Two things for the one who has taqwaa
-Advice to the Muslims to have taqwaa1 when seeking
provision, and during hardships and trials-
Shaikh al-Albaani:
“Our calamity today is that we have turned away from the
main purpose for which we were created, which is: worshiping
Allaah ?. So most of us don’t worship Allaah, and the few who
do worship Allaah don’t know how to worship Him. And one of
the things we have forgotten from the preserved Qur.aan that
Allaah ? blessed upon us as He said: {Indeed it is We who
sent down the Dhikr2 and indeed We will be its guardian}3 – is
(the verse): {And whoever fears Allaah and keeps his duty to
Him, He will make for him a way out. And He will provide for
him from where he never could imagine}.4
This verse has become as if it was abrogated from the
Qur.aan, not written down which the Muslims recite day and
night. But what is the benefit if the Qur.aan is written down in
pages and mus-hafs, and that which the walls are decorated
with, yet when it comes to the hearts, they are empty? Was
the Qur.aan revealed for us to decorate our houses with it,
recite it over our dead ones, and distance it – in terms of
applying and acting upon it – from our living ones? He ? said:
{That it (the Qur.aan) may warn whoever is alive, and that the
Word (i.e. the torment) may be justified against the
disbelievers}.5 So firstly, the Qur.aan was revealed for those
alive and not for those who are dead. Furthermore, it was
revealed for those alive to act upon it, not decorate their
houses and walls with it. So this is a verse mentioned in the
Qur.aan, but most of the Muslims – especially those whom
Allaah has blessed with some wealth, who are eager to
preserve it and afraid of it getting lost or robbed from them –
have forgotten this verse: {And whoever fears Allaah and
keeps his duty to Him, He will make for him a way out. And He
will provide for him from where he never could imagine}.
This verse presents two very important things to the one who
has taqwaa. Firstly, if he falls into a hardship, He will make a
way out for him; and secondly, if provision becomes straitened
for him, He will provide for him from where he cannot imagine.
Nowadays if we fall into a hardship, perhaps one of us will
disbelieve in Allaah ? and he does not take refuge in Allaah,
nor does he implore Him with humility, nor does he seek
nearness to Him through that which He loves and is pleased
with – like what had happened with some people before us,
whose account our Prophet ( صلى الله لله سلل )?narrated to us. It
is a story that happened with some people who came before
Muhammad ? was sent, and our Prophet narrated the story to
us so that we take it as a lesson and don’t forget, like the
previous verse: {And whoever fears Allaah and keeps his duty
to Him, He will make for him a way out}. The Messenger ?
said about these people: [Here the Shaikh narrates the
hadeeth of the three men who got trapped in a cave, each one
of whom thereafter supplicated to Allaah by means of their
righteous deeds, after which Allaah responded to them and
removed the rock that was blocking the mouth of the cave,
thus relieving them].
This is an authentic hadeeth, not just a story. It is a hadeeth of
al-Bukhaari and Muslim from the Messenger of Allaah ?, not
some story from the Israa.eeliyyaat6 that you may hear for
which Allaah did not send down any authority.”
[silsilat ul-hudaa wa nnoor 5a/1 / asaheeha translations /
alalbaany.com]
1 piety; fulfilling Allaah’s commands and staying away from
His prohibitions
2 “i.e. the Qur.aan and the Sunnah” – Shaikh al-Albaani, Al-
Hadeethu Hujjatun bi-Nafsihi fi l-`Aqaa.idi wa l-Ahkaam p. 20-
21
3 Surat ul-Hijr 15:9
4 Surat ut-Talaaq 65:2-3
5 Surat Yaa Seen 36:70
6 narrations from the People of the Book
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