Where is the Escape? https://youtube/watch?v=gfbBokcGTjE Oh lost man! Think about escape every single day of your life. If you are able to escape in this world then escape in the Hereafter will be easier. But escape is not easy. And what is it really that we need to escape from? Every day is a different game. It presents us with new situations and unforeseen circumstances. We need strategies for dealing with them. We also need guidelines and training in order to successfully tackle them. The best guidelines are provided to us by our Creator – the one who created us and makes us go through difficult situations in order to test us. At every moment we need to be careful of the lurking dangers – specifically the danger of our own selfish desires. That is what we need to escape from. Below are a few sayings quoted from the book Al-Khisal (which literally means traits of character). This book is an authentic collection of narrations (called hadith) of Prophet Muhammad and his progeny (the Ahlul Bayt) collected by a prominent scholar and hadith collector – Shaykh Saduq. The theme of these narrations are ethics, manners and good characteristics. All the traditions are presented with a complete record of transmission. This book also serves as a great encyclopedia of Islamic knowledge. Fortunate is the one who gives up (abandons) the present pull of his lust/passion/desire to attain the future unseen promised reward. — Prophet Muhammad [1-2] Our problem is that we can’t see the great reward that is promised to us. But the reward is there and it is a great reward – and that is the promise of the Creator. The Creator says “I swear by My Honor, by My Glory, by My Magnificence, and by My Loftiness that I shall make that one powerful (free of need) who chooses Me over his selfish desires. I will protect him from getting ruined. I will establish the heavens and the earth as guarantees for his share of daily bread.” — Muhammad al Baqir (5th successor of Prophet Muhammad from among the Ahlul Bayt) [1-5] The other important factor that we neglect is to put our bodies in hardship for the sake of good work. The body wants to be lazy and follow it’s desires – but it must be trained through rigorous exercises and hardships to serve the Creator. Whoever puts hardship on his body (for the sake of good work) has pleased his lord, and whoever doesn’t do so has disobeyed his lord. — Ali ibn Abi Talib (Successor of Prophet Muhammad) [1-50] Oh lost man! Use your body and mind. Think about your escape now from the clutches of evil desires. Otherwise there is no escape from the hardships of the day of Judgement. Footnotes: The Prophetic Hadiths in Al Khisal al-islam.org/message-thaqalayn/vol10-n1-2009/prophetic-hadiths-al-khisal-mohammad-javad-shomali
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