TODAY'S HADITH
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said of the cat: "It is not unclean; it is one of those (males or females) who go round among you."
TODAY'S REFLECTION
We walk past her all day: the cat asleep on the rug.
Her ribs rise and fall, slow and untroubled. She has no savings account and no calendar.
When she wakes, she'll stretch, walk into the kitchen and wait by the bowl as if breakfast were already on its way.
She does her part. She gets up, she goes to where the food is, and she asks loudly. Then she lets the rest go and goes back to sleep.
We do our part too, and then we keep going. We check the account again. We run tomorrow's conversation in the shower. We lie awake managing things that are far out of reach.
Our shoulders sit up near our ears, as if the whole house would fall down the moment we stopped holding it.
It won't. Allah fed that cat long before she came to our door, and He fed us long before we could earn a thing. Every meal we've ever eaten came from Him, including the ones we worried about.
A bird on the fence or a cat on the rug is a small picture of a creature that works, asks and then rests.
A dish of water on the step costs us almost nothing, and for a moment it puts us on the giving end of the same care we live on.
We can let her teach us this morning. The work is ours, and so is the asking. The providing was always Allah's, and it never depended on our grip.
REFLECT ON THIS
Which anxious thought am I carrying today that I can hand over to the One who provides for me?
TODAY'S RIPPLE
The next time a cat, a bird or any animal comes into view today, pause for a few breaths, let the jaw unclench, and say alhamdulillah for the One who feeds it and us.
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