{"id":15834,"date":"2017-09-28T03:30:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T03:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/new\/?p=15834"},"modified":"2017-09-28T03:30:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T03:30:42","slug":"reaching-allah-taala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=15834","title":{"rendered":"Reaching Allah Ta\u2018ala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was once a pious villager who set out on the road towards the king\u2019s palace. People asked him, \u201cFarmer! Where are you going?\u201d He replied, \u201cI am going to meet the king.\u201d They laughed at him saying, \u201cLeave meeting the king, they will not even allow you near the palace gates.\u201d The pious man ignored their remarks and continued on the road towards the king\u2019s palace. It so happened that as he neared the palace gates, the king was seated in his tower and his glance fell on the pious man. The king immediately told his men to open the gates and bring the pious villager to him. Accordingly, the pious man was led into the court of the king. The king was seated on his throne. He requested the pious man to come and sit next to him. When he sat next to the king, the king asked him, \u201cTell me, how can we reach Allah Ta\u2018ala?\u201d The pious man replied, \u201cLike how I reached you. I simply took the road that leads to you. When your glance fell on me, you drew me towards you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus in the same way, all we need to do is to take the road towards Allah Ta\u2018ala. When Allah Ta\u2018ala\u2019s glance of mercy falls on us, Allah Ta\u2018ala will draw us towards Him. We should not concern ourselves as to when it will happen. Rather we must continue striving, thus proving our sincerity to Allah Ta\u2018ala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15836,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834\/revisions\/15836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}