yourself that it may still be a mystery even to you.
He can distinguish your quiet whispering voice from the voices of billions of others. The bustling of marketplace shouts and arguments do not drown you out. The roaring of stormy oceans do not drown you out. Your voice doesn’t crackle or get cut off when you’re calling out to Him. This isn’t a long distance phone call.
Your suffering isn’t unknown to Him. Your anger isn’t unknown to Him. That which you’ve suppressed and controlled within you isn’t unknown to Him. The truth of everything, though you may be hiding it from everyone else, isn’t unknown to Him.
There is never a moment when His seeing, hearing, or knowledge fail.
Why, then, do you seek to be seen or heard or understood solely by His creation whose seeing, hearing, and knowledge fail all the time? They can’t see what’s behind the external, can’t hear except that which you say out loud, and can’t understand that which you have protected with fortresses within you. No matter how much you desire for others to understand your secret self, there will always be a barrier between you and them.
Everyone is hiding something. If all that is hidden is known only to Him, it must follow that true contentment and true ease and true peace can be sought only at His door.
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