Before We Move On To Surah al Maarij, 70..........Shaykh Khalid Yasin ,.' Are You Prepared? '

friends, dato and tansri,

' are you prepared ', asked shaykh khalid yasin, 'for the day when nukar and nakir stoop over you in your two feet by six feet hole in the ground, towering over you menacingly, asking ,  

' man rabbuka!.......man nabiuka!!..... '

frankly even if allah give me another 4 score and 10, i will never be prepared for that tumultuous day of infamy. 
i  always pray that i will be judged on mercy rather than on the basis of justice. but that is judgment day, a day preceeded by 50, 0000 ' earth years ' of standing in padang mahsyar, drowned in our own sweat and tears!

here we are talking of  our early days in alam barzakh......perhaps millenniums away from padang mahsyar.



shaykh khalid yasin,  ' are you prepared ? ',

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QyMNM9bxsA   ]



if we were to meet at- tabi'in, tuan guru al hasan al basri....his winning formulla for happiness, both in this world and the next is encapsulated in a ' trinity ' of:

solat
zikir 
qur'an, reading with comprehension.

[  http://drnikisahak.blogspot.com/2012/04/happiness-revisited.html ]


a century after hasan and many centuries that follow, hundreds and thousands of  souls,  from ibnu athaillah al iskandari; imam ghazali, imam nawawi, shaykh abdal qadir al jilani, sofyan at tsauri; and thousands others, transformed souls right up to present day shaykhs and tok gurus, tok kenali, wali songo etc etc and etc;.. all echoed hasan's  sentiment.

they  further expended his trinity formulla to SOP's for souls like us all who were and are floating about with indifference and ghaflah [  interpreted as in varying degrees of heedlessness ], to effect change in our hearts.

heart is the central of all change.
even the zen buddhists knew this very well
just last year i visited an old temple in old city kyoto and i found scrawled on one of the old wooden wall there, " when your heart change, the whole world around you change.."

towards effecting such change, these souls came up with these following SOP's for the wayfarers:

1.  http://drnikisahak.blogspot.com/2018/04/maarij-as-salikinranks-of-seekers.html


2.  on repentance...
     http://tafseerkoran.blogspot.com/2018/05/before-we-move-on-to-surah-al.html


3.  still on repentance, mahasabah and regret
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqRx9U69w6c


4.  contemplation and remembrance
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm9lRAIjJ3Y


5.  on sabr and shukr
     http://tafseerkoran.blogspot.com/2018/06/before-we-move-on-to-surah-al.html


6. on tawakkul, trust in allah
    http://tafseerkoran.blogspot.com/2018/06/before-we-move-on-to-surah-al-hadid.html

from amongst several dozen of attributes.
early scholars like ismail al ansari quoted and discuss about a 100 of them..
ibnu qayyim distilled them to about 10, knowing fully well that latter day muslims, may not have the tenacity of purpose to go beyond even 10.

if you can spare the time, do listen to all these pearls & gem.
this will change how you perceive this world forever.
you will get a phd !.......permanent head damage!

i will give you time, this time...ample time.



.....because we are going to  take a short break from tafseer here and insyaallah beginning 1st week of the new year we move on to surah al ma'arij.

for those of you guys who started on this journey with me on that fateful sunday 12th, 2012, with surah al fatihah follow by juz amma, we are just a few months away from 'qatamming' our tafseer.

alhamdullillah, insyaallah!
may i humbly wish you guys a new year full of taqwa and tranquility, insyaallah.

disregard petty issues.
we are still not yet greece, even though we are almost there once last year!...alhamdullillah.
be shukr and sabr.