Chose your fights “blindly”

Motivation by Valeria Ushakova

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "A man from Bani Israel asked someone from Bani Israel to give him a loan of one thousand Dinars and the later gave it to him. The debtor went on a voyage (when the time for the payment of the debt became due) but he did not find a boat, so he took a piece of wood and bored it and put 1000 diners in it and threw it into the sea. The creditor went out and took the piece of wood to his family to be used as fire-wood". And the Prophet (ﷺ) narrated the narration (and said), "When he sawed the wood, he found his money."
- Sahih al-Bukhari 1498

A wooden plank, floated into water, reaches its destination, is nothing logical, sane and trusting your guts. It is only courage and following your instincts blindly.

Today’s topic is explained in following phases;

1. What is a fight

2. How Quran encourages taking actions

1. What is a fight?

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The fight after you hit a dead end, is one kind. Fight where you take a stand to fulfil your uttered words, is another kind. One where you wake up early, perform ablution and reach your mosque is also a type of fight.

We are fighting every second of our life. The moment we start giving up, we start opting for easy choices and start neglecting the failures. We drop the charisma of life. That is why, fight is meant to be taken seriously, to conquer, to succeed and to live with grace.

2. How Quran encourages us to take actions?

Quran by Abdulmeilk Majed

Following summaries are taken from our recent lessons in Surah Al Araf;

Summary 1 - Spread the Message

This is a Book revealed to you, - so let there not be in your hearts any uneasiness while you warn them and remind them.
Verse 2

Not only the disbelievers, but the believers, your siblings, relatives and neighbours. This ayat tells us to get out of our home, hold the Quran tight in our hands, knock at the door of fellow believers and remind them of the stories of Prophets.

Interestingly, the people will oppose you. Your society and profession will question your sanity. But this is what Quran says. It tells us to start committing to insane actions to bring forth the Quran.

Summary 2 - Fear the Punishment

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And how many cities have We destroyed, and Our punishment came to them at night or while they were sleeping at noon.
Verse 4

Cities of Lut, Hud, Aad, Thamud, Shoaib, Saleh and un-ending lists of Prophets where Allah destroyed the people of great successes. All these cities were given message of Quran and introduction to Allah. People negated the message. They read it and spread it to get richer. At times it was exploited to rise in reputation. But they never embraced the message. Never acted and never succeeded on their deaths.

Corona is hot, live and spreading like fire. It is an exponential graph. Only people, who will embrace Quran, act on its message by distributing rations, writing blogs, making websites and becoming an example, will survive. The brave ones will live through like Nuh floated in waters, Lut rode out safe, Muhammad found Madina. But the cowards, people who read Quran and neglect the actions, will die of fear, panic and weakness.

Summary 3 - The weighing of Scale

Scale by Mali Maeder

And the weighing of deeds that Day will be the “truth”. So those whose scales will be heavier, they will be successful.
Verse 8

Imagine, a scale hanging in front and fire in the background. Hell roaring, people crying, angels thudding people of weaker belief. Some being punished are richer, some are logical and some among them are poor begging on the streets and killing neighbours. Rich and Poor will be standing in one line. Faith and Courage will be standing on one line.

People who restrain their actions by becoming logical, sound and wisdom, never raise their weigh of good deeds. These deeds will be placed on the scale one day and you will wish you could have raised the slogan of Allah standing today on a round about. You could have acted like Quaid-e-Azam. Or you had acted like Khalid or like Muhammad. That day, when scales will be placed, our “wishes” will not help. Today, when we know scales will be placed, our “actions” will help.

Summary 4 - The pride

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And We have certainly created you, and given you a form. Then We said to the angels, "Prostrate to Adam"; so they prostrated, except for Iblees. He was not of those who prostrated.
Verse 11

It does not matter, whether you are a saint or a disbeliever. You are a giant or a coward. You are acting or not acting. The supreme requirement is to submit to Allah. In office, at home, in mosque, on the road, you need to fear the wrath of Allah.

Well, honestly, we are not afraid. Like Iblees, we are thinking, it is going fine. Death is fine. We are from Muhammad, we are safe. Inside, we are ok, with the nights of fun and gossip. Some days rest is ok. Some life and some fun is needed to cheer up. Inside, we are not afraid.

The Quran tells me, to walk with dhiker at my tongue, eyes pondering over the next stone on my path, the tree and its leaf, the birds chirp, cow grazing and clouds moving. Quran tells me to stop thinking of an easy life here. It tells me to jump with a blind faith, every second of my life. Else, my long nights of worship, beautiful recitations of Quran and sound athans are useless. I need to act now, that I die now, fearing Allah, that I succeed.

Summary 5 - Satanic Attack

Horns by Kat Jayne

Then I will come to them from before them and from behind them and on their right and on their left, and You will not find most of them grateful [to You]."
Verse 17

It is black and white, the Quran, Allah’s order and Satan’s intent. Black is cowardly actions, thinking we will lose our job, family and reputation. White is brave actions, thinking we do not need job, family and reputation but Allah.

Satan takes you away from the message of Allah. It shows luxury, comfort and happiness and gives “depression”, “misery” and “failures”.

Allah calls us to “failures”, “losses” and “death” in His path, and gives luxury, comfort and happiness.

As soon as you jump into fire, like Ibrahim, your fire will turn into a bed of roses. As soon as you will shout, Allah o Akbar, in the crowd, Allah will raise you in reputation. As soon as you will hit death with pride and love, Allah will give you wealth, legacy and Life.

And to tell you, life in death, is bigger, beautiful and colorful. The death of a believer is his meeting with Allah. The death of “black” is meeting with endless recurring and horrific deaths.

This Quran is black and white. It incites you to embrace death.

Conclusion

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You are not late. Your age does not matter. Your profession does not bind you. Your family is not a hurdle. Your reputation is not at stake. Your earnings will not go away. Your wealth will increase. Your profession will glow brighter. Your family will love you. Your society will respect you. Just take the Jump!

You will become Muhammad. You will rule Madina. You will fight Badr. You will swing the sword. You will ride the horses into Jerusalem. You will conquer Spain. You will build Baghdad. You will shine. You will rise. With Quran, you will not fail. It is a book of supreme powers. It will take you closer to the creator of Heavens, Skies, Earth and Muhammad.