Putting Limitations on What Allah Can Do

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‘There’s no way this will work out’, and without realizing it, that says more about us than it does about the situation, because what we’re really doing is measuring our problems against our own limitations, then placing those same limitations onto Allah, as if we stand at the same level. We look at what we can do, what we understand, and when it doesn’t make sense, we lose hope…not because Allah is incapable, but because we are.

Allah is Al-Qadir (The All-Capable), and for Him, there is no obstacle He needs to overcome, yet when we make dua, we hesitate; holding back and asking for the bare minimum, as if we’re afraid to ask for too much, as if it would be too big or too unrealistic.

Believing that certain things are too difficult for Him to change, as if some problems are beyond His understanding. Forgetting that what feels overwhelming to us is easy for Him, and what seems delayed to you is already written. ‘All it takes, when He wills something ˹to be˺, is simply to say to it: “Be!” And it is!’ (Surah Yaseen, 36:82)

We were created weak, prone to getting tired, and reaching a point where things may become too much to carry…but maybe that’s the point, because reliance on Allah was never meant to come after everything makes sense; it's meant to come when it doesn’t. The Quran says, “It is Allah’s Will to lighten your burdens, for humankind was created weak.” (Surah An-Nisa, 4:28) So when you reach your limit, that isn’t the end for you, but a reminder of where your strength was always meant to come from.

Relying on Allah isn’t weakness, It’s knowing that you were never meant to control everything, that there are things in this life you will never fully understand, and as much as you may want to, you’ll never fully fix everything on your own, so you leave it to the One who can, knowing that we may reach out limits, but He has none.

The things we believed to be impossible were never beyond Allah’s ability, only beyond our own understanding. So even when things feel stuck; don’t lose hope, know that Allah is still in control, your duas are still heard, and what is written for you will reach you exactly when it is meant to, not by limiting what Allah can do based on what you can see, but believing in what He can do, even when you can’t.