Total Submission

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

Assalaamu alaykum

Dear Friends

I pray that you are well.

Our life is all about submission to our Creator. It is about being close to Allah. It is a tremendous goal of our lives to want to be close to Allah. Who else do you really have other than our Creator. He knows us inside out like no other can. He takes care of us like no other can. In the end we are going back to Him alone with no one. So why is He not our only goal in this life?

We are expected to submit to Allah's commands whether we know the "goodness" of the command or not. It is not acceptable for people to violate what Allah wants from us. Violating Allah's instructions is violating His purpose of creating us--i.e. to worship Him alone.

Violating Allah's commands has dreadful consequences. There are many warnings and examples in the Qur'an. Look at what happened to the people of Sabbath who were turned into monkeys.

"So when they forgot the remindings that had been given to them, We rescued those who forbade evil, but We seized those who did wrong with a severe torment because they used to rebel against Allah's command (disobey Allah). So when they exceeded the limits of what they were prohibited, We said to them: "Be you monkeys, despised and rejected." Qur'an Al-Araf 7:165

When we turned away from revelation and we take ourselves as source of right and wrong, then everything become corrupt.

The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, was asked about what is righteousness and he, Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: "Righteousness is what the soul finds peace in and what the heart finds peace in. Sin is what stirs in the soul and goes to and fro in the breast even if the people pronounce is okay."

Obviously, this is not for everyone. This is for someone who is fully aligned with the words of Allah. Someone who is fully aligned with Divine law, his heart is his guide. If your heart is not at peace, you realigned yourself with the words of Allah, through submission to Divine law, not twisting the revelation to suit you. You changed what and how you think and do to fit the revelation. When you do this you are like a plant placed in the garden after being locked up in a closet without sunlight. Everything is now flourishing again. Now you are a being with a functioning conscience. All your faculties are in place.

If we are not learned, we really don't know know whether our feelings are right or wrong until we ask the scholars. So knowledge of our religion is the first step to know what Allah wants from us.

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

And Allah knows best.

Wassalaam

Gems of brotherhood

BismillahirRahmanirRahim
Assalaamu alaykum

I pray that you are well.

Some gems of brotherhood:

Brotherhood for the sake of Allah is purer that sweet water; what is for the sake of Allah, Allah demands purity in; the purer it is, the longer it lasts; the principle rule to maintain its purity is avoiding disagreement.

It is reported that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “Three things will purify the love of your brother for you; greet him when you meet him, give him space to sit in a gathering, and call him by the most beloved of his names to him."

If one finds someone worthy of befriending, one must seize the opportunity, for few are those worthy of true friendship.

One should tell those that one loves, of the slaves of Allah, that one loves them. The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “If a man loves his brother, then he should inform him that he loves him.”

A person should not take as a close friend anyone except those who he is confident about their religion, trustworthiness, righteousness, and godfearingness; for a man will be with the ones he loves, even if his works do not equal theirs. Allah might see the love for someone in the heart of someone close to Him so He has mercy on him.

May Allah grant us pure love. Ameen.

Wassalaam