Here are my tips on trying to get that old Spirit back!
1. When people convert to Islam.. Or just recently learnt about Islam and now their practicing.. they end up losing that first time spirit after a while.. The best thing to try and overcome this is wake up 10 mins before Fajr! Tahajjud prayer which is the night prayer.. This is SubhanAllah when Allah is the closest to us.. He is at the lowest heaven and calls out and says "Which one of my servants is awake and asking for me"
This is the time where NO one is awake.. Its just You, Your prayer mat and Allah.. Just take that time to just let everything out.. Every feeling inside of you.. Honestly let out a cry. I promise you it will help you so much..
2. Remembering Death and the Day of Judgement. When you remember your purpose in this life and exactly what you are doing to fulfil your duty as a Muslim it becomes easy for you follow Allahs Command without question.. When you remember that you will die ANYTIME it scares you because if you die in a state where you have no iman or doing something wrong then what are you going to say??? What will you say to your lord?? If you die and the last words aren't La Illaha Illalla, Then you're in BIG Trouble... You didn't remember Allah on your last breath.. There isn't a more painful death.. Your soul will be ripped out of your body as if you pull thorns through a ball of cotton wool.. Whereas for a believer and I mean a PROPER Practising Believer it will feel like a mosquito bite..A painless death.. You need to die a Mu'min or face Allahs Punishment. Its not easy to go heaven you know! But its soo easy to go to hell..
You make the choice..?
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Or this...
I know that remembering or fearing death can be hard seeing as though most of the time the death of someone isn't close to you.. but just think that Do you fear death when you do think about it? If you do, then that means your Iman isn't to the highest it can be, Your belief isn't as strong.. it means that your fearful knowing that your not being the best muslim you can be.. Are you making sacrifices?? Are you researching more about islam to find out things that will make you a better muslim?? Are you even trying to improve yourself? What are you putting first? Your feelings or Allahs orders?? You should think that 'Im ready if death comes to me right now.." But do any of us think that way..
Day of Judgement can be one of the things that also can not make you as fearful.. But if I said to you that most of the signs have come and we have seen and only the major ones are left.. what would you think then?? Still not scared..??
Okay well even if you do die beforehand..Which even I hope I do.. Would you be able to face the grave..? Grave punishment.. Do you know what they are..? The ground will crush your ribs so that they overlap on one another.. The snake.. Think of all the bugs and things that you are terrified of and they will be in that tight space with you..
I might do another post about the punishments of the grave and hell. I think we all need a good scare.. dont you think?
If you knew that this was going to be in your grave would you want to go in there..?
Those snakes wont leave until you get what you earned in this world..
3. The value of time..
This is the time where NO one is awake.. Its just You, Your prayer mat and Allah.. Just take that time to just let everything out.. Every feeling inside of you.. Honestly let out a cry. I promise you it will help you so much..
2. Remembering Death and the Day of Judgement. When you remember your purpose in this life and exactly what you are doing to fulfil your duty as a Muslim it becomes easy for you follow Allahs Command without question.. When you remember that you will die ANYTIME it scares you because if you die in a state where you have no iman or doing something wrong then what are you going to say??? What will you say to your lord?? If you die and the last words aren't La Illaha Illalla, Then you're in BIG Trouble... You didn't remember Allah on your last breath.. There isn't a more painful death.. Your soul will be ripped out of your body as if you pull thorns through a ball of cotton wool.. Whereas for a believer and I mean a PROPER Practising Believer it will feel like a mosquito bite..A painless death.. You need to die a Mu'min or face Allahs Punishment. Its not easy to go heaven you know! But its soo easy to go to hell..
THIS <<
Or this...
I know that remembering or fearing death can be hard seeing as though most of the time the death of someone isn't close to you.. but just think that Do you fear death when you do think about it? If you do, then that means your Iman isn't to the highest it can be, Your belief isn't as strong.. it means that your fearful knowing that your not being the best muslim you can be.. Are you making sacrifices?? Are you researching more about islam to find out things that will make you a better muslim?? Are you even trying to improve yourself? What are you putting first? Your feelings or Allahs orders?? You should think that 'Im ready if death comes to me right now.." But do any of us think that way..
Day of Judgement can be one of the things that also can not make you as fearful.. But if I said to you that most of the signs have come and we have seen and only the major ones are left.. what would you think then?? Still not scared..??
Okay well even if you do die beforehand..Which even I hope I do.. Would you be able to face the grave..? Grave punishment.. Do you know what they are..? The ground will crush your ribs so that they overlap on one another.. The snake.. Think of all the bugs and things that you are terrified of and they will be in that tight space with you..
I might do another post about the punishments of the grave and hell. I think we all need a good scare.. dont you think?
Those snakes wont leave until you get what you earned in this world..
3. The value of time..
Now this one.. Time.. Is the biggest issue that more youth have. Wasting time! Valuable time.. And Honestly I'm guilty of that too.. But some people are to the extreeemmmeee! Like they have no value to their life! Imagine that you are running, your running to your family who are dying and they need water, you have that bucket of water in your hand how fast would you run?? What if that bucket had a hole in it? How would you feel for every drop that was falling on the ground and your trying so hard to make sure one drop doesn't fall.. what would that mean to you?!
That is the exactly what this life is all about.. We are running towards the hereafter.. Whether its the right way or the wrong way we are still all going to end up at the same destination.. But some of us are wasting our time messing about, bring sins along the way.. stopping to have a chat with a guy.. This is a load of rubbish! There are people wayyyy ahead of you! you need to get their fast so you can win your reward right!? Your prize is Jannah! And their are people already taking up your spaces!!.. You would try your best to get there without wasting time because you earned it and you worked hard for it.. Don't waste precious time that you will NEVER get back.. There are people in the Hell fire Screaming for a second chance but Allah will say "Did we not give you all chances in this world?" "Didn't we show you every proof and example?" Yet you STILL denied.. Now who will you blame other than yourself..?
Brothers and sister.. I pray for you all but if your iman is at a low point right now just think that there is sooo much better things to come! Look at what Allah has provided for you in this world and what he is offering in the hereafter!! Money, Education, All the desireable things that you love, Your HEALTH. He has offered a Paradise which you can do ANYTHINGGGG, there will be no guilt nothing, This is only for the people that believed and did righteous deeds.!!!!. Yet we are sooo ungrateful! Look at the people suffering! Allah could have switched our place with them.. But he didn't... Why? because he is testing you to see if after seeing all that is happening and everything he has given to you.. Can you still get up to pray and ask him for forgiveness and thank him... Don't make things hard for yourself.. Islam is Black and white! Following it is easy.. Making yourself choose to follow it is hard..
Can you do that? Or do you just not want to..
That is the exactly what this life is all about.. We are running towards the hereafter.. Whether its the right way or the wrong way we are still all going to end up at the same destination.. But some of us are wasting our time messing about, bring sins along the way.. stopping to have a chat with a guy.. This is a load of rubbish! There are people wayyyy ahead of you! you need to get their fast so you can win your reward right!? Your prize is Jannah! And their are people already taking up your spaces!!.. You would try your best to get there without wasting time because you earned it and you worked hard for it.. Don't waste precious time that you will NEVER get back.. There are people in the Hell fire Screaming for a second chance but Allah will say "Did we not give you all chances in this world?" "Didn't we show you every proof and example?" Yet you STILL denied.. Now who will you blame other than yourself..?
Brothers and sister.. I pray for you all but if your iman is at a low point right now just think that there is sooo much better things to come! Look at what Allah has provided for you in this world and what he is offering in the hereafter!! Money, Education, All the desireable things that you love, Your HEALTH. He has offered a Paradise which you can do ANYTHINGGGG, there will be no guilt nothing, This is only for the people that believed and did righteous deeds.!!!!. Yet we are sooo ungrateful! Look at the people suffering! Allah could have switched our place with them.. But he didn't... Why? because he is testing you to see if after seeing all that is happening and everything he has given to you.. Can you still get up to pray and ask him for forgiveness and thank him... Don't make things hard for yourself.. Islam is Black and white! Following it is easy.. Making yourself choose to follow it is hard..
Can you do that? Or do you just not want to..
You have two places you will end up.. Hell or Heaven.. You make the decision..
