UmmuYusuf Iman -
just another passer by... treading the path of the Salaf
Female, 47 Years |Sijnul Mumin wa Jannatul Kaafir, Philippines
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Apr 14, 2009
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UmmuYusuf Iman -
"O Lord! Build for me a home with You in Paradise!"
~~~ Take good care of the Fragile Vessels~~~
"O Anjash! Drive the camels slowly, as they are carrying glass vessels!" Saheeh Bukhaaree #5754
Time
by Shaykh Muhammad Saeed Raslan
Translated by Hishaam Abouzeid
Leave off of you those empty exchanges of praise. Be greedy as regards you day and night. And indeed turn all your attention to that which benefits you, for indeed life is short and no one will benefit you. Because you will die alone and you will enter your grave alone. and you will be questioned alone and you will stand before Allaah alone. Then for sure, you will be asked about your deeds.
So invest your time and do not waste even a single moment of it. And do not be like those who, when death---the destroyer of pleasures and separator of people---comes to them, they say: "O my Lord, return me! (i.e. to the dunya)"
Why is it that he wants to return? Is it because he wants to build a house? Or that he want to furnish a home? Why is it that he wants to come back? Why does he want to return? He wants to do good deeds. "Such that I may do good dees with what I have left behind."
Now you are here! So if they are one day going to say: "O my Lord, return me!" So if you are one day going to say: "O my Lord, return me! Such that I may do good deeds with what I have left behind" YOU ARE HERE NOW! Because you will not be returned.
As for now, you are here. Such opportunity, none by Allaah, will let slip out of their hand except the crazy. The weak of mind let such opportuniites slip by. This person that will later say: "Return me to do good, return me to the dunya to engage in the doing of good deeds." So now, you are in it so do good deeds. Now you are not asking to be returned. And this is very soon, because surely you will not be returned. Return is impossible, and the way back is so long. So work towards that day and prepare yourself for it.
No one will pray on your behalf. Do for yourself. And be greedy as regards your next life. Because Allaah, Blessed and High is He, has informed us that the disbeliever, on the Day of Judgment will say in regret and sorrow: " I wish I had prepared for my life (i.e. the Hereafter)".
So what was this that you were in? IT IS NOT LIFE! It is more like a mirage! This dunya is like a mirage that is soon to disappear. A rainbow soon to go away. Like lightning is there for only a flash, it doesn't stay. If you want to hang on to this life and remain with it, try to grab a fist of water, you will not be able to. The one who wants this dunya to remain for him is like the one who grabs a fist of water; betrayed only by the cracks between his fingers.
We need to leave off those things that we have become accustomed to. And from the things that have become habitual of us as regards to how we spend our time. We have to be greedy as regards the moment and mintues and seconds of our lives
The students of knowledge particularly, are they foremost candidates for being careful about how they spend their time?
Imam Ibnul Jawzi, may Allaah have mercy on him, after he narrates the hadeeth of the Messenger (3layhi salaatu wa salaam), in which he (3layhi salaatu wa salaam) tells us that Ibraheem (3layhis salaam) todl him to deliver his salaam to his Ummah (of Prophet Muhammad) and tell them that Jannah is fertile soil (empty land) and to populate it is to say Sub7anallaah, al7amdulillaah, laa ilaah illa'llaah and Allaahu akbar. So whenever you say these words, these lasting words, these good words, a palm tree will be planted for you in Jannah.
Ibnul Jawzee comments after the hadeeth, saying, "Sub7analalah, how many palm tress have we trivolously given up?"
This is an easy matter. SUb7anallaah, al7amdulilaaah, laa ilaha illa'llaah and Allaahu akbar. However I understand the excuse of those who were not aided by Allaah.
I ask Alalah that we should not be from them. Sometimes, an individual knows where the khayr is and he has an unshakeable belief of what his path should be and he has knowledge of which way he should take, but unable to move towards that bounty of Allaah not even a single movement, nor take towards it a single step. Because his sins have tied him down and because his transgressions have bound him.
So to Allaah we belong and to Him we shall return. We ask Allaah, elevated and Mighty is He, to give us vision and insight as regards that which benefits us and to give us the benefit of that which we are able to see.
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