Preventing from the Remembrance of Allah

"And who are more unjust than those who forbid that Allah's Name be glorified and mentioned much in Allah's mosques..."

(Source: Part of Verse 2:114 quoted (in the wrong context I believe) in Arabic by a man in the Masjid today, annoyed and disturbed from his prayer by another who was praying loudly just a few metres away)

He was a nice guy. Just a bit annoyed and disturbed. He told me my phone was falling out of my pocket and indeed it was.

And I think to myself...

... what a wonderful world.

"So, when they forgot (the warning) with which they had been reminded, We opened for them the gates of every (pleasant) thing, until in the midst of their enjoyment in that which they were given, all of a sudden, We took them (in punishment), and lo! They were plunged into destruction with deep regrets and sorrows."

(Source: Meaning of the Noble Qur'an by Mohsin Khan, 6:44)

All praise and thanks are Allah's.

The Leader of a People is Their Servant

"Two friends, Abdullah and Abu Ali Rabati once started on a journey. Abdullah said to Rabati, 'You are my leader'. Rabati said to Abdullah, 'You are my leader'. [Eventually,] Abdullah was made leader of the two. Thereafter he carried his own luggage and the luggage of Rabati upon his back. One night there fell profuse rain. Abdullah held a blanket over his companion for the whole night. Whenever Rabati said 'Don't do it', Abdullah said 'Have you not selected me as your leader? So don't order me and don't do other than what I order you to do'. Rabati then said, 'I wished then that I were dead and that I did not say to him:You are my leader'."

(Source: Ihya Ulum-id-Din, Rules and Regulations of Journey)

Awesome awesome example.

The Meeting with Allah

"The Prophet (SAWS) said, 'Whoever loves the Meeting with Allah, Allah too loves the Meeting with him; and whoever hates the Meeting with Allah, Allah too hates the Meeting with him'."

(Sahih al-Bukhari)

"Lost indeed are they
Who treat it as a falsehood
That they must meet Allah -
Until on a sudden
The hour is on them,
And they say:
'Ah! woe
Unto us that we took
No thought of it'..."

(The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, 6:31)

The footnote accompanying the above verse is vivid, personifying a man's sins as ugly demons that he will carry on his back, and a man's good deeds as a strong patient mount that will carry him on its back.

Proof of God

"... Allah is so essential and so real it is difficult to miss that... One of the biggest evidence for the existence of Allah is the fact that the majority of the people (inhabitants) of this world believe in a supreme being... That in itself is an evidence..."

(Source: Aqidah Tahawiyah audio series, by Mufti Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf, Dars 3)

The existence of God is less discussed in the Qur'an than the Oneness of God. Something to think about.

If God is all-powerful...

Not that we should be thinking such questions but some people do/have and it needs to be addressed... If God is all-powerful, can He create an entity like Himself?

"... It's a useless argument... He would be created. Right? To create something like Him that doesn't have a beginning and doesn't have an end, that's going into a place we don't need to go..."

(Source: Aqidah Tahawiyah audio series, by Mufti Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf, Dars 3)

Being "all-powerful" is one attribute amongst other attributes.

Comfort Zones

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"In journey, a man's character is disclosed."

"Hazrat Bishar Hafi said, 'O learned men, if you would have gone out in journey, you would have been purified... In short, if a man remains confined in [his] house, his character and conduct are kept limited there and his bad character is not disclosed as no opportunity arises [for him] to see things opposed to his nature'."

(Source: Ihya Ulum-id-Din, Chapter of the Rules and Regulations of Journey)

Venture.