A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO PRACTICING RELIGION - PART 4

 STEP 2. NEVER HURT ANOTHER SOUL

Many people think that practicing Deen is all about performing Ibadah (acts of worship). This couldn't be further from the truth. In general, as Muslims we are supposed to fulfil two sorts of rights due towards us, 1. Rights of Allah (Huqooq Allah), and 2. Rights of people (Huqooq al-Ibad). Between the two, Allah Ta'ala has clearly stated that if we perform Taubah (repentance) He will forgive His own rights, but He will not forgive any violations of other people's rights that we have carried out, unless we apologise to them and the aggrieve person forgives us first. 

To put it in perspective, when a person decides to start undergoing Tazkiah (تزکیہ) (purification of one's inner self) the first step is the process of Taubah (repentance). When a person is doing Taubah towards the rights of Allah, for example, for all the Salah they have not performed in their life, all they have to do is to; (1) try to calculate the number of Salah they have done Qada (قضا, meaning not prayed) since puberty, (2) ask God for forgiveness, and (3) start praying Salah regularly from that point onward, and (4) start praying an extra Salah with each regular Salah in lieu of the Qada Salah and keep deducting that number from their record till they have wiped their slate clean. However, wise elders have said that if a person starts doing this today, and they suddenly die the next day, then Allah Ta'ala will accept all their Qada Salah as having been prayed because they had made a firm intention to do so had they lived long enough.

to be continued...

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