How to Handle Burdens

Dear Readers, As  Salaamu Alaikum!

ALL PRAISES AND THANKS TO ALLAH, LORD OF THE WORLDS!!

We all have stress and burdens in our daily lives. Whether it is school or work or just the trials of life, we carry much on our shoulders. Some of us carry our own loads and some of us carry loads that we share with others, such as health problems, personal family issues, financial dilemmas, marital discord, employment troubles, and the list could go on. These burdens that we bear can be heavy. In fact, most of us may say that at one time or another, these burdens are too hard to bear.

But, in the Quran, chapter 2, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala promises us that we will never have to carry a burden that is greater than what we can bear. So why do we feel then that the burden is too heavy for us to carry? Why do we feel as if we had the weight of the entire world on our shoulders and as if we had more than our share of worries and woes?

We feel this way not because of the weight of the burden, but rather the way we carry it.

Bend at the knees

When we physically carry heavy loads in our arms, we are always told to `bend at the knees' to avoid breaking our backs and injuring our necks. There is great wisdom in ensuring that something is sincerely done in our own best interest, and not just done as a task that we want to get rid of. Likewise, a burden that is carried with little or no care or concern for our own well-being does not make much sense. In a short amount of time, one would `burn out' and be of much less use to the same people that we were intending to help in the first place. So, a burden carried on our shoulders should be carried with care as well, otherwise it could similarly become a `pain in the neck'. In other words, a burden on its own is not such a pain but a mere responsibility; but a burden that is not carried well becomes a pain, a hassle that one harbors reluctantly.

35 Ways to Jannah .. (Part 2)

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 ALL PRAISES AND THANKS TO ALLAH, LORD OF THE WORLDS!!

This is really beautiful and shows you the nature of our deen, its about community and caring. Presenting 35 easy ways through which In sha Allah, will lead you to Jannah As a Muslim we must encourage what is good and forbid what is evil. Everybody wants Jannah but many of us don’t work hard for it and when we want to do something good, Satan obstructs our mind and fills it with doubts and confusion, so we do not know what to do and how to do, so in this regards, we will discuss 35 easy ways which we can follow and In Sha Allah teach to others.

This topic is divided in two e-mails. Yesterday we shared 17 points. In our e-mail today In sha Allah, we will discuss 18 more points.

(Continued from our email yesterday..)

18. Concealing people’s faults:
The Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said: “Whoever conceals others’ faults in this life; Allah will conceal his faults on the Day of Resurrection.” (Muslim)

19. Perseverance:
The Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said: “Never is a Muslim is afflicted with a calamity, sadness, worry, harm, or hardship – even a prick of a thorn – except that Allah, will expiate his sins (due to this).” (Bukhari)

20. Expiation of a gathering:
The Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said: “Whoever sits in a gathering and commits bad deeds (i.e., speech) in it; then says before he stands up to leave: ‘Subhanaka Allahumma wa bihamdika, ash- hadu alla ilaha illa ant, astaghfiruka wa atoobu ilayk,’ Allah will forgive that which he committed during the gathering.” (Tirmidhi)

35 Ways to Jannah .. (Part 1)

 Dear Readers, As Salaamu Alaikum!

 ALL PRAISES AND THANKS TO ALLAH, LORD OF THE WORLDS!!

This is really beautiful and shows you the nature of our deen, its about community and caring. Presenting 35 easy ways through which In sha Allah, will lead you to Jannah As a Muslim we must encourage what is good and forbid what is evil. Eveerybody wants Jannah but many of us don’t work hard for it and when we want to do something good, Satan obstructs our mind and fills it with doubts and confusion, so we do not know what to do and how to do, so in this regards, we will discuss 35 easy ways which we can follow and In Sha Allah teach to others.

This topic is divided in two e-mails. Today we will share 17 points. In our next e-mail tomorrow In sha Allah, we will discuss 18 more points.

1. Cheering up Muslims:
The Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said: “On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will cheer up (by His forgiveness) He who cheers up his fellow Muslim.” (Tabarani)

2. Easing matters for those in hardship:
The Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said: “Allah will make matters easy in the Hereafter for he who eases hardship for a Muslim.” (Muslim)

3. Being kind and merciful to the weak:
The Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said: “Allah will be merciful with those who are merciful with others; be merciful with those on the earth, and the One above the heavens will be merciful with you.” (Tirmidhi)

4. Reconciling between people:
The Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said: “Should I not tell you of a deed that is a rank higher than fasting, praying and spending in charity?” People replied: “Indeed, O messenger of Allah” He (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) replied: “Reconciling between people.” (Abu Dawood)

Ten Useless Matters

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Imam Ibn ul Qayyim al Jawziyyah has mentioned ten useless matters on which we indulge in and not utilize it or gain benefit in this world or the next. Read these points and examine yourself if any of this relates to you.

Ten useless matters are:

1 - Knowledge that is not acted on

2 - The deed that has neither sincerity nor is based on following the righteous examples of others

3 - Money that is hoarded, as the owner neither enjoys it during this life nor obtains any reward for it in the Hereafter

4 - The heart that is empty of love and longing for Allah, and of seeking closeness to Him

5 - A body that does not obey and serve Allah

6 - Loving Allah without following His orders or seeking His pleasure

7 - Time that is not spent in expiating sins or seizing opportunities to do good

8 - A mind that thinks about useless matters

9 - Serving those who do not bring you close to Allah, nor benefit you in your life

10 - Hoping and fearing whoever is under the authority of Allah and in His hand; while he cannot bring any benefit or harm to himself, nor death, nor life; nor can he resurrect himself.

However the greater of these matters are wasting the heart and wasting time. Wasting the heart is done by preferring this worldly life over the Hereafter, and wasting time is done by having incessant hope.  Destruction occurs by following one’s desires and having incessant hope, while all goodness is found in following the right path and preparing oneself to meet Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala.

How strange it is that when a servant of Allah has a [worldly] problem, he seeks help of Allah, but he never asks Allah to cure his heart before it dies of ignorance, neglect, fulfilling one’s desires and being involved in innovations.  Indeed, when the heart dies, he will never feel the significance or impact of his sins

To conclude: Let us read (translation of) Surah Asr

• By time,
• Indeed, mankind is in loss,
• Except for those who have believed and done righteous deeds and advised each other to truth and advised each other to patience.

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A Mother's Heart .. (Short Story)

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Today we will share with you a short story emphasizing how important it is to love our parents, especially our Mother. Many grown-ups do not give much importance to our parents. They get busy in wordly pleasures and chase money or fame and ignore their parents. We will also quote some verses of the Qur’an and Hadiths which highlight the importance of our parents.

There was this young man about twenty years old named Jamal. Jamal was approached by a salesman, Adam, who offered Jamal one hundred thousand dollars (or dinars) for his mother’s heart

Jamal, with dollar signs in his eyes and greed in his heart, took the offer to be literal and went home right away and with a dagger claimed the life of his mother and tore out her heart and hurriedly started back towards the marketplace to find the salesman. On his way to the marketplace, Jamal tripped on some pebbles and as he fell down he dropped his mother’s heart and it got all dirty with the dust from the ground. After he fell, a soft voice came from within the heart and said: “O my son, are you alright?”

Startled, Jamal realized what he had done and started crying. He cried so much that the tears from his eyes rolled down his cheeks and with those tears the dirt on the heart was wiped clean. Jamal, now desperate, wanted a way out of the major sin he had just committed. He picked up his dagger and pulled it up and was about to take his own life. Suddenly, the same soft voice came out a second time from the heart. This time it stated: “O my son, do not kill me twice.”