format_quote Originally Posted by
.alhamdulillah.
I guess I never really thought about it this way, but when we say "guide us on the straight path", we are asking Allah to make it so we are living ourselves towards trying to please and obey him....
it does not mean we have to reach some high point destination of imaan like the sahabas, which of course I am not frowning down upon but it isn't for everyone.....
So at the end of the day, as long as we were on the path, and did not perfect our iman and still had some shortcomings, but slowly tried to better ourselves, is that was will give us Jannah? Just being on the path?
Also, when it comes to trying to slowly better ourselves when we practice Islam, from Islamic source how do we know it is okay to slowly practice Islam when it comes to fard. For example new Muslims might pray 1 to 2 times a day and then improve. So are they sinful for the prayers they miss, or b/c they are new and trying to become better it is okay? Or even a new Muslim only eating halal chicken, what if their whole life they ate non-halal, is it actually permissible from Islamic sources to slowly cut it out, or is it sinful if it is not cut out immediately?
Depends very much on if you are being judged for it.
If you are in a band of thieves and you ask people not to steal.. then..
Its not really going to happen how you think it is.
...im self employed, i work 72 hours a week +.
Over 3 years iv not taken more than 200 per week.
Its literally all there is left over after bills.. week in week out.
...an afghan charity collector turns up to ask for money.. for afghanistan.
I say i dont have anything..
He says.. DONT SAY THAT!
..now give me money for the people that have nothing in afghanistan.
Strange days.
Hope that clears things up for ya.
People in this world would eat each other alive.. believe me..
Halal Chicken is the least of your worries.
Or mosque politics.