following deen and doing hospitality

Following your deen and doing hospitality

There are many similarities between following your deen or doing hospitality, imagine if you had to two relatives, one of them were poor, and the other was wealthy, and you had to visit the homes of both the relatives. Since your duty was to visit the homes of both, you somehow prioritize visiting the wealthier relative's home, and once you attend the wealthy relative, you notice that despite being present in their home for around four hours, the relative served nothing more than a soft drink. In this situation you may not comment, yet leave their home with a empty stomach.
The next day you intend to visit your poor relative, the poor relative may not have the best home, a carpet, or even a dining table, yet they search their kitchen and serve you with whatever they had to offer you best hospitality as possible. The poor relative does not serve you on an expensive dish, nor serves you expensive food, however what you notice is, their rich intent of feeding you with whatever they had, and and their deepest concern for not allowing one to leave their home empty stomached.

In contrast to the above scenario, envisage two men, one is a Caucasian man who intends to become a muslim, who could not read Arabic, not understand arabic, yet hr aims to learn about Islam, buys the Koran in English with Arabic transliteration, once he buys the Holy Quran, he is struggle with pronunciation and reading arabic in a correct sort of manner. On the other hand there is another, who could do neither, he could not read English nor Arabic, but rather could not read at all, he decides to however attend a kutba (Islamic lectures) and learn as much as he could about Islam. The one factor both these scenarios focuses on is intent, the intent of one who wants to serve either the creator or a guest.

A man once asked a muslim man, a question on hijab, and the significance of covering ones head, he asked "what has covering your head got to do with being a good person or a bad person? The Muslim man did not have an answer, yet the answer was very simple, if suppose you had two sons, and you asked both to do their homework, one did do his/her homework yet the other did not, my question Is what words are you possibly going to use for the one who did not do his home work, naturally words like "bad boy" or even "naughty boy" would be used, if the son who did not do his homework replied , "what has doing your homework or not doing your homework got to do with being a bad person or good person, "the idea is that disobedience is in no means seen in a positive light. We need to ask ourselves , in what other method do we judge ones persona, the answer will surface on whether their deeds were righteous or not, therefore disobedience is judged accordingly, since disobedience is not seen positively, hence the one who commit such an act of disobedience is not seen in positive light either.

On the day of judgment, there will be many men and women standing, some will have some knowledge of Islam, some plenty, and there will also be those who have none . Man will not be asked how well one followed Islam, rather what will be asked is, "how much did one do in accordance to ones knowledge" in respect of this knowledge Allah will also consider whether you were capable or incapable of going in a accordance to your knowledge of righteousness. Our aim on the day of judgment should be of this sort and kind that we should be capable of answering questions on the day of judgment, we should not have the silence of the muslim man, who was not able to answer the importance of hijab, rather pray and aim that we improve our intent, and hopefully be answerable on the day of jannah, ameen.