Gel Tevbe Eyle (Come on Make Repentance)

As Selaamu Alaikum,

Everything happens for a reason and nothing occurs without Allah’s (SWT) plan. I was feeling a bit down because of some problems at work. I was studying Qur’an with a friend. We had some questions and needed some answers, so looked in to various Islamic sites. While searching, this link popped in first, Allahu Alim. I clicked in as I recognized it’s language. While I listened to it something came out of my system and I could not hold my tears. It is so beautifully said if you only understood the language. As with any other language, it is difficult to translate it fully as you can never translate the feelings when you read it in the original language. It loses its taste, elegance and beauty. However I will translate it as best I can inshaAllah. I hesitated to put the link initially because of differences of opinion about “it is haram” or “not haram” argument. I decided to put it up in the end. It is for people who will/may benefit from it and Allah (SWT) knows best.

Fırsat bu fırsattır ömür geçiyor
Günahların senden tevbe istiyor
Farkında değilsin kalbin ağlıyor
Ecelin gelmeden gel tevbe eyle
This is the opportunity, your lifetime is passing
Make repentance as your sins are wanting
You are not aware that your heart is crying
Before your death, come repenting

Nefsin derki daha zamanın çoktur
Kimsenin elinde senedi yoktur
VALLAHİ BİLLAHİ hesabın zordur
Son nefes gelmeden gel tevbe eyle
Your Nafs-ego say you have got time
Nobody has a contract in hand
By Allah your situation is difficult
Before your last breath, come to repent.

Bütün delillerle KURAN dır ayan
Ateşin söndürür kalpteki İMAN
Bu çirkin gafletten gel sende uyan
Kabrin açılmadan gel tevbe eyle
The Qur’an is the whole proof
Your heart’s IMAN will put out the flames of the fire
From this heedlessness, come, and you too wake up
Before your grave is opened, come and repent.

Kalibinin kabzını dinle ne söyler
Duy seni rabbine şikayet eder
Bulanıklığını tevbeyle gider
Can tenden cıkmadan gel tevbe eyle
Listen to the voice of your heart
It is complaining to your Lord (RAB)
Take your senility away with repentance
Before your soul leaves your body, come and repent

ALLAH sevgisidir ruhun gıdası
Bunu feryad eder arşın nidası
Savarmı tevbesiz gaflet yarası
Cehennem tutmadan gel tevbe eyle
The nutrition for your spirit is love of Allah
This is what is cried out loud from the Throne
Would the wound of heedlessness be cured without repentance?
Before the Fire takes you, come and repent

Nefsin derki daha zamanın çoktur
Kimsenin elinde senedi yoktur
VALLAHİ BİLLAHİ hesabın zordur
Son nefes gelmeden gel tevbe eyle
Son nefes gelmeden gel tevbe eyle gel tevbe eyle gel gel ne olursan ol yine gel kurtuluşa gel, affet yaa “RAB”
Your Nafs say you have got time
Nobody has a contract in hand
By Allah your situation is difficult
Before your last breath, come to repent.
Before your last breath, come to repent,
whoever you are come to salvation. O Lord, forgive us.

ALLAHUMME Lebbeyk ALLAHUMME innel hamde vel niğmete vel mülk La şerike leke lebbeyk La şerike lek

O my Lord, here I am at Your service, here I am. There is no partner with You, here I am. Truly the praise and the provisions are Yours, and so is the dominion and sovereignty. There is no partner with You.

Mrs Neurocentric, WS.

from ‘Umar

“I looked at all the friends and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all the dresses but did not find a better dress than piety. I thought about all sorts of wealth but did not find a better wealth than contentment in a little. I thought of all sorts of good deeds but did not find a better deed than offering good advice. I looked at all types of sustenance but did not find a better sustenance than patience.”

HEAT

I received the following in an email from imase this morning and wanted to share it:

Ramadan is derived from an Arabic word for intense heat and scorched ground

As heat cleans that which is unclean, may this month clean our heart from any impurity within

As heat that scours the muck off a surface, may this month bar our speech from vain chatter

As heat that removes foul odour from the air, may this month remove wicked visions from our eyes

As the heat that welds two pieces of iron together, may this month connect our hand and legs to beneficial things

As the heat that eradicates the germs from the environment, may this month remove bad thoughts from our mind and replace it with good faith;

And so we ask our Creator for the heat of this month to purify us and return us to the scorched ground where we stand on the Last Day. On the day when the heat will raze to the scorched ground all our facade which we build with so much effort, and leave us with only that which is within, blown unto us by the Creator on the day of our creation.

Hours are but breaths!

The following has been sent to me by the owner of the “Lesson of the Day” website, May Allah reward her.

Imam Ibn al-Jawzi (ra) in his letter of advice to his son, wrote:

Know, dear son, that days are but hours, and hours are but breaths, and every soul is a container, hence let not any breath pass without any benefit, such as on the Day of Judgment you find an empty container and feel regret! Be aware of every hour and how it passes, and only spend it in the best possible way; do not neglect yourself, but render it accustomed to the noblest and best of actions, and send to your grave that which will please you when you arrive to it.”

This world is transitory and our life therein but a moment borrowed, our breaths numbered, yet our indifference reckless. [Abu Bakr al Siddiq]

Strive for Paradise. A small nook within its bliss is better than the whole world and all the riches within. [al Hadith]

A believer is never tired of hearing about good deeds until he enters Paradise. [al Hadith]

Let’s read this together

Source: The Purification of the Soul, published by Al-Firdous Ltd, London, ISBN 1874263000 – Chapter 5, ‘The Four Poisons of the Heart’, pages 27-9. Quote (apologies for any typos):

Unrestrained Glances

The unrestrained glance results in the one who looks becoming attracted to what he sees, and in the imprinting of an image of what he sees in his heart. This can result in several kinds of corruption in the heart of the servant. The following are a number of them:

It has been related that the Prophet (pbuh) once said words to the effect: “The glance is a poisoned arrow of shaytan. Whoever lowers his gaze for Allah, He will bestow upon him a refresing sweetness which he will find in is heart on the day that he meets Him.”

Shaytan enters with the glance, for he travels with it, faster than the wind blowing through an empty place. He makes what is seen appear more beautiful than it really is, and transforms it into an idol for the heart to worship. Then he promises it false rewards, lights the fire of desires within it, and fuels it with the wood of forbidden actions, which the servant would not have committed had it not been for that distorted image.

This distracts the heart and makes it forget its more important concerns. It stands between it and them; and so the heart loses its straight path and falls into the pit of desire and ignorance. Allah, Mighty and Glorious is He, says:

{ And do not obey anyone whose heart We have made forgetful in remembering Us – who follows his own desires, and whose affair has exceeded all bounds. (18:28) }

The unrestrained gaze causes all three afflictions.

It has been said that between the eye and the heart is an immediat connection; if the eyes are corrupted, then the heart follows. It becomes like a rubbish heap where all the dirt and filth and rottenness collect, and so there is no room for love for Allah, relating all matters to Him, awareness of being in His presence, and feeling joy in His proximity – only the opposite of these things can inhabit such a heart.
Staring and gazing without restraint is disobedience to Allah:

{ Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that is more purifying for them. Surely Allah is aware of what they do. (24:30) }

Only the one who obeys Allah’s commands is content in this world, and only the servant who obeys Allah will survive in the next world.

Furthermore, letting the gaze roam free cloaks the heart with darkness, just as lowering the gaze for Allah clothes it in light. After the above ayah, Allah, the Glorious and Mighty, says in the same surah of the Qur’an:

{ Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth: the likeness of His light is as if there were a niche, and in the niche is a lamp, and in the lamp is a glass, and the glass as it were a brilliant start, lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither of the east nor the west, whose oil is well nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it. Light upon light. Allah guides whomever He wants to His Light. Allah strikes metaphors for man; and Allah knows all things. (24:35) }

When the heart is a light, countless good comes to it from all directions. If it is dark, then clouds of evil and afflictions come from all directions to cover it up.

Letting the gaze run loose also makes the heart blind to distinguishing between truth and falsehood, between the sunnah and innovation; while lowering it for Allah, the Mighty and Exalted, gives it a penetrating, true and distinguising insight.

A righteous man once said, “Whoever enriches his outward behaviour by following the sunnah, and makes his inward sould wealthy through contemplation, and averts his gaze away from looking at what is forbidden, and avoids anything of a doubtful nature, and feeds solely on what is halal – his inner sight will never falter.”

Rewards for actions come in kind. Whoever lowers his gaze from what Allah has forbidden, Allah will give his inner sight abundant light.

Just as it was in the beginning

I must say this rather bothered me on my recent pilgrimage to Mecca: the construction of a monstrosity that already overshadows the Kaaba, even as its construction continues. When it is finished in three years’ time it will be the world’s seventh largest building – it can already be seen for miles around on the approach to Islam’s holiest site. Either I’m missing something, or the architects are. Could anyone conceive of a shopping mall being constucted 200 metres from the doors of the Abbey on Iona? Could anyone imagine a skyscaper being built next door to Cantebury Cathedral? There are people in the Muslim world who need their heads looking at if they think Mecca is in need of a landmark like this. Wait until you get inside. You’ve guessed it. At the spiritual heart of Islam, just four hundred feet from the Kaaba you will find all those favorites of the British high street: Boots the Chemist, Marks & Spencer, Next, British Home Stores, Accessorise and Starbucks. Thank you very much. The spirituality of our age is telling.

There is an article about this in The New York Times.