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
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The Heart of Islam
بسم الله الرخمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
Dear Friends,
I pray that you are well.
Allah Almighty have chosen Islam as our way of life. Allah Almighty says,
Obedience is the heart of our religion, Islam. It is the key to the highest ranks we can dream of. "And whoso obeys Allah and the Messenger, Allah bless him and grant him peace, then they will be in the company of those on whom Allah has bestowed His Grace, of the Prophets, the Siddiqun (those followers of the Prophets who were first and foremost to believe in them), the martyrs, and the righteous. And how excellent these companions are!" Qur'an An-Nisaa 4:69
On the converse, disobedience is the way to the lowest level we can imagine. "(Mine is) but conveyance (of the truth) from Allah and His Messages, and whosoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger, then verily, for him is the Fire of Hell, he shall dwell therein forever." Qur'an Al-Jinn 72:23
The act of obeying Allah and His Messenger, Allah bless him and grant him peace, is the most important act for us to be concerned about in our lives. We cannot do without obeying Allah. The substance what we need to be obeying in order to reach the high level of Paradise and save us from the pits of Hell is in the Qur'an and the Sunnah. Holding fast to the Qur'an and the Sunnah, following and obeying it is the way out of misguidance. In every instance of our lives, we want to know what is it that we should be doing and should not be doing. Every act of ours there is a ruling from Allah and we need to know this ruling and apply it so we be of those who obey and not of those who disobey.
Ali, Allah be pleased with him, was concerned about obeying Allah, and asked the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, "If a matter befalls us concerning which there is no command nor prohibition what should we do?"
The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, did not say do what you want, but said, "Consult your scholars and worshipers."
So, if you don't know what Allah wants you to do, ask the scholars. The whole relationship we have with Allah is that of slavehood. We must ask about what we don't know what the Master wants. We can't assume that "I am a good person so I am going to make it to Paradise." You might make it to Paradise, out of Allah's mercy, but this is not guaranteed. This is not the process. And we cannot just read the Qur'an and the Sunnah and think we know what Allah wants us to do. Most of us will look at a big wonderful tree as a big trunk, branches and leaves and we might marvel at the beauty of the tree, but a very skilled carpenter will see a chair, an ornate bookshelf, an 18th century dining table, because he is trained and has the tools and know how. So we want to learn our religion from scholars to avoid misguidance and destruction.
May Allah guide us and grants us Tawfiq. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.
And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
Dear Friends,
I pray that you are well.
Allah Almighty have chosen Islam as our way of life. Allah Almighty says,
لْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَأَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِى وَرَضِيتُ لَكُمُ ٱلْإِسْلَـٰمَ دِينًا ۚ[Qur'an Al-Ma'ida 5:3]
...This day, those who disbelieved have given up all hope of your religion; so fear them not, but fear Me. This day, I have perfected your religion for you, completed My Favor upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion...
Obedience is the heart of our religion, Islam. It is the key to the highest ranks we can dream of. "And whoso obeys Allah and the Messenger, Allah bless him and grant him peace, then they will be in the company of those on whom Allah has bestowed His Grace, of the Prophets, the Siddiqun (those followers of the Prophets who were first and foremost to believe in them), the martyrs, and the righteous. And how excellent these companions are!" Qur'an An-Nisaa 4:69
On the converse, disobedience is the way to the lowest level we can imagine. "(Mine is) but conveyance (of the truth) from Allah and His Messages, and whosoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger, then verily, for him is the Fire of Hell, he shall dwell therein forever." Qur'an Al-Jinn 72:23
The act of obeying Allah and His Messenger, Allah bless him and grant him peace, is the most important act for us to be concerned about in our lives. We cannot do without obeying Allah. The substance what we need to be obeying in order to reach the high level of Paradise and save us from the pits of Hell is in the Qur'an and the Sunnah. Holding fast to the Qur'an and the Sunnah, following and obeying it is the way out of misguidance. In every instance of our lives, we want to know what is it that we should be doing and should not be doing. Every act of ours there is a ruling from Allah and we need to know this ruling and apply it so we be of those who obey and not of those who disobey.
Ali, Allah be pleased with him, was concerned about obeying Allah, and asked the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, "If a matter befalls us concerning which there is no command nor prohibition what should we do?"
The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, did not say do what you want, but said, "Consult your scholars and worshipers."
So, if you don't know what Allah wants you to do, ask the scholars. The whole relationship we have with Allah is that of slavehood. We must ask about what we don't know what the Master wants. We can't assume that "I am a good person so I am going to make it to Paradise." You might make it to Paradise, out of Allah's mercy, but this is not guaranteed. This is not the process. And we cannot just read the Qur'an and the Sunnah and think we know what Allah wants us to do. Most of us will look at a big wonderful tree as a big trunk, branches and leaves and we might marvel at the beauty of the tree, but a very skilled carpenter will see a chair, an ornate bookshelf, an 18th century dining table, because he is trained and has the tools and know how. So we want to learn our religion from scholars to avoid misguidance and destruction.
May Allah guide us and grants us Tawfiq. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.
And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam
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