RIGHTS OF ALLAH AGAINST ONESELF
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RIGHTS OF ALLAH AGAINST ONESELF |
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The greatest right of Allah upon you is that you worship him without associating anything with him. When you do so, with sincerity, He makes it obligatory on Himself to give you enough in the affair in this world and the hereafter and observes what you adore from them – Dunia and Akhirah.
The right of your soul against you is that you employ it in obeying Allah then you deliver its right to your tongue, to your hearing, to your sight, to your hand, to your legs, to your abdomen and your private parts and you seek the help of Allah in all that.
The right of the tongue is that you consider it too noble from obscenity, accustom it to good, incite it on good manners, abstain it from talking except where necessary and for the benefit of religion and the world, refrain it from surplus and excess repulsive with negligible avail which its harm cannot be escaped from, despite the fact that the outcome was scanty. Therefore, it (tongue) is deemed the evidence and proof of the intellect. And the adornment of a rational man with his mind is his conduct at his tongue. There is no strength save in Allah the most High the Great.
The right of hearing is to keep it from making it a way to your heart apart from a respectable word which will cause benefit in your heart or make you polite.
Verily, hearing is the door of speech to the heart which leads various meanings to it consisting of good or evil.
There is no strength save in Allah.
The right of your sight is that you lower it before everything which is unlawful to you and not to wear it out except in position of lesson necessary for vision or position of knowledge benefit. Certainly the sight is a door of lesson and heed.([1]
The right of your two legs is that you walk not with them towards that which is unlawful to you, do not make them a riding animal which will lead you to a way whose followers are belittled in it because it (riding animal-legs) is supposed to lead and make you pursue the religious path and proceed. There is no strength save in Allah.
The right of your hand is that you stretch it not towards that which is unlawful to you; otherwise, you will get the shameful punishment of Allah the day of ressurection and you will receive the peoples’ censure in this world. Do not control your hand in only what you are supposed to do but also in what is lawful, and you should venerate it. When it is revered and honoured in dunia, it will be recompenced in Akhirah.
The right of your abdomen is that you make it not a container for that which is unlawful to you (whatever amount it might be), economize for it in what is lawful, do not bring it from the level of strength to that of underestimation, do not vanish your person-ality, hold it when it is afflicted with hunger and thirst because satisfaction which ends its owner to an indigestion level, causes laziness, discouragement and will make him away from every charity and gracious act. And certainly, the view which leads its owner to intoxication is under estimated, causes ignorance and eradicates magnanimity.
The right of your private part is that you protect it from that which is unlawful to you by lowering the eyes, because it is the best contributory – by remembering death frequently, by threatening and making oneself fear from Allah. With Allah are protection and support. There is neither power nor strength save in Him.
