Zakir Naik – Increase of Emaan Procedure & Indicators
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The speakers discuss the benefits of temporary punishment hellfire and the use of trees in people's minds to indicate success. They emphasize the importance of peace of mind and helping others, as well as the potential increase in wealth and satisfaction. The speakers also emphasize the value of wines and contribution to the story of the Sabbath, as well as the importance of following the rules of the Bible and achieving promises.
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Next question.
Sir,
I am a student of BSC final year.
I am from Andhra Pradesh, India.
I am from a Hindu family.
I recently reverted
into a Muslim.
My question is, how one can know
whether his iman is strong or weak?
And what steps should be taken
in improving my iman?
And if one who listen
about the punishment of * fire
and not feeling afraid of it
but worries about other things,
what is the strength of his iman?
The question posed is that how will a
person this question posed by Rehaut
and he is asking that how will a
person come to know whether his iman is
strong or weak
and what steps should be taken to improve
the iman?
And the last part is
that if a person
hears and knows about the punishment hellfire and
yet he is not worried about
that and worried about the worldly things, then
what is his status?
Regarding the first part of the question,
that how does one come to know
that is iman is strong?
A person when he keeps on following
the teachings of Quran and say hadith, the
more he follows, he realizes that his iman
is strong.
For example, when he goes out, a Muslim
man knows that she should wear the hijab.
The outside world may not be doing hijab.
She is doing hijab. You know that the
iman is strong.
That we know that people
do wrong things. They cheat. You are not
cheating.
People tell lies. You don't lie. You are
honest.
And
the more you follow the Quran and say
hadith, you come to know iman is strong.
How do you increase your iman?
Well, the best way to increase your iman
is to read the translation of the Quran.
Read the translation of the hadith of the
hadith of the beloved prophet Muhammad
Read the of the prophet Muhammad
Read the
of the Sahabas.
When you look at the lifestyle,
you are empowered.
You realize that
how strong they were in iman and how
weak we are in iman.
So if you read the stories
of the Sahabas,
the iman increases. I'd like to give you
one incidence
that
once the other person
who come and tells the prophet
that the neighbor that is there
is not allowing you to build
the boundary wall
of
the
house because there is trees in between. So
the prophet tells
the neighbor that if you give that one
tree and allow him to build his
boundary wall, I will give you a tree
in jannah
and refuses.
He doesn't agree.
So
when one of the sahaba,
Abu Darda,
hears about this, he goes and asks the
prophet that if I get that tree
and see to it, give it to him,
will I get a tree in jannah? The
prophet said yes. Why not?
So he goes and tells that neighbor
that do you know who I am?
He said no.
He said I am Abu Darda
who owns
the biggest
and the most precious
garden of dates in Madinah.
There it is. Of course. Who does not
know you?
Then he says
that,
will you give me this tree which is
coming in between your neighbor,
Mondiwall,
and for that, in exchange of that tree,
I will give you my complete
garden of dates,
which is the best in Madinah.
The man says, are you crazy? For my
one tree, you will give me the full
garden which is the best in Madinah. He
says yes.
And the person agrees.
Abu Darda
comes back home and tells his wife that
today
I have done a great deal,
an excellent deal. The wife
asks, what did you do? So he narrates
the story about the tree
and he tells his wife that I bought
that tree
that will give us a tree in Jannah
in exchange
for the full garden
that we have in Madinah.
So the wife says, ah, what excellent deal.
In today's world,
if suppose they have such a big garden
and you want to buy the tree, today's
wife will tell you, you're a fool. Why
did you give the full garden? You would
have given 25% of the garden or should
I give 50% of the garden and surely
that man would have agreed. Even if you
give 25% of the garden, you will give
that one tree.
But
look at the imam.
The wife says, ah, what a deal. That
means
both of them, the husband and wife, they
didn't want even an out of doubt
that the person will refuse.
Because they wanted Jannah
and
and the hadith tells us that for the
rest of the life, they lived a poor
life. But
they lived a very happy life because they
know that the prophet had promised them paradise.
So if we hear the stories of the
Sabbath, how they lived, how they sacrificed,
how they helped each other, the iman increases.
And
it gives us the feeling that what we
are doing nothing.
Nothing.
And we know that at the time of
jihad,
when the prophet told the Saba that what
do you want to contribute?
And Hazrat Umar be pleased with him comes
and he gives the large
wealth to the prophet
and the prophet asks him that what have
you left home? So he said I have
left half my wealth at home and half
I am giving charity for jihad.
After that later on
may Allah be pleased as he comes
and he gives
his wealth to the prophet. And the prophet
asks him, what have you left home?
So he said,
I have given all my wealth and I
have left Allah and his Rasul at home.
To take care of us. Imagine what iman
imagine giving his complete wealth in the way
of Allah
When you hear these stories,
it
it increases our iman.
It makes us feel so small
that we can't even contribute to the call
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We can't even
give charity if you read the lifestyle, the
of
the sahaba, the of
the prophets.
We are nowhere. So if you read the
story, the iman increases. If you read the
Quran, the translation, iman increases.
And
you conclude with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Your
ibadah increases.
Your salah increases. Your swam increases. Your fasting.
Your charity.
Your zakat.
All these things
is these are signs.
And when do you realize
the demand is increased? You have peace of
mind.
Wealth cannot buy peace of mind. When you
have peace of mind,
that inshallah,
we are following a land in Rasool and
Inshallah, we will be raised in Jannah with
Allah and His Rasool. You know, as the
prophet said that you will be raised with
the people who you love.
So that time the Saba's were so happy.
They said we may not be good indeed.
They were the best.
After the ambias,
the people who are the most blessed and
the closest
to Allah
are the Sabhas. Among the Sabhas, the Khulfarash
is the number 1. Among the Khulfarash,
Abu Bakr, my Allah will be with him.
He is number 1. Then Hazrat Umar. If
you hear these stories
and the lifestyle of the prophet
and the sabas,
you realize that we are living in air
condition. We have all the all the facility
and yet we crib, yet we don't follow
the sunnah, yet we don't follow the thing
that we're supposed to
do. And
if you read how did
the
the Ansar,
the people of Madina, the Sabas of Madina
helped
the Sabas, the
the muhajir
who migrated from Mecca to Madina
and the stories, it's phenomenal. So, the more
you read the and
of the prophet of the Sabas, the imam
will increase, your practice will increase and inshallah,
your peace of mind will increase. So that
you are more secured that Allah will give
you the best in this world as well
as the hope that answers the question. Regarding
your last part of the question that what
if you hear the punishment
in the * fire and yet you are
bothered about the worldly thing? What is the
state of famine?
Even after hearing
about the punishments of the * fire, if
you do not follow
the Quran and the and
yet if you continue worrying about the worldly
things, that means that iman is weak.
That iman is weak. I told you how
iman is strong. But if you hear,
if the two things that makes your iman
strong is when you hear about the punishment,
you fear it. So that's the reason when
you fear the punishment of the of the
year after, of the hellfire,
the present life for you, the difficulties are
nothing.
They're peanuts.
So if after hearing the punishment of the
hellfire
or after hearing the rewards
of Jannah,
yet you continue
and disobey the teachings of Quran and sunnah
that mere iman is very weak. So that's
the reason you should be in touch with
the Quran and say hadith. And these things
will get you closer to Allah and. Hope
that answers your question.