Friday, May 25, 2012

Servitude and pride



“Minnat maneh ke khidmat sultan hamey kuni
Minnat shanaas ke tura ba-khidmat guzashtan”
Translation:
Do not feel as though you are doing some big favour to the king by serving him
It is a favour of the King that he has allowed you to serve him
It does not go to your credit, if you have done countless good deeds in the form of worship, service to Deen, compilation of books, delivering speeches, writing Fatawa (Religious Rulings) etc. You should be thankful to Allah that He enabled you to do these good deeds.
You should pray to Allah to accept the good deeds you do. These deeds are absolutely not a reason to be proud and boastful. There is a proverb in the Arabic language:
sallal ha’iku rakatayni wantadharal wahi
That is to say, that once a weaver offered two Rak’ats of prayer and remained waiting for Wahi (revelation) to descend upon him, as if he had performed a great religious act that he is now deserving of Wahi. This is the behaviour of an ignorant person. A truly devoted servant of Allah works in the path of Allah to the best of his ability and at the same time remains afraid that his service may or may not be worthy of Allah’s acceptance. He should always be praying to Allah to accept his humble services.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Show Gratitude to People

Abu Hurairah radiyAllaahu 'anhu reported: The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said,

“He has not thanked Allah who has not thanked people.”

[Sunan Abu Dawud]

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Alhumdulillah !!



My Allah
I praise You,
and You are worthy of praise

for Your benefaction toward me,

the lavishness of Your Favours toward me,

and Your plentiful bestowal upon me,

and for showing bounty towards me through Your Mercy

and lavishing Your Favour upon me.

You hast done well towards me

and I am incapable of thanking You.


Imam Zainul Abideen







Saturday, May 5, 2012

Adore ALLAH..... The Creator


Take account of your speech

People count with self satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but  they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.


 [Imam Ghazali]