The Joy of Worship

Book Name:The Joy of Worship

If there is anything we forget or do not pay attention to, it is only these matters. If only we were to prepare for our Hereafter! If only we had enthusiasm and zeal towards our acts of worship! If only the love of this world was removed from our hearts and we became those who contemplated on these matters for the sake of Allāh Almighty.

The meaning of our lives

Allāh says in the 56th verse of Surah Al-Dhāriyāt:

وَ مَا خَلَقۡتُ الۡجِنَّ وَ الۡاِنۡسَ  اِلَّا لِیَعۡبُدُوۡنِ (۵۶)

Translation from Kanz al-Īmān: “And I have created Jinn and human beings only for this, that they should worship Me.”[1]

From this sacred verse, we learn the following: we have come into this world only to worship Allāh Almighty. We must give priority and importance to worship over everything else. Whatever is lost, let it be lost, but we must never become lazy in worship.

Describing the worship of Sayyidunā Qays b. Muslim رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه, Sayyidunā Sufyān b. ꜤUyaynah رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه said, “He رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه would offer ṣalāh all night, sit down at the time of suḥūr and cry before Allāh Almighty. He would beseech, ‘This is what we were created to do. If our end is not upon goodness, we shall be ruined.’”[2]

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                 صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

What is the sweetest thing?

O devotees of the Messenger! May Allāh Almighty grant us the ability to worship Him! Without a shadow of doubt, the worship of Allāh Almighty


 

 



[1] Al-Quran, 51:56

[2] Ṣifat al-Ṣafwah, Juzz 3, vol. 2, p. 84