The moderate man
Allah
(Glory to Him) sent religion to be the guidance for all Muslims and believers
and to make balance between the spirit, the body with the power of desire and
anger and souls. Once this balance is achieved, man will be as Allah says:
"Thus
we have made you (Muslims) a temperate nation." (Surat Al-Bakarah, verse
143)
If Allah
gives him wealth and there is passion, mercy and kindness in his heart, he will
see and give all his brothers in humanity not only Muslims. Don't you know that
when the messenger of Allah (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him)
was exposed to great harm by the people of Mecca
"O My
Lord, afflict them by years of distress like the years of Yusof."
High
expenses and drought befell on them, they had so little food that they didn't
find inevitable food, their leader Abu-Sofian went to the prophet (May the
blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) in spite of great disputes among them
at that time and said to him:
"O
Mohammed, we appeal you by Allah and the kinship."
Then the
prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) prepared a caravan
full of food and five hundred Dinar to help those people although they didn't
follow the religion of Allah and were fighting him (May the blessings and peace
of Allah be upon him).
Why did he
(May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) do this? It's the human
mercy, as Allah says:
"Unto whom We had bestowed mercy from Us, and whom We had
taught knowledge from Us." (Surat Al-Kahf, verse 65)
When a
believer follows the religion of Allah (Glory to Him) He sends His mercy in his
heart, so he is dutiful to his parents, generous to his guests, has mercy upon
the poor and the needy, gives the right of neighbor even if he is unfair and
observes Allah all over his conditions, this is because Allah gave him mercy
from Him. Thus this balance makes man live a good life in life and religion and
also a happy life in the hereafter God willing.
A believer
who follows the creed of Allah in this life wants to nourish his body legally.
When he nourishes his body legally, he has no desire for sins even if they are
close and easy to him because Allah makes a barrier in his heart between him
and sins.
If the body
is nourished by illegal food, he will go to sins. It was narrated that Haroon
Ar'rasheed (the caliph) appointed his brother Bahlool (he was a virtuous man)
to be the observer upon markets, it is like the ministry of rations now, to
observe measures, scales and prices in markets.
Bahlool
worked for a year, he didn't make any cases for anyone. Haroon called him and
said to him: "I see you didn't make any cases through a whole year, do all
people behave according to Sharia'a?" He said: "O Ameer Al-Mo'meneen
(prince of believers) I saw that Allah revenges from unfair people
automatically." He asked: "How?" He said: "They spend the
illegal money they get in sins and faults."
This is the
way of Allah as He said:
"And
you will not find any change in the Way of Allah." (Surat Al-Ahzab,
verse 63)
Bahlool
thought that by this they got their fair punishment from Allah. So when the
body is nourished legally, it straightens, can a son nourished legally raise
his voice (not his hand) in front of his father or mother? No, by Allah,
because he was legally brought up, he tends to good even if some bad people
seduced him while he is heedless; Allah made him awareness and consciousness in
his heart to save him as Allah says:
"Verily, those who are the pious when an evil thought comes
to them from Satan, they remember (Allah), and (indeed) they then
see (aright)." (Surat Al-A'raf, verse 201)
So a Muslim
nourishes his body legally as permitted by Allah (Glory to Him). Allah only
prohibits things which are corruptive to both body and religion. He forbids us
from them because of this spoil, if they were anyway useful; He would permit
them, He banned wine and pig and other things, why? Because they will spoil
body, religion, morals and societies, people who drink and eat them admit this
and demonstrate their damages and harms by their scientific equipment. Because
they do not believe in Allah and have no preacher in their hearts from Allah,
they can't abstain themselves from these sins although they all do know and
confess that they cause great harm.
They inform
us the harms of adultery and profligacy, they explain this in details and
mention the different diseases resulted from illegal deeds, but they couldn't
stop themselves, why? Because they have no balance between material and spirit,
balance is only found after believing in Allah (Glory to Him).
The
companions of the prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him)
gave concern to this balance, they gave their bodies what is permitted by
Allah, they observed Allah and executed His orders, so they didn't need a
doctor and returned him.
Then why
are there lots of problems, diseases and accidents among us? Because we tend
wholly to this life and make its scale outweigh the scale of the hereafter.
Allah ordered us to be the temperate nation that makes balance between this
life and the hereafter so that none of them exceeds the other, in this case
life will be hereafter, because everything you do will be in the scale of your
awards. The prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said:
"A
dinar you gave to a needy, a dinar you spent to free a neck, a dinar you spent
for Allah's cause and a dinar you spent for your family, the dinar you spent
for your family is that of the greatest awards."[1]
This is
because he lives by the divine luminous balance ordered by Allah.
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