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Advice for the Muslim
Miladi Qamari, Hijri Shamsi, Hijri
Miladi
Qamari, Hijri
Shamsi, Hijri
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"Allâhu ta’âlâ, pitying all the people in the world, creates and sends useful things to them. In the next world, favouring whomever He wishes of those guilty Muslims who are to go to Hell, He will forgive them and put them into Paradise. He alone is the One who creates every living creature, keeps all beings in existence every moment and who protects all against fear and horror. Trusting ourselves to the honourable name of Allâhu ta’âlâ, we begin to write this book. Infinite thanks be to Allâhu ta’âlâ! Peace and blessings be on His most beloved Prophet, Muhammad (’alaihi ’s-salâm)! Auspicious prayers be for the pure Ahl al-Bait and for each of the just, faithful Companions, as-Sahâbat al-kirâm (radî-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhum ajma’în), of that exalted Prophet! Allâhu ta’âlâ is Rabb al-’âlamîn. He created every kind of the living things and also the non-living orderly, well-calculated and beneficial. With His attributes Khâliq, Bârî, Musawwir, Badî’ and Hakîm, He created all beings in perfect order and very beautiful. He set relations between them so that they would be orderly and beautiful. He made them reasons, means, and causes for one another so that they would be existent and go on existing. We give names, such as natural events, physical or chemical laws, astronomical formulae and physiological processes to these relations and their being causes of one another. Science is the research into the design, calculations, interactions and relations between the beings created by Allâhu ta’âlâ, and thereafter making use of them. Allâhu ta’âlâ willed every being to be orderly and well-calculated and created as He willed. He made substances, power and energy causes and means for His creating. Allâhu ta’âlâ willed the life of human beings to be in order and benefical, too, and He made the willpower of mankind the reason and means for this. When man wants to do something, Allâhu ta’âlâ creates it if He wills. Men have to wish good, right and useful things so that their individual, private and social life may be in harmony. Allâhu ta’âlâ endowed wisdom (’aql) on them so that their wishes would be good. Wisdom is a power which distinguishes good from evil. As human beings need many things and have to get what they need, the force called “nafs” in man, while striving to acquire them, misleads wisdom. It makes anything desired look beautiful to wisdom, even if it is harmful."(PG 3)
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2001
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