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Thikr (Rememberance) – a thought by Imam Abdul Latif Finch

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Many of us find it terribly hard to enjoy thikr.

Remembrance is a good thing, we know it, but we don’t actually enjoy it.

We do other things for pleasure, frankly.

What we need to understand is that thikr is God’s pleasure.

When we please God our souls are pleased.

When our souls are pleased we are content.

When we are content we always remember why.

When we remember why we are thankful.

This causes us to say, “al hamdu lillah” from our soul to its Creator…pleased and pleasing, inshallah.

Imam Muhammad Abdul Latif Finch

July 2015

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Trouble free-ness – a thought from Imam Abdul Latif Finch

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It seems like every person wants their life to be trouble-free.

There is nothing in this world that is free from trouble.

So, where do we get this notion of trouble-free-ness from?

Since all of us regardless of our backgrounds and times long for this kind of life, without having ever experienced it here.

This collective condition indicates that all of us without exception, know of it but from some other time and place; one we’ve all experienced and remember.

This life that we recall that is free from problems and consequently attempt to re-create here was in paradise.

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Tone Deaf – a thought from Imam Abdul Latif Finch

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If one looks for pleasure or fulfillment outside of what God has permitted,

God permits them to be lost in the displeasure of distance from Him.

His allowance is not in reaction to the slave,

But rather, is an aspect of the laws of the universe.

Something laid down or fixed.

When someone goes against even the most minute fibers of the fabric of reality

They will find it an action spent in vain.

A waste.

The action is rejected like a bad note,

In a beautiful harmony,

Amongst limitless voices,

All resonating in one unified sound.

The heart of the offender,

In its cacophonic reverberation,

Is cast to the wayside,

No longer to be found.

Out of frequency and lost.

Muhammad Abdul Latif Finch

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The Presence of God – a thought from Imam Abdul Latif Finch

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The only Unconditional Presence is God.

Unquestionably.

The limitation of space and time which are both inherent to presence are of no consequence to Him.

He is beyond any specific extent whether it be in one, two or three dimensions.

So, even in Deen, which is expressed in three dimensional terms, God is still absolute.

Islam cannot contain Him.

Iman cannot contain Him.

Ihsan cannot contain Him.

Rather, the Prophet ( God’s Mercy and Peace be upon him) said that God said: “The Heavens and Earth failed to contain Me (Allah), yet I was contained in the heart of a believer” (Musnad Imam Ahmad)

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