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Two years old minds

“Pick up the ball, sweetic, pick up the ball, don’t drop it….very gooooood, bring it to Mommy now, baby—no, pick it up—bring it—come on……”

I’m an editor. I would lose it if I had to edit that sentence. I would flat quit. But that’s the way I’ve been talking for the past 3 months or so since my daughter has become able to send and receive verbal communication on some level.

But—-re-reading that—-that’s a lot of work. These days we would trash any computer with memory chip that required so much redundant input, and with such a high failure rate! Seriously, wouldn’t we? But the 2-year-old is cute, is young , is…very like us, actually.

Coaching my daughter to carry out simple commands, instead of getting frustrated. I remembered how difficult it is for so much of humanity to remember and implement Allah’s commands.

Very simple once. “Remember Me often.” “Worship Me” “Do not associate anything with me in worship.”

How often are these commands issued in the Quran, and reiterated by His Messenger (S.A.W.)? And how high is our success rate?

As muslim, over and over we hear, read write and repeat the same adhkar. Yet straightforward messages like “Allah is the Greatest” seem to bounce off some sort of forcefield arround our minds and hearts.

As often as we repeat “Allahu akbar” during and often outside of salah, we remain afraid of doing the the right thing for fear of reprisals. Some of us repeat “Subhan Allah”, glorifying Allah 33 times after every salah each day, yet we crave the spotlight for ourselves.

And that cake we baked yesterday? Sometimes we slip and humble “Alhamdulillah,MashaAllah” responses to our lip-smacking guests turn into praises of ourselves. We’re constantly dropping the ball.

We’re pretty good with presentation, and get better at it as the years go by, but Allah knows better then we do where we’re fumbled. In Surah Al-Ta-Ha, ayah 115, Allah says about us in general, “And indeed We made a covenant with Adam before, but he forgot, and we found on his part no firm will-power.”

Because He knows we can’t go much more then a few paces before we’re caught up in the distraction of the world around us, Ar-Rahman provides us with a way out, in a du’aa we should all say before going to bed at night from the last ayahof Surah Al-Baqarah, “O Lord, condemn us not if we forgot or fall into error….. Blot out our sins and grant us forgiveness.”

May Allah keep us from being of those who never pick up the message of Allah or of those who throw it down and walk away. Those are the people about whom Allah says, in Surah Al-Hashr, ayan 19, “And be not like those who forgot themselves. Those are the once who are rebellious.”

A two years old mind is very capricious. As parents—as a society—we wait out that period with long-suffering, axasperated patiencew.

But does it ever truly go away? “Subhan Allah”, how generous and patient is Allah

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