Beggars can never be choosers
Allah, the only God there is who created everything by His command. Everything has a purpose and nothing will lay useless. Every step and action that we take will be questioned, every single cent that we spend will be accounted and every sigh will be noted. There is nothing on earth that can escape from His watchful Eyes. He is The Most Kind and The Most Passionate. He hears those who begs for his forgiveness, He hears those who quietly whispers good or evil. You can never run and you can never hide. Those who dies believing that there is no God but Allah and Prophet Muhammad is His messenger, 'insya Allah will be rewarded abundantly and those who dies believing in something besides Allah will be "rewarded" in the most severest way.
Prophet Muhammad is His last and final messenger and he is guaranteed paradise by Allah. He mentioned not of what he had achieved during his lifetime nor did he announce his countless triumphs. During his last friday sermon, he asked his congregation if any of them had any complaint or in any way dissatisfied what he had brought to them. Everyone replied by saying that they are satisfied with his teachings. Everything action he had done, every word he had said and every battles he had fought are for us to learn by and there isn't a day that goes by that we cannot rely upon his teachings.
We miss him extremely. He set the best example to all humankind both to muslims and non-muslims. He fed food using his bare hand to a blind female jew even though the female jew uttered bad things about him. He was extremely passionate to cats that one time a cat was sleeping on his cloth and afraid that it would wake the cat, he cut his cloth around the cats body. He is the true perfectionist and those who have admitted that they are perfectionist then The Prophet is your perfect role model. As his follower, we should at least try to follow every single step that he took. Drastic change could lead to someone to a tragic end but changing slowly will shape you.
We are slaves and slaves are meant to abide the laws that have been prescribed by The All MIGHTY. We are never meant to question and although we are naturally hasty but we are to try not to act hastily. God works are mysterious and nobody has the knowledge of how things are intended to be. We are here only to serve him and fear for Him. Those who rejects Islam teachings will be dishonored by creatures on earth and the next world. No doubt that Allah has the power to destroy us all for all the sins we have committed but He is The Most Passionate and He will forgive those who are sincere towards it and never to repeat the same mistakes twice.
Subbhanallah. Human are naturally weak and we often taken aback from the hardship that Allah had tested on us. If the pressure was to great, a person with little or no iman, would even kill themselves. That is what most non-believers do and for muslims to act that manner will be thrown into hellfire mercilessly. We are to rely everything upon Allah and not to humans as we all will return to Him one day. One fine day it will be for some but Allah's wrath awaits for many. Our beloved Prophet Muhammad was a perfect helper, father, grandfather, companion, kind enemy to some, the most patience person that ever walked on earth and the most nicest husband anyone could ever imagined.
One time, he went to the mosque and returned instantly just so he could helped his loving wife in the kitchen. He even knitted his torn clothes and shoes. He only asked helped from others if he was desperate and won't ask if he is able. He was a "maksum" (sin free) but yet he was the most obedient amongst many and when he was asked by one of his closest companion why he acted that way? The Prophet said, "Is it wrong for me to become one of his grateful/thankful servant?". Think about how our beloved behaved in front of God? Will we ever be do the same?
Humans naturally complain a lot. There is always something to complain about. Not happy with your job, not happy with your 'latest' car, not happy with your spouse, not happy your food, dissatisfied with your weight, not happy with your skin complexion, not happy with your allowance and generally not happy with everything. What does this tell us? It tells us how unhappy we are with Allah's fate. If one has a strong iman, a person would not complain as much as a person who has a weak iman. For example, if working person who is paid $600.00 per month, the person would know how to manage the available money (budgeted) but if the person was the type to spend more than what he/she has, then this person is more likely to act that way for the rest of her/his life. There is that need to control the habits of satan (unnecessary wastage).
The concept is simple really. We appreciate and take what God had given to us. We thank him for that gift so that hopefully he will give a better present for us. There could be things which we may think we like when in fact, it is bad for us and there may be things we think we hate when in fact it is good for us. Allah mentioned this in the Qur'an:
"Fighting is prescribed upon you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not." [Al-Baqarah: 216]
So, the more we complain, the more ungrateful we sound & the less iman we have and vice versa. But complaining does not always necessarily mean its a negative thing but there are actual NEED to complain such as how the society generally is. We CANNOT act as if we are blind because we live in a community of brotherhood and sisterhood. We have families, siblings, love ones, relatives and so on. Even if we have something to complain about, it should be not about us personally. Therefore, a complain should be of societal/religion/cultural in nature. It should cover a wide range of people as this would indirectly mean we care for them and we are not to act upon our own self interest.
"Mankind was one single nation, and Allah sent Messengers with glad tidings and warnings; and with them He sent the Book in truth, to judge between people in matters wherein they differed; but the People of the Book, after the Clear Signs came to them, did not differ among themselves, except through selfish contumacy. Allah by His Grace guided the Believers to the Truth, concerning that wherein they differed. For Allah guides whom He will to a path that is straight." [Al-Baqarah: 213]
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Prophet Muhammad is His last and final messenger and he is guaranteed paradise by Allah. He mentioned not of what he had achieved during his lifetime nor did he announce his countless triumphs. During his last friday sermon, he asked his congregation if any of them had any complaint or in any way dissatisfied what he had brought to them. Everyone replied by saying that they are satisfied with his teachings. Everything action he had done, every word he had said and every battles he had fought are for us to learn by and there isn't a day that goes by that we cannot rely upon his teachings.
We miss him extremely. He set the best example to all humankind both to muslims and non-muslims. He fed food using his bare hand to a blind female jew even though the female jew uttered bad things about him. He was extremely passionate to cats that one time a cat was sleeping on his cloth and afraid that it would wake the cat, he cut his cloth around the cats body. He is the true perfectionist and those who have admitted that they are perfectionist then The Prophet is your perfect role model. As his follower, we should at least try to follow every single step that he took. Drastic change could lead to someone to a tragic end but changing slowly will shape you.
We are slaves and slaves are meant to abide the laws that have been prescribed by The All MIGHTY. We are never meant to question and although we are naturally hasty but we are to try not to act hastily. God works are mysterious and nobody has the knowledge of how things are intended to be. We are here only to serve him and fear for Him. Those who rejects Islam teachings will be dishonored by creatures on earth and the next world. No doubt that Allah has the power to destroy us all for all the sins we have committed but He is The Most Passionate and He will forgive those who are sincere towards it and never to repeat the same mistakes twice.
Subbhanallah. Human are naturally weak and we often taken aback from the hardship that Allah had tested on us. If the pressure was to great, a person with little or no iman, would even kill themselves. That is what most non-believers do and for muslims to act that manner will be thrown into hellfire mercilessly. We are to rely everything upon Allah and not to humans as we all will return to Him one day. One fine day it will be for some but Allah's wrath awaits for many. Our beloved Prophet Muhammad was a perfect helper, father, grandfather, companion, kind enemy to some, the most patience person that ever walked on earth and the most nicest husband anyone could ever imagined.
One time, he went to the mosque and returned instantly just so he could helped his loving wife in the kitchen. He even knitted his torn clothes and shoes. He only asked helped from others if he was desperate and won't ask if he is able. He was a "maksum" (sin free) but yet he was the most obedient amongst many and when he was asked by one of his closest companion why he acted that way? The Prophet said, "Is it wrong for me to become one of his grateful/thankful servant?". Think about how our beloved behaved in front of God? Will we ever be do the same?
Humans naturally complain a lot. There is always something to complain about. Not happy with your job, not happy with your 'latest' car, not happy with your spouse, not happy your food, dissatisfied with your weight, not happy with your skin complexion, not happy with your allowance and generally not happy with everything. What does this tell us? It tells us how unhappy we are with Allah's fate. If one has a strong iman, a person would not complain as much as a person who has a weak iman. For example, if working person who is paid $600.00 per month, the person would know how to manage the available money (budgeted) but if the person was the type to spend more than what he/she has, then this person is more likely to act that way for the rest of her/his life. There is that need to control the habits of satan (unnecessary wastage).
The concept is simple really. We appreciate and take what God had given to us. We thank him for that gift so that hopefully he will give a better present for us. There could be things which we may think we like when in fact, it is bad for us and there may be things we think we hate when in fact it is good for us. Allah mentioned this in the Qur'an:
"Fighting is prescribed upon you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not." [Al-Baqarah: 216]
So, the more we complain, the more ungrateful we sound & the less iman we have and vice versa. But complaining does not always necessarily mean its a negative thing but there are actual NEED to complain such as how the society generally is. We CANNOT act as if we are blind because we live in a community of brotherhood and sisterhood. We have families, siblings, love ones, relatives and so on. Even if we have something to complain about, it should be not about us personally. Therefore, a complain should be of societal/religion/cultural in nature. It should cover a wide range of people as this would indirectly mean we care for them and we are not to act upon our own self interest.
"Mankind was one single nation, and Allah sent Messengers with glad tidings and warnings; and with them He sent the Book in truth, to judge between people in matters wherein they differed; but the People of the Book, after the Clear Signs came to them, did not differ among themselves, except through selfish contumacy. Allah by His Grace guided the Believers to the Truth, concerning that wherein they differed. For Allah guides whom He will to a path that is straight." [Al-Baqarah: 213]
