MESSAGE OF DAY

People of service base their service to creation upon benevolence and mercy, by contemplating duly on the Divine names All-Merciful and All-Compassionate, for service is a product of the mercy sprouting in hearts.

We can draw near to Allah Almighty to the extent that our hearts prostrate along with our foreheads.

“Pay the alms-tax (zakat) of your wealth. If the grape grower prunes the excess stems from grape vines, they will yield more grapes.”

How pleased are we with worldly blessings? How indebted, delighted and grateful are we for the blessing of belief that is to lead us to eternal happiness?

The true jewel, which makes a person human, is good character. How beautifully Shaykh Sa’di puts it: “All that possesses eye, ear and mouth is not Adam. Many satans there are who appear in the form of the children of Adam. The true Adam is the person with good character. Beauty in countenance and other adornments resemble the fleeting embroideries in the world.”

Muhammad Bahâ’uddin Naqshband (q.s) said: “On this path the disciple should be modest. People say that why there is no long fasting and difficult worship (riyâdhah) on this path? Is there anything more difficult than attaining modesty?”

The most important thing in this world is to lead our lives as Muslims and to die as Muslims and to attain the honour of the Divine extolment, “How excellent a servant!”

“Whoever shows mercy even when slaughtering a bird (for food), Allah will have mercy on him on the Day of Judgement.” (Tabarani, Kabir, VIII:234:7915; Bayhaqi, Shu’ab, VII:482.)

Junayd al-Baghdadi states: “Thankfulness is that you should not be disobedient through whatever bounties Allah Almighty has blessed you with, and that you should not render these bounties a source of disobedience.”

Shaykh Sa’di states: “Do not suppose an affair to be incapable of  being  disentangled, solved,  or unravelled after having seen it to be obscure or inextricable.  Do not be grieved, for the Water of Life is to be found in darkness.”

Every believer must strive to put a smile on all those faces that have forgotten to smile, with their charity and alms.

Shaykh Sa’di states: “Grapes yet unripe are sour, but be patient for two or three days and they will become sweet.”

The heedless person lives with the day’s anxiety and apprehension. That which one really needs to be concerned about is the Day of Judgement.

While in prayer, safeguard your heart from all other than Allah. Offer your prayer in full consciousness of being in the presence of Allah. Only then can the prayer discipline the servant and protect them from sin and wrongdoing.

Indicated in a Prophetic Tradition: “When a believer dies, their prayer will stand by their head, their alms to their right and their fasts by their left.” (See (Haythami, III:51)