1) Claiming the Knowledge of the Unseen.2) Developing Self-Confidence
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In the name of Allah, the Most-Merciful, the All-Compassionate "May the Peace and Blessings of Allah be Upon You" Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala Rasulillah As-Salaam Alaykum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakaatuh ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Claiming the Knowledge of the Unseen, Palm-reading and Cup-reading, etc. The meaning of the unseen: What is hidden from people of future and past occurrences, and what is not seen, is exclusive to Allah's Knowledge. Allah says: "None in the heavens and the earth knows the unseen except Allah." [Soorah an-Naml (27): 65]. No one knows the unseen except Allah, the Exalted. He may expose it to His Messengers if He wishes for a divine purpose or wisdom. Allah says: "He is the Knower of the unseen, and He does not reveal His secrets to anyone. Except to him whom He chooses, namely a Messenger of His." [Soorah al-Jinn (72): 26-27]. And then He causes an escort of guarding angels to go before him and behind him. Meaning that Allah does not reveal the unseen except to him whom He chooses from Prophets, revealing to him what He wishes, because reporting about unseen things is a proof of his Prophethood. This includes Messengers from both humans and angels. He does not reveal information about the unseen world to others because He restricted such information to Prophets and angels. Therefore, anyone else who claims the knowledge of the unseen by any means is a liar and a Kafir, whether he claims such by palm or cup reading, or by divining or sorcery, or astronomy or otherwise. As for the claims of imposters and liars that they can locate lost things and report about the conditions of absent people, or causes of certain sickness by alleging that so and so bewitched you and caused your sickness, all these are only because they employ Jinn and devils, telling people that what they are suffering is a result of these works only to deceive them. Shaikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah said: "A diviner used to have a Shaytanic companion who informed him about many unseen things by eavesdropping. [1] They used to confuse the truth with lies. He went on to say that amongst such people, was that to whom Shaytaan would bring him fruits, sweets and other things that were not available in diviner's location. Or the Jinni companion would fly them to Makkah, Jerusalem or elsewhere." Fortune tellers may rely on astrology, the study which assumes and professes to interpret the influence of heavenly bodies on human affairs. They study the effects of the astrological conditions on terrestrial event such as the times of wind and rain, the changes of prices and other conditions and they claim that they are associated with movement of planets in its orbits, when they become near or distant from each other. Based on such information, they allege that he who consummates marriage, or travel, or who is born when certain star is at certain position, certain things will have happened to him of good or bad omen. Horoscope columns are usually published in cheap magazines to predict future events based on the signs of the zodiac. Some ignorant people and those having weak Eemaan, resign to diviners seeking advice for their future events, such as marriage and other things. He who claims the knowledge of the unseen, and he who believes him is a Mushrik and infidel because he alleges to share the knowledge which belongs exclusively to Allah. While planets and stars are only subjugated creatures having no will of their own, or power of any sort. They neither indicate good or bad omens, nor life or death. It is only the work of eavesdropping Shaytaan. ---------------------------------------- [1] According to authentic Hadeeth, the jinn used to listen by stealth to angels in lowest heaven to bring back information about future events, and pass them to diviners and fortune tellers after mixing the information with many lies. [Translator] Source: Aqeedah At-Tawheed (The Creed of Islâmic Monotheism) by Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan Translated by Mahmoud Ridha Murad http://www.abdurrahman.org/tawheed/AqeedahAtTawheed-Fawzaan.html Note: All footnotes which mention, [Translator] at the end are by the translator, Mahmoud Ridha Murad. Apart from these all additional footnotes are by As-Sunnah (www.qsep.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Developing Self-Confidence--One Step At A Time! The process of developing self-confidence begins when you first change your belief of what you think you can or cannot accomplish. If you don't believe that you have the ability to accomplish whatever it is that you are striving for you are without question guaranteeing your failure. Most of us sabotage our chances to achieve higher levels of success in life because we fail to believe in ourselves. If you try your hardest and you still find that you cannot make yourself belief in your ability to accomplish a particular task, then Fake It! That's right, I said fake it, just forget what your mind is telling you and start telling yourself that nothing can stop you. You see it is not your mind that is telling you that you cannot do something, it is you telling your mind that you cannot do whatever it may be so you have to get past your own self-defeating beliefs. This is something that you can do and I will help to show you how but it will be up to you to take the actions that I suggest. So now we know that developing self-confidence is a process and not impossibility and we know that it starts by changing the belief that we hold in our mind. If you are having a difficult time with changing your mindset what you need to do is start with something small and by small I just mean choose something that you would like to achieve that does not present an overwhelming challenge. It really can be anything, baking a pie from scratch, sinking a ten foot putt, reading a book within a week you see where I am going with this so find something similar and we will get to work. If your mind is telling you that it is just too difficult you are going to have to start to tell your mind that you can do it because in essence you control your thoughts. You can start this process through the use of self-talk, this is where you just spend a day continuously telling yourself that you can accomplish the task you have chosen. Now, after spending the day taking control of your thoughts and telling yourself that you can accomplish the task at hand "get to it," jump right in and show yourself that you have the power and the ability to win! There you go, you just took your first major step in developing your self-confidence. Your self-esteem will rise with every accomplishment regardless of how grand or glorious it may or may not be. The fact is you took the first step and you proved to yourself that you can change your beliefs. As your self-esteem rises so does your self-confidence and your belief that you can accomplish tasks that you might otherwise not have been able to accomplish. This all becomes a vicious yet wonderful chain reaction that results in you developing self-confidenceto set higher and higher goals. This is how you build upon your smaller success. You started with one small goal which you did not believe you could accomplish yet you proved yourself wrong but in reality you proved yourself to be right because you spent that one day telling yourself that you could accomplish the task at hand and in the end that is exactly what you had done. So What Do You Do Now? You begin to set a series of higher goals but you take each of those higher goals and break them down into smaller steps. Just visualize it in your mind as a stairway with a small landing at every 5 to 10 steps, these landings are the small goals that once achieved present the accomplishment of the larger goal you had set for yourself. As you make your way up those steps with every smaller goal you achieve your pride begins to climb right along side you and the more self-pride you have the greater your self-esteem thus leading to the development of your self-confidence. Self-confidence comes from positive knowing. Positive knowing just means that you are certain that you know how to do whatever it is that you need or want to do. Now where did we start with all this? We said that developing self-confidence required one to change their belief, to go from believing that you cannot do something to believing that you can. A person that believes in him or herself holds a strong healthy self-image. You must begin to work on changing your thoughts, really taking control over them and to begin to truly believe in yourself. You have more personal power than you might think and isn't it time for you to begin to ha
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