Blessing the World Nonstop Is What Islam Is All About [Quote – 220]

“Today’s definition of Islam, if you have not heard it from me before, and even if you have: “Blessing the World – the whole world – without regard to race or religion, and without regard to gender, class or nationality.

How sad it is for me to tell you at this stage in the history of the world that that is precisely what Muslims all over the world actually do – Twenty-Four-Seven: Bless the World!

And, I suspect, that is not something anyone else in the world does.” (Dr. Pasha)

No Fool Could Be More Dangerous Than an Ignorant Fool [Quote – 219]

“I don’t know if this is called a redundancy or a tautology, or even gibberish, but it strikes me that there is no fool more dangerous than an ignorant fool.

From an Islamic perspective, ignorance is not bliss.

In Islam, there is no equivalency between knowledge and ignorance: Hal yastawilladheena ya’lamoona walladheena laa ya’lamoon, the Qur’an asks.” (Dr. Pasha)

The More Time You Spend Working for Allah, the More Time You Have for Your Own Work [Quote – 218]

“Allah bless the man who once made the comment I paraphrase here.

He said: “The more time you spend doing “Allah’s work,” the more time you seem to have on your hands for your own “personal work.”

And, conversely, the less time you spend doing Allah’s work, the less time there seems to be for your own personal work – if there is such a thing as that.” 

Allahu Akbar, what a sentiment! What a thought!

Does anyone else feel the way this gentleman seems to feel, because I can see quite clearly what he means?

Or is it a special line God Almighty opens up to some people, much to the envy of the rest of us?” (Dr. Pasha)

Here Is What It Means to Be Working for Allah [Quote – 217]

“Working for Allah is what you do for living – meaning, that is what you do as the overriding purpose and preoccupation of your life.

All else – your job, career, education, family, friends, everything – is part of the support network you need to be able to do Allah’s work.

What is Allah’s work? Let me try and explain, even though it is by no means an easy undertaking.

Or, maybe, on the other hand, it is the simplest and easiest thing to do. So here goes:

Working for Allah is living and dying for Allah, as the Qur’an quotes Prophet Abraham (May God Bless Him!) as saying.

Working for Allah is living every moment as if you see Allah and he sees you, as Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, said.

Working for Allah is helping and serving all of God’s creation everywhere and in every form.

Working for Allah is living and working in this world as if this life will last forever.

Working for Allah is preparing to leave this world as if it will happen tomorrow.

Working for Allah is doing all that Allah requires of you as if this were your last day on earth.

Working for Allah is honoring your parents; it is showing kindness, respect and affection to your spouse; and it is loving and providing the best for your children.

Working for Allah is loving your neighbor like yourself; and it is treating others how you would want them to treat you.

Working for Allah is offering a blessing and a greeting of peace and joy to everyone: those you know as well as those you don’t know.

Allah’s work is helping friends; forgiving enemies; and showing compassion to the afflicted and the needy, regardless of who or what they are.

Working for Allah is being generous almost to a fault; it is giving even when you have nothing much to give.

Working for Allah is feeding others when you go hungry yourself.

Allah’s work is educating the world and inviting people to God.

Working for Allah is ensuring peace, security, justice and stability around the world.

And it is fighting tyranny, injustice, cruelty and oppression against anyone anywhere.

And it is working tirelessly to make sure that God’s world is better tomorrow for everyone of God’s creation than it is today – and that means every Jew, Christian, Hindu and Muslim on the one hand and every bird, beast, fish and plant on the other hand.

It is for this that God created us: to work for him; to work for his world.

And it is to invite us all to do this – to work for him; to work for his world – that he sent his noble prophets, may Allah Bless Them All, into this world.

To paraphrase what God All-Mighty says in the Qur’an: “I created human beings so they would serve me.”

How can anyone – Muslim or non-Muslim – say no to something like this?

And how can anyone go wrong with a life full of commitment to something like this?

And anyone with any sense, if they won’t work for Allah, who will they work for?” (Dr. Pasha)

Working for Allah Is Not Part-Time Work [Quote – 216]

“Working for Allah is not part-time work.

Nor should it be way down on your To-Do List.

In fact, all your other work, if there is such a thing, derives its legitimacy, and its blessings from God, from how committed you are to do Allah’s work and how seriously you take that commitment and try to fulfil it.” (Dr. Pasha)

True Dimensions of Muslim Identity [Quote – 215]

Time was when most Muslims used to worry about their Islamic Identity. Islam, interpreted in a very broad, inclusive and proactive sense, defined who the Muslims were; what they did; and what some of their…

Working for Allah Is the Best Way to Cope with Life’s Challenges [Quote – 214]

“The world is full of problems – some small, some big; some comparatively easy to solve and some that defy solution.

One solution to many of the problems we face – and certainly one way of coping with life and its challenges in general – is to move forward with the work of Allah that we have chosen to do, and that has been given to us, which includes:

  • Our production and distribution of literature;
  • Our meetings and Dhikr sessions;
  • Our service activities;
  • Our aid and humanitarian projects;
  • Our time with the Qur’an;
  • Our outreach efforts;
  • Our activities to invite people to Allah;

And everything else that we do of that nature.” (Dr. Pasha) 

Seize the Moment, and Move with Allah’s Light, Your Wonders to Perform [Quote – 213]

“Every moment in your life is a wonder. And every breath you take is a miracle from God.

And your heart is constantly changing and vibrating with the power and majesty of Allah to reflect his will in and through you.

And the light of Allah, while eternal and constant, strikes the prism of human hearts differently at different times.

We need to hold on to the moments of light and clarity Allah brings us, and move forward along the paths illumined for us, and not allow ourselves to stagnate or regress.” (Dr. Pasha)

Those Who Look for Truth Hard Enough Shall Find It [Quote – 212]

“Those who look for God shall find him.

Provided they look for him hard enough and well enough and seriously enough.

And those that seek the truth in this world shall find it.

For, that is God’s way in his world.

Provided:

  • They are sincere;
  • Have a measure of humility;
  • Are truly committed to their goal;
  • And remain steadfast and persistent in their search.

If they are all that, truth then shall come to them in God’s own good time, place and scale – as everything else would and does.

As the Qur’an says, “Everything God does is most meticulously measured.”

Kullu shai-y-in indahu bi-miqdaar.

Another little miracle of an Aayat – passage of the Qur’an – in your hands.” (Dr. Pasha) 

Invariance of Inviting People to Allah and Constancy of Allah’s Way [Quote – 211]

“Sometimes those working for Allah may wonder why we have to keep doing the same thing over and over again.

Why, they may ask themselves, do we keep working so hard and see such minimal results.

Why do we all follow the same old style of doing things, they may say?

Why do we, they could ask themselves, for example:

  • Keep on preparing and distributing literature the way we do;
  • Keep on producing the same old-fashioned audio and video and computer material;
  • Keep on designing and populating the websites the same old-fashioned way;
  • And keep on doing everything as it was done over 1000 years ago?

And why do we, they could say for example, keep on trying to:

  • Reach out to people;
  • Invite them to Allah;
  • Give them the message of Islam;
  • Answer the same old questions over and over;
  • Show them the miracles of the Qur’an;
  • And try to share with them the joy, beauty and practicality of the teachings of Islam?

And it is perfectly normal and natural for them to feel and wonder about things in this way and to ask these questions of themselves and others.

After all, they are human beings – are they not? – even though they have chosen to be in the special category of those who have dedicated their lives to work for Allah and to serve his creation without asking for anything in return.

As for results, regardless of whether those results are a lot or a little, I will leave that question for another day. But I do want to make clear the role of seemingly dull and redundant routine activity in Islam and in nature.

Sheer repetitivity.

While in many ways things in the world change and evolve, by and large the universe is a giant amalgam of mini and mega structures and processes that pretty much perform the same routine functions repetitively, over and over, billions of times.

I wish someone would tell me how many times a human heart pumps blood during the course of a 60-year life span – all the same way.

Or how many times the sun rises and sets the same way in a 1000-year period.

And how I wish some learned scholar of Islam will explain to me how the way of doing prayers (Salaat) has changed in Islam over the past 1400 years, because it has not.

Not even an iota.

Because even today Salaat or Islamic Prayer is the same old process of:

  • Making intention;
  • Facing Ka’abah in Makkah;
  • Standing upright;
  • Making intention;
  • Reciting from the Qur’an;
  • Bending from the waist;
  • Prostrating halfway;
  • Sitting on bended knees;
  • Chanting all the prayers and chants;
  • And turning left and right to say to the whole world on each side:
  • “God Bless You!”
  • “God Bless You!”

Isn’t that how the Salaat or Prayer has gone on since the time of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, 14 long centuries ago?

Isn’t that how it has been repeated, day after day, night after night, and in place after place, in what is perhaps the greatest ongoing and living miracle of all time, for all these one thousand four hundred years – the way Muslims perform their daily prayers called Salaat?

Isn’t that in itself a most amazing miracle that anyone can see with their own eyes anywhere, anytime?

So why should those working for Allah, at any time or in any place, complain or feel bad about the constancy of their method, or the invariance of their message, or the redundancy of what they do in the path of Allah?

For, their message is eternal and immortal.

And it is simplicity itself: God is one and Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, is God’s messenger and prophet.

That message never changes.

That is how it has been and that is how it shall be – till the end of time.

And repeating it is what keep the world going.

And their method is the best that anyone can devise: purity of motives and intentions on the one hand and, on the other hand, utilization of means and methods that are the best and finest and noblest in the entire world.

That approach to the choice of methods does not change either.

So, why should a message and a method like that ever change?

Or how can those with a message and a methodology like that ever fail or falter?

For their message and method has the same constancy and durability as the rising of the sun in the sky and the leaping and splashing of the waves in the ocean.

And their success also is just as assured as the rising of the sun in the sky and the soaring of the waves in the ocean and the blowing of the winds between heaven and earth.”

Wa Lan Tajida Lisunnatillahi Tabdeela, says God Almighty in the Qur’an.

Paraphrase: You shall not find Allah’s way changing or faltering.” (Dr. Pasha)

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