Allah the Exalted said:
“Certainly We sent Moses with Our signs: ‘Bring your people out from darkness into light and remind them of Allah’s [holy] days. There are indeed signs in that for every patient and grateful [servant].’” (Qurʾan 14:5).
Reminding of the days of Allah is a necessity, because they are dazzling signs for whoever wishes to come out of darkness and enter the domain of light, adorned with the ornament of patience and gratitude..
Between patience and gratitude there is a wondrous interaction: the sign of patience is gratitude, just as gratitude is a path that leads to patience..
As for the signs that penetrate to every patient and grateful one, they come through the Qurʾanic mechanism manifested in reminding of the days of Allah.
All days are the days of Allah, but the ascription [to Allah] serves to point out the evident manifestations, so that they may be witnessed signs for anyone who has the least insight.
So the days of Allah are: every day in which the greatness of Allah was manifested in one of the ways that people's awareness witnesses.
His days are the days of His blessings and bounties upon His friends, the days of His punishment of His enemies, and the witnessed days, such as the day of the awaited Qaʾim (aj) and the Day of Resurrection.. as the noble narrations have conveyed.
The ninth day of Rabiʿ is one of the days of Allah, and it is a sign for every patient and grateful one. So the believer ought to be patient in tribulation on the path of truth, and to thank Allah the Exalted for His blessings; and the blessing of wilayah is the greatest.. and likewise the blessing of vengeance upon the enemies of Allah..
Allah's support of the prophets, the sending of the Prophet (s), the investiture of the Commander of the Faithful (a) with authority, the support of the believers, and the rising of al-Qaʾim (aj): all of them are days of Allah..
And the destruction of Pharaoh, the punishment of the people of Thamud, the destruction of the People of the Elephant, the collapse of the idols of Quraysh, both stone and human, the vengeance upon the killers of Imam al-Husayn (a), and the destruction of the tyrants throughout history: all of them are days of Allah..
The blessings manifested in the days of Allah call for gratitude, and gratitude, in the believers' mechanism, is showing joy for that, supplication, charity, feeding people and the like, as religious expressions for showing gratitude. Through attending to them they will be signs of reminder for shaping awareness, and consequently for shaping the “patient and grateful” being, and that is an indication of its coming out of darkness and entering the domain of light.
Sayed Mahmoud Al-Mosawi
1437 AH
