Bi ismillahir rahmanir raheem

Allah requires action from us for there to be guidance, this is the meaning behind Saydiah mariyams efforts during childbirth. Allah asked her to shake the trunk of the date palm tree so the dates could fall out, he asked her to act beffore he granted her the miracle of the dates falling from the barren.

The trunk of these trees are not small and in no way could a women in middle of giving birth have the strength to shake it tothe extent that date fell out. 

rami wrote: Bi ismillahir rahmanir raheem Allah requires action from us for there to be guidance, this is the meaning behind Saydiah mariyams efforts during childbirth. Allah asked her to shake the trunk of the date palm tree so the dates could fall out, he asked her to act before he granted her the miracle of the dates falling from the barren. The trunk of these trees are not small and in no way could a women in middle of giving birth have the strength to shake it tothe extent that date fell out.

Yes He requires taqqwaa(fear, conciousness of Him). First taqwaa and the rest is to Allah,

33:70 Yaa(O), who have become secure(have faith) fear Allaha and speak a firm speech.

Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo ittaqoo Allaha waqooloo qawlan sadeedan

He will better your works and forgive you your debts(sins), and whoever obeys Allaha and His sent one*, then he has achieved a magnificent victory.

Yuslih lakum aAAmalakum wayaghfir lakum thunoobakum waman yutiAAi Allaha warasoolahu faqad faza fawzan AAatheeman

So first taqwaa and the rest is to Allah.

  *sent one: he who was sent with the truth.

The inheritorship of the Prophet's knowledge by the great scholars is illustrated by al-Khatib's relation from al-hafiz Abu Nu`aym whereby Abu Nu`aym considered it incumbent upon all Muslims to invoke Allah for Abu Hanifa in their prayer due to his preservation of the Prophet's Sunan and fiqh for them. Another example is the following account about Imam Malik related by Ibn al-Jawzi in the chapter entitled "Layer 6 of the People of Madina" of his book Sifat al-Safwa:

Abu Mus`ab said: I went in to see Malik ibn Anas. He said to me: Look under my place of prayer or prayer-mat and see what is there. I looked and I found a certain writing. He said: Read it. (I saw that) it contained (the account of) a dream which one of his brothers had seen and which concerned him. He said (reciting what was written): "I saw the Prophet in my sleep. He was in his mosque and the people were gathered around him, and he said: I have hidden for you under my pulpit (minbar) something good -- or: knowledge --and I have ordered Malik to distribute it to the people." Then Malik wept, so I got up and left.

Observe the attitude of the awliya towards the meeting with the Prophet in dream and their strong belief both in the absolute credibility of such dreams and their particular contents. This one explicitly states that the Prophet has kept something good hidden for his Umma, and that he continues to give it through one of the greatly learned `ulama after his time.

Similarly Imam Ahmad cited in Kitab al-zuhd, also Ibn Abi al-Dunya, Abu Nu`aym, Bayhaqi, and Ibn `Asakir from Julays from Wahb ibn Munabbih who said: I saw the Prophet in my sleep, so I said: "Ya Rasulallah, where are the Substitutes (budala') of your Community?" So he gestured with his hand towards Syria. I said: "Ya Rasulallah, aren't there any in Iraq?" He said: "Yes, Muhammad ibn Wasi`, Hassan ibn Abi Sinan, and Malik ibn Dinar, who walks among the people similarly to Abu Dharr in his time."

Ok you know all this through books and study....

Engaging the peace with Allah (work to please Him and thus gain His peace "islaam") is really simple and true. You can not go wrong if you stick with what you are sure about and leave what you doubt.

We need to work mending works. Globally as a community that is justly balancing and balanced. Balance is not when this community turns either against one or the other, (either US or China). We are the community of the middle, balanced and balancing. Allah knows best who is guided and who is not, so do not judge others because they are different and because you do not understand them.

Allah does not like those who speak badly of other nations.

Remember the sunnah of the prophet that when he came into a room, he would always sit where no other would sit, they did not like to sit in that place because they chose to sit in their chosen places(the best places in their view), so the prophet would sit there and make it a beautiful place. This is the sunnah.

So if you wish to follow the sunnah, go to a place where you do not wish to be....Fear Allah alone and hope for His mercy, to Him is our destination.

Peace,

Allah has guided the mankind thru His Kalam. The book of Allah is a guidance for one's way to salvation. It is true that He knows who may be rightly guided and who are not. At the same time there is enough knowledge in The Book to teach one the discreaton between the rightly guided path and the one which will not make the souls successful in the hereafter.

Therefore, those who follow The Book with sincerity, wisdom and consistency, are well in a position to decide what nation, what community or which methodology is in accordance with the guidance contained in The Book.

One cannot stick to what one is sure about and at the same time explore the places one does not wish to go to!

We are commanded to obey allah and the messenger - To wish what allah and His messenger has wished for us.

The recepients of guidance and in turn recepients of knowledge are those who preserved and transmitted islam thru their hearts. Instead of a debate over the term "guidance", our youth need true understanding of religion - which is made easy only in the companionship of the rightly guided, who we have among us to this day.

Nausheen