Uves Sareshwala

The Command of the Moment · 21 of 22

The deen of the present tense

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We began with one sentence and we end with what it has become. Haal ke amr ko pahunchana asl deen hai. The essence of deen is to understand what Allah requires from us in the situation He has placed us in, to fulfil it, and to convey it. Understand, because the command of Allah arrives addressed to a servant standing in an actual hour, and fiqh is the sight that reads the address. Fulfil, because sight without surrender is the scholar’s disease. …