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In our
previous chapter, we talked about the importance and benefits of
offering five prayers. These are for pleasing God, punctuality,
brotherhood, joint system and the passion of sacrifices. Here
one question can bother you in mind that if a course has been
completed and you have passed the exam then why should we
continue revising it and why are we so strictly ordered for
doing this until death? The answer is that God has already
warned us about our eternal enemy Satan who is all the time in
the search of opportunities to get you off the righteous path.
For example, by missing prayers of one time we come to the point
again from where we started. Once you start disobeying, Allah's
fear in your heart starts diminishing and will be replaced by a
beastly nature or brutality. As we human beings are the
combination of Vices and virtues. Heart of a believer is as
bright as light, and of non –believer as dark as hard coke. That
is why God said, “Every day the believer has its own grace”.
No wise
person would like to lose the reward earned with so much hard
work. Can we disobey Allah to have His curse stamped upon us?
Would we like to be counted among disbelievers like Abujahl and
Abu lahab? So you would never like to do this mistake of not
offering your prayers in time, offer them and always in time. If
some mistake is done while offering prayers He will forgive it,
but if you leave your prayers with intention then may God have
mercy upon you. If the place and dress are not clean you will be
forgiven but as Allah knows it was because of some constraint.
The prayers left with intention are not forgivable. At least
offer your “fard prayers”. These are obligatory prayers.
Now I will
come to the point to prove that offering rights of God is by
means of offering Rights of humanity. For example in a factory
an owner has many workers some are hard working and some are
not. If he is intelligent, which workers would he prefer? Your
answer surely would be the ones who are hard working.
Our lord has
no shortcomings. He is aware of everything, yet He punishes us
on our deeds not our thoughts. It is His kindness. But do you
really think that He will be pleased and will appreciate you if
you deceive Him.
Today it has
caused the fall of us Muslims so much that our actions are
different from our belief. Until and unless we change ourselves
we will be cursed. Holy Prophet (pbuh), had already warned us
that “those will be the worst days of my followers when earth
will produce gold and other nations will rule them.” Sahaba
karam (ra) enquired at that time that, would we be in lesser in
numbers? The holy Prophet, peace be upon him, replied "no the
numbers will be plenty." On sahaba's further enquiry, again he
replied" fear of Allah would be no more in their hearts". Is it
not that time we are living in? Now we should ask for
forgiveness of God with true heart and offering human rights
would be the first step towards it.
Are we not
like one previous nation disturbing the world and confiscating
others properties if they deserve God’s curse. How about us? |
