Tuesday, September 27, 2011
[20:2-3]
“We have not sent down to you the Qur’an that you be distressed
But only as a reminder for those who fear [ Allah ] -”
Friday, August 12, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Ya Muqallib al-Qulub
- Ya muqallib al-qulub, thabbit qalbi ‘ala dinik
O mover (or flip-flopper) of hearts, make my heart firm upon your religion
- Ya muqallib al-qulub, thabbit ‘ala’l-haqq
O mover of hearts, make my heart firm upon the truth
- Ya muqallib al-qulub, thabbit qalbi ‘ala ta’atik
O mover of hearts, make my heart firm upon your obedience
- Ya musarrif al-qulub, thabbit qalbi ‘ala ta’atik
O director of hearts, keep my heart in a state of obedience to you
- Ya muqallib al-qulub wa ‘l-ahwalhawwil halina ila ahsan ‘l-hal
O you, transformer of hearts and spiritual states make our states the loveliest of states
- Allahumma, ya muqallib al-qulub wa’l-absar, thabbit qalbi ‘ala dinik
O Allah, O controller of the hearts and eyes, let my heart hold fast onto your religion
- Allahuma Ya Musabbib al-Asbab, Ya Mufattih al-Abwab, Ya Muqallib al-qulubi wal-absar, Ya Dalil al-mutahayyirin, Ya Ghiyath al-mustaghathin, Ya Hayyu, Ya Qayyum, Ya Dhul-Jalali wa-l-Ikram! Wa ufawwidu amri il-Allah, inn-Allaha basirun bil-’ibad
O Allah, o causer of causes, o opener of doors, o transformer of hearts and eyes, o guide of the stupefied ones, o redresser of complainants, o living, o eternal, o majestic an venerable, (..)
Allah is the one who controls the hearts of people. Remember the hadith – in Sahih Muslim – that Allah doesn’t look at your bodies and appearances but rather at your hearts (and your acts). In the Qur’an it is said that only the ones with a clean heart (bi qalbin salim) will be accepted by Allah. Oh Allah clean our hearts and deeds from hypocrisy and make us better people.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Ibn al-Qayyim
“If the heart is sick, the forbidden becomes attractive and obedience of Allah becomes something you look at with contempt.”
"Our enemies are not the Jews or Christians, but our enemy is our own ignorance.”
| — | Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib (as) |
“Wisdom is the lost property of the believer; he takes it from wherever he finds.”
| — | Prophet Muhammad. (Narrated by at-Tirmidhi) |
Muadh Ibn Jabal (radiAllahu anhu)
“My son, when you pray, do it like a person who is bidding farewell to this world, and don’t assume you will have another chance to pray again. My son, know that a believer dies in between two deeds, one he offers for today, where he will get immediate blessings, and the second deed is what he offers towards the day of resurrection, and that is where he will gain the ultimate benefits.”
Jaabir ibn ‘Abd-Allaah Rahimullah.
“When you fast, then let your hearing, sight and tongue fast and abstain from lies and haraam things, and refrain from harming your neighbour. Be tranquil and dignified on the day when you fast, and do not let the day when you fast and the day when you do not fast be the same. ”
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(Bukhari)
The Prophet (SAW) sent a small army unit. When it returned, the men said to the Prophet (SAW),
"Oh Messenger of Allah! The man whom you appointed our commander, recited only this Surah =which was surah ikhlas- after recitation in every rakah of every prayer."
When the Prophet (SAW) asked the man about the reason, he said,
"This Surah has the Attributes of Allah and I love to recite it." The Prophet (SAW) sent him the glad tidings that 'Allah also loves him.'
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
humble
bn al-Qayyim ramatullah alayh said,
Humility comes from knowing about Allah and His names and attributes, and His greatness, venerating Him, loving Him and being in awe of Him; and also from knowing about oneself and one’s faults, and weaknesses. From that may develop the attitude of humility, which means feeling helpless before Allah, and being humble and compassionate towards His slaves, so that the person does not feel superior towards anyone, or think that he has any rights over anyone else; rather he thinks that others are better than him, and that their rights come before his. This is a characteristic that Allah gives to those whom He loves, honours and draws close to Him.
Mohd. Akmal Nazir
A wake-up call for the Muslims
An anthem of their unity
A reminder to shut the worldly business
And bow down before the Maker
Azan reminds a muslim of his humble condition
And greatness of Almighty Azan leads us to humanity and brotherhood
Azan is nothing but a way to unite the muslim with Allah.
: Shaykh Faizee Shah Noori
Creations can never become Allah. Allah can never become a creation. But, no creation can subsist without Allah being with it.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
nafs and dunya
“Know that the life of this world is but amusement and diversion and adornment and boasting to one another and competition in increase of wealth and children - like the example of a rain whose [resulting] plant growth pleases the tillers; then it dries and you see it turned yellow; then it becomes [scattered] debris. And in the Hereafter is severe punishment and forgiveness from Allah and approval. And what is the worldly life except the enjoyment of delusion.”
(Surah Al-Hadid, ayah 20)
Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)
“Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind.”
Ali ibn Abu Talib (radiAllahu anhu)
“Know you that Allah has made Islam the most sublime path for attainment of His supreme pleasure and the highest standards of his worship and obedience. He has favoured it with noble precepts, exalted principles, undoubtable arguments, unchallengeable supremacy and undeniable wisdom. It is up to you to maintain the eminence and dignity granted to it by the Lord, to follow it sincerly, to do justice to its articles of faith and belief, to obey implicity its tenets and orders and to give it the proper place in your lives.”
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Reported by an-Nawwas ibn Sam’an and recorded by Imam Muslim.
Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) said:
“Righteousness is good morality, and wrongdoing is that which wavers in your soul and which you dislike people finding out about.”
[Muslim]
Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wasallam) said:
“The world is a prison for a believer and Paradise for a non-believer.”
“The world is a prison for a believer and Paradise for a non-believer.”
ibn majah
Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you. Abandon desire for others’ goods, and people will love you.
alhassan albasri
“The intelligent person’s tongue is behind his heart: when he wants to speak, he first thinks. If [his words] will be in his favour, he says them, and if they will be against him, he does not speak. And the ignorant person’s heart is behind his tongue: when he merely thinks of saying something, he says it, whether it is for or against him.”
Monday, July 18, 2011
[28:55]
“And when they hear ill speech, they turn away from it and say, “For us are our deeds, and for you are your deeds. Peace will be upon you; we seek not the ignorant.”
watch
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become character.
Watch your character, they become destiny.
Prophet Muhammad (SAWS) said:
“…Prayer is light; charity is a proof; patience is illumination; and the Qur’an is an argument for or against you. Everyone starts his day and is a vendor of his soul, either freeing it or bringing about its ruin.”
-Reported by Abu Malik al-Harith ibn Asim al-Ash’ari and recorded by Imam Muslim. (#23)
-Reported by Abu Malik al-Harith ibn Asim al-Ash’ari and recorded by Imam Muslim. (#23)
(al-Nasaa’i, 2247;)
“Prophet Muhammad salAllaahu ‘alayhi wassallam said:
“Whoever fasts one day for the sake of Allaah, Allaah will keep his face seventy years’ distance from Hell,”
“Whoever fasts one day for the sake of Allaah, Allaah will keep his face seventy years’ distance from Hell,”
Saturday, July 16, 2011
108. Al Kawthar (Abundance)
In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Ever-Merciful Indeed, We have granted you [the Fountain of] Abundance. So pray to your Lord and sacrifice. Indeed, your enemy is the one who is cut off.
(3:193)
Our Lord! Behold we have heard a voice calling us unto faith:
“Believe in your Lord” and we have believed.
Hadhrat Ma’roof Karkhi
“To always be grateful (to Allah) even if nothing is given. (That is, even if it appears that your supplications are not answered, to be grateful for all the bounties which Allah Ta’ala has bestowed and which He continues to bestow to you. However, man takes for granted all the ni’maat he continuously receives from Allah Ta’ala without asking for these, hence does not perceive what he is acquiring every minute of his life.)”
107. Al Ma’un (Basic Necessities)
In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful,
the Ever-Merciful Have you seen the one who denies the Recompense? For that is the one who drives away the orphan And does not encourage the feeding of the poor. So woe to those who pray [But] who are heedless of their prayer - Those who make show [of their deeds] And withhold basic necessities.
Qur’aan 9:78
Did they not know that Allah knows their secrets and their private conversations and that Allah is the Knower of the unseen?
Abu Darda radiAllahu anho
“You will not truly gain understanding (fiqh) until you are able to see various views within the Qur’an, and you will not truly gain understanding until when you rebuke people for the Sake of Allah, you also turn to your soul and rebuke it even harsher than you did the people”
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[Bukhari, Al-Adab Al-Mufrad, #371]
Narrated Umar RA: “Whoever does not show mercy will receive no mercy. Whoever does not forgive will not be forgiven. Whoever does not pardon will not be pardoned or protected.”
(Ibn Majah, 3989)
“Allah loves the righteous, pious, inconspicuous people. When they are absent they are not missed. When they are present they are not called out or noticed. Their hearts are lamps of guidance. They emerge from every place of darkness.”
(Abu Dawud, 4941; Tirmidhi, 1924)
“The merciful people will be shown mercy by the All Merciful; be merciful to those on earth and the One in heaven will be merciful to you”
(Ibn Abbas: Baihaqi)
“The perfect Muslim is not a perfect Muslim, who eats till he is full and leaves his neighbors hungry”
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Abstaining from sins is a Mercy from Allah
“……Were it not for the grace of Allah and His mercy you would have followed Satan,
with scant exception (4:83).”
(Abu Dawud, 4941; Tirmidhi, 1924)
“The merciful people will be shown mercy by the All Merciful; be merciful to those on earth and the One in heaven will be merciful to you”
(Ibn Majah, 3989)
“Allah loves the righteous, pious, inconspicuous people. When they are absent they are not missed. When they are present they are not called out or noticed. Their hearts are lamps of guidance. They emerge from every place of darkness.”
[Holy Quran, 25:74]
“And those who say, “Our Lord, grant us from among our wives and offspring comfort to our eyes and make us an example for the righteous.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”
Uwais al-Qarni (RA)
“Sleep with the remembrance of death, and rise with the thought that you will not live long.”
[Al-Bukhaari and Muslim]
“A man is a shepherd of the people of his house, and he shall be asked concerning his flock; and a woman is a shepherd of the house of her husband and over their children, and she shall be asked concerning them.”
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
valuable lesson
One day, a rich father took his son on a trip. He wanted to show him how poor someone can be. They spent time on the farm of a poor family.
On the way home, father asked, Did you see how poor they are? What did you learn? The son replied, “We have a pool, they have rivers. We have lanterns at night, they have stars. We buy food, they grow theirs. We have walls to protect us, they have friends. We have encyclopaedias, they have the Quran.”
Then he added: “Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are.”
LESSON: It’s not about money that makes us rich, it’s about simplicity & having ALLAH in our lives.
THE ATTITUDE OF A TRUE MUSLIMAH TOWARDS HER LORD
- She has deep faith in Allah swt and willingly submits to His will and decree
- She worships Him sincerely, obeying all His commands and heeding all His prohibitions
- She understands what it means to be a true servant of Allah
- She constantly strives to support His religion and to make His word supreme on earth
- She is proud of her Muslim identity, which draws its strength from her understanding of the purpose of human existence in this life, as defined by Allah swt in the Quran:
“I have only created jinns and men, that they should worship Me Alone.” [51:56]
women
All women are pearls of great value, but some of us have been deceived into doubting the value of our purity. Pearls are priceless and should be protected and guarded from unworthy eyes.
The Origin of Idolatry
And said, ‘Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwa’ or Yaghuth and Ya’uq and Nasr.
-71:23
Originally these were the names of good people who had lived among the people. After their deaths, statues of them were erected to keep their memories alive. After sometime, however, people began to worship these statues. Later generations did not even know why they had been erected; they only knew their parents had prayed to them. That is how idol worshipping developed. Since they had no understanding of Allah the Almighty, Who would punish them for their evil deeds, they became cruel and immoral.
Ibn Abbas explained: “Following upon the death of those righteous men, Satan inspired their people to erect statues in the places where they used to sit. They did this, but these statues were not worshiped until the coming generations deviated from the right way of life. Then they worshipped them as their idols.”
In his version, Ibn Jarir narrated: “There were righteous people who lived in the period between Adam and Nuh alayissalam and who had followers who held them as models. After their death, their friends who used to emulate them said: ‘If we make statues of them, it will be more pleasing to us in our worship and will remind us of them.’ So they built statues of them, and , after they had died and others came after them, Iblis crept into their minds saying: ‘Your forefathers used to worship them, and through that worship they got rain.’ So they worshipped them.”
Ibn Abi Hatim related this story: “Waddan was a righteous man who was loved by his people. When he died, they withdrew to his grave in the land of Babylonia and were overwhelmed by sadness. When Iblis saw their sorrow caused by his death, he disguised himself in the form of a man saying: ‘I have seen your sorrow because of this man’s death; can I make a statue like him which could be put in your meeting place to make you remember him?’ They said: ‘Yes.’
So he made the statue like him. They put it in their meeting place in order to be reminded of him. When Iblis saw their interest in remembering him, he said: ‘Can I build a statue of him in the home of each one of you so that he would be in everyone’s house and you could remember him?’
They agreed. Their children learned about and saw what they were doing. They also learned about their remembrance of him instead of Allâh. So the first to be worshipped instead of Allâh was Waddan, the idol which they named thus.”
The essence of this point is that every idol from those earlier mentioned was worshipped by a certain group of people. It was mentioned that people made picture sand as the ages passed they made these pictures into statues, so that their forms could be fully recognized; afterwards they were worshipped instead of Allah.
It was narrated that Umm Salmah and Umm Habibah told Allâh’s Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam about the church called “Maria” which they had seen in the land of Abyssinia. They described its beauty and the pictures therein. He said:
“Those are the people who build places of worship on the grave of every dead man who was righteous and then make therein those pictures. Those are the worst of creation unto Allâh.”
(Saheeh al-Bukhaaree).
ya Allah
All praises are for you Allah, how I hope that you are there.
For sinful though I know I am, your displeasure I can not bear.Never, till this moment, did I realize how much I’ve strayed. Never, till now, was I more conscious of all those times when I should have prayed.
For sins are like heavy baggage, that one carries through Life, the airport. Why didn’t I realize sooner, that Earth is but a place of sport?
Ya Allah! Forgive me. Save me from the fire of Hell. Forgive me as you did my parents, from Jan’ah though they fell.
Ya Allah! Protect me. From myself for my soul is weak.
Let me not falter ever, for Jan’ah is the abode I seek.Ya, Allah! Please help me. For I don’t understand and thus, I fear.
What happened to all those moments when I never doubted that you were near?My actions once were guided, by my faith which, once, was strong. Ya Allah! please guide me . What happened, what went wrong?
Each footstep that I used to take, I took with you ever near my side. The Quran was my faithful companion, Rasoolallah my beloved guide.
How I yearn for those bygone days Allah, for I know that the day comes near when we’ll each receive our just rewards, and Truth will stand sparkling clear.
Life is like a spider’s web, Allah. We get caught in its tricky snare
So thoroughly are we disillusioned, time for salat we can not spare.I sit here and I wonder, Ya Allah! Why did I fall so low ?
What happened to my faith Allah? Where did my Iman go?In this earthly life of ours, so often does sin seem right. Falsehood seems to be the truth, as if days are confused with night.
Man is an imperfect creature. And thus, Man shall always wrong. For the road to Jan’ah is rocky, and the journey seems awfully long.
Ya Allah ! Our creator, we are all just peices of clay. Please help us with our steps in life, and let us not lose our way.
All praises are for you Allah, I know that you are near. I know that you have read my heart, and my words I know you hear.
-Anonymous
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