Ahsan Hanif – Day of Arafah – A Reminder to Realign Our Priorities

			The covenant that we made with Allah
		

			that this life that we have, these finite
		

			years that we have, it's not so that
		

			we can gather wealth, it's not so that
		

			we can have large families, it's not so
		

			that we can enjoy the pleasures of the
		

			dunya, it is only for one purpose, and
		

			that is the purpose to worship Allah subhanahu
		

			wa ta'ala. And the nature of the dunya
		

			with this distraction, the nature of the human
		

			with his negligence is that we are often
		

			forgetful of this one very important fact. And
		

			so times like today, the day of Arafah,
		

			times like the month of Ramadan are reminders
		

			that are timely for us. That we need
		

			to realign our priorities. That we need to
		

			understand what is important
		

			about this life and what is less important
		

			in this life. The prophet
		

			highlighted this very principle in the hadith in
		

			Sahih al Bukhari, the hadith
		

			of
		

			who one day was riding behind the prophet
		

			and
		

			the prophet said to him,
		

			do you know what the right of Allah
		

			is upon his slaves and the right of
		

			the slaves upon their Lord subhanahu wa ta'ala?
		

			He said Allah and his messenger messenger know
		

			best. He said the rights of Allah upon
		

			his slaves is that they worship him alone,
		

			not making shit with him And the rights
		

			that they have that Allah is obligated upon
		

			himself
		

			is that he won't punish those who don't
		

			associate anyone in them with worship.