Enough for you is your Home

The word 'isolation' and seclusion' have a special meaning in our Religion: to stay away from evil and its perpetrators, and to keep those who are foolish at a distance. When you seclude yourself from evil in this manner, you will have an opportunity to reflect, to think, to graze in the meadows of enlightenment.

                   When you isolate from the things that divert you from Allah's obedience, you are giving yourself a dose of medicine, one that doctors of the heart have found to be a most potent cure. When you seclude yourself from evil and idleness, your brain is stimulated into action. The results are in faith, repentance, and remembrance of Allah, the Almighty, All-Compassionate.

                   However, some gathering are not only recommended, but necessary: the congregational prayer, circles of learning, and all gathering of righteousness. As for gathering wherein frivolity and shallowness prevail, be wary of them. Take flight from such gatherings, weep over wrongdoing, hold your tongue, and be content within the boundaries of your home. By mixing with others based on foolish motives, you endanger the stability and somehow of your mind, for the people you indiscriminately mix with are likely to be experts at wasting time, masters at spreading lies, and skilled in spreading both trouble and mischief.

Had they marched out with you, they would have added to you nothing except disorder, and they would have hurried about in your midst [spreading corruption] and sowing sedition among you... [Quran (9):47]

"And I did not create the Jinn and Mankind except to worship me" [Quran (51):56]

         Therefore, it is advised to fortify yourself to your purpose and isolate yourself in your room, except when you leave it to speak well or to do well. hen you apply this advice, you will find that your heart has returned to you. So use your time well and save your life from being wasted. Hold your tongue from backbiting, free your heart from anxiety, and preserve your ears from profanity.

Thursday, February 20, 2014