THREE WAYS MAN GO ASTRAY

[want2bveiled]

Bismillah

According to the Quran, men go astray in three ways.

-The first is to ignore the guidance of ALLAH and become slaves of
desire.
-The second is to give precedence to family, culture, society, customs
and the ways of forefathers over the law of ALLAH.
-The third is to ignore the way enunciated by ALLAH and His Messenger (saw)
and follow the ways either of so-called important people or of other
civilizations and cultures.
A true Muslim should be free from these three ailments. Only someone
who is a slave of none but ALLAH and a follower of none but His
Messengers (PBUT) can be truly called a Muslim. A Muslim sincerely believers
that the teaching of ALLAH and His Messenger (saw) is absolute truth, that
whatever runs counter to it is false, and that it contains all that
is good for man in this world and in the Hereafter. A Muslim who has
complete faith in these truths will, at every step in his life, look
only to ALLAH and the Messenger (saw) to guide him and submit to whatever
they require. Such a person will never feel troubled in his heart about
obeying ALLAH's commandments, or be concerned if members of his family
or his society upbraid him, or if the entire world opposes him. In
each case his response will be unequivocal: I am ALLAH's slave, not
yours; I have faith in His Messenger (saw), not in you.

Source:
"Let Us Be Muslims" - Abul Ala Mawdudi, pp. 103-104.

[lindan236055]

asalamu-o-alakium,
alhamdulilah.thank you for this post.i was making dawah today at work.which is one of my fovorite places to do so.and i find your post very helpful in the subject i was talking to my co-worker about.he extended his had for me to shake and i kindly refused it.as i have read that it isn't muslimah like to shake the hands of a male that aren't related.i didn't want him to think i was being rude so i was obligated to explain why. he told me he understood and that some time ago he started studying islam but was discouraged by people (mainly co-workers).i asked him would he welcome any islamic materials and he agreed.

asalamu-o-alakium wa rhahmat ALLAH wa barakato

[um-elhelween]

assalamu-alaikum-wa-rahmatullahi-wa-barakatuh....aperson is much surrounded by many obstacles.......that makes it -some times very hard to keep on the wright road,,to hang on one must always hang to QURAAN&SUNNAH and try as much as possible to read daily to remind his soul of what it is created for.......i pray to allah to strngthen our IMAN

[mideast3003]

assalam alycom wr wb
well you are right dear brother but it's not always done like that ,for example i could do something which has no islamic origin that might be 100% tradtional but at the same time it's not Haram at all ,and as we do all know that african moslems were allowed to dance or to have their way of celerbrating or something like that and that had happened and witnessed by either prophet Muhammad(PBUH) or one of his comanions (Omar or Abu Baker).
best inshaAllah