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Indeed anger is from the Shaytaan, and indeed Shaytaan was created
from fire, and indeed fire is put out with water. So if any of you were to
become angry, perform ablution (wudhu).
- Narrated by Abu Waa-il
(reported in Abu Dawud)

Subhanallah.
Congrats Lagosboy.
Ya Allah, make all of us succeed in this life and the hereafter.
Ameen.

Yes you are right. Subhanallah.
May Allah include us in the group of people with good manners.
Ameen.

Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu.

Shaving pubic hair, armpit, cutting nails etc are part of sunnah. Not doing it is not forbidden but disliked.

Weekly reminder:

It is reported from Hazrat Abu Huraira ( R.A. )
that Rasulallah ( S.A.W. ) has said that : " Whoever recites Suratul-Ham-Mim Dukhan on Friday, ( the night between Thursday and Friday)
enjoys the prayer of 70,000 angels for his forgiveness and gets all sins forgiven."
( Tirmizi )


The following recitation is[b] only 7mins[/b]. 7min is a small time considering the fact we will get the prayer of 70,000 angels. May Allah accept our Ibadah. Ameen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2-ie5G9kxo

Narrated by Hadrat Ibn 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him): Allah's Messenger (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) said,
"Whoever misses the 'Asr prayer (intentionally) then it is as if he lost his family and property."
(Bukhari)

May Allah bless us so that we can perform our Salath in the ordered times.
Ameen.

"Say: If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your wives, your kindred, the wealth that you have gained, the commerce in which you fear a decline, and the dwellings in which you delight ,  are dearer to you than Allah and His Messenger, and striving hard and fighting in His Cause , then wait until Allah brings about His Decision (torment). And Allah guides not the people who are Al-Fasiqun (the rebellious, disobedient to Allah)."
[Surat Tawbah, verse 24]

Its clearly stated in the Quran that if we love our parents, spouse and wealth more than Allah and His Messenger that we will have to face Allah's wrath.

chakula:
@Azharuddin

You should as well not engaged yourself on the matter that has nothing to do with trust rather than argue to quit i think is better.

I just wanted good to come of it, those posts were never meant to be an argument rather a statement.
But i guess you are right bro i will heed your advice. I ll be silent.

illusion2:
but I love and recognise the non-political side of Islam (prayer,fasting,taking care of the poor etc).

Believe me bro, that all being a muslim is all about. I ve been a muslim all my life, never even once the political stuff had come out of the newspapers to interfere in our lifes. I do agree there are religious fanatics but which religion does not have fanatics, there is a black sheep in every herd. But that doesnt change the truth of ISLAM. The time we spend here in this world is like 60secs compared to a lifetime. By the time we have a slight idea whats going on we will be dead. Shouldnt we try to please the Lord in that 60secs, and what more efficient way to please him than Islam.


About the hair thing, how do we know our friends/spouse are sincere? When they sacrifice something they love and listen to us (like missing their favorate tv show to hang out with us etc, ). Similarly we are required to sacrifice some things here in this world to please Allah. Even if we think there is no logic in something, Allahs knows everything, dont you think his logic will be far far superior than ours? Besides sacrificing something for 60secs for a lifetime of benifits makes perfect sense doesnt it.?

illusion2:
This is the political side of Islam which I completely disagree with. 

It is widely known that the easiest way to start a riot in Kano is to claim someone has insulted the prophet or burnt the Koran. This Stone Age + barbaric mentality needs to stop.

Tell me brother if someone say something bad about your father, will it not hurt you? It will certainly hurt me. We muslims love our Prophet(saw) more than our parents so it will certainly hurt us. Some muslims react immaturely but that does not mean its according to the ISLAM.

@uplawal
I in no way meant to make you angry.

@lagosboy
I have no hard feelings for those words. But once they are said one can never take back. We all are guilty of our tongue.

Allah please protect us from the bad things we might cause with our tongue.
Ameen.

@uplawal
Patience sister, patience. Lets make dua they will turn to the path of Allah and also that we dont go astray from Allah's path.

uplawal:
@illusions,dnt ever write like a muslim ok,because youre not one,imagine,you saying Ameen,why dnt you say Amen like a xtian?

No one can say for sure if Allah has not destined him to die as a Muslim.

@lagosboy

Bro leave it. I too got into this mess earlier in between even if i didnt intend to. Just leave it bro.



It is reported that, The Messenger of Allah(saw) said,
"He who, in order to find fault, says something about a person that was not there, Allah will throw such a person in HELL till he tastes fully what he had fabricated."
(Tibrani)

Jazakumullahu Khairan.
Please carry on posting bro.

I thought i will repost this article posted by babs.


SYMPTOMS OF WEAK FAITH

The disease of an ailing Iman has many symptoms, which include:

(1).    Committing sins:

Some people insist on committing the same sins over and over again. As a result, repugnance of sins is slowly withdrawn from their heart to the point that they commit these sins openly as described in this Hadith of the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam).

"All of my followers will be forgiven except those who commit sins openly. Such is the case of a man commit a sin at night and Allah had his sin concealed till the morning comes. But, he says openly: 'O so and so, I did such and such yesterday.' Allah had covered his sin, but he uncovered the veil of Allah from it." (Related by Al-Bukhari).

(2) Hardening of the heart:

The person reaches a stage where he feels that his heart has turned into a solid rock that is not affected by anything. Allah says: "And yet, after this, your hearts hardened and became like rocks, or even harder." (Al-Baqarah, 2:74). A hardened heart is not affected by anything - even seeing people die and attending funerals would not move it. The person with a hardened heart may even carry a corpse and bury it, yet, he walks in the graveyard as if he were strolling between pine trees!

(3) Performing acts of worship poorly:

Such a person remains absent-minded during prayers and while reciting the Qur'an. He also does not contemplate upon the meaning of the supplications he is making. As a result, he recites them in a monotonous tone void of any reflections. He does not think for a moment about the value of these supplications. He forgets that: "Allah does not accept the supplication from an inattentive, heedless heart." (Related Al-Tirmidhi).

His acts of worship are reduced to hollow movements with no spirit behind them. Allah describes the hypocrites: "And they do not remember Allah but little." (Al-Nisa', 4:142).

A hard hearted person remains indifferent when he does not perform some good deeds and misses those times of worship that have more reward in them. His lack of interest to earn rewards is obvious. Delaying Haj when he is capable of performing it, missing congregational prayers in the Masjid, and even the Jumu'ah prayer are a few examples of this. The Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said: "People will continue to withdraw to rows behind the first one until Allah puts them in a back place in Hell." (Related by Abu Dawud).
Furthermore, he does not feel remorse if he misses obligatory duties and does not try to perform the different Sunnah prayers or invocations that he misses. He ignores them, convincing himself that they are only Sunnah!

(4) Lack of tranquility:

His bosom gets tightened, his mood changes, he feels as if he is carrying a heavy load, and he becomes annoyed quickly because of minor things. He gets pestered by the behaviour of the people around him and he does not forgive them easily. He harbours malice towards fellow Muslims over insignificant issues. The Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) has described Iman to be forgiveness: "Iman is patience and forgiveness. " (Related by Al-Tirmidhi) . In another Hadith, the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) described the believer in the following manner: "He makes friends and is befriended and there is no goodness in (one who) does not make friends or is not befriended." (Related by Al-Tirmidhi) .

(5) Verses of the Qur'an have no effect upon him:

The promises, warnings, commands, prohibitions and descriptions of the Day of Judgment do not make his eyes flood with tears, or his heart quiver, or his soul shiver. Consequently, he gets bored and tired when he listens to the recital of the Qur'an!

(6) He is negligent in remembering Allah:

This simple act of devotion becomes heavy upon him to the point that when he raises his hands in supplication, he hastens to fold them up quickly to conclude it. He is not eager to repent to Allah, the Mighty and Glorious, and to make invocations to Him for his needs. Allah describes the hypocrites: "And when they stand up to pray, they stand with laziness and to be seen of men, and they do not remember Allah but little." (Al-Nisa', 4:142).


(7) He is arrogant:

He likes people to stand up for him when he enters to meet them because feeling great gratifies his diseased soul, the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said: "The one who is pleased that the slaves of Allah stand up for him, then let him be assured of his place in the Fire." (Related by Al-Bukhari in Al-Adab Al-Mufrad).

Mu'awiyah Ibn Abi Sufyan entered upon two companions of the Prophet(sallallahu alayhe wa sallam), Ibn 'Amir stood up and Ibn Zubayr sat down. Seeing this, Mu'awiyah said to Ibn 'Amir: "Sit down, because I heard the Messenger of Allah say: "The one who loves that another man stand up for him, then let him rest assured of his sitting place in the Fire." (Related by Abu Dawud).

A similar example is that he will get angry at a person who applies the Sunnah and starts shaking hands with people on his right hand side. Also, when he enters a gathering, he is not satisfied unless someone else, already sitting, gets up so that he may sit in his place despite the fact that he is forbidden to do so by the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam):
"Let not a man make another one stand for him thesit in his place." (Related by Al-Bukhari).

( Stinginess and greed:

Allah (subhanahu wa ta'ala) has praised those who spend their wealth for good causes and at the same time blamed those who are miserly. In the Qur'an Allah has praised the Ansar for the way they gave preference to the Muhajirun (Muslims who migrated from Makkah) over themselves: "But they (Ansar) give them preference over themselves even though they were in need of that (the booty). And whosoever is saved from his own covetousness, such are they who will be the successful." (Al-Hashr, 59:9).

Allah has clarified that the successful ones are those who protect themselves against stinginess. Without doubt, weakness of Iman is born from stinginess as the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said: "Iman and covetousness can never come together in the heart of a slave." (Related by Al-Nasa'i).


(9) He falls into doubtful matters:

When he performs an action, he does not ask if it is an act of righteousness but rather will it earn him any sin or not. This is exactly what the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) informed us of: "But he who falls into doubtful matters falls into that which is unlawful, like the shepherd who pastures around a sanctuary, all about grazing therein. Truly, every king has a sanctuary, and Allah's sanctuary is His prohibitions. “(Related by Muslim).
When such people ask for a fatwah (Islamic ruling) about something, and find out that it is forbidden, they do not give up. They want to know how severe the prohibition is. How many sins does he earn if he commits it? He is not concerned to stay away from evil and sinful deeds, rather he is inclined to take the first step towards haram things by belittling the burning effects of sins which run him the risk of committing haram, and remove the screen between him and the sin. This is why the[i] Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said: "Know that some people from my Ummah will come on the Day of Judgment with good deeds like the white mountains of Tihama, but Allah will make them scattered dust." Thawban said, 'O Messenger of Allah, describe them to us, clarify them to us, so that we may not be one of them without knowing it! He said: "They will be your brothers, and from your people, and they will take from the night as you  do (meaning prayers, etc), but they are a people who, when they were alone with the prohibitions of Allah, violated them." (Related by Ibn Majah)[/i].

So, you will find him engulfed in forbidden things without any protection or shielding, and this is more evil than the one who commits them but with some reluctance. These people commit sins with ease as a result of their ailing Iman and do not see their act to be an evil one. This is how Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud (radhiallahu anhu) described the way of believer and a hypocrite perceive sins: "A believer sees his sins as if he were sitting under a mountain, fearing it might fall upon him, while a sinner sees his sins as a fly passing over his nose, so he gets rid of it with his hand." (Related by Al-Bukhari).

(10) Belittling good deeds:

There is lack of concern on the part of the sick at heart to perform small deeds of righteousness contrary to what the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) has taught us when he said: "Do not belittle any small act of kindness even if it is to pour water from your bucket into the vessel of the one who asks for it or to talk to your brother with a cheerful face." (Related by Ahmad).

So acts that appear to be minor should not be underestimated. Hence, meeting a fellow Muslim with a smiling face and removing trash and dirt from the Masjid - even as little as a straw - entails great rewards. It may be that a small deed becomes a reason for the forgiveness of major sins. Allah thanks His slave for these small deeds and forgives him. The Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said: "Once, a man saw the branch of a tree in the middle of a road. So, he said, 'By Allah, I will remove this from the path of the Muslims so they may not be burt.' For this action, he was put in Paradise ." (Related by Muslim).

Mu'adh Ibn Jabal was once walking with someone. He removed a pebble from the way. The man asked Mu'adh why he did that. Mu'adh answered him: "I heard the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) say: 'One who removes a stone from the way has a good deed written for him, and one for whom a good deed is written shall enter Paradise .'" (Related by Al-Tabarani) .

(11) Not caring about the affairs of Muslims:

A person with a sick heart does not react to the needs of Muslims by making supplications, giving charity, or offering assistance. He does not care if his brothers are afflicted by a hardship in any part of the world such as being overwhelmed by the enemy, being persecuted, or being stricken by disasters. It is enough for him that his conditions are good! This is because of his ailing Iman. A believer is the opposite of that as described by the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam): "A believer feels pain for the believers, just as the body feels distress over what is troubling the head." (Related by Ahmad).

(12) He is deprived of friendship of brothers:

The Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said: "Two persons who became friends for the sake of Allah do not separate except because of a sin committed by one of them." (Related by Al-Bukhari in Al-Adab Al-Mufrad).
This is a proof of the evil effects of sins: it breaks the ties of brotherhood. This alienation that a person finds between himself and his brothers is sometimes the result of a decline in Iman which results from committing sins. So the love others have for him dwindles.

(13) Showing grief and fear when afflicted by a hardship or when in difficulty:

Such a person is often found to be shaky in offering obligatory duties, unbalanced, absent minded, lost and fidgety. He is not able to face reality with unwavering limbs and a firm heart. All of this is due to ailing Iman.
If the Iman were strong, he would have been firm and faced the greatest of hardships with strength and steadfastness.

(14) Disputing and arguing unnecessarily:

Much engagement in these habits hardens the heart as the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said: "A people never went astray after being upon guidance except through disputes." (Related by Ahmad).

So, argumentation without proof and proper intention takes one away from the Straight Path. These days, most people argue falsely and without knowledge or guidance. It is enough for them to leave this bad habit after knowing what the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said[i]: "I guarantee a house in the outskirts of Paradise to the one who gives up arguing even if he were on the right side." (Related by Abu Dawud).[/i]

(17) Attachment to worldly life:

He is so materialistic that he feels anguish when something of this life, like wealth, honour, status, etc is taken away from him. He feels as if he has been injured badly because he did not get what others did. His feeling of injury becomes stronger and he feels rejected on seeing his Muslim brother get of this world which did not reach him. Envy takes root in his heart so he wishes that this bounty be taken away from his brother. This is what Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) warned us against: "Never can Iman and envy come together in the heart of a slave." (Related by Al-Nassa'i).


These are some of the symptoms of a weak faith. By becoming aware of the symptoms, one has made the first step towards the remedy.

Lagosboy:
That is not true. there are loads of people and scholars who understand. The fact the some people have chosen to keep silent on this shia/sunni thread is not that they are ignorant. Me personally i have studied the shia doctrine and i am sunni, i understand that debating this doctrine here would serve no purpose and has no objective rather than disunity, sowing of discord and more misunderstanding.

I have called lagoshia twice to let us discuss on what we both agree upon but he has never replied or commented to my two postings to him. Analyse the 2 threads on this issue and tell me as a neutral if there is any progress than chaos. We cannot solve the differences that have existed for 1300 years here on NL. Only if we both leave to rest the chaotic (fitna) historical events that never happened before our eyes and concentrate more on our salvation as stated by Allah - Shahdah then the five pillars of islam,then we would move foward. This doctrine, we sunni and shia both share. Of what use is it for us to discuss the shortcommings of some companions while we forget our own selves? These people are long dead and they will be judged by the most High himself.

Of what use is analysing who the favorite wife of the prophet PBUH was? And so many other issues.

Hymen we understand what Allah wants and he expressed it in the quran and it is

", We have created Jinn and men for nothing except to worship me "Q51 v 56

To worship Allah we need to knowo some things which is knowledge. The 5 pillars of islaam is the foundation upon which eeman is built. This is my humble call!!



And God knows best.

Yes you are right indeed. Lets concentrate more on our own deeds and actions.

"Nor defame one another, "
(49:11)


And obey Allah and His Messenger, and do not dispute (with one another) lest you lose courage and your strength depart, and be patient. Surely, Allah is with those who are As-Sabirin (the patient ones, etc.)
(9:46)

And those who disbelieve are allies to one another, (and) if you (Muslims of the whole world collectively) do not do so (i.e. become allies, as one united block), there will be Fitnah (wars, battles, polytheism, etc.) and oppression on earth, and a great mischief and corruption (appearance of polytheism).
(9:73)

Let everyone who believe in "La ilaha illallah muhammad-your-rasoolullah" join our hands in unity. Allah (swt) has made it very clear in the Qur'an what will happen otherwise.

Allah knows best.

Best way to avoid Riya (showing off): Ikhlas (sincere devotion)


O you who believe!  Do not render in vain your Sadaqah (charity) by reminders of your generosity or by injury,
like him who spends his wealth to be seen of men, and he does not believe in Allah, nor in the Last Day.
His likeness is the likeness of a smooth rock on which is a little dust; on it falls heavy rain which leaves it bare.
They are not able to do anything with what they have earned. And Allah does not guide the disbelieving people.
[Quran: 2.264]

Subahanallah! How clearly and beautifully it is mentioned in the Quran 'His likeness is the likeness of a smooth rock on which is a little dust; on it falls heavy rain which leaves it bare. ' People who give Sadaqa to get appreciation are superficial.



According to a report from Idris al-Khawlani (ra), Allah's Messenger (saw) once said:
For every truth [haqq] there is a real meaning [haqiqa] to be experienced,
and a servant [of the Lord] will not experience the real meaning of sincere devotion [ikhlas],
until he no longer likes to be praised for any work he performs for the sake of Allah (Almighty and Glorious is He).

@sweetnecta

Thats solid proof indeed. Nothing to doubt about it.