Neno E!?' (Barakah) "baraka" maana yake halisi ni wingi wa kitu chochote chema unaoendelea kudumu. Wanazuoni wanaifuatilia hata neno hili na maana yake hadi kwenye neno E!?' (Birkah), ambalo linamaanisha kiasi kikubwa cha maji. Ni chombo chochote kipana au mkusanyiko wa maji unaoendelea kuwa na kiasi kikubwa cha maji. Vivyo hivyo, baraka pia ni wingi wa wema unaoendelea. Kwa hiyo maana ya kauli hii ni: Teremsha baraka juu ya kile Ulichonipa.

The word E!?
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 (Barakah) “blessing” literally means a lot of anything good that is continuous. The scholars even trace this word and its meaning back to the word E!?'  (Birkah) which means a large amount of water. It is any wide container or gathering of water that continuously contains a large amount of water. Similarly, blessing is also a continuously large amount of good. So the meaning of this statement is: Send blessings down upon that which You have given me.

Maneno "katika yale Uliyotupa" yana maana pana, yanajumuisha chochote ambacho Allaah ametujaalia katika mali, watoto, elimu, na kila kitu kingine ambacho Allaah (SWT) ametuneemesha nacho. Kwa hiyo, unamwomba Allaah kuweka baraka katika yote hayo. Asipoweka baraka katika kile alichokupa, basi kheri nyingi zitakuzuilika kwako bila shaka.

The wording, “in what You have given” is comprehensive including anything Allaah has given us of wealth, children, knowledge, and everything else Allaah () has bestowed upon us. Therefore, you ask Allaah to put blessings in all of that. If Allaah does not put blessings into that which He has given you, a great amount of good will surely be prevented from you.

Ni watu wangapi wanaomiliki mali nyingi sana, lakini ni kana kwamba wanaishi katika umaskini?

How many people possess a vast amount of wealth, yet it is as if they are living in poverty?

Hii ni kwa sababu hawapati faida yoyote halisi kutokana na mali yao; wanakusanya tu, na hawanufaiki nayo kamwe. Hii ndiyo matokeo ya baraka kuondolewa kutoka humo.

This is because they gain no real benefit from their wealth; they simply collect it and never benefit from it. This is the result of the blessings being removed from it.

Vivyo hivyo, watu wengi wana watoto na wajukuu wengi, lakini hawawanufaishi wazazi wao kwa lolote kutokana na kutokuwatii kwao na kutokuwashukuru kwao. Watu kama hao hawajabarikiwa kwa watoto wao.

Likewise, many people have lots of children and grandchildren, yet they do not benefit their parents in anything due to their disobedience and ungratefulness. Such people have not been blessed in their children.

Pia utakuta watu ambao Allah amewapa elimu kubwa, lakini ni kana kwamba hawajui kusoma wala kuandika. Hutaona athari ya elimu yao katika ibada zao, tabia zao, adabu zao, wala katika jinsi wanavyowatendea wengine. Badala yake, elimu yao inaweza hata kuwaongezea kiburi na kujiona kuwa wako juu ya waja wengine wa Allah, wakiwadharau na kuwadhalilisha. Mtu wa namna hii hatambui kwamba aliyemtunukia elimu hii si mwingine ila ni Allah. Utamwona hawanufaishi watu kwa elimu yake, si kwa mafunzo, si kwa ushauri, wala kwa maandishi. Kinyume chake, anajishughulisha na nafsi yake peke yake. Hili bila shaka ni hasara kubwa, ingawa elimu ya dini ni miongoni mwa neema zilizo tukufu zaidi ambazo Allah humpa mja.

You also find some people to whom Allaah has given a great amount of knowledge, yet it is as if he is illiterate. You see no traces of knowledge upon him in his worship, in his character, in his manners, or in the way he treats others. Rather, his knowledge may even increase him in arrogance and thinking himself to be above the rest of Allaah’s servants, belittling and humiliating them. Such a person does not realize the one who bestowed this knowledge upon him is none other than Allaah. You see that he never benefits people with his knowledge, neither with lessons, nor advice, nor with writings. On the contrary, he is exclusively centered only upon himself. This is without doubt a great deprivation, even though religious knowledge is one of the most blessed things Allaah gives to a servant.

Sababu moja ya hili ni kwamba unapokifundisha kwa wengine na kueneza elimu hii miongoni mwa watu, unalipwa thawabu kwa hilo, na hili ni kutokana na mitazamo mingi tofauti.

One reason for this is that when you teach it to others and spread this knowledge among the people, you are rewarded for that and this is from many different perspectives:

1. Unapoeneza elimu hii ya kidini, unafanya hivyo kwa ajili ya dini ya Allah (SWT).

1. When you spread this religious knowledge, you do so for the religion of Allaah ().

Kwa hiyo, wewe unakuwa miongoni mwa Mujaahidoon katika njia ya Allah, kwa sababu umefungua mioyo yako kwa elimu ya dini, kama vile Mujaahid anavyoishinda nchi kwa kuirekebisha na kwa imani.

So you become from the Mujaahidoon in the path of Allaah: that is because you have opened the hearts to religious knowledge like the Mujaahid who conquers a land with rectification and faith.

2. Miongoni mwa baraka za kueneza elimu na kuifundisha ni kwamba kwa kufanya hivyo, sheria ya Allaah (Sharia) inahifadhiwa na kulindwa. Lau isingekuwa ni kupitishwa kwa elimu, sheria hiyo isingehifadhiwa.

2. From the blessings of spreading knowledge and teaching it is that by doing so, there is the preservation and protection of Allaah’s legislation (the Sharee’ah). If it were not for the passing on of knowledge, the legislation would not have been preserved.

3. Pia miongoni mwa baraka za kueneza elimu ni kwamba unapowafundisha wengine, unawafanyia wema mkubwa. Unawapa ufahamu wa dini ya Allaah (). Zaidi ya hayo, mja anapomwabudu Allaah kwa elimu na ufahamu, thawabu kama zile anazopewa zitakuwa ni thawabu yako, kwa kuwa umemwelekeza kwenye jambo fulani jema. Anayemwelekeza mwingine kufanya jambo jema ni kama aliyelifanya mwenyewe.9

3. Also from the blessings of spreading knowledge is that when you teach others, you are doing them a great deal of good. You give them insight into the religion of Allaah (). Moreover, when the servant then worships Allaah with knowledge and insight, similar rewards they are given will be your reward, because you directed them towards a particular good. The one who directs another to do something good is just like the one who actually does it.9

4. Pia, kwa kueneza na kufundisha elimu, elimu ya mtu mwenyewe huongezeka. Inajulikana kwamba yeyote anayewafundisha watu elimu fulani, elimu yake katika somo hilo huongezeka. Hii ni kwa sababu katika kufundisha, mtu anakumbuka alichojifunza na kukihifadhi hapo awali, pamoja na kujifunza mambo mapya ambayo lazima ajiandae kwayo. Kwa maana hii, kuna methali maarufu ya Kiarabu kuhusu mali: "Huongezeka kwa kuitumia mara nyingi, na hupungua ikishikwa kwa ngumi iliyobana." Vivyo hivyo, elimu ikizuiliwa na isifundishwe, hatimaye itapungua.

4. Also, by spreading and teaching knowledge, one’s own knowledge increases. It is known that anyone who teaches a particular knowledge to people, his knowledge in that subject will increase. This is because in teaching, one is recalling what he previously learned and memorized as well as learning new things that he must prepare. In this meaning, there is a famous (Arabic) proverb regarding wealth, “It increases by spending it often, and it decreases if held in a tight fist.” Similarly, if knowledge is withheld and not taught, it will eventually decrease.