Always Worried About Dunya and No Time for Allah?

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ encouraged us to free our time for worship and to turn to Allah Almighty, and discouraged from being concerned with the world and being consumed by it.

 See these Ahadeeth:

- “Your Lord Almighty said: ‘Son of Adam, be free for My worship. I will fill your heart with richness and fill your hands with provision. Son of Adam, do not distance yourself from Me, or else I will fill your heart with poverty and fill your hands with worthless distractions’.” [al-Mu’jam al-Kabīr 500, Grade: Sahih]

- "Allah Almighty said: ‘O son of Adam, be free for My worship and I will fill your heart with riches and alleviate your poverty. If you do not do so, I will fill your hands with problems and never alleviate your poverty’.” [Sunan al-Tirmidhī 2466, Grade: Sahih]

- "Whoever is concerned about the world, Allah will disorder his affairs, make poverty appear before his eyes, he will not get anything from the world but what has been decreed for him. Whoever is concerned about the Hereafter, Allah will settle his affairs, make him content in his heart, the world will come to him although he is reluctant for it.” [Sunan Ibn Mājah 4105, Grade: Sahih , Similar hadith in Sunan al-Tirmidhī 2465]

- "Whoever focuses on only one concern, the afterlife, Allah will be enough for his concerns in the world. Whoever scatters his concerns among the matters of the world, it does not matter to Allah in which valley he meets his demise.” [Sunan Ibn Mājah 4106, Grade: Hasan]

May Allah give us Tawfeeq to set our priorities right. Aameen.

Zuhd - it's Benefits and How to Achieve it

Zuhd (abstinence):

Zuhd entails minimizing one's dependency and attachment to this Dunya and it's pleasures as much as possible and increasingly focussing on aakhirah. It's about removing the love of dunya from one's heart even while we use the Dunya for our human needs.

How to achieve it:

- Reading the chapters of kitab al zuhd in the hadith books.

- Reading the Quran, the Seerah and lives of Sahaba and previous great scholars and awliya of the Ummah.

- Majalis of the pious scholars.

- Visiting the graveyards and the sick regularly.

- Contemplating on death and the events of Akhirah.

- Avoiding the company of the rich and Dunya lovers.

- Sitting with the poor and serving them.

- Increasing in giving Sadaqa and Nafl fasting.

- Avoiding Ghaflah (headlessness) and all that leads to it.

- Adopting a minimalist lifestyle.

Of course it's not easy. But Jannah is not cheap. 

Steps and levels of Zuhd:

First and most basic zuhd which is Fardh on all Muslims is leaving all Haraam.

Second leaving all Makruh things.

Third level is minimizing one's involvement in even Jaiz and Halaal acts and focusing more on Aamaal for Akhirah (within the guidance of Sunnah).

Some Benefits of Zuhd:

Abu Dharr narrated that Allah's Messenger ﷺ said, "If anyone observes abstinence in this world (from worldly possessions and position that are in excess of his needs) then Allah grows in his heart wisdom, causes his tongue to speak it, makes him see the defects of this world (like grief, poverty, death, etc), its maladies and their remedy, and brings him out of it safely to dar-us-salaam (the abode of peace)." 

-(Bayhaqi in Shu' ab ul eeman # 10532, Mishkaat 5199)

May Allah give us all Tawfeeq.