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Let us carry on with the effective uses of
a mosque. So, I was suggesting that adjacent to a mosque there
should be a multipurpose hall where the youth and elders could
get together. Since such social activities could not properly
happen at the mosque itself, it is a common observation that the
children hesitate to enter the mosque and play around its door,
because if they entered the mosque even by mistake they will be
faced with sensor process and will be asked a lot of questions,
such as cap, dress etc. Such a hall could be utilized for social
events too, for playing and an Islamic library etc. You would
agree with me that when we accept Islam with full awareness and
knowledge we become better Muslims. It is like advancing from
the primary education to higher levels by further studies and it
is essential for us to become better Muslims. Our children need
to advance in an organized way and particularly in the society
that we are presently living in.
We remember what Allah says that “I do not
help those who do not help themselves”. As we know some of the
previous nations have this misunderstanding that they are the
chosen people so Allah will take care of them. However they
forget that Allah does justice to all. He expects obedience and
total submission and with Him there is no place for the
disobedient. Here some people may ask, “Why does Allah not send
His punishment as he did for the disobedient people in the
past”. We do all the things they did; such as tell lies, are
dishonest, go back on our words, and are oppressors and cruel
etc. About that you can ponder yourself. We should remember
that the previous prophets (pbuh) were sent for particular and
small nations, and when their followers became disobedient then
they were punished by annihilation, while Islam is for all of
the humanity. So it is against His justice that He would punish
whole humanity for the sins of a particular people or nation.
Regional punishments have been happening though; such as by
Jenges Khan, or other such rulers. In this way Allah tests His
submitters and if they are steadfast then He raises their level
of greatness. In the example of Abraham (pbuh), he was being
thrown in fire but he had full belief in Allah, and Allah
ordered the fire to lose it heat and become cold. Do we have
even a fraction of such faith that we ask for Allah’s kindness?
Again Allah orders Abraham (pbuh), to leave his little child and
wife in a desert with no habitation or water and he does not
hesitate to do so. His (pbuh) wife Hagar (ra) asks him (pbuh)
three times that why is he doing so and then understands that it
is a command from Allah and she obeys him (pbuh). If she did
not have trust in her husband and did not believe in his (pbuh)
piety then she would not have obeyed him (pbuh). Such was his
wife’s trust in him (pbuh). Again the third time commands him (pbuh)
to sacrifice his son. He (pbuh) tells this to his (pbuh) son
Ishmael and he (pbuh) unhesitant says yes to it, if it is a
command from Allah. In these examples we see an exemplary
family where all trust each other. So Allah gave a particular
distinction to this family. In this is many a lesson for the
visionary people.
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