{"id":2703,"date":"2021-07-02T19:52:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T18:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2021-07-02T19:52:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T18:52:51","slug":"sign-of-true-believers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/2021\/07\/02\/sign-of-true-believers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign of True Believers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are all blessed here in that we are Muslims. It is truly\nthe greatest gift that any human being can have in the world today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what is better than this is that we are regarded by Allah\nSWT as believers as well. We can see in the world today that there are examples\nof those people who call themselves Muslim but in actual fact their behaviour\ndemonstrates otherwise. Of course, Allah SWT is the judge of these people but by\nillustrating the example of these people, it is clear that being a believer is\nmore than just the declaration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A true believer is one that leaves to doubt in the minds of\nthose who know him, interact with him or hear of him. In fact, the Prophet SAWS\nsummarized this point perfectly when it was asked of him. The hadith is\ntranslated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nMessenger of Allah [SAW] said: “The Muslim is the one from whose tongue\nand hand the people are safe, and the believer is the one from whom the\npeople’s lives and wealth are safe.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear brothers, we can see from this that\nthe most basic level of Imaan requires that people are safe from us physically\nand emotionally. To say both the hand and the tongue means that we, as Muslims,\nrefrain not just from causing physical harm but also mental harm through lying,\ndeceiving, backbiting, mocking etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside this, we are taught that the\nbeliever demonstrates his status through keeping peoples lives and wealth safe.\nThis means the believer isn\u2019t a danger to others, either through oppression or\nrecklessness and the believer isn\u2019t someone who is going to cheat and deceive you\nout of money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear brothers, we can see from just this\nsingle hadith, there is a lot of responsibility that goes into being blessed\nwith being a believer. We cannot be reckless with this task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so, this reminder concludes 3 other\nsigns of a true believer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Concentration and the love of Prayer. From\nperforming the prayers towards the start of their allotted time to focus on the\nprayer, this is the foundation of our identity as our whole day should revolve around\nit. A sign of a true believer is where everyone knows that you are dedicated to\nyour prayers, that plans should be made around your prayers because you are\nthat committed to them, that if you are in a new place, the first thing you are\nthinking is about making your prayers and finding a place to do them. This\nlevel of dedication shows others that you are a true believer and is also a\nform of dawah to others as well.<\/li>
  2.  To pray\nZakat. The true believer understands that the Zakat is not optional, it isn\u2019t\neven a source of pride when given. The true believer understands that your Zakat\nis, from the moment you first earn it, the property of someone else. It is\nnever yours, you are simply the vehicle through which it passes. You are like a\nbank that is holding onto the funds before passing it to the rightful owner.\nThat\u2019s why payment of Zakat is done with the same commitment and obedience as\nwe pay our Council Tax or other mandatory payment, even more so because this\nmoney is never ours to begin with. This is how a true believer deals in Zakat.<\/li>
  3. To protect your chastity. The true believer\nunderstands that your modesty is a blessing from Allah SWT. It is what separates\nus from animals and so we keep our modesty like we protect our expensive\nphones. Which one of us has a phone without a cover? We keep that cover on to\nprotect the phone and keep it looking pristine. Same with our own chastity, we\nprotect ourselves from the blemishes of immorality and lewdness through the\ncompany we keep, the way we conduct ourselves and the way we dress. This is a\nform of jihad which means to struggle and it is a true struggle in the time and\nplace we live in and so this is yet another sign of the true believer.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Dear brothers, the declaration of faith makes us a Muslim\nand a believer. But the actions we do on a day-to-day basis will prove to ourselves\nin from of Allah SWT whether we are true believers or hypocrites. Let us use\ntoday\u2019s examples to demonstrate to others and to Allah SWT that are not just\nMuslims by name, but through the everyday actions we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We are all blessed here in that we are Muslims. It is truly the greatest gift that any human being can have in the world today. And what is better than this is that we are regarded by Allah SWT as believers as well. We can see in the world today that there are examples […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon","tag-believers"],"blocksy_meta":[],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}