designing my next dress. That is
their passion. So don’t make it
your passion.
What happens when you are
ironing your best designer dress
on the day of Eid and it gets
burnt. What happens to your
heart? If something happened,
then something is very wrong
with your heart. And if nothing
happened to your heart,
temperance, you have modesty.
You have shahwat, but you are
modest because you are directing
it in the right direction. There
is narration of the Prophet e,
which says,
الرهبانية يف� السالم
إ
There is no celibacy in Islam.
In fact, the Prophet said in
one of the hadith that a person
who eats good food and does
shukr ( is thankful), he gets the
same reward of a person who
fasts and does sabr (patience).
So you can make your biryani
and your pakoras. It is good to
enjoy the blessings of Allah
because if you will not have
the likeness for the blessings,
how will you do shukr? Shukr,
gratitude is something that
Allah loves. He loves the
shakireen(the ones who are
thankful).
NISBAH 44
Yo u r r e l i g o n
teaches you the quwwat of
s h a h w a t . Th e Pro ph e t
enjoyed eating certain foods.
If you read Shamail Tirmidhi,
Sahih Bukhari, Sahih Muslim
(books of narration) there are
chapters on eating and drinking.
Prophet enjoyed certain types
of drinks and he said how good
this food is. This means he did
have that taste in him, but he
was not passionate about it in
such a sense that, that was the
only thing he thought about. I
mean subhanAllah, I literally
know people that the only thing
they think about is food. We
even have an English term for
thes e people, ‘Foodies’. They
have just eaten their lunch and
all they want to think about is
what they are going to have for
dinner.
Similarly, women dreaming
about dresses. I had a student
and she was into dress designing.
She told me that if I go to
somebody’s house and pray
there, I look at the prayer mat
and it starts giving me ideas of
َ
َ إ نَّ� ِل َّل َوإ َّنـا إ َل ْي ِه
ِ ِ ِ ِ راجعون
ِ
“We certainly belong to Allah,
and to Him we shall return.”
(2:156)
It came from Allah and it went
back to Allah . Alhamdulillah,
it does not matter. The same
Allah who gave me one
designer dress, He will give me
another one. This is what it
means to keep it in balance.
The people of Allah also have
good cars, they also wear good
clothes but they are not running
after the dunya (worldly life).
They are not passionate about
dunya. That is what we have
to understand. When Allah
gives us we should be grateful
.That is why the Prophet said
that,” What a beautiful state a
Muslim is in, that when Allah
gives him he does shukr and the
shukr becomes good for him and
when Allah takes from him he
does sabr and the sabr becomes
good for him. So we have a winwin situation. In both situations