Saturday, June 14, 2008

Reward While You Wait

Wouldn't it be nice to get a load of reward for little effort while you're alive and even after you are dead? There are a few ways you can do this (bear with me, I'll hopefully have references soon):

1. Leave behind (when you die) any kind of continuous charity:
  • Plant a plant or cultivate a crop:
The Prophet (peace be on him) said,

" When a Muslim plants a plant or cultivates a crop, no bird or human being eats from it without its being accounted as a (rewardable) charity for him" (Al Bukhari and Muslim)

" When a Muslim plants a plant, anything eaten of ti , or stolen from it, until the Day of Ressurection, is accounted as a charity for him" (Muslim)
  • Build a Masjid (you will have reward for every person that prays in it)
2. Leave behind (when you die) any kind of useful knowledge (Sahih Muslim)
and of course, the best method of this is through the internet, where hundreds of thousands of people can access the information daily!
3. Have a child who prays for you (Sahih Muslim)


****I CAN'T CONFIRM THIS*****
This leads me to another proposal; wouldn't it make sense that you will also get a sin for each person you mislead? If this is true, then we need to be very careful what we search for online. The internet mostly works by page ratings; the more people that access a page, the more popular it becomes and the more easily found it is; as such, by accessing, for lack of a better word, sinful pages, you are helping make them more accessible and would therefore fall into the category of misleading others, wouldn't you?

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