Shaykh Yahya Rhodus - Himma (Spiritual Aspiration)

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I would love to know the link or info on markaz e tafakkur

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WHAT IS ISLAM? • Belief in God Almighty. He has no partner, no equal and there is nothing like Him. He has power over all things. He is the true reality and everything else is just His creation. Just as He created everything, in once instant He can take everything out of existence. There is nothing before Him and nothing after Him. He is eternal. He is not a “he” but we have limited vocabulary. He is perfect. He is complete. He is everything and really we are nothing, except by His leave. • Belief in the Angels. Intelligent and pure creatures made of light. They are inherently good, and have no free will to choose to be evil. Humans are inherently good also, this is called the “fitra”. Whereby humans are naturally / instinctually inclined to be kind, generous, faithful and compassion. However, demonic influences from jinnkind (parallel worldly creatures with an anatomy made of fire) compete with angelic influences in our lives. With the freewill given to us we must choose, daily, which influence to follow. • Belief in Divine Books. Belief in the Bible, the Torah, the Psalms, the Gospel and all divine books which do (or did) call you to remember the One and Almighty God in your actions and words, and to obey Him, for your own sake. Finally, the last divine revelation; the Qur’an, which confirms what we already know about the previous scriptures being altered and manipulated, and which rectifies those errors and gives us a firm grounding in authentic guidance and knowledge from our Creator. As promised in the Qur’an itself, the last revelation will never be changed and so no more messengers or books will be sent to humankind. There is no more guidance to come. Gods favour upon us has been completed. • Belief in the Prophets. Belief that every nation had prophets sent to it, to remind the people about our covenant with God. That before He put our souls in these bodies, we agreed to this challenge, and we agreed to be tested on earth. Over 124,000 Prophets have been sent to all the people of the world. Of these Prophets, around 300 were Messengers. They were sent with a divine revelation. As Muslims we do not differentiate between the Messengers. They are all equal and we trust and believe in them all. Adam, Enoch, Noah, Lot, Jonah, Abraham, Is’maeel, Is’aac, Is’raeel, Joseph, Jesus, Muhammad - All were among those most beloved to God. However; Muhammad, being the very last messenger was not just sent to one nation, but he was sent as an example for the entire world. While we Muslims must believe all the Messengers are equal, we understand that being the last messenger has very honourable implications. We believe it is Muhammad that will intercede and ask God to begin Judgement day, when no one else will, and may peace be upon him and all the prophets and messengers. • Belief in the Day of Judgement. Belief in the scales which will weigh our deeds, the only commodity on that day when gold and silver will be meaningless. After this world has ended and there are no more people, all will be resurrected / recreated. We believe mankind and jinnkind will then be waiting for 50,000 years for judgement to begin. Finally, the last Prophet will prostrate to the Almighty and humbly ask Him to begin. This will be a tormenting time and people who think they are going to hell, will still want judgement to commence, just to leave this place. Good and bad deeds will be weighed. The ultimate fate and your final destination will be decided. Heaven or hell will be rewarded to those who earn what they earn. Don’t feel hopeless though. If you sincerely regret your sins, and ask God to forgive you in this life, they are transformed from bad deeds into good deeds. Every good intention you make is worth one good deed, while every evil intention is not counted, unless you act on it and commit the sin. If you act on a good intention it can be worth 100’s of good deeds. Righteousness and belief in God is all you need to attain the ultimate victory. To remain eternally in His pleasure, residing in His gardens of bliss where all hardship, evil, disease and suffering are removed, replaced by all the delights you can and can’t imagine. • Belief in God's predestination. Believing that God knows everything that has been, and will be. Believing that there is no power or ability to do anything except by His permission and power from Him. Believing that we are but a timeline of intentions, and that He is the one who decides whether or not to give us the ability to fulfil those intentions. Believing that He is the Most Wise, and that although we may not understand His wisdom, we submit to Him and trust that everything that happens is ultimately for our own good. He is benevolent, merciful and loving. • A Muslim must testify that God is One, has no equals, no partners and there is nothing like Him, and we must testify that indeed Muhammad is very clearly the last messenger sent by God. We must pray, give charity, fast, and perform pilgrimage, thereby earning Gods forgiveness and many good deeds / investments for the real eternal life when this temporary abode is dumped. We must be honest, truthful, trustworthy and righteous. Be pleasant, hygienic, have good character and be generous. Be grateful, patient, merciful and courageous. Basically love for your brother/sister what you would love for yourself. A Muslim is concerned with pleasing the Creator and not the creation. The very purpose of our existence is to worship [remember, serve, thank, praise, obey, glorify, etc] God. If you do this sincerely you will finally feel fulfilled and content in life. To fulfil your higher purpose, means to become a being that is in harmony with the Almighty God. There can be nothing greater than this. Please copy, paste and share this to earn many dawah hasanat for yawm al qiyama.

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invisible 1 that may b his children?.