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When Muslims Hurt do you Hurt?
While thousands of
Muslims are killed all over the world, and while tens of thousands are
imprisoned and tortured for calling to the path of Allah, for enjoining the good
and forbidding the evil and for defending their religion and land, most Muslims
remain remarkably silent and have no worry except for the material things of
life. Their hearts have been filled with the love of this life and the
forgetfulness of the Hereafter.
Allah says in the Qur'an: "You will indeed find them, of all
people, most greedy of life, even more than those who do not believe in
Resurrection. Each one of them wishes he could be given a life of a thousand
years. But the grant of such life will not save him even a little from due
punishment. For Allah sees well all that they do." (Al Baqarah, 2:96)
Many Muslims today have become so much attached to their life that their desire
is to dwell among their family, house, money and commerce. They have forgotten
that matters of the Hereafter should come before matters of this life and that
we must strive to follow the orders of Allah, not just those we find easy and
convenient to follow.
Some Muslims today claim that it is better to perform extra prayers and extra
fasting rather than enjoin the good and forbid the evil or defend the lives of
weak Muslims. Such people would even blame the Muslims who strive to perform
these obligations.
This is what Imam Ibn ul Qayyim al Jawziyyah had to say about such people: "The
Shaitan (Satan) has misled most people by beautifying for them the performance
of certain voluntary acts of worship such as voluntary prayers and voluntary
fasting while neglecting other obligatory acts of worship such as enjoining the
good and eradicating the evil, to the extent that they do not even make the
intention of performing them whenever they are able to.
Such people are considered by the scholars to be on the bottom of the scale of
religion: For the essence of our religion is to perform what Allah ordered us to
do. The one who does not perform his obligations is actually worse than the one
who performs sins. Anyone having some knowledge about the revelation of Allah,
the guidance of the Prophet, sallallahu alayhe wa sallam, and the life of the
companions would conclude that those who are pointed at today as the most pious
people are in fact the least pious.
Indeed, what kind of piety is there in a person who witnesses Allah's sanctities
being violated, his religion abandoned, the Sunnah of His Messenger shunned, and
yet remains still with a cold heart and a shut mouth' Such a person is like a
dumb Shaitan!
In the same way the one who talks falsehood is a speaking Shaitan. Isn't the
misfortune of Islam due only to those who whenever their life and food are
secure, would not care about what happens to the religion? The best among them
would offer a sorry face. But if they were challenged in one of the things their
heart is attached to like their money, they would spare no efforts to get it
back. These people, besides deserving the anger of Allah, are afflicted with the
greatest calamity without even knowing it: They have a dead heart.
Indeed the more alive a person's heart is, the stronger its anger for the sake
of Allah and the more complete his support to Islam and Muslims."
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