Comments on: The Pervasive Effects of Humility https://www.virtualmosque.com/personaldvlpt/character/the-pervasive-effects-of-humility/ Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:23:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Kirana https://www.virtualmosque.com/personaldvlpt/character/the-pervasive-effects-of-humility/#comment-38840 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:23:36 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/?p=23310#comment-38840 In reply to Brian Cokayne.

there is a real and practical connection to your words, that comes from doing and touching and seeing and experiencing through work and labour, that i wish were more present among our religion’s speakers and polemicists and scholars. well, at least where i live anyway. for once it would be great to hear an insight of the Qur’an from a religious lecturer/speaker, that he/she gained from having done real life work whether paid or voluntary, or at least personally experienced through travel or something that makes the religion palpably relevant and personally transformative.

]]> By: Ahmed https://www.virtualmosque.com/personaldvlpt/character/the-pervasive-effects-of-humility/#comment-38839 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:19:45 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/?p=23310#comment-38839 Jazak’Allahu Khairan, beautifully written article.

]]> By: Rubaba https://www.virtualmosque.com/personaldvlpt/character/the-pervasive-effects-of-humility/#comment-38838 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:49:50 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/?p=23310#comment-38838 Ameen thumma ameen

]]> By: Shamshad https://www.virtualmosque.com/personaldvlpt/character/the-pervasive-effects-of-humility/#comment-38837 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:17:37 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/?p=23310#comment-38837 Jazaki Allahu Khair for a wonderful article. It touched my heart and deepened my understanding.

]]> By: Dawud https://www.virtualmosque.com/personaldvlpt/character/the-pervasive-effects-of-humility/#comment-38836 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 05:35:04 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/?p=23310#comment-38836 I wanted to provide a hadith for those who are forgiving the arrogant- Narrated Ibn Mas’ud
I recall to my mind the scene when Allah Messenger (sllh) was mentioning one of the Prophets of Allah who having been beaten and injured by his people , he started wiping the blood from his face and supplicating:”Allah, forgive my people because they know not.”{Al-Bukhari&Muslim}

]]> By: Brian Cokayne https://www.virtualmosque.com/personaldvlpt/character/the-pervasive-effects-of-humility/#comment-38835 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:10:44 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/?p=23310#comment-38835 There is such a wide range of issues prsented here by Lobna Mulla, but I feel qualified at best to reply to one of them which the writer briefly deals with and that one being the environmental aspect of God’s (swt) creation.I’ve worked in this field and at times become downcast.Here in England working as a trackman on the railway we were never allowed to leave any single rubbish item cast there convenently by someone be the item large or tiny. This was not solely for reasons of track safety, it was also for the practise of care.We workers helped each other to the tune of digging heavy stone ballast that supports the railroad ties(or sleepers) as we call them in UK. Now these sleepers remind me meaphorically of Surah Al-Kahf,the cave, with the young men who tarried there for however long with their dog at the cave’s entrance. You see when working on the track one always had to have a guard,a look-out.And I believe the thing that we most in effect were guarding was the concientiousness of our work.Modesty is a great aid in this. It precludes one from doing a lousy job if one holds others both in regard& responsibility.By doing so are we not at least trying to follow precepts of humility. Then in another job working on fishing boats in the North Sea the truth of Allah’s (swt)blessings we found both in the seine net itself when hauled in and in the very weather and sea we were surrounded by.What a mighty creation is His…worthy of so much more respect than many give it both on land at at sea.I’ve seen all the dumps and the floating islands of plastic bags and detritus it make one think man has no technology that can keep at bay some people’s total lack of respect.They consume,they throw away as if there were neither sign nor guidance.When one comes ashore from stormy weather one says a thank you to one’s Lord for deliverance,why is not the same practised on land? Is it because man thinks his cities are bigger somehow than the ocean?.To me that is like hamstringing the she-camel when presented to the people as a ship-of-the-desert so to speak.
Now again working outdoors on car parks,churchyards,lanes,ponds I lose sight of how the environment will survive the onslaught of consumerism & modernity…..everything from a-z and none too clean either dumped illegally and often done so clandestinely ,sneakily , like a thief in the night. Oh mercy I cry, do you not hear the birdsong that would be in your ears if only you would listen and not expect the poor & the believers to pick it up after you.One beautiful thing about England & Britain they say is its tolerance.Brothers and sisters in the Ummah will vouch for the fact that without such tolerance & humility it is hard to live here.Another of its beautiful aspects is its greenery.By the grace of Alla’h(swt) long may that be given our respect before His creation.Thank you to the writer of the essay which brings mention of this quality to our homes and our screens.

]]> By: Dew https://www.virtualmosque.com/personaldvlpt/character/the-pervasive-effects-of-humility/#comment-38834 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:03:05 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/?p=23310#comment-38834 Jazak Allah kheir for another amazing article 🙂

]]> By: Yasmin https://www.virtualmosque.com/personaldvlpt/character/the-pervasive-effects-of-humility/#comment-38833 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:56:51 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/?p=23310#comment-38833 Jazakallah khair for this wonderful post!

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