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The Joy of Worship
* We have no time to learn.
* If there is anything we do not have time for, it is to prepare for our grave and the Hereafter.
Besides this, we have all the time in the world to do anything related to this world. If only we were fortunate enough to contemplate our Hereafter! If only we were able to practically take the Messenger of Allāh صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم as our role model and implement his blessed biography in our lives. If only we too were granted the ability to worship Allāh Almighty in a manner befitting Him!
The most important task in the world
The renowned Sufi scholar, Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn al-Rūmi رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه says:
“Tell me! If a king sends you for a specific task, but on the way, you instead become engrossed with many other things to the point you forget the specific task he sent you for, will the king be pleased? Not at all.
For this reason, if man were to forget every task or work of this world, then let him, but there is one specific task he must never forget. What is this one thing he should never forget, you may ask? The answer to this is mentioned in Juzˈ 22, Sūrah Aḥzāb:[1]
اِنَّا عَرَضۡنَا الۡاَمَانَۃَ عَلَی السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الۡاَرۡضِ وَ الۡجِبَالِ فَاَبَیۡنَ اَنۡ یَّحۡمِلۡنَہَا وَ اَشۡفَقۡنَ مِنۡہَا وَ حَمَلَہَا الۡاِنۡسَانُ ؕ
[Translation from Kanz al-Īmān:] ‘We indeed offered the trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to bear it and became afraid of it, and man bore it.’[2]
BOOK TOPIC
- The Joy of Worship
- Excellence of sending ṣalāt upon the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
- How the Beloved Prophet of Allāh صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم would worship
- We were made to worship
- The most important task in the world
- The meaning of our lives
- What is the sweetest thing?
- Shedding tears when leaving this world
- 5 incidents regarding joy and sweetness in worship
- 1. An Anṣārī Companion
- 2. Sayyidunā ꜤUrwah b. Zubayr
- 3.Sayyidunā Muslim b. Yasār
- 4. Sayyidunā ꜤAbdullāh b. Zubayr
- 5. Sayyidatunā RābiꜤah Baṣriyyah
- The misfortune of not experiencing joy in worship
- Man’s true dignity is found in worship
- How can we find joy in our worship?
- The joy of worship is found through hard work
- Increase in your nafl acts of worship
- How to discover joy in worship
- A hard heart - an obstacle to finding joy in worship
- The heart hardens with sin
- Think of the Hereafter!
- Eating excessively and its effect on the heart
- Leave three things and you find joy in worship
- The Weekly IjtimāꜤ Department
- One of the best ways to find joy in worship
- Fateḥ Muḥammad began offering ṣalāh
- Pious Deed number 5
- Imam JaꜤfar Ṣādiq رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه
- A brief description of Imam JaꜤfar al-Ṣādiq رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ عَـنْهُ
- Grapes from the unseen
- The sunan and etiquette of eating
