Working for this life and working
for the hereafter
My brothers and lovers, God bless you all, we are still with the way of the Koran to reform the conditions of man, we have just listened to verses of the Koran referring to this way, they refer to the plague that spread everywhere like fire in dry straw. People now only do things for other people, a government, a company or any group when there is private interest, this principle started in America, then in the western world, and then everywhere, it also began to sneak and penetrate our societies.
Now we see some believers only do favor when there is a rapid fruit of this life although this is not the way of the messenger of Allah, the way of our prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) in brethren and friendship among believers is for Allah's sake. You accompany your friend because he is similar to you in creed, characteristics, features tendencies and desires, and you want the fruit and favor of this only from Allah, because we do know that everything in this life don't equal a good work for Allah's sake, we can't reward a person even for a single glorification of Allah (Sobhan Allah) even if we have treasures, jewelry and money of this life.
This is our sir Sulayman Ibn Dawood (May the best blessings and perfect peace of Allah be upon him and upon our prophet), Allah made him control and utilize the wind, he was sitting upon his small carpet, Allah made it expand as long as new comers come to him, it used to carry his hosts of Jinn, they were about five hundred thousand, his hosts of people, they were also about five hundred thousand, his ministers and retinue and also monsters and birds Allah made under his control. This carpet was going in horizon, Allah made the wind lenient for them it didn't harm faces or blew their things, as Allah says:
"So, We subjected to him the wind, it blew gently to his order whither he willed," (Surat Saad, verse 36)
This carpet didn't need atomic fuel, aircrafts' fuel or cars' fuel, a man was working in his field near Jerusalem, he saw him and said: "How great is what Allah gave Solayman Ibn Dawood." The wind carried this voice to his ears, he ordered the wind to bring the carpet down, he called that man and asked him: "What have you just said?" The man said: "I said: How great is what Allah gave Solayman Ibn Dawood." He said: "By Allah O my brother, a single glorification in the book of the believer is better and greater to Allah than what Allah gave Solayman Ibn Dawood."
Islam wants the deeds of believers to be directly with Allah even if they are ordinary deeds, why? To have the perfect rewards, favors and degrees from Allah, and Allah gives whom he wills without limits, Allah never boast or regard as favor upon you, but when people give you, they mention it and regard as favor upon you, but He grows your rewards for you, people in any human bank couldn't reach this promotion because a reward equals not only from ten to seven hundred doubles, but as Allah says:
"Allah gives manifold increase to whom He pleases." (Surat Al-Bakarah, verse 261)
Where is the bank that gives seven hundred and more as an interest? Sayeda A'isha (May Allah be pleased with her) was very clever and wise as Islam taught us, once a beggar came to her, she gave him only a grain of grapes, they said to her: "You give him only one grain?" She said: "There are lots of rewards in it, if you understand." A man riding a horse got lost and came to her, he seemed not to be a beggar, she insisted that he gets off and has food with her, her clear insight differentiated between them and we should be like this. She narrated that the prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said:
"A man gives a charity from his legal gain, (in another narration: He doesn't count on it, and Allah only accepts legal charities,) Allah accepts it by His hand and develops it as you grow your young horse or your butler or your young camel. (In another narration Allah says to him: This is your charity that you gave on the day of so and so, we took it and develop it for you as you see."
These divine grants made Muslims and believers hurry to social activities that can finish Islamic problems, because the doer doesn't wait for rewards or favors except from Allah. If he wants speed rewards, he won't do anything unless what he gains is more than what he gives and this is the greatest problem, so Islam directs Muslims to work only for Allah's sake as Allah says:
"They should worship Allah, and worship none but Him Alone." (Surat Al-Bay'yenah, verse 5)
It also ordered us to build friendships and relations among Muslims upon this strong principle. If someone wants to be my friend for a certain purpose or certain and speed interest, Allah said about him in the Koran as we have just listened:
"Therefore withdraw (O Muhammad) from him who turns away from Our Reminder (this Koran) and desires nothing but the life of this world." (Surat An'najm, verse 29)
Such a person, we should leave him, but we should accompany that the prophet said about him:
[There are servants of Allah who are neither prophets nor martyrs, but prophets and martyrs feel great beatitude for them for their nearness to Allah at the day of judgment, (they wish to be like them, but envy means to wish the disappearance of others' grants), a man said: O messenger of Allah, people who are envied by prophets and martyrs, describe them to us, the prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: People from different places and different tribes, there are no relationships among them to care for, or worldly interests to exchange, they love each other by the spirit of Allah, Allah enlightens their faces, He made platforms for them from pearls in front of the throne of The Most Gracious, people got scared, but they don't, people got frightened but they don't, they are safe, then he recited from the Koran: "No doubt! Verily, the righteous people, no fear shall come upon them nor shall they grieve. Those who believed, and used to fear Allah much. For them are glad tidings, in the life of the present world, and in the Hereafter. No change can there be in the Words of Allah, this is indeed the supreme success." (Surat Yunos, verses 62.63.64)]
People think that a righteous man should:
• Stay apart or in a mountain to worship Allah.
• Leave this life behind him.
Such a man we call him Aabed (Worshipper), if worship doesn't affect his behaviors, then he is as Allah says:
"And We shall turn to whatever deeds they (disbelievers and polytheists) did, and We shall make such deeds as scattered floating particles of dust." (Surat Al-Forkan, verse 23)
They said to the prophet: So and so (a woman) stays up during night, fasts during day, does favors and causes harm to her neighbors by her tongue, the messenger of Allah said: "There is no good in her, she will go to Hell." They mentioned another woman and said that she only performs the five required prayers and does little favors, but she doesn't cause harm to anybody, he said: "She will go to paradise."
So, acts of worship should have fruits and appear in behaviors.
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