· Read a book titled Reconstruction of Religious Thought by ‘Allama Iqbal. It will enlighten us on the direction we’re going towards here in the West.
- ‘Allama Iqbal said, "On my tongue comes a supplication that my life should be like a candle. Wherever I go, let me enlighten everything around me."
o Why a candle?
§ A candle is constantly burning and is not selfish with its light and heat. It gives to everyone and everything around it.
§ The candle constantly burns and eventually dies out and melts forgetting itself. It burns, and burns until it can’t burn anymore. This is the example of a Mu’min who is constantly working in the path of Allah
- In the second poem, ‘Allama Iqbal says "Let my work be to take care of the poor. And let me feel the pain of those weak and less fortunate; and let me love them.”
§ How can we sleep at night when our Muslim sister has been kicked out of her house after her husband has divorced her?
§ How can we complain over not having heat in our Islamic schools when people in the Himalayas don’t have schools and are receiving their education on mountain tops under open skies in freezing weather?
§ How can we complain of not getting enough to eat when woman in Pakistan don’t have pipelines of water running in their areas?
o Remember the problems of others before you start complaining about yourself.
· Take care of your parents and don't send them to senior citizen homes.
o This is one of the greatest epidemics which has hit our societies as Muslims. How can we send our parents to senior citizen homes when they get old when they used to change our diapers and feed us when we were young?!
o Stop raising money for projects like these, rather, educate the masses on the status of one’s parents in Islam.
· “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet”
o When we go over sees, what do we think? “Aw man, the mosquitoes are always biting us, it smells, there are so many beggers.”
o We need to man up and realize that people are suffering all over the world. Stop magnifying your problems and try to help others.
o If a 16 year old Pakistani girl living in Newark with her parents in a $500/month apartment can wear niqab to school, then what reason do we have to not observe Islam in a more serious fashion?
o If you want to help others around you, then go and work in the field of social work. Give food to the poor in places like Newark and Jersey City with your own hands.
· Final Words
· Our environment in the USA isn’t bad, it’s all about how you perceive it and react to it.
· take pride in helping those who are lower then you regarding wealth and money.
· If you make the deen of Allah victorious, then Allah will make you victorious.
5 comments:
Ma'sha'allah great advice. Yes, I cannot understand why people in our community would put their parents in a "home" and not take care of them, as that is our duty after they have given us so much as we grew. I have already lost my father, so insha'allah I pray that I will be able to do a better duty to my mother.
alhumdulillah.
good looks on the notes nihal.
jazakallah!
i like how he mentioned Jersey City.
jazak Allah khair Nihal for communicating this advice from Sh. Jawad. The blog is looking fine... keep adding.
His advice is golden, mashaAllah.
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