Living Islam: Book of assistance

1. Living Islam: Book of assistance • Topics to be covered this evening: • Certainty (Yaqin) • Intention (Niyyah) • Vigilance (Muraqabah)

2. Book of assistance: Certainty Definition Imam Haddad defined it as an expression of power, stability and firmness in faith (an unwavering 100% faith /belief that repels all doubt)

3. Book of assistance: Certainty Benefits and fruits of certainty Acquiescence in the promise of Allah Confidence in what Allah has guaranteed Turning to Allah in entirety Abandoning everything that distracts you from Allah Returning to Allah under all circumstances Spending all your time and energy inseeking Allah's pleasure

4. Book of assistance: Certainty Certainty is strengthened and perfected through the following: Listening attentively with the heart and ears to Quranic verses and Prophetic sayings relating to the Majesty, Perfection Magnitude and Grandeur of Allah. His uniqueness in creating; the truthfulness and perfection of His Prophets and the chastisement that afflicted those who rejected.

5. Book of assistance: Certainty وَعِنْدَهُ مَفَاتِحُ الْغَيْبِ لَا يَعْلَمُهَا إِلَّا هُوَ وَيَعْلَمُ مَا فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ وَمَا تَسْقُطُ مِنْ وَرَقَةٍ إِلَّا يَعْلَمُهَا وَلَا حَبَّةٍ فِي ظُلُمَاتِ الْأَرْضِ وَلَا رَطْبٍ وَلَا يَابِسٍ إِلَّا فِي كِتَابٍ مُبِينٍ (59) The keys of the Unseen are in His possession. No one knows them but Him. He knows everything in the land and sea. No leaf falls without His knowing it. There is no seed in thedarkness of the earth, and nothing moist or dry which is not in a Clear Book.

6. Book of assistance: Certainty If anyone wants power, all power belongs to Allah. All good words rise to Him and virtuous deeds elevate them. But people who plot evil deeds will suffer a harsh punishment. The plotting of such people is profitless. (11) Allah created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and then made you into pairs. No female becomes pregnant or gives birth except with His knowledge. And no living thing lives long or has its life cut short without that being in a Book. That is easy for Allah. مَنْ كَانَ يُرِيدُ الْعِزَّةَ فَلِلَّهِ الْعِزَّةُ جَمِيعًا إِلَيْهِ يَصْعَدُ الْكَلِمُ الطَّيِّبُ وَالْعَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ يَرْفَعُهُ وَالَّذِينَ يَمْكُرُونَ السَّيِّئَاتِ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ شَدِيدٌ وَمَكْرُ أُولَئِكَ هُوَ يَبُورُ (10) وَاللَّهُ خَلَقَكُمْ مِنْ تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ مِنْ نُطْفَةٍ ثُمَّ جَعَلَكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا وَمَا تَحْمِلُ مِنْ أُنْثَى وَلَا تَضَعُ إِلَّا بِعِلْمِهِ وَمَا يُعَمَّرُ مِنْ مُعَمَّرٍ وَلَا يُنْقَصُ مِنْ عُمُرِهِ إِلَّا فِي كِتَابٍ إِنَّ ذَلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرٌ (11)

7. Book of assistance: Certainty وَمَا يَسْتَوِي الْبَحْرَانِ هَذَا عَذْبٌ فُرَاتٌ سَائِغٌ شَرَابُهُ وَهَذَا مِلْحٌ أُجَاجٌ وَمِنْ كُلٍّ تَأْكُلُونَ لَحْمًا طَرِيًّا وَتَسْتَخْرِجُونَ حِلْيَةً تَلْبَسُونَهَا وَتَرَى الْفُلْكَ فِيهِ مَوَاخِرَ لِتَبْتَغُوا مِنْ فَضْلِهِ وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ (12) يُولِجُ اللَّيْلَ فِي النَّهَارِ وَيُولِجُ النَّهَارَ فِي اللَّيْلِ وَسَخَّرَ الشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ كُلٌّ يَجْرِي لِأَجَلٍ مُسَمًّى ذَلِكُمُ اللَّهُ رَبُّكُمْ لَهُ الْمُلْكُ وَالَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِنْ دُونِهِ مَا يَمْلِكُونَ مِنْ قِطْمِيرٍ (13) إِنْ تَدْعُوهُمْ لَا يَسْمَعُوا دُعَاءَكُمْ وَلَوْ سَمِعُوا مَا اسْتَجَابُوا لَكُمْ وَيَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يَكْفُرُونَ بِشِرْكِكُمْ وَلَا يُنَبِّئُكَ مِثْلُ خَبِيرٍ (14) The two seas are not the same: the one is sweet, refreshing, delicious to drink, the other salty, bitter to the taste. Yet from both of them you eat fresh flesh and extract ornaments for yourselves to wear; and you see ships on them, cleaving through the waves so that you can seek His bounty and so that hopefully you will be thankful.(13) He makes night merge into day and day merge into night, and He has made the sun and moon subservient, each one running until a specified time. That is Allah, your Lord. The Kingdom is His. Those you call on besides Him have no power over even the smallest speck.(14) If you call on them they will not hear your call, and were they to hear, they would not respond to you. On the Day of Rising they will reject your making associates of them. No one can inform you like One who is All- aware.

8. Book of assistance: Certainty إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُمْسِكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ أَنْ تَزُولَا وَلَئِنْ زَالَتَا إِنْ أَمْسَكَهُمَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ إِنَّهُ كَانَ حَلِيمًا غَفُورًا (41) Allah keeps a firm hold on the heavens and earth, preventing them from vanishing away. And if they vanished no one could then keep hold of them. Certainly He is Most Forbearing, Ever-Forgiving.

9. Book of assistance: Certainty Certainty is strengthened and perfected through the following: 2. With an intention of taking lesson, he should look at the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and the amazing creation of Allah. 3. Acting according to what he believes inwardly and outwardly, exerting himself in that.

10. Book of assistance: Certainty Conclusion You must, beloved brother, strengthen and improve your certainty. For when certainty prevails in the heart and establishes itself therein the unseen becomes as if seen and the man aided by providence says, as Ali karramaLlahu Wajhahu said: where the cover to be removed, I would not increase in certainty.

11. Book of assistance: Intention Every utterance, action and decision, must be accompanied with an intention Strive, my brother, always to intend that your obedience be for the sake of Allah, and that whatever licit things you may use are only to assist you to obey Him.

12. Book of assistance: Intention a condition or sign of a sincere intention is that your behavior does not belie it Tha‘labahibnHatib. وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ عَاهَدَ اللَّهَ لَئِنْ آَتَانَا مِنْ فَضْلِهِ لَنَصَّدَّقَنَّ وَلَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ (75) فَلَمَّا آَتَاهُمْ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ بَخِلُوا بِهِ وَتَوَلَّوْا وَهُمْ مُعْرِضُونَ (76) فَأَعْقَبَهُمْ نِفَاقًا فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ إِلَى يَوْمِ يَلْقَوْنَهُ بِمَا أَخْلَفُوا اللَّهَ مَا وَعَدُوهُ وَبِمَا كَانُوا يَكْذِبُونَ (77)

13. Book of assistance: Intention Multiple intentions for a single action أين المتحابون في، أين المتزاورون في، أين المتباذلون في، اليوم أظلهم في ظلي يوم لا ظل إلا ظله من زار أخا له في الله شيعه سبعون ألف ملك يصلون عليه يقولون: أللهم كما وصله فصله إن زاره في المساء يستغفرون له حتى الصباح إذ التقى المسلمنا فتصافحا غفر الله لهما قبل أن يتفرقا تهادوا تحابوا وتصافحوا يذهب الغل عن قلوبكم / التبسم في وجه أخيك لك صدقة / ما من مسلمين يتصافحا إلا وأنزل الله مئة رحمة إدخال السرور على قلب مسلم، خلق الله من ذلك السرور ملكا يستغفر له إلى يوم القيامة من خرج في طلب العلم فهو في سبيل الله حتى يرجع تسبيح من يجاهد في سبيل الله، 700000

14. Book of assistance: Intention Three states you possibly fall in when making intention He decides to act and acts He decides but fails to act while able to We're I able, i would do such and such an act