Aligning with Allah’s Promises

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Week 1 — we asked big duas, determined where our starting point is, and where we truly want to be.


Week 2 — we talked about who we need to be to step into our “impossible” duas.


Week 3 — we chose to commit to ihsan, feeding our higher selves, and emotional regulation.

This week, we’re diving deeper into the mindset needed to maintain from here on out which is one of privilege and abundance.
Because every worry we carry comes from forgetting that Allah’s promises are already true; not pending.

It’s one thing to make dua and commit to change but it’s another to live as though Allah’s promises are already being fulfilled. This week is about learning to live with yaqeen, radical tawakkul, and a mindset rooted in abundance and privilege. To walk through open doors before you even see them appear.

Expect Open Doors

To cultivate a mentality of abundance, you have to expect open doors. Expect opportunities. Expect aid and guidance. Even expect the unexpected.
These expectations come from the many places in the Qur’an where Allah ﷻ explains how He subjected the earth and everything in it for us. Everything is here to benefit us and help us along our journey back to Him.

The Qur’an is filled with ayat showing that believers truly have the upper hand. We shouldn’t be looking at someone else’s provision and then looking at ours as if we are the ones in lack when we are not.

Even if it’s not reflected in your bank account yet, your worth and abundance are not measured there. Our true net worth is reflected in our rank with Allah ﷻ. Our position in His sight is where we find our value. When you focus too much on the external, you neglect your inner state and that leads to feelings of ingratitude, discontent, and inadequacy.

How to Manage Your Expectations

Your expectations of Allah ﷻ need to be exceptionally high and your expectations of people should be nonexistent.

The easiest way to manage expectations is to remove them from people. Even if you feel that they do, no one owes you anything.
 Everything you have belongs to Allah ﷻ.
When you forget this, you expect too much from people and this dunya and find yourself discontent with Allah ﷻ because of it. Our expectations often reveal our true intentions for doing something. If we do good in hopes of recognition, repayment, or validation from others, our sincerity and understanding of tawheed is compromised.

Instead, purify your intentions by giving for Allah’s ﷻ pleasure alone.

• When you give advice, don’t expect it to be followed. Expect Allah ﷻ to see you enjoining truth. Give support because you hope for Allah’s ﷻ support.

• When you give money, don’t expect repayment or gratitude from them. Expect Allah’s ﷻ repayment and appreciation. Forgive debts whenever possible because you hope for Allah ﷻ to forgive your debts.

• When you’ve been hurt, don’t expect them to apologize. Expect Allah ﷻ to give justice in due time. Forgive and forbear because you hope for Allah’s ﷻ forgiveness and forbearance.

• When you post online, don’t expect validation from others. Expect Allah ﷻ to validate what you know through His signs. Give knowledge because you hope for Allah ﷻ to increase you in knowledge.

When you give to others, expect nothing in return from them like Prophet Musa (alayhi as-salam) when he helped the women at the well. He didn’t ask for repayment, but instead turned to Allah ﷻ and made the heartfelt dua:

Do good unto people, expecting only from your Lord. The people we give to truly are only middlemen.
Anything you desire (love, appreciation, validation, forgiveness, mercy, provision, justice, peace, connection) Allah ﷻ has in far greater abundance than anyone else can offer.

Giving to them actually has little to do with them.

Even though you’ve helped them in the dunya, they’ve helped you in the akhirah. What an exchange!

The True Source of Everything

When you give to others what you hope from Allah ﷻ, you will never be disappointed.
Placing all of your expectations with Allah ﷻ also strengthens your tawheed as many limiting beliefs come from giving something or someone other than Allah ﷻ too much power over our thoughts, emotions, and actions.

For example:
Money doesn’t create opportunities — Al-Fattah does.
Time doesn’t heal all wounds — Ash-Shafi does.
You don’t have to hustle to the point of exhaustion to “make things happen” because you are not the one who creates success — Al-Qadir does.

No one is ahead of you because they had more resources than you. (Especially if they’re disbelievers.) You have Allah ﷻ and are therefore privileged. You just haven’t yet stepped into the state of being necessary to access it.

How to Align with Allah’s Promises

Aligning with the promises and assurances of Allah ﷻ requires that you:

1. Know them.

The Qur’an is full of promises. As you read, pay attention to the ones that speak to your current duas and season. Write them down. Call them to mind often, recite them, memorize them. Especially when Shaytan or your nafs al-ammarah tries to fill your heart with doubt.

Some of my go-tos are:

• “If you’re grateful, I will surely give you more.” (Ibrahim 14:7)

• “Remember Me and I will remember you.” (Al-Baqarah 2:152)

• “Whoever is mindful of Allah, He will make for him a way out and provide for him from where he cannot expect.” (At-Talaq 65:2–3)

• “Allah intends ease for you and does not intend hardship for you.” (Al-Baqarah 2:185)

• “There isn’t a creature on the earth whose provision isn’t guaranteed by Allah.” (Hud 11:6)

• “Do not be of those who forgot Allah, for He made them forget themselves.” (Al-Hashr 59:19)

• “As for he who gives and fears Allah and believes in the best reward, We will ease him toward ease.” (Al-Layl 92:4–7)

• “Allah intends to lighten your burden, for mankind was created weak.” (An-Nisa 4:28)

• “And whatever you spend of good – it will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.” (Al-Baqarah 2:271–272)

• “And victory is not but from Allah.” (8:10)

Subhanallah, I can go on and on and on!

2. Believe them fully.

You have to believe His promises over and above what you see and perceive to be true.
Because what you see is a limited illusion; while what He promises is eternal.

Allah ﷻ refers to the Qur’an as “the rope of Allah” because it’s meant to be clung to in every moment. So cling to it. Believe it and continue to read it daily.

3. Act upon that belief.

Some of Allah’s promises, like the coming of the Day of Judgment, are absolute and unconditional.

But most of His other promises require a state of being or an action from us; a kind of investment of the heart.

So look for the promises He makes that are structured as “you do/be ___ then I’ll do ____” or “I’ll ____ when you do/become ___”. Then do what you can to fulfill your part.

“Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is within themselves.” (Ar-Ra’d 13:11)

If you want your condition changed, change what’s within yourself.

“If you’re grateful, I will surely give you more.” (Ibrahim 14:7)

Be grateful and He’ll give you more to be grateful for.

“Whoever is mindful of Allah, He will make for him a way out and provide for him from where he cannot expect.” (At-Talaq 65:2–3)

Increase your taqwa and He will provide for you in surprising ways.

You’re not meant to or even capable of doing everything. You’re meant to show up for what actually matters. You’re encouraged to do the actions that align with success, not actually bring about the success (we’ll get into this more next week, in sha Allah).

When you know His promises, believe in their truth, and fulfill your part of the deal with iman, yaqeen, and radical tawakkul, you will receive what He promises to give.

The Mindset Shift: Living in the End

Imposter syndrome is one of the main reasons why we find ourselves feeling distant from our dream selves because to live as if we are her today feels like… acting. But that’s the wrong mentality to have.

With every new and current improvement you make, you’re not acting better, you’re being better. Choosing better. Whatever happened yesterday doesn’t have to dictate today.

Learn from it by observing your life with presence and focusing on moving forward in a better way.

Take it one day at a time.

Many stop themselves from behaving the way their dream selves would because they perceive to not have what she has in order to.

For example, being a single mom can easily push you into survival mode. Always planning, always doing, always bracing for what might go wrong. There were times I lived in that constant state of fight or flight. But alhamdulillah, Allah ﷻ pulled me out of it and He’s kept me out of it even though my circumstances haven’t changed.

You may have seen those videos of women whose husbands take care of everything and how peaceful, light, and feminine their wives seem because of their proper care. They’re described as being “put up,” living softly, moving gracefully, and flowing through life. Free to be creative, maternal, and present.

As a single mom, I used to long for that too but Allah ﷻ taught me that I have access to that way of life now. That even though I don’t have a husband or male mahram as my qawwam to maintain my home, I have Al-Qayyum instead and He’s the One who ultimately sustains me and that realization has completely shifted how I live.

Knowing that Al-Qayyum gives me the support needed to carry the weight gave me the freedom to begin living as though I was already “put up” because I am! I don’t have to worry about provision, it’s written and on the way. I can play and be creative because I don’t have to hustle like a man to make ends meet. I’m literally so well taken care of.

I made intentional internal shifts that I mention in these posts:
The Muslimah’s Soft Life of Tawakkul
How to Be a Wife (Without a Husband—Yet!)

Aligning with Allah’s promises begins with the mentality: you always have exactly what you need for the moment you’re in. 

If you need it today, it’s already on the way. If you don’t have it, it’s because you don’t need it yet.

Yaqeen grows from constantly reminding yourself of this truth through the Qur’an. You cannot maintain this level of peace and alignment without it. There is no purification of the heart, no unlocking of answered duas, without remaining connected to the Book of Allah.

When you let the Qur’an meet you where you are and ask Al-Mujeeb better questions, the answers begin to flow, gently and perfectly timed just like everything else that comes from Him.

You are chosen and privileged by your connection to the One who keeps every promise.
The moment you begin to live as though that truth is already fulfilled, everything within you shifts, not because the dunya finally aligned, but because you did with Allah’s will, His words, and His promises.

Think of how you can align with the character and mannerisms of your dream self today. Then your outer reality will begin to match your inner one. This is what it means to align with Allah’s promises; to walk through life like someone who already has access to the greatest reward possible.

If you struggle with this step, you may still be in survival mode so here’s a previous post on How to Finally Get Out of Survival Mode and learn to trust Allah from a place of safety.

Next week, we’ll be talking about success as defined by Allah ﷻ and the habits that help us align with them.

Enjoy your week, assalamu alaikum.

With love and dua,

—Khalisa

O Allah, make us among those who believe Your promises before they unfold, and live upon the truth of Your word. Ameen.

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