Praise be to Allah, the Lord of Creations, and Peace and blessings be upon our prophet Muhammad, the faithful and the honest.
Oh, Allah, we know nothing but what You teach us. You are the All- Knower, the Wise. Oh Allah, teach us what is good for us, and benefit us from what You taught us, and increase our knowledge. Show us the righteous things as righteous and help us to do them, and show us the bad things as bad and help us to keep away from them.
O Allah our Lord, lead us out from the depths of darkness and illusion, unto the lights of erudition and knowledge, and from the muddy shallows of lusts unto the heavens of Your Vicinity.
Oh, Allah, we know nothing but what You teach us. You are the All- Knower, the Wise. Oh Allah, teach us what is good for us, and benefit us from what You taught us, and increase our knowledge. Show us the righteous things as righteous and help us to do them, and show us the bad things as bad and help us to keep away from them.
O Allah our Lord, lead us out from the depths of darkness and illusion, unto the lights of erudition and knowledge, and from the muddy shallows of lusts unto the heavens of Your Vicinity.
Worshiping Allah entails using the available means:
Dear brothers, we will talk about a new topic in the series Means of Access and Signs of Acceptance, and it is Considering and Using the Available Means. This topic is raised by Ibn Al Qayem, may Allah have peace upon his soul, and we are using his own words. I am not exaggerating when I say that Muslims' main problem at present is keeping this rule unapplied.
Being a worshipper to Allah, Glorified and Sublime be He, entails respecting His Laws in everything and applying them, and this is how your full submissiveness to Allah, Glorified and Sublime be He, can be manifested. Actually, Allah created this universe and made it based on causal principle (the cause of an object must contain at least as much reality as the object itself, whether formally or eminently.):
﴾ Verily, We established him in the earth, and We gave him the means of everything. So he followed a way.﴿
Using the means is a crucial part of religion, whereas disregarding them is a grave sin. Actually, Muslims are lagged behind other nations, their rights are violated, their lands are occupied, their children are killed and their treasures are looted, because they neglected the available means, while their enemies used the means. Furthermore, Muslims disregarded the means, and they resorted to Tawaakul (putting trust in Allah without using the means).
Your submission to Allah entails using the means. If your son gets ill, you should take him to the closest doctor, buy him the best medication, give him the medicine yourself and then invoke Allah from the bottom of your heart to cure him. Thus, you should use the means as if they are everything you can depend on, and then put your trust in Allah as if they are worthless.
The right and wrong actions are based on right and wrong conceptions:
Dear brothers, every action one does is preceded by a vision, and this explains why the thief steals. He steals, because he thinks that he will get hefty money for a minimum effort, but he forget the punishment and the prison he will be sent to. Hence, since all actions are preceded by a vision, and having the right vision will make your actions right, while having the wrong one will corrupt your actions.
Here is another example: When you see a red light on the dashboard of your car, you should not think that this red light is for adornment purposes, because it alerts you that something is wrong with the car (it may need to have the oil changed), so if you think that this red light is for adornment purposes and you keep driving your car, the engine will break down and your car will not move any more. Accordingly, you will not be able to continue your journey, and you will not reach your destination. Let alone, you will pay lots of money to fix the car. However, if you understand that this red light is a warning, and so you stop the car and change its oil, your engine will stay intact, and you will be able to move on with your trip and reach your destination. This example is very simple, yet it clarifies everything with regard to misconceiving things or having wrong assumptions about something:
﴾ Say (O Muhammad, peace be upon him): "Shall We tell you the greatest losers in respect of (their) deeds?* "Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life while they thought that they were acquiring good by their deeds! ﴿
If a nation assumes that its safety can be obtained by being submissive to the stronger nation, she is mistaken, because this submission will make the stronger nation humiliate her, violate her rights, loot her treasures and occupy her land. On the other hand, if this nation assumes that the victory is granted by Allah Alone and that this victory is deserved by only those who follow Allah's Religion, and so she reconciles with Allah and follows His Religion, she will be surprised, and she will strongly believe that her faith and reconciliation with Allah changes all the equations and cancels the superiority of her enemies:
﴾ But if you remain patient and become Al-Muttaqun (the pious), not the least harm will their cunning do to you. ﴿
I would like to give you one more example: In a car company, every month they have 100 burst tires, which makes a big problem, and each time they have a burst tire, the driver is punished by the manager, but in another car company, they have only one burst tire each month, so what is the main cause of such a problem? The main cause lies in the fact that the manager gave instructions to fill the tires with air till the pressure is 40, while it should be 30 as in summer the weather is very hot, and when the driver speeds up, the air inside the tire expands causing its burst. Therefore, the wrong conclusions are caused by having a wrong vision. Thus, when man has a wrong vision, he will pay the price.
Muslims' main problem nowadays is having wrong visions:
The first important point is the difference between the Masajid in the Companions' era and the ones in our era. At early Islam, the floor of the Masajid was only sand, and its ceiling was covered with fronds, yet Muslims' flags flew in the horizons, do you know why? Well, Muslims at early Islam reached China in the east and Paris in the west.
Nowadays, our Masajid cost billions and our Islamic appearances are striking. Moreover, there are Islamic conferences, books, lectures, CDs and adornments everywhere. However, there are five Islamic countries under occupation and our treasures are in the hands of our enemies. Needless to say, the entire world declared a war against Islam, but why did all these things happen? Why did the flags of the Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, fly everywhere and they were superior? Why Muslims today are defeated and very weak? The reason is because the Noble Companions understand what Islam means, while we misunderstand it.
Tawheed (Monotheism) rectifies the wrong conception:
Dear brothers, Tawheed rectifies the wrong conception, for Tawheed makes you see that all matters are managed by Allah, He is the One Who grants victory, He is the Omnipotent, the Exalter, the Abaser, the Bestower of Honor, the Humiliator, the One Who grants prosperity and the One Who grants victory. Therefore, Tawheed corrects one's misconceptions, whereas Shirk (Polytheism) drives man away from the right ones. Allah says:
﴾ And most of them believe not in Allah except that they attribute partners unto Him [i.e. they are Mushrikun -polytheists - see Verse 6: 121]. ﴿
The minute you count on your money, you are involved in Shirk (polytheism), the moment you count on a powerful human being thinking that your salvation is in his hands, you are involved in Shirk and whenever you count on your cleverness, you are involved in Shirk.
Let me tell you the story of a cardiologist in America who put his trust in jogging. He used to jog for 20 kilometers every day, and as a professor at the university, he used to give lectures about the good effects of jogging. Thus, jogging meant a lot to him, and though his opinion is right, he died young. Was there anything wrong in his opinion? No, there was not. The error resulted from depending on jogging alone and forgetting all about Allah.
Let me tell you the story of a cardiologist in America who put his trust in jogging. He used to jog for 20 kilometers every day, and as a professor at the university, he used to give lectures about the good effects of jogging. Thus, jogging meant a lot to him, and though his opinion is right, he died young. Was there anything wrong in his opinion? No, there was not. The error resulted from depending on jogging alone and forgetting all about Allah.
When you put your trust in something and forget Allah, you will be Divinely disciplined. One should use the means as if they are enough, and then put his trust in Allah as if they are not sufficient. If the wrong conception has nothing to do with the behavior, then you can have whatever conception you like, and if the wrong Aqidah has nothing to do with the behavior then believe in whatever you wish, but it is a proven fact that every misconception and every error in Aqidah will reflect on the behavior, and this is why Allah never accepts any doctrine that is adopted blindly (without being convinced of it) even though it might be right, because Allah says:
﴾ So know (O Muhammad, peace be upon him) that La ilaha ill-Allah (none has the right to be worshipped but Allah), ﴿
Allah does not say, "so say O Mohammad, peace be upon him", but He says:
﴾ So know ﴿
Muslim's beliefs are not accepted without searching, studying and believing in them:
Allah never accepts to have the Muslims' beliefs adopted blindly, but rather He accepts them after searching, studying and believing in them deeply. The Aqidah which is embraced by tradition (from fathers to children) is not accepted, otherwise all those who followed deviated doctrines should survive in the Hereafter, because someone would say, "It is not their fault, but it is the fault of their sect. They just responded to the leader of their sect when he gave them the instructions and orders." Accordingly, the Aqidah that is followed by tradition is not Divinely accepted, because man should check the beliefs before adopting them due to Allah's Saying:
﴾ So know (O Muhammad, peace be upon him) that La ilaha ill-Allah (none has the right to be worshipped but Allah), ﴿
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