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| al-ajnabia |
| 03/19/04 at 19:58:37 |
| [slm] this is my second draft because the devil ate the first one. I'd gone to long without clearing my cookies and got hacked. Well, I'm not going to write all that over again but what do people here do about guarding against evil? I was writing about why I beleive I have proof that the devil beleives in the power of islam and the power of salat. Theres a hadith I heard about that says that if someone washes three times and performs two rakat with perfect concentration on what they are doing all their previous sins will be washed away. I'm paraphasing obviously. I've mentioned my problem why I cant always get wudu done right and have it last though a whole prayer so I wont go into that but I have noticed sometimes if I wash really well I can get through two rakat once in a great while, but no more, before my problem makes itself evident. And I was thinking if the devil didnt believe so much in the power of salat and the nececity of wudu he wouldnt have had me hurt the way he did. None of my other injuries prevent me from praying, just those two holes which seem so insignificant compared to other things i have to deal with, but they exclude me from participating in group worship or any kind of syncronised religious activity. Recently I did something that made some people mad, people who have taken recource to witchcraft and prefer it to prayer. One of them who has known me a long time tried to change my thoughts ont he matter, in the past when my thoughts have rested in anyother system he has been able to move me over somewhat atleast int he realm of daily incidentals, but since I have known that my beleife is Islam and it is the religion Allah wants me to practice I have been better at resisting. A few nights ago between asleep and awake I was aware of his thoughts on me, and when I remained firm in my decision and relied on Allah to back me up he left me alone. I guess the Quran goes into a lot of detail about the things that wear down our defenses against evil and gives us many orders about how to do things in our lives that help us build our defenses up, and there are enough different things that if the devil succeeds in blocking us from one way there are too many ways for him to block all of them if we intend to do good and not bad and to only help those who are doing good or atleast only help people while they are doing good since we are all mixed. The main thing is to remember that God is One and nothing else is a god and He doesnt need anything else to be a god. And so many verses are there incase we forget some part of that, no He doesnt have a son or anything else, nor would He need to do that, no He isnt a tyranical maniac nor does He need to be, no He isnt wimpy, anything at all the devil might try to tell us He is in order to get us to come under his power and take others with us. Does anyone else go about things as a guarding against evil, with my background, this has to be my focus, but people with other backgrounds, does this kind of stuff take up a lot of your thoughts like it does mine? |
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