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<\/a>\n\u201cI bear witness that there is no god but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad(S) is His messenger\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
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We say this at least 9 times a day in our salah <\/em>from Fajr<\/em> to Isha.<\/em> This is the biggest commitment that each Muslim has made and it shouldn\u2019t be taken lightly. I have to admit that sometimes I am casual with the commitments I make with people; I am late when meeting my friends for dinner near my house or sometimes leave early even though I said I could stay for the whole duration of an event. If I were to be as casual in my commitment to the Deen; establishing salah only whenever I felt like it, eat whatever I wanted to, dressed in whatever manner I felt appealing to people and had physical contact with those that are not lawful for me,\u00a0 can I consider myself a Muslim? Perhaps, but can I be a good one?<\/em><\/p>\n I\u2019m not just a Muslim; I\u2019m a son, brother, student, employee, volunteer and a friend too.<\/em><\/p>\n If I can make the effort to follow the Deen then can\u2019t I put some effort into all my other commitments as well?<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n <\/em>Fulfilling our obligations as Muslims can be challenging at times. The nafs <\/em>can be quite convincing in trying to steer ourselves away from it but we fight it and we fight shaitan<\/em> because of our commitment to Islam; to Allah. This takes a tremendous amount of effort and a continuous one at that. When we put that into perspective, the effort we could put into our other commitments pales in comparison.<\/p>\n If we can wake up and lift those \u201cheavy\u201d sheets in the morning for Fajr<\/em>, what\u2019s a little time spent to ensure we meet people on time? If we can be meticulous in taking our wudhu\u2019 to<\/em> make sure we do it correctly, how difficult is it to check our work before we submit it to our teachers or bosses? [divider]<\/p>\n Fadhuli Taufek<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Khutbah Reflections: Inculcating the Attribute of Al-Wafaa\u2019 in Ourselves – The Key to a Close Relationship with Allah and with other Human Beings. This is for the Khutbah on 14 December 2012 [divider] A commitment isn\u2019t something to be taken lightly. It is a promise that we have made and we are obliged to fulfil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2161,5],"tags":[2188,2190,2192,2193,2189,10,363,2191],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-khutbah-reflections","category-bebetter","tag-al-wafaa","tag-amanah","tag-being-a-good-muslim","tag-close-relationship-with-allah","tag-commitments","tag-featured","tag-muslim","tag-responsible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI did a little introspection after the khutbah:<\/p>\n
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\nWe may think of ourselves as good people but we can\u2019t consider ourselves as good Muslims until we do our best fulfil our commitments to Allah and<\/strong> the people around us.<\/p>\n
\nFadhuli is an aspiring writer and believes in putting in the time and effort into meaningful causes. He strives to improve himself as a person and as a Muslim.<\/em><\/p>\n