Call on Him, He will answer you.

Allah (swt) has said, "Call on Me, and I will answer you" (40:60),  and "Most beautiful are My Names, so call upon me by them" (7:180)

I wanted to share some good that happened to me this morning.  The People of the Book (the Christians) would call it a "praise report".  I woke up this morning with a sharp seering pain in my wrist from my Rheumatoid Arthritis.  It was so sharp that it caught my breath.  All I could think to say was 'Ya Shafi!'  (Oh Healer!).  And suddenly, the above ayat (verses) came to memory. My pain left me.  I tried to bend my wrist.  It moved smoothly and without the least pain at all.

My pain does not always leave this way, pain of body or pain of heart.  Sometimes it blesses me in other ways, but alhamdulillah, this morning was a special reminder that the words of Ar-Raheem (the Merciful) can often be very literal and immediate to even our simple understanding.  Whether it is immediate or not, in a way we understand or not, Al-Haqq (the Truth) promises to answer.  "...and Allah swt will not fail in His promise." (39:20)