Some examples of The Weakness of Faith
c). Being Lazy in Worship and Obedience
Laziness, especially in worship is the quality of the hypocrite, not the believer.
Allah the Exalted decreed,
إِنَّ الْمُنَافِقِينَ يُخَادِعُونَ اللَّهَ وَهُوَ خَادِعُهُمْ وَإِذَا قَامُوا إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ قَامُوا كُسَالَى يُرَاءُونَ النَّاسَ وَلَا يَذْكُرُونَ اللَّهَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا [النساء: 142]
“Behold, the hypocrites seek to delude Allah, but it is He Who has subjected them to delusion. When they rise to Prayer, they rise reluctantly, and only to be seen by people. They remember Allah but little.” (QS. An Nisa: 142).
Are you lazy in:
- Performing the five compulsory prayers in time
- Performing the five compulsory prayers in congregation for men
- Performing the prayer in congregation at the first row
- Performing the friday prayer in time
- Performing the voluntary prayers before and after the obligatory ones, moreover the night prayer and dhuha prayer
- Paying the zakat in time
- Performing the Ramadan fast
- Reciting the Qur’an
- Attending the Islamic lessons
- and other kind of worships that is taught in Islam.
Thus, being lazy in performing what mentioned above are among the examples of the weakness of one’s faith.
d). Not being angry when Allah’s law and lines being trespassed, moreover abused
When there are people who:
– Perform shirk; such as making offerings for trees, sea, or the like, asking for blessing from the dead, wearing amulet, heirloom, keris, or going to an oracle to ask about something, slaughtering when building a house, believing in the horoscope, feeling of bad luck whenever he sees or hears something, hanging amulet at his house/store/himself, using the implant, using the tattoos, asking for help from the jinn, etc.
– Perform innovation; specializing some worship for specific time, on specific circumstance, or at specific number, at specific place, due to specific reason without any specification and example from the Messenger of Allah -peace and prayer of Allah be upon him-.
– Perform wrongdoings; committing adultery, stealing, harming other, tricking, killing, lying, women outside of their house without covering their awrah even wearing shorter shorts than children, corrupting, etc.
And we do not deny all these evils, although just with our hearts…then this is among the weakness of faith.
عَنِ الْعُرْسِ بْنِ عَمِيرَةَ الْكِنْدِىِّ عَنِ النَّبِىِّ -صلى الله عليه وسلم- قَالَ « إِذَا عُمِلَتِ الْخَطِيئَةُ فِى الأَرْضِ كَانَ مَنْ شَهِدَهَا فَكَرِهَهَا ». وَقَالَ مَرَّةً « أَنْكَرَهَا ». « كَمَنْ غَابَ عَنْهَا وَمَنْ غَابَ عَنْهَا فَرَضِيَهَا كَانَ كَمَنْ شَهِدَهَا ».
Al ‘Urs Ibn Umaira al Kindy -may Allah be pleased with him- narrated that Prophet Muhammad -peace and prayer of Allah be upon him- said, “If a sin committed on earth, then whoever saw it and hated it, ” and he also said, “then he denied it, as one who do not see it, and whoever being pleased with it, as one who attend it.” (Narrated by Abu Daud, and classed good by Al Albani in his book, “Shahih Al Jami’”, no. 689).
e). Being Stingy
What counts regarding a muslim’s wealth is on how he managed to spend the wealth in Allah’s Cause, not how he managed to collect it.
And the faith and stinginess will never be united in a believer’s heart.
عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: (لَا يَجْتَمِعُ غُبَارٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَدُخَانُ جَهَنَّمَ فِي جَوْفِ عَبْدٍ وَلَا يَجْتَمِعُ الشُّحُّ وَالْإِيمَانُ فِي قَلْبِ عَبْدٍ أَبَدًا)
Abu Huraira -may Allah be pleased with him- said, the Messenger of Allah -peace and prayer of Allah be upon him- said, “The dusts of jihad in Allah’s cause will not be united in the mouth of a slave with the dust of the Hellfire, and the stinginess and faith will not be united in a heart of a slave forever.” (Narrated by An Nasai and Ahmad, classed valid by Al Albani in his book, “Shahih Al jami’”, no. 7616).
f). Committing wrongdoing when being alone, in quietness, and the like
Dear readers,
Keep your piety when you are alone, as you would keep it in front of the people…
Keep yourself from sins when you are alone as you would keep it in front of the people…
Beware of the sins committed in silence…and hidden place…be extremely ware of it!!!
ثَوْبَانَ عَنِ النَّبِىِّ -صلى الله عليه وسلم- أَنَّهُ قَالَ : « لأَعْلَمَنَّ أَقْوَامًا مِنْ أُمَّتِى يَأْتُونَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ بِحَسَنَاتٍ أَمْثَالِ جِبَالِ تِهَامَةَ بِيضًا فَيَجْعَلُهَا اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ هَبَاءً مَنْثُورًا ». قَالَ ثَوْبَانُ : يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صِفْهُمْ لَنَا جَلِّهِمْ لَنَا أَنْ لاَ نَكُونَ مِنْهُمْ وَنَحْنُ لاَ نَعْلَمُ. قَالَ : « أَمَا إِنَّهُمْ إِخْوَانُكُمْ وَمِنْ جِلْدَتِكُمْ وَيَأْخُذُونَ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ كَمَا تَأْخُذُونَ وَلَكِنَّهُمْ أَقْوَامٌ إِذَا خَلَوْا بِمَحَارِمِ اللَّهِ انْتَهَكُوهَا ».
Thauban -may Allah be pleased with him- narrated that Prophet Muhammad -peace and prayer of Allah be upon him- said, “Indeed, I’ll tell you about some people of my followers that would come on the Hereafter bringing rewards of goodness as if they were the white mountains of Tihama, but Allah the Great and Almighty crushed them into scattering dusts. Thauban -may Allah be pleased with him- said, “O Messenger of Allah, please mention about their qualities to us, please explain about them to us so that we will not be like them while we’re unaware of it.” He said, “Know that indeed, they are from your friends, from your nation, and they pray at night as you pray, but they are people who, when they are alone with the thing that Allah forbade, they’ll do it.” (Narrated by An Nasa’i and classed valid by Al Albani in “Silsilah Al Ahadits Ash Shahihah”, no. 505).
Dear readers,
I hope this will be useful for you, and Allah knows best.
Written by Ahmad Zainuddin
Article of www.WhatisQuran.com