Allah is jealous?

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum

Dear Friends

I pray that you are well.

You have a regular devotion of reading a juz of the Qur'an everyday, but tonight you have people coming for iftar and you have already spent most of your day shopping and cooking. You said to yourself, "Entertaining guests for the sake of Allah is a worship, so I'll do my reading later tonight after they leave."

But by the time they left and you finished praying taraweeh, you are too tired and too sleepy (after all you have been getting very little sleep since Ramadhan), to even open the Qur'an. So you missed reading a juz for one day!

I remember this story of a man who wanted to marry this beautiful woman. For a long time he wooed her and he finally passed all obstacles. The woman said to him, "You know my sister is even more beautiful than me and she is standing behind you right now." The man immediately turned around and saw no one behind him. The woman slapped him on the face and left him.

Yes, you missed a wird. Your house won't come tumbling down for missing a wird. After all it is not obligatory. What is the big deal? It is a big deal to your soul. The jealousy of Allah demands that Allah doesn't want you to turn to anything else. If at any time we prefer something over our Creator, that opportunity is gone and will never come back. When the time is gone, it is gone. So, no matter how busy you are, remember Allah is more worthy of your time. Set an hour a day or so to keep your daily wird of reading the Qur'an and not let anything come in the way of fulfilling this wird.

Imagine if you don't have a consistent or an established wird, or you miss your prayers because you spend your time in idle chats, arguments/fights, watching TV, listening to music, reading Sports Illustrated and the like, surfing the internet aimlessly, or excessive socialization on FB, YM and the like. How jealous you think the Master will be? What will happen to you? The degree that one turns away from Allah to that degree Allah distances away from the person. This should be punishment enough.

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يَتۡلُونَ كِتَـٰبَ ٱللَّهِ وَأَقَامُواْ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَأَنفَقُواْ مِمَّا رَزَقۡنَـٰهُمۡ سِرًّ۬ا وَعَلَانِيَةً۬ يَرۡجُونَ تِجَـٰرَةً۬ لَّن تَبُورَ (٢٩) لِيُوَفِّيَهُمۡ أُجُورَهُمۡ وَيَزِيدَهُم مِّن فَضۡلِهِۚۦۤ إِنَّهُ ۥ غَفُورٌ۬ شَڪُورٌ۬ ٣٠

"Verily, those who read the Book of Allah, and establish prayer, and spend, secretly and openly, from that which He has bestowed on them, they look forward to imperishable gain, so that He will fully recompense them their wages and increase them of His grace. Indeed, He is All-Forgiving, Thankful." Qur'an Fatir 35:29-30

Aisha, Allah be pleased with her, said that the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "The one who recites the Qur'an and is skillful therein will be with the obedient, noble, recording angels, and the one who reads the Qur'an stammering, it being difficult for him, has two rewards." (Bukhari)

May Allah forgives us and makes us among the bearers of the Qur'an. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.

And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam

The One Who Only Knows Qur'an

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In The Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum

Dear Friends

I pray that you are well.

Why are we having so much problems in our lives? It is because our hearts are filled with everything else except Allah. We need to empty that vessel from the gunk of this world and fill it with remembrance of Allah. What better way to do this other than reciting the Words of Allah?

Whomever the Qur'an and My remembrance preoccupy him from beseeching Me, I give him the best of what the beseechers are given. The superiority of the Word of God, Sublime and Most High, over all others is like the superiority of God Most High over His creation. (Tirmidhi)

To the person with the Qur'an, it is said, Recite and ascend! Recite measuredly just as you used to recite in the world! Your station will be at the last verse you recite. (Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, Nasa'i)

Someone without Qur'an in the heart is like a ruined house. (Tirmidhi)

Those who read the Book of God, and establish prayer, and spend, secretly and openly, from that which He has bestowed on them, they look forward to imperishable gain. So that He fully recompense them their wages and increase of His grace. Indeed, He is All-Forgiving, Thankful. Qur'an Fatir 35:29-30

Aisha, Allah be well pleased with her, said, The Messenger of God, Allah bless him and grant him peace, ordered us to treat people according to their due rank. (Abu Dawud)

Exalting Allah Most High includes giving honor to the gray-haired Muslim, to whomever bears the Qur'an without exceeding its proper bounds or shunning it, and any person of authority who acts justly. (Abu Dawud)

Jabir, Allah be well pleased with him, said that the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, would gather two casualties from Uhud and then say, “Which of the two deceased has amassed the most Qur'an?” If one of them was indicated, he would put him first in the lahd (the portion of the grave site closer to the Qibla. (Bukhari)

Whoever recites one letter from the Book of Allah has one reward, and rewards are multiplied by 10 of their kind. I do not say 'Alif Lam Mim' is a single letter, rather 'Alif' is a letter, 'Lam' is a letter, and 'Mim' is a letter. (Tirmidhi)

The best among you is one who learns the Qur'an and teaches it. (Bukhari)

Aisha, Allah be well pleased with her, stated that the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: The one who recites the Qur'an and is skilled therein will be with the obedient, noble, recording angels, and the one who reads the Qur'an stammering, it being difficult for him, has two rewards. (Bukhari and Muslim)

There is no envy except concerning two: a person to whom God has given the Qur'an and given wealth from which he spends (charitably) night and day. (Bukhari & Muslim)

I hope this will motivate you to read the Qur'an and start memorizing some Qur'an everyday, and if you have children, to have them do the same. Even if it means reading a few verses and memorizing only one verse a day, make that intention and go with it. Allah will increase you and your family, and Allah will make you and your family the bearers of Qur'an one day. InshaAllah.

This is an amazing video of a young man who doesn't know anything other than Qur'an. SubhanAllah. It brought me to tears when I viewed it. I have viewed it several times because I just couldn't get over it! Show this to your children--a good motivation for them. May Allah reward the sister who sent this link to me. And may Allah bless this amazing young man. MashaAllah.

The One Who Only Knows Qur'an

May Allah bless your day. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.