بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
On the authority of Abu ‘Abbaas ‘Abdillaah bin ‘Abbaas (radi allahu anhuma) [Ibn-Abbas] who said: One day I was behind the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) [riding on the same mount] and he said:
O young man, I shall teach you some words [of advice]: Be Mindful of Allah and Allah will protect you. Be Mindful of Allah and you will find Him in front of you. If you ask, then ask Allah [alone]; and if you seek help, then seek help from Allah [alone]. And know that if the Nation were to gather together to benefit you with anything, they would not benefit you except with what Allah had already prescribed for you. And if they were to gather together to harm you with anything, they would not harm you except with what Allah had already prescribed against you. The Pens have been lifted and the Pages have dried. [Related by at-Tirmidhi]
Be mindful of God in times of stillness and movements, with every thought, wish and every other states...Imam Al-Haddad
Islam teaches us to be wakeful, to be aware, to be conscious--conscious of our own selves, conscious of our own behavior, aware of those around us, aware of our state, aware of our time in which we live. However, the majority of people are in the state of heedlessness.
Heedless is the opposite of wakefulness. Just as wakefulness will lead to all good, heedlessness will lead to all evil. All sins stem from heedlessness. So be alert. Do not act upon the state that you have doubt. In travel in the path of Allah earnestly and be upright, adhere to firm resolution. Firm resolution is the highest degree of the way that we exercise our intention. You can make an intention but it might be a weak intention. So, we find people who, when the slightest thing gets in their way, then they start making excuses. There are people who are looking for the slightest thing to happen so they don't have to do the good, whether in learning, giving charity, etc.
Heedlessness is when we become preoccupied with the things of this world and we become forgetful.
Wakefulness will lead to all good, where you are vigilant, watching over your heart, recognizing that Allah sees you at every moment. Why would it lead to all good? Because if you are aware that Allah sees you every moment, you will give that moment due right. You will do that which Allah wants from you. There is something that which Allah wants from us in every moment. If we are in a state of infliction, He wants us to be patient. If we are in a state of blessing, He wants us to be thankful. We have to exercise all of these internal states of servitude to our Lord Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, as we experience every moment. This is why we hear this time and time again but we need to call ourselves to it, which is learning to live in the moment, being aware of the moment. We can't control the past, the past is gone, you can repent and you can try to rectify your wrong, nor can you really control the future. We don't know what's going to happen in five minutes, let alone in hour, in a week, in a month and in a few years. We can't control the future. What you can control is that moment. In other words, you decide what it is that you do in that moment. We cant control the future. The more we learn to live in the moment, the more that we will then can rectify the past and lay down the good for the future.
Imam Al Haddad said, were people were to experience and actualize the realities of their faith and that the realities of having strong intellect, they would have focused on the akhirah (the heareafter), that is completely, absolutely truthfully with firm resolution, and they would have turned away from the dunya completely. Were there be a reality of faith, or intellect, this would be the case-- they will completely direct their being towards the akhirah. If you want to sum up in the way that the sahabah were, that's how they were. No one has the trait like the sahabah. As a result, Allah brought change on their hands in the way that never happen in history.
If we want to serve in the world, the change we want to bring about, or the service that we want to do, is only as potent and powerful and effective as is the state of our heart, that outside of those various things that we do in relation to Allah and how much we turn towards Him and strive for the next world. From the Divine wisdom, the majority of people are in a state of heedlessness. Were it not to be so is that all of the things that we see in the world, the ability to acquire, to purchase or to benefit from, it won't be there because people will be so focused on the next world. You have people who are even amazed by their own state of heedlessness. They are heedless about their heedlessness. If you know about heedlessness, then you can try to get out of it. But if you don't know that you are heedless, or don't know how to get out of it, then it is two fold.
May Allah grant us wakefulness and protect us from heedlessness and protect us from the thoughts and whispers of shaytan and from going astray. Ameen.
Allahumma salli 'ala Muhammad wa 'ala aalihi wa sahbihi wasallam.
And Allah knows best and is Most Wise, and He alone grants success, and to Him is the final return of all.
Wassalaam
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
On the authority of Abu ‘Abbaas ‘Abdillaah bin ‘Abbaas (radi allahu anhuma) [Ibn-Abbas] who said: One day I was behind the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) [riding on the same mount] and he said:
O young man, I shall teach you some words [of advice]: Be Mindful of Allah and Allah will protect you. Be Mindful of Allah and you will find Him in front of you. If you ask, then ask Allah [alone]; and if you seek help, then seek help from Allah [alone]. And know that if the Nation were to gather together to benefit you with anything, they would not benefit you except with what Allah had already prescribed for you. And if they were to gather together to harm you with anything, they would not harm you except with what Allah had already prescribed against you. The Pens have been lifted and the Pages have dried. [Related by at-Tirmidhi]
Be mindful of God in times of stillness and movements, with every thought, wish and every other states...Imam Al-Haddad
Islam teaches us to be wakeful, to be aware, to be conscious--conscious of our own selves, conscious of our own behavior, aware of those around us, aware of our state, aware of our time in which we live. However, the majority of people are in the state of heedlessness.
Heedless is the opposite of wakefulness. Just as wakefulness will lead to all good, heedlessness will lead to all evil. All sins stem from heedlessness. So be alert. Do not act upon the state that you have doubt. In travel in the path of Allah earnestly and be upright, adhere to firm resolution. Firm resolution is the highest degree of the way that we exercise our intention. You can make an intention but it might be a weak intention. So, we find people who, when the slightest thing gets in their way, then they start making excuses. There are people who are looking for the slightest thing to happen so they don't have to do the good, whether in learning, giving charity, etc.
Heedlessness is when we become preoccupied with the things of this world and we become forgetful.
Wakefulness will lead to all good, where you are vigilant, watching over your heart, recognizing that Allah sees you at every moment. Why would it lead to all good? Because if you are aware that Allah sees you every moment, you will give that moment due right. You will do that which Allah wants from you. There is something that which Allah wants from us in every moment. If we are in a state of infliction, He wants us to be patient. If we are in a state of blessing, He wants us to be thankful. We have to exercise all of these internal states of servitude to our Lord Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, as we experience every moment. This is why we hear this time and time again but we need to call ourselves to it, which is learning to live in the moment, being aware of the moment. We can't control the past, the past is gone, you can repent and you can try to rectify your wrong, nor can you really control the future. We don't know what's going to happen in five minutes, let alone in hour, in a week, in a month and in a few years. We can't control the future. What you can control is that moment. In other words, you decide what it is that you do in that moment. We cant control the future. The more we learn to live in the moment, the more that we will then can rectify the past and lay down the good for the future.
Imam Al Haddad said, were people were to experience and actualize the realities of their faith and that the realities of having strong intellect, they would have focused on the akhirah (the heareafter), that is completely, absolutely truthfully with firm resolution, and they would have turned away from the dunya completely. Were there be a reality of faith, or intellect, this would be the case-- they will completely direct their being towards the akhirah. If you want to sum up in the way that the sahabah were, that's how they were. No one has the trait like the sahabah. As a result, Allah brought change on their hands in the way that never happen in history.
If we want to serve in the world, the change we want to bring about, or the service that we want to do, is only as potent and powerful and effective as is the state of our heart, that outside of those various things that we do in relation to Allah and how much we turn towards Him and strive for the next world. From the Divine wisdom, the majority of people are in a state of heedlessness. Were it not to be so is that all of the things that we see in the world, the ability to acquire, to purchase or to benefit from, it won't be there because people will be so focused on the next world. You have people who are even amazed by their own state of heedlessness. They are heedless about their heedlessness. If you know about heedlessness, then you can try to get out of it. But if you don't know that you are heedless, or don't know how to get out of it, then it is two fold.
May Allah grant us wakefulness and protect us from heedlessness and protect us from the thoughts and whispers of shaytan and from going astray. Ameen.
Allahumma salli 'ala Muhammad wa 'ala aalihi wa sahbihi wasallam.
And Allah knows best and is Most Wise, and He alone grants success, and to Him is the final return of all.
Wassalaam
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