The First Kind
So we should always be aware of our actions, gauging them to see if they are Halal or Haram :
“Is Allah ( Who is Powerful and Sublime) going to be angry at our actions or not?”
And we need to think about every action which we are about to do so much that ultimately we simply do not do any Haram thing which might weaken our foundation.
By thinking carefully about our actions the Hadith:
“Tafakkuru sa’atin Khairum min ‘ibadati sab’ina sannah.” i.e. “One hour’s contemplation is better than seventy year’s worship,” will manifest itself in us.
By way of an example of what we are saying; if a tailor is given a piece of cloth to sew, then he must continue working at it until he finishes it in the evening.
In the same way we must perform the Adab in the morning and persevere with the Wasa’if and other good deeds until the evening.
We should perform these actions in the correct way, that is to say without any Haram deeds intervening.
On this basis Allah (Who is powerful and sublime) has divided the day into three parts:
- eight hours for worship
- eight hours for earning a living, and
- eight hours for sleeping.
Anyone who does not accept and follow this division of energies will exemplify the Hadith which says:
“He who is erratic will be erratic forever in the fire.”
He who goes according to his own will and reasoning does not progress, and he who wishes to obtain exalted Stations, Levels and Stages which previous generations earned by means of retreats and Other spiritual exercises, must remember Allah (Who is Powerful and Sublime) throughout the course of the day.
