On About Faith and Letting Go

On About Faith and Letting Go

Written on 31 Dec 2025

I was flipping through the Quran and I perchance stopped at Surat Al-Qasas, Chapter 28, and read from verses 1-13. Specifically focusing on verses 7 - 13.

What’s interesting is, yesterday, I uploaded a post to LinkedIn titled, On Time to let go and Move on. Interesting how what we thought would be an interesting coincidence, yet, a Muslims, we believe, there is no such things as, coincidence, that I came across these verses. This is the lesson for me.

I am paraphrasing and summarising these verses. Imagine under the threat of your son being killed by a merciless tyrant, you had no choice but felt that the best thing to do is to put your son in a basket and float it down river. Later having mixed feelings as you see him being cared for by the wife of the tyrant. You felt relief because your son only wanted to suckle you and no one else. You are finally together with your son. The irony is, it is under the safety of the house of the tyrant. Imagine these gamut of emotions and helplessness overwhelming you.

You had nothing to go with. Just a feeling. 

The thing is, and I am sure many of you, including me, have difficulty letting go, of something you cared so much. More so, for so long. More often, we simply lack faith. And I am for one, need to work on that.

That act of letting go is not about emptying that part of you, you feel strongly for. It is about creating a room for God’s will to come in. Sometimes, we mistake the 'emptiness' of letting go for a void or a loss, when in reality, it is the sacred space where a miracle is about to be placed. 

That’s FAITH.