i need an islamic story?

Question

ON ZUHD in arabic and if u dont mind please give me the website

Answer 1

read the koran

Answer 2

These are in English. Sorry, I don't know Arabic so wouldn't be able to tell.

Here you go. Definition.
http://www.islaam.org/Tasawwuf/Tasa_46.htm

Doing of the Prophet of Islam Muhammad on the subject (May God be pleased with him)
http://www.iqra.net/Hadith/zuhd.php


Peace be with you Key Words "Hadiths on Zuhd"

Beware in your search, some Hadiths are made up and can only be confirmed by their compatibility with the Quran http://www.masjidtucson.org/quran/noframes/index.shtml Online Quran

Best Wishes

Answer 3

i'm sorry i cant find any thing in Arabic but i found this website for you i hope you find what you are looking for sister!

http://www.islamweb.net/ver2/MainPage/index.php

may Allah bless you

Answer 4

hmmmm....what do u mean by an "islamic" story?
story abt the holy qoran? or the prophets? or wut?

Answer 5

I found this story at www.imanway.com
Insha'Allah this is the story you were looking for and has helped.
Zuhd

Abu Al Abas ibin Saad AsSaidi said, "A man came to the messenger of Allah, and said, 'O Messenger of Allah, inform me of a good deed, which if I perform it, Allah will love me and the people will love me.' The Prophet replied, 'Practice Az Zuhd (modesty in the way life is lived) in the dunya and Allah will love you, and practice Az Zuhd (disinterest) in what the people own, and the people will love you.'" (Ibin Majah, Sahih Al Jami)

To explain this hadith, I begin by taking the explanation directly from Basics and Benefits from the Forty Hadith Nawawi, a book I highly recommend for anyone who does not have it.

Az Zuhd is, "The opposite of being eager and concerned about the Dunya." Further, Ibin Al Qayyim said, "Az Zuhd, in the Arabic language, the language of Islam, entails abandoning a matter while despising it, while belittling its significance, so that one would exchange it for something of greater significance..." Also, we have the statement of Ibin Qayyim who says, I heard Shaykh Al Islam ibin Tamiyyah say, "Az Zuhd entails abandoning what does not bring about benefit in the hereeafter."

So Al Zuhd in regards to this life is to not have desire for the life of this world, to not make it the number one priority in this life, to be willing to trade up from it to the treasures of the hereafter. In past classes, we have discussed this concept. We have talked about not attaching ourselves to this world in matters of dress, education, wealth and its luxuries, or even our families. In my class about patience, we talked about how a sister reacted to the impending death of her child, by remembering that to Allah we belong and to Him we return and that while she loves her child, she loves Allah more, and this child, this precious gift from Allah was only a loan. We have to treat our loved ones as loans from Allah, trying to guarantee, to the best of our abilities, that we will behave with them in a way that will please Allah, and being willing to give them back to Allah.

I heard a nasheed, about Palestine, a place which is on many of our minds these days - May Allah grant them respite and ultimate victory in their trials these days. In this nasheed, these men are returning from a mission against the Jews, and the son of this woman, the oldest of the two that she has, was killed. They are appproaching her, with fear of her reaction to the news of his death. When they tell her, she praises Allah and tells them to take her second son along with them in their jihad. I love this song, because it is what I aspire to, but I fear I have not achieved.

I want my sons to be willing to give all for the sake of Allah, but it is hard. I see the pain I had in my heart when my son got sick. When my first born was just born, he got very sick. He was placed in intensive care. I was so besides myself with worry, for I had made so much dua to have this child; I had waited so long for him; I could not believe that I could actually lose him so soon. I had made dua during my pregnancy for Allah to make this child a mujahid, but here I was, terrified of losing him. Such a contradiction. I had to fight my naffs, my instincts as a mother, to leave him in the Hands of Allah. I am grateful that Allah saved him, but I am also grateful to Allah for the lesson He gave me. Don't hold on too tightly, for this child belongs to Allah, and Allah, not may, but will take him back whenever He wants.

We try so hard to hold on to distactions in this life. Think about our typical day. Is most of it filled with the pursuit of the dunya: working for money to buy luxuries not necessities, for alhamdulillah, most of us have the basics? Think about it, are we working all day for these basic items: food, shelter, water, clothing, or are we surpassing the basics and working for the tastiest foods, cooked in expensive restaurants, the fanciest house with more rooms in it than we have people to care for, bottled mineral water or flavored drinks, and the best designer clothing? What is our focus? Do we spend our days, like our great scholars, studying and applying Quraan, hadith and their applications, which include the sciences, math, literature and history? Yes, many of us are studying these fields like engineering and medicine - which actually originated from a desire to understand all the miracles of the Quraan, but are we doing this with a spirit of az Zuhd - looking to the hereafter -- becoming a doctor only to help the Muslim nation improve its standing - perhaps to become a doctor for the mujahids of Palestine or becoming a pertoleum engineer to find a way to build the Muslim nation to a position of strength in this world - to have independence from the non-beleivers, or to become a master of language to use this tool to call people to Islam? Or are we studying these disciplines as a means of achieving wealth and status in this life?

If we want to achieve the love of Allah, we have to disassociate ourselves from the life of this world, become disinterested in that which is here only to distract us. Allah says, Truely, the life of this world is nothing but a {quick passing} enjoyment, and verily, the hereafter is the home that will last forever. 40:39. Do we really consider that the home we are sacrificng for today is going to crumble? I like to think about a poem I read years ago in terms of our attachment to this life and our arrogance in this attachment.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal those words appear:
My name is Ozymandis, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sand stretch far away.

Notice the arrogance and attachment to the world. He spent a lifetime building a kingdom, not just a house, as we mostly aspire to, and what was left of this great feat of his, sand? dirt? To Allah we belong, and to Him we return. We, too, will be nothing more than sand and dirt within a few short years. What legacy are we going to leave: monuments to our attachments to this world, or deeds which have multiplied into blessings for the sake of Allah?

Rasool Allah told us about the three deeds that would continue beyond our deaths, he said, "When a person dies, his record will be closed except for three: an ongoing charity, knowledge that is being benefitted from, and a righteous son who performs supplication to Allah for him." Muslim. Let's concentrate on building these treasures and monuments to Allah, rather than monuments to the dunya of stone and cloth.

Think of this life as the Prophet instructed us when he told Abdullah Ibin Umar: In the Dunya, be like a stranger or a way-fairer." Thereafter Ibin Umar used to say, "If you live until the night, do not anticipate to live through it to the morning, and if you live until the morning, do not anticipate to live through it to the night; and take from your health for your sickness, and from your life for your death" Al Bukhari

Now, we have covered how we can have Allah love us by giving up loving and desiring this life, what about our relationships with people? Well, as rasool Allah told us, if we do not desire what they have, we will have the love from them.

Allah warned us: And strain not your eyes in longing for the things We have given for enjoyment to various groups of them {Polytheists and disbelievers}, the splendor of the life of this world, that we may test them thereby... 20:131

Wallahi, as a woman who was born in America, reverted to Islam, emigrated to a Muslim nation in search of a greater Islam, I am in shock at the level of coveting and desire for all things American. We have women who are so covetous of what they think is all things American that they are even bleaching their skin to look more American. Allah save us! We look to the wealth of the West and when we gain even a small measure of wealth, we spend it, trying to be like them. We buy Western fashion: Italian leather, French designs, American jeans, English wool, German cars, Belgian chocolate. We want to be just like them, and in doing so, we disobey Allah in many different ways, from imitating the Kufar to coveting the goods of others to even - for some - committing haram to acquire these distractions, like using riba or working in haram jobs. The pursuit of the lives of others becomes our reason for living.

Also, we look to each other, wanting the wealth Allah gave a Muslim sister or brother, or the beauty Allah gave them or the status. We need to remember the words of rasool Allah who told us: Narrated Ibn Masud: I heard the Prophet saying, "There is no envy except in two: a person whom Allah has given wealth and he spends it in the right way, and a person whom Allah has given wisdom (i.e. religious knowledge) and he gives his decisions accordingly and teaches it to the others." Bukhari.

We should not look to others hoping for the risq Allah has provided them, for Allah gave us what is best for us, in our own situations. In our masjid back home, we had a brother who was a mechanic. Now, in America, a mechanic can make a good living, for skilled labor is well paid. This brother, however, only used his skill in odd jobs here and there, just enough to live a very modest life. When the brothers asked him why he did not go and open his own garage or work for an established garage, he told them that when he was doing this, he made a lot of money. He found that it was hard for him to be a good Muslim when he was tempted by the money, so he prefered to live simply and avoid the temptation. This man had the ability to have more, but he knew that this would bring him away from Allah. He knew his limits, and he preferred to stay away from the temptations he was powerless over. Allah bless him and give him Jannah.

Let me warn myself and you that it is very easy to fall into the trap of desiring this life, attaching ourselves to it too much. We see beauty and we desire it, like, as I will discuss in my next class, how we women while we want to please Allah, and we put on the hijab, we lessen the blessing by decorating it, making what covers us more beautiful, sometimes than what we are covering. Or we spend too much of our time seeking out wealth and status, and we fill our lives with things, giving them so much significance.

I was told a story of a man who had just sacrificed to purchase a beautiful car. While he and his family were driving around in the car, he noticed his small son was sticking a pin into the seats. The man became angry. Allah forgive him for what he did. He took the pin from his son, and stuck his son in the hand with the small pin. He did not imagine it would do more than hurt him a bit -- but, the man had hit a nerve and damaged it. To this day, the boy can not move his hand -- and he cries to his father, "I promise I won't do it again father, just fix my hand."

Wallahi -- our attachment to the filth of this world harms us in so many ways. This man allowed his attachment to this hunk of metal destroy his son's future. He allowed desire to make him angry, and we know how Rasool Allah warned us to avoid anger in general. When we are angry, we lose the ability to think straight. Our attachment to this world can cause us to lose the next. We have to realize and understand that we are here for one purpose only -- to worship Allah. We are not here for the cars, the houses, the children, the staus, the power, the wealth, the fancy clothes and the glittery gold. We are here to pass the test. We are here to be good Muslims, gathering up deeds that will propel us into al Jannah, through Allah's Mercy, not possesions that may throw us straight into Jahenam.

There is nothing wrong with being wealthy -- what is wrong is what we do with that wealth, or the people we sacrifice while we waste our time pursuing that wealth, ignoring our brothers and sisters who are wasting away or are being massacred. We spend our days working or studying or playing, seeking the pleasures of this world, and we turn a blind eye and a dead heart to the suffering and misery of our brothers and sisters because our aim is this life and not the next. We can't be bothered to even think of valid solutions to the problems of our brothers and sisters all over the world. We sit on our fancy couches, eatting chips and drinking Pepsi while we watch Jews, and Hindus and sikhs and Christians taking up arms against us. We call for peace, imitating the words of people whose hands are chopping us to pieces. Allah guide us and open our hearts and souls to Your commands!

Ya Allah! Please give us the faith and the patience to detach ourselves from the life of this world and to remember you and devote ourselves to achieving Your great pleasure.

I finish here, but I must ask all of us to make dua, and to use these wonderful gifts of mind, body and soul that Allah gave us to find a way to stop Israel and save our brothers and sisters in Palestine from this massacre that is underway, to save our brothers and sisters in India, Kashmir, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, Chechya and all the uncountable Muslim nations where we are being massacred! Ya Allah, wake up the Muslim nation and push us to do what we know is right! Ya Allah! Return to us the Muslim Army of Usama and repeat his great victories! Ya Allah detach us from this life and attach us to the next! Allahuma salat wa salam ala rasul Allah, ( SAWS). Ameen.

by: Sister Sherriffa A. Carlo