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It is narrated that, Allaah's Messenger (saw) addressed us one day and said,
"O People! Fear this shirk as it is more hidden than a crawling ant."
Then someone whom Allaah had willed to speak said:
"And how shall we save ourselves from it when it is more hidden than a crawling ant, O Messenger of Allaah?".
He(saw) said, "Say
[size=14pt]"Allahumma inni a'udhu bika an ushrika bika
wa ana a'lamu wa astaghfiruka lima la a'lamu"[/size]
[O Allah I seek refuge in You from knowingly associating partners with You, and I seek Your forgiveness for that which I do not know].


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The Woman: a parable
© Nuh Ha Mim Keller 2001

A man was walking through the marketplace one afternoon when, just as the muezzin began the call to prayer, his eye fell on a woman’s back. She was strangely attractive, though dressed in fulsome black, a veil over head and face, and she now turned to him as if somehow conscious of his over-lingering regard, and gave him a slight but meaningful nod before she rounded the corner into the lane of silk sellers. As if struck by a bolt from heaven, the man was at once drawn, his heart a prisoner of that look, forever. In vain he struggled with his heart, offering it one sound reason after another to go his way—wasn’t it time to pray?—but it was finished: there was nothing but to follow.

He hastened after her, turning into the market of silks, breathing from the exertion of catching up with the woman, who had unexpectedly outpaced him and even now lingered for an instant at the far end of the market, many shops ahead. She turned toward him, and he thought he could see a flash of a mischievious smile from beneath the black muslin of her veil, as she—was it his imagination?—beckoned to him again.

The poor man was beside himself. Who was she? The daughter of a wealthy family? What did she want? He requickened his steps and turned into the lane where she had disappeared. And so she led him, always beyond reach, always tantalizingly ahead, now through the weapons market, now the oil merchants’, now the leather sellers’; farther and farther from where they began. The feeling within him grew rather than decreased. Was she mad? On and on she led, to the very edge of town.

The sun declined and set, and there she was, before him as ever. Now they were come, of all places, to the City of Tombs. Had he been in his normal senses, he would have been afraid, but indeed, he now reflected, stranger places than this had seen a lovers’ tryst.

There were scarcely twenty cubits between them when he saw her look back, and, giving a little start, she skipped down the steps and through the great bronze door of what seemed to be a very old sepulcher. A soberer moment might have seen the man pause, but in his present state, there was no turning back, and he went down the steps and slid in after her.

Inside, as his eyes saw after a moment, there were two flights of steps that led down to a second door, from whence a light shone, and which he equally passed through. He found himself in a large room, somehow unsuspected by the outside world, lit with candles upon its walls. There sat the woman, opposite the door on a pallet of rich stuff in her full black dress, still veiled, reclining on a pillow against the far wall. To the right of the pallet, the man noticed a well set in the floor.

“Lock the door behind you,” she said in a low, husky voice that was almost a whisper, “and bring the key.”

He did as he was told.

She gestured carelessly at the well. “Throw it in.”

A ray of sense seemed to penetrate for a moment the clouds over his understanding, and a bystander, had there been one, might have detected the slightest of pauses.

“Go on,” she said laughingly, “You didn’t hesitate to miss the prayer as you followed me here, did you?”

He said nothing.

“The time for sunset prayer has almost finished as well,” she said with gentle mockery. “Why worry? Go on, throw it in. You want to please me, don’t you?”

He extended his hand over the mouth of the well, and watched as he let the key drop. An uncanny feeling rose from the pit of his stomach as moments passed but no sound came. He felt wonder, then horror, then comprehension.

“It is time to see me,” she said, and she lifted her veil to reveal not the face of a fresh young girl, but of a hideous old crone, all darkness and vice, not a particle of light anywhere in its eldritch lines.

“See me well,” she said. “My name is Dunya, This World. I am your beloved. You spent your time running after me, and now you have caught up with me. In your grave. Welcome, welcome.”

At this she laughed and laughed, until she shook herself into a small mound of fine dust, whose fitful shadows, as the candles went out, returned to the darkness one by one.

Islamic Legal Rulings on Slaughtered Animal -Mufti Taqi Usmani :

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http://www.islamibayanaat.com/EnglishLiterature/English-InIslamLegalRulingsOnSaughteredAnimal-MuftiTaqiUsmani.pdf

chakula: Akhy Jazakallah Khairan. BTW Long time hope things are fine.

Assalaamu alaikum bro.

Yes its been sometime I visited here, things are ok alhamdulillah. Hope you are fine too.
Remember me in your duas.

Abu Hurayra 'Abdu'r-Rahman ibn Sakhr said that the Messenger of Allah(saw) said,
"Allah does not look at your bodies nor your forms but He looks at your hearts and your actions."
[Riyad As Saliheen]

The incident when Rasoolullah (saw) ordered the Sahabah to ask dua from a tabi'i.
[English Subtitles]

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rClUpezLmrY&list=UUzQbiQXyzTSbSPTMIwFlxBQ&index=1&feature=plcp

Transcript:


Sahabah asked him for dua
Maulana Tariq Jameel



The Prophet [s.a.w] said to Umar [r.a]
“O Umar, in your time there will be a person by the name of Uwais. His tribe will be called Muraad. His village will be Qarn. His complexion will be dark. He will be of medium height and there will be a white mark on his body. O Umar and Ali. When he comes, ask him to supplicate for you."

For I swear by Allah, if the likes of Uwais, fill the earth they can’t equal one hair on the body of Umar and Ali. But through this, he [s.a.w] wanted to make a point.

Umar and Ali [r.a] became astonished that they were being told to ask Uwais to make dua for them for they were sahabah and he was a Tabi’ee. The Prophet [s.a.w] said “He has served his mother so well that whenever he raises his hands to ask Allah, Allah doesn’t send those hands back empty”

This point needed to be made, to be humble in front of your parents. The pace of the work life in the country in which you live is fast. If one has parents, very few are fortunate to have children who look after them, otherwise they spend their later life with the walls of their house.

So when Umar [r.a] became the Khalifah, he would do hajj every year. Every year he would search for him [Uwais]. I don’t know, it may be the middle years, when Umar [r.a] gathered all the pilgrims. He asked them to stand and then requested “every one sit down apart from those who are from Yemen”. Then everyone sat down apart from the Yemenis. He then said “Everyone sit down, apart from those from the tribe of Muraad” so all the Yemenis sat down apart from those of the tribe of Muraad.

This year when I went for the purpose of dawah in Yemen, I went to the village of Uwais al Qarni. I saw where he was born. I met with the people of his tribe. I went through the locality marvelling at the fact that Uwais was born here. There are dry mountains there…dry mountains.

Then Umar [ra] said, “Those of the tribe of Muraad sit down, those of Qarn remain standing”, then there remained only one man standing. So he [r.a] asked “Are you Qarni?” he replied “yes”. “Do You know Uwais” I Know him, he is my nephew/brother’s son, but he’s a bit crazy, why do you ask about him?” Umar [r.a] began to cry and said “He is not crazy; it seems you are the crazy one”. He then asked “where is he, has he come to hajj?” His uncle said “He has come but he has gone towards Arafah to graze his camels.

Umar and Ai [ra] then hastened towards Arafah and when they arrived they saw a person praying underneath a tree whilst the camels were grazing around him. They then sat down and waited. Uwais felt some people were waiting for him so he shortened his prayer. When he finished Umar [r.a] asked “Who are you?” He replied “I am a worker”. He asked “What is your name”. He replied “Abdullah (the servant of Allah)”. Umar [r.a] then said “We are all the servants of Allah; I am asking the name which your mother called you with”

He didn’t recognise that this was the Khalifah Umar and this was Ali, as this was the first time he had come to hajj. He said “Who are you to take my interview” interview is from my own words. “Who are you to ask me?” Then Ali [r.a] said “This is Ameer ul mu’mineen Umar bin Khataab and I am Ali bin Abi Talib”. Then he became shocked and made salaam to them saying “I apologize, I did not recognize you”.
Umar [r.a] said “Raise your hands [in supplication for us]”

this was to tell the future generations how to serve their mothers, such that the likes of Umar and Ali were asking him to raise his hands.

He exclaimed “How can I raise my hands for you? Me. What is my significance that I make dua for you?”
He heard the reply “Yes, we were ordered by the Prophet [s.a.w]; if you see Uwais then you must ask for his dua. When he raises his hands for dua, it is answered”.

For what reason? Tahajjud, Jihad, Tableegh, dhikr, tilawah, tasbeeh, hajj, umrah, salah, fasting, dhikr, tilawah…for what reason? No, none of these, only one reason: Serving his mother.

In another narration it is mentioned: When people are going to Jannah Uwais will be going as well. When he will get to the doors of jannah it will be said “Everyone else can proceed apart from Uwais”. Uwais will become scared and will ask “O Allah, why have you stopped me?” Allah will say “You stay, let the rest go. Now, in front of you stand the people who are going to Hellfire, intercede for them, because of you thousands will be given Paradise. This is why I have stopped you, so that you may intercede. To whomever your finger points, I will give those Jannah”

Pounds (money) is not everything, Mothers are valuable as well.

Hold on to the Quran


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAKYzOw_QGQ&feature=relmfu

Assalamu alaikum:

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Really funny one... lolz...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QaeZcV_azE&feature=relmfu

good advice. May Allah make it easy for us. ameen.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4wFWh6QFoI

سم الله الرحمن الرحيم



Doors of heaven are closed? Maulana Tariq Jameel [ENG Subtitles]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ0Af4_w6h8

maclatunji: @azharuddin, I see you- nice! The video is quite touching.

Assalamu alaikum.
Yes bro, its a very touching video.

By Allah! I choose life with Allah! [HEARTWRENCHING call for Repentance]



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Narrated Abu Hurairah رضي الله عنه Allah’s Messenger صلي الله عليه و سلم said,

“A strong believer is better and dearer to Allah than a weak one in all good things. Adhere to that which is most beneficial for you. Keep beseeching Allah for help and do not refrain from it. If you are afflicted in any way, do not say: ‘If I had taken this or that step, it would have resulted into such and such,’ but say only: ‘Allah so determined and did as He willed.’ The word ‘if’ opens the gates of satanic conduct.”

[Muslim]

On the authority of Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (رضي الله عنه ), the Prophet (صلي الله عليه و سلم ) said:

A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes, and at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace.


[sahih al-Bukhari, vol 3, #314 and Muslim]