Dear Readers,
An unbelieving heart is a dead heart. Faith is like
spirit of heart. Heart awakens through faith. As long as the love of Allah, which is the light of faith in
heart, increases, a spiritual joy, serenity, peace occur at heart. This situation
is reflected likewise to human’s body, his looks, voice, and every movement. I
listened at a television conversation. A software engineer working on audio
technologies told in an interview conducted with himself that they had made
audio recording and analysis in several places, and as a result of these
studies they had concluded that serenity in heart was reflected to voice of
human completely, sound values of those conducting hajj task and that of uneasy
people working in stressful environment
were different from each other. What gives this peace to the heart is being
remembered Allah, trusting him, being dependent on Him. Although bodies of
those remembering Allah are physically near public, their heart are always near
Allah. It is ordered in a Qur’an verses that:
"Those
who believe, and whose hearts find satisfaction in the remembrance of Allah;" [Rad, 28]
# We must keep away from affairs
weakening faith
Dear readers, every fact weakening faith in heart is a factor causing to die as an unbeliever.
Imam azam Abu Hanifa hazrats stated that
faith was declared by tongue, and certified by heart, and increase or decrease
on faith wouldn’t be occurred. But it is ordered in the verses from the Qur’an
that:
"Whenever
there cometh down a Surah, some of them say: "Which of you has had His
faith increased by it?" Yea, those who believe,- their faith is increased." [Tauba, 124]
"Believers
are those who, ... when they hear His
revelations rehearsed, find their faith strengthened," [Anfal,
2]
Then, what is that increasing and decreasing? That increasing and decreasing is love of
Allah that is light of faith.
The love is a heartfelt faithfulness. When human
loves his Rab by believing Him, love against everything relating to Allah
occurs in his heart. You will remember that, I had declared at one of my
articles issued recently that, things relating to Allah and reminding Him were
called as "sheairullah" and
these were signs of Allah on earth. The most important ones of these signs are Qur’an,
Allah’s prophets and Muslims. Divine mercy spreads all over the world through
them.
# The greatest friends of human
The greatest friends of human are Allah, and
Allah’s prophets and Muslims, who are Allah’s signs on earth. Because, they attempt human to forward to goodness and rescue
the human from eternal fire. They don’t demand any
charge or reward for that. It is ordered in a Qur’an verse that:
"Your
(real) friends are (no less than) Allah, His Messenger, and the (fellowship of)
believers." [Maida,
55]
Rasulullah (s.a.w.) ordered that:
"...
I am holding you, and prevent you from falling on fire. You are striving to
fall down in fire getting rid of my hands!" [Bukhari, Muslim]
While loving believers and loving them for only
Allah’s consent is a sign of faith, not to love unbelievers who are enemy of believers,
and treating them as an enemy for only Allah’s consent is a sign of faith in
the same way. This is called in Islamic literature as "Hubbu fillah, Bugdu
fillah" (loving for
Allah’s consent and treating as an enemy for Allah’s consent)
# The most powerful sign of faith
It is ordered in the hadiths that:
"The
strongest basis and the most powerful sign of faith is hubbu fillah, buğdu
fillah." [Abu
Davud]
"The
base of faith is to love believers and not love unbelievers." [I. Ahmad]
"Even
you perform worship like Gabriel (a.s), unless you love believers
for Allah’s consent and not love unbelievers for Allah’s consent, none of your worships,
favours and beneficial works are accepted!" [Ay Ogul Ilmihal]
"The
righteous of faith is loving for Allah’s consent, mistreating for Allah’s consent, mentioning
Allah through tongue, demanding good things that he thinks so for others, not
demanding anything that he doesn’t want for others, talking about beneficial
issues or shutting up." [Tabarani]
Dear readers, as it is seen, hubbu fillah and bugdu fillah are ones of the most important
indicators of strong and mature faith.
For this reason, we should love for Allah’s consent and
mistreat for Allah’s consent not to die as an unbeliever. We shouldn’t
consider wishes and desires of our nafs and personal interests essentially as a
gauge for our love and mistreatments. The correct gauge on this issue must be
Allah’s provisions and consent. If human acts in direction of his self’s
desires and wishes, he always makes a mistake. Human’s nafs (ego) is the
biggest enemy of himself and Allah. It always orders evil. Those subjecting to
their nafs can not get rid of the troubles.
# Addiction of the world
life is the poison of faith and salvation
Dear Readers,
The reason why the human is devoid of peace,
comfort and eternal happiness, and the right way in brief is their fondness of
the world life. It is ordered in a Qur’an verse that:
"This
because they love the life of this world better than the Hereafter: and Allah
will not guide those who reject Faith." [Nahl, 107]
The reason of human’s salvation is "faith".
It is ordered in a Qur’an verse that:
"Those
who believe, and work righteousness,- their Lord will guide them because of
their faith." [Yunus, 9]
In addition that, addiction
of the world, love of the world life and preferring it to the Hereafter drags
the human to the rejection of Allah which is the most clear truth; it is also
one of the most important reasons damaging faith, weakening
and ruining faith on the believing humans.
# The love of the world life is primary reason
of spiritual diseases
The love of the world is one of the most serious
spiritual diseases of heart. The human indulging in the
world’s pleasures usually doesn’t avoid of lying, tricking, deceiving the
people for small benefits of the world. The reason of
deception, deceit, fraud, trickery, cheat is fondness of the world. These
kind of behaviors occur among the people, not believing in Allah, being
interrogated, being punished due to his bad behaviors as a result of revealing
of divine justice. In other words, the main reason of lie and humbug is faith
weakness. It is ordered in a Qur’an verse that:
"It is those
who believe not in the Signs of Allah, that forge falsehood: it is they who lie!" [Nahl, 105]
The mother Aishe told that “There was nothing worse than lie in salaf-i salihin’s opinion. Because lie and mature faith don’t get
together."
It is ordered in a hadith that:
“There are
such three things, whom one of those exist in, he is a hypocrite (factious), regardless of the
fact that he performs the salat or fasts. he lies, doesn't
abide by a promise, misappropriates.” [Bukhari, Muslim, Imam Suyuti]
# The biggest fault: Lie
“The
biggest fault is to lie.” [Hutbatur
Rasul]
“As long
as a Muslim’s heart isn’t righteous, his faith won’t be real. As long as he lies, his heart won’t be righteous.”
Safvan Ibn Sulaym (r.a.) tells:
We asked "Ya Rasulullah! Does a believer have fears?"
He said "Yes!".
We asked "All right, can he look twice at every penny?"
He said "Yes!" again
We asked "All right, does he lie?" At this time, he said: "No!" [Muvatta, Kalam 19]
We asked "Ya Rasulullah! Does a believer have fears?"
He said "Yes!".
We asked "All right, can he look twice at every penny?"
He said "Yes!" again
We asked "All right, does he lie?" At this time, he said: "No!" [Muvatta, Kalam 19]
Dear readers, plainly, the worst poison weakening faith is to lie. Lie is rejection of the reality, and invert the truth. Although lying is so bad behavior, amazingly, in most cases, the reason of lying
is to provide small world interests. Whereas, lying isn’t needed for that.
Because, Allah clearly orders that He will provide the world benefactions to
those whoever want them, and Hereafter whoever wants it:
"To
any that desires the tilth of the Hereafter, We give increase in his tilth, and
to any that desires the tilth of this world, We grant somewhat thereof, but he
has no share or lot in the Hereafter." [Shura, 20]
# Allah narrows and widens livelihood
Allah doesn’t discriminate between his servants in
terms of science. He gives it whoever wants. But the case is different in terms
of livelihood. Allah (swt) gives goods and property to those He wants to give
to. He widens or narrows the livelihood of those He wants to do.
"Allah doth enlarge, or grant by (strict) measure, the sustenance (which
He giveth) to whomso He pleaseth. (The worldly) rejoice in the life of this
world: But the life of this world is but little comfort in the Hereafter." [Rad, 26]
Dear readers, another way of
perverting the facts by inverting the truth is hypocrisy. The hypocrisy is
to reveal out his feelings and thoughts differently than they are in his heart.
In other words, the hypocrisy is to be seem differently than
it supposed to be, performing works for showiness rather than Allah’s
consent, and being double faced. It is one of the issues and maybe the most
important one, damaging and weakening
our faith.
Rasulullah
(s.a.w) ordered in respect of hypocrisy
that:
"Hypocrisy
is small shirk." [Tabarani]
For this reason, not to be died as an unbeliever, we should always keep away from these two spiritual diseases,
lie and hypocrisy, weakening, ruining,
and destroying our faith. We witness that lie and hypocrisy are acquired a
habit and often repeated by some people. This is a very
dangerous affair. It is very difficult for those people to keep their faith
when they yield up the ghost.
# We should keep away from major sins
Dear Readers,
Not to die as an unbeliever, one of the issues to
be aware of is to keep away from major
sins.
It is needed to keep away from every kind of sin.
Rasulullah (s.a.w.) ordered that:
"To keep away from the smallest sin is better than the total worships
of all gin and human."
[R. Nasihin]
It is ordered in the verses from the Qur’an that:
"Eschew
all sin, open or secret: those who earn sin will get due
recompense for their earnings." [Anaam, 120]
"For
He loveth not any ungrateful and wicked." [Baqarah, 276]
Dear readers, surely it is not an easy issue at all
to keep away from every kind of sin for us as incapable
servants owner nafs. The most important issue on this respect is that human
should be sincere to his Creator on his loyalty, take control of his own behaviors,
and return to his Creator by repenting and pleading for mercy and demanding the
forgiveness from his Creator whenever he sins. Islam is belief and trust of
human to his Creator and surrender himself to Him. If faith and resignation are
constituted completely, Allah (swt) forgives small sins of person with variety
of occasions and excuses. He doesn’t load anybody more than he can be able to
carry. Even if he can’t be able to keep away from small sins, he should attempt
at least to keep away from major sins.
It is ordered in the verses from the Qur’an on the
qualifications of a Muslim that:
"Those
who avoid the greater sins and indecencies, and, when they are angry even then
forgive;" [Shura, 37]
"If ye (but) eschew the most heinous of the
things which ye are forbidden to do, We shall remit your evil deeds, and admit
you to a Gate of great honor." [Nisaa, 31]
# Illicit deeds keep us away from our creator
Dear readers,
as well as practices of religion close us up to the creator by conducing
to remember Allah and His benefactions for us,
on the other hand, getting something illegally,
performing works prohibited by the religion, briefly sins keep
us away from our Creator. Every sin is a poison for our faith. Antidote of
this is repentance. Rasulullah (s.a.w) ordered that:
"A
black stain occurs in heart when a person sins. It is cleaned when he repents.
If he continue sinning, that stain enlarges and covers entire heart." [Nasai]
Darkening of a person’s heart causes heart to die
spiritually over time, in other words it causes him to lose his faith.
Every repeated behavior becomes a "habit"
over time. If these repeats continue, habits turn into indispensable "passion".
It is a big disaster for a person
that the behaviors being major sins turn into major such habits. Such
a person, even if he is man of faith, his heart is constantly restless like the
heart of an unbeliever.
Since the habits like drinking, smoking cause
physiological addiction by affecting energy metabolism directly, it is
more difficult to give up them. Because due to the resulting energy gap,
in case giving up them, person gets into "depression" within hours. If person is nourished with nutrients
such as flour products. honey, eggs, lentil soup, beans, apples, oranges rich in
terms of glucose, proteins, B and C vitamins, citric and malic acid in
depressed times, and he continues that for a few days, he can easily get
rid of these habits without professional help. Most of the addicts can’t leave
these habits since they can’t be able to take distresses for a few days.
Moreover, at the expense of destroying their lives… In reality, all issue
is to want to leave these habits sincerely.
# We should repent and after that do a favour when we sin
Dear readers, major sins were brought out in my
article with headline "The golden rules of an eternal happiness"
People don’t get out of religion by committing major sin. Getting out of
religion means losing faith, and falling into unbelief.
Rasulullah (s.a.w)
ordered that:
"Don’t
say unbeliever to those saying Lailahe illallah due to their sins! Those saying
unbeliever to such people become unbeliever themselves." [Bukhari]
"I
will intercede to every believer committed major sins." [Nasai, Tirmidhi]
But, the faith of a person committed a major sin
gets too weak. If he doesn't repent after committing a major sin, love of Allah
in his heart, which is "divine light of faith“, get lost. Especially if he
is away from worships, over time, he doesn't care about
religious values and do not recognize his Rab. This takes him out of the belief. That's why people should
repent immediately if he committed a major sin. If he cannot cope
with his nafs, at least he should not leave his practices of religion,
namely worships. So at least merits of
his worships will compensate the committed sin.
Rasulullah (s.a.w)
ordered that:
"Do a favour, perform a meritorious action immediately after the
sin you have committed so that your good deed could destroy that sin!" [Bayhaqi]
Thus, person get rid of these sins over time by
means of his worships and favours. There are many examples related to this
issue. People should not go to his death in various sins, without feeling any
remorse.
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