In the name of Allah
most Gracious most Merciful.
All thanks be to Allah Lord
of the worlds. May peace and prayers be upon the best of all messengers.
Allah says: {Those that believe in Allah
and the day after and perform the prayers and bring the charity and fears no
one but Allah, it is only those who tend to and flourish and develop mosques
of Allah. for they may be amongst the guided ones} 9:18.
Tending to and flourishing and developing
does not mean just building and decorating but it also means mentioning and
remembering and calling Allah in the mosque and applying His law and
protecting it from desecration or associating others with Allah.
Allah says: {in houses Allah allowed to be
elevated and in that His name shall be remembered or enchanted, therein do
offer praise to Him at early mornings and late afternoons}24:36 . Some
scholars interpreted the word “elevated” here to mean: “to be built” while
others interpreted as to be: “elevated in status”.
The Ayah also shows the
two general rules concerning mosques:
1)
Elevation, meaning building, maintaining, protecting against desecration
both in the physical sense and the moral or symbolic sense.
2)
Remembering or calling Allah’s name in mosques is in the forms of
worship such as prayers, or reciting, or learning or teaching, praising and
giving thanks to Allah and making e3tkat or binding oneself to the mosque
especially during Ramadan.
Tending to and flourishing and developing
mosques of Allah is actually building them and maintaining them. Flourishing
them is through remembering and enchanting the name of Allah during prayers
and other forms of worship. And this is the more honorable of the two types.
Well done to this that Allah bestowed him with money and he used it to
building, tending and maintaining mosques of Allah.
The messenger ppbu said: {who ever builds
a mosque for Allah, for no intention other than for the sake of Allah, then
Allah will build for him one like that in paradise}. Note that in order
to receive the reward, it is a condition that what you offered, has to be
for the sake of Allah alone. The messenger ppbu was reported saying: {All
deeds are taken as per the intentions. And every individual will get what
he/she intended. This who immigrated for Allah and His messenger then that
is what counts for him; and this who has immigrated for a worldly benefit;
or for a woman to marry, then his immigration is what he immigrated for}
The messenger ppbu was also reported saying:
[Of all the work and good deeds that will really follow an individual
after dying (known as an on-going deed) are: Some knowledge or science he
taught and distributed, Or a good sibling left behind, or Koran book left by
will, Or a built mosque, or a resting home built for those on travel, or a
water supply (river) made to flow, Or a charity out of his/her money in his
health and life that follows him/her after death]
The messenger ppbu said: {Build mosques
and clear rubbish out of them. For this who buld a mosque for Allah. A man
asked, and this goes for mosques we build on roads? He said: yes, and
clearing them off rubbish is the dowry for the beauties in paradise}
Allah says: {have faith into Allah and His
messenger ppbu, and spend of that we entrusted you with; and such those who
believe and spend, theirs will be a great reward} 57:6. Real happiness is
only for two:
1.
A man that Allah gave him money and he spends it in service of this
religion.
2.
A man that Allah gave him the Koran, and he stays up with it parts of
the night and tips of the day.
Let it be known that Allah only accepts from
those who fear Him. Allah says: {.. Unto
Him good words ascend, and the pious deed does He exalt;} 35:10. When Abo-Talha Al-Ansari heard this verse he said: “my most
loved riches to me is the well of Haa (ÍÇÁ),
and I have just donated for the sake of Allah. Messenger of Allah ppbu, put
where Allah would guide you”. The messenger ppbu said: {Waw, that is
money which will return a lot of profit (or that’s a profitable business)}.
3uthman Ebn 3affan gave an assembled army one
thousand dinars and supplies carried on a column of horses and three hundred
camels all for the sake of Allah. The Messenger PPBU said [nothing that
3uthman does after today will harm him].
Men in the early Muslim days used to donate
all their money for the sake of Allah, up to the point that Allah praises
and complements by donors by saying: {And none has with him any favour
for reward, (19) Except as seeking (to fulfill) the purpose of his Lord Most
High. (20) He verily will be content. (21)} 92:19-21. Blessed he who was
praised, and praise to Him who gave the praise.
Dear Muslim brothers who have money, you are
being called today to spend for the sake of Allah. Be generous with what He
gave you. Remember what Allah says in his book: {What remains with you
will perish, and what remains with Allah will last}
Also remember that one good deed will count
any where between ten times to seven hundred times, or even a lot more than
that. Allah says: {Those who spend their money for the sake of Allah are
just like a grain growing into a plant with seven spikes, and in each spike
one hundred grains. Allah will replicate to whom he wants, and Allah is so
resourceful, so knowledgeable}.
Dear brothers and sisters remember that when
Allah asks you for something and promises you with the great rewards, He
surely is not in need for you to give Him, He is only testing you with what
He gave you.
Allah says: {Who is he that will lend to
Allah a goodly loan so that He may multiply it to him many folds? And it is
Allah that decreases or increases (your provisions), and unto Him you shall
return}
He also says: {And lend to Allah a goodly
loan, and whatever good you send before you for yourselves, you will
certainly find it with Allah, better and greater in reward. And seek
forgiveness of Allah. Verily, Allah is most-Forgiving, Most-Merciful.}
The messenger PPBU said: {This who builds
a mosque for Allah even if it was as big as a birds nest, Allah will build a
house for him in paradise}.
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