Fasting E-Book

Mohammad Amin Sheikho

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

The Fruit of Fasting.
In a holy saying, the Almighty says: “All deeds of son of Adam are done for themselves, except fasting; it is done for Me, and therefore, it is Me who gives the reward of it”
And in the Holy Quran He, the almighty, says: “[Fast] the month of Ramadan in which the Quran was revealed, a book of guidance for people” when the Envoy of God (cpth) fasted he felt magnification and appreciation for the Almighty Allah; there and then the meanings and realities of the Holy Book, the Quran, were revealed to his noble and pure spirit.
If human fasts this month as it should be fasted, they will come to be illuminated by God’s Light and witness the truth. This illumination helps them distinguish between good and evil and hear the Words of the Great Creator, and thus they become guided.
“With proofs of guidance and criterion” by virtue of your closeness to the Almighty Allah, you can discriminate between good and evil. At this stage, you will flood with benefits for yourself and for all creation.
Discrimination between good and evil is not an easy matter. All the Greeks, the Roman, and the Arab philosophers failed to attain this ability despite their great philosophy.
“So that you may magnify Allah and render thanks [good deeds] to Him for giving you His Guidance”. Before belief, the believer is blind-hearted; but when they fast really, they will have their heart’s eye opened and thus join the people of heart sight. The Envoy (cpth) said: “An atom of the deeds of people of heart sight is equal to all deeds of the humans and the jinn”
Once the believer truly fasts, they will gain the Night of Valuation. Before this, they are sick in heart, perhaps in body, too; but when they witness this Night their spirit will be recovered and their body will be graced with a garment of good health and become cured from all sorts of diseases and ailments.
Such human is the one who truly magnifies Allah for the guidance He obliged them with. This magnification is to be expressed when performing the prayer of feast: a glorification sensed in heart, not only said in word, through which they soar in a holy witnessing, praising God for His great Favor and Generosity.
Indeed, their spirit has become qualified for rendering thanks to God, so they set to guiding humanity to what it aspires of happiness and everlasting beatitude, leading it to the Creator of every excellence, beauty, and majesty.
This is the reality of fasting by which a believer attains the degree of piety, that is a constant illumination by Allah’s Light. By God, this is the uppermost degree of wishes.

Leseprobe

Mohammad Amin Sheikho, A. K. John Alias Al-Dayrani

Fasting

The Fourth of High Grades of At-Taqwa (Seeing by Allah's Light)

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About the Book

Fasting

The Fourth of High Grades of "At-Taqwa"

(Seeing by Allah’s Light)

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Authored by:

Mohammad Amin Sheikho

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Checked and Introduced by

A. K. John Alias Al-Dayrani

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Copyright © Amin-sheikho.com

Forward by the educator Prof. A. K. John Alias Al-Dayrani

In the name of God, the All-Compassionate, the All-Merciful

The reality and Wisdom of Fasting

Oh Human, the Almighty has granted you a qualification to be elevated and to ascend to the highest degree of perfection; and all what you need to achieve this great rank for which you are nominated is only to think.

This is true, the Almighty has supplied you with a perfect machine and a precious jewel; if you take advantage of it you will have your heart’s eye open.

Your spirit will observe realities and, therefore, will no more incline to this mean world and the corruptive attractions it contains which are to be followed by shame and humiliation.

If human ponders on their origin, they will realize that they are nothingness; then if they contemplate their growth and how they, along with all that is around them in this universe, are provided with all their needs they will sense the greatness of their Provider.

This contemplation will ultimately lead them to perceive their fate and certain departure from this world. They will come to know for certain that this world is not a place of abiding residence.

There and then, they will seriously seek to recognize the truth. Once a human becomes true in their search for the truth, the Almighty will surely reveal it to them.

To gain access to sublimity and eminence is not a difficult thing; all what you need is only to faithfully join to the school of purity and follow this guidance with a firm and true will.

Once you do this, you will come to see realities. You will find this path so easy, and so, you will mount up the tops of supreme knowledge and ascend the orbits of the highest standing. You will attain the blessings of perfection and wear garments of companionability.

But if your spirit gets lost in its childish whim so that you set to crave after this and that of the fleeting pleasures of this world and its vanities, neglecting to attain sublimity by following these rules, you will be fond of nothing other than vice.

Oh people, know that the deeds you perform in this world will justly be returned upon you tomorrow. Those who have neglected their thought and have refused to follow what is right and true are practising low deeds, but their distance from the Creator of the heavens will cause them to fall in valleys of misery, which are lower than their deeds. They are proceeding towards this fate in a hurry, persisting on such horrible situation until the advent of the hour of death. At that moment, their eyes will be fixed in terror forever.

The reason for the dreadful degradation of humanity which we touch in all human communities and the secret behind these calamities, troubles, famines, earthquakes, diseases, and other afflictions which we see nowadays is that humankind have become proud of what they have attained of worldly science and high prestige.

This can be noticed clearer in the fields of worldly inventions and achievements. They spend their times in amusement and play and depravity, turning their back to the truth.

They did not see what this lofty and supreme revelation and guidelines, adorned with truth and perfection, speaks of sound logic. Rather, they found it strange to hear it!

But what is the point of oddity in this? Did the Almighty Allah not send Envoys to every nation?

So, why do they not compare their achievements with his (cpth)[1] achievements?

Did they not realize his (cpth) perfection?

Do they not know that on Doomsday everybody will seek to save only himself?

With regard to fasting, a human cannot attain the fruit of fasting unless all their deed, with no exception, are good.