Graphic arts

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم: لا يؤمن أحدكم حتى يكون هواه تبعا لما جئت به

The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: None of you believe until his desires follow what I brought.

I made this poster for fun (or to suck up to my hadith teacher). Although my photoshop skills (actually I used open source Gimp for this) are a bit lacking, I was still pretty impressed with the way it turned out. I want to make a bunch of posters for the ahaadith we are memorizing with each poster representing the concept that is discussed in the hadith.

For this poster, I thought the hole in the wall fit appropriately because the Prophet (saw) is mentioned a deficiency, or hole, in our imaan.

Additionally, the place looks dirty and rundown which seems to suit the hadith which mentions a person whose desires are not aligned with the shariah. If this is the case, the person will be following his nafs and will most likely be involved in heinous and improper actions.

This reminds me of something that Mufti Kamaluddin (db) mentioned in one of his talks. He said we should make the makroohaat of shariah into the makroohaat of tarbiyyah. Thus, whatever is haraam in the deen should be haraam and disgusting to us, and whatever is makrooh (disliked by Allah and His messenger) should be makrooh (disliked) to us as well. We should actually feel a repulsion from anything that is disliked in the deen, and we should love whatever is beloved in the deen.

May Allah (swt) allow us all to follow His beloved Nabi (saw), give up our own desires for what he brought, and enter us in to the Jannah that Allah (swt) has prepared for His servants.