Showing posts with label Shaytan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shaytan. Show all posts

Friday, April 10, 2009

How to Boost your Imaan??

سم الله الرحمن الرحيمسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Having problems with your Faith? One day you feel like your unstoppable and the next you feel like crawling under a rock?

Well fear not I have some solutions InshAllah. Firstly we should constantly try to renew our Imaan. Our hearts are always changing so we shouldn’t expect it to be at the highest level all the time. As humans we blame others before we blame ourselves. So we tend to think why isn’t Allah putting it into our hearts? When this happens it’s a clear sign Shaytans trying to whisper in your ears (Auzza bilAllah). Don’t be of those who hand an invitation to Shaytan. Right when this happens we should ask ourselves what are we doing wrong that we don’t feel that Imaan like we usually do? What can we do to build it back again and inshAllah higher than what it was before?

Know that one of the tricks of Shaytan is procrastination by which he induces the people to delay their repentance. That’s why the scholars warned against saying, "I will tomorrow”. What makes you, Slave of Allah think you'll be alive tomorrow? Don’t leave it to ignorance and say "inshAllah ill feel like doing some good deeds to raise my Imaan later". Or inshAllah "i'll ask for forgiveness later when I feel like it". SubhanaAllah, we act as if were doing Allah a favor by worshiping Him. Indeed Allah is not in need of His Creation, His Creation is in need of him.

"Man in himself is weak; he must seek God’s grace;
without it he can do nothing; with it he can do all."
– Yusuf Abdullah


So as soon as you heart feels like something’s missing, as if something isn’t right. Things that became second nature are now becoming difficult. Your slacking on things you normally ran too.
First thing you should do is...

* Go perform wuduu and sincerely pray
* Worship in secret
* Read Quran a page or two
* Call out to Allah in supplication and ask for guidance
* Give charity or go listen to a lecture
*
Try fasting Mondays and Thursdays


- Anything that re boosts your imaan. It doesn’t have to be anything big, but inshAllah the reward for doing those things will be big as mountains on the Day of Judgment. And as soon as you do those things, Alhamidullah we feel that inspiration again. The heart warming feeling that when Imaan is at its highest as if no one can touch us. Just as you work for everything else in life. You have to work to build your Imaan. There shouldn't be any exceptions or excuses. With everyday comes a new struggle a new trial another day to conquer yourself. InshAllah we all take advantage of the time and energy we have right now.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Women that recieved the Glad Tidings of Jennah

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Asalamu Alakyam Ramtuallahi Wa Barakahai,
MashAllah when I hear stories about the Sahabyat (Radi Allahu anhum) i'm in a state of awe. Wallahi they're manners and they're Taqwa would put us to shame. While these great women recieved glad tiding to Jennah and lived amongst the Prophet Muhammad (sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam). Here in the West we look up to women who don't even have a ounce of Imaan in their heart, it's heartbreaking. SubhanAllah. In the hadith below it shows the strength of these great women(r).


Bukhari and Muslim report that Anas said:
"On the day of Uhud, when some of the people ran away from the Prophet (PBUH), Abu Talhah stood before the Prophet (PBUH), defending him with a shield. Abu Talhah was a highly-skilled archer, and on that day he broke two or three bows. Whenever a man passed by who had a quiver full of arrows, he would say, `Give it to Abu Talhah.' Whenever the Prophet of Allah (PBUH) raised his head to see what was happening, Abu Talhah told him, `O Prophet of Allah, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you! Do not raise your head, lest an arrow strike you. May it hit my chest rather than yours.' He [Anas] said: I saw `A'ishah bint Abi Bakr and Umm Sulaym, both of whom had tucked up their garments so that their anklets were visible. They were carrying waterskins on their backs and were pouring water into the mouths of the people. They would go back and fill the waterskins again, then come and pour water into the mouths of the people again. Abu Talhah's sword fell from his hands two or three times because of exhaustion."108

"What a noble deed these two great women did in quenching the thirst of the mujahidin in the midst of a raging battle and in the intense heat of the Hijaz climate. They were moving about the
battlefield, not caring about the falling arrows and clashing swords that surrounded them. (From the book The Ideal Muslimah)." -I strongly recommend it for both females and males. For women to aspire to be like them and males to desire a wife that have some of the characteristic of the Sahabyat(Radi Allahu anhum).

If there was any good in this note then it was from Allah and if there were any mistakes then it was from myself and the Shaytan. Indeed the most truthful speech is the Book of Allah, and the finest guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (Sallahu alaihi wa salam).