In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Milestones on the path to stability
The second requirement
Means of stability
There are means for steadfastness that God has prescribed in His Book
And on the tongue of His Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace
It was represented in the stories of the proven prophets and messengers
And the righteous saints of God from the first and the last
This is explained and detailed in the following
Firstly
God is the stabilizer
The millstone pole in the stabilization process
To know the knowledge of certainty
That God is the stabilizer
And the hearts of the servants are between two of the Most Merciful’s fingers
He turns it around as he wants
God Almighty
He establishes his righteous guardians in this life and the hereafter
What is proven is its description and action
It is not one of his names
No one can do without the affirmation of God Almighty for a single moment
Even the prophets and messengers
God Almighty said
Even if they almost tempt you away from what We have revealed to you
To slander others against us
And if they would not have taken you as a friend
Had We not made you firm, you would have been little dependent on them
We would have made you taste the weakness of life and the weakness of death
Then you will not find a helper against us
Ibn al-Qayyim said in Rawdat al-Muhibbin
The servant should not rely on himself, his patience, his condition, or his chastity
Relying on that, the infallibility of God has abandoned him
He was surrounded by disappointment
God Almighty said: “The most honorable of creation to Him and the most beloved to Him.”
Had We not made you firm, you would have been dependent on them for a little while
This was one of his supplications
O converter of hearts, make my heart steadfast in your religion
Most of his right hand was not the one who turned hearts
How, when it was revealed to him
And know that God comes between a person and his heart
And the Almighty said
God strengthens those who believe with the firm word in this life and in the afterlife
And God misleads the wrongdoers
And God does whatever He wants
And in the two Sahihs, the wording is by Muslim
On the authority of Al-Baraa bin Azib
On the authority of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, he said
God confirms those who believe with the firm word
He said: I descended into the torment of the grave
It will be said to him, “Who is your Lord?”
He says: My Lord is God and the Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace
That is what God Almighty says
God strengthens those who believe with the firm word in this life and in the afterlife
Ibn al-Qayyim said in informing the signatories
And under his saying
God strengthens those who believe with the firm word in this life and in the afterlife
Great treasure
Whoever according to his suspicion
And extract it well, acquire it, and spend from it
He lost sheep
Whoever deprives him is deprived
This is because the servant cannot do without God’s affirmation of him even for the blink of an eye
If it is not proven
Otherwise, the sky and earth of his faith will disappear from their place
God Almighty said: “The most honorable of His creation is His servant and Messenger.”
Had We not made you firm, you would have been dependent on them for a little while
And God Almighty said to the most honorable of His creation
When your Lord revealed to the angels, “I am with you, so strengthen those who believe.”
And God Almighty said to His Messenger
And we will tell you from the noblest messengers what we will strengthen your heart with
All creation is divided into two parts
Successful with the installation and disappointed in abandoning the installation
The subject of confirmation is its origin and its like from the fixed saying
And he did what the servant commanded
Through them, God establishes His servant
And everyone who was proven in word and did better
It was the greatest fixation
God Almighty said
If they had done what they preach, it would have been better for them and more steadfast
So people are more steadfast in their hearts and more steadfast in their words
The fixed statement is the true and honest statement
It is the opposite of false statement and lying
The statement is kind of fixed and has truth
It is false and has no truth
The statement is proven by the word monotheism and its implications
It is the greatest thing by which God strengthens His servants in this world and the hereafter
This is why you see the truthful person as the most steadfast and bravest of people in heart
A liar is one of the most disgraceful, cowardly, most colorful, and least steadfast people
The people of physiognomy know the sincerity of the truthful person
From the steadfastness of his heart in times of danger, his courage, and his fearlessness
They know that the liar is lying to the contrary
This is only hidden from the weak-sighted
Since God is the One who establishes stability, then stability is from Him and to Him
Therefore, the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, used to pray frequently for steadfastness
On the authority of Shahr bin Hawsh bin he said:
I said to Umm Salamah, may God be pleased with her
O Mother of the Believers
What was the most frequent supplication of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, if you had it?
She said
It was more his supplication
O converter of hearts
Make my heart firm on your religion
She said
So I told him
O Messenger of God
How many times do you pray for this?
He said
Oh Umm Salamah
He is not a human being unless his heart is between two of God's fingers
Whoever wants to stay, and whoever wants to visit
And in Sahih Muslim, on the authority of Abdullah bin Omar bin Al-Aas, may God be pleased with them both, he said
I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, say
The hearts of all the children of Adam are between two of the Most Merciful’s fingers
As one heart
He spends it wherever he wants
Then the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said
Oh God, the bank of hearts
Devote our hearts to your obedience
On the authority of Anas he said:
The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, used to say a lot
O converter of hearts
Make my heart firm on your religion
He said
So we said, O Messenger of God
We believed in you and what you brought
Do you fear for us?
He said
And he said yes
Hearts are between two of God Almighty's fingers. He turns them around
Ibn al-Qayyim said in the path of migration and the chapter on happiness
If the servant knows that God Almighty is the One who turns hearts
And it comes between a person and his heart
And He, Glory be to Him, is in a matter every day
He does what he wants and rules what he wants
And He guides whom He wills and misleads whom He wills
He raises whomever He wants and lowers whomever He wants
He does not believe that God will change his heart
And it comes between him and him
And he deviates from it after his residence
God praised His faithful servants by saying:
Our Lord, do not let our hearts deviate after You have guided us
Were it not for the fear of deviation, they would not have asked him not to make their hearts shift
He said in the key to the house of happiness
This is why in the supplication narrated by Imam Ahmad and Al-Nasa’i
On the authority of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace
Oh God, I ask you to be steadfast in the matter
And the determination to reach maturity
These two words are the intercourse of the farmer
And the servant did not achieve anything except by wasting them
Or wasting one of them
No one came except out of haste and recklessness
And the Bedouins provoked him
Or out of negligence and complacency
And wasting an opportunity after it had passed
If stability comes first and determination comes second
Every farmer succeeded
God is the Grantor of success
And pray for steadfastness
He was righteous before
Especially in times of adversity
God Almighty said, describing the first Mujahideen
When they came out to Goliath and his soldiers
They said, “Our Lord, bestow upon us patience.”
And steady our feet
And grant us victory over the disbelieving people
And he said
And there is no prophet
Many rabbis fought with him
They were not weakened by what befell them in the cause of God
They were not weak and did not submit
And God loves those who are patient
What they said was nothing but what they said
They said, “Our Lord, forgive us our sins.”
And our extravagance in our affairs
And steady our feet
And grant us victory over the disbelieving people
So God gave them the reward of this world
And good reward in the afterlife
And God loves the doers of good
He said in the supplication of the believers
Our Lord, do not let our hearts deviate from delusion
When You have guided us, grant us mercy from You
You are the Wahhab
And in the two Sahihs
On the authority of Al-Baraa, may God be pleased with him, he said:
I saw the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace
The day of parties moves the dirt
The white dust of his stomach was covered
And he says
If you were not our guide
Do not believe us or pray
So they sent down Sakina upon us
And keep your feet steady except for a while
The former have transgressed against us
If they want to seduce our father
Milestones on the path to stability