Rejection and Arrogance

7:40

To those who reject Our signs and treat them with arrogance, no opening will there be of the gates of heaven, nor will they enter the garden, until the camel can pass through the eye of the needle: Such is Our reward for those in sin.

إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِآيَاتِنَا وَاسْتَكْبَرُواْ عَنْهَا لاَ تُفَتَّحُ لَهُمْ أَبْوَابُ السَّمَاء وَلاَ يَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ حَتَّى يَلِجَ الْجَمَلُ فِي سَمِّ الْخِيَاطِ وَكَذَلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُجْرِمِينَ

Last Saturday, our masjid invited Dr Ali Saripan Al-Hafiz to give a kuliah subuh.He was armed with a notebook and a projector.A screen and a white board were provided by our masjid. He showed us two ppt slides-the first is the above ayat and the second a graphic picture of a camel and a needle.

He took about 45minutes to explain the above ayat with a few examples from the Quran.IMHO,the usage of multimedia tools are quite effective in conveying the message.The slide of the camel and the needle stuck vividly in my mind even though it was shown almost a week.Words can be easily forgotten even in less than a day.

Referring to the above ayat, I must be very careful what goes on in my mind and qalbu,what I talk and write and what I do so that I donot commit any acts of rejection and arrogance.I must seek Allah swt helps all the time,so that I remain His obedient servant.Obedience is an act of worship.What about rejection?

IMHO,one of the main reasons why we reject the command of Allah swt is because of our arrogance.Our arrogance may be bigger than the camel and our little knowledge is smaller than the hole in the needle.There is NO WAY the camel can get through the hole in the needle.The simile used by Allah in the above mentioned ayat means that if we 'reject His signs and treat them with arrogance',we shall never enter Al-Jannah.

Here are a few ayats he qouted while discussing the above subject:
7:40,2:32,7:22,20:25-28,2:286

Note: I will not be able to respond to your comments in the next 36 hrs because I am on the way to have Blue Valley tea with some scones at Tanah Rata,Cameron Highland.

Comments

[Honeytar]

Abedib, htank you for the post.

btw, please don't forget to have tea at Cameron Bharat. Their biscuits are very very nice...to go with the tea of course.
(http://www.bharattea.com.my). :)

For some nice scones, there's a place just next (on the right) to Twin Pines in Tanah Rata. Enjoy your stay there!

Salams.

[Honeytar]

Abedib, thank you for the post.

btw, please don't forget to have tea at Cameron Bharat. Their biscuits are very very nice...to go with the tea of course.
( http://www.bharattea.com.my ) :)

For some nice scones, there's a place just next (on the right) to Twin Pines in Tanah Rata. Enjoy your stay there!

Salams.

[Adib]

Honeytar,
Thanks for the sms.I stayed at Equatorial Hotel,but it does not have scone for tea.However, the baked cheese cake there was fantastic.I just can't resist the temptations.

[Honeytar]

Welcome Abedib. The cheesecake you took looks sooooo tempting....! Now I feel lapar cheesecake lah. ;-)

[Gukita]

Arrogance is inside the heart. Rejection is the act of the heart followed by denial of action of the physical. The consequence is dire. But do we monitor the heart and its actions? If the consequence is so great, surely it's very important to have a monitoring system to enable us to avoid the pitfalls....Anyone use one??