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| Purpose of attending Lectures & Sermons? |
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| AbdulJalil |
| 06/08/03 at 17:48:46 |
| Assalamu Alaikum Purpose of attending Lectures & Sermons? "Satan has mislead the masses to believe that attending of religious discourses and raising a wail of woe are highly meritorious acts and the sole purpose of delivering these sermons. This is perhaps because the people have been told about the merits of listening to these discourses but they do not know that the end of these sermons is (supposed to be the) reformation of their own morals and rectitude of their behaviour. Nor do they appear to be aware that whatever they listen to in these lectures shall be cited as an evidence against them on the Doomsday. I personally know a number of persons who have been attending such discourses for a number of years. They get excited on hearing these sermons and burst into tears but they still persist in accepting interest (ribaa), cheating others in their trade, remaining unmindful of the religious performances, and disobedience to their parents. Satan has led them to believe that their presence in these sermons, their lamentations and fits of crying will atone for their neglected duties and-the sins of omission and commission. There are also others who think that accompanying the pious and godly persons or paying visits to them shall be enough for expiation of their sins." [Taken from "Talbis-o-Iblis", by Shk. Ibn al-Jawzi (Rahimahullah), pages 393-394] |
| Re: Purpose of attending Lectures & Sermons? |
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| Abu_Hamza |
| 06/08/03 at 18:06:12 |
| [slm] Jazak Allahu khairan Br. Abdul Jalil for this amazing and much needed reminder. And what a reminder coming from a man whose sermons were attended by tens of thousands of people, comprising of both the rich and the poor, the kings and the slaves, all of whom would leave with their chests soaked in tears. This is a level, however, which is beyond most of our present states. Most of us are at a level where we cannot even *make* ourselves shed tears if we try! Most of us are in that alarming state where we would attend an enthralling speaker's sermon or speech, and we would sit through it - mesmerized if even that - but without a tear rolling down our cheek. We read the Qur'an, and it doesn't move us. We make du'aa, and our hearts are not in it. We listen to a khutbah or a speech, and the words fail to penetrate our hearts. We need to cry. Once we do that, then we need to check and see if crying is all we're doing (as the shaykh has warned against). Subhan Allah. [i]Hasanaatul abraar, sayyi'aatul muqarraboon. [/i] Wassalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. |
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