![]() ![]() You know, was it last year or the year before, in the United Kingdom in the summer there were terrible riots, and young people were breaking shop windows and stealing televisions and burning things, and when I watched it on the television, immediately I said to myself “I know what’s happening here. ![]() ![]() Things will not bring us happiness, and the mistake we make in life is in thinking that acquiring more things will settle our hearts. Once we’ve got one new suit, we want another, or a new pair of shoes, or a new hijab,… or whatever it might be. Once we’ve moved to a new flat we want a bigger flat. You know how you look for a new car, “all will be well if I get a new car.” Or “all will be well if I get a new job”, or “if we move to a bigger flat”, or if… or if…Īnd the thing is we’re never happy. In the remembrance of Allah, not in how many pairs of shoes you’ve got, that won’t bring you happiness. Learning How to Love For the Sake of Allah Verily, in the remembrance of Allah will hearts find rest. We miss the point about what life is about, so that happiness we’re always looking for, that rest we seek… Allah All-Mighty tells us in the Quran: But sometimes you know in life we miss the point because we’re rushing around because we want to have more things. So in death, we all realize what is really important. I’ve never heard anyone in a funeral say this woman, she had so many dresses in the wardrobe, or he took so many foreign holidays a year, or he had this car…Īt your funeral, those things which are important are what people would say: he was a good man, he was a good husband to his wife, he was a good father to his children, he was honest, he was kind, he was a man of faith, he was a man of prayer. Well, I’ve been to many funerals in my life, but I’ve never heard anyone say with the dead person in front of them, this man had twelve suits. You know, imagine a funeral in the West, and the coffin is brought in to the church, and the minister is asked to say a few words about the person who has died. Mobile Phones & Life: Which is More Important? Well, Islam teaches us submit to Allah, accept what Allah wants and we will find peace in our lives. The way the world thinks is that we want to be on-top, we want to be number 1, we want to be the most important person, we want to have more rather than be better. So, when we submit to Allah, this is when the second word comes in: we find peace and serenity through submission. With You, You will bring success to everything I do, but without You I’m just a noisy gong, it’s just me I’m talking about. So we are submitting to Allah, we are saying there is nothing I can do, there is no success I can have without You. “O Allah, help me to be a better person, help me to be a better Muslim. It means that, for example, when a Muslim prays, he or she, their forehead touches the ground in prayer five times a day, and they say to Allah All-Mighty: When we talk about submission in Islam, we talk about submitting to Allah. ![]() We are not talking about bending the knee and kissing the hand and obeying men. You know, “submission” is not a politically-correct word at the moment, we don’t like to talk about submission.īut when we’re talking about submission, we are not talking about submission to men. You probably know the word Islam comes from a root Arabic word that means two words: submission and peace. Seeking Nearness to Allah - First Steps to the Spiritual Journey ![]()
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