Monday, October 11, 2004

LESSON OF THE DAY 2

Verse of the Day
Allah the Almighty says ' seek [Allah's] help with patience perseverance and prayer, it is indeed hard , except to those who bring a humble themselves, who bear in mind the certainty that they are to meet their Lord, and that they are to return to Him.[ 2;45,46]

Hadith of the Day
The Prohet [ may Allah send His peace & blessings on him said' A man follows the religion of a close friend , so each of you should be careful about whom he takes as a close friend.

Wise Quote of the Day
When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward follows the inward, whether for good or evil [ Iman Abdullah ibn Alawi al Haddad]

Purification of the Day

Wantonness[Batar], one sign of these conditions is the ease with which people enter into debt and live contentedly with it.

People are conciously living beyond their means in order to maintain the appearance of a certain life style.

It is part of advertising theory that when people are constantly exposed to such images, they not only incline toward the product but desire the culture associated with it.

The treatment of watonnessis to willfully experience hunger and to reflect seriously on death and the Hereafter. Hunger can be achieved through voluntary fasting or by simply reducing what one eats, it is commonly held that people who eat in abundunce become hard hearted, scholars of religion often expounded on hunger as an important sensation that feeds spiritual growth.

Freeing the heart of diseases like wantonness requires the remembrance of the Hereafterand its various states and tumultuos scenes, constant reflection of this nature lessens the value of extravagance and in general, all the fleeting things this world has to offer, whether it is wealth, prestige, fame or the like,

May Allah open our hearts for guidance [ameen]