The standards that are in our minds
What are they… Success is about money? Success comes from property? Success comes from business? Success comes from fame? Success comes from power?
These are the standards The richer you are, the more successful you are, The more famous the more successful, The more popular the more successful, The one who becomes a leader – succeeded, Whoever accumulated big business… is Successful! Who made a lot of money – successful This is actually a delusion.
You will strive according to your concept of success
That is what the struggle will be for
All your efforts will be for that
You will work hard day in and day out for for it.
This is what is being put down here.
Success is not about wealth
Success is not about fame
Success
Power
And not by power and leadership
Rather, success comes from faith
By righteous deeds
Advising each other for truth
Advising each other for patience
Please understand and focus
On this Attitude –
The mental attitude
Only its change will bring about a revolution in the human personality
Now what is the result you get?
If you had success with wealth, ‘Qaron’ would have been very successful
If success was through leadership,
Pharaoh and Nimrod would have been very successful
Success is not because of these
in wealth if a man reaches the wealth of ‘Qaroon’
And take the place of Nimrod and Pharaoh in the world in terms of dominion and power and kingdom and leadership
He has failed, he has lost, he has lost, he has lost
And
Abu Zar Ghaffari رضي الله عنه is successful
Even if they had nothing
Not even a hut
Had no house
The Holy Prophet has said:
Some of Allah’s servants are like that
Those who want to go to a gathering, they are not allowed to do so
If someone wants to marry, then no one is willing to accept their proposal.
If they put a request somewhere then no one listens to them
But they have that position with Allah
That even if they take a oath on something by mistake
Allah accommodates their oath
This is the difference
Please understand…
It’s easy to accept this
It is easy to say Subhan Allah on this
But change your mind accordingly…
it is very difficult
because we are..
affected by our environment
There is a big palace
Once you see it, you get inspired
A big twenty feet long car
when it passes by you
it astonishes your atleast once.
It seems that these are the lucky ones
Very lucky
Very successful
But who knows
That is the greatest misfortune
This may be the biggest failure
If it gets stuck in the mind what the success is about
That is why the its in the Qur’an again and again.
وَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ
These are the people who will succeed
Today you heard those verses in prayer
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ارْكَعُوا وَاسْجُدُوا وَاعْبُدُوا رَبَّكُمْ وَافْعَلُوا الْخَيْرَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ ۩ (سورة الحج، آیت 77)
O you who believe! Bow down and prostrate
Worship and serve your Lord
And do good deeds so that you may prosper
So what things make you successful
This is the greatest lesson
If we understand this properly
Gets stamped
Then life will change
Morning and evening will change.
Lifestyle will change.
The direction of your efforts will change.
The value structure will change
The one thing that may seem very important today..
Tomorrow will look very insignificant
As is the hadith of the Holy Prophet (ﷺ)
What do I care about this world of yours?
My example is like that of a rider
Which stays in the shade of a tree for a while to relax
and then he moves on.
he has no permanent connection to the tree
That is not his home nor his destination.
Similarly, this world is not my home
Now, we say,
إِنَإا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا لَِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
(Surat al-Baqara, 156)
We are just travelers
We have come from Allah and we have to return to Allah
The Holy Prophet (ﷺ) says:
Live in this world like you’re either a stranger or a passerby.
But when will this change happen?
Until and unless this ayat is embedded in our minds.
وَالۡعَصَرِ إِنَّ َّلۡإِنسَـٰنَ لَفِى خُسۡرٍ. إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَعَمِلُواْ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ وَتَوَاصَوۡاْ بِٱلۡحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوۡاْ بِٱلصَّبۡرِ
This is the real thing
That i said I’d mention as to why the sahabah would remind each other.
This is because, see
If it is snowing and you go out, the snow accumulates on your clothes.
So you shake the clothes to get the snow off
On our faith while living in this world
When we are affected by the environment
the dust accumulates on it
its covered with snow
It needs to be kept shaking
And the best way to shake
And the most effective one is remember..
Success does not come from these things
The radiance of the world
All the sparkle that is shining on you
Which is indulging you into it
This word reminded me of Iqbal’s verse.
That the identity of the infidel is that he is lost in the universe
And the universe is lost in the believer.
Don’t get lost in it
Don’t be fooled
Don’t be intimidated
Let not the love of the world take you over.
Does not impose on your hearts
So keep reminding yourself
وَالۡعَصَرِ إِنَّ َّلۡإِنسَـٰنَ لَفِى خُسۡرٍ. إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَعَمِلُواْ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ وَتَوَاصَوۡاْ بِٱلۡحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوۡاْ بِٱلصَّبۡرِ
Be Reminded
Refresh it
This belief of yours
Success is not about wealth
Success does not come with wealth
Success is not about power
Success is not about fame
Success is not about property
- Success is by faith,
- Success comes from good deed,
- Success is by truth &
- Success is by patience.
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