We’ve all heard about the importance of willpower and discipline when it comes to achieving our goals.
But what very few people talk about is the importance of “Allah will” power.
One of the biggest mistakes people make is they set big, audacious, hairy, scary goals, and then they try to force themselves to be really disciplined and achieve the goal all by themselves. Then, they get stressed, frustrated or give up on it altogether.
The ‘do it all by yourself’ approach is all well and good for a goal that is simple and left brain and rational and very easily achievable if you take action every day. However, for most of the juicy goals in life – like finding your dream partner or creating a big successful business or generating double the income that you currently do – for these big goals, some things are within your control, and there are a lot of factors that are not in your control.
That’s why for these types of goals, if you solely depend on willpower, even if you’re the strongest, most disciplined person in the world, you’re still basically playing the game on hard mode, and I like to play the game of life on easy mode.
How do you do that?
By depending on “Allah will” power.
What does that mean?
You do your part – you make the prayer and you do the work – and then you leave the outcome to Allah. You absolutely trust and depend on the prayer that you make to Allah. (In the Islamic belief system, it is obligatory to believe that Allah will fulfil your prayers, while you’re making the prayer and while you work towards it).
Here’s why this works so well:
Sometimes people doubt themselves and their ability and whether they’re good enough to achieve their goal. But in my experience, believers never doubt that Allah can make the goal happen. That would almost be blasphemous and totally incongruent for a mindful believer.
Not only do we never doubt that Allah can make the goal happen – but we never doubt that Allah can do it faster, quicker, easier, with zero effort compared to His Infinite Power, and in a much better way than any of us, mere mortals, ever could.
The reason I never doubt my ability to achieve any goal is because I know that in reality, I’m not the one doing the achieving. When something good comes to my life. I know it’s a blessing from Allah. And when I take action, I know that is also a blessing from Allah.
We believe that Allah created you and your actions. All the goodness is coming from the same Source.
What this does to my mindset is wonderful.
It means that I can take action without having any stress or burden or concern about whether I’ll be successful or not. Because even when I’m successful, it’s not really me, it’s Allah that made it appear that I’m the successful one. And when I’m not successful (on my made up, imaginary time line), then I don’t slow down or stop or give up, any more than I would stop praying 5 times a day or fasting during Ramadan.
I’m just doing my part and leaving the ‘heavy lifting’ to Allah, the Most Powerful.
This is one of the reasons why we say “Masha’Allah” (as Allah willed it) when you or someone you know achieves a goal or has a blessing. It really is all Allah’s doing that we’re benefitting from and occasionally, foolishly attributing to ourselves.
So if you’re done with trying to achieve your goals by depending on your own self discipline and willpower and unconsciously disconnecting yourself from Allah in the process…
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