Holiday Promises

Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem
Assalammualaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

It's the holiday season!
Astaghfirullah hal azheem

Teach, and you will be Taught

Hopefully everyone is tasting the sweet taste of iman, the beauty of patience, the motivating spirit of good health and goodwill, the rejuvenating fragrance of tawakkal, and the cleansing coolness of tawbah. Insya Allah. Alhamdulillah! Its the holiday season again and this is when most of us will probably be spending time more with our families. So, dear brothers and sisters, lets make this holiday a memorable and a blessed one. Insya Allah.

يَـٰٓأَيُّہَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ قُوٓاْ أَنفُسَكُمۡ وَأَهۡلِيكُمۡ نَارً۬ا وَقُودُهَا ٱلنَّاسُ وَٱلۡحِجَارَةُ عَلَيۡہَا مَلَـٰٓٮِٕكَةٌ غِلَاظٌ۬ شِدَادٌ۬ لَّا يَعۡصُونَ ٱللَّهَ مَآ أَمَرَهُمۡ وَيَفۡعَلُونَ مَا يُؤۡمَرُونَ (٦)

Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Peliharalah diri kamu dan keluarga kamu dari Neraka yang bahan-bahan bakarannya: Manusia dan batu (berhala); Neraka itu dijaga dan dikawal oleh malaikat-malaikat yang keras kasar (layanannya); mereka tidak menderhaka kepada Allah dalam segala yang diperintahkan-Nya kepada mereka, dan mereka pula tetap melakukan segala yang diperintahkan.

[at-Tahrim:6]

Masha Allah, tabarakallah! When someone told my fellow sisters and moi of this (the ayah above), I have goosebumps all over. This is not easy. Yet, we were also given a beautiful advice that the key to this is ikhlas, its oil is as-sabr (patience) and its engine istiqamah. However, note that according to the hadeeth qudsi, ikhlas is a secret of Allah's secret that will only be granted to those whom He love. Whereas, patience is one of the 70 branches of iman and the responsibility of being istiqamah will make your hair turns white. Nonetheless, fret not, Allah also says in the Quran - la yukallifullahu nafsan illa wus'aha (you will not be tested with what you cannot bear) in surah al-Baqarah verse 286. Subhanallahi wabihamdih, subhanallahil azheem, rejoice with the rizq and the nikmah that Allah has bestowed to us, so lets share it with others. Alhamdulillah.

Allahumma ya muqqalibal qulub, thabbits qulubana 'ala deenik
O' Holder of the heart, make our heart stay firm in Your path

Insya Allah, brothers and sisters, continue to make du'a for me, yourselves and also the ummah (I am wondering how's our mujahideen in Chechen, Ghazzah, Afghanistan and in other countries are doing? How's our brother and sisters condition in war-torn countries - Palestine, Grozny etc.) Please Allah, forgive us for all our sins and our heedlessness. May Allah grant us his divine blessings and forgiveness that He bestowed to the mukhlisin. Insya Allah.

iLOVEu for the sake of Allah
May Allah let us meet, if not here, in jannah
Insya Allah

Wallahua'lam
Segala puji hanya bagi Allah, Tuhan sekalian alam