Re: Before It's Too Late
- From: "Torpedo" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:04:55 +1100
....dump Islam.
"Islam Will Replace Collapsing Amerikan Empire"
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> Before It's Too Late
> By Abu Iyad
>
> One of Satan's favorite tricks is to make people think and say, I will do
> such-and-such soon, in a little while, maybe tomorrow, or next week and so
> on. He makes them delay their actions making them feel secure and happy
with
> the present. Some people have named this "The Great Obstacle."
>
> A person may place in front of himself a matter such as studying, then he
> says, when I have finished studying, then I will repent, learn my religion
> and practice it. When he finishes his studies, he says, when I receive the
> job, I will repent. He does not. Then he says, when I have performed Hajj,
> when I am married, and so on.
>
> He is constantly putting obstacles in front of himself, delaying things,
and
> delighting in his current situation of ease and happiness. He continues in
> this way until he dies, and yet his real, true life has not even begun
(that
> is, the life of faith and righteous actions).
>
> What Satan really intends is to completely prevent you from pursuing your
> beneficial activity or at least to delay you from it. For those who are
> righteous this is a great danger. Satan comes and whispers to one, you are
> not worthy of studying Islamic knowledge or calling people to the
religion.
> Wait a while until you have studied. Yet, we have been commanded to teach
> the meaning of even one verse of the Qur'an if that is all we know.
>
> Ibn Al-Qayyim said
>
> How many people of firm intent and resolution are there, whom Satan has
> delayed by causing them to say "soon." And how many strivers has he
stopped.
> Maybe a scholar intends to return to his studies and Satan whispers to
him:
> Relax for an hour. Satan does not cease his attempts to make laziness and
> inactivity beautiful and appealing to a person so that he keeps delaying
his
> actions. He would say to the servant who worships at night: Time does not
> stop! The night is long! He continuous with theses whispers until the
> morning arrives and the servant has not even prayed.
>
> So, take lesson from what Abu Abdur-Rahman Al-Maghazili reports:
>
> There was a wise woman in Makkah who was much given to worship and her
> brothers came to her. She wept for a long time and then said, "My
brothers!
> You are the pleasure of my eye, so depict the Day of Judgment in your
heart's
> eyes and relate to yourselves the actions you have sent forth. Whatever
you
> think to be accepted on that day, aspire and hope in your Master for its
> acceptance and perfect blessings in it. And whatever you expect to be
> rejected on that day, then attend to correct it today. Do not be unmindful
> of your own souls."
>
>
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>
> * Excerpted with some modifications from the book: Shaytaan: His Ways in
> Misleading. The Islamic Society at the University of Essex.
>
> http://islamonline.net/english/OnthePathofReturn/articles/2005/05/01.shtml
>
>
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