Hadith on 11 August 2010

Just coming back from the "musolla" a.k.a surau for Fajr. Starting from yesterday we have invited Imam from Nagoya to our musolla and he is expected to be with us through the Ramadhan, insyaAllah. We have this very short session of Taqlim after Fajr prayer. He decided to share a short hadith with all of us in this Taqlim.

1. He mentions that he will be sharing a short hadith and "short" here means that it will be a part of a long hadith. It is obviously because it will be easier to be memorize and our aim is to have a 30 hadith memorized at the end of Ramadhan.
2. The first hadith is "wama a'malu bil niat". Meaning that "every action start with an intention". A very short hadith that have a very wide meanings. If we were to go further down in this particular hadith, Rasulullah s.a.w has also said that we will get from our action base on what we have intended to.
3. If we are doing something for the sake of the money, we will get the money. And if we are doing something with an intention of getting a rewards from Allah, then we will get the rewards from Allah. This is how simple Allah have set our life as a human.
4. There is a story on the Day of Judgment. A group of rich people have been called to face Allah. This group of people have gave in lots of their properties for charity and they have been asked by Allah "Why are you doing this (gaving the charity)?". And these people answered, "We are doing this for the sake of You, Allah the Almighty". Allah s.w.t replied, "No, you are doing this to show people how rich you are", and Allah not giving them any rewards from their actions as they already known in their living life as a rich people just like what they intended to in the first place.
5. It is a very important for us to know our pure intention before taking an action. By doing so we will avoiding ourselves doing something useless or harmful. Let us always pray to Allah that He will always remind us to have a good intention and let us constantly refresh our intention so that we will get the precious rewards from Allah in the hereafter.