I wish I was a better Muslim

[Kubs]

Do you sometimes feel like you are not doing enough? Every second of every day I feel like I'm not a good Muslim. Whatever I do, it's just not good enough. I'm worried that I'm sinning without even being aware of it. I'm worried that I'm not practising Islam to the BEST of my ability.

The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was the kindest of men...he excelled in everything. He lived not for himself but for others. He cried for the state of the Ummah.

If the greatest man, the greatest leader, the greatest Prophet.....was worried about his situation in the hereafter....if he continously prayed for Allah's forgiveness.....then what about us? We are nothing compared to him.

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: The best of the time periods is my time, and best of the people are my Companions, then those who come after them, then those who come after them."

I wish I was alive during the Prophet's time.......away from all the corruption and filth of this present world.

[GaNg$T4-G4L]

That is soo true..i dnt think im doing enuf..

[ajnabee]

yeah but sis if we didnt feel like we could be better muslims then that would make us arrogant - thinking that we are the best that we can be... so alhamdulillah for feeling like you can be better.

[Pippin1376]

I wish I was alive during the Prophet's time.......away from all the corruption and filth of this present world.
It was difficult during that time for Muslims too, but I agree. I wish I was alive during the time (and in the same place) as the Prophet (SAW), but sadly unless someone invents a time machine it won't happen.

If it makes you feel better, just think that it will only get worse and you might not be alive when it gets even worse in the world.

[Astraeus]

Do you sometimes feel like you are not doing enough? Every second of every day I feel like I'm not a good Muslim. Whatever I do, it's just not good enough. I'm worried that I'm sinning without even being aware of it. I'm worried that I'm not practising Islam to the BEST of my ability.

The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was the kindest of men...he excelled in everything. He lived not for himself but for others. He cried for the state of the Ummah.

If the greatest man, the greatest leader, the greatest Prophet.....was worried about his situation in the hereafter....if he continously prayed for Allah's forgiveness.....then what about us? We are nothing compared to him.

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: The best of the time periods is my time, and best of the people are my Companions, then those who come after them, then those who come after them."

I wish I was alive during the Prophet's time.......away from all the corruption and filth of this present world.
But, there was corruption and filth back in the day of the Prophet (SAW). It was all around him (SAW), the Sahaba, and the early Muslims. I just finished reading "The Sealed Nectar" and it was amazing what the Prophet (SAW) and the early followers had to endure.

[Kubs]

But, there was corruption and filth back in the day of the Prophet (SAW). It was all around him (SAW), the Sahaba, and the early Muslims. I just finished reading "The Sealed Nectar" and it was amazing what the Prophet (SAW) and the early followers had to endure.

No matter how corrupted those days were....just being beside the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) would have increased my iman.

[yasmin20]

I'm reading the 'sealed nectar' at the moment toooooo
Sometimes i feel that too like I'm sinning without knowing and remember we're humans we are bound to make mistakes and we cannot be perfect
i believe I'll be learning new things about ISLAM throught out my life like the rest of us so we always will be striving to become better muslims
can u imagine if you woke up thinking ' i'm such a good muslim' from that minute onwards nothing will motivate you to learn further or better yourself as a muslim

[GaNg$T4-G4L]

sometimes its like..wat im doin..i kno is rong..but im stil doing it..which is soo sad innit

[Umm_Hanzalah]

Do you sometimes feel like you are not doing enough? Every second of every day I feel like I'm not a good Muslim. Whatever I do, it's just not good enough. I'm worried that I'm sinning without even being aware of it. I'm worried that I'm not practising Islam to the BEST of my ability.

The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was the kindest of men...he excelled in everything. He lived not for himself but for others. He cried for the state of the Ummah.

If the greatest man, the greatest leader, the greatest Prophet.....was worried about his situation in the hereafter....if he continously prayed for Allah's forgiveness.....then what about us? We are nothing compared to him.

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: The best of the time periods is my time, and best of the people are my Companions, then those who come after them, then those who come after them."

I wish I was alive during the Prophet's time.......away from all the corruption and filth of this present world.


If you were alive at the time of the Prophet (Saws)'s time, you don't know if you would have been Muslim. How do we know if we would have accepted the message?

Be grateful for the fact that Allah has made you Muslim and that you are conscious of what is wrong and what is right and keep striving. Life is hard and it will get easy when we're in jannah. Jannah has a price. May Allah grant us jannah ameen.

Also, I don't think we can ever feel like we're doing enough....if we truly refelct on things all the time. There is always room for improvement. So keep trying, do your best, that's what Allah wants from you.

[Kubs]

If you were alive at the time of the Prophet (Saws)'s time, you don't know if you would have been Muslim. How do we know if we would have accepted the message?

Be grateful for the fact that Allah has made you Muslim and that you are conscious of what is wrong and what is right and keep striving. Life is hard and it will get easy when we're in jannah. Jannah has a price. May Allah grant us jannah ameen.

Alhamdulillah I am grateful for being a Muslim.

I don't want to be a good Muslim.....I want to be a great Muslim. It's not about being arrogant or not....it's about following the commandments of Allah Subhana wa tallah to the best of your ability. In this current world there are so many things to distract you.

[Umm_Hanzalah]

Alhamdulillah I am grateful for being a Muslim....what makes you think I'm not? :eek3:

I don't want to be a good Muslim.....I want to be a great Muslim. It's not about being arrogant or not....it's about following the commandments of Allah Subhana wa tallah to the best of your ability. In this current world there are so many things to distract you.

I'm not saying that you're not. I'm just saying that we should be. We forget to do so including myself, I don't think I'm grateful enough.

I agree with you.....with the last paragraph. Ask Allah to allow you to live for as long as it's good for your eeman.

[Umm_Hanzalah]

Reading this thread, reminded of the below. I read it on another forum.



1 - Prophet Yusuf said:

{"...cause me to die as a Muslim, and join me with the righteous."} [Yusuf; 101]

Qatadah said, commenting on this verse:

"When his possessions were many, and his eye had been cooled, and he was engulfed in the worldly pleasures and delights, he longed to be joined with the righteous people before him."

[at-Tabari's 'Jami' al-Bayan'; 13/48]


2 - The magicians of Fir'awn said, after Fir'awn threatened to kill them:

{"And you take vengeance on us only because we believed in the signs of our Lord when they reached us! Our Lord! Pour out on us patience, and cause us to die as Muslims."} [al-A'raf; 126]


3 - Mu'adh bin Jabal said:

"One day, the Messenger of Allah did not show up for the morning prayer, to the point that we noticed the Sun was about to rise. We then saw him coming out quickly, and he called for the prayer, and quickly prayed. When he made taslim, he said to us: "Remain in your places."

He then turned to us and said: "I will speak to you about what prevented me from showing up earlier. I got up at night, performed ablution, and prayed as much as I could. I then felt sleepiness to the extent that I was overtaken by it, so, I slept. Suddenly, I awoke to find myself in front of my Lord - the Mighty and Exalted - in the best image possible. He Said: "O Muhammad! Do you know what those of the highest ranks are busy quarrelling over?"

I said: "I do not know, my Lord." [The Prophet repeated this three times, then said] I then saw Him laying His Palm between my shoulders until I could feel the coolness of His Fingers in my chest, and then everything was revealed to me, and I knew it. Then, He Said: "O Muhammad! Do you know what those of the highest ranks are busy quarrelling over?"

I said: "Regarding those deeds that wipe out sins."

He Asked: "What are they?"

I replied: "Walking to the congregational prayer, remaining in the mosque after the prayer, and making your ablution lengthy and perfect in times of hardship."

He then Asked: "And what are those deeds that increase one's ranks?"

I replied: "Providing food to the people, speaking gently, and praying at night while the people are asleep."

He then Said: "Ask!"

I said: "O Allah, I ask You to grant me the ability to perform good deeds and abandon the bad ones, the love of the poor, and that You Forgive me and have Mercy on me, and that if You want to test a group of people, I ask You to allow me to die without having experienced any fitnah, and I ask for Your Love and the love of those who love You, and the love of a deed that brings me closer to Your Love."

The Prophet then said: "It is true, so, study it and learn it.""

[Reported by Ahmad (5/243) and at-Tirmidhi (3235), and it is authentic]


4 - The Messenger of Allah said:

"None of you should wish for death because of a calamity that has befallen him. But if he has to wish for death, he should say: 'O Allah! Keep me alive as long as life is better for me, and let me die if death is better for me.'"

[Reported by al-Bukhari (5671) and Muslim (2680)]

Ibn Hajar said, commenting on this hadith:

"The Prophet's saying "because of a calamity that has befallen him" is intepreted by a group of the Salaf to mean a calamity in his worldly affairs. So, if he is stricken with a calamity in the affairs of the Hereafter by way of him fearing a fitnah in regards to his religion, this does not fall under the Prophet's prohibition...and this indicates the permissibility of longing for death if one fears fitnah in regards to his religion, and Allah Knows best."

['Fath al-Bari'; 10/128]

an-Nawawi said what is similar to the above in his 'Sharh Sahih Muslim' (9/8).


5 - The Messenger of Allah said:

"There are two things that the son of Adam hates: death - and death is better for the believer than fitnah - and a lack of wealth - and a lack wealth makes the Account lighter."

[Reported by Ahmad in his 'Musnad' (5/427), and it is authentic]


6 - The Messenger of Allah said:

"The Hour will not be established until a man passes by the grave of another man and says: 'If only I were in his place.'"

[Reported by al-Bukhari (7115)]

Ibn Hajar said, commenting on this hadith:

"Ibn Battal said: "The inhabitants of the graves being envied and death being longed for at the time of the emergence of fitnah will be out of fear of the weakening of religious practice with the increase in falsehood and its people, and the emergence of disobedience and sin." [Ibn Hajar continued] and this longing is not something general for all people. Rather, it is specific to the people of righteousness. As for the rest, then they might long for death because of a calamity that has befallen them in their health, family, and worldly affairs, without any of these things having affected his religious practice...

...and many of the Salaf did this, such as 'Umar bin al-Khattab, 'Isa al-Ghifari, 'Umar bin 'Abd al-'Aziz, and other than them. al-Qurtubi said: "It is as if this hadith is indicating that overwhelming trials and hardships will descend until the importance of and concern with religion becomes minimal, and there will remain for nobody except the concern with the worldly affairs and connected matters. As a result, the value of worship in the times of fitnah has been magnified greatly, as Muslim reported, from the hadith of Mu'aqqal bin Yasar: "Worship in the times of trials and tribulations is like a migration to me.""

...and al-Hakim reported that Abu Salamah said: "I visited Abu Hurayrah and said: "O Allah! Return Abu Hurayrah's health to him." So, Abu Hurayrah said: "O Allah! Do not return it to me. O Abu Salamah, if you are able to die, then do so. By the One in Whose Hand my soul is, there will come a time upon the scholars in which death is more beloved to them than red gold, and one of them will pass by the grave of his brother and say: 'If only I were in his place.'""

And 'Abdullah bin as-Samit reported that Abu Dharr said: "There will come a time when a funeral procession will pass through the marketplace in front of a group of people, and a man will see it and shake his head, saying: 'If only I were in this person's place.'" So, 'Abdullah said: "O Abu Dharr! This must be because of something overwhelming!" Abu Dharr replied: "Yes, it certainly is.""

['Fath al-Bari'; 13/81]

[hanaa_al_muminah]

Masha'Allah, kubs this thread is realllyy goood..i agreee soo much wiv wat u sed sis,,,i really feel like i need to excel in my religion, its lke theres 24 hours in a day,,,,,,,how much of that time am i actually using to remember Allah.... n is it enough?? wen i die, will Allah be pleased with me? In the sight of Allah, am I among the guided??? subhanAllah, i can go on and on,,,,,,,,,
But what Im starting to do lately is implementing so much of the sunnah as possible, coz Allah said 'say if you love Allah follow me and he will love u n forgive you' ......so as long as we implement soooo much of the sunnah as possible, we shall be saved n ok.........n there is soo much in the sunnah to keeep you goin 4 tyyyyyyyyyyymmmm......alhamdillah!!!
and Allahu alam!!!

[Rouz]

I agree with everything on this thread.
Just think your not alone, many if not all muslims feel liek you do.

It's like when youve got an exam coming up, you revise, but when you get to the exam, or you get your results, you wished youd started revising earlier, and harder and put mor effort into it. And then you promise yourself you'll do it for the next exam. And this it comes and you don't.

...Well this is the story fo my life anyway :rolleyes:

But my point is this is how i feel about the dunya and the day of judgement. The dunya is the 'revision period' and the akhira is 'results day'.

We've just got to do our best. Nobody is perfect, we can all do better.

But i know how you feel, its so frustrating knowing that you could improve in so many ways and thinking 'is Allah pleased with me?'

It's like if i think ive done a good deed or ive concentrated in my salah i feel happy, but then im like 'is Allah happy with me? Is my salah and my dua even accepted?!"

Nobody's perfect we just have to place our trust in Allah and try our best :)

[The Deen]

Alhamdulillah I am grateful for being a Muslim.

I don't want to be a good Muslim.....I want to be a great Muslim. It's not about being arrogant or not....it's about following the commandments of Allah Subhana wa tallah to the best of your ability. In this current world there are so many things to distract you.


Assalamu Alaykum,

Spend your time in the company of the 'Ulama. insha'Allah this will benefit you immensely. Du'as requested,

Wassalam

[muslimma]

Do you sometimes feel like you are not doing enough? Every second of every day I feel like I'm not a good Muslim. Whatever I do, it's just not good enough. I'm worried that I'm sinning without even being aware of it. I'm worried that I'm not practising Islam to the BEST of my ability.

The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was the kindest of men...he excelled in everything. He lived not for himself but for others. He cried for the state of the Ummah.

If the greatest man, the greatest leader, the greatest Prophet.....was worried about his situation in the hereafter....if he continously prayed for Allah's forgiveness.....then what about us? We are nothing compared to him.

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: The best of the time periods is my time, and best of the people are my Companions, then those who come after them, then those who come after them."

I wish I was alive during the Prophet's time.......away from all the corruption and filth of this present world.

narrated aisha ra: once the prophet :saw: came while a woman was sitting with me. he said "who is she?" i replied "she is so-and-so, and told him about her (excessive) praying." he :saw: said disapprovingly, "do (good) deeds which are within your capacity (without being overtaxed) as allah swt does not get tired (of giving rewards) but (surely) you will get tired of Ad-Din (good righteous deeds)

bukhari

enshallah kubs in the fear that you are not doing enuf be careful not to over do it.

[-Yassar]

6 - The Messenger of Allah said:

"The Hour will not be established until a man passes by the grave of another man and says: 'If only I were in his place.'"

[Reported by al-Bukhari (7115)]

Ibn Hajar said, commenting on this hadith:

"Ibn Battal said: "The inhabitants of the graves being envied and death being longed for at the time of the emergence of fitnah will be out of fear of the weakening of religious practice with the increase in falsehood and its people, and the emergence of disobedience and sin." and this longing is not something general for all people. Rather, it is specific to the people of righteousness. As for the rest, then they might long for death because of a calamity that has befallen them in their health, family, and worldly affairs, without any of these things having affected his religious practice...


SubhanALLAH

[I]narrated aisha ra: once the prophet :saw: came while a woman was sitting with me. he said "who is she?" i replied "she is so-and-so, and told him about her (excessive) praying." he :saw: said disapprovingly, "do (good) deeds which are within your capacity (without being overtaxed) as Allah swt does not get tired (of giving rewards) but (surely) you will get tired of Ad-Din (good righteous deeds)

bukhari

enshallah kubs in the fear that you are not doing enuf be careful not to over do it.


Overdoing it would be like praying the whoooooooole night and I doubt any of us would ever do that.