Trusting Allāh (S.W.T.)

Bismillah Arrahman Arraheem

Holy Prophet Muhammad  al Mustafā (S.A.W.W) said:

"Allāh (S.W.T.) says: Whenever My creature, instead of putting his trust in Me, appeals to other creatures, I will close to him all the earthly and heavenly gates.  Then if he asks Me for anything, I will not fulfill his desire and if he calls upon Me, I will not answer him.  However, if a man, instead of turning to others, puts his trust in Me, I will guarantee his daily food to be given by the earth and heavens.  Should such a person recites Dua, I will fulfill it, should he ask Me for anything.  I will give it to him and should he seek forgiveness, I will forgive him.”

  [Reference: Oddatol Daee (The Asset of Supplicant),Chapter 3, Hadees 347]

THE WORST EVIL -HATRED

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In the time of a caliph, a rich man bought a slave whom he treated, from the beginning, like a gentleman, giving him the best of food and clothes, and money exactly like his own child or even more lavishly. But the slave noticed that his master always felt uneasy.

Eventually the rich man made up his mind to set him free and provide him with some capital. One night as they were sitting together, the master said: ‘Do you know why I have treated you so well?’ The slave asked the reason. The master said: ‘I have one request to make which if you fulfill, you would enjoy all I have given and will give you! But if you refuse, I will be discontented with you.’ The slave said: ‘I will obey whatever you ask. You are my benefactor who has given me my life.’ The master said: ‘You must promise me in good faith to do it, for I am afraid you may refuse it.’

The slave said: ‘I promise to do what you want.’ The master said: ‘My proposal is that you must behead me at a specific time and place.’ The slave exclaimed: ‘What? How can I do that?’ The master said: ‘That is what I desire.’ The slave said: ‘That is impossible.’ The master said: ‘I have got your promise. You must do it.’

One midnight, he awakened the slave and gave him a sharp knife and a bag full of money and climbed up a neighbor's roof, and told the slave to behead him there and then go wherever he liked. The slave asked the reason for such an act. The rich man answered: ‘I hate this one man and prefer death to seeing his face. We have been rivals but he, my neighbor has gone ahead of me and excels me in everything, and I am burning with hatred. I desire my neighbor to be jailed for this fake murder and this idea is a relief to me. Everyone knows him to be my rival, and so my neighbor will be condemned to death for this act.’ The slave said: You seem to be a foolish man and deserve this death.’

So he beheaded the rich man and ran away, His rival neighbor was consequently arrested and imprisoned, but no one believed that he would have killed his rival on his own roof. It had become a mystery. At last, the slave felt a prick of conscience, went to the authorities and confessed the truth. When they understood the matter, they freed both the slave and the neighbor.

This is a fact that Hate is a disease of the soul. The Noble Quran says in Chapter ‘The Sun’ (Shams 91:9-10):

Simple things to do during Hajj

[1] Smile at another Muslim (not ghair mahrams )

[2] Say Salaam to strangers (not ghair mahrams )

[3] Shake someone's hand and ask about their health(not

ghair mahrams )

[4] Buy tea for someone

[5] Offer to get someone's groceries

[6] Sit with a Hajj group from another country and ask about Islam in their village

[7] Carry someone's bags for them

[8] Guide someone ill to the sick bay/hospital

[9] Shun vain talk

[10] Recite talbiyah loudly, encouraging others

[11] On the days of Eid , walk through the tents reciting

talbiyah loudly reminding others

[12] Gather stones for people who are unable to do so

[13] Offer to throw on behalf of unable Hajjis

[14] Guide people to the Jamarat

[15] Lower your gaze

[16] Remind people of the lives of our Sahaabah

[17] Read Qur'an with the Tafseer

[18] Recite the authentic

Dhikrs of the morning and evening

[19] Make dua during your Sajdah

[20] Stand to the side of a gate and offer people water/tea as they leave

[21] Give major attention to shy people in your group

[22] Remind people of patience, why they came here, and the example of our Ulamaa ' in Hajj

[23] Explain a Hajj Khutbah you may have heard to those around you

[24] Explain the importance of purifying ones actions for the sake of Allah

[25] Try not to complain over everything

[26] Make dua for forgotten friends (and the author of this list)

[27] Don't allow Muslims to fight during Hajj

[28] Help people find a place to sleep

[29] Remember - during the heat - the unending torment of hellfire

[30] Say 'Laa ilaaha illa Allah, wahdahu laa sharika lah,  lahul Mulk wa lahul hamd wa Huwa 'ala kulli shay'in Qadeer ' 100x

[31] Say the dua of entering the market place when you go there

[32] Give charity to those who sell meager things (sandals/eggs)

[33] Attend the Halaqahs that are given in Mina

[34] Try to Stay for the 13th of Dhul Hijjah

[35] Remind people to go home as better Muslims

[36] Forgive people that wrong you

[37] Talk to 10 different people from 10 different countries

[38] Compliment someone sincerely

[39] Visit the hospital and thank Allah for all that he has given you

[40] Take young Muslims and invite them to sit with the elders. Make them the center of attention.

[41] Attend the gatherings or lectures of the pious and

Ulama

[42] Always try and offer good words to others and keep a check on one's anger

[43] Ask about the health of senior people in your group. Make sure they are attended to.

[44] Focus hard on helping those immediately near you

[45] Take people to the slaughter house and help them / Or assist them in purchasing their slaughter coupons

[46] Remember specific blessings Allah has bestowed upon you and say Alhamdulillah

[47] Pray to Allah using his 99 most beautiful names (Al

Asmaa ' al Husna )

[48] Use a Miswak

[49] Fill your pockets with candies/sweets and give to the children that you meet

[50] Always intend reward from Allah for everything you go through during Hajj

HADEES

Imam Javad (A.S):  whoever had three things, will never regret: 1. refraining from haste 2. Consulting 3.and depending upon God when decision - making (Mesnad Al_Imam Al_Javad, P.247)

Imam Askari (A.S): The most pious among the people is the one to stop ( action ) in doubts , the most worshiping is the one to perform the obligations , the most austere is the one to leave the unlawful , and the most striving is the one to leave sins.

(Tohaf Al_Okool , P.519)

Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw) said: "Whoever wishes to see Adam in his knowledge, Noah in his piety, Abraham in his forbearance, Moses in his strength, and Jesus in his worship and devotion should look at Ali ibn Abi Talib."

Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw) said the following about Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.)

He is the first one to believe in Islam; He is the most knowledgeable; He is the most correct one in his DEEN; He is the most certain; He is the most patient; He is the most forgiving and generous; He is the bravest in heart; He is the IMAM and the successor after me.

GRIEVOUS CHASTISEMENT FOR SCANDAL MONGERS

One of the dangerous habits and bad deeds is spreading of shamelessness or indecency in which, sometimes, some people and sometimes even our pious people get involved.

In this connection, the Holy Quran says: Surely as for those who love that scandal should circulate respecting those who believe, they shall have a grievous chastisement in this world and the hereafter; and Allah knows, while you do not know.

An open offence is greater than a secret sin. Look at this word of Imam Ali bin Moosa Reza in this connection: One who gives circulation to a sin is banished and forsaken and the one who covers a sin will be forgiven by God.

As a matter of fact, A sin is like fire. When there is a fire at one point in the society we should try to cool it down or to contain it. But if we fan the fire and thus carry it from one point to another point it will engulf everything and then nobody will be able to control it.

Apart from this, the greatness of severity of a sin in the eyes of the common man and the apparent protection of the society from pollution, in itself, is a big dam against the flood of corruption. The circulation of scandal and shamelessness and spread of the sin openly breaches this dam, makes the sin light in public eye and makes pollution easy.

The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) has said: a man approached him and said: may I be sacrificed for you; people have narrated a deed allegedly done by a brother-in-faith hearing which I became displeased. When I asked that person, he denied while all reliable persons have narrated this thing from that person himself. The Imam said: Refute your own eye and ear against your believing brother so much so that even if fifty persons say that he had done something but he says he did not then believe him and disbelieve them. Never circulate in society a thing which may defame him and bring his personality down, otherwise you will be the one about whom God has said: those who love that scandal should circulate respecting those who believe, they shall have a grievous chastisement in this world and the hereafter.

And Amirul Momineen (a.s.) said: Always think good about a deed of your brother-in-faith until its opposite become clear and do not imagine badly about him as long as you can consider him correct.

In conclusion we must know that one day each and every organ of our body will be asked to account for the deeds done and that it will be a hard questioning.

The Holy Quran says: And follow not that of which you have not the knowledge; surely the hearing and the sight and the heart, all of these, shall be questioned.

Finally Muslims must keep in mind that the hypocrites, some times, through rumour mongering and circulation of allegations, defame and drive away great personalities from the field and they assassinate the character of people so severely that they introduce even the most honest man as the most dishonest. For example, during the last hundred years, just look what they had done with great men like Ayatollah Sheikh Fazlullah Noori and Ayatollah Kaashaani and Shaheed Behishti and others

LIGHT OF FEAR AND LIGHT OF HOPE

1 - Haaris along with his father Mugheerah asked Imam Sadiq (a.s.): What was the admonition will of Luqman to his son? He said: There were wonderful matters in that will and the most astonishing of all was that he told to his son: Fear Allah in such a way that if you bring forth all the good deeds of the human beings and the jinns, yet He will punish you and so also be so much hopeful of Him that even if you bring forth all the evils sins of men and jinns He will be kind to you. Then said: my father said: There is no Faithful salve unless there are two lights in his soul: Light of fear and Light of hope is such proportion that if this one is weight it not be heavier and if that is weighed it too will not be heavier.

2 -Hasan bin Abi Surah says: I heard from Imam Sadiq (a.s.): A faithful really does not become a faithful until he is both fearful and hopeful and he is not fearful and hopeful unless he acts in accordance with that fear and hope.

3 - It has been recorded from Imam Sadiq (a.s.): There is a group of people who commit sin and then say we are hopeful of of Gods Mercy and they entertain the same belief till their death and they do unto repent. Then said: These are liars; they are not hopeful of God and they do not fear His punishment, because, if a man is hopeful of something he seeks it and if one fears something he runs away from it.

Prophet YAHYA (AS) AND SHAYTAN

In Majalis Ibn Sheikh Imam Ridha is recorded as quoting his ancestors by saying,   •  Satan used to approach the Prophets after Adam till God ordained Hazrat  Isa.   •  He used to talk to and question them.   •  He liked Hazrat Yahya bin Zakaria the most who asked him, O Satan I  need you for something.   •  Satan replied, Your station is so prominent that you are oblivious of needs.  You may ask whatever you want because I will never oppose your wish.   •  Hazrat Yahya said, O Satan you tell me how you trap Adam’s progeny   •  Satan answered, Through love and friendship.   •  He then promised to return the next day.   •  The next day Hazrat Yahya waited for him after securing the doors tightly.   •  When Satan arrived his face was like that of a monkey, his body was that  of a pig and his eyes were vertical in structure. His teeth and mouth were  joined together; he had no chin and no beard. He had four hands two on  the chest and two on the shoulders and his fingers were reversed. He was  wearing a robe and his loin was tightly girdled with a cloth that was  multi colored. He had a large bell in his hands and an egg on his head  crowned with a metal dog.   •  Hazrat Yahya hesitated but asked him, What is this that is tied to your  midriff? Satan replied: This is sorcery that I have beautified for them.   •  Hazrat Yahya asked him about the multi colored threads and he said,  These are the fashion of women that will always be popularized among  them, though ultimately it will put them to trial.   •  Hazrat Yahya asked him about the bell and he said, This contains all kinds  of musical instruments, which impassion men drink and make merry. I  use them. Hearing these sounds, some refrain from dancing while others  dance wildly and tear their clothes.   •  Hazrat Yahya asked him, What soothes your eyes? He answered, Women  are my instruments in trapping men, for they gather in the assemblies of  righteous people and I approach them, for they gladden my heart.  •  Hazrat Yahya asked him about the egg on his head and he said, I refrain  from going to the assemblies of the righteous because of it. •  Hazrat Yahya asked him, Why this iron inside the egg? He answered,  I  perturb the believers’ hearts through it. •  Hazrat Yahya asked him if he ever was successful against him and Satan  answered, No, but you have a virtue, and that is you eat healthily after a  day’s fasting and this prevents you from saying your prayer immediately  after eating.