Be Weary of Your Good Deeds

Allah the Highest is always testing His people, particularly the believers.   Allah the Highest said: “WE CREATED MAN FROM A CLOT TO TRY HIM, SO WE GAVE HIM HEARING AND VISION”.  (S: 76 A: 2)

Tests and trials can be through good things and bad things.  Good deeds are of the good things that can be trying.  Good deeds are also of Allah’s bounties to His slaves, which Allah guides them to, and helps them to do, however, they can still be of the trials and temptations the believers may be subjected to.

The good deeds of Salah, Fasting, Charity, Hajj and helping others etc may lead a person to admire his own deeds, himself, and even to start to feel better than others, which leads to pride, which is one of the worst sins which can stop man from going to Paradise.

Indeed, pride lead to Satan’s expulsion from Paradise, and he was one of the most worshipping Jinn, and he was close to Allah the Highest.  In fact, Allah the Highest called Satan ‘disbeliever’.  “AND AS WE SAID TO THE ANGELS: “PROSTRATE TO ADAM”, THEY PROSTRATED EXCEPT IBLIS (SATAN), HE REFUSED, WAS PROUD AND BECAME A DISBELIEVER” (S: 2 A: 34)

Pride prevents a person from entering Paradise, for Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him said: “Does not enter the Paradise, he who has as much as a grain of mustard of Pride in his heart”

This is because Pride is one of the greatest sins, preventing man entry to Paradise, makes him loss Allah’s Mercy and leads him to the Hell-Fire.

Therefore, if whatever good deeds a person does seeking to be close to Allah the Highest lead to him being proud and arrogant, then these good deeds might be the reasons for a person’s own destruction.

So be weary of your good deeds for it is also a trial and temptation, just like any good thing.  Allah the Highest said: “EVERY SOUL WILL TASTE DEATH, AND WE TRY YOU WITH WHAT IS BAD AND WHAT IS GOOD, AS A TEST, AND TO US YOU WILL RETURN”.  (S: 21 A: 35)

Dr. Ahmed Saafan