04-01-2005, 07:35 PM
Bismillah
Praise be to Allah and prayer and peace be upon His Messenger Mohamed Ibn Abdullah, his household and companions.
Back to our invaluable manual and how to apply it in our day to day life in a manner that could spare us much effort and money but also bear amazing fruit.
What parents would do in order to secure their children future? Should they go for insurance either on their lives, house, cars or other properties? Should they invest in stocks and bonds in the name of their children? Should they conclude bank deposits so that children would inherit them after they depart from this life??
Let us check what the Quran say in this regard:
“And let those (executors and guardians) have the same fear in their minds as they would have for their own, if they had left weak offspring behind. <i>So let them fear Allah and speak right words</i>." (Quran 4:9)
The underlined part physically constitutes the attitude one must adopt in order to protect his/her children after they depart from this world. Allah Used almost only two words:
1. To fear Allah
2. To speak the right words, to say what is pertinent, what is sound what is correct.
Just look at the prescription given here matter of fact it makes up a life attitude, it draws down a person line and them in life. Fear Allah and say what is correct. A general command that must be adopted at all time. But the promised fruit is worth it. But remember promised by Who? By Allah, which makes the attainment of the output with not doubt.
In this invaluable advice, Sobhan Allah Allah included both types of act. What is hidden and what is spoken. The verbal and physical.
Fearing Allah is such a comprehensive attitude that covers our overall behaviour even when we are by ourselves.
Speaking the right words, of course is so obvious, yet we would like to say that it includes talking in any given situation and under any give circumstance.
Both rules must be kept right before our eyes whenever we think about our children. It is worth remembering. Just before we jump to retaliate for instance when we are hurt, we must see what would be better in the eyes of Allah..and so forth.
Before making a joke, we must think first if this would please or displease Allah, before continuing into an argument just to win a discussion, we must see how far this would be done only for the sake of Allah… and so on.
As such Allah Would be present in our minds all the time. U think if one lives such a life, Allah Shall abandon his/her children???
Allah Never Neglects putting an example for applying the manual in our manual.
For us to see this rule applied and bearing the fruit just examine the following Ayah in Surat Kahf:
“And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the town; and there was under it a treasure belonging to them; <i>and their father was a righteous man,</i> and your Lord intended that they should attain their age of full strength and take out their treasure as a mercy from your Lord. And I did it not of my own accord. That is the interpretation of those (things) over which you could not hold patience." (Quran 18:82)
Allah Sent this servant of Allah to implement a number of decrees of them, he erected the wall under which the treasure of the orphan boys was buried since the people in this village were not honest which made them vulnerable. But their father was a righteous man, this what he did during his life to deserve the Divine protection of his children after his death.
Allah u Akbar