Is It The Heart Which You Are Asking?
By: Dr. Islam Sobhi Al-Mazeny
To a
relative….
When she
wanted to commit suicide, she wanted to quit a depressing life and false hopes. She went through a personal and general depression!!!
Praise Be
To Allah; His Peace and Blessings upon His Messenger Mohammad?
This was
the dialogue that really took place:
My
relative wanted to commit suicide because of the prevalent depressing social
environment full of moral and spiritual decadence.
Why don’t
people just kill themselves? Do they think on their own? What is in life that
is worth to be living!
Oh, is it the heart you ask about? There is
nothing in this world which is equal to human feelings. They are priceless.
Money cannot
buy love and definitely cannot make up for it. Even if one wishes to sell ones
own feelings, it would be impossible. One can hide them, can tolerate suffering
and sacrifice, can pretend to love but to put a price on true love, certainly
no.!
Feeling is
a fine aspect of life. Allah created it to be above selling or buying
otherwise, life will worth nothing to death. Only life does bear meanings that
are dearer than the material aspects, even dearer than the life itself. It is
for no question worth living.
As for
those meanings, on top of it is the love of Allah, the Greatest, the only
Creator; praise be upon Him!
Just a minute!
I’m
telling you, don’t be bored, why do people get bore of such love and take for
granted as if it is just redundant? Just to preach? You don’t know what love is
really about, you don’t know who your Creator is? You do not understand this
life properly. You have nothing but trivialities… even less!! A little
knowledge, a shallow understanding… channels, cultures, bits and pieces that
hardly weigh more than a mosquito’s wing weighs!
Perhaps
you’ll take my words as repetitive … but you will never really grasped the soul
of life, the depth of the culture… do you understand what I am trying to
elaborate?
You can
only relate to what I say if you know two things:
Getting
knowledge from the correct sources and getting an insight from the Al-Mighty,
the Most Knowing. From those points on, you are free.
You don’t thank anyone for God’s words but Allah Almighty. His words are the
'food' of your heart and soul!!
You will
acquire the true love of Allah when you know His Names; Glory be to Him, His
deeds… do you really know the true meanings of all of His names? Can you understand
the meanings? Only then, the love of Allah will come to your heart and bless
you….
When you
realize what the world is really about, how the universe goes around
scientifically, socially and mentally, you are not just a recipient but a
thinker with a living mind of your own; and when you realize the vast seas of
darkness and the light of truth, when your knowledge is not merely for personal
interest, not cold and pointless, but knowledge embodied by the fear and sense of
Allah, the theory plus the practice (belief and the practice), not to be
memorized only, but a warm deep knowledge… only then you will be able to feel
the blessings of Allah in everything…only then you will know what love is
really about? The love of Allah is the love that has true meaning, that is
priceless and life is nothing without it!
Those who
really grasp the essence of the love of Allah are the scientists. They are able
to deeply know Allah through His creation so they become the most fearful and
most loving of Him, Glory be to Him.
Those who do not know Him are the most miserable. They are the ones who have
gone astray. Their hearts never really knew Allah....
Let your
heart be opened entirely and sincerely to its Creator and let it be blessed
with the love of His Messenger as well.
Love is an action rather than just talk.
The true
believers are those who can really comprehend the great issue of pure love to
Allah to the extent of giving away the souls for Him only…
The
following are the love of those who believe in the Oneness of Allah and love
Him solely…
The love
of ones own parents would come after, and such love is instinctive, otherwise
mothers would have left their babies to die for the comfort of their own bodies….
But Allah created them to be their offspring and be patient to raise them no
matter how weak they felt.
There is a
great love also for the spouse, a very positive love, especially if it is for
the right person! Such love is indispensable for the peace of mind and the
lasting of the human race. It is crucial for enduring life and overlooking
mutual mistakes…otherwise such partners would not have been able to put up with
each other.
The love
of good doing is another fine aspect of love. It is a great thing to give
people what compassion and mercy they truly need and to like doing good for
them. Hatred is only for the evil doers who deny the right of their Creator
upon them. Those are unworthy of peace or love. Yet, we as believers should
wish them to be guided towards the truth. The believers are the ones filled
with feelings of sincerity towards the world, not the misguided empty hearted
people!
You might
still be wondering what is all this talk about? And why? I wish to show you
what the real believers should have to feel content and secure. We just need to
be patient. Our first step in this path is abiding by our Holy Book the
Qur'aan. Then we have the sayings of His Prophet, may peace be upon him.
We enjoin
the love of our Creator, the Only True Creator! He is our best company. People
can give up on us but not Him !Angels
will then be praying and accompanying us if only our hearts are truly devoted,
all our deeds and sayings should be entirely for the sake of Allah, only when
we know who our Creator really is that we will find the true meaning of life and happiness.
It would
be a treasure we must be very grateful for and to always praise Allah. Praising
Him encompasses thanking. Not just the spoken words but it is interpreted
through actions…We are asked to get
closer to Allah in order to know Him better. We are asked to worship more
sincerely and Allah will help us so we can deeply understand.
Through
hope and prayers, giving and good doing (set forth by Qur'aan and Sunnah);
through comprehensive knowledge that should lead to the knowing of the Creator;
what He wants from and for us; what makes Him angry; or how He had the whole
universe; and who we are: what are our roles and to where are we heading to?; what
should be our destiny? How will life matters work? To know instead of being
ignorant and arrogant! Then through all that, we will be enlightened just like
a full moon in the night of a spring time with stars shining all around. Such a
vision will uplift our soul and grant the heart its peace and purity.
Life will
be tolerable no matter of all the hardships. However our lives might seem
limited and filled with obstacles to some. We can go through it with confidence
and contended hearts. We are totally engaged with working for the life after rather
than this one only …Paradise is the reward in
the hereafter. It is where we will find our beloved ones and our blessings…
We will
keep hoping and trying always to be the best and never feel despair… The
Prophet went ahead of us. He suffered a lot in this life. He was once granted
lot of money but gave it all away and went back to his home. He would just
devote his life and soul for his Creator awaiting the greatest reward! The hope
and blessing of getting a look at the Al-Mighty Allah in the life after is the
best that any believer can wish for!
The
Prophet was always with Allah in his heart and mind. He understood, the enemy,
Quraysh (his own tribe who opposed his mission) did not bother him. Neither the
Romans nor the fear or hunger would make him gave up! He is only occupied with
one thing, Allah is pleased with him! Allah, is the Creator of Heavens and
earth, who controls everything, is the only one that the Prophet really loved.
The pleasing of Allah is the Mohammad utmost mission. The price is undoubtedly Paradise!
He once
turned down all proposals and temptations from his uncle. Not if they put the
sun in my right hand and the moon in my left hand, "I’ll still not give up
on this faith", he said! He is away high up there now, can you understand
that?
Life is
but a journey. We choose our way by ourselves. We make our choices of
immortality. Would that be a loss? So let it be! Let us lose then! The wise is being
the patient and the thankful! Thus one would happily pass away and hope to be
resurrected and shaded with the Al-Mighty shade of His Throne.
The losers
are the ones who read the Qur'aan without a proper understanding of the
meanings of the words. Those are the people who cannot help themselves. A
person with a sound mind can realize where the ship of rescue is and seek for
it! The wise is the one who can tell who are the right followers and the
misguided ones. Those who do not know what are the meanings of the Names of
Allah and feel the beauty of them; they are the deprived ones! They do not know
how to learn from the history; to think about the world around and read more
insightfully.
They were
deprived from realizing Allah’s greatness and His Mighty company.
They came
into this world and will depart with absolutely nothing!
What a shame!!!
