Week 1
January 18, 2006
IDSA at UTD
Topic: “And (tell them that) I have not created the
invisible beings and men to any end other than that they may (know and) worship
Me.” [Qur'an 51:56]
Summary: Worship is an all inclusive term for all that God
loves of external and internal sayings and actions of a person.
"You alone we worship
and to You alone we turn for help. Guide us to the
straight path." [1:5, 6]
Say: "Behold, my
prayer, and [all] my acts of worship, and my living and my dying are for God
[alone], the Sustainer of all the worlds, in whose divinity none has a share:
for thus have I been bidden-and I shall [always] be foremost among those who
surrender themselves unto Him." [6:162-163]
"It is not
righteousness that you turn your faces toward the East or the West, but
righteous is he who believes in Allah and the Last Day and the Angels and the
Book and the Prophets, and gives his beloved money to his relatives and the
orphans and the needy and for the ransoming of captives and who observes prayer
and pays the poor-due; and those who fulfill their promises when they have made
one, and the patient in poverty and affliction and the steadfast in time of
war; it is those who have proved truthful and it is those who are the
God-fearing." [2:177]
"For Allah, He is my
Lord and your Lord: so worship ye Him: this is a
“And those saved from the
covetousness of their own souls,- they are the ones
that achieve prosperity.” [59:9]
The Prophet said:
"Whoever finds himself at the nightfall tired of his work, God will
forgive his sins."
He said: "Seeking
knowledge for one hour is better than praying for seventy years."
The Prophet told us:
"Receiving your friend with a smile is a type of charity, helping a person
to load his animal is a charity and putting some water in your neighbor's
bucket is a charity."
Ritual Acts of Worship:
1. Daily Prayer: "Successful
indeed are the believers who are humble in their prayers." (23:1-2)
2. Charity: "Believe
in Allah and His messenger and spend of that over which He made you
trustees." (57:7)
3. Fasting: "O you who
believe, fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before
you, that you may gain piety." [2:183]
4. Pilgrimage: “Hence,
pilgrimage unto the
5. Pledge: “I testify that
there is no deity but Allah, and Muhammad is His servant and His messenger.”