I am thirty years old. I was sinning till five years ago, yet I was praying. Then I got married and travelled to France. Many problems happened to me and I found that the only solution is to return to Allah and repent. So I repented, all praise be to Allah. I started memorising Quraan and seeking Islamic knowledge. I fast the optional fasting along the year, I do not miss any prayer in the masjid except rarely; I did not miss the first takbeera of any salah for forty days. All praise be to Allah as He should be praised. As a result of this, my circumstances improved a lot, and I felt a very big positive change in myself as well. The more I obey, the more Allah blesses me, Allah is watching, He knows I am truthful.
The problem is that I do not know why I am exerting effort in worship; is it for the gain of the hereafter or for worldly benefits? If I give in charity for example, I am not sure if I am really seeking the pure reward or because I know that Allah will bless me with much more than what I gave in charity. I started doubting myself, am I hypocrite?.Praise be to Allaah.
I congratulate you, my
brother, on having been guided to repent to Allaah and come back to the
right path. That is a blessing that has been bestowed upon you for which you
should be thankful, because it is the aim of every believer, and this is the
most important thing in this world and the Hereafter. Ibn al-Qayyim (may
Allaah have mercy on him) said: Allaah does not grant His love to the
penitents but they become the elite of people before Him. Were it not that
repentance is a word that encompasses all the laws of Islam and truths of
faith, the Lord would not rejoice so greatly over the repentance of His
slave. End quote.Madaarij al-Saalikeen
(1/343)The fact that the harder
you strove in worship, the more means of finding halaal provision became
available to you shows that fearing and obeying Allaah brings provision, as
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):“And whosoever fears
Allaah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out
(from every difficulty).3. And He will provide
him from (sources) he never could imagine”[al-Talaaq 65:2-3]
Similarly, sin brings
poverty. A person may be deprived of provision because of sins that he
commits. Nothing brings provision like doing acts of obedience and avoiding
sins. But you have to pay attention to your intention before you start to
act, so that the motive for doing good in the first place will be to seek
the pleasure of Allaah, and you should keep an eye on your intention and
guard against it being corrupted during and after the action, so that you
can rid it of self-admiration, showing off, and seeking praise and status in
people’s hearts because of it, and avoid doing it because of what it brings
you of good things in such a way that if your provision was reduced you
would stop doing it. These are all things that are contrary to sincerity and
spoil acts of obedience.Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allaah
have mercy on him) said: The things that spoil and cancel out good deeds are
too many to list. What matters is not the deed; what matters is protecting
the deed from that which would spoil it and cancel it out. End quote.Al-Waabil al-Sayyib
(p. 20)It should be noted that if
a person’s intention in doing acts of worship is to seek the pleasure of
Allaah and His reward in the Hereafter, and he also intends to seek the
immediate reward of obedience in this world, such as ample provision, a good
life and so on, there is nothing wrong with that.Allaah has encouraged us to
obey Him and to avoid disobeying Him, by mentioning that reward in this
world, which indicates that there is no blame on the believer if he seeks
that.Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may
Allaah have mercy on him) said: If a person intends two good things by his
action: the good of this world and the good of the Hereafter, there is
nothing wrong with that [i.e., no blame and no sin on him] because Allaah
says (interpretation of the meaning):“And whosoever fears
Allaah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out
(from every difficulty).3. And He will provide
him from (sources) he never could imagine”[al-Talaaq 65:2-3]
al-Qawl al-Mufeed
(2/244)Do not let the Shaytaan
tell you that you are a hypocrite or insincere, because his aim is to divert
you from doing righteous deeds and to lead you astray from the path of good.
Do not let your motive in doing acts of obedience be the provision that they
bring, in such a way that if the benefits were to dry up you would stop
doing them. Rather make your deeds sincerely for your Lord, and thank Him
for the good things that He has bestowed on you:“And (remember) when
your Lord proclaimed: ‘If you give thanks (by accepting Faith and
worshipping none but Allaah), I will give you more (of My Blessings); but if
you are thankless (i.e. disbelievers), verily, My punishment is indeed
severe’”[Ibraaheem 14:7]
And Allaah knows best.
Practice Islam and do quran reading and spread the word of truth
Benefits for the students when they learn holy Quran through the Quranic Students the kids get wiser when the student start Quran reading from there childhood and gain the Our beloved Prophet Muhammad (saww) said: Who ever read Quran before becoming a Baaligh has indeed been given wisdom as a child. The quran teaching is one of the best intellectual treasures that a student can have. And we should guide our kids to learn quran Our Prophet Muhammad (saww) said: The holy Quran is a wealth with which there is no poverty, and without which there is no wealth. So quran tutor should let the student do quran memorization and pay attention to the main lesson of the quran wile reading quran or become a Quran reciter with its depth knowledge to shine in the whole world now a day many online institutes who teach kids quran online and give them tajweed quran lessons to improve the kids quran recitation online and let then learn quran online with proper manner and following and learn quranic Arabic with the translation and then learn quran tafseer also so the student can feel the main them and get the true guidance
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