ALLAH had made Islam, a deen, a way of life that is easy for human to accept and apply in their daily life. ALLAH is the Creator of human, of course He knows the extent of our capabilities and what He asks us to do, He expects us to do it, because He knows we can do it.
When He told us to wear the hijab, wear it.
When He told us to not do zina, avoid it.
When He told us to pray 5 times a day, just do it.
There is no such thing as, "I am not strong enough to do it."
Saying things like that indirectly implies our uncertainty of our own capabilities and also, our doubts on ALLAH's knowledge of our capabilities as well.
Another phrase that I use to hear is, "I hope ALLAH will give me hidayah one day. Pray for me. Your du'a is makbul."
Hoping and wishing is not good enough. If you ask people to pray for you but you yourself do not do the same thing, how do you expect ALLAH to give you hidayah just like that? Like my header suggests,
if you want hidayah, prove that you're worth it!
Hidayah or guidance(correct me if I'm wrong) is a very valuable gift. Once you lose it, WHAM!- you're done. Finish.There is no way it will come back to you unless you are lucky enough to be given a second chance to feel it again, or if you perform taubat nasuha. But how many of us did that? How many of us try as hard as possible to retain the imaan in their hearts?
I remembered a lecture we learned during our First Aid block, about types of burns. For the first degree burn, the patient can still feel pain, but the burn will heal. The first degree burn is like when you accidentally touched a hot kettle, it will hurt but you know the pain will ease and that it will leave no scar.
The same goes to our heart. The first time we sin, our heart will hurt, it will feel like something is wrong but it will heal because it is our first time doing that sin.
Next is the second degree burn. We will feel excruciating pain but it will heal, only that it will leave a scar behind.
Our heart, when doing the same sin again, it will also feel pain but it will leave a mark on us.
The last degree of burn is the third degree burn. This is where our pain receptors are fully destroyed. Even though you see that the burn is really severe, exposing the muscles underneath, sometimes bones, we will not feel pain.
I bet you can guess what I'm about to say next. Don't let our heart die until we cannot feel anything even when we are doing extremely sinful things. Nauzubillahi minzalik.
[Note: Another interesting thing that I found. ALLAH will burn the skins of the disbelievers in Hell, right? But the skin will grow over and over again so that they can feel the excruciating pain. Things that are only discovered after we found the technology to do so has been stated in the Quran. SubhanALLAH. Truly that the Quran is for people who think. I think I have been thinking less and less recently. :( *sigh*]
Islam is easy, but ALLAH does not provide rukhsah for us to be lazy. There are certain times that we can use rukhsah but only when the situation permits you to do so. I found that a lot of people are violating the rukhsah part. For example, there are no excuse to not perform the prayer because the prayer is the first thing to be analyzed during Judgement Day. Even if you are in a war torn zone, you STILL have to pray but you can apply rukhsah because the situation permits you to do it.
It seems that we are taking the act of prayer lightly, I wonder why ALLAH still gave us the chance to see the light of the day?
We have been given so many free passes, like ALLAH giving us another day to live despite us constantly not abiding to His rulings and expectations of at least, following what He told us to do and what not to do. Imagine if we are praying quickly because we want to rush to go to eat or something worldly(even though we know that the prayer time is exclusive to ALLAH alone), all of a sudden ALLAH took our life away, without giving us a minute to repent and seek refuge from Him. That time, even our friends cannot help us. No one can help us because our life has finally ended.
When we die, that is when all the ni3mats are taken away from us, that is when everything doesn't seem to matter anymore, not your exam, not your career, nothing, because all that matters at that time is either we can answer to Munkar and Nakir when we're down 6 feet under.
Scary?
You better be.
Life is just an R&R on our way to our final destination, heaven, inshaALLAH.
What matters is not what religion you are born in, but what religion we are in the moment we died.
Scary scary.
But life is scary, in a way. You never know when is your turn. For all I know, nauzubillah, I suddenly die in front of my laptop right after I publish this post. Nothing is impossible. Kun faya kun.
As usual, my intention is not to downgrade anyone but to remind you and myself especially about the reality of a Muslim's life. We never know what's next.
ALLAH made the deen possible for us to apply, so just do it. Is it that difficult?
The only place you can find success before work is in the dictionary.
Some more?
I rest my case.
When He told us to wear the hijab, wear it.
When He told us to not do zina, avoid it.
When He told us to pray 5 times a day, just do it.
There is no such thing as, "I am not strong enough to do it."
Saying things like that indirectly implies our uncertainty of our own capabilities and also, our doubts on ALLAH's knowledge of our capabilities as well.
Another phrase that I use to hear is, "I hope ALLAH will give me hidayah one day. Pray for me. Your du'a is makbul."
I hope.
Hoping and wishing is not good enough. If you ask people to pray for you but you yourself do not do the same thing, how do you expect ALLAH to give you hidayah just like that? Like my header suggests,
if you want hidayah, prove that you're worth it!
Hidayah or guidance(correct me if I'm wrong) is a very valuable gift. Once you lose it, WHAM!- you're done. Finish.There is no way it will come back to you unless you are lucky enough to be given a second chance to feel it again, or if you perform taubat nasuha. But how many of us did that? How many of us try as hard as possible to retain the imaan in their hearts?
I remembered a lecture we learned during our First Aid block, about types of burns. For the first degree burn, the patient can still feel pain, but the burn will heal. The first degree burn is like when you accidentally touched a hot kettle, it will hurt but you know the pain will ease and that it will leave no scar.
The same goes to our heart. The first time we sin, our heart will hurt, it will feel like something is wrong but it will heal because it is our first time doing that sin.
Next is the second degree burn. We will feel excruciating pain but it will heal, only that it will leave a scar behind.
Our heart, when doing the same sin again, it will also feel pain but it will leave a mark on us.
The last degree of burn is the third degree burn. This is where our pain receptors are fully destroyed. Even though you see that the burn is really severe, exposing the muscles underneath, sometimes bones, we will not feel pain.
I bet you can guess what I'm about to say next. Don't let our heart die until we cannot feel anything even when we are doing extremely sinful things. Nauzubillahi minzalik.
[Note: Another interesting thing that I found. ALLAH will burn the skins of the disbelievers in Hell, right? But the skin will grow over and over again so that they can feel the excruciating pain. Things that are only discovered after we found the technology to do so has been stated in the Quran. SubhanALLAH. Truly that the Quran is for people who think. I think I have been thinking less and less recently. :( *sigh*]
Islam is easy, but ALLAH does not provide rukhsah for us to be lazy. There are certain times that we can use rukhsah but only when the situation permits you to do so. I found that a lot of people are violating the rukhsah part. For example, there are no excuse to not perform the prayer because the prayer is the first thing to be analyzed during Judgement Day. Even if you are in a war torn zone, you STILL have to pray but you can apply rukhsah because the situation permits you to do it.
It seems that we are taking the act of prayer lightly, I wonder why ALLAH still gave us the chance to see the light of the day?
We have been given so many free passes, like ALLAH giving us another day to live despite us constantly not abiding to His rulings and expectations of at least, following what He told us to do and what not to do. Imagine if we are praying quickly because we want to rush to go to eat or something worldly(even though we know that the prayer time is exclusive to ALLAH alone), all of a sudden ALLAH took our life away, without giving us a minute to repent and seek refuge from Him. That time, even our friends cannot help us. No one can help us because our life has finally ended.
When we die, that is when all the ni3mats are taken away from us, that is when everything doesn't seem to matter anymore, not your exam, not your career, nothing, because all that matters at that time is either we can answer to Munkar and Nakir when we're down 6 feet under.
Scary?
You better be.
Life is just an R&R on our way to our final destination, heaven, inshaALLAH.
What matters is not what religion you are born in, but what religion we are in the moment we died.
Scary scary.
But life is scary, in a way. You never know when is your turn. For all I know, nauzubillah, I suddenly die in front of my laptop right after I publish this post. Nothing is impossible. Kun faya kun.
As usual, my intention is not to downgrade anyone but to remind you and myself especially about the reality of a Muslim's life. We never know what's next.
ALLAH made the deen possible for us to apply, so just do it. Is it that difficult?
The only place you can find success before work is in the dictionary.
فَوَيْلٌ لِّلْمُصَلِّينَ
So woe to the worshippers [Al-Maun :4]
الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَن صَلَاتِهِمْ سَاهُونَ
Who are neglectful of their prayers [Al-Maun :5]
Some more?
Surely the hypocrites are in the lowest stage of the fire and you shall not find a helper for them.
Except those who repent and amend and hold fast to Allah and are sincere in their religion to Allah, these are with the believers, and Allah will grant the believers a mighty reward. [An-Nisa': 145-146]
I rest my case.
“Ya Allah, aku berlindung kepada-Mu dari ilmu yang tidak bermanfaat, hati yang tidak khusyu’, jiwa yang tidak puas, mata yang tidak menangis, dan do’a yang tidak dikabulkan”.
burning of the skin is the most painful punishment to the skin itself. more painful than other form of torture.
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