Be a divine servant

Professor Dr. Mahmoud Al-Hafnawi Al-Ansari

Praise be to God, and prayers and peace be upon the Messenger of God and his family and companions.

Advice I give to myself first, then to my Muslim brothers and sisters everywhere at the beginning of the month of Shaban.

Be a divine servant. What is the meaning of these words:

The divine servant is the one whose words agree with his actions, that is, he is the one who does what people command of good and good, and avoids what people forbid from evil and evil.

Oh God, make us do what we say, hear and read, Amen.

You were created to be a slave.

Whether you like it or not, you are a slave. Whether you like it or not, you are a slave.

God Almighty said: “And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me (56)” [Al-Dhariyat: 56].

But the best of servants is he who is a servant of God, and the most honorable of God’s servants is he who is a divine servant.

How can you be a divine servant, or can a woman be a divine slave?

With the following:

1- Maintaining the five daily prayers on time and in congregation, especially the dawn and evening prayers.

2- Maintain the morning and evening remembrances and the rest of the daily remembrances, and they will be for you like water and air.

3- Maintain your daily Qur’anic response, which is part of each day, and this is the minimum, and you complete each month.

4- Preserving the honor of the believer, praying the night prayer, even if it is two long rak’ahs each night for half a portion, for example.

5- Maintaining fasting on Mondays, Thursdays, and the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth of every Arab month.

6- Maintaining the Sunnah regular prayers, as well as the Duha prayer and the rest of the voluntary prayers.

7- Maintaining knowledge gatherings, even if it is one session every week, competing with scholars, and supplying yourself with useful knowledge daily, by studying the books of scholars. There is no good in a day in which you do not acquire knowledge.

8- Follow the Sunnah of the Prophet in eating, drinking, clothing, and sleeping, in buying and selling, in marriage and divorce, in the outward and inward, and in your entire life.

9- Honoring one’s parents, visiting the sick, attending funerals, maintaining family ties, being kind to one’s neighbour, respecting, revering and venerating scholars without excess or negligence, being polite to old and young, helping the needy among the poor, widows and orphans, and all other types of social interaction.

10- Work in the fields of calling people to God Almighty, each facilitating what he was created for, each with what he is good at, with wisdom and good preaching, and be careful not to be isolated from the call and the preachers.

11- A person’s obedience to his parents, and a wife’s obedience to her husband.

12- Giving a lot of charity to the poor, the needy, widows, and orphans, especially secret charity that no one knows about except God.

13- Accompanying righteous people, sitting with them, and being friendly with them, and refraining from keeping company with bad friends and sitting with them.

14- Abandoning transgressions and sins, and hastening to repent if you fall into sin.

15- Let your tongue be moist with the remembrance of God Almighty, such as glorifying, praising, glorifying, praising God, seeking forgiveness, and other types of remembrance.

16- Beware of the bandits and thieves who stand between you and God Almighty, the self, desires, the devil, the world, and evil friends.

17- Secret worship, and how do you know what secret worship is, which is to create for yourself a type of worship between you and your Lord, which no one will see, and no one will know about? You are alone with your Lord, you commune with Him, you hope in Him, you call upon Him, you worship Him, you remember Him, you find comfort in Him, and being close to God has a pleasure that only one knows. Whoever tastes it, being alone with God in secret worship, what beauty, splendor, pleasure, and solace it is, being alone with your beloved, and this is the condition of the righteous, the scholars, and the divine.

Oh God, grant us comfort in You and joy in worshiping You, Amen.

With this and other types of worship, you are a divine servant, and a woman is a divine servant.

This is a little of a lot, the tip of the iceberg, and a drop in the ocean.

How much do preachers need God in their calling, how much seekers of knowledge need God in their quest, how much those who walk to God need God in their walk, and how much we all need this God.

This is a little of a lot, the tip of the iceberg, and a drop in the ocean.

How much do preachers need God in their calling, how much seekers of knowledge need God in their quest, how much those who walk to God need God in their walk, and how much we all need this God.

I tried to be brief for fear of length and boredom, because the enthusiasm for reading is weak and dead.

Therefore, flashes and signals were placed at the beginning of the road, and whoever stood at the beginning of the road would see the rest of the road.

God willing, we will meet again next time

(Images from the life of the divine servant).

I seek refuge in God from speech without action, and from action without sincerity, Amen.

I ask God Almighty to benefit us from what we say, write, read, and do. Oh God, grant us sincerity in word and deed, and grant us a good ending, Amen.

Spread it as much as you can to spread the benefit, and I and you will be rewarded, God willing.

May Allah bless and bestow peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and his family and disciples .