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| Isolation & Its Positive Effects |
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| paula |
| 07/08/03 at 04:18:08 |
| [slm][size=2][font=book antiqua][color=Navy] This website offering mail experpts from “Don’t be Sad” was once posted by a fellow sibling. Thought to share some more once again: [u]Don't Be Sad - Isolation And Its Positive Effects[/u] I pray that this reaches you in the best of health and Eeman. By isolation I mean isolation from evil, seclusion from unnecessary and aimless activities. This isolation/seclusion opens the mind and isolates the worries and grief. If applied with a correct understanding, to remain in seclusion (i.e., remembering Allah) can be most beneficial. Ibj Taymiyah said: “It is necessary for the worshipper to be isolated from others at times for praying, remembering Allah, reciting the Qur’an and evaluating himself and his deeds.” Also, isolation allows one to supplicate, seek forgiveness, stay away from evil, and so on. Ibn al-Jawzi dedicated three chapters of his well-known book Sayd al-Khaatir to this topic. To summarize, he says: I have not seen or heard of anything that brings repose, honor and dignity like seclusion. It helps one to stay away from evil, it protects one’s honor, and it saves time. It keeps one away from the jealous minded and those who take pleasure in your affliction. It promotes the remembrance of the Hereafter and it allows one to reflect on the meeting with Allah. In times of seclusion one’s thoughts may roam in that which is beneficial, in that which contains wisdom. Only Allah knows the full benefits of seclusion, for in seclusion, one’s mind develops, views are ripened, the heart finds repose, and one finds himself to be in an ideal atmosphere for worship.” By remaining isolated at times, one distances oneself from trials, from flattering the person who deserves no praise, and from the eyes of jealousy and envy. One is saved from the haughtiness of the proud and the follies of the idiot. In isolation, one’s faults, deeds, and sayings are all secluded behind a veil. During periods of isolation, one is able to delve deep into a sea of ideas and concepts. In such a state, the mind is free to form its opinions. The soul, when in isolation, is free to achieve a state of rapture, to hunt for the stimulating thought. When alone, one does nothing for show or ostentation, since no one but Allah sees him and no man can hear him except the All-Hearing. Every person who was a genius, a mental giant, or a great contributor to the human race watered the seeds of their greatness from the well of isolation, until the seed became a plant, and then finally, a formidable tree. Al-Qadi ‘Ali ibn Abdul Aziz al-Jurjani said in his couplets: “I never tasted the sweetness of life until, I became a companion of home and book, there is nothing more honorable than knowledge, so I seek in no other an associate, truly the only degradation is in mixing with people, therefore leave them and live nobly and stately.” PLEASE PASS THE WEBSITE DETAILS TO A FRIEND – [url=http://www.islaam.ws/reminder/]http://www.islaam.ws/reminder/[/url] Details Taken From – “Don’t Be Sad” by Shaykh Aaidh Al-Qarni. [wlm] [/color][/font][/size] |
| Re: Isolation & Its Positive Effects |
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| chiq |
| 07/09/03 at 07:48:47 |
| [wlm] Mmm...isolation...where life does not lie but where life may be found... Jazakallahu kheiran sis :-* Wasalaam |
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