The life of this world constantly leads us to distraction. Allah says in the Qur’an: <\/p>\n
\n\u0648\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u0647\u064e\u0670\u0630\u0650\u0647\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0652\u062d\u064e\u064a\u064e\u0627\u0629\u064f \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0651\u064f\u0646\u0652\u064a\u064e\u0627 \u0625\u0650\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0627 \u0644\u064e\u0647\u0652\u0648\u064c \u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0639\u0650\u0628\u064c \u0648\u064e\u0625\u0650\u0646\u0651\u064e \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0651\u064e\u0627\u0631\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0622\u062e\u0650\u0631\u064e\u0629\u064e \u0644\u064e\u0647\u0650\u064a\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0652\u062d\u064e\u064a\u064e\u0648\u064e\u0627\u0646\u064f \u0644\u064e\u0648\u0652 \u0643\u064e\u0627\u0646\u064f\u0648\u0627 \u064a\u064e\u0639\u0652\u0644\u064e\u0645\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e <\/strong><\/p>\n
The life of the world is but play and distraction, the true life is the abode of the Last Life, if you knew.
\n(The Spider, 29:64) <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nIt distracts us from what is really important in our lives: remembering that everything that happens, happens by the will of Allah and that He is the One who maintains the universe at every moment, He is the Sustainer: Al-Qayyum.
\nAllah says in the noble Qur’an: <\/p>\n\n\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0647\u064f \u0644\u064e\u0627 \u0625\u0650\u0644\u064e\u0670\u0647\u064e \u0625\u0650\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0627 \u0647\u064f\u0648\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0652\u062d\u064e\u064a\u0651\u064f \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0642\u064e\u064a\u0651\u064f\u0648\u0645\u064f<\/strong><\/p>\n
Allah, there is no god but Him, the Living One, the Sustainer.
\n(Baqarah, 2:255) <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThe Sustainer means that He is the One who maintains Himself, without need of anything or anyone, and on whom everything else depends for His existence. Allah says in the Qur’an: <\/p>\n
\n\u0643\u064f\u0644\u0651\u064e \u064a\u064e\u0648\u0652\u0645\u064d \u0647\u064f\u0648\u064e \u0641\u0650\u064a \u0634\u064e\u0623\u0652\u0646\u064d<\/strong><\/p>\n
Every day, He’s on some business.
\n(The Merciful, 55:29) <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nIn a hadith narrated by Abu Dardaah, the Prophet (may Allah have His grace and peace upon him) said: <\/p>\n
“Part of His business is to forgive a fault, to deliver from some affliction, and to lift up some by demeaning others.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
According to this, the verse is understood to mean that every day or every moment, Allah is deciding and acting on His creation.
\nThat is, Allah is not separate from the process of existence.
\nAllah has not created the universe and established a series of rules and then separated himself from it and it runs on its own.
\nThis is the belief of materialism, and materialism is a disease of the ‘Aquidah, of the belief, it is the effect of not having a correct understanding of how Allah has described Himself, through His revealed names and attributes.
\nAnd this affects both Muslims and non-Muslims, both people who have a religion and atheists.
\nBecause materialism is the metaphysics of modern society, in which we are all involved in one way or another.
\nBeing in this society and functioning in it correctly does not mean being part of it.
\nBut for this we have to take into account this ultimate, unique and total reality.
\nThis reality is that Allah is the Sustainer: Al-Qayyum.
\nHe does not depend on anything or anyone, everything depends on Him to exist in every moment.
\nThere is no reality outside of this truth.
\nWhen we say that the life of this world is play and distraction, as Ayyat says, we mean that it distracts us from this reality, and when it distracts us from this reality, life becomes a game that has no meaning.
\nKnowledge of this reality and understanding of it is the most important task of the human being.
\nAllah says in the Qur’an <\/p>\nI have not created jinn and men except to worship me.
\n(51:56) <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThey say the mufassirin<\/em> that to worship in this context means to know.
\nAllah has created man to know and worship Him.
\nBut we may be overwhelmed by the immensity of this task and by the reality of what it means.
\nFor if everything happens by His will and He is the one who maintains everything in existence, what is our place?
\nHow should we act and conduct our lives?
\nThis is one of the most important aspects of the Prophets, they teach us, by their example, that it is possible to live in this world without forgetting the reality of it, without forgetting that Allah is the One, the Real, the Sustainer.
\nIn this way they are a quiblah<\/em>, a direction for our behavior and for our spiritual life.
\nSince we have to keep in mind that we cannot limit worship only to the moment in which we are praying.
\nOur whole life has to be part of worshipping and knowing our Creator.
\nThis is the teaching of the prophets.
\nThis was the teaching of the last of the prophets, the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. Allah says in the Qur’an: <\/p>\n\n\u0642\u064f\u0644\u0652 \u0625\u0650\u0646\u0651\u064e \u0635\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0627\u062a\u0650\u064a \u0648\u064e\u0646\u064f\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0650\u064a \u0648\u064e\u0645\u064e\u062d\u0652\u064a\u064e\u0627\u064a\u064e \u0648\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0627\u062a\u0650\u064a \u0644\u0650\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0647\u0650 \u0631\u064e\u0628\u0651\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0639\u064e\u0627\u0644\u064e\u0645\u0650\u064a\u0646\u064e \u0644\u064e\u0627 \u0634\u064e\u0631\u0650\u064a\u0643\u064e \u0644\u064e\u0647\u064f \u0648\u064e\u0628\u0650\u0630\u064e\u0670\u0644\u0650\u0643\u064e \u0623\u064f\u0645\u0650\u0631\u0652\u062a\u064f \u0648\u064e\u0623\u064e\u0646\u064e\u0627 \u0623\u064e\u0648\u0651\u064e\u0644\u064f \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0645\u064f\u0633\u0652\u0644\u0650\u0645\u0650\u064a\u0646 <\/strong><\/p>\n
Say: Verily, my prayer, the sacrifice that I may offer, my life and my death are to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
\nHe has no partner.
\nThat is what I have been ordered.
\nI am the first of the Muslims.
\n(The Flocks, 6:162-163) <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThis was the way of the Prophet.
\nHis prayer, his sacrifice, his life and his death, and by this we mean everything that happens from the birth to death of a person, was by and for Allah.
\nThis is the goal.
\nWe cannot separate our Salah and fasting from the rest of our life.
\nWe cannot think that worshipping and knowing Allah happens only during prayer or fasting and that the rest of the time we can live in oblivion of the reality of existence, that He is the Living One, the Sustainer.
\nWhen we get up, talk to someone, work, shop, eat and even go to the toilet or have relations with our women, all this should be part of worshipping Allah and believing Him.
\nAll this is part of the life that Allah has given us and He has given it to us for that purpose.
\nTherefore, everything in it is prepared to be a reminder for us of reality and not a distraction.
\nSince we only spend a very small part of our time doing prayer.
\nWe may have spent as little as 1 or 2 percent of our lives in prayer, but what about the remaining 99 percent of the time?
\nShouldn’t that be part of worship as well?
\nShouldn’t we live all this time worshipping and knowing Allah?
\nSo each of us, in that which Allah has given us in life, should strive to do so with the intention that it will be a part of our worship and knowledge of Allah.
\nWhoever is a mechanic, or a cook, or a painter, a musician or a merchant, let him do it with the right intention that it is for and for Allah, to know and worship Him, and all his actions will be part of his worship.
\nFor as the Messenger said, peace be upon him: <\/p>\nEvery action is by its intention.
\n(Bukhari and Muslim) <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnd as a wise man said: Take care of your thoughts because they become your intentions, watch your intentions because they become your words, watch your words because they become your actions, watch your actions because they become your habits, and watch your habits, because they become your character.
\nWe ask Allah to purify our intention and in this way purify our whole life and to guide us in every moment to constant remembrance. <\/p>\n*****<\/p>\n
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said in the famous Hadith Qudsi transmitted by Abu Hurirah, may Allah be pleased with him: Allah (the mighty and sublime be He) says: Whoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I will declare war on him.
\nMy servant does not approach Me with anything more dear to Me than that which I have made obligatory to him, and My servant continues to approach Me with supererogatory works until I love him.
\nWhen I love him, I am his ear with which he hears, his vision with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes, and his foot with which he walks.
\nIf he asked [algo]me, I would give it to him, and if he asked me for refuge, I would grant it.
\nI doubt nothing as much as I [apoderarme] doubt the soul of My faithful servant: he hates death and I hate to hurt him.
\nWe have said in the first part of the Khutba that Allah is al-Hajju al-Qayyum, the Living One, the Tempter.
\nAnd we have said that this is the reality of existence, that everything that exists, exists because of Him and depends on Him, while He does not depend on anything.
\nAnd we have said that this is the ultimate reality and that the life of this world leads us to distraction; and that distraction is being distracted from this reality.
\nWe have also said that the purpose of this life is to worship and know Allah, which means to be aware of this reality.
\nAnd we have said that the life of the Prophet, peace be upon him, and of all the prophets in general, and that the Sharia that they brought, is to teach us how to live in this world without forgetting the reality of what this world means and who is maintaining it.
\nAnd that what departs from this, from following the prophets, is play and distraction, since it has no meaning.
\nWe have said that the life of the Muslim must be the whole of it, and not just a part of it, worship.
\nAnd in this hadith Allah teaches us how to make this happen and what is the result of it.
\nHe tells us, start with what I have made obligatory on you, that is what is most dear to Allah.
\nBut Allah does not need our actions or our worship.
\nThat is what Allah loves the most since it is the best for us.
\nEvery action that Allah has made obligatory is so that we do not forget the reality of existence, His reality.
\nAnd then he tells us that the servant continues to approach with the supererogatory.
\nFor if the obligatory reminds us at certain times of the day of the reality of Allah and our own insignificance, then the servant who inclines towards the supererogatory remembers Allah at all times.
\nAnd when this happens, Allah loves him.
\nAnd let us remember that Allah is the one who maintains all existence at all times.
\nAnd when Allah loves you, as He says, if the slave asks Him for something, He gives it to Him, and if He asks for protection from something, He gives it to Him.
\nThat is to say, for the servant who is in constant remembrance of the reality of existence, he lives subject to it, which is the only possible truth, his whole life, every moment, is part of adoration.
\nYour whole life is part of fulfilling your purpose in life.
\nAnd Allah loves him for this.
\nAnd in this way, the servant, the Muslim, can live in this society without being part of it. He can live like the ambushed, who moves through it and acts correctly in it, but who knows that reality is different.
\nFor reality belongs only to Allah.
\nWe ask Allah to make us people of constant remembrance of reality and to make us people whose entire life, at all times and in all places, in all states and in all seasons, is by and for Him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The life of this world constantly leads us to distraction. Allah says in the Qur’an: \u0648\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u0647\u064e\u0670\u0630\u0650\u0647\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0652\u062d\u064e\u064a\u064e\u0627\u0629\u064f \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0651\u064f\u0646\u0652\u064a\u064e\u0627 \u0625\u0650\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0627 \u0644\u064e\u0647\u0652\u0648\u064c \u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0639\u0650\u0628\u064c \u0648\u064e\u0625\u0650\u0646\u0651\u064e \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0651\u064e\u0627\u0631\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0622\u062e\u0650\u0631\u064e\u0629\u064e \u0644\u064e\u0647\u0650\u064a\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0652\u062d\u064e\u064a\u064e\u0648\u064e\u0627\u0646\u064f \u0644\u064e\u0648\u0652 \u0643\u064e\u0627\u0646\u064f\u0648\u0627 \u064a\u064e\u0639\u0652\u0644\u064e\u0645\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e The life of the world is but play and distraction, the true life is the abode of the Last Life, if you knew. (The Spider, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,93],"tags":[456,620,624],"class_list":["post-20295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-khutbas","category-luqman-nieto-en","tag-khutba","tag-knowledge","tag-luqman-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/luqman.jpg?fit=660%2C330&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}