all the rubbish that
is sold out there,
they can’t get into
that state; in fact,
their kids are not
even able to read
Quran because the
food is going into
their stomachs as
well. Once they
stop eating all the
rubbish, that is
when they start
When the
intention
becomes correct then
everything becomes
rewarding
reading the Quran again. People have experienced
that. We don’t need an experience to prove an ayah
(verse) of the Quran. The Prophet of Allah said
to Sayyiduna Saad , ‘O Saad, if you make your
food pure, you will become that person whose
prayer will be accepted.’ Allahu Akbar.
Purify the Intention
The second thing that people should do if they
want their amaal to get accepted is that the
intention they make in their heart should purely
and solely be for Allah and nothing else. It
should only be for the sake of Allah .
ن أ
ا�ا المعال ب�لنيات
“The actions are based on the intentions.”
One of the very pious people of the past, he used
to recite Quran beautifully. Once he was reading
Surah Rahman by himself. He was reading it in a
beautiful way. Suddenly, a man passed by and the
pious man didn’t necessarily change his intention
to recite more beautifully, but he recited a little
louder, so that the man would also make a plan
to start reciting the Quran. After he was done,
he slept at night. He saw that an angel came to
him and recited Surah Rahman and all the verses
were written in gold except a couple of ayahs that
were written in normal ink. He asked ‘Why?’ The
angel said, ‘These are the two ayahs where you
mixed your intention with something else
while you were reading this surah (chapter).
The intention got mixed up so that was not
accepted.’
So if we want that our actions are accepted,
then we have to make sure that we look into
our hearts as to why we are doing them.
When the intention becomes correct,
then everything becomes rewarding. So
much so that the Prophet of Allah even
encouraged the husbands to put food in the
mouths of their wives, and if they do that with
the intention that they are following the sunnah of
the Prophet , then even that thing will become
rewarding. Even the husband going to the wife
becomes rewarding. Allahu Akbar.
Even when people do something for the sake
of their own desires, then that also becomes
something that’s rewarding! Allahu akbar. When
the Sahabah (companions of the Prophet )
heard that, they said ‘O Prophet of Allah e,
this is rewarding?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ They get sin if
they do it according to the illegal way, but if they
do it according to the sunnah of the Prophet
of Allah e and the order of Allah , then it
becomes rewarding. This is our Allah . This is
who Allah is.
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