The Train

The Train

(Part 2)

When loading our train, there are two very important points: 
*Niyyat
*Concentration/devotion.

We might be sending our goods, but without Niyyat. Then it is like we are sending lifeless bodies. Like sending a Hoor without life, or food that has gone off.

And if there is no concentration, then it is like we have made the form of the thing, but inside there is no weight. You are sending empty cartons. The actual thing; the inner qualities; are not there. If there is no concentration/devotion, then it's just quantity, the coaches are overflowing with the big boxes and cartons, but they are going empty.

So every person's train is moving all the time and every person is on the platform with everything available. He can be sending good things, he can be sending bad things, he can be letting his train go empty, or he can be sending it with goods that will be offloaded before it reaches the destination. 

So we should consider this all the time. And if we just think of this, in sha Allah we can make our time of Dunya valuable. And it is all only for one's own benefit. When we go into the Qabr, nobody else is going to benefit, we will benefit from what we have sent to our Qabr. 

Some of us have only come with 20 coaches/40 coaches. But even if  a person has one coach which he fills up properly, with the right things; and one person with 100 coaches, but sending them empty or with all scorpions and snakes, then what will happen to that person? 

The Train

The Train

(Part 1)

Hadhrat Moulana DB mentions a most beautiful example which ought to be deeply pondered upon:

When we are born, it is like our engine has now come on the railway line. The train is going to Aakhira.
We are the engine and we each have our own train to stock up. The number of coaches we are to load up with goods, are the number of years we are to live for. So we are on the platform and busy filling the goods onto the train all the time.  

We will find that each coach has twelve departments (for each month of the year) which is then divided into thirty departments (for each day of the month) then each of the thirty departments has got again twenty four parts (for each hour in the day) which is then divided into sixty parts (for the minutes) and then further into other sixty parts (for the seconds). And we are filling all the time.

Now we need to see, what are we filling into our coaches? If we are letting the train go empty; we are doing nothing; our train is going empty. If we are filling it with dunya, then that goods will be offloaded before it reaches our destination; the QABR. All the dunya will stay behind. If we are comitting sins, we are transporting and sending to our Qabr snakes and scorpions, fire and punishment of the Malaa'ikah. 

However, if we are filling good deeds into the coaches then we are sending roses, flowers, beautiul mansions and beautiful houses, the Hoorul Een, and all the enjoyments of Jannat. 

So all the time we are sending; every moment, whether we awake or sleeping. The train is moving and we are either filling it or letting it go empty. For example you sleep whole night. Now you can make the intention that i'm sleeping so that my body can regain it's vigour and it's strength again, and you sleep according to Sunnat. And how much more Sunnats you practice upon so much more you filling in your train, while you are sleeping also.

Or you going to work, from eight till six, you in the shop, work etc., but you made your Niyyah right, then though you in Dunya but you still sending; filling up. And if the Niyyat is only Dunya and you didn't transfer it; use it for good causes; then the train will offload it before it goes into the Qabr.

In the end, we will be sitting in the last coach and whatever we have sent front, that we are going to get. 

A person must see all the time, what am I sending?

The Month of Safar

The Month of Safar

Many people have wrong beliefs with regards to the month of Safar. We should understand that all problems in life are because of our own doing. When Imaan is weak then all this comes in. A person with Imaan has his connection with Allah Ta'ala and it is set firm in his heart that nothing can happen but with the will of Allah Ta'ala.

Understand that Jinn are more afraid of you. Only if you interfere then they come and defend themselves. Put your trust solely on Allah Ta'ala. If someone did make jadoo then Tilaawat of the Qur'aan and performance of Salaat is enough, you should also try to remain paak all the time. In sha Allah nothing can happen.

However, the best treatment will be to: BUILD YOUR IMAAN.

Nabi sallAllahu alayhi wasallam sated CLEARLY----" Laa 'adwa": NO CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
We should also understand here that there is no such a thing as "hereditary diseases". What is hereditary is the eating habits in the family. The disease itself isn't.
The Sahaaba radhiAllahu anhum asked Rasoolullah salAllahu alayhi wasallam with regards to a group of diseased camels. So Nabi sallAllahu alayhi wasallam asked them, as to where the first camel got the disease from??? 

Everything is from Allah Ta'ala, in today's times the typhoons, droughts, floods, they are not "natural disasters", all come from none but Allah Ta'ala. And this all happens on account of our deeds. 

We have to realise that bad luck is only from ourselves. As you do, so you will get. You don't believe this? Do! then see! There is a Jannah and Jahannum, if you don't believe this, die! then you'll see!

The next part of the hadeeth:"la tiyara"----NO (BAD OMENS FROM) BIRDS. In the previous times the Arabs would make a bird fly- then they would see, if it flew to the right then it meant that it was good and if it flew to the left then it was not going to be good. They would rely on this. Nabi salaAllahu alayhi wasallam negated this completely. What does the flying of a bird got to do with the outcome of our matters? What we should do is read our Duaas; 

بسم الله الذي لا يضر مع اسمه شيء في الأرض ولا في السماء 

وهو السميع العليم

Bismillahillathi la yadhurru ma'asmihi shai'un fil ardhi walaa fissama'i, Wa huwas Sami' ul 'Aleem.

In the name of Allah, by whose name nothing is harmed! Neither on earth nor in the heavens and He is the all-Seeing, the all-Knowing.

We shouldn't be negative in anyway, a Muslim should be positive in all. A strong Mu'min is better than a weak one.
Then Rasoolullah salAllahu alayHi wasallam said, "la haamma"--NO OWL (with regards to superstitions).
"wa laa safara"-- WITH REGARDS TO ALL THE WRONG BELIEFS IN SAFAR----THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THIS!! 

The lesson for us in this month is that we Muslims should not be weak. We've got our 3 Quls, Ayatul Kursi, Qur'aan Shareef---all this is enough for complete protection. May Allah Ta'ala protect us, Aameen.

Allah's Pleasure

Allah's Pleasure

The displeasure of Allaah Ta'ala is worse than the fire of Jahannum and the pleasure of Allah Ta'ala is better than the pleasure of Jannah. All enjoyments are secondary, and the pleasure of Allah Ta'ala is fundamental. If Allah Ta'ala is displeased, then everything goes wrong, and that is the worst thing.

The thought should come; that "is Allaah happy with me?" 

We should repeat the Duaa of Rasoolullah sallAllahu allay hi wasallam; " wa lakal 'utba hatta tardha"; that I will keep on pleading and begging till You become pleased with me. 

Think: O Allah I'm walking, hearing, seeing everything. Make shukr to Allah Ta'ala for all this.

"Bihamdikan saraftu wa bithambi'taraftu"(with Your praise i follow my way and i confess my sins) O Allah I ask your pleasure only, I have no desire for dunya. I seek Your forgiveness on the Day of Qiyaamah.

Make these Duaas with feeling and understanding. 

May AllahTa'ala grant us the taufeeq, Aameen.