Tuesday, October 21, 2008
What it means by being in 'ibadhah?
(25:64) who pass their nights in prostrating themselves and standing before their Lord:
(25:65)who pray, "Our Lord, save us from the torment of Hell, for its torment is killing:
(25:66) it is an evil abode and an evil resting place"
(25:67)who, when they spend, are neither extravagant nor miserly but keep the golden mean between the two (extremes):
(25:68)who do not invoke any god but Allah nor kill a soul, which Allah has forbidden, unjustly, nor commit adultery. -He who does this shall be punished for his sin,
(25:69)and his torment shall be doubled on the Day of Resurrection, and he shall abide in a state of ignominy
(25:70)except the one who may have repented (after those sins) and have believed and done righteous works, for then Allah will change his evil deeds into good deeds, and He is very Forgiving and Merciful.
(25:71) In fact, the one who repents and does righteous deeds, returns to Allah as one ightly should.
(25:72)(And the servants of the Merciful are those:) who do not bear witness to falsehood and who; if they have ever to pass by what is vain, pass by like dignified people:
(25:73) who do not behave like the blind and the deaf, when the Revelations of their Lord are recited to them for admonition
(25:74) who pray, "Our Lord, bless us with wives and children, who may be the comfort of our eyes , and make us leaders of the righteous. "
(25:75)Such are the people who will be rewarded with high palaces for their fortitude, wherein they will be welcomed with due respect, honour and salutations
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Message of Abu Bakr siddiq (RA)
Bismillah hirrahmaani raheem ...
(5:105) Believers! Take heed of your own selves. If you are rightly guided, the error of he who strays will not harm you*To Allah will all of you return; then He will let all of you know what you did.
*. What is stressed here is that rather than occupying himself unduly with examining faults in the belief and conduct of others, a man should pay greater attention to a critical examination of his own conduct. His primary concern should be with his own faith and conduct. If a man is himself obedient to God, observes his duties to Him and to His creatures including his duty to promote what is good and forbid what is evil, and lives according to the dictates of righteousness and honesty, he has fulfilled his obligation and if others persist either in false beliefs or in moral corruption their errors cannot harm him. This verse in no way means that a man should care only for his own salvation and should remain unconcerned with the reform of others.
Abu Bakr removed this misconception in one of his sermons when he remarked: 'You recite this verse but interpret it erroneously. I have heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be on him) say that when people see corruption but do not try to change it; and when they see a wrong-doer commit wrong but do not prevent him from doing so, it is not unlikely that God's chastisement will seize them all(both good and bad believers). By God, it is incumbent upon you that you bid what is good and forbid what is evil or else God will grant domination upon you to those who are the worst among you. They will greatly chastise you and then when your righteous ones pray to God, their prayers will not be answered.'
Friday, August 1, 2008
Islamic links
1. http://www.tafheem.net/main.html
Quran translation in english from the urdu translation of mr. seyad abul ala maududi-hadith references -historic proofs
2. http://www.emanekhalis.com/
eman related articles in urdu and english
3.http://transliteration.org/quran/home.htm
quran translation in international languages with arabic audio , duas from quran
4.http://www.quran-recitation.info/
Quran recitation to learn and correct pronounciation
The Punishments....
*40. Unless a nation renders itself totally unworthy of God's favour, it is not deprived of it
(8:54)
Their case is like that of the people of Pharaoh and those before them: they rejected the signs of their Lord as false and so We destroyed them for their sins, and caused the people of Pharaoh to drown. For they were wrong-doers all.
(2:152) So remember ' Me and I will remember you, and give thanks to Me and be not ungrateful.
on your zakath....
2:264) O Believers, do not spoil your charity by taunts and injury to the recipients like the one who practises charity to be seen by men, while he neither believes in Allah nor in the Last Day. *303 His charity may be likened to the rainfall on a rock which had only a thin layer of soil upon it. When heavy rain fell on it, the whole of the soil washed away and the rock was left bare *304 Such people do not gain the reward they imagine they have earned by their seeming charity; Allah does not show the Right Way to the ungrateful . *305
303. The desire to display one's good deeds itself proves that the person concerned does not truly believe in God and the Hereafter. One who does good merely in order to impress people with his righteousness clearly regards those persons as his god. Such a person neither expects reward from God nor is he concerned that his good deeds will some day be reckoned to his credit.
*304. In this parable, 'heavy rain' signifies charity, and 'rock' the wicked intent and motive which lie behind external acts of charity. The expression, 'with a thin coating of earth upon it' signifies the external aspect of charity which conceals the wicked intent and motive of a man. These explanations make the significance and purport of the parable clear. The natural effect of rainfall should be the growth of plants and harvest. But if the earth, which is the repository of fertility, is insignificant in quantity, for example only a coating of it on some rock, the result will be that instead of yielding any beneficial result the rainfall may even prove harmful. Similarly, charity has the capacity to generate goodness and benevolence in human beings. Man's potential for goodness, however, is conditional on sincerity. Devoid of that charity leads to sheer loss and waste.
*305. Here the term kafir is used in the sense of the ungrateful person who refuses to acknowledge benevolence. People who either make use of the bounties of God in order to seek the gratitude of God's creatures rather than God's good pleasure, or who spend on others and then hurt them by stressing their acts of benevolence and kindness, are ungrateful to God for His bounties and favours. Since such people do not seek to please God, God does not care to direct them to the way that leads to His good pleasure
The Eeman
(3:31) (O Messenger!) Tell people: 'If you indeed love Allah, follow me, and Allah will love you and will forgive you your sins. Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.'
3:32) Say: 'Obey Allah and obey the Messenger.' If they turn away from this then know that Allah does not love those who refuse to obey Him and His Messenger.
To purify our eman means freeing it from shirks .The shirks which v can cum across in daily life are ,
1. Calling anyone other than Allah as a saviour and associating anything with him like saying "ya roosulullah ....","ya maideen andavar .....", " ya nahore andavar , etc .saying "ur my all in all "too is shirk .Allah says in al-quran,
9:31) They have made their scholars and monks as their Lords beside Allah, and likewise the Messiah, the son of Mary, although they were enjoined not to worship any other than the One Deity, besides Whom there is none worthy of worship. He is absolutely pure and free from what they associate with Him
2. Dividing ourselves from muslims in to sects as sunny n shia , shafi n hanafi , maraikayar and syed n so on .... Every newborn baby is born a Muslim only.
3. Call him directly.and do not call Allah indirectly by keeping a waseela like," ya Allah, l ike help me in the name of aulia .........". v r supposed to invoke him directly .besides , taweez , going to hafsa for "othi parkarathu ", too r shirk
4.Associating others with Allah in his power , characteristics and properties . coz he is the one and only in all aspects
5. describing Allah's appearance as " noori " n so on . no one knows how our lord looks like and noor is the hijab of Allah ,he created everything on earth so he cant b compared with anything on earth
6. Worshipping in tombs thinking tht those who r burried can hear us and answer us
7. Turning away from Allah by doing things against Quran and sunnah like "my uncle said so ...."," my mom said so " whtever . celebrating valentines day birth days , anniversaries etc are now clearly against quran and sunnah . coz birth is a natural thing like wise death too . getting money for saying azaan , for teaching quran , as dowry from bride are haram in islam .
(3:29) Say: 'Whether you conceal what is in your hearts or disclose it, Allah knows it. Allah knows what is in the heavens and in the earth and He has power over everything.'