Know Your Lord - Heart & Soul
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Man’s need for his Lord is eternal For a Stronger Faith: Know Your Lord By Sheikh Mohammed alGhazali Monday, 02 July 2012 00:00 Man may think that the relationship between him and his Lord is similar to that between children and their parents; that they need them when young and dispense with them when grown up. Their independence may even pull them into ingratitude and forgetfulness of past kindness. In reality, man’s need for his Lord is eternal, more than an infant for its mother or a plant for light and water. It never ceases. 3 All About Ramadan 1436 Vote How many hours are you fasting this year? More than 18 hours Between 15 and 18 hours Between 11 and 15 hours Less than 11 hours I’m not fasting Vote Results Related Article: How to Pray Tarawih News Shari'ah Health & Science Reading Islam Family Culture Back to Religion Opinion & Analysis Ramadan 1436 Multimedia E‐Cards Soul & Faith Euro Muslims eBooks Infographics Qur'an Q&A Understanding Islam Ask About Islam About Muhammad Living Islam My Journey to Islam Research Studies In Focus Home Search Advertise Jobs Login RSS Ask the Scholar Ask About Hajj & Umrah Ask About Islam Ask the Counselor Ask About Parenting
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Man’s need for his Lord is eternal
For a Stronger Faith:
Know Your Lord
By Sheikh Mohammed alGhazali
Monday, 02 July 2012 00:00
Man may think that the relationshipbetween him and his Lord is similarto that between children and theirparents; that they need them whenyoung and dispense with them whengrown up. Their independence mayeven pull them into ingratitude andforgetfulness of past kindness.
In reality, man’s need for his Lord iseternal, more than an infant for itsmother or a plant for light and water.It never ceases.
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Get to Know God
Contemplate Allah’s Nearness to You
Expressing Gratitude to Almighty Allah
Devotion to God
From Knowledge Comes Gratitude
Reflection: Key to God
Without a sense ofgratitude, man can
easily slip into pride andfalse feelings ofadequacy and self
sufficiency
Say (unto them, O Muhammad):Who provides for you from the skyand the earth, or Who owns hearingand sight; and Who brings forth theliving from the dead and bringsforth the dead from the living; andWho directs the course? They willsay: Allah. Then say: Will ye notthen keep your duty (unto Him)?(Yunus 10: 31)
Man may imagine that he can escape from the consequences of wronging his Lordthrough some protection here or there.
In reality, there is nowhere in the universe where he can hide himself, and no onewho can give him that protection. Any refuge he takes away from his Maker isweaker than its seeker:
Or have they gods who can guard them from Us? They have no power tohelp themselves, nor can they be protected from Us. (AlAnbiya’ 21: 43)
Whatever faculties mankind has – such as hearing, sight, and feelings – areborrowed from Allah. He may withdraw them any moment He wills, and leave themightiest of all mankind emptyhanded, with nothing but utter weakness.
Say (to the disbelievers), “Tell me, if Allah took away your hearing andyour sight, and sealed up your hearts, who is the god, other than Allah,who could restore them to you?” Behold, how We put forth Our Signs indiverse forms, and yet they turn away from them. (AlAn ‘am 6: 46)
How to Get to Know God?
To know Allah is to stand between His Hands, feelingHe is what He is and you what you are.
You, with your bare reality, are undecorated, withoutany pretenses. And He, with His Sacred Self, isabsolutely perfect, and free from any defect, want, orinsufficiency.
You, as you really are: weak, poor, and imperfect. And He, as He really is: worthyof all exaltation and glorification.
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Without a sense of gratitude, man can easily slip into pride and false feelings ofadequacy and selfsufficiency, and ultimately independence from Allah. A belief thatman is the source of his own sufficiency! That man is his own provider!
He shuns any reminders of being one of the many needy creatures in this wideuniverse who constantly need their Creator. He sees himself as the product of hisown making.
He believes anything he possesses is his right, rather than a bounty from Allah. Hisown self, in his eyes, gives him power on this earth, and it will empower him in thehereafter.
And if We let man taste mercy from Us after an adversity that hastouched him, he will surely say, “This is what I deserve, and I do not thinkthe Hour will occur; and even if I should be returned to my Lord, indeed,there will be much good (Paradise) stored for me with Him. (Fussilat 41:50)
Why should man think that his name is recorded in heaven and that a place isreserved for him with his Lord when he is finished with this life, if he lives his lifeungrateful and unmindful of Him?
These are the delusions and empty fancies of proud minds. This is how souls areruined and their judgment impaired.
Allah created mankind to know and praise Him, not to ignore and deny Him.
Allah draws close, with His Mercy, to those who glorify their Lord publicly andprivately and do not overstep their human boundaries.
They confess their weakness to Him, and He gives them strength.
They confess their lowliness to Him, and He gives them honor.
They turn from the strength and power of themselves to the strength and power ofAllah, and He opens for them the gates of supremacy, success, and fulfillment:
O you who believe! Fear Allah, and believe in His Messenger, He willbestow on you a double portion of His Mercy, and provide for you a light bywhich you shall walk (straight), and He will forgive you (your past). (AlHadid 57: 28)
In this arrogant age, people are disinterested in heaven, and interested in clinging toearth; trusting the seen world, and deriding the unseen world; showing strong faith
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in themselves, and too little faith in Allah, Who created them for a purpose muchhigher than that which they have in view or the end towards which they are working.
They will continue to deprive themselves of heavenly provision as long as theypersist on this erroneous path.
They live exposed to anguish after anguish and affliction after affliction:
And a disaster will not cease to strike those who disbelieve because oftheir deeds (disbelief and denial) or to descend close to their homes, untilthe Promise of Allah comes to pass. Certainly, Allah does not fail in HisPromise. (ArRa‘d 13: 31)
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Sheikh Mohammed alGhazali alSaqqa (1917–1996) was an Islamic cleric and scholar whosewritings "have influenced generations of Egyptians". The author of 94 books, Sheikh Ghazaliattracted a broad following with works that sought to interpret Islam and its holy book, the Quran,in a modern light. He is widely credited with contributing to a revival of Islamic faith in Egypt overthe last decade." Another source called him "one of the most revered sheikhs in the Muslim world.
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