Everyone Will Enter Jannah Except Those who Refuse!
This is a pretty cool game, got it off another blog - its called liek 10 Daily things or somehting
Yea I knwo this is a waste, but I needed a break today from MCAT studying so had to stimulate my mind in another fashion…BTW I scored liek a 4000 something here
Part 1: 5 Symptoms of the Weakness of Eeman
Purification of the Soul between Sunnah and Innovation
Part 2
Transcribed from a lecture by Muhammad AlShareef and Ali At Tamimi
The following is Part 2:Muhammad AlShareef
Now we want to speake a little bit about the reasons or the causes for the weakness of eeman.
5 Causes or reasons for the weakness of eeman
1. Distance oneself from an atmosphere your eeman doesn’t increase
One of the weaknesses for the decrease of eeman is the atmosphere in which you are or the people you are around. For example, you know the difference between sitting in a halaqa and sitting in a food court in the mall. Just the fact that you are in a different atmosphere has a direct effect on your eeman. Allah (Subhaanahu wa Ta’ala) says in the Quran,
أَلَمْ يَأْنِ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَن تَخْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَمَا نَزَلَ مِنَ الْحَقِّ
“Isn’t it time for the believers that their hearts surrenders in humilty and engage in the remembrance of Allah.” (Suratul Hadeed (57) V. 17)
In the beginning we mentioned about this khashya being thrown at you, Allah (Subhaanahu wa Ta’ala) mentions about you making your heart having this khashya, Allah is telling us to throw our hearts in kashya towards Allah in remembrance. And Allah (Subhaanahu wa Ta’ala) continues,
وَلَا يَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِن قَبْلُ فَطَالَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْأَمَدُ
“Be not like those people who received the book, and a long time passed and they weren’t doing anything” (Suratul Hadeed (57) V. 17)
What was the result of this being idle and not doing what they were supposed to do,
فَقَسَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَكَثِيرٌ مِّنْهُمْ فَاسِقُونَ
“Their hearts become hardened. And they were rebellious transgressors.” (Suratul Hadeed (57) V. 17)
Just for not doing what they were supposed to be doing like being in the sate of remembrance, and they themselves become rebellious transgressors for not doing this.
2. Distancing oneself from studying Islam
This means distancing ourselves form reading books and learning form the scholars about things that could actually help build our eeman can cause our eeman to go down. I remember once our teacher told us that when you are writing a letter, or now you can say writing an email, don’t ever write it when you are angry. What happens when you are angry and you are writing an email is that no matter what you do, it will show in your email that you were angry. You’ll notice it when someone who is angry writes an email even when he is trying to be nice, you will definitely notice it.
In opposition to that, if you are reading some book for instance, like Ibn Al Qayyim, he begins writing his books on the first page with “InnalHamdulillah….” and as he continues you can feel it. You can feel his eeman coming out in his writing. You can feel the state of increase in eeman from the writing.
3. To be drowned in the material world
The Prophet (sal Allahu alayhi wa Sallam) said, “The slave of the dirham and slave of the dinaar are perished” Very often when it comes to da’wah things, we might give it the extra time that we have, you know the leisure time that we have, we might dedicate it for da’wah. But in the past it was the opposite, the people’s main purpose in life was the ibaada and the da’wah to Allah (Subhaanahu wa Ta’ala), and the extra time that they had they would use for their businesses and whatever they had to do. They wouldn’t be drowned in the dunya but they were drowned in the worship of Allah (Subhaanahu wa Ta’ala) and all the things that it encompasses.
4. Having excessive hope for the future
Having thoughts like I am going to live for another seven years and I am going to retire and get a house in Florida. Allah (Subhaanahu wa Ta’ala) says in the Qur’an,
ذَرْهُمْ يَأْكُلُواْ وَيَتَمَتَّعُواْ وَيُلْهِهِمُ الأَمَلُ فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ
“Leave them to their worldly play and be deceived by their excessive hope” (Suratul Hijr (15) V.3)
Once the Prophet (sal Allahu alayhi wa Sallam) drew these lines in the sand and made a box. And the Prophet (sal Allahu alayhi wa Sallam) pointed to these lines and said this is how long he is going to live and this is his qadar. And then the Prophet (sal Allahu alayhi wa Sallam) drew a line beyond these and said this is his hope. Meaning that the person’s hope for this life goes beyond what life intends for him.
5. Our excessiveness in trying to entertain ourselves
This culture is the entertainment culture. This culture is all about entertaining ourselves, with things like the sports games that are going on. You even see knowledgeable brothers sitting down and watching games and they say like “Oh this is just a basketball game”.
I remember in Egypt there would be a soccer game going on and I would stand in the balcony, I could care less about a soccer game. I would stand on the 7th floor and suddenly I would hear the entire city of Iskandaria erupt. I would then step into the room and ask “Did someone score a goal?” and they would be like, “Yea, Argentina or whoever is up by one goal.” Right then I realized that the entire Muslim nation is watching this on their television. Its not just you that is watching this but it’s the entire country watching this on television. They usually have these ratings, if there are less than 30 million people watching this show they cancel the show. And I was thinking if Muslims have control of the advertising on these shows, then imagine what could be done. Imagine the da’wah if at least 30 million people are watching a show. Not everyone has access to that though. They have infomercials and what not. They have some of the most worthless things on the television at 2 A.M. in the morning and these people make millions. Its 2 A.M. in the morning and people start watching about these magic pills and we all know those one or two infomercials that are mentioned in the masjids that everyone has seen. Imagine how much of this is amongst the kuffar. And then we have those computer games and arcades that take up so much time. They just take up hours and hours of our time and the chat rooms and chat lines as well. All this leads to a person’s eeman going down.
That is why the Prophet (sal Allahu alayhi wa Sallam) said, “Don’t be excessive in laughing, for verily excessive laughing kills the heart.”
To Be Continued……..
As Salaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullah,
The following are events that are comming up in the Houston, TX area very soon, inshaAllah. If you have an event to add please comment inshaAllah ill include the flyer and link here.
Rizq Management AlMaghrib institute Seminar - Sept 8-10, 15-17
Addendum: Sorry soem of these are late-
Rally for Peace and Justice
Friday, 7/28/2006
Federal Building- Downtown
400 Rusk
Houston, TX 77002
(Next to City Hall)
Time: 3 to 5 pm
As Salaam Alaykum Wa Rahamtullah,
Br. Omar from Lota Enterprises, Inc has just finsihed posting up all the rules/principles for Understanding Allah’s Names and Attributes. These are from AlMaghrib institute’s newest class taught by Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi entitled, “Light Upon Light: Fundamentals of Aqeedah 102″. You can view the entire contents here. The following falls under Chapters 6 and 7. The rules are as follows-
wa Allahu ‘Alim
jazakAllahu khayran
As Salaam Alaykum Wa Rahamtullah,
The past weekend was probably one of my most memorable weekends. It was memorable not only for me but also for Houston Muslims in general, as it was the very first MIST Nationals competition. For those who dont know what MIST is you need to get with the program and go check it out at www.getmistified.com. I remember my very first MIST competition it was memorable as well (this is going to be a topic for another post).
But my main purpose was to post up some of the important points that Yasir Qadhi talked about in a session entitled, “Advice from an Older Brother”. Masha’Allah this session was the opening session for the entire competition/conference and I woudl liek to say it had a huge impact on me in many ways. It was stuff that I heard before but it was an experience that I never had before. The talk was directed towards the youth who are in High School (all of the participants are in High school) or have just graduated from high school but it was applicable to everyone from high to maybe even the elders. Yasir focused on three points whihc were 1. Knowledge and Studying your deen 2. Respecting Parents/Elders 3. Maturity. Each of these topics very important and critical to a Muslim kid growing up in the West. Insha’Allah I will give my thoughts on the talk later, but for now the following should suffice. (I will post this talk as a separate page so it doesnt get pushed down with the other posts, Insha’Allah. Also I know its very long, about 5 pages in word, but I though tits worth it!!)
Advice From an Older Brother
From a lecture given at MIST Nationals 2006 by Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
Friday July 21st, 2006
“I would like to start by congratulating everyone for making it to the First MIST National Conference. You are the participants and are the future of this ummah. I would like to take this opportunity to give everyone some advice as an older brother. I too once was in your place and it doesn’t seem like it was too long ago. The realty is very soon you guys are going to take over the place of your parents and your community leaders very soon. Very soon you are going to move onto college. Very soon you are going to start working, and very soon you are going to get marred. Very soon you will have kids and before you know it you will be an uncle or auntie. God Forbid!
Before I start my actual lecture I would like to tell you a little bit about my self. I grew up in a fairly religious family and my parents were religious or you can say practicing parents. I was the average Muslim kid growing up and knew very little about my religion. It wasn’t until I started attending the University of Houston when I realized how ignorant people actually were about the religion of Islam, and how ignorant I was about my own religion. I attended the University of Houston in the early 90s. It was here when the desire for knowledge increased in me. It was hearing some of these people talk about Islam and misrepresenting it which really made my desire increase. The desire increased in me to start studying my own religion increased again and again. I got very involved in the MSA at the University of Houston, I remember being extremely active. I even did many halaqas there for the MSA.
I remember 15 years ago sitting here in this university listening to my professors giving lectures. It was in t his same university. I actually had a class in this same exact building and I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember some of the classes that I took here. I remember taking these classes and thinking to myself, how is this actually going to benefit me? How is knowing all this stuff about chemical engineering going to benefit me. I remember taking thermodynamics and thinking to myself, how is this ever going to make me a good person, how is this going to change me? I remember the first day of class when my professor walked in for thermodynamics class, and I remember exactly what he said. He said, “By the end of this class you will be able to calculate how long it will take an ice cube to melt in a cup of coffee!” I thought about it and said to myself, “SO WHAT??” How does knowing how long it takes an ice cube to melt in a cup of coffee this make me a good person? I had this desire to learn about my religion and went through college with this desire and graduated with a bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering.
I even worked at DOW Chemicals for a year, which is the 2nd largest chemical company in the USA. BASF is the largest. I was assigned a project which many people before me couldn’t do and left the project without completing it. I was assigned to finish stage 1. I, alhamadulillah, managed to get to stage 3 within 3 months and was in the process of finishing it. My boss told me you are going to go places. Money was just pouring in and I could go into a store and actually pick what I wanted to get and there was nothing that was holding me back. For the first time in my life I was able to buy what I want with my own money, without worrying about anything.
All this was not something that really satisfied me. I felt incomplete, and wanted more. I still had the desire to study my own religion. So after doing some research into the Islamic Universities, I decided to go to the University of Medina and they accepted me. I spent 10 years at the University of Medina. I did my Bachelor’s in Hadeeth and my Master’s in Theology or Aqeedah from the college of Da’wah. And currently I am doing my Ph.D. at Yale.
Knowledge and Studying your Deen
And I am here in front of you today and if I were to choose again I would go back and do the same thing and do religious studies. I cant even remember what courses I took when I was at UH. My main motivation for choosing to do Islamic studies was that I realized I needed to do something for the ummah. As we speak we have a crisis going through our ummah. We all know, we don’t need to talk more about it, it is all over the news and everything. I know some of you wont leave what you are doing and I dotn expect you to and I don’t want you to. This ummah needs the doctors, engineers, and lawyers. Not everyone in this ummah needs to be an ‘alim or scholar. And Allah definitely doesn’t ask everyone to be a scholar. If you are not going to be a scholar then you should at least know your religion. To me I was ashamed that I knew so much about physics, chemistry, and mathematics compared to what I knew about my religion.
Our communities are in need of scholars though. We see it in our communities often, where we have an iman who is from another world practically and doesn’t understand what we are going through. It is true, they are from another world because ehtye haven’t grown up here. We need to stop importing imams because our communities cant respect them. We see it in our communities that these moulvis and maulanas give fatwa and people don’t respect them, and we cant blame the imams nor can we completely blame the community. There is a big gap between them, we need homegrown scholars and students of knowledge to bridge this gap.
Like I said before not everyone here is going to be a scholar, and nobody expects everyone here to become one. The least everyone should do is learn your religion. Each and every one of you can read a book a month, its not that hard and it only requires you to make some time for it. All you need to do is cut back on some of the things we do. I know all of us have things that we can cut back on. I am not saying stop hanging around friends, or going to movies or what ever it is you do. All I am saying is cut back on some of the things to make time for learning your religion. Our elders came here for whatever reason they came here for, we are growing here, we understand the psychology of Americans but if we don’t have knowledge of religion how are we going to make them understand our religion. How are we going to make da’wah to them and call them to Islam? There is a need for homegrown scholars and fulfilling that need starts with you.
How to study your religion?
As the Prophet (sal Allahu alayhi Wa Sallam) said, “Learning knowledge is obligatory on each and every Muslim”
This the least we need to do and with everything else we do it isn’t that hard at all. Allah doesn’t require you to become a scholar, but atleast learn your religion a little bit, and this way you will learn to respect the imams and ulemaa. And form personal experience let this knowledge come to you form someone who is elder but not too old.
Parents
Besides studying your deen, the other point I wanted to stress on was respecting your elders, specially your parents. I know this has been stressed a lot in your lives probably and you probably heard this more than you can count. We have heard all of the ayaat and hadeeth about respecting our parents many times. But do we actually do it? Allah mentions treating your parents with respect right after respecting Allah and Allah also tells us not to even say uff to them. Do you know what uff is in Arabic. In classical Arabic it was used for the dirt under our nails. This is the most trivial and miniscule thing you can think of and that is what uff is meant to represent. Later on the Arabs started to refer to the slightest expression of irritation as uff. This is what we aren’t supposed to tell our parents or feel this way with them. I know I said I wasn’t going to mention the ayaat and hadeeth about respecting your parents but Allah says, “If your parents force you to do shirk, drag you to worship an idol, don’t listen to them, but treat them with respect”. This is talking about the greatest sin a person could commit, this is the one unforgivable sin and Allah says if your parents try to make you do this then still don’t obey them but treat them with respect. If your parents are so evil to make you do shirk and you still have to treat them with respect then what about other things. I can say we all don’t treat our parents the way we are supposed to. We really fall short of treating your parents properly because it is true, we don’t.
One thing that we as men might lack is that we don’t have the tenderness and emotion that we need to. We always want to be the tough people and the ones in charge. We don’t have the love that women have. You will think you love your wife a lot and you have attained the height of love. You think that there could not be a love for a human being that is higher than the love that you have for your spouse. This is what you think but a day will some when you will have a kid, and when you hold your child you will realize what the kind of love you are experiencing which never experienced before. You will realize the actual love that your parents felt when they held you, when you were first born. For the first time in your life you are ready to sacrifice anything to satisfy your child. This is called pure love, you love them just because you want to love them and there is no other reason for this love.
Then it will hit you that this kid that you are holding is going to grow up under your care. You are going to be providing for this child’s upbringing for the rest of your life. You will see this child grow up right in front of you. Only then you are going to realize the kind of sacrifice your parents made to raise you. You are now in a position that your parents were once in, raising your own child. And then it will hit you again. You will remember the way you treated your parents and realize that this kid will grow up and treat you the way you treated your parents. The first time I realized this I was literally crying, because I realized that the kid that I will raise will one day talk back to me the way I talked back to my parents. This right here hits home, this shows you how your actions today will affect you in the future. Its still not too late for you to change, you still have some time before your parents pass away. You know what you did to your parents, and you should expect your children to treat you the same way you treated your parents.
You might be frustrated with the rules and regulations your parents put on you and you think that you are an adult and they need to treat you like an adult. The truth is you are not an adult. You will become an adult when you go to sleep thinking about how you are going to pay rent or worrying about it. I myself thought I was able to live alone, I didn’t even know how much rent was. You will become an adult when you start worrying about how much rent cost and how you are going to pay for it, and you are going to calculate how you are going to pay for your groceries and utilities. You don’t really care about money now, your parents are filthy rich, and if you need anything all you need to do is ask your parents.
You might look at your parents now and say that they are so backward and they are form another world, another time. It might be true because they are from another world and they think differently. They might not know how the world around you works but 30 years down the line, your kids are going to know a new generation. Your kids are going to look at you the same way you look at your parents. Your kids are going to look at you like a backward people you came from another time and it will be true because you will be from another time.
And I am pretty sure for most of you your dad is the last person that you would go for advice or talk to about some issue that you are having. My dad used to be the last person I would talk to. Now he is the first. Just because your dad speaks in an accent doesn’t mean he doesn’t know what going on, he might not know exactly what’s going on but he does have experience. You will realize this later on in your life that your dad or mom are people that you should turn to for advice.
You might not look at how you treat your parents as something that is big but you won’t be able to take back what you did to your parents. Your parents will love you the way no one else will love you. The love a parent gives to his offspring is something that is not found in anyone else. When your parents die, you will never be able to make up any hardship, any tears, any anger, any frustration you caused them. Even if you caused them some kind of irritation or sadness because of a face you made, you will not be able to take that back when they die. If you are angry then shut your mouth and just walk away. There is nothing wrong with bottling up your anger, it might cause you some pain now but in the long run it will save you from other kinds of harm. Allah said even if they force you on an idol you have to respect them, what about an 8 o clock curfew. At a stage in your life you will have to get out and be a real man or woman, this is not the time. A time will come but the time is not now.
These are the best times of your life; you don’t realize it until you lose it. No one will love you the way your mother and father will love you, while you are experiencing that love look at it with respect and love and not suffocation because it is not. They might put these rules on you, okay you are going to get angry, but seal your lips don’t say anything and don’t even show anything on your face because once you say something you cant take it back. I miss being a kid, once you get to my age everyone wants to be a kid again, right now enjoy it. Everyone should feel that my parents are the best parents in the world.
Maturity
The third point that I wanted to stress was maturity. When your parents see that you are a mature respectful adult, they might actually slack off a little bit and let you do more things that you want to do, the way you want to do it.
There is a problem with America. There is this age or boundary that they call adolescence. In Islam there is no intermediate stage, as soon as you hit puberty you are a full adult. The problem comes when we are given these contradictory ideas from here where you are not a child nor you are an adult. In the shareeah it has been laid down straight, you are a full adult once you hit puberty.
If you feel that you are adults then start acting like adults. See what’s actually going around in the world and keep up with it. Like I said earlier, you are going to one day take charge after the adults go away. You need to know what is going on and find ways to improve the condition of the ummah around you or at least your self your family and community. There is a certain respect that comes with being a Muslim. You should see that you are different and that you are someone that actually cares. Be a mature adult and try to figure out the reason you are on this earth and plan accordingly. There is truly a reason for you to be a person on this earth, and not only that but a Muslim on this earth.
And lastly to wrap up you are in a competition, it doesn’t matter who is going to win and lose. The main benefit for being here is that you are going to get to know other Muslims, and you are going to be with them praying on time, you are going to learn something about the religion and in the process better yourself. So while you are here act like you are mature and try to behave yourself. One incident can ruin the conference name. I don’t have to name other conferences, we all know about them, that due to laxness on their part the entire conference has a bad reputation. Make sure you observe the proper etiquette when you deal with other people and specially deal with other genders. I guarantee you there dozens of parents out there that didn’t want their kids out here at this conference because of the gender interactions that happen at places of gathering. I guarantee you right now your parents are worried about what you are doing.
InshaAllah if everyone behaves themselves and observes the proper etiquette then MIST will be known as a place that can handle itself properly. It will be trusted by the parents. They will see that oh look its MIST we can trust them with our kids. And if we are able to maintain this reputation, the MIST Conference will grow bigger and bigger every year. If we have 3 or 4 regions being represented this year, we will have the double the following year, and more the next year. MIST can be known as a beacon of light for the west as a symbol of Islam in the high schools.”
As Salaam Alaykum Wa Rahamtullah,
I thought the following movie was pretty hilarious. I really liked the fantasy touch to the movie witht he magic carpet and going back in time, lol. It was hilarious. Also the “Invisible Shaykh” touch was original. Usually when someone dreams about soemthing bad they did, its usuallyt he fear of their mom whopping the crap out of them, for this guy it was the “Shaykh” that actually came to help. For youth usually, the shaykh is usually the last person that they would think coudl help them, as far as I have observed the shaykh is usually disconnected with them because he came from another world (our homeland) and he wouldnt exactly understand what they are going through. It shows that maybe we are seeing our shuyookh in a different way because of the increasing number of “homegrown leaders and shuyookh that understand the psychology of the Americans, because int he end we are Americans”(From Yasir Qadhi’s “Advice from an Older Brother” lecture at MIST 2006, i will post the lecture up soon inshaAllah).
The best part about this that cracks me up is the Magic Carpet ride on top of a black car at night. It was just amazing, then they also played the Aladdin song while doing this which goes like, “I can show you the world…”. It brought back memories for em atleast cuz I used to watch Aladdin liek 2-3 times a week when I was younger (yea I lived in KSA).
Enjoy!(Warning contains music)
Part 1
Part 2
List of Favorite parts-
I think thats about it. Oh yeah, I talked to the guys who made the movie,they said they only had 3 people when shooting the magic carpet part. One person was recording the footage and the other 2 were on top of the car. THERE WAS NO ONE DRIVING THE CAR! NO DRIVER! I though that was pretty interesting the way they shot that scene.
Salaam Alaykum Wa Rahmatullah
Salaam Alaykum Wa Rahamtullah,
I really enjoyed this movie/short film, it was very well done, it had very deep meaning to it. The thing that I think sets this movie apart from other movies is that, this was a totally serious movie while the rest of them were very comical. Enjoy. (Warning: Movie has music in it!!)
Oh yea BTW Masha’Allah they won first place in MIST Nationals this year - 2006! Congratulations!!! Alhamdulillah!!!!
My favorite part: “I was sitting in the masjid and a man wearing white came in. He looked so calm and serene. He prayed and read something from a book. He later walked up and introduced hismelf to me. He gave me the Quran. He said that it was The Truth!!! Finally, thats what I needed to hear - The TRUTH!!”(not 100% exact words but close enough)
Masha’Allah this above part just sends a shiver down me everytime I think about it.
Masha’Allah the Austin high School MSA guys always have the serious movies with a very deep meaning. I always palced them on top every year, Alhamdulillah, this year they finally won!!!
As Salaam alaykum Wa Rahamtullah.
From the Qur’an
وَمَن يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَل لَّهُ مَخْرَجًا
“Allah will grant a way out for anyone who heeds Him, “
وَيَرْزُقْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ وَمَن يَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى اللَّهِ فَهُوَ حَسْبُهُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بَالِغُ أَمْرِهِ قَدْ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدْرًا
“and provide for him in a manner he could have never anticipated. Allah is enough for anyone who relies on Him; Allah will accomplish His purpose. Allah has granted everything in due proportion.”
Surat At Talaq (65) V.2-3
[Lessons from these verses] Do the right thing, do what you know is pleasing to Allah, and success will be yours.
[Suggestions on how to implement these verses]
http://www.powerworkshops.org/ in the “Free Stuff” section
With best wishes to see you succeed at the highest level!
- Muhammad Alshareef
Purification of the Soul between Sunnah and Innovation
Part 1
Transcribed from a lecture by Muhammad AlShareef and Ali At Tamimi
The following is Part 1:Muhammad AlShareef
We once went for hajj, and as you know how chaotic hajj usually is. There was this one brother who came to Medina with us and it was his first time doing hajj. The brother said that he just wanted to along with us. And that hajj we reached Muzdalifah in 15 minutes, it was the easiest time I had getting to Muzdalifah. It was a due to a new system the Saudis had applied, alhamdulillah, it was the new shuttle bus system. We had gone onto one of the first buses and at the time we arrived it was Salaatul Maghrib and Muzdalifah was empty. We prayed and did what we had to and we lied down to sleep and the brother that tagged along said to us, after all that we had gone through and the easy time to get to Muzdalifah, he said “I don’t like this, it’s too easy. It’s just too easy. I can’t feel the Hajj!” At that time it made me angry because we shouldn’t go looking for hardships in the religion. And very often many people while studying Islam they say I can’t feel it. In actuality this feeling is something that comes from the inside. The taqwaa is something that comes from within oneself. In this place that we live in we think that maybe someone has to come and force this taqwa on us, or force this spirituality down our throats. Taqwaa is part of what we do, and we have to work for it.
This lecture, as far as the Sunnah aspect is concerned is divided into three sections.
Five Symptoms of Weakness of Eeman
1. Simplicity we apply to committing sins
How easy it is for one of us to commit sins. Also you see the way someone would show off their sins. They would go around and say look I committed this sin, I committed this sin. As the Prophet (Sal Allahu Layhi Wa Sallam) said, “All of my Ummah will be forgiven except those people who announce their sins! Allah has hidden the sins they commit at night and they come out and announce to the people that I committed such and such and such and such!” This is the Prophet (Sal Allahu Layhi Wa Sallam) saying that these people won’t we forgiven.
2. Feeling of Hardening of the Hearts
As Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Ta’la) says,
ثُمَّ قَسَتْ قُلُوبُكُم مِّن بَعْدِ ذَلِكَ فَهِيَ كَالْحِجَارَةِ أَوْ أَشَدُّ قَسْوَةً
“Their hearts are hardened like the rocks, and even harder than rocks” (Suratul Baqarah S.2 V.74)
Allah is talking about how the hearts of some of the Jews have been hardened like rocks. And not only are they hardened like rocks but in fact harder than rocks.
3. Being lazy in our Obedience to Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Ta’la)
Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Ta’la) says,
وَإِذَا قَامُواْ إِلَى الصَّلاَةِ قَامُواْ كُسَالَى
“When they get up for the salaah, they get up lazily” (Surat An Nisaa S.4 V.142)
Meaning that when they get up they are delaying the time to get up and pray, if the prayer is at 8:30 they’ll get up at 8:00 to pray the previous prayer. Allah describes him as being a hypocrite. Imagine someone who is not even praying?
4. Imperfection in a person’s Ibaada
He isn’t really doing things properly. He might be fasting but he is sleeping throughout the day, and his zakaat is not proper, or he is not coming for taraweeh. In the Quran, Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Ta’la) says,
إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا يُسَارِعُونَ فِي الْخَيْرَاتِ
“Verily they used to race to the goodnesses” (Suratul Anbiyaa S.21 V.90)
This is the characteristic of the pious Muslims. And the Prophet (Sal Allahu Layhi Wa Sallam) said, “Allah does not accept the dua’a of someone who is ghaafil (heedless)!” Ghaafil here means someone who is just not caring about what kind of dua’a he is making, his heart might be somewhere else, and his mind might be somewhere else. At the end of the dua’a he doesn’t even know what he was asking Allah for. He doesn’t have any concentration as to what he is asking for. He doesn’t know the a to b to c of anything that he said.
5. There is no effect when we listen to the Qur’an
As Allah says in the Qur’an,
لَوْ أَنزَلْنَا هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ عَلَى جَبَلٍ لَّرَأَيْتَهُ خَاشِعًا مُّتَصَدِّعًا مِّنْ خَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ
“Had it been revealed upon a mountain, it would have cleft asunder and crumbled from the fear of Allah” (Suratul Hashr S.59 V.21)
And now you see that you have the Qur’an divided into many parts and that is good because you might be using it to memorize, but sometimes it’s all together and wrapped in a cloth just collecting dust. We all now what it’s for, it’s for a Qur’an Khani. The only time it comes down is when someone dies. And as Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Ta’la) says,
إِنَّكَ لَا تُسْمِعُ الْمَوْتَى
“You cannot make the dead hear” (Suratun Naml S.27 V.80)
And Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Ta’la) says,
كِتَابٌ أَنزَلْنَاهُ إِلَيْكَ مُبَارَكٌ
“A book that we revealed to you blessed” (Surat Sad S.38 V.29)
and the people read it in Qur’an Khanis and they we want the blessings to go to this person. As the ulemaa of tafseer said it’s almost as if someone is asking why is this book blessed? And Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Ta’la) says,
كِتَابٌ أَنزَلْنَاهُ إِلَيْكَ مُبَارَكٌ لِّيَدَّبَّرُوا آيَاتِهِ
“A book that we revealed to you which is blessed so that you may contemplate over its verses.” (Surat Sad S.38 V.29)
This is the reason the Quran is blessed and revealed so that a person will hear the Qur’an, listen to it, and follow what’s in it. And that is the guidance that Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Ta’la) will guide him in this dunya and resurrect him in the hereafter.
To be continued………..
UPDATE: Part 2: Five causes or reasons for weakness of eeman
Ask Allah to make it easy for our brothers and sisters across the world
Makes me sad-
341 520 dead due to tsunami this past monday in Indonesia
Indonesia Bird Flu - 41st victim, its been going form place to place. Theres currently some kind of bird flue called “chicken Gunya” that is spreadign in Hyderabad, they mgith be the same thing, I havent looked into it. My uncle got it recently. Allahu if its the same thing, I look into it inshaAllah.
Are they really fighting the Taleban??
^- again??
Make dua…drough in Afganistan?? may Allah amke it easy!!
Makes me mad-
The real Afghanistan not seen by those reconstructing it(supposedly reconstructing)
US at a Kyrgyz base (my sis going to Kyrgyz) (Muslims seeing their own benefit agaisnt other muslims loss?? more on this soon insha’Allah)
Masha’Allah
Kazakhistan - largest Central Asian country - muslim - developing??
Sultan of Brunei 60th birthday - good for muslims, payrise - but the lavishness, necessary?? - MIXed feelings about this
Of course dont forget the muslims in the Midle East
Fiqh As Sawm
Islamic Rulings Surrounding Ramadhan and Fasting. Based on “Manar As Sabeel Fi Sharh Ad Daleel” Of Shaykh Ibraheem ibn Duwaiyan (d. 1353 AH) as explained by Br. Salim Morgan. Transcribed and Edited By Ibn Al Hyderabadee
Chapter 2: Permissions and Prohibitions
Chapter 3: That which Invalidates Your Fast
1. Intentional Intake of anything into the abdomen 2. Intention to break fast 3. Fluctuating Intention to fast 4. Vomiting intentionally 5. Menstruation or Post Partum Bleeding 6. Masturbation 7. Marital Relations 8. Cupping for both parties 9. Death 10. Apostasy 11. Above are Exempted in some cases
Chapter 4: Repayment
1. Missing a day of fast in Ramadhan
2. When does one make up a missed fast
3. If missed fast are not made up until few dats before next Ramadhan
4. Missed fasts first or voluntary?
Chapter 5: Recommended, Disliked, and Impermissible Days of Fasting
1. Recommended Every Other Day Sawn Dawood
2. The three white days of every Islamic month
3. Six days of Shawwaal
4. Month of Muharram and the 10th
5. Ten days of Dhil Hijja and that of Arafat
6. Disliking of the month of Rajab
7. Disliking of the day of Friday
8. Disliking of the 30th of Shabaan
9. Impermissibility of fasting on the two Eids
10. Completing of a voluntary fast is not Wajib
