A
Test
The Noble Qur'an - 2:155
And certainly, We shall test you with something of fear, hunger, loss of
wealth, lives and fruits, but give glad tidings to As-Sâbirin (the
patient ones, etc.).
The Noble Qur'an - 29:2-3
Do people think that they will be left alone because they say: "We believe,"
and will not be tested. And We indeed tested those who were before
them....
The Hereafter
is our Home
The Noble Qur'an - 29:64
And this life of the world is only amusement and play! Verily, the home of
the Hereafter, that is the life indeed (i.e. the eternal life that will never
end), if they but knew.
Man Was Created
Impatient
Tafsir Ibn
Kathir
Allah says,
(Verily, man was created very impatient;) Then, Allah explains
this statement by saying,
(Apprehensive when evil touches him;) meaning, whenever any harm
touches him he is frightful, worried and completely taken back due to the
severity of his terror and his despair that he will receive any good after
it.
(And suppressive when good touches him.) meaning, if he attains
any blessing from Allah, he is stingy with it, not sharing it with others.
He will withhold the right of Allah with that blessing. Imam Ahmad said that
Abu `Abdur-Rahman informed them that Musa bin `Ali bin Rabah told them that
he heard his father narrating from `Abdul-`Aziz bin Marwan bin Al-Hakim that
he heard Abu Hurayrah saying, "The Messenger of Allah said,
«The worst thing that can be in a man is greedy
impatience and unrestrained cowardice.» Abu Dawud recorded this
Hadith from `Abdullah bin Al-Jarrah on the authority of Abu `Abdur-Rahman
Al-Muqri', and this is the only Hadith through `Abdul-`Aziz with him.
From the Greatest Causes of Fitna
Shaykh Ibn Tamiyyah
Ibn Muflih said in "al-Fur'oo : 6/160-161" :
Our shaykh [Meaning Ibn Taymiyyah] said :
The general of the trials and tribulations (fitna) which have occured : the greatest of their reason is a decrease of Patience.
And as such : Fitna has two reasons:
- Weakness of knowledge or
- Weakness of Patience
Indeed ignorance and transgression are the causes of evil.
And the doer of evil; he will do it due to :
- his ignorance that the actions is indeed evil [and harmful]
- Or due to the fact that his soul wants to do that.
Therefore, by Knowledge ; ignorance ceases , and by Patience; he can hold back the desires.
And thus the fitna will end.
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Action Items for
the
uttaqun:
Remember... Allah, subhana watala,
sees everything we do!
