Then which of the Favors of your Lord will you both deny? (55:16)

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SubhanAllah. Alhamdulillah. Allahu Akbar.

When I began jotting down my thoughts for this post, I was perplexed with comments that I’ve heard over the past few months from Muslims who seem to be wavering in their faith. I was a bit angry with them for not understanding the truth and not understanding the serious consequences of their faltering. I was resentful that they would have the impudence to be unhappy with Allah. Allahu Yahdika (May Allah guide you). I could not figure out how to help them to stay on the correct path and not lose their faith. I could not understand how, on one day a Muslim has faith and the next day, doesn’t have faith.  No faith and Muslim together? Does that make any sense?

Not to me, I find it to be a bit of an oxymoron.

Because as Muslims, we have faith.

Alhamdulillah.

I’ve heard the term “low eman” being thrown around, but that does not have anything to do with Allah, SubhanAllah Wa Ta’Ala.

It has everything to do with us. It has to do with our choice to submit, to follow His commands, to be patient with His provision and be patient with His tests. It has to do with our willingness to give up some of what we desire, all for His Pleasure. It has to do with our ability to seek all that is permissible and avoid the impermissible. It has to do with our patience and our acceptance of His Decree. It has to do with our struggle with our nafs, our ego, our weaknesses.

 This dunya is a test from Allah. Don’t ever be disappointed in Allah. Ever!

Be disappointed in your disappointment because that is the ego, our nafs!

Do you think Allah is happy to know that people are disappointed in what He, Allah, SubhanAllah Wa Ta’Ala has provided? We know, through the Qur’an, what happens to those who have rejected His Commands.

Allah needs nothing from us. We need everything from Allah.

Then which of the Favors of your Lord will you both deny? (55:16)

“Here you are – those invited to spend in the cause of Allah – but among you are those who withhold [out of greed]. And whoever withholds only withholds [benefit] from himself; and Allah is the Free of need, while you are the needy. And if you turn away, He will replace you with another people; then they will not be the likes of you. (47:38)

So, I ask of you my beloved brothers and sisters in Islam:

Put aside your pride,

Set down your arrogance,

And, remember your grave.

(Ali ibn Abu Talib, RA)

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“And Allah loves the patient.” (3:146) 

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As Muslims we believe, we have faith, Insha’Allah.

As Muslims we attain Ihsan, Insha’Allah.

Know your intentions, they should only be to please Allah, not to anger Him.

“And it is Allah that decreases or increases (your provisions), and unto Him you shall return. (2:245)

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Remember, worship as if you see Allah, He certainly sees you. Allah, Al Basir.

Don’t think your du’a go unanswered. Call upon Allah, Al-Mujib.

Don’t despair. Seek peace through Allah, As-Salam.

Don’t be angry. Seek guidance through Allah, Al-Hadi.

Don’t regret. Seek forgiveness through Allah, Al-Ghaffar.

Don’t envy. Be pleased with what you have been given through Allah, Al-Mughni.

Don’t deny. Always be thankful to Allah, Al-Jabbar.

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“He is Allah, beside Whom La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He ), the All-Knower of the unseen and the seen. He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. He is Allah,beside Whom La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He), the King, the Holy, the One Free from all defects, the Giver of security, the Watcher over His creatures, the All-Mighty, the Compeller, the Supreme. Glorified is Allah! High is He above all that they associate as partners with Him. He is Allah, the Creator, the Inventor of all things, the Bestower of forms. To Him belong the Best Names. All that is iin the heavens and the earth glorify Him. And, He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise. (Al-Hashr: 22-24)

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As Muslims, we believe. As Muslims, we submit. As Muslims, we love and worship our Creator. As Muslims, we accept all that Allah decrees. As Muslims, we know that our deeds are being recorded (both good and bad). As Muslims, we know that Allah fully  knows of our actions. As Muslims, we know that if we sin, we quickly seek Allah’s forgiveness. As Muslims, we know that Allah is Most Merciful to those who sincerely repent. As Muslims, we know Allah will provide for us. As Muslims, we know that living in this dunya is not easy and the path to Jannah is filled with trials. As Muslims, we are patient. As Muslims, we are kind. As Muslims we are charitable. As Muslims, we are modest in our dress and our behavior. As Muslims, we know that Allah tests us to bring us even closer to Him. As Muslims, we strive for acceptance into Jannatul Firdous.

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Suratul Ar-Rahman (Qur’an:3)

1. The Most Beneficent (Allah)!

2. Has taught (you mankind) the Qur’an (by His Mercy).

3. He created man.

4. He taught him eloquent speech.

5. The sun and the moon run on their fixed courses (exactly) calculated with measured out stages for each (for reckoning, etc.).

6. And the herbs (or stars) and the trees both prostrate.

7. And the heaven He has raised high, and He has set up the Balance.

8. In order that you may not transgress (due) balance.

9. And observe the weight with equity and do not make the balance deficient.

10. And the earth He has put for the creatures.

11. Therein are fruits, date-palms producing sheathed fruit-stalks (enclosing dates).

12. And also corn, with (its) leaves and stalk for fodder, and sweet-scented plants.

13. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

14. He created man (Adam) from sounding clay like the clay of pottery.

15. And the jinns did He create from a smokeless flame of fire.

16. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

17. (He is) the Lord of the two easts (places of sunrise during early summer and early winter) and the Lord of the two wests (places of sunset during early summer and early winter).

18. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

19. He has let loosed the two seas (the salt water and the sweet) meeting together.

20. Between them is a barrier which none of them can transgress.

21. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

22. Out of them both come out pearl and coral.

23. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

24. And His are the ships going and coming in the seas, like mountains.

25. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

26. Whatsoever is on it (the earth) will perish.

27. And the Face of your Lord full of Majesty and Honour will abide forever.

28. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

29. Whosoever is in the heavens and on earth begs of Him (its needs from Him). Every day He has a matter to bring forth (such as giving honour to some, disgrace to some, life to some, death to some, etc.)!

30. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

31. We shall attend to you, O you two classes (jinns and men)!

32. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

33. O assembly of jinns and men! If you have power to pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, then pass (them)! But you will never be able to pass them, except with authority (from Allah)!

34. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

35. There will be sent against you both, smokeless flames of fire and (molten) brass, and you will not be able to defend yourselves.

36. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

37. Then when the heaven is rent asunder, and it becomes rosy or red like red-oil, or red hide.

38. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

39. So on that Day no question will be asked of man or jinn as to his sin, (because they have already been known from their faces either white or black).

40. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

41. The Mujrimun (polytheists, criminals, sinners, etc.) will be known by their marks (black faces), and they will be seized by their forelocks and their feet.

42. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

43. This is Hell which the Mujrimun (polytheists, criminals, sinners, etc.) denied.

44. They will go between it (Hell) and the boiling hot water!

45. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

46. But for him who [the true believer of Islamic Monotheism who performs all the duties ordained by Allah and His Messenger Muhammad , and keeps away (abstain) from all kinds of sin and evil deeds prohibited in Islam and] fears the standing before his Lord, there will be two Gardens (i.e. in Paradise).

47. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

48. With spreading branches;

49. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

50. In them (both) will be two springs flowing (free)

51. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

52. In them (both) will be every kind of fruit in pairs.

53. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

54. Reclining upon the couches lined with silk brocade, and the fruits of the two Gardens will be near at hand.

55. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

56. Wherein both will be those (maidens) restraining their glances upon their husbands, whom no man or jinn yatmithhunna (has opened their hymens with sexual intercourse) before them.

57. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

58. (In beauty) they are like rubies and coral.

59. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

60. Is there any reward for good other than good?

61. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

62. And besides these two, there are two other Gardens (i.e. in Paradise).

63. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

64. Dark green (in colour).

65. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

66. In them (both) will be two springs gushing forth water.

67. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

68. In them (both) will be fruits, and date- palms and pomegranates.

69. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

70. Therein (gardens) will be fair (wives) good and beautiful;

71. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

72. Houris (beautiful, fair females) restrained in pavilions;

73. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

74. Whom no man or jinn yatmithhunna (has opened their hymens with sexual intercourse) before them.

75. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

76. Reclining on green cushions and rich beautiful mattresses.

77. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?

78. Blessed be the Name of your Lord (Allah), the Owner of Majesty and Honour.

Now is the time brothers and sisters. Seek Allah’s Mercy! Bow down and seek His Forgivenss. Praise Allah and Thank Allah.

Alhamdulillah!

Tomorrow is not guaranteed, but the Day of Judgment is!