VIRTUES OF
HAVING HOPE
You resemble the Prophets and
pious before us…
قال الله تعالى إخباراً عن العبد الصالح:
{وأفوض أمري إلى الله
إن الله بصير بالعباد، فوقاه الله سيئات ما مكروا}
((غافر:44،45)).
Your
level of hope is connected to your level of Eman and Tawhid in Him…
440- "Allah says: 'I am just
as My slave thinks of Me when he remembers Me.' By Allah! Allah is more pleased
with the repentance of His slave than one of you who unexpectedly finds in the
desert his lost camel. 'He who comes closer to Me one span, I come closer to
him a cubit; and he who comes closer to Me a cubit, I come closer to him a
fathom; and if he comes to Me walking, I come to him running".
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Consciousness of hope and fear
etc. balances on how much a person knows Allah, His Names and Attributes and
actions.
-Ibn
al-Qayyim
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Hope is a manner that the person of Eman dies…
441- Jabir bin 'Abdullah (May Allah be
pleased with him) reported:
I heard the Prophet (ﷺ)
saying three days before his death: "Let none of you die unless he has
good expectations from Allah".
442- "Allah, the
Exalted, has said: 'O son of adam, I forgive you as long as you pray to Me and
hope for My forgiveness, whatever sins you have committed. O son of 'Adam, I do
not care if your sins reach the height of the heaven, then you ask for my
forgiveness, I would forgive you. O son of 'Adam, if you come to Me with an
earth load of sins, and meet Me associating nothing to Me, I would match it
with an earthload of forgiveness."'
COMBINING HOPE
AND FEAR
Know, that a slave when is in
good health (ability) should a balance between hope and fear. However, when in
a state of bad health (inability) he should show preference to having hope in
Allah.
There are plenty of textual
proofs from the Book and the Sunnah to support this…
فَلاَ يَأْمَنُ مَكْرَ اللَّهِ إِلاَّ الْقَوْمُ الْخَاسِرُونَ
(7:99)
Ability – negligence
(12:87)
Inability – patience
يَوْمَ تَبْيَضُّ وُجُوهٌ وَتَسْوَدُّ وُجُوهٌ
(3:106)
Ability – encouragement
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَسَرِيعُ الْعِقَابِ وَإِنَّهُ لَغَفُورٌ
رَّحِيمٌ
(7:167)
Inability – warning
إِنَّ الأَبْرَارَ لَفِي نَعِيمٍ
وَإِنَّ الْفُجَّارَ لَفِي جَحِيمٍ
(82:13-14)
فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ
فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَازِينُهُ
فَأُمُّهُ هَاوِيَةٌ
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There
are many views from the scholars.
Some
saying always hope
Some
saying always fear
Some
saying fear will push a person and hope is only for reward
Some
said in ability there is fear and in inability there is hope
What
is correct is that a person is a counsellor for his own self.
If
he thinks that his Eman is becoming weak, thinks himself to be safe from
Allah, sinning is made easy for him, he is not longer trustworthy in his word
etc. in such a scenario he must show a greater emphasis on fear (this will
help a person rehabilitate).
However,
if a person is in a state of constant despair, suffering from a lot of Waswasa,
he fears something which is not realistic etc. then such a person should be
given more hope (this will help the psychology of a person).
-Ibn Uthaymin
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443- "If a believer had full
knowledge of the chastisement of Allah, none would covet His Jannah; and were
an infidel to know the Mercy Allah has, none would despair of His Jannah".
444- "When a dead body is
placed on a bier and men carry it on their shoulders, if the deceased was
pious, it (the corpse) will say: 'Take me in haste'; but if he was not, it will
say (to its bearers): 'Woe to it. Where are you taking it?' Everything except
man hears its voice. Had a human being heard its voice, he would have surely
died".
445- "Jannah is nearer to
you than your shoelace, and so is the (Hell) Fire".
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The
characteristics and recompense for the people of Jannah or Jahannam is the
greatest yardstick to measure your level of hope and fear.
-Ibn Uthaymin
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And
Allah knows best
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