BUSY... where did that word come from

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Asalam alaykum waramatullah wabarakatuhu

I pray this email meets you in the best of health and eeman. I am sorry I haven't blogged in a while. I have truly been busy with research and all other stuff. Alhamdulillah it is going well. I am also learning to drive but that story is for another day.

The different situations we find ourselves in everyday only seek to enhance our eeman if we indeed open our hearts. The ayats of Allah is all around us and it also manifests itself in our lives. We should take time out of our busy schedule to reflect and take stock of where we are at in terms of eeman and doing that which pleases Allah (SWT).

Sometimes you find you are praying but the khuso is not there or you have not read your Quran in a while or contemplated its meaning. This is what being busy with other than Allah brings. But we go back ask for forgiveness and re-train ourselves, restore the khuso and humility into our prayer, re-direct our intentions in our everyday activities towards doing that which would please Allah alone. We must never give up trying to improve ourselves and seek constant forgiveness while we are on this earth as once we leave we cannot go back to redress what ever wrong we have committed.

So I challenge you guys and myself to take stock everyday, ask Allah to accept whatever we have done from that which HE enjoined on us and seek HIS forgiveness and mercy from those things from which we have fallen short, Allah is indeed the most forgiving the most merciful.

The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, "After the death of a person his actions stop except for three things that he leaves behind. Continuous charity, knowledge from which benefit is obtained and a righteous son who prays for him." [Muslim]

The Messenger of Allah (may the peace and blessings of God be upon him) said, "Take benefit of five before five: your youth before your old age, your health before your sickness, your wealth before your poverty, your free-time before your preoccupation, and your life before your death."
[al-Hakim, al-Baihaqi

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