27/12/2025
When Umar al-Khattab RA was walking in the market, he passed by a man who was supplicating:
اللهم اجعلني من القليل اللهم اجعلني من القليل
“O Allah, make me from the few!
O Allah make me from the few!”
So Umar RA said to him: Where did you get this dua from? The man said:
Allah in His Book says:
“And a few of My servants are grateful.”
So Umar wept and admonished himself; “The people are more knowledgeable than you, O Umar! O Allah make us from Your few servants.”
Sometimes when you advise someone to leave a sin, they respond with “But
everybody does it, it’s not just me!”
But if you look for the words “most people” in the Qur’an, you will find that most people are;
• “and however most people don't know”
• “and most people don't show gratitude”
• “and most people don't believe”
And if you look for “mostof them”, you will find in Quran that most of them are
• “definitely disobedient”
- “ignorant”
- “turning away”
So be of the few whom Allah says about them:
و قليل من عبادي الشكور
- “And few of My servants are grateful.”
و ما امن معه الا قليل
- “But none had believed him except a few.”
في جنات النعيم ثلة من الاولين و قليل من الآخرين
- “In the Gardens of Bliss, A [large] company of the former peoples, And a few of the later peoples.”
Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) said, “Go on the path of truth and do not feel lonely because there are few who take that path and beware of the path of falsehood and do not be deceived by the vastness of the perishers.”
[Found in Kitab al-Zuhd by Ahmad bin Hanbaland also in the Musannaf of Ibn Abi Shaybah]
May Allah make us of His few servants.
