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Day 38

Class-Living With Quran

Focus: Surah Al Baqarah ayah 208

“O you who have believed, enter into Islam completely [and perfectly] and do not follow the footsteps of Satan. Indeed, he is to you a clear enemy.”

Think for a moment: What are your interests? Are you pleasing Allah when you do the things that you love? If not, you are pleasing shaythan. How awful is that. When you’re pleasing shaythan, you’re following in his footsteps.

If someone told you about a person who was an enemy to your parents… what would you do? Would you listen to them? Would you follow them? Of course you wouldn’t! But remember…Shaythan was an enemy to Adam (as).

So, this ayah is telling us to implement everything. Implement all of the commands of Allah. Don’t be a part time Muslim.

“Don’t be a part tim Muslim.” How many times have we heard this? What does it mean?

To help us understand this in class, our teacher gave us the following the example:

Say you get your driver’s license. You go to your friends and say you’ll follow all of the traffic rules EXCEPT for the rule about stopping at the red lights because, well, you simply do not like stopping at red lights. It’s just too difficult. Will you be successful? No. you’ll crash. We can’t say “I will follow some of the driving sings and rules and won’t follow some as I am not ready for them yet.” Similarly, for Islam, you can’t say you’ll follow everything and leave out one or two things. ENTER COMPLETELY.

You can’t fool Allah. By taking some commands and leaving others, you’re hurting yourself. And why do that? Why leave commands to “enjoy” this life? It’s temporary. The hereafter is forever. Work for jannah.

Leave those acts which don’t please Allah. As mentioned earlier, when you’re not pleasing Allah, you are pleasing shaythan: your clear enemy.

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