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Shaikh Jalilu Issah
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[02.153. O you who believe! seek assistance through patience and prayer; surely Allah is
with the patient.
02.154. And do not speak of those who are slain in Allah's way as dead; nay, (they are)
alive, but you do not perceive.]
According to Ibn- Abbass, after the battle of Badr, this verse was revealed on the
messenger of Allah. The fertile vale of Badr is 200 Miles away from Makkah and 80
Miles from Medina. And for the first time the followers of the new faith (Islam) were put
into a serious test. This was the first battle in Islam. In this battle 14 soldiers of Allah
were martyred. Six of them were Muhajirs they migrated from Makkah to Madina. And
the 8 of them were from Ansaar they were Medinites - from Madina. After the end of the
battle, the Muslims started saying that the people slain in the battle were the dead people.
Then Allah Subhana-Wa-Ta’aala revealed this verse on the prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe
ALLAH IS WITH THEM WHO PERFORM PATIENCE 2
By
Shaikh Jalilu Issah
To accept your human frailty in the pursuit of personal, physical, emotional, and
spiritual growth. And also to accept the set backs and reversals inevitable in your
quest for personal growth
2. fundamentalists, fanatics, orthodox etc. That’s why this kind of patience has
been called
3. Other kind of patience is called this kind of patience requires
to have firm and strong stand before your desires and wishes in committing
sins. In your life there are so many things which may incite and entice to
commit sins though lighter. It is very natural. Shaitan comes and makes
feelings in your heart to commit sins, as it is a common routine in western
countries, because the spots and opportunities are easy and within easy access.
When you go outside, the women are in their short dresses it is a problem for
men. Their curvature attracts you to commit sins especially their cleavage. In
your house when you are before your TV. The media burns your heart for
doing some kind of lustful activity. All these things and advertisements of
wines and bras take you away from the path of Allah and urge you to do and
commit some kind of sin. So if you have the courage to fight these desires
then you have the patience
4. This is also a kind of patience. This is the kind of patience
when it happens in your life that the incident or accident or co-incidence takes
place in your life that you don’t like. In such condition you have to face and
stand firmly before them to reject and cope with them. These incidents may
weaken you in your mental approach but if you don’t bow before them and
don’t leave the path of Allah Subhana-Wa-Ta’aala you possess this kind of
patience. For example you may loss your child or any beloved one. So to
face such sorrows you need to have patience. Many people become out of
their senses and forget what they are doing. But there is a great lesson of
Allah that we may not leave the rope of patience in our life. Patience has been
described in the holy Quran in more than 70 places. Because patience gives
us adjustability to survive. At least 10 of them are about the prophet
(Sallallaho Alaihe Wasallam) that he should also have the patience.
Well if you read the history of heroes before Islam and after Islam the people have been
told to hold the patience especially after getting the victory. So one of the best things in
the man’s life is to work on how to get and achieve the patience. That’s why Allah says
you.). Oh my son be patient about whatever any problem that may come in your life.
The holy Quran emphasizes on being patient.
Now Allah is telling that the people who are killed in holy battles they are not the
dead people they are alive. How are they alive? In what mode of life are they? It is
beyond the human intellect to comprehend but it has been told to us that there is one
more concept of life– which is martyrdom (Shahadat). The people died with shahadat
are not like ordinary dead people they are counted to be among live people. It is
sufficient for us to know about this mode of life. This is the part of our Iman-Bil-Ghaib.
To have a firm belief without seeing in the physical form.
People used to think before Islam that a man does not have any other life after his
death. It is afraided to note that even after the advent of Islam still it is being understood
that after the death of us we could have no other life. The holy Quran comes and tells us
in detail that there is one more life that shall have no end and that life starts after the
death we meet here in this world. In other words the life what we lead here it is ending
life because the molecular structure of this life has the destruction. It has to end to meet
the death. But the molecular structure of hereafter life will be having no power of
disintegration. There will be a perpetual movement for the construction and exploration
for other dimensions. That is unending life. Its atom will be having a nucleus of
perpetuity.
Now we again come to the phenomenon of the people who are shahid (martyred).
Martyred are the people having the pinnacle of the belief in Iman Bil-Ghaib fight the
battles for the noble sake of Islam and their souls fly out of the cage of their body. And
directly fly to the heavens to their Rabb. About the martyred people our narrow mind
conceive that they are dead. There is no doubt that they are dead. But in the holy Quran
Allah has given a term about the death of such martyred people. They are not called the
dead people they are called the martyred people. Because according to the divinity they
are always alive till the Day of Judgment. That’s why Allah has said in the holy Quran
that they are still alive. The mode of their life has been
changed. And we can not understand. So Allah says that just know it that the soldiers of
Islam, servants of Allah, devout Muslims when they are killed in the name of Islam, they
are forthwith transformed in other kind of life – shahadat ki zindgi – the life of
martyrdom.
So this phenomenon was made clear by Allah Subhana-Wa-Ta’aala to the
believers after the battle of Badr that the slain Muslims are not the dead people but shahid
people and they are alive.