Bi ismillahir rahmanir raheem
assalamu alaikum
You seem to be upset over nothing, is your mother destined for the
highest level of jannah "from what you described no" that is a
conditional statment, conditional to your description of her.
So Rami you can say she is not destined for the Highest level of
paradise, Why???? |
Insha Allah you will see what i am talking about from the following.
Reqarding those who are closest to Allah Sayyidina `Ali, as related by Ibn al-Jawzi in the chapter devoted to him in
Sifat
al-safwa:
They are the fewest in number, but the greatest in rank before Allah. Through them
Allah preserves His proofs until they bequeath it to those like them (before passing on)
and plant it firmly in their hearts. By them knowledge has taken by assault the reality of
things, so that they found easy what those given to comfort found hard, and found intimacy
in what the ignorant found desolate. They accompanied the world with bodies whose spirits
were attached to the highest regard (al-mahall al-a`la). Ah, ah! how one yearns to
see them!
in Surah Waaqiah Allah classifies
people into three categories:
The people of the left-hand (Ashaab al-Mash-amah).
the people of the right-hand (Ashaab al-Maymanah).
Those who are near to Allah (Muqarraboon); alternatively
referred to as the "Foremost".
The first group are those who
have rejected faith. The second group are the righteous ones who are consistent
in the fulfilment of their duties towards Allah. They are described as "a
multitude of those of old and a multitude of those of later times (Waaqiah
:39-40). And finally their are the Muqarraboon. They are a special group of
believers who have attained the highest rank in spiritual development. They are
often described as the elect of the elect (Khawaas ul-Khaswaas) whose intensity
of faith (iman) has bestowed upon them the special privilege of enjoying
nearness to Allah.
They are described in this Surah
as being "a multitude of those of old and a few of later times"
(Waaqiah : 13-14).
This idea of nearness to Allah is
similarly expressed in a Sacred Tradition;
"My servant continually seeks to draw near to Me through
supererogatory acts until I love him. And when I love him I become the ears
with which he hears, the eyes with which he sees, the hand with which he
grasps, and the feet with which he walks" (Bukhari).
Supererogatory mean acts of worship which are not obligatory to do.
The highest level of jannah is the one reseved for the prophets and the
awliyah (saints) from each community as well as the martyrs and righteous.
Whoso obey Allah and the Messenger, they are with those unto whom Allas has shown
favor, of the Prophets and the saints and the martyrs and the righteous. The best of
company are they! (4:69)
some basic beliefs concernig the awliyah (loosly translated as muslim saint)
1. A Wali is a pious Muslim, who due to his knowledge
and closeness to Allah Ta'ala, has been given a specific position.
2. Usually this grade is given to a Wali due to his strict
followance the Shari'ah and also his devotion and his worship.
3. Wilaayat is, however, sometimes given to a person from
birth and, therefore, without devotion and effort.
4. From the Awliyah-e-Ummat-e-Muhammadi, the most superior
Awliyah are the four Khulafa, namely Hazrat Abu Bakr, Hazrat Umar, Hazrat
Uthman and Hazrat Ali (radi Allahu anhum) and then all the Sahaba-e-Kiraam.
All the Sahaba are also Awliyah. The source of the blessing for the Awliyah
after these is Hazrat Ali (radi Allahu anhu). In other words, they
are all blessed with Wilayah through the blessing of Hazrat Ali (radi
Allahu anhu).
5. From the Awliyah of all the Ummah(creation), the greatest Awliyah
are from the Ummah of Rasoolullah (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam).
6. There have been Awliya in every era and there will
always be Awliya in every era, however, their recognition may be difficult.
Allahu alam sister according to number three your mother maybe a
waliyah i cant say, but the point is ordinary muslims are the people of
the right hand not the formost with allah.
By the way since I dont claim to be knowledgable isn't
there a verse in the Quran or a Hadith I'm not sure that says most
people in heaven will have been poor |
I dont know but there is a hadith which says somethin similar. Being
poor it self is not a condition of entering heaven or why people enter
it. Simply becouse you are poor certainly doesn not mean you will be
granted the Highest level of Jannah sister, people enter heaven they
each take there rank in what ever level of jannah Allah has granted
them.
So you think that if
you have more knowledge you are better than them and destined to a
higher level in paradise than they are? Doesn't it say in the Quran you
are judged by your good and bad deeds? |
No i never said that, i said those who have knowledge know the path to
Allah better than those who dont, Allah himself says it in the Quran
"Say: 'Are those who know equal to those who know not?' It is only men of understanding who will remember." [39:9]
we dont use one verse in the Quran to contradict another verse. Our
deeds are judged according to our intentions and what is in our hearts,
We are talking about those in the highest level not those who will
enter heaven this group is much fewer in number. Would you say the
majority of people are on equal terms with the companions of rasul
allah becoue we are talking about those who are.
So If I have 20 hours a week to
spare between my Husband,and children and caring for myself and I spend
all of it on scholarly reading or I spend 3 hours reading and 17
voluntering my time and helping the elderly or working with children,
which in your intelectual eyes is more important??? |
If you do not act upon what you read your knowledge is useless, and you
only read so you know what you should do to get closer to Allah.
Reading it self or being a scholar is not the Key to Jannah,
among the first group of people placed in hell on the day of judgment
is a scholar who used to tell people what to do and not do it himself!
this is called hypocracy.