Domestic Issues and Their Solutions — Page 50
50 Supplicate Allah the Exalted while being mindful that you are before God and seek from Him; seek for yourself, for your husband and your children; O Allah, You alone can keep us firm on virtues, enable us to worship You! O Allah, make us, our child ren and our husbands steadfast on these virtues! It is stated regarding offering Salat that when you submit before Allah the Exalted, show humility. This humility will be generated with the awareness that one is standing before Allah the Exalted. A Hadith relates that if one cannot have the awareness of seeing Allah the Exalted or being before Allah the Exalted then at least one should have the awareness that Allah the Exalted is watching one. Then alone can humility be generated. One is also able to concen trate in worship when different kinds of idle and absurd matters are avoided. Effort should be made in this regard as well as prayers should be made during Salat that O Allah, save us, our children and our husbands from these absurdities!’ As regards the a bsurdities Huzoor e Anwer said: ‘Usually it is women who have the habit to sit and chat about absurd matters, although men also do this. This should be avoided in any case. For example commenting that so and so has such and such clothes, so and so has such and such home, children of so and so have these bad habits, so and so husband and wife have such and such relationship! All this is purposeless and absurd. If these comments happen to be factual then one must pray for the people concerned and seek help fro m Allah the Exalted to