03. Best Of Believers

**Requirements of the “Kalimah”

That is, to believe, to say, and to act on the faith that **Allah swt is the only Power, the only Authority and the Sole Controller of all things, and it is He alone who is to be worshipped and obeyed,. and it is He alone who grants success or failure in life.

**Success will depend on our truly adopting the way of life preached and taught by’ Muhammad saw and our accepting him as true and last Prophet of Allah.

Having this as ideal, we begin to change our own life on the pattern requirements of the “Kalimah”.

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The eighth quality of the pious Ulama is that their Imaan in Allah Ta’ala is always increasing. Such Ulama are really worried about their Imaan and Yaqeen, because they are fully aware that **an unshakable faith, Trust in Allah swt is the most valuable asset for a Mo’min (believer).

Rasulullah  said: “Yaqeen (strong belief) is actually true Imaan.” He also said, “Learn Yaqeen.” The Hadith means that we should be very particular about joining the people who have Yaqeen (true belief in Allah Ta’ala) and should try to follow their example. By joining them, we will also learn Yaqeen.

A true Aalim should have such Yaqeen (belief) in the Absolute Power of Allah Ta’ala and His qualities, just as he has a firm belief in the existence of the sun and the moon. He should have perfect belief that Allah Ta’ala Alone is the Doer of all things. All the different things of this world are under His control. He uses these as He wishes. All the things of this world are as helpless in His Hands as a stick in the hands of a person who beats someone with it. Nobody blames the stick for this.

When this belief and faith gets firmly rooted in the heart, it will become easy for him to learn the qualities of

1. ‘Tawakkul’ (Trust in Allah swt alone),
2. ‘Ridhaa’ (always being happy with the decisions of Allah swt) and
3. ‘Tasleem’ (completely accepting the Will of Allah swt).

A true Aalim should also have this perfect belief that Allah Ta’ala Alone is responsible for giving rizq to all living things. Every creature will get what is due to him. Similarly, no one can get what has not been written for him. When this belief is firmly rooted, a person will make an average effort to earn his money. Such Yaqeen removes greed and a person does not feel sad if he did not earn something.

A true Aalim should also have firm belief that Allah Ta’ala is watching all his deeds, good or bad, at all times. Allah Ta’ala knows even a small good or bad action that he has done. He will get rewarded or punished for it. He should strongly believe that all good actions will be rewarded, just as he believes that eating removes his hunger. Similarly, he should firmly believe that evil has terrible results, just as he believes in the effect of a snake bite. In short, he should be attracted by good deeds, as a hungry person is by food and, he should fear sins just as he is scared of a snake or a scorpion.