APPLYING THE TEACHINGS OF QUR'AN AND SUNNAH

               APPLYING THE TEACHINGS OF QUR'AN AND SUNNAH

           IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, MOST GRACIOUS, MOST MERCIFUL

All praise and gratitude are due to Allah the Self-sufficient master, who has sent His messenger with Guidance and the Religion of Truth, to make it prevail over All religion. We extol and Glorify Him, and seek for His forgiveness, And may His peace, blessings and tranquility be upon his noble and cherished Messenger, his house-hold and those follows their right path till the Day of reckoning.

My respected brothers in islam! The only fundamental key to the life of opulence here and Here-aftter is solely on applying the teachings of Qur'an and sunnah, for verily righteous servants are those who always remain consistent and make the commandment of Allah (S.W.T) prevail over their on lust, and always trying to practicalise it for knowing the implication of proclaiming without applying, and the fact that knowledge can either serve as reason for servant or against him to be in Hell-fire. Allah the Omnipotent stated vividly in sura Assaffi; ("O you who believe! why do you say that which you do not do. Most hateful it is with Allah that you say that which you do not do). This verse prevents us to utter that which we would not fullfil. The righteous servants of the Allmighty are those who are Best-aquainted with what they proclaim for whenever you see in the Holy qur'an Allah mentioning those who believe frequently follows it with the; " work righteousness" which can also signifies putting it in to practice. Umar (R.A) was asked concerning piety when he said; " Being afraid of The Most-exalted (ALLAH) and working with revelation, and drafting for the Day of reckoning" and this is quiet enline with how the companions were during the precious time of prophet (S.A.W), they were good ambassadors of islam that when the messenger of Allah teach them one verse in the Holy Qur'an will not recieve the next verse untill after some days when they practicalise it, and this is not defying the above mentioned verse (in Suratul- Al-saff). The verse also refutes those who neglet to fullfil their promises, if it is regarding the right of any one they should give what is due to him.

     A hadith that is frightening dwells on the issue of not acting in accordance to what you enjoin people of islamic values shows that A knowlegiable that is not practicing that which he enjoin people, would be positioned under a dis-believer in the Hell-fire. Allah's refuge is what we seek from this. My honourable audience! We seldon read some verses in our daily prayers from Suratul faatihaa asking Allah; Guide us to the right way. The way of those upon whom you have bestowed your grace, not of those who earned your anger, nor of those who went astray. Scholars mentoined that; those who earned Allah's anger are the Jews, cos they knew the truth (islamic religion) but neglect it and as such; whoever knows the truth and ignor it or refuse to apply easily can he earn Allah's anger. On the other hand, those who went astray (as mentioned in the sura) implies the christians for they are ignorants of the truth religion and so, they went astray.

       It's of highly importance when we ponder on the following chapter in the noble qur'an which imam Ash-shafi'i said  " If people were to ponder on this Sura, it would be sufficient for them. Allah the Omnipotent said; " By Al-Asr. Verily man is in loss. Except those who believe and do righteous deeds.......". The point of discussion here is saying; "Except those who believe and do righteous deeds". Allah mentioned belief then follows it wiith good deeds which implies that if only man wants to be among the victorious should back his belief by acting righteously, and this entails that one must act upon whatsoever he enjoin people, sticking to this had a great lasting influence that attracts much of dis-believers during the prophet's and his companion's era, and obcus even some righteous generations before us, but our own era is totally contradicting. One great man said; " Had i got to learn islam through the muslims and their behaviours, i wouldn't have been a muslim, but i knew islam through the islamic books". This is a good indication that our actoins is totally contradicting the precious values of islam.

        So, my respected brothers! We have to make a paradigm shift. Redirect the ship, what i simply mean; sanitizing our moral behaviours.

     It is with this that i pray to Allah to guide us and make our knowledge serve as stephen stone to JANNAH and not a reason for our distraction and key to Hell-fire.