How can we have barakah in our health, in our wealth, and so forth?
To answer, let me give you a parable first. In any building, there is a key to the main door, and there are several other keys for the other rooms within the building. So even if you have these other keys, they will bring no benefit if you don’t have the key to the main door. When you have the main key, only then will you be able to utilise all other keys.
So what is the main key to gaining barakah? Allah says:
🔵 ❛Had the people of those societies have faith (imaan) and fear ˹of Allah˺ (taqwa), We would opened for them barakah from heaven and earth. But they disbelieved, so We seized them for what they used to commit.❜ [Surah Al-A’raf 7 : 96]
From this, we derive the main key to gain barakah:
(1) imaan (which includes doing good deeds according to the shari’ah), and
(2) taqwa of Allah (i.e. fearing Allah’s punishments).
Allah says that when we have these 2 things, not only will He overwhelm us with blessings from the sky, but also blessings from the earth.
The stronger our imaan and taqwa of Allah,
the more we do good deeds,
the more we fear Allah’s punishment,
— the more doors of barakah will be opened for you.
May Allah open the doors of His barakah to all of us.
