Burning Candle
23rd August 2007, 01:00 AM
Disobedience Devastates Blessings
Farid Haibatan
The illustrious scholar Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (751 AH) authored an incredible work, al-Da’ wa al-Dawa' (The Disease and the Cure), in which he detailed with remarkable insight the hideous consequences of sinning and disobeying Allah ta’ala. In this article a tiny segment of his discussion is presented, where he turns to the topic of blessings and how one is deprived of them as a result of acts of disobedience. The following is what he wrote:
It uproots the blessings of one’s life, sustenance, knowledge, deeds and obedience. In short, it eradicates the blessings of religion and world. You will not find the least blessing in the life, religion or world of one who disobeys Allah. It is none other than the disobedience of creation that effaces blessings from the Earth. Allah says, ‘And if the people of the towns had believed and had taqwa [piety], certainly, We would have opened for them blessings from the Heaven and the Earth’.
Full article
http://www.islam21c.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=81996&Itemid=45
Farid Haibatan
The illustrious scholar Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (751 AH) authored an incredible work, al-Da’ wa al-Dawa' (The Disease and the Cure), in which he detailed with remarkable insight the hideous consequences of sinning and disobeying Allah ta’ala. In this article a tiny segment of his discussion is presented, where he turns to the topic of blessings and how one is deprived of them as a result of acts of disobedience. The following is what he wrote:
It uproots the blessings of one’s life, sustenance, knowledge, deeds and obedience. In short, it eradicates the blessings of religion and world. You will not find the least blessing in the life, religion or world of one who disobeys Allah. It is none other than the disobedience of creation that effaces blessings from the Earth. Allah says, ‘And if the people of the towns had believed and had taqwa [piety], certainly, We would have opened for them blessings from the Heaven and the Earth’.
Full article
http://www.islam21c.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=81996&Itemid=45