Sunday,
November 25, 2012
The
most beautiful and memorable poetry I have ever read is The Holy Qur’an and the
greatest poet I have ever known is Allah The Almighty.
And
among the best, I always have my favorite JJ
Y
Surah Y
Al ḥamdu lillāhi rabbi l-ʿālamīn
Ar raḥmāni r-raḥīm
Iyyāka naʿbudu wa iyyāka nastaʿīn
Ihdinā ṣ-ṣirāṭa
al-mustaqīm
Ṣirāṭa
al-laḏīna anʿamta ʿalayhim ġayri l-maġḍūbi ʿalayhim walā ḍ-ḍāllīn
Owner of the Day of Recompense.
You alone do we worship and You alone we seek for
help.
Guide us to the Straight
Path.
The path of those whom Your blessings are upon, Not
of those who You have cursed nor of those who have gone astray."
Y
Hadith Y
On the authority of Abu Harayrah (may
Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Prophet (PBUH) said: Allah the
Almighty said:
“I am as My servant thinks I am (1). I am with him
when he makes mention of Me. If he makes mention of Me to himself, I make
mention of him to Myself; and if he makes mention of Me in an assembly, I make
mention of him in an assemble better than it. And if he draws near to Me an
arm's length, I draw near to him a fathom's length. And if he comes to Me
walking, I go to him at speed.”
(1)
Another possible rendering of the Arabic
is: "I am as My servant expects Me to be". The meaning is that
forgiveness and acceptance of repentance by the Almighty is subject to His
servant truly believing that He is forgiving and merciful. However, not to
accompany such belief with right action would be to mock the Almighty.
It was related by al-Buhkari (also by Muslim,
at-Tirmidhi and Ibn-Majah).
