Ask Allah for Yaqin Praise be to Allah! We thank Him, seek His assistance, and repent to Him. We also have recourse to Him against the evil inourselves and the wickedness of our deeds. Whoever Allah choosesto guide to the right path may never be misguided and whoever goes astray shall find no guide to help him. I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah Who has no partner and that Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) is Allah’s servant and Messenger. O you who believe! Fear Allâh (by doing all that He has ordered and by abstaining from all that He has forbidden) as He should be feared. [Obey Him, be thankful to Him, and remember Him always], and die not except in a state of Islâm [as Muslims (with complete submission to Allâh. [Âl-‘Imrân: 102] O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a single person (Adam), and from him (Adam) He created his wife [Hawwâ (Eve)], and from them both He created many men and women; and fear Allâh through Whom you demand (your mutual rights), and (do not cut the relations of) the wombs (kinship) . Surely, Allâh is Ever an All-Watcher over you. [An-Nisâ’:1] O you who believe! Keep your duty to Allâh and fear Him, and speak (always) the truth. (70) He will direct you to do righteous good deeds and will forgive you your sins. And whosoever obeys Allâh and His Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم), he has indeed achieveda great achievement (i.e. he will be saved from the Hell-fire and will be admitted to Paradise. [Al-Ahzâb: 70-71] The truest words are those of Allah and the best guidance is that of Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam).The most evil of things is novelty (bid’ah) in religion; every such novelty is an innovation, and every innovation is straying away from the right path. O Muslims! ‘Yaqin’ is a quality that is difficult to attain, an ambition aspired to by every wise and intelligent spirit, a road rarely trodden, a calling voice in the wilderness, a companion in the desolation of selfishness, a strength in the tempest of weakness, a quenching at the peak of thirst, a torch in the darkness, and an abundance in paucity. Whoever attains this quality reaches the heights of heaven even if he were lying in his bed, and whoever is clothed in it achieves prestige, reverence and eminence above all those of reputation, lineage, and power. Itis a quality that cannot be purchased with money nor can it be acquired by force. It is a quality and a characteristic much recommended by our Prophet and exemplar (Sallallahu Alayhi WaSallam) as he always orders us to pursue what is good for us. He (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) said, “Ask Allah for certitude and wellness, for next to certitude, wellness is the best thing one canreceive.” [narrated by Ahmad] This quality is that of certitude, O servants of Allah! It is that type of certitude with which knowledge of Allah () becomes terminally established deep downthe believer’s heart which wouldthen be permeated by a feeling oftranquility as to the reality of things and would be filled with faith in the unknown past, present, and future by having all his doubts about Allah removed. Hence a man may attain the three well-known levels of certitude: certitude through knowing, certitude through seeing, and certitude through the Manifest Truth. Certitude is to belief what the soul is to the body, so without certitude one would be but a body devoid of its soul. A believer must have certitude about the truthfulness of the words of Allah (). Thus he has to trust in the words of Allah () and those of HisMessenger (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam). He, therefore, gives credence to the commands and prohibitions of Allah and His messenger (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam). Only then can a believer feel sublimity and glee for having attained a degree that has never been achieved by anyone in the nation of Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) save the second most favored man (after Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) Al-Seddik () whose certitude made him stand firm and steadfast in three situations, which history has recorded in sparkling ink, at a time when sedition moved stern mountains.
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