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as salam alykom brothers and sister
As it is the goal of this board to teach and help learn Islam by learning Quran and Sunnah, so I thought to start this thread in an effort to encourage my brothers and sisters to fill in the thread, we can actually create excellent educational material here.
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Praise be to Allah and prayer and peace be upon His messenger Mohamed Ibn Abdullah
We as Muslims certainly highly regard Quran as a divine book from Allah, we are fully aware that reciting Quran is a worship that is highly rewarding that the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam said what means when one reads Quran one receives 10 hasant for one letter and he added I don’t mean alef lam meem as a letter but rather alef is a letter, lam is a letter and meem is a letter. So just imagine the mountains of hasant one may obtain by reciting the Quran.
However, did Allah only revealed the Quran for us to recite? Or take as a manual of life?
Let us examine few Ayahs here and then make the judgement afterwards.
How are u supposed to behave in a situation when someone hurts u in any possible form, be it physical, verbal or even moral? Are u supposed to fight back? Answer back? Hit the one who hits u back or may be even kill the person just to distinguish your anger. No look what Allah Is Commanding us to do:
“who restrain anger, and pardon (all) men; for God loves those who do good;” (Quran 2:134)
“who restrain anger, This is stage 1 is to just restrain your anger. Not answer back no matter what the form of harm might have been
Then comes an even harder attitude which is
and pardon (all) men; because u might restrain your anger but still hold the person responsible which certainly shall keep your right over the person shoulder till the Day After. U all know of course that Allah Forgives His rights but not those of the servants towards each other.
Then comes the final stage which is very hard to attain but is worth it which is
for God loves those who do good;” (Quran 2:134)
But let me shed some light here, I feel it is a duty since I am Alhamdulelah native arabic speaker. The sentence Allah Loves those who are muhseneen the word muhseneen means literally those who do good to others. From this we derive that after one restains the anger, one may pardon and then if the aggressor comes and asks for help for example one might if he/she can fulfil the need of the person, make dua for him/her in absence, tries to solve a problem he/she is suffering. Of course this is hard for human beings but the reward is immense.
From this we derive how Allah Wants the Islamic community to be. It is not a community where hatred, picking others faults and more is no but rather a community where u set an example for other how to behave or else we will turn into a jungle.
On the same theme Allah Explains more the reward and tells us He understands that this is difficult but yet Encourages us to strive to adopt such attitude:
“Nor can Goodness and Evil be equal. Repel (Evil) with what is better: then will he between whom and thee was hatred become as it were thy friend and intimate! * And no one will be granted such goodness except those who exercise patience and self restraint, none but persons of the greatest good fortune.” (Quran 41: 34-35)
But Allah Is certainly the All Wisdom, He will not ask us to restrain anger, pardon help those who hurt us without basically setting the comprehensive rule. What Did Allah Say to help us all follow this:
“Say to my servants that they should (only) say those things that are best: for Satan doth sow dissensions among them: for Satan is to man an avowed enemy.” (Quran 17:53)
We have an important rule here, while we are talking with each other we must choose our words, we must not be aggressive, challenging, or offensive. We must try our best to say kind, good words, create an amicable atmosphere while talking in order to seal all gates in the face of shaytan.
Another option Allah Is Giving us here in the same regard is:
“And the servants of (God) Most Gracious are those who walk on the earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them, they say, Peace!;” (Quran 25:63)
At last let us look at this Ayah:
“Is there any Reward for Good other than Good?” (Quran 55:60)
Reviewing the number of noble Ayahs’ we quoted above we can sum up the attitude a Muslim must adopt in his/her daily life. We really must take Quran as a manual of our life.
In case u buy a new equipment, usually we look first into the manual before making the connections, settings, wiring otherwise we might miss set the machine and thus destroy it. Likewise our bodies and souls when we don’t adopt Quran as a manual, we suffer much as we will see Insh a Allah in the coming posts.