In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Benevolent. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and muhammad is His slave and His messenger.
Y'know what's tough? Trying to pull out the root of a coconut tree. On the other hand, it's so easy to end the life a growing seed. But everything is easy for Allah, He can just easily divert anyone of us into becoming the most despicable person in this universe and vice versa.
That's what happened to iblis laknatullah, it was narrated by Abdullah Ibn Abbas, young cousin of the prophet, that he was the most pious amongst the jinn and that he was the head amongst the angels in the worldy heavens. But iblis blew his chance by disobeying Allah.
Disobeying Allah is "supposedly" difficult for those who has eeman and comparatively easy for those who has no eeman at all or maybe a spark of eeman. But its not always the case. There were cases where the person who never committed any sin during his early stage of his life was thrown in hell for committing major sins during the later stage of his life.
So, we too are constantly in the risk of losing our eeman (insha Allah) and once that happens, its not always down the sewage from there. We gotta know how to pick ourselves up coz only we (and of course Allah does too) know when our eeman is weak or how are we supposed to maintain it.
Unfortunately, trying to keep up the momentum of our eeman is tough due to many factors and different people are tested according to their eeman; locality, time, family, friends etc. In fact, everything one way or another plays a role for the development of our eeman.
Dear friends, a block of ice melts just as light bulb slowly fades. Nothing really lasts forever except Allah.. وَيَبْقَى وَجْهُ رَبِّكَ ذُو الْجَلْـلِ وَالإِكْرَامِ (Ar rahman: 27). Even the angle of death will taste death.
Monies, tall buildings, the rides we covet, all the plastic surgeries, all the therapies, all the things we wish we'd see, the places we've been, the people we know, the things we adore, the things we wish we'd have, the things we fear, all will return to its true Possessor.
But eeman, it is something that we need to put significant effort towards. It just doesn't transpire overnight. It needs to be developed. Like, if a guy wants to have big muscles, the guy needs to go to gym or whatever or eat egg yolks and consume more food.
People in the past very well knew the importance of having eeman or faith. They were faced with trials and tribulations; bodies cut into halves, thrown in a boiling oil, burnt and they all didn't become cry babies. Instead, sufferings made their eeman stronger.
During the rule of caliphate of Umar Al Khattab, Abdullah ibn Hudhafah became captives of the emperor of Byzantine. After inflicting pain on Ibn Hudhafah and "demonstrating" death in front of him, the emperor saw the companion cried, he was happy thinkin' that he had decided to give in.
So, the emperor again asked, "Become a christian and i'll set you free." But Abdullah refused. "Damn you! Why did you weep then?" shouted the emperor. "I cried because I said to myselfر "You will now be thrown into this pot and your soul will depart". What I really desired then was to have as many souls as the number of hairs on my body and to have all of them thrown into this pot for the sake of God."
Subhanallah!
The believers back then didn't care about anything except their faith/belief to Allah. Their physique, wealth, house, family whom they loved couldn't be exchanged with their eeman coz they knew that earthly possessions will not be put on scale.
Unfortunately, I sometimes see things in a oblique fashion. Maybe because I haven't really understand the hardship that I will face when death comes, being resurrected, being gathered in Mahsyar ground and so on. Obviously, there are infinite knowledge that I need to gain before I stand before my Lord.
So I ask Allah to help me maintain/increase my eeman (even a little insha Allah), to generate fear for His wrath, to develop craveness for His love and to follow the footsteps of those who had pleased Him.
Love
Tapau
Y'know what's tough? Trying to pull out the root of a coconut tree. On the other hand, it's so easy to end the life a growing seed. But everything is easy for Allah, He can just easily divert anyone of us into becoming the most despicable person in this universe and vice versa.
That's what happened to iblis laknatullah, it was narrated by Abdullah Ibn Abbas, young cousin of the prophet, that he was the most pious amongst the jinn and that he was the head amongst the angels in the worldy heavens. But iblis blew his chance by disobeying Allah.
Disobeying Allah is "supposedly" difficult for those who has eeman and comparatively easy for those who has no eeman at all or maybe a spark of eeman. But its not always the case. There were cases where the person who never committed any sin during his early stage of his life was thrown in hell for committing major sins during the later stage of his life.
So, we too are constantly in the risk of losing our eeman (insha Allah) and once that happens, its not always down the sewage from there. We gotta know how to pick ourselves up coz only we (and of course Allah does too) know when our eeman is weak or how are we supposed to maintain it.
Unfortunately, trying to keep up the momentum of our eeman is tough due to many factors and different people are tested according to their eeman; locality, time, family, friends etc. In fact, everything one way or another plays a role for the development of our eeman.
Dear friends, a block of ice melts just as light bulb slowly fades. Nothing really lasts forever except Allah.. وَيَبْقَى وَجْهُ رَبِّكَ ذُو الْجَلْـلِ وَالإِكْرَامِ (Ar rahman: 27). Even the angle of death will taste death.
Monies, tall buildings, the rides we covet, all the plastic surgeries, all the therapies, all the things we wish we'd see, the places we've been, the people we know, the things we adore, the things we wish we'd have, the things we fear, all will return to its true Possessor.
But eeman, it is something that we need to put significant effort towards. It just doesn't transpire overnight. It needs to be developed. Like, if a guy wants to have big muscles, the guy needs to go to gym or whatever or eat egg yolks and consume more food.
People in the past very well knew the importance of having eeman or faith. They were faced with trials and tribulations; bodies cut into halves, thrown in a boiling oil, burnt and they all didn't become cry babies. Instead, sufferings made their eeman stronger.
During the rule of caliphate of Umar Al Khattab, Abdullah ibn Hudhafah became captives of the emperor of Byzantine. After inflicting pain on Ibn Hudhafah and "demonstrating" death in front of him, the emperor saw the companion cried, he was happy thinkin' that he had decided to give in.
So, the emperor again asked, "Become a christian and i'll set you free." But Abdullah refused. "Damn you! Why did you weep then?" shouted the emperor. "I cried because I said to myselfر "You will now be thrown into this pot and your soul will depart". What I really desired then was to have as many souls as the number of hairs on my body and to have all of them thrown into this pot for the sake of God."
Subhanallah!
The believers back then didn't care about anything except their faith/belief to Allah. Their physique, wealth, house, family whom they loved couldn't be exchanged with their eeman coz they knew that earthly possessions will not be put on scale.
Unfortunately, I sometimes see things in a oblique fashion. Maybe because I haven't really understand the hardship that I will face when death comes, being resurrected, being gathered in Mahsyar ground and so on. Obviously, there are infinite knowledge that I need to gain before I stand before my Lord.
So I ask Allah to help me maintain/increase my eeman (even a little insha Allah), to generate fear for His wrath, to develop craveness for His love and to follow the footsteps of those who had pleased Him.
Love
Tapau
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