If You Focused All Your Efforts Into Pleasing People,You’d Never Succeed— So Be Sincere To Allah In Your Actions And Intentions:
The main Goal of the Believer's life is that — he seeks the pleasure of Allah alone, with no partner or associate, even if that displeases people. The Sign of the hypocrites is that they are keen to please people, even if that angers the Lord of the Worlds.
Once a person believes in that with certainty, his heart will be attached to his Lord — because he believes that people cannot benefit him except by his Lord’s leave, and they cannot harm him except by his Lord’s leave alone.
The Prophet (saw) said: Know that if the Nation were to come together to benefit you with something, they would not benefit you except with something that Allah has already decreed for you, and if they were to come together to harm you with something, they would not harm you except with something that Allah has already decreed for you.”
Narrated by at-Tirmidhi in his Sunan :2516)
At-Tirmidhi narrated in his Sunan (3267) that al-Bara’ ibn ‘Aazib (May Allah be pleased with him) said: A man stood up and said: O Messenger of Allah, if I praise someone then he is praiseworthy, and if I criticize someone then he is blameworthy. The Prophet (saw) said: “That is only for Allah, may He be glorified and exalted.”
Allah alone is the One Who, if He praises someone, then he is praiseworthy, and if He is angry with someone and criticizes him, then he is blameworthy. As for people, they have no power in that regard except by Allah’s leave.
It is Allah(swt) Who instills love or hate of someone in people’s hearts — Being certain that Focusing on pleasing people and not the Lord of the Worlds is a sign of Failure, and the one who does that will end up blameworthy, with no one to praise him; Allah will abandon him and he will have no one to support him — But if he seeks to please Allah alone, Allah will suffice him and he will have no need of people.
Allah says: “Do not make [as equal] with Allah another deity and [thereby] become censured and Forsaken”. (Al-Isra’ 17:22).
Ibn Hibbaan Narrated in his Saheeh (277) From ‘Aa’ishah that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Whoever pleases Allah by angering the people, Allah will suffice him, but whoever angers Allah by pleasing the people, Allah will leave him to the people.”
Knowing that there is no way to please people, For man is basically unfair and ignorant, and pleasing people is a target that cannot be achieved, For people are not even pleased with their Lord, so how can you think that they will be pleased with you?!
Al-Bayhaqi narrated in az-Zuhd al-Kabeer (180) with a saheeh isnaad From al-Hasan al-Basri that it was said to him: People come to your gathering to pick on any error you may make, so that they can make it a reason to gossip about you.
He said: Do not worry about it, For I thought of the pleasure of being close to Allah and I hope For that; I thought of Paradise and I hope For that; ~ I thought of al-hoor al-‘een and I hope For that; I thought of being safe From people, and I Found no way to achieve that. When I saw that people are not pleased with their Creator, I realized that they will never be pleased with a created being like themselves.
Ash-Shaafi‘i (May Allah have mercy on him) said to Yoonus ibn ‘Abd al-A‘la: O Abu Moosa, if you were to strive your utmost to please all the people, there is no way to do that. As that is the case, then make your deeds and your intention sincerely For Allah (May He be glorified and exalted) alone.
(Narrated by al-Bayhaqi in Shu‘ab al-Eemaan:6518).
So let each person’s main concern be to seek the pleasure of his Lord alone, For if He is pleased, that is sufficient For you — We should put all our efforts into pleasing our Creator.
May Allah (swt) make us obedient and give us steadfastness in Faith.(Ameen).
JazakAllah (May Allah reward you [with] goodness)for reading.
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