A Reminder For Those Who Wish
To Be Reminded!

Da'ee Ahmed Moait
Saturday 28^th March 2009
Bangalore India

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Alhamdulillah Hi Rabbil Al Ameen!
In The Name Of Allah [swt],
Most Beneficent Most Merciful
We had the immense fortune and blessing from Allah [swt] to attend this amazing talk by Da`ee Ahmed Moait
The summary to the best of our capacities and understanding is jotted below.
All good is from Allah [swt] and any mistake in this narration and communication is from my ignorance.
May Allah [swt] accept our efforts and increase us in our sincerity to please Him alone, Ameen!

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Please Read this article very slowly don’t Rush!
You will comprehend it little by little!

Daee Ahmed Moait started asking if we have any question or concern. One of the sisters started with the following:

Question 1:
If everything is ordained in my life & when I make decision, is my decision also a Qadr?

Answer:
Any decision you are going to make either it will be according to a feeling, something you like or dislike or something you love or you hate. Or you make a decision according to calculation, whether it is good for me or not, how much money I’m going to make, whether it is good for me in future or not.
If I follow my desire, my arrogance, my ego, my loving of Duniya - my decision will be against me and it will still be my Qadr, my destiny. On the other hand if I am in a state of following the guidance of Allah [swt], I will make decision according to the inspiration and guidance from Allah [swt] and at this time my decision will be a blessing for me.
For e.g.: if I am getting married or looking for a job or moving from one place to another, Will I beg Allah [swt] for His guidance and to let me do what pleases him? Or will I do according to my liking or disliking to the point that the issue will overwhelm me and I will try to do what I like and even then, everything is according to guidance or Qadr. The main pillar of guidance is humble and humility, if I am in state of humble and humility I will be following guidance and if I am in a state of arrogance and stubbornness I will follow my desire, my nafs. Even then again, everything is ordained.
Comment:
The whole Duniya is a trial to test how much I ‘am willing to humble myself and if I always seek Allah’s [swt] guidance, Allah’s [swt] support and try to please Allah [swt] and seek his rahma. The main purpose of the trial of duniya (this life) for Allah [swt] is to check how much we want and desire to seek the guidance and the support of Allah [swt].
Bad News:
If my emotion overwhelms me or my arrogance overwhelms me - I cannot be an achiever.

Question 2:
I am scared as to how to go about?

Answer:
Let me tell you right away, if you cannot absorb it meaning you are scared. When the emaan is weak, you are scared even to go to Allah [swt], you are scared to get the message and the message is opposite to what you like.

Question 3:
How do we implement this?

Answer:
Very Simple, Beg Allah [swt]. It’s very easy more than you imagine. For any issue that comes, beg Allah [swt]. By the way, you do not own tomorrow. You do not own even one hour or a minute. How you can worry? How you can worry about anything? How you can even think about anything? You can say oh if I do this, my parents will say No, how you know? You go and they say, Yes! You see… Because Allah [swt] wants to teach you, it’s me, I am the controller of hearts. This is the whole thing, how to stop thinking and do zikr.
Remember Allah [swt] and beg him. Your power, your ability, everything is according to your sincerity. And this by the way, comes back to niyyah, Your niyyah, your intention. What you need it for? A lot of us cannot have a pure niyyah. We cannot, it is very difficult, extremely difficult because the nafs is overwhelming. Do not forget, this is a journey by itself.
Knowledge, you tend to forget it after you hear it or think about it. After you hear it and think about it, you try to live by it. You cannot do all of this when you are sitting now. You cannot. Do not try to do that. Go Slow.
For e.g. The Baby does not start running right away. The baby moves the hand. After they move the hand, they move the leg. After they move the leg, you see them making moments upside down. After they are moving, you see they start crawling. If you look at the action of the baby from child hood until they start walking, its unbelievable training systematically until the muscles get built up. If you study that and talk to a doctor, specialized in bones he will tell you if the baby starts to walk fast, all the joints of the body will get ruined. Because the muscle makes sure that, the joint of the bone do not scratch with each other and worn out. The Muscle makes sure the pressure on the bone is smooth and even. If you take the muscle out, the pressure over the bone joint will be so severe and this will eat up the bone joint.
Ok, now you may tell me; I am an adult now what has this got to do with me? Everything in our life has a sequence. We do not understand it, we do not comprehend it. Only a mu’min can see it. However, when you do not have emaan you rush. You are super rushing inside for whatever issue. You are rushing or fearing and this is what also makes you blind and you cannot comprehend. You are only focused about one thing “how I get what I want!” “How I get what I want!” “How I get what I want!” but we do not know what we want.
Look at the world now, 20 yrs before they said we want to globalize the whole world, and now you see the whole world is going down. By this way, we do things and at the same time, we feel we are doing good but later on it can be bad and a destruction to ourself and others, and sometimes we do things and some thing happens to us and we feel it’s not good but later on we find Alhamdulillah Its fine.
Again, everything according to Emaan, Emaan is the one. Emaan is the one that gives you eyeglasses; it gives you the comprehending It makes you understand what’s going on? It gives you the wisdom.

Question 4:
How can one strengthen his/her Emaan firmly?

Answer:
Have you been created with eyeglasses? Or, you go to the doctor get prescription and get eyeglasses? Similarly Emaan, we have to go for it, we have to shop, we have to make every effort to get the eye glasses of emaan because the way you have eye glasses in your face, you need eye glasses for your heart, your brain, your thinking, and for everything. According to the effort you make to gain emaan now Allah [swt] will give you heart and mind eye glasses. Its not like one speech, this is why Allah [swt] wants you to think about him , learn about him, do zikr for him, read Quran, go to the gathering like that, all this together is a struggle to the journey of emaan, journey of emaan is not overnight, its no magic pills, its an effort and a struggle.
How much you are willing to spend money for emaan, how much time you are willing to spend for emaan, and today we are running after Duniya and all of a sudden when we have a calamity or we have a disease, we have a major crisis then we say o Allah [swt] I want some emaan. By this way, I am seeking emaan at the time of tragedy but if you are lucky you will seek emaan at the time of ease. Because you can have an eyeglass but if your eyeglass is dirty what will happen, you cannot see clearly or it can give you an headache and when it gives you a headache you cannot be okay.
It is journey by itself. According to how much effort you put your emaan grows. For e.g. if you open a business and give it 12-13 hrs sooner or later you will have a successful business. Today if you ask me, why our emaan is weak? It is because we are giving journey of emaan few hours, weekly, a month, or if I have time. However, for Duniya, for cooking, for daily routine we have all the time. By this way one of the trial we have today in life is if I’m really valuing the journey of emaan, how much I’m willing to spend time and money, how much I am willing to sacrifice.
Read the life of Abu Ad Darda [RA]. Prophet Muhammad [saws] gave him the title “He is the most wise man in the ummah”. When he was very poor and some of the companion wanted to make him have some business. They asked him, ‘let’s make business for you’; he said, I cannot do it. They said Ya Abu Darda, making business is not haram, he said I do not say business is haram, business is halal but me Abu Ad Darda RA do not want to be left out from the people whom Allah [swt] talked about in these verses.
Now read what Allah [swt] says in these verses.
Sura Al-Noor verse 36, 37 and 38 (This lamp is found) in houses which Allah hath allowed to be exalted and that His name shall be remembered therein. Therein do offer praise to Him at morn and evening. (36) Men whom neither merchandise nor sale beguileth from remembrance of Allah and constancy in prayer and paying to the poor their due; who fear a day when hearts and eyeballs will be overturned; (37) That Allah may reward them with the best of what they did, and increase reward for them of His bounty. Allah giveth blessings without stint to whom He will. (38)
Abu Darda RA refused to open a business; he was scared to lose the sight to remember Allah [swt]. Today we are drowning in Duniya. We have great difficulty to take out a few moments to remember Allah [swt]. This is scary and today we cannot balance. Even the word balance does not exist, because either you are making more effort towards Duniya or making more effort towards Akhirah. You will never have both, either you make more effort to Akhirah or Duniya. It is up to you to choose!