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The Joy of Worship
If there is anything we forget or do not pay attention to, it is only these matters. If only we were to prepare for our Hereafter! If only we had enthusiasm and zeal towards our acts of worship! If only the love of this world was removed from our hearts and we became those who contemplated on these matters for the sake of Allāh Almighty.
Allāh says in the 56th verse of Surah Al-Dhāriyāt:
وَ مَا خَلَقۡتُ الۡجِنَّ وَ الۡاِنۡسَ اِلَّا لِیَعۡبُدُوۡنِ (۵۶)
Translation from Kanz al-Īmān: “And I have created Jinn and human beings only for this, that they should worship Me.”[1]
From this sacred verse, we learn the following: we have come into this world only to worship Allāh Almighty. We must give priority and importance to worship over everything else. Whatever is lost, let it be lost, but we must never become lazy in worship.
Describing the worship of Sayyidunā Qays b. Muslim رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه, Sayyidunā Sufyān b. ꜤUyaynah رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه said, “He رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه would offer ṣalāh all night, sit down at the time of suḥūr and cry before Allāh Almighty. He would beseech, ‘This is what we were created to do. If our end is not upon goodness, we shall be ruined.’”[2]
صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
O devotees of the Messenger! May Allāh Almighty grant us the ability to worship Him! Without a shadow of doubt, the worship of Allāh Almighty
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
