{"id":23258,"date":"2025-04-28T16:56:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=23258"},"modified":"2025-05-06T12:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:22:22","slug":"do-not-make-your-deen-a-pastime-and-amusement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=23258","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Make Your Deen a Pastime and Amusement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20669\" src=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pathways1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pathways1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pathways1-190x127.jpg 190w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pathways1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hazrat Moulana Muhammad Ilyaas (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once recited the following verse of the Qur\u2019aan Majeed in which Allah Ta\u2018ala mentioned the condition of the disbelievers who have taken their religion as a pastime and amusement. Allah Ta\u2018ala says:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: 'Traditional Arabic'; font-size: 16pt;\">\u0627\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0630\u0650\u06cc\u06e1\u0646\u064e \u0627\u062a\u0651\u064e\u062e\u064e\u0630\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0627 \u062f\u0650\u06cc\u06e1\u0646\u064e\u0647\u064f\u0645\u06e1 \u0644\u064e\u0647\u0652\u0648\u064b\u0627 \u0648\u0651\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0639\u0650\u0628\u064b\u0627<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Those (the kuffaar) who have made their religion an amusement and play\u2026 (Surah A\u2019raaf v. 51)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After reciting the above verse, Hazrat Moulana Muhammad Ilyaas (rahimahullah) addressed the people saying:<\/p>\n<p>Engaging in the effort of deen without the correct intention, or for any other motive besides upholding and fulfilling the command of Allah Ta\u2018ala and to acquire His pleasure and the rewards of the Hereafter will ultimately (enter under the purport of this verse and) be regarded as taking one\u2019s deen as an amusement and play (and this is the way of the kuffaar which we have been prohibited from emulating in this verse).<\/p>\n<p>(Malfoozaat Hazrat Moulana Muhammad Ilyaas (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) pg. 116)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Moulana Muhammad Ilyaas (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once recited the following verse of the Qur\u2019aan Majeed in which Allah Ta\u2018ala mentioned the condition of the disbelievers who have taken their religion as a pastime and amusement. Allah Ta\u2018ala says: \u0627\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0630\u0650\u06cc\u06e1\u0646\u064e \u0627\u062a\u0651\u064e\u062e\u064e\u0630\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0627 \u062f\u0650\u06cc\u06e1\u0646\u064e\u0647\u064f\u0645\u06e1 \u0644\u064e\u0647\u0652\u0648\u064b\u0627 \u0648\u0651\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0639\u0650\u0628\u064b\u0627 Those (the kuffaar) who have made their religion an amusement and play\u2026 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-hazrat-moulana-ilyaas-rahmatullahi-alaih","category-malfoozaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23323,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23258\/revisions\/23323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}