INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE

INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE

As-salamualaykum. In shaa Allah we shall continue our inspirational lectures with verses from Qur'an soon. In the Name of Allah the Most Gracious the Merciful.The best of Praises and Thanks belong to Allah the Most High. The Joiner of that which has to be joined and the Separator of that which has to be separated. May Allah join us to the ones we have to be joined to in the shortest possible time and separate us from the evil that taunts us in life. We ask Allah to accept our acts of worship, purify them and grant us Jannah.

Servants of Allah today we continue with our inspirational messages using verses from the Qur’an. We ask Allah to grant us understanding of His noble books and make us implementers of His commands. As I heard ShaykhBasha say in one of his tafseers, “We are implementers, not lawmakers.”

Servants of Allah, some weeks ago before the commencement of Ramadhan, we had a lecture on how to prepare for Ramadhan. Ramadhan was yet to arrive and in order for us to maximize the benefits or good we could reap in this noble month we had to prepare very well for it.

If we didn’t prepare well for it, all we could and could still have gained from this whole month would be starvation and thirst. May Allah protect us from such.Servants of Allah, the reason I have brought this up is to bring our minds to the fact that the month of Ramadhan which were preparing for is also a preparation for something else. The day of qiyamah.

This brings us to the verse in which Allah the most High said,

“O you who believe, be conscious of Allah and let every soul look to what it has sent forth for tomorrow. Indeed, Allah is All Aware of what you do.”

In order translations it says, “fear Allah” and in more accurate translations it can be given as, “observe piety towards Allah.”

With this verse O servants of Allah, Allah tells us that we should be very wary of the deeds we commit in this world. The acts that we undertake in this world shall play the vital role in our success or failure tomorrow on the day of qiyamah. We should, therefore, take advantage of this month which is also among the numerous preparations we would make in this world for the hereafter.

We need to ensure that we do not let any act of goodness pass us by. Anytime you realize, or it occurs to you, that you should engage in something that will get you closer to Allah, something that will add to your scale on the day of judgement, do not brush it off. Do that deed to the best of your ability and then put all your trust and hope in Allah the Most.

O servants of Allah, if we do not take advantage of this opportunity Allah has granted us, this life Allah has granted us, to seek the pleasure of Allah, to seek the forgiveness of Allah, to seek the same Jannah which Allah granted Abu Bakr and Umar even before they died, do you know what will happen?

Allah answers us in the next verse saying, “And do not be like those who forgot Allah, so He made them forget their own selves. Those are the defiantly obedient.” We pray to Allah to protect us from such. If you forget your own selves, then you have lost your purpose in this life. This is one of the worst things that could happen to an individual.

As a result of constant negligence of the worship and remembrance of Allah, you forget the reason why you were created. This will lead you to an abode which is the worst of destinations.

Servants of Allah, I will like to cajole our cognitive ability a bit with just a little bit of imagination. Most of us in this group, if not all, have experienced a tragic event before. I don’t know about the other regions but a few years ago the residents of Accra were woken up at dawn with the news of an upcoming earthquake.

We all had to wake up and run to the masjid because we knew it would not be affected and even if it was affected we will die in a masjid.

Now let take a dive into the world of imagination. Just imagine in the situation in which you are asleep and the suddenly you hear people screaming and also running about. In this situation you definitely know that something is happening. Something terrible.

So servants of Allah, in a bid to save yourself from this terrible thing everyone is running from, you jump out of your bed only to realize that you have lost your sight.

Servants of Allah lets now come back to reality. What are you going to do in that situation? What do you think will be your state of mind in such a situation?

Servants of Allah, Allah says, “And whoever turns away from my remembrance, indeed then for him is a life of hardship, and We shall gather him on the day of judgement blind”TaHa 124.

This is a very strong a statement and also a warning from Allah the most High. This is to those of us who are already striving and struggling not to turn away from the remembrance of Allah.

This statement is again going those of us who have already turned away from the remembrance of Allah. We don’t try to remind ourselves of the favors of Allah. Anytime we are approached with a warning or admonishment from Allah or His Messenger, we turn away from it. We find those who try to advise us on the path of the Creator to be repulsive. We wish they were never in our midst.

We fast in the month of Ramadhan yet we still listen to music and we still lie and backbite. We still commit adultery and fornication at night. This is all as result of turning away from the remembrance of Allah the most High.

Allah the exalted says, ‘indeed then for him is life of hardship.’ this person is going to have a life of hardship. This person will never taste what we refer to as true and genuine enjoyment. .

Servants of Allah you might be wondering, here is the case of someone who is always partying, having intimate relationships with the opposite sex, changing guys or ladies, possessing a lot of money. How can such a person have a life of hardship? This person has been engulfed with riches his whole life so how come this person had a life of hardship.

Let me try to explain to the best of my ability how such a person will have a difficult life even though he has wealth and women and all you can think of. Allah the most High says, “Verily, in the remembrance of Allah does the heart find tranquility”.

A person will never find true happiness, true enjoyment or tranquility or ease except in the remembrance of Allah.

WaLlahi we see people partying and having sex and doing all sort of things and waLlahi we can testify based on our interaction with them and also staying with these sort of people for some time that they do not actually get happiness or enjoyment from these things. The only thing they get is a short surge in hormones like adrenaline, testosterone and the likes. They usually mistake these things for happiness and what they feel does not even last. In the next moment you see them feeling depressed and wretched.

After having a life of hardship, a life in which you never get to taste the sweetness of faith, a life in which you don’t get to taste true happiness, Allah says, ‘and We shall gather him on the day of judgement blind’

You have been deprived of a sweet life now you are going to be deprived of an even better hereafter. What is worse than this O servants of Allah.  You were a person with sight in this world but in the hereafter you will be resurrected blind.

From what I said in the beginning of this lecture you should know by now how it’s going to feel to be resurrected blind on a day in which husbands will be running from their wives, fathers will be running from their children. A day on which some people will be turned into the size of ants and they will be trampled upon.

Servants of Allah due to time factor I will end here and admonish myself and everyone that we should fear Allah. We should never in our lives turn away from the remembrance of Allah. A lady in Canada raised her hand to brush off a statement made by someone concerning what the Prophet said about her dressing and that was the last movement she made in her life.

O Allah, you have granted us the favor of meeting the last ten days of this blessed month. Make us beneficiaries of its favors and blessings and protect us from your anger and punishment. Aameen.

As-SalamuAlaykumWaRahmatuLlahwaBarakatuhu