A Guava Tree and Life

 

Mmmm… ..guava. I love them. 

Living in the US, guavas are an uncommon item, an exceptional treat, not simply something you can purchase each day starting from the store the road. 

What's more, for a long time, since moving to the United States, I couldn't appreciate this sweet gift of Allaah… .until a couple of years back, when seeing my adoration for them, my mom discovered some guava seeds and planted them for me in my terrace. 

What's more, from that point forward Alhamdulillaah, we've delighted in ready, succulent, sweet guavas significantly more than one season. 

Through tempests and storms, cold spells and freezes, this guava tree incredibly withstood the powers of nature despite everything, alhamdulillaah, and delivered ready, scrumptious organic product… ..until the previous winter. 

This the previous winter was especially long and cold, and I watched with apprehension, as the leaves on my guava tree originally became red, then, at that point yellow to brown and afterward dark. 

Individually, every one of them tumbled off until there was nothing left except for dry, shriveled, void branches. 

Not a solitary leaf left on them. 

I thought I had lost my guava tree. 

What's more, since the time winter was finished, I would glance out my window each and every day, expecting to see some life, some vegetation … .. might be only a leaf or two, yet… .nothing. 

No more guavas, I thought. 

My guava tree was dead. 

Yet, today, as I nonchalantly looked outside my window, my eyes took a twofold take. 

What was that I think saw?! Could it be?!! Do I dare trust?!! 

I immediately went outside to reconfirm what I was expecting this while. 

Also, indeed, adequately sure, there it was. A couple of little green leaves, growing from uncovered, apparently dead, absolutely void branches. 

Allaahu Akbar! My guava tree was living once more! 

After I had surrendered, after I had thought it was gone, Allaah, the One who made this tree in any case, had resurrected it! 

What's more, as I cheered over the 'resurrection' of my guava tree, an ayah from the Qur'aan repeated toward the rear of my head. 

وَآيَةٌ لَّهُمُ الْأَرْضُ الْمَيْتَةُ أَحْيَيْنَاهَا وَأَخْرَجْنَا مِنْهَا حَبًّا فَمِنْهُ يَأْكُلُونَ 

"What's more, a sign for them is the dead land. We gave it life, and We delivered from it, grains, with the goal that they eat thereof." (Surah Yaseen: 33) 

A sign, Allaah says. What is this sign… I thought to my self? And afterward it hit me. 

The guava tree is a sign from one of the various indications of Allaah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala. 

It's anything but a sign that similarly as Allaah can bring back a dead tree after it was completely shriveled and evaporated, back to life, this is by and large how we will be resurrected after we are for the most part dead. 

يُخْرِجُ الْحَيَّ مِنَ الْمَيِّتِ وَيُخْرِجُ الْمَيِّتَ مِنَ الْحَيِّ وَيُحْيِي الْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا وَكَذَلِكَ تُخْرَجُون 

It is He Who draws out the living from the dead, and draws out the dead from the living, and Who restores the earth after it is dead. Moreover you will be delivered." (Surah Rum:19) 

Furthermore, not it's difficult the guava tree. There are hoards and huge numbers of signs like these inside and out us… signs that show us the delicacy and quickness of our lives, signs that show us our definitive end and objective when we will be revived indeed after we are dead and we will be need to remain before our Creator and give a record of our lives. 

We should simply glance around. 

Didn't the grass become yellow after it was green and afterward after that gotten earthy colored? And afterward didn't it