Lessons

Bismi-llahi ar-rahmani ar-rahimi, In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. And I beg for forgiveness from Allah for whatever sin that I have done in the past and to show me the right path. Ameen.

Assalamualaikum / Greetings dear readers.

The following knowledge was what i managed to attain from my sheikh, Ustaz Hafidz As-Suhaimi, during ramadhan.

The first was about ikhlas. There was one incident involving Sayyidina Bilal. During his time, there was another muazzin. This muazzin had a much greater and better voice which was admired by many people at that time. It was so great to many ears that people recommended him to make adhan or the call to prayer inatead of Sayyidina Bilal. Soon, he himself went to Rasulullah SAW and asked him for permission to do the adhan for the fardhu solaat. Rasulullah SAW's response was something like "ok we'll see how it goes". This repeated for many times till the prophet SAW finally allowed him to make the adhan instead of Sayyidina Bilal for Subuh prayer, after alot of pleading was made.

So Rasulullah SAW and his ummah carried out the jemaah prayer for subuh. Soon after everyone completed the prayer, a voice came from the back, which was the voice of an angel or malaikat. "Oh ummah, have you carried out the subuh prayer already? Did you carry it out without making the adhan?"

From here, the lesson we can learn is that amal or deeds that we do will not be accepted by Allah SWT if it was not done with ikhlas. Ikhlas can be summed up as follows: a black ant on a big black stone at night. In simple terms, cannot be seen at all by others.

Another lesson i learnt from the class was about the specialty of sunnah fasting on thursday. The reason is because all our doings and deeds for the week will be carried by the angels and sent to Allah on every thursday. That is why thursday nights are spent in more devotion to Allah than any other nights. But this does not mean that other nights can be devoted to sins. Its just that thursday nights are a bit more special than other nights. Maulid are also carried out on thursday nights for some tareeqah.

If there's any error, I'm open for rectification. None is perfect as perfection only belongs to Allah (God Almighty). All good things come from Allah and all the bad things are from my side and the side of Shaiytan the accursed.