Many of us are not interested to change our behavior because we think our behavior has no relationship with our success in life. We rather like to have more money than to have good behavior. We believe when we have more money we can have better things in life and when we can have better things in life, we think we are successful. Money can only be used to buy things, but money cannot make our Creator loves us. Our Creator loves those with good behavior and only those with good behaviors will be given success in this world and hereafter.
Success means good and blessed life in this world and the promise of entering paradise after death. The entire world and the world hereafter and whatever it contains are created by our Creator and He owns everything that He has created. The Creator of the entire universe and the Creator of the entire mankind has decided to give success only to those with good behaviours.Good behaviors are related to what men believed. Men will only have good behaviors when men believed that they are created by God and the God is Allah.
There is no Creator except Allah. Allah gives values only to good behaviors and He does not give any values to things. If we have more material things it does not make our Creator loves us more and if we have less material things it does not make Him to dislike us. Our Creator, Allah only gives values to good behaviors and He will make only those with good behaviors to be successful. The whole entire world and whatever it contains has no values to the eyes of Allah and if a person died with the wealth of the entire world but he dies without any belief in Allah, the wealth that he has, can never obtain him even the smell of paradise.
Unfortunately many men are at lost. Most men spend most of their times in this world working hard to obtain material things and spend no time at all to obtain good behavior. Most of the times are spend in obtaining material wealth, but unfortunately in the end of the day, most men found themselves an unhappy life. Many tried to find happiness in drugs, music and other unhealthy pursuit and failing to find happiness they finally end their life by committing suicides. None of the creations can give happiness. Only the Creator can give happiness. If anyone try to find happiness in other than making the Creator happy he will certainly failed in his journey to find happiness. In order for men to make the Creator happy the first thing that he has to do is to ADMIT and to say it aloud with a witness that ….I bear witness that there is no God except Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is the last prophet of Allah.
Once a person has uttered these great words or kalimah with a witness then he is said to have entered Islam. He has entered Islam but the belief in Allah has not entered his heart. In order for the belief in Allah to enter his heart he is commanded by Allah firstly to convey these great words or kalimah to those who have not accepted this kalimah and to those who have accepted the kalimah to remind them about the meaning of the kalimah and the importance of obeying Allah. This commandment is known as dakwah or to enjoin people to good and to prohibit people from evils. The second commandment after dakwah is to perform five times daily prayer. All these commandments have to be done in the way shown by Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. Once these commandment are obeyed the belief in Allah will entered the person heart and his actions will slowly becomes like those of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. When these happen, then only he becomes Muslim.
Many people nowadays admit themselves as Muslim but in reality they have only entered Islam. They can only call themselves Muslim when the belief in Allah has entered their heart and their behaviors are like those of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. Belief in Allah will only enter their heart when they conveyed the great kalimah to non Muslim and they performed the five times daily prayer. In the last sermon of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w he has told the people to convey to others even if you know only one kalimah and what is more important to convey to others than the great kalimah..Say I bear witness there is no God except Allah and I bear witness Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah… surely you and I will be successful
Dr Nasoha Saabin
6th January 2010
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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