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.