الرئيسية
Allah (Glory to Him) sent religion to be the guidance for all Muslims and believers and to make balance between the spirit, the body with the power of desire and anger and souls. Once this balance is achieved, man will be as Allah says:
“Thus we have made you (Muslims) a temperate nation.” (Surat Al-Bakarah, verse 143)
If Allah gives him wealth and there is passion, mercy and kindness in his heart, he will see and give all his brothers in humanity not only Muslims. Don’t you know that when the messenger of Allah (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) was exposed to great harm by the people of Mecca ; he supplicated against them and said:
“O My Lord, afflict them by years of distress like the years of Yusof.”
High expenses and drought befell on them, they had so little food that they didn’t find inevitable food, their leader Abu-Sofian went to the prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) in spite of great disputes among them at that time and said to him:
“O Mohammed, we appeal you by Allah and the kinship.”
Then the prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) prepared a caravan full of food and five hundred Dinar to help those people although they didn’t follow the religion of Allah and were fighting him (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him).
Why did he (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) do this? It’s the human mercy, as Allah says:
“Unto whom We had bestowed mercy from Us, and whom We had taught knowledge from Us.“ (Surat Al-Kahf, verse 65)
When a believer follows the religion of Allah (Glory to Him) He sends His mercy in his heart, so he is dutiful to his parents, generous to his guests, has mercy upon the poor and the needy, gives the right of neighbor even if he is unfair and observes Allah all over his conditions, this is because Allah gave him mercy from Him. Thus this balance makes man live a good life in life and religion and also a happy life in the hereafter God willing.
A believer who follows the creed of Allah in this life wants to nourish his body legally. When he nourishes his body legally, he has no desire for sins even if they are close and easy to him because Allah makes a barrier in his heart between him and sins.
If the body is nourished by illegal food, he will go to sins. It was narrated that Haroon Ar’rasheed (the caliph) appointed his brother Bahlool (he was a virtuous man) to be the observer upon markets, it is like the ministry of rations now, to observe measures, scales and prices in markets.
Bahlool worked for a year, he didn’t make any cases for anyone. Haroon called him and said to him: “I see you didn’t make any cases through a whole year, do all people behave according to Sharia’a?” He said: “O Ameer Al-Mo’meneen (prince of believers) I saw that Allah revenges from unfair people automatically.” He asked: “How?” He said: “They spend the illegal money they get in sins and faults.”
This is the way of Allah as He said:
“And you will not find any change in the Way of Allah.” (Surat Al-Ahzab, verse 63)
Bahlool thought that by this they got their fair punishment from Allah. So when the body is nourished legally, it straightens, can a son nourished legally raise his voice (not his hand) in front of his father or mother? No, by Allah, because he was legally brought up, he tends to good even if some bad people seduced him while he is heedless; Allah made him awareness and consciousness in his heart to save him as Allah says:
“Verily, those who are the pious when an evil thought comes to them from Satan, they remember (Allah), and (indeed) they then see (aright).”(Surat Al-A’raf, verse 201)
So a Muslim nourishes his body legally as permitted by Allah (Glory to Him). Allah only prohibits things which are corruptive to both body and religion. He forbids us from them because of this spoil, if they were anyway useful; He would permit them, He banned wine and pig and other things, why? Because they will spoil body, religion, morals and societies, people who drink and eat them admit this and demonstrate their damages and harms by their scientific equipment. Because they do not believe in Allah and have no preacher in their hearts from Allah, they can’t abstain themselves from these sins although they all do know and confess that they cause great harm.
They inform us the harms of adultery and profligacy, they explain this in details and mention the different diseases resulted from illegal deeds, but they couldn’t stop themselves, why? Because they have no balance between material and spirit, balance is only found after believing in Allah (Glory to Him).
The companions of the prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) gave concern to this balance, they gave their bodies what is permitted by Allah, they observed Allah and executed His orders, so they didn’t need a doctor and returned him.
Then why are there lots of problems, diseases and accidents among us? Because we tend wholly to this life and make its scale outweigh the scale of the hereafter. Allah ordered us to be the temperate nation that makes balance between this life and the hereafter so that none of them exceeds the other, in this case life will be hereafter, because everything you do will be in the scale of your awards. The prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said:
“A dinar you gave to a needy, a dinar you spent to free a neck, a dinar you spent for Allah’s cause and a dinar you spent for your family, the dinar you spent for your family is that of the greatest awards.”[1]
This is because he lives by the divine luminous balance ordered by Allah.
[1] Narrated by Muslim in As’sahih from the Hadith of Sofian Athawry by Abi-Horayrah.
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