Selamat berhari Jumaat....

Assalamualaikum wbt.  Kita bertazkirah serta ingat-mengingati sikit lah pagi ni.  Later when I have the time, I will share the normal daily happenings - insyaAllah.  

I think this is worth sharing ..


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Ponder and Practice ...........

Rasulullah SAW said "An intelligent person is one who is constantly thinking about and preparing for death". Thinking about it ... how does one prepare for death?  Read on....

By seeking knowledge of Islam.  So study about Allah, his Prophet {p.b.u.h}, of good deeds and evil deeds.  But knowledge itself is useless without .................

Practicing it.  Perform good deeds, small or big, and avoid all evil deeds.  But all performance is useless unless you are ....................

Sincere.  To do lillahi ta'ala.  But you will never achieve sincerely, as long as you do not have ............

True Faith (Iman).  You must ..

.. truly believe in Allah

.. truly be in awe of Allah

.. truly depend and ask only from Allah

.. truly  hope from Allah

.. truly fear Allah

.. truly put your trust in Allah

But such faith does not come from reading books or talking about Islam or listening to fiery speeches about Islam, it comes from ..........

Striving had in Allah's path (Jihad).  Jihad does not mean going around to convert the world to Islam.  It does not mean waving a sword at disbelievers showing them the 'terror' that Islam can inflict - it means fighting hard to cleanse the evil in yourselves -

.. the jealousy

.. the greed

.. the stinginess

.. the arrogance

.. the pride

.. the laziness

.. the hatred

.. the lack of faith

.. the stupidity

.. the blindness of the heart

.. the backbitting, and

.. all the teribble sins that we do day after day, year after year, until death comes calling

That is Jihad - a full-time job that will take all your life to complete.  But you will never start to strive for all these, until you begin to ................

Realize.  

.. Realize that you will die soon

.. Realize that you will be shown all your deeds (good and bad) on Judgement Day

.. Realize that Allah watches you all your life, and that no deed escapes His repayment

.. Realize that money, fame and property cannot buy your way into Heaven

.. Realize that only Iman and good deeds can

.. Realize that you are responsible for yourself

.. Realize that in the end, you are the one who will gain or lose 

So many people realized, and yet gone astray - why?  They have forgotten the most important thing in Islam ....................

Islam is about YOURSELF.   Correcting YOURSELF.  Cleansing YOURSELF.  Not about fighting with people or proving other people wrong.  In the grave ..

.. You will be asked about YOURSELF

.. What YOU did

.. What YOU said

.. What YOUR intention was

Then Allah will tell YOU, what YOUR final destination is.  Have you thought about yourself lately?  What you have done, what you are doing, what you should be doing?  

May Allah out of His mercy bless us with the ability to do so.  InsyaAllah....