Enemies Within
As people are dying throughout the world and facing the enemies without...during this month we are also facing the enemy within...Although shaytaan is gone, the nafs is still there. Fasting is there to suppress is, but only to a certain degree.
This internal fight has had its benefits....only when one is truthful wit themselves...can they realize their weaknesses and more forward with their strengths...
like Abu Mehjin...
Abu Mehjin was a drunk. Before the battle of Alqadisiyyah Saad ibn AbiWaqqas tied him up so that he may whip him when they get back after the battle. When the battle erupted, Abu Mahjin pleaded with Saad's wife to let him fight in the battle. If he lived he would come back.
She, having the soft heart that she did, let him go fight with Saad's horse. When the battle concluded, Saad found Abu Mehjid back to where he was tied up awaiting his punishment for drinking. Saad told him that after this day he would never whip him again for drinking...
Abu Mehjin said that he would look forward to the cleansing of his sin. If Saad wont cleanse him for this sin then he will not commit it, and so he gave up drinking.
Abu Mehjid knew his weakness. He was a drunk, but he also knew his strength. Especially in the battlefield in motivating the follow soldiers, and fighting valiantly. He didn’t let his weaknesses hold his strengths down. Focused on his strengths and accepting the consequences of his weaknesses, he moved forward.
posted by AlBaraa @ 10/14/2006 04:18:00 PM
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