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'Let it be known that Allah's people always do good deeds' (qasida 62:11)

This is the motto of this section, which is for talking about the the people of Allah who are the people who are constantly preoccupied with Allah

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The Collective Goodness

 

Hafez ibn Kathir described the following speech of Imam Ali [AHHF] as “It is an eloquent speech, which collected the goodness and prohibited the evil”. Imam Ali ibn Abo-Talib [AHHF] once gave this speech:

Praise is to Allah, the creator of the truth, the separator of morning from darkness, who spreads the dead and revives them from the graves.

I testify that there is no God but Allah, and I testify that Mohammad is his servant and messenger. I advise you to fear Allah, as the best entreating of the servant is: faith, jihad for Allah’s sake, and the word of fidelity. That is the instinct. Raising the prayers is the religion. Alms giving ‘Zakah’, is an obligation by Him Almighty. Fasting Ramadan is like a protection from His torture. Hajj [Pilgrimage] to the House of Allah eliminates poverty and refutes sins. Relating kindly to the family enriches the money, increases the age, and brings love among the folks.

Secret charity expiates sins and puts out the anger of Lord. Making good deeds prevents bad death and protects from terrible endings. Overdo the Dhikr of Allah, as it is the best Dhikr. Wish for what the pious were promised, as the promise of Allah is the most trusted of all promises. Follow the guidance of your Prophet [PPBUH], as it is the best guidance. Follow his [PPBUH] Sunna, as it is the best Sunna. Learn the Book of Allah, as it is the best talk. Be knowledgeable of your religion, as it is the spring of all hearts. Find the cure in the light of Qur’an, as it heals the hearts. Recite it carefully as it has the best stories. When Qur’an is being recited to you, listen carefully so that you may get mercy. If you were guided to its knowledge then apply what you learnt to your actions so that you may be rightly guided. Since the knowledgeable who does not apply his knowledge to his work, is like an wrongful ignorant who refuses to correct his ignorance, rather I see that the evidence is greater and the grief is more continuous for that knowledgeable man than a confused ignorant, while both of them are mislead and perishable.

Don’t be skeptic so that you would become doubtful. Do not become doubtful so that you would disbelieve. Don’t give yourself permissions so that you would become blinded from the truth. Do not argue about the truth so that you would lose. Indeed it is intelligent to be confident, and from the confidence is not being self-conceited. The more you advise yourselves, the more you will obey your Lord. The more you cheat yourselves, the more you will disobey your Lord.

Whosoever obeys Allah will be secured and expect the best. But whosoever disobeys Allah will have fear and regret. Ask Allah the sureness and seek Him, Almighty while you are in good health. The best thing to stay in the heart is sureness. Taking yourselves with the hardships is the best. The invented matters are the worst. Every new matter is invented, and whoever makes it up is an inventor, and whoever invents loses something, and no makes an invention unless he leaves a Sunna. The oppressed is the one whose religion is oppressed, and the oppressing is he who lost himself. Hypocrisy is from the disbelief, and sincerity is from the work and faith. Heedless gatherings make one forget Qur’an, are attended by Satan, and invite people to the evil.

Sitting with women diverts the hearts, draws the sights to them, and is the traps of Satan. Be honest to Allah, because Allah is with the honest ones. Avoid lying, because lying is against faith. Honesty with the honor leads to safety and dignity, but lying with the honor leads to perishing and destruction.

Say the truth, so you would be known by it, do the truth so that you would be from its people. Be trustworthy when given something to deliver. Reconnect with those family members who detached from you. Be kind and give those who deprived you.

If you make a promise then keep it. And if you judge then be fair. Do not boast about your ancestors. Do not call each other names. Do not make jokes on each other. Do not upset each others. Help the weak, the oppressed, the indebted who can not repay, the wayfarer, those who ask for help, and those salves how need to be freed. Have mercy on the widow and the orphan. Spread peace. Greet back who greets you with the same or a better greeting [and help one another unto righteousness and pious duty. Help not one another unto sin and transgression, and fear Allah. Lo! Allah is severe in punishment] Al-Ma'ida 5:2. Be hospitable to the guest, be good to the neighbor, visit the sick, follow the funeral, and be brothers for the sake of Allah.

Afterwards, life has left and is about to end, and the hereafter is soon coming and has showed up. The track is today and tomorrow is the race, while the winning is paradise and the losing is hell. You are in the days of slowness and the moment of death is coming after it, derived by hurrying. So whosoever worked for the sake of Allah sincerely in his days of slowness before the presence of his death, then he has won good work and got his hopes, and whosoever fell behind, then he has lost his work and his hopes and was harmed by his hopes. So work in hope and in fear, and if you get a hope, thank Allah and add to it a fear, and if you get a fear, do Dhikr of Allah and add to it a hope. As Allah has take Muslims with goodness, and whoever thanks, gets more. I have never seen something like paradise for which the seeker slept, or like hell for which the escaper slept. I have never seen a gainer of anything like a gain for judgment day, where provisions are accumulated, selves are worn out, and sins are collected. Whoever does not benefit from the truth, will be harmed by the falsehood. Whoever is not straightened by the guidance, will be dragged by the straying. Whoever does not benefit from the sureness will be harmed by the doubt. Whoever is not able to benefit from what is present, will be more unable to benefit from what is absent. You have been ordered to travel (to Allah) and shown the provisions. I fear for two thing more than any other: Long hope and following the objectivity. As long hope makes you forget the hereafter, and following objectivity derives away from the truth. The worldly life is travelling going, and the hereafter is traveling coming, and they have children, so be from the children of the hereafter if you can, and not from the children of the worldly life. As today work with not judgment and tomorrow judgment with no work.

 

Edited by the Student

Translated by Shayma Basiouni

 
 

Whoever wants to get more about this, can browse the pages of Sufism in the official site of tariqa Burhaniya.

 

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