Wednesday, 30 September 2020

Whose Father is He?

*Whose Father is He?*

```A needy came asking for food. I told him to come around to the back door and asked him to sit on the floor while I went in to bring the left over food.

I brought him food & said, let's pray. Now repeat after me, "Our FATHER in Heaven". He said, "Your Father in Heaven". I said."No, say OUR FATHER in Heaven". He again said, "Your Father in Heaven"!!!

This extremely Irritated me! I

asked why do you say 'Your' father when I say 'Our' FATHER?'

He said, "Sir, it's like this. If I say Our FATHER, then we both become brothers. If we are brothers, you would invite me in through the front door and not the back; you would ask me to sit at your dining table not on the floor; you'd also not give me stale food! Sir, somehow it's not possible that we are sons of the same father"!

He may be your Father, but he can't be OUR father!

Whose FATHER is He?

It took a beggar to teach me the truth!!!```

*GOD becomes our FATHER when we treat one another as brothers and sisters.*

WHILE AN ACHIEVEMENT HUMBLES AN INDIVIDUAL, IT MAKES ANOTHER ARROGANT. BY SHAYKH UMAR DADA PAIKO.

WHILE AN ACHIEVEMENT

HUMBLES AN INDIVIDUAL,

IT MAKES ANOTHER

ARROGANT.

While an achievement humbles an individual, it makes another arrogant. Worse still, some are arrogant with a visible reason, whether wrong or wrong.

Ibnu Hibbaan reported in his book ATTAQAASEEMU WAL ANWAA', known more as SAHEEH IBNI HIBBAAN that the Prophet, alaihiSSalaam said:

Amongst the banee Israa-eel, there were two people who boasted thus

First Person: I am the son of so and so, The grandson of so and so, till he mentioned nine generations of his ancestors

Second Person: I am the son of my father and he is the son of Islaam

Allaah sent Moosaa, alaihiSSalaam to them to convey Allaah's message that

"the first person had boasted of nine people who will all go to hell and he(first person)is their tenth!

The second person had boasted of two inhabitants of Jannah and he is their third"

Albaanee authenticated this hadeeth in silsilatul ahaadeeth assaheehah.

Brothers and sisters, we are from a drop of a liquid we consider a filth. Meaning our background is humble. Our worldly achievements, lineage, countenance, natural endowments, ethnicity, complexion or even 'bluebloodedness' are silly reasons to be arrogant.

If you are rich, know it's not strictly dependent on your industry or superior intelligence. You know there are billions of better people who are less advantaged than you.

A poet says:

إذا امتلأت كف اللءيم من الغنى

تمايل إعجابا وقال انا انا

ولكن كريم الأصل كالغصن كلما

تحمل أثمارا تواضع وانحنى

If a blameworthy person's palm is filled with (earthly) wealth

They become full of arrogance and say "I am, I am

But they of noble root are like tree branch, each time

They bear fruits, they humbly squat "