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FAITH OR IMAAN How to recognize and build a fundamental state of Imaan Practical tips in the Light of Quran and Sunnah Abdul Jaleel Tharayil Farwania - Kuwait

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FAITH OR IMAAN

How to recognize and build a fundamental state of Imaan

Practical tips in the Light of Quran and Sunnah

Abdul Jaleel Tharayil

Farwania - Kuwait

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How many of us who pray Maghreb in the Masjid knew the benefits of praying Faj’r in Jama’at? But give-in to the desires of sleeping and loose the golden opportunity to Pray Faj’r in the Masjid?

What do you think is the reason?

why some people can and why some people can’t?

Key Point : The difference is the difference

between people who have Imaan and people

who have weak Imaan

Discussion Trigger!

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Imaan – What does it look like?

You have it when you know (that):

You develop real tension between your current state of Imaan and vision state of Imaan. And this tension takes you to a different level and you start praying for guidance from Allah! [as you seem to have lost trust in the ‘Party Daees’]

You start getting new insights or inspiration from the same information (Hadith) that you may have heard a 100 times before, but didn’t help

You start meeting people who speak the same language you wanted to hear on Faith and Islam.

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Imaan – What does it look like?

You have it when you know (that):

You start building a habit of praying to Allah for everything or every problem you face, before seeking any worldly interventions

You develop a habit of making Wuzu/Ablution immediately after you broke your Wuzu (especially returning from Toilet)

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Imaan - what does it look like?

You have it when you know that :

When you start talking about someone, even if it’s about his/her Imaan, you tend to feel your Imaan is decreasing suddenly and you can feel it (as you might get late to Masjid or Even you loose the Jama’t prayer) the same day and same time, immediately after the conversation.

You feel like you have slept for 8 hrs (sufficiently enough), even though you may have slept only 3 of 4 hrs – You get ‘Baraka’ in time

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Imaan – How can you feel it?

You tend to feel sad for the time you are

spending on worldly events – Even attending

so called ‘Islamic’ Lectures devoid of Hadith

and Quran

You don’t loose a Jama’t Prayer (Especially

Fajr and Isha)

You don’t pass a day without reciting the

Tasbeeh (100 times) in the morning and in

the evening

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Imaan – How can you feel it?

When you feel unhappy about going to Fajar Prayers,

you seek Allah’s help to take you to Masjid and you

win over the Satan.

Unknowingly, you develop a habit of praying to Allah

for everything or every problem, either - small or big,

before seeking any worldly interventions

Any non-engaged time (waiting time/taxi/program

start) is very constructively used for reciting Tasbeeh

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You develop a habit of making Wuzu /Ablution

immediately after it has been broken

Honestly, you start attributing your small gains

to the deeds that you perform for the sake of

Allah!

You feel like you have slept for 8 hrs, even

though you may have slept only 3 of 4 hrs

-you get ‘Baraka’ in time

Imaan – How can you feel it?

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You tend to feel Baraka in your earnings – You are

able to meet increased demands at home with the

same amount of money or even less.

Honestly, when you start really praying for your

brethren, you start getting the benefits that you wish

for your brethren and start attributing it to your

prayers.

Imaan – How can you feel it?

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You don’t really benefit from Salah

In the first Raka’a

You find yourself yawning during the prayers

You find yourself thinking about worldly affairs

immediately after Takbeerathul-ehraam

In the consecutive Raka’aths

You are unsure of whether you recited the Fatiha

or not

You get calls on the phone

Imaan - what are the poor signs

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You find yourself using your logic quite often as

against Hadith as a means to convince yourself in

the affairs of Imaan

You keep hearing Hadith and Quran from all

directions but nothing happens to you – Dangerous

State.

You find it tough to get to Faj’r /Isha prayers

You don’t get a chance to read Quran (You seem to

have lost Baraka in time)

Imaan - what are the poor signs

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You carry your mobile to Masjid quite frequently

and forget to switch it off even during the prayers,

especially Faj’r

You find yourself sleeping late night, but you don’t

consider this as a reason for your delayed/ Late

Fajr prayers

Your mobile ring tones are music or cinema songs

Imaan - what are the poor signs

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You enjoy watching TV in the pre-text of watching

news channels, but all the time you end-up

watching half-naked men/women in between and

that is what sticks to your brain

The first thing you do in the morning is reading

newspaper, even before you read Quran after Faji’r,

especially when you are a Keralite!

Imaan - what are the poor signs

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How can we work towards building

a basic state of Imaan?

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Who can build it ?

What kind of people are they?

Must have the intense desire for Imaan

Must be praying to Allah with an extreme desire to gain that state

of Imaan.

Must be absolutely unhappy about your current state of Imaan. If

you are not, it’s extremely difficult to get it.

Must be willing to take extreme and concrete steps towards

achieving it [Example, Remove TV from home or cut cable connection]

Key Point: Ask yourself, are you one among them?

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How do you build a fundamental state of Imaan

Co-creating approaches to deal with that change!

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Have intense desire to improve Salah!

Have the intention in the mind that you are

making Wuzu to improve the current state of

your Salah

Do Wuzu properly – Wash all the prescribed

area properly and then take a couple of minutes

to pray and seek Allah’s help to improve your

Salah (i.e. to ask Allah’ not to have any

presence of Satan during your prayers)

Avoid any situations like, just get up from

watching TV and go to Masjid in a fraction of a

second.

1. Salah – The most important pillar!

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Make sure you Pray prescribed Sunnah

Before Salah (you have to enforce)

Seek Allah’s help before Pray to have

Malaika’s presence

Immediately after prayer, Seek Allah’s help

for any shortcoming that may have on your

prayers

Pray Sunnah after and seek Allah’s help to

bring you the next Salah in Jama’at and

much better form and shape.

1. Salah – the Most important pillar

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Avoid items like Shapes and statues of

Living things at home, Hanging on the wall

or somewhere.

Not to have TV/Music at home

Avoid having photo albums and things like

your wedding Albums

2. Environment - Avoid environments of

Satan’s presence

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Avoid Literature consisting of Haraam

Avoid people visiting your home after Zuhar

and before Asar on weekends

Don’t entertain any worldy conversation

after Isha Prayers [except the ones that you

have with your life partner ]

2. Environment - Avoid environments of

Satan’s presence

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Read and recite Quran at home Daily

Read Tasbeeh in the morning and evening

Just Before Maghreb close the doors and

keep your children inside home until

Maghreb prayer is over (at the least)

Throw away TV/Music instruments

3. Environment - Create environments

of Malaika’s presence

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Think about people who don’t have many of

the things you have. Think about people

who earn 10 times less than you even when

they were 10 times better than you in your

college/school

Review your showcase, and throw away any

of the statues and shapes of Living things

kept at home for decoration or whatever

3. Environment - Create environments

of Malaika’s presence

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Ensure your prayers are in adherence to the

principles stated i.e. you don’t feel the presence

of Satan when in prostration

Unintentionally or intentionally you don’t get

the feeling of weariness/tiredness/exhaust

Nothing of worldly affairs should be allowed to

get into your mind during prayers

3. Environment - Create environments

of Malaika’s presence

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Constant and continuous intensive desirous

prayers for everything

It can’t be coming out of the mouth, it

should be coming from your heart.

Must believe that every Problem/Solution

comes from Allah

Environment - Create environments of

Malaika’s presence

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Provide your comments &

mail me back at

[email protected]

Jazakallah

Khair!