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The Expansion (Al Bast) and Constriction (Al Qabz) of Imaan

Muhammad Azeez Ahmad

All praise and glory be to the one who provides for mankind endlessly, the one who is independent of all, glory be to the one who has enabled me to write this advice and given you the ability to read this. Glory is to the one who only charges man to do what he is able to do, although we do not worship, the way he truly deserves of being worshiped.
I believe in God, and His angels, and His books, and His messengers, and resurrection after death and that God Most High creates the good and evil of destiny. I believe too in the accounting and the scales, hell and paradise. All the foregoing is reality.
God is One, not in a numerical sense, but in the sense that He has no partner – "Say: He is God, One; God the Eternally Subsistent and Besought; He begets not, nor was He begotten; and there is none like unto Him." He resembles nothing among His creation, nor does anything among His creation resemble Him. He has been, unceasing, and He is, unceasing, with His names and attributes, both those relating to His Essence and those relating to His acts. With regards to this the proof of Islam has transmitted to us an example all can understand. When questioned on how can Allaah be the first (Awaal) and the last (Akhi’r) at the same time? In reply to the attack of the devil, which he whispered to the believer, he answered; “imagine a man and a woman only have one child. When asked who your first child is they will point to him/her and then upon answering to who is your last, again the same child will be presented” so, understand o slave of Allaah, that he is the first and the last without any beginning. As for those relating to His Essence, they are life, power, knowledge, speech, hearing, sight, and will. As for those relating to His acts, they are creativity, sustenance, originating and fashioning, making, and other active attributes.

He has been, unceasing, and He is, unceasing, with His attributes and names; neither attribute nor name was created. He has always and unceasingly been a knower, by virtue of His knowledge, and His knowledge is a pre-eternal attribute. He has always and unceasingly been powerful, by virtue of His power, and His power is a pre-eternal attribute. He has always and unceasingly been speaking by virtue of His speech and His speech is a pre-eternal attribute. He has always and unceasingly been a creator, by virtue of His creativity, and His creativity is a pre-eternal attribute. He has always and unceasingly been an agent, by virtue of His activity, and His activity is a pre-eternal attribute; the object of His activity is creation, and His activity is uncreated. His attributes existed in pre-eternity, without being created or called into existence at a particular moment. Whoever says that they are created or summoned into existence at a particular moment, or is uncertain about the attributes and doubts them, is an unbeliever in God Almighty. I testify to all the articles of faith expressed by the last prophet salla’huali’hi’wa’Salam, by the rightly guided

companions and then later by the great a’im’mas (scholars), of the Ahle’sunnah’wal’jamma.
Understand o seeker of truth you are not the person you think you are, the real you is more loved by the almighty more than the casing which you are in. you are an entity which is dearer to Allah than the angels and all creation, as he has made you his deputy over his creation known to you and I as the earth. You are the soul, which has been in existence longer than you presume it to be, even before you were breath into the womb of your mother by the angels. Know that Allaah has favoured you to be from his beloved’s Ummah he has favoured you in giving you iman and another chance to repent on to him, a chance by which you can draw nearer to him, many believers are suffering just as you read this advice, many have lost a loved one, within the time you are reading this. Others are on their death beds wishing for another chance to turn to Allaah sincerely, wishing if time could be turned back to do so in order to correct their miserable ways, a life which was devoid of the I’badaah (worship) of the almighty whilst others are contemplating on their purpose of life suffering in silence from the oppression of their own doings, contemplating the idea of placing an end to their lives, as there seems to be no source of assistance. Looking for an aid by which they can turn back the time and recover the losses.
Realise o Muslim, you are reading this by the grace and blessing of Allaah, no anxiety is upon you, and no suffering is upon you now whilst you read this, an advice from your brother. Remember just as you read this, a chance has been given to you by the almighty, so turn to him o brother/sister in faith, this will remain as words once we have gone, remember this is nothing new, the advice which was given by the sultanul arifeen (the king of the lovers of god) to his companions, then further down the generations the wise men of our Ummah to their students as advice for their well being in this life and more importantly the life to come. The time gone by will never come to pass again, in the words of imam shafi “time is a sword and if you don’t cut with it, it will cut you” may Allaah Azzawajal bless the men of wisdom, like that of the great imam.
Many have heard this advice and shunned it, but are now regretting the ways they took, realising the value of the advice which was worth more than their children, family and wealth, but to of no avail now. Your existence did not merely begin with the entrance into this world. You as a creation of the almighty were in the place were your real self, the soul, cries to return to, to a place where the almighty shows his infinite mercy, a place where your forefather Adam was and is in, a place where the pleasure of the almighty is expressed endlessly, the place as the permanent home of yours, your righteous brothers, sisters, the home of your father, your mother, the home of the loved one which you have lost and all of creation. This place as named by the almighty is paradise, free from all defects, where everlasting peace and pleasure is manifested at its full. To understand why we have been sent here is to recall the events, as to where we were and why we have been placed here. This is also a great blessing of the almighty; take this as an indication of his guidance towards you O seeker of truth, the wayfarer to Allaah.

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