their lives. Yet starting the day in good health every morning, being
able to breathe and see, being able to enjoy scents and food and all
beautiful things and beingable to appreciate love, respect and
friendship are all great blessings. In addition, possessing the
judgment with which to distinguish between good and evil, right and
wrong or beauty and ugliness is another great blessing bestowed by
Allah because that judgment enables one to avoid wickedness and the
evil whisperings of one's earthly desires and to choose goodness and
beauty instead. What one needs to do in return is properly appreciate
our Lord, to give proper thanks to Him and for one's heart to be full
of love and fear of Him at all times.
One's heart being with Allah at all times does not mean withdrawing
from all the preoccupations of the life of this world. "The heart
being with Allah at all times means";
Being aware of the greatness, might and power of our Lord at all times,
Knowing that He sees, hears and watches oneselfand all the other
entities one sees, and that He encompasses the entire universe,
Being aware that Allah is the sole judge and sole Lord of all things,
and thatHe is mighty enough to dowhat He wants when He wants,
And knowing that everything that happens in the life of this world,
whether it appears to be good or bad, is actually the functioning of
the destiny ordained by Allah.
A Person Whose Heart Is Always Full of Remembrance of Allah Has a
Clear Mind and Awareness
It is easy to recognize the clarity of mind of someonewhose heart is
always full of remembrance of Allah from his face and behaviorbecause
there is a great difference between the face of someone who believes
and knows that Allah sees him at all times and someone who is
heedless. No matter how attractive the face of someone who has
forgotten Allah, it will never reflect any spiritual beauty or an
expression full of love and meaning, humanity, humility and
intelligence. In contrast, the luminosity, beauty, intelligence and
nobility bestowed by faith and clarity of mind are strikingin someone
whose heart iswith Allah. In the Qur'an, Allah notes these features of
those who sincerely believe and exhibit an unsullied devotion to Him
and reveals it is easy to recognize them by "...the traces of
prostration" in their faces:
" Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him
are fierce to the unbelievers, merciful to one another. You see
them bowing and prostrating, seeking Allah's good favor and His
pleasure. Their mark is on their faces, the traces of prostration.
That is their likeness in the Torah. And their likeness in the Gospel
is that of a seed which puts up a shoot and makes it strong so that
itthickens and grows up straight upon its stalk," (Surat al-Fath, 29)
In addition, when we look at the lives of those whosehearts are
heedless of Allah, we see that it is these people who suffer the worst
consequences oftheir heedlessness. These people, who do not believe in
our Lord, Who created them from nothing and has bestowedso many
blessings upon them, avoid everything that might remind them of their
responsibilities to Him. They try to ignore the way that they and the
universe were brought into being from nothing, they ignore the fact of
death and the Day of Reckoning afterward, the countless blessings of
paradise or the infinite torments of hell because they realize that
only by heeding their consciences, they will have to reflect onAllah
and come to faith. They know that if they think about the existence of
Allah, they will remember His commandments and prohibitions and
thereforebe unable to follow their own earthly desires and passions.
Hearts Only Find Peace and Ease through Remembrance of Allah
True peace, joy and happiness can only come when people believe in
Allah and their hearts are with Him. One can never attain true joy and
happiness so long as remains heedless of Allah. Contrary to popular
opinion, all pleasures flee away if one does not havefaith because
people cannot live by moral virtues in places where thefact that Allah
is closer to one than one's own jugular vein is ignored, and where
there is no fearof His wrath. Lack of fear of Allah brings with it
ignorance of all bounds and lawlessness, and thus a degenerate
structure. Everyone behaves as they please.
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