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StridinginAllahsShade~EnrichingLives
O you who believe! Remember Allah abundantly. And glorify Him morning and
evening. [Al-Ahzaab 33: 41, 42]
Allah, the most Exalted, is addressing the believers asserting: remember Allah morn and
eve and every possible time in between. This, essentially, is a prescription for gilding the
entire life of a believer; entailing one lone thing for scores of others. Thus the line of
attack, to wipe out all weaknesses and stumbling blocks from a believers life is
subsequently being specified by Allah in these few words: remember Allah abundantly.
Logically employing, it is evident enough that the root of all evils springing in our human
domains is nothing save ignorance towards Allah. Watch: Why is a believer not fair in his
transactions? That is so because he is ignorant of Allah. Why is he snatching the rights of
others? That too is so because he is ignorant of Allah. Why is he ogling at the daughters
and sisters of others? Again because he is mindless of Allah. Why is he using his tongue
worse than the sharpest blades? Because he is mindless of Allah. Why are these sisters
and daughters tarnishing there chastity? Thus it is being affirmed: remember Allah in
abundance - loud and proud - that every bone of your body be seen entrenched in His
obedience.
A Heart Undivided
Fortunately, when the tongue will remember Him much, then naturally the heart too will
be stirred in the same course. This will facilitate this heart to be undivided between what
matters and what does not. At times a person is so embedded in the eventful, day-to-day
grind of this life; be it at work or a classroom, he might be listening to the teachers
lecture but his mind is engaged elsewhere. And more often than not, the thought that does
not leave him is exactly what the focus of his life is. Likewise, in the villages, there are
women who carry two, three water pots on their heads. Every so often even four. Their
path is crooked, amid highs and lows, but they carry on; even talking and laughing with
eachother as they tread along. Nonetheless, their hearts are well acquainted with the
primary fact that there is water on their heads.
So is the case of a Momin. He is occupied in worldly affairs, but whenever, wherever, he
recognizes his connection with his Allah to be weakening, it immediately strikes him:
Allah is near, very near. And when Allah is near, how in all the rational spheres, he be the
one to lose hope? Thats for those who have nothing to look forward to. So this can never
be the approach to which a believer draws on. For in his mind there is this Almighty
being. Consequently he never feels lonesome. Instead is, for ever and a day, brimming
with trust and belief.
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Is He really watching?
The age we live in, where we see countless rampant sins, one is left to wonder: is Allah
truly watching over? It serves well to reminisce how Hazrat Luqman is instructing his son
to always be mindful of Allah:
O my son!" (Said Hazrat Luqman), "If there be (but) the weight of a mustard seed
and it were (hidden) in a rock, or (anywhere) in the heavens or on earth, Allah will
bring it forth: for Allah understands the finest mysteries, (and) is well-acquained (with
them). [Luqman 31:16]
Therefore no matter where you execute a sin; be it in secrecy or in the pith black shadows
of the night, or somewhere in the depths of the deep forest; Allah, the All-aware, will
bring them all forth for you. Thus the recommended covenant of honour has been
ascribed: infuse Allah effusively in your lives.
However, disappointingly, today instead of infusing His remembrance in our lives, we
find ourselves in downright oblivion towards Him. To exemplify: if a little kid catches us
committing a certain evil, we will refrain from proceeding with it, to not lose respect (he
can go out and tell people). However, if Allah is watching, then we least care and so carry
on with it. The irrational beings that we have become forget that the approach of His
disgracing somebody is as he often enumerates in the Holy Quran:
If Allah helps you, none can overcome you; and if He forsakes you, who is there
after Him that can help you? And in Allah (alone) let believers put their trust. [AlImran 3:160]
Once Hazrat Abdullah ibn Abbas was with the holy Prophet sallallahu alaihe wa sallam
when holy Prophet sallallahu alaihe wa sallam gave him some valuable advises. In the
end of them all he said, Be mindful that if the whole world join hands in supporting you
yet only that will benefit you which has already been decreed for you. Likewise if all of
them get together in harming you then too they can not destroy anything of yours unless it
had been written for you by Allah. The pens have been raised and the registers of destiny
dried. (Tirmizi)
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But today His true respect in no more in our lives. The basis of all the sins is hence, we
are calamitously mindless of Allah.
Hazrat Abdullah-ibn-Mubarak rahmatullah alaih once went to Shaam and borrowed a
pen from a person there to write something forgot to return it, came back to his place in
Marom then realized that the pen is still with him. The pen is somebody elses, the right
is somebody elses, and Allah is Allah, how will life be spent? Hazrat went back to
Shaam covering the distance of three full days. In addition, spent almost three more days
at the place where he had taken the pen, so that the very man can be found. Allahs
presence was with him; Allahs Might he can feel.
Why do we backbite today? Only because Allahs worth has absconded from us. Similar
is the case for all other sins by means of which we go about polluting ourselves. The cure
is again straightforward and natural: Remember Allah abundantly.
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No Support in Life
But the anguish of it all: proportional to as many ways our beloved Prophet sallallahu
alayhe wa sallam enlightened us with to attain nearness of our Allah, as much we are
distant from Him today (if not even more). The whole world dwells in our heart; if
anything does not then that is Allah. Everybody we are concerned about and the one
whom not concerned for - that again - Allah. The harms of this if were for the Hereafter
alone then that too was excessively enormous to bear, but simultaneously this world that
we are so concerned for also gets ruined.
As being mindless of Allah directly implies having no firm support and sustenance in
life. Those who dive into the horrendous realms of suicide do so because of being unable
to find any support in life. However, the hopelessness of an infidel is understandable but
that of a Mominhow to transmit that to the intellect? For a believer has Allah with him,
so how can he be poor-spirited.
Yet again: remember Allah abundantly. Take out some time in solitude. Also keep
entreating from Allah as much as one can. Then, by His grace, our gaudiness in prayers
will be changed into genuine worship; finding its missing soul. Then the eyes will have
guards of Allahs remembrance, the ears will have guards too, the tongue, the hands, each
part of the body will have screens fortifying them. Nothing else can restrain a man from
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sins. For how much will the law fret in securing its spheres of influence? How long can
last the pursuit of a man guarding a man?
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O you men! It is you that have need of Allah; but Allah is the One Free of all wants,
worthy of all praise. [Al-Fatir 35:15]
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