A Truthful Heart
Leave what you have doubt about for that you have no doubt about; for it is the truth that brings peace of mind and it is falsehood that brings doubt.
Tirmizee, Book of Resurrection 61, (2520)
"It is the truth that brings peace of mind."
This is a very important statement. Indeed, if someone has still a conscience, if his heart did not get darkened and hardened by many sins, stubbornness and disbelief, then the only thing that will bring him a peace of mind is truthfulness. For a pure and clean heart detests lie and hypocrisy.
How can we achieve truthfullness? Abu Bakr can be shown as a perfect example of truthfulness. When the disbelievers regarded the Isra and Mi'raj event of Rasulullah as absurd, Abu Bakr affirmed Rasulullah and told the disbelievers: "If Muhammad (pbuh) said that, then he is truthful." At the treaty at Hudaybiya, when Umar approached Abu Bakr and complained about the treaty, Abu Bakr told him: "Indeed, Muhammad is Allah's Messenger and he does not disobey his Lord, and Allah will make him victorious. Adhere to him, as by Allah, he is on the right path". And after the death of Rasulullah, Abu Bakr addressed the muslims, saying, "O people, whoever among you worships Allah, indeed Allah is The Ever Living and does not die". Being truthful is not an easy task, indeed.
There is one other point here: Among all the companions of Rasulullah, Abu Bakr was the one whose morals resembled Rasulullah the most...so, they became closest friends. It is for a reason indeed, that the truthful ones are mentioned in Quran next to prophets and martyrs. When Rasulullah and Abu Bakr were emigrating together from Mecca to Madina, they had hidden in a small cave on their way. How nicely this is stated in our Protected Book:
9:40. ...for Allah did indeed help him, when the unbelievers drove him out. He had no more than one companion; they were both in the cave, and he said to his companion "Be not sad, surely Allah is with us"...
Abu Bakr, this true friend of Rasulullah had such a pure character that he had not stopped his financial support to those needy ones, although some of them had tried to maliciously injure the good name of Aisha, the daughter of Abu Bakr and the wife of Rasulullah:
24:22 Let those among you who are blessed with graces and wealth not resolve by oath against helping their kinsmen, those in want, and those who have left their homes in Allah's cause. Let them pardon and forgive. Do you not wish that Allah should forgive you? For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Those who are alike do love each other, don't they?
Tirmizee, Book of Resurrection 61, (2520)
"It is the truth that brings peace of mind."
This is a very important statement. Indeed, if someone has still a conscience, if his heart did not get darkened and hardened by many sins, stubbornness and disbelief, then the only thing that will bring him a peace of mind is truthfulness. For a pure and clean heart detests lie and hypocrisy.
How can we achieve truthfullness? Abu Bakr can be shown as a perfect example of truthfulness. When the disbelievers regarded the Isra and Mi'raj event of Rasulullah as absurd, Abu Bakr affirmed Rasulullah and told the disbelievers: "If Muhammad (pbuh) said that, then he is truthful." At the treaty at Hudaybiya, when Umar approached Abu Bakr and complained about the treaty, Abu Bakr told him: "Indeed, Muhammad is Allah's Messenger and he does not disobey his Lord, and Allah will make him victorious. Adhere to him, as by Allah, he is on the right path". And after the death of Rasulullah, Abu Bakr addressed the muslims, saying, "O people, whoever among you worships Allah, indeed Allah is The Ever Living and does not die". Being truthful is not an easy task, indeed.
There is one other point here: Among all the companions of Rasulullah, Abu Bakr was the one whose morals resembled Rasulullah the most...so, they became closest friends. It is for a reason indeed, that the truthful ones are mentioned in Quran next to prophets and martyrs. When Rasulullah and Abu Bakr were emigrating together from Mecca to Madina, they had hidden in a small cave on their way. How nicely this is stated in our Protected Book:
9:40. ...for Allah did indeed help him, when the unbelievers drove him out. He had no more than one companion; they were both in the cave, and he said to his companion "Be not sad, surely Allah is with us"...
Abu Bakr, this true friend of Rasulullah had such a pure character that he had not stopped his financial support to those needy ones, although some of them had tried to maliciously injure the good name of Aisha, the daughter of Abu Bakr and the wife of Rasulullah:
24:22 Let those among you who are blessed with graces and wealth not resolve by oath against helping their kinsmen, those in want, and those who have left their homes in Allah's cause. Let them pardon and forgive. Do you not wish that Allah should forgive you? For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Those who are alike do love each other, don't they?
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