Maybe some of us might knew what does iman is.
To those who are still spinning around their heads, iman is one of the two most valuable ni'mah in this world and hereafter. Why? Because these things are compulsary if you want to stay in heaven.
Whoever dies with the bits of iman inside his heart, insyaAllah Allah will place him in paradise as his permanent home forever.
However, some of us still view it without any values. It is like it is a piece of junk.
Don't they realise that they will be thrown in hell without iman? Moreover, do we know when the death will take us? (Thunderstorm strikes)
While for us who realise the importance of iman, Allah had obligated to His beloved prophet Muhammad PBUH NOT for himself or his tribes but for the mankind. But prophet Muhammad PBUH can't do it alone, so Allah had chose us, his ummah as the ancestors of his powerful job, which is to spread the word.
Now, back to the topic, to retain our iman is actually not simple, I mean NOT SIMPLE. We have to remind ourselves about iman and its importance more than 10 times or even a 100 times a day (Seriously?). For what? To secure our vunerable iman from being stolen by the syaitan.
Even prophet Muhammad PBUH, the best teacher with his companions, the best students, took 13 years to streghen their iman only before any other obligations was written. (Serious face)
So, why don't we even care about this? Because it is simple (Simply simple to be accurate)?
Maybe because the way is too 'simple', we can easily forget about it. How about we applicate some steps to ensure the security of our iman daily? What are they?
Come on, let's join me.
1. Pray and always have a 'meeting' with Allah.
Get used with masjid and musolla oftenly, always do i'tiqaf. Pray as you're having a meeting with Allah. Plead Him untill those tears roll down your face. Don't be shy, Allah is NOT like humans, He accept the repentation from His servants open-hearted (this is just an idiom, ok?). Always keep calm and feel the peace in every move you make. Most of all, focus or khusyu'. By then, you will put yourself closer and closer to Allah SWT and you will love Him. For sure, if you love someone, would you like to make him/her angry?
These are the mu'minoon, they are afraid of being disobedient in front of their God (He's our God too).
Nowadays, we 'pray' but we don't actually pray. (Thunderstorm strikes) It is because we didn't fulfill the rules and regulations. That's why most of muslims have problems in their lives.
2. Always remember Allah everytime everywhere.
Sometimes people often forget their God in a particular situation, but even worse, every situation. Spontaneously, they might had said negative words that disturbs their iman. Such as 'f@#%' and 'b*&#@' or whatsoever. Even weak, lazy and abnormal are negative too! (Thunderstorm strikes. Seriously, how many strikes had been done?) Words always and ALWAYS resembles our morality or immorality. How about........... we try to adapt ourselves with dzikr, istighfar and anything positive that upgrade our iman. When you are used these words, unconciously, you will cut down the usage of bad words and increase the good words everytime. Isn't that beautiful?
3. Be in enviroment and choose friends wisely.
To keep our security tight, it is compulsary have an Islamic enviroment. It is usually found in musolla and masajid. Anyways, we can't stand alone on our own feet against the world, right? We need some support, am I right? There are no heroes in any movies except they have a few companions by their side.
Even our beloved prophet PBUH has his companion so that there's an enviroment a.k.a base camp to replenish their iman.
If we jump into lagha enviroment, we can go astray from the truth (well, unless your iman is strong, is it?) But if we jump into Islamic enviroment, insyaAllah we won't go astray.
4. Have this 'mu'aqabah'.
Didn't get it? Ok, this is a little bit weird. It is to manipulate the shaytan. How? By giving yourself penalties everytime you make wrong doings with ibadah. Still don't get it? Ok, here are some simple examples:-
Everytime you don't wake up for qiamullail, you must finish 1 surah of the Quran and explain it to someone else.
or
Everytime you don't pray Subuh in masjid, you must find a person and make him revert to Islam.
Now, get it? Alhamdulillah.
So how can this thing help us? For your information, shaytan swore to Allah to make us astray from His way since the creation of Adam. So we do this 'mu'aqabah', their heads are spinning around,
'Should I make this fellow forget about qiamullail or not? I'm afraid that when he missed qiamullail, he will explain the Quran to someone and that person will get hidayah.'
Finally, they will become your slaves waking you up for qiamullail (Handclaps!Yippee!). Just one thing if you want to do this, istiqamah and DON'T BE A COUCH POTATO.
5. Learn more about Islam.
There's so much for me to write down. But I think it is enough for me. There are more ways to improve our iman daily. So I'm not going to put everything down. It is time for you to search it for yourself. Indeed, the more we learn, insyaAllah we will be better. If we are doing ibadah but we have no knowledge about it, it is like you shoot an arrow but you don't know which is your target.
So that's it for this post, insyaAllah we will meet again next time. Assalamualaikum!
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