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When? Saturday, 19 March 2011, 2.00 PM
Where? The White Box, MAP KL@Publika, Solaris Dutamas
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We praise Allah an abundant praises and pray for His blessings and guidance….
There are lots of interesting articles and other “fun stuff” at Productivemuslim.com. I really am enjoying them. (Jazakumullah to those who operate this web).
So, in this post, I just wanna share one of them. For full explanation please visit : 7 Daily Spiritual Productive Habits to Develop
1) Pray the Sunnah Prayers before and/or after Prayer
2) Remembrance of Allah after Salah
3) Morning/Evening Remembrance of Allah
4) Night Prayer
5) Duha Prayer
6) Supplications before you Sleep
7) Reciting one hour of Quran each day
Well, the article is one thing, then came what I really eager to share. The moment I scrolled down that page, I’ve never thought that those long list of comments would mean anything or at least affect me.
And GUEST WHAT, I was totally wrong.
Here goes….
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One of the comments stated:
“if one doesn’t feel blessed on the days they perform the sunnah acts, how does one motivate themselves?”
Then, the author wrote back :
“I seem to recollect that ibn Qayyim said that there are 3 types of people worshipping Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala):
1. Those who worship Allah out of fear, they do the acts of worship only to avoid His punishment in this life and hereafter.
2. Those who worship Allah as merchants, they look at “what’s it for me?” and count their good deeds and bad deeds and expect a return/profit for every good deed they do.
3. Those who worship Allah out of love – regardless what happens to them, they are in worship mode.
I guess the 7 Spiritual Habits which I write about, they are there to get someone into the ‘habit’ of worshipping Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala) regardless of the consequences, and to always have this consciousness of Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala).
They might start off as habits, but eventually, these acts of worship become the bread and butter of a worshipper, that he/she will feel his day is incomplete without.
Imagine for someone who didn’t have these habits or didn’t do them each day, when he/she goes through a bad day, he’ll get stuck not knowing what to do… but for a believer when he/she faces something tough and realizes that a duha prayer is coming up, or tahajjud is there at night, it’s such a relief for him/her.
Now regarding why you don’t feel the difference, there could be many explanations:
1. is that sometimes our sins are a block to taste the sweetness of an act of obedience… and as the scholars say, one of the ‘hidden’ punishments of our sins is that we don’t enjoy the acts of worship anymore (or even feel the bitterness of the sin).
2. sometimes when you’re used to doing an act of worship and it doesn’t make a difference or you feel bored with it, Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala) will want to “upgrade” your worship to something more, so he removes the sweetness of the obedience until you increase it in quality/quantity (e.g. doing 4 rak’ah for duha instead of just 2)..
regardless of the above.. in practical terms: just keep going!”
These sure motivate me, biiznillah. Do read other comments as well.
We praise Allah an abundant praises and pray for His blessings and guidance….
Still stretching my heart…hope to let it all fit in…
In the process I realized, the good things won’t get in if the bad ones are filling up the spaces…
If the black dots are covering the surface, the purity of the white would surely never be noticed.
We usually know things we do in our lives, whether it is the right thing to do or not.
But then, the fun part is always when we do it the wrong way.
The truth, however, that fun part won’t last… moments later we’ll be haunted by our guilt, the sins and shame followed each step that we walk, each breath that we take…
Again, we keep on repeating the same mistakes, it’s a habit. A very bad one, indeed.
That’s why we are still what we were yesterday, never budge from that old, silly state we’re in, yes, not even an inch eventhough we know we should move on and improve ourself.
And yet, we pretend that we are happy, and other people envied the life that we live in.
Undeniably…..deep down, we already know that “only in the remembrance of Allah, that heart will find peace”.
Fish can’t survive without water, we can’t live without our Lord.
We choked even the air is around us, gasping for what keep us alive.
Then, how do we manage to live without Him, when He is the one who give us everything.
Sorry, I wrote all these.
Really need to get those “parasites” out from my system. They’re eating me alive.
Hope I come to my sense, before I die and meet my Lord with all the sins I’ve comitted…
Between these paths 