After hibernating in the house, specifically.. in the room.. more specifically near the heater..in conjunction with the winter season.. i was shocked to find a baby forest growing very healthily in front of my house. Well.. ok. shock is not the right word.. amazed would be better!
Anyhow, thats our front yard.. you leave it for a while, the weeds will come, and if you leave it a bit longer, it will turn into a big bush, then a secondary forest and so on.. (my geography teacher must be proud of me ;P)
Come to think of it...its like our heart in a way. Leave it a while, without the remembrance of Allah, without busying ourselves with ibaadah, without talking about the greatness of Allah... then the greatness of the world will creep in. Like weeds! if you leave it longer the root of the weeds will go in deeper, the stem will become harder, and worst.. those with thorns.. their thorns will grow more and stronger that its difficult to even touch them, not to say to pull them!
well.. am talking from experience ok..
So yeah, we have to make effort on our imaan. Everyday..
or else, the worldly desires and temptations will definitely take a hold of us
Iman is not something that you achieve and thats it. Its an everlasting battle...til we return to Him.
on the other hand.. worldly desires/ dunya is something that can easily come to us if we leave this effort for iman.. so dunya is exactly like weeds! and weeding is the effort you put in to keep your iman!
And its very difficult to keep your iman when you're not in the right environment. Like if we go back to our garden, weeds will come out more in spring and less in summer. Simply because, Allah sends more rain in spring and less of it in summer. So we need to look for the best environment for our iman. We need to look for the gardens of jannah in this world...Whereby if we passed by it we need to eat its fruits to our fill.. its none other than the gatherings of the remembrance of Allah...
For the ladies, lets live up an islamic environment in our houses. Lets talk about the greatness of Allah to our children in our daily conversations. an example with mus'ab, before giving him his milk we would ask him, siapa kasi rezeki? (who gives you rizq? ) siape kasi kenyang?(who makes you feel full) and he would say.. Allah. Then at the same time.. deny the power of creations ie mus'ab would say: Bukan mama, bukan abah, bukan maya, bukan susu.. and at one time while answering, he was looking at the fan and then said, bukan fan!
Teaching tawheed to kids is very easy cause their hearts are still so clean.
InsyaAllah, if we do this- talk about the greatness of Allah, the greatness of the world will come out of our hearts.
Abu Hurairah Radiallahu'anhu narrates Rasulullah Sallahu'alaihiwasallam said: Renew your iman! It was asked O Rasulullah, how do we renew our iman? he said: Testify repeatedly the Kalimah La ilaha illallah. (Musnad Ahmad, Tabarani and Targhib)
Its also good if we can space out like 30 minutes or so everyday ie after maghrib/ isya/ fajr... get the family to sit together and talk about the greatness of Allah.Lets have our very own garden of jannah in our houses! Alhamdulillah, our family has been doing this for quite some time now and believe me, its really is rewarding and nourishing for the heart. Ask the kids to take turns talking about the greatness of Allah
i remember last time when we, my husband and i started doing this, it felt awkward at first, to talk about the greatness of Allah.. even to your own husband! but, insyaAllah, with practise, Allah will make it easy.
A few examples would be: "Allah is the Sustainer of everything/ Happiness comes from Allah.. Not wealth/ titles/ fame/ Allah is Independent, in this world theres only 1 Allah, other that Him are all His Creations and everythng is dependent on Him.
We do lots of conversations everyday, but how many times do we speak about the greatness of Allah?
I know a true story of a man who always talk about his land/ properties and then on his death bed, at the throes of death, those were the things that came out of his mouth.. my land.!.my properties..!
may Allah save us all. Amin
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| this pic was taken when the job was half way through... fiuh! |
gardening ek? ehehehe.. alhamdulillah..
ReplyDeleteanyway, Muna.. good reminder for me as well.. alhamdulillah, after quit doing clinical works (since now i'm in KKM, doing administrative and research works..) i could feel the sweetness of doing ibadah especially solah.. later, will have to inculcate the tazkirah part in my family.. your family would be my "family model".. thanks, dear..
Alhamdulillah.. may Allah makes it easy for us all to lead our lives like that whom He loves.
ReplyDeleteand please.. dont take our family as your model family.. we've got a long long way to go, ourselves..
its like aiming to have a D in exams, we were always told to aim higher to be on the safe side, so if u want to get B, aim for A..
if u aim D, then ..be prepared! ;P
in this matter, we should all try to aim to be like the companions of the Prophet. the companions are normal people, not angel/ prophet/ they had desires, tempations, weaknesses, but Allah had promised them paradise even during their lifetime.
so, in religion, compare ourselves with them. thing is with us, in worldly matters we like to compare ourselves with those superior while in religious matters we look at those worse than us, when actually, it should be the other way around, dont u think?! reminder for me and u