Reforming our homes

 🏠 *Reforming our homes*

All praise is for Allaah alone, the One who is a Guide to the Right Path. He guides from His slaves – those who repent – to the Straight Path, and He brings them out of darkness into light. And He sends astray those who turn away (from His obedience) and follow their desires.

وَمَا ظَلَمَهُمُ اللَّـهُ وَلَـٰكِن كَانُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ

{And Allaah wronged them not, but they used to wrong themselves}

📚[Surah al-Nahl (16): 33]

I bear witness that none has the right to be worshiped except Allaah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger, who came with clear signs from Allaah. Through him, Allaah تعالى guided the blind hearts, mended broken souls. May the peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him, his family, and his Companions. 

فَاتَّقُوا اللَّـهَ وَأَصْلِحُوا ذَاتَ بَيْنِكُمْ ۖ وَأَطِيعُوا اللَّـهَ وَرَسُولَهُ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ

{So fear Allaah and adjust all matters of difference among you, and obey Allaah and His Messenger (Muhammad ﷺ), if you are believers.}

📚[Surah al-Anfaal (8): 1]

O Slaves of Allaah! How are your homes? And what is taking place inside them and around them? Are our homes filled with sufficiency, calmness, tranquility and mercy, and with Angels surrounding them? Or are our homes overshadowed with darkness, filled with wickedness and iniquity, and which are a resting and dining place for Shayaateen?

If we want to know that, then we have to contemplate on how were the houses of the Prophet ﷺ? His ﷺ houses were places where Allaah’s Names were glorified and praised a lot throughout the day, in the mornings and in the evenings. His ﷺ houses were a place where the Aayaat from the Book of Allaah was recited and al-Hikmah (the Prophet’s Sunnah) was followed. His ﷺ houses were filled with mercy, love, and kind treatment towards the family members. There were no objectionable things in his ﷺ houses. Rather, if something were to enter his ﷺ house which was displeasing to Allaah, he ﷺ would have it removed immediately, and he ﷺ would hasten towards that which would be pleasing to Allaah سبحانه وتعالى.

Except for the Fardh Salaah (obligatory prayers), the Prophet ﷺ would perform most of his prayers at home. He would stand up in the nights for prayers till morning, he would offer the Sunnan al-Rawaatib (Sunnah prayers associated with obligatory prayers) at home. This is one Sunnah that has been abandoned by many people.

The Prophet ﷺ said: ❝You should pray in your houses, for the best prayer of a person is that which he prays in his house except for the obligatory prayers.❞

📚[Saheeh al-Bukhaaree and Saheeh Muslim]

The Prophet ﷺ was a kind husband inside the house. He would help his family around the house and would tend to their needs. So, you O Muslim! Compare your home with the home of the Prophet ﷺ. Are you trying to follow him ﷺ in this? Do you desire the same in your house? If you do, then you are upon Khair (goodness). But if you oppose him ﷺ, then what a miserable place is your house!

O slaves of Allaah! Be keen in remembering Allaah تعالى at the time of entering the homes. Allaah’s Messenger ﷺ said: ❝When a person enters his house and mentions the name of Allaah at the time of entering it and while eating the food, Shaitaan says (addressing himself): “You have no place to spend the night and no evening meal”. But when the person enters without mentioning the name of Allaah, the Shaitaan says: “You have found a place to spend the night”; and when the person does not mention the name of Allaah while eating food, he (the Shaitaan) says: “You have found a place to spend the night and an evening meal”.❞

📚[Saheeh Muslim (2018)]

So, whoever remembers Allaah at the time of entering the houses and while eating food, they have protected themselves from the Shaitaan, so that Shaitaan does not sleep with them inside their homes, nor does he participate with them in eating food.