my house is my paradise.. i think that was the first time i came to know of this term..
but i never really thought deeply about it.. ie what it really means?
superficially i guess, people would say that its a house thats full of happiness and contentment..
but how do we achieve this.. how can we turn our houses into jannah on earth?!
last time, as a child, one of the things that i like to draw was my dream house and usually..
my dream house will have 2 big pillars at the main entrance,and a roundabout in the front yard encircling a fountain.. talking about materialism , huh?!
anyhow, will these make our houses baiti jannati?
reality is.. how many times do we see families living in big houses but found no happiness in it..
in fact most of the time.. these houses are empty because most of the time the inhabitants would either be busy working outside to gain money to pay for it or having a fancy holiday elsewhere..
an overseas jemaah once passed by a high class residential area in Sydney, one of the man said, more or less.. It feels like passing by a graveyard... No one is here!
Reality is... Spiritual contentment can only be achieved through spiritual means...
Yeah, you cant deny that physical means can help sometimes but at the end of the day, you would find that the contentment brought by physical means, are very temporary cause nothing physical in this world is eternal... That's why we would find ourselves chasing after one thing and we thought we have got it..then after a while, we would be chasing another thing..and the cycle continues..
In a hadith, Anas ibn Malik Radiallahu'anhu narrates that the Prophet salallahu'alayhiwasallam said: when you pass the gardens of Paradise, graze to your heart's content. it was asked: what are the gardens of Paradise? He replied: the gatherings for performing th Dhikr of Allah. (Tirmidhi)
Alhamdulillah.. Truly the solution to all the problems that the ummat is facing today lies in our beautiful deen...
So let's turn our houses to a place that will remind us of Allah...
Looking at the houses nowadays, people say that, when entering them, instead of making the doa when entering a house, we should read the doa when entering a bazaar! The fancy decorations, booming sound of the cinema-like home theatre etc have turn our houses into a bazaar more than a house... Astaghfirullah... And i think the chances of dying in our own house nowadays is relatively more, since we don't get to go to the battlefield, even if we don't actually die in our houses, at least, usually in the funeral service, our bodies would first be brought back home .. Imagine dying in a bazaar?! A place where syaitan roams, and as we know,where there is syaitan, there can be no malaaikah... They can't be together in one place...
When our souls are gonna be taken away, and we are in need of the Kalimah..
no one but the syaitan would be there to 'help' us.. Na'udhubillah... At this point.. Your house is your hell on earth!.. O Allah protect us all!!! Ameen!
Think about it?!
As Muslims, we have ways of doing things.. Even in decorating our houses..
It might not be to our likings, but most of the time, what we don't like is what's best for us...
Let's aim to please.Allah in everything that we do...
Find out what are the things that will shun away the malaaikah and thus Allah's mercy from our houses..
It was reported from Abu Sa’eed al-Khudri (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The angels do not enter a house in which there are statues or pictures.” (Narrated by Imaam Ahmad; see also Saheeh al-Jaami’, 1961).
May Allah give us the strength to practise complete deen..
see.. some people might say, awhhh.. their just pictures.. big deal?!
am telling myself firstly.. there are so many doubtful or haraam things in deen that we still cant avoid
so whenever we can we should do it...
well, actually the thing that stimulate me to write this article is this picture i saw in a friends house..
this is what i call wise home deco!
with a very thoughtful doa... we make doa for our exams, interviews, wedding day etc but we forget to make doa for our biggest day in this life... our last day!
a house deco that will remind us of our true destination..
a house that will help bring us to Jannah... BAITI JANNATI!
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