[b]Moving![/b]

as salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh

Just a quick note to let you know that I am moving my blog to:

My Journey

[b]The Latest On Muhammad al-Shareef's Father[/b]

[b]Detain Injustice, Not Our Fathers, Part 2[/b]

[b]Detain Injustice, Not Our Fathers[/b]

[b]Love[/b]

Allah says,
"Say: 'If your fathers or your sons or your brothers
or your wives or your tribe,
or any wealth you have acquired,
or any business you fear may slump,
or any dwelling-places which please you,
are dearer to you than Allah and His Messenger
and fighting hard in jihad in His Way,
then wait until Allah brings about His command.'"
(at-Tawba 9:25)

[b]Saffron[/b]

Among the delights of Paradise:

"Bricks of gold and silver, and mortar of fragrant musk,
pebbles of pearl and sapphire, and soil of saffron.
Whoever enters it is filled with joy and will never feel miserable;
he will live there forever and never die;
their clothes will never wear out and their youth will never fade."

[Ahmad, at-Tirmidhi, ad-Daarimee, Mishkaat al-Masaabeeh, 3/29, sahih].

[b]Regret is an awful thing to endure...[/b]

1. Not involving yourselves in conversations that do not concern you, as there is no guarantee that you would not sin therein.

2. Not talking about things that do concern you, until you find the proper time; as a person may talk about a matter that does concern them but at the wrong time and therefore produce a bad consequence.

3. Not arguing with a wise or a foolish person, as the wise person would desert you and the foolish person would humiliate you.

4. Mentioning your brother, in his absence, with things with which you would wish him to mention you with in your absence - and forgiving him for that which you would wish him to forgive you for.

5. Performing the actions of one who is certain that he would be rewarded for the good and punished for the bad that he does.”

May Allah forgive us all and may He unite us ameen.

[b]The Ominous Words of Saladin about Our Ummah[/b]

I was looking through my collection of inspiring and beneficial emails when I came across this one prepared by Brother Shibli Zaman.

I hope you will gain some benefit from this inshaa Allah ...

"After I die, you will see these Muslims fall apart in disunity, and you will see the Europeans grow strong. The best thing to do for now is to continue the fight until we drive them from the Coast (of Palestine) or die."

This is a statement of Salah ad-Deen Abu-l AfDal Yusuf ibn al-Ayyub, popularly known as "Saladin" in the West, as recorded by his personal companion and scribe, Ibn Shaddaad (page 203 of his chronicles).

Saladin stated this after King Richard of England proposed that Saladin's brother, Sayf ad-Deen (popularly known as "Safadin" in the West), should marry his sister Joanna. So admirable was Saladin's character that his worst enemy who had traveled over 2000 miles to eliminate him, ended up offering his own sister to his family. This is the result of Perfect Islamic "Ikhlaaq" and "Aadab".

Also, Saladin stated in regards to the troubles he endured uniting the entire Muslim world under one banner: "I do not know what will happen to me, if Allah wills that the enemy should grow strong. They have established a base from which they can retrieve other lands. you will see these Muslim leaders sitting at the tops of their grandiose towers saying, 'I shall not come down,' until the Muslim world will be destroyed."

How did Saladin destroy his enemies, drive the Franks from Jerusalem and most of Palestine, and be written of so well by the European historians whose people he defeated? This is how:

"On July 3 Salah ad-Deen performed the Friday prayer in the Mosque of al-Aqsa, I saw him prostrating and repeating his prayers over and over again as his tears soaked the prayer mat."


[b]The Death of Saladin[/b]
On February 20, 1193, Saladin rode out to meet the Pilgrims returning from the Hajj in Mecca. He had longed to perform the Hajj his entire life, but the constant Jihad did not allow such. That night he fell ill and broke out into a tempestuous fever.

On the fourth day of his illness they had him bled, which was a tradition of the Prophet (peace be upon him). Saladin would not stop sweating.

On the ninth day of his illness he stopped taking liquids.

By March 3 on the eleventh day of his illness, Saladin had sweat so much that the bed was soaked and the floor stained. The scholars who witnessed this testified to it being a match to the description of a good death in the Sunnah.

On the morning of March 4, 1193, the Imam Abu Ja`far was reciting from the Qur'an as Saladin's son al-AfDal, and his friend and administrator al-FaDil, as well as others looked on. As the Imam reached following verse of Surat at-Tawbah, the Qur'anic chapter most associated with Jihad:

"...Hasbuna-llaahu laa ilaha illa huwa; `alayhi tawakalt; wa huwa Rabbu-l `arshi-l `aTHeem."

["...Allah sufficeth me; There is no god but He; On Him is my trust; He is the Lord of the Throne Supreme!"]

Saladin smiled from ear to ear, and breathed his last.

[b]7 Habits of the Highly Successful People[/b]

Successful indeed are the believers.
[Al-Mu'minun 23:1]



[b]1:[/b] Those who offer their Salât (prayers)
with all solemnity and full submissiveness.
[Al-Mu'minun 23:2]



[b]2:[/b] And those who turn away from Al-Laghw
(dirty, false, evil vain talk, falsehood,
and all that Allâh has forbidden).
[Al-Mu'minun 23:3]



[b]3:[/b] And those who pay the Zakât.
[Al-Mu'minun 23:4]



[b]4:[/b] And those who guard their chastity
(i.e. private parts, from illegal sexual acts)
[Al-Mu'minun 23:5]



Except from their wives or (the captives and slaves)
that their right hands possess,
for then, they are free from blame;
[Al-Mu'minun 23:6]



But whoever seeks beyond that,
then those are the transgressors;
[Al-Mu'minun 23:7]



[b]5-6:[/b] Those who are faithfully true to their Amanât
(all the duties which Allâh has ordained,
honesty, moral responsibility and trusts etc.)
and to their covenants;
[Al-Mu'minun 23:8]



[b]7:[/b] And those who strictly guard their
(five compulsory congregational) Salawât (prayers)
(at their fixed stated hours).
[Al-Mu'minun 23:9]



These are indeed the inheritors.
[Al-Mu'minun 23:10]



Who shall inherit the Firdaus (Paradise).
They shall dwell therein forever.
[Al-Mu'minun 23:11]

[b]Lovely Islamic Paintings & More[/b]

Source: ArtHafez.Com

[b]Al-Fattaah (The Judge, The Opener)[/b]

The One Who will judge between His Servants through His laws of the Sharee`ah, His laws of Decree and His laws and recompense. The One who opens the eyes of those who are truthful and sincere by His Kindness. The One who opens their hearts so that they can know Him, love Him and repent to Him. He opens the doors of mercy and sustenance for His servants and provides them the means of attaining both the good in this life and the Hereafter,

"Whatever mercy Allah may grant to mankind, none can withhold it and none can grant it thereafter." (35:2)

"Say: Our Lord will assemble us all together (on the Day of Resurrection), then He will judge between them. He is the Judge, the All-Knowing." (34:26)

"He said: My Lord! Verily, my people have belied me. Therefore judge You between me and them, and save me and the believers who are with me." (26:117-118)

[b]Heaven [/b]

"Ummi, who bought this bin?" Maryam asked pointing to the white trash can next to the sink.

I turned briefly and told her, "Your Baba did... He bought it at Walmart in Wisconsin." I smiled briefly, remembering that Maryam was born there. But there really was no time for walking down memory lane... I continued scouring the sink like there was no tomorrow.

"Ummi, who bought those bottles?" she piped up again, pointing at her milk bottles.

"I did... I bought them for you at Kiddy Palace, remember?" I said, thinking that I really was not in the mood for this conversation.

"Ummi, who bought that oven?" she said pointing to the large oven in the corner.

"Hmm… I don't know Maryam. That belongs to the flat owner. We are just renting here, you know." I really had too much to do.

"Ummi, who bought that small oven?" she asked unrelentingly, pointing to the small grill oven my mother had bought.

"Jiddah bought it for us… that big oven does not work..."

"Ummi…" I bit my tongue and stopped myself from telling her to hush. "Ummi, who bought that microwave oven?"

I stopped wiping and any annoyance I felt at her incessant questions faded away right then and there. My father had bought us the microwave oven when we set up house here in Singapore. It was going to be my second `Eid without him – he had died a couple of weeks short of the previous `Eid.

"Jid bought it, Maryam." Strangely enough, the little livewire fell silent too.

When she did speak, she said earnestly, "I love Jid, Ummi."

"I love him too."

"I want to hug Jid."

"Well, make du`aa OK… inshaa Allah we can all see and hug Jid in Jannah."

"Ummi?"

"Yes, Maryam?"

"Where is Jannah?"

I dropped the rag and picked her up… What's a bit of dust, really?

[b]Yaa `Abid al-Haramayn
Click here to listen to this nasheed by Tariq Abu Zayed[/b]

'Mansur bin al-Mu`tamir narrated to us that Abu Saalih narrated from Abu Hurayrah that a man asked, 'O Messenger of Allah! Teach me a good deed that will earn me the reward of the Mujahideen in Allah's cause.'

The Prophet sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam said, 'Are you able to pray continuously and fast without breaking the fast?' The man said, 'O Messenger of Allah! I cannot bear it.'

The Prophet sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam said, 'By He in Whose Hand is my soul! Even if you were able to do it, you would not achieve the grade of the Mujahideen in Allah's cause. Did you not know that the horse of the Mujaahid earns rewards for him as long as it lives?'" [Ahmad]

[b] Ramadan In History
by Dr Abdullah Hakim Quick[/b]

[b] The Road to Dubai
by Um Yaqoob[/b]

On the road to Dubai, my husband stopped at a small masjid to make the `Asr prayer. As I sat in the car, I saw a figure approaching from the direction of a small group of houses. It took some time before I realized it was a man, crawling toward the masjid. He wore rubber sandals on his hands. His lower body dragged on the hard, rocky ground. The 110-degree temperatures had beaten sweat out of his entire body. By the time he reached the masjid courtyard I could see he was soaked and his face was flushed. Many men passed him on their way to the prayer, perhaps accustomed to seeing him. One man came out of a shop and watched him for awhile. He went back into the shop and came out with a cold drink. He opened it for the crawling man and they sat together for a minute. I heard them talking, the one man offering to help the man and the other insisting he could make it up the stairs to the masjid. He was concerned about making it on time, so he excused himself and continued his slow, labored journey to the prayer. I did not watch him as he mounted the stairs. I could not imagine how to help him. I was crying by then, remembering the hadith of the Prophet sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam: “The hypocrites find Fajr and `Isha prayers in congregation very oppressive. If they could know the virtues of these two prayers, they would certainly join them, even if they had to go crawling.” (Bukhari, Muslim) This man, who literally did crawl even in the heat of the day, did not find the congregational prayer oppressive at all. May Allah reward all who struggle to please Him and may He always remind us of our own weaknesses through such people, ameen.

[b]The Qur`an[/b]

[b]More Gems from Ibn Hazm[/b]

[b]SHARP![/b]

[b]THE SEVEN[/b]

[b]RIYAA'[/b]

Abu Sa`eed radhiallahu `anhu reported: The Messenger of Allah sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam came to us while we were discussing about Dajjal and said, "Shall I not inform you of that which I fear for you even more than the dangers of Dajjal? It is the [b]hidden shirk[/b]: a person stands to pray and he beautifies his prayer because he sees the people looking at him." [Sahih Sunan Ibn Majah]

[b]The Female Companions[/b]

[b]The Noble Qur`aan[/b]

Allah Most High has said: "Had We sent this Qur`aan down upon a mountain, you would have seen it humbled, rent asunder from the fear of Allah…" [Surah al-Hashr, 59:21]

"... Some of the Salaf would complete reciting the whole Qur`aan during the night prayer of Ramadan every 3 days, others every 7 days, e.g. Qataadah; others in 10 days, e.g. Abu Rajaa' al-Atardi. The Salaf would recite Qur`aan in Ramadan in Prayer as well as outside it. Al-Aswad would finish the Qur`aan every 2 nights in Ramadan; Ibrahim an-Nakh'i would do likewise in the last 10 nights specifically, and every 3 nights during the rest of the month. Qataadah would regularly finish the Qur`aan in 7 days, but in 3 days during Ramadan, when he would study the Qur`aan especially, and every night during its last 10 days. Al-Zuhri would say when Ramadan began, 'It is recitation of the Qur`aan and feeding of people.' When Ramadan began, Imam Malik would cease narrating Hadith and sitting with the people of knowledge, and stick to reciting the Qur`aan from its pages, while Sufyan al-Thawri would leave other acts of worship and stick to reciting the Qur`aan. 'Aishah would recite from the pages of the Qur`aan at the beginning of the day in Ramadan (i.e. after Dawn), until when the sun had risen, she would sleep. Zayd al-Yaami would bring copies of the Qur`aan when Ramadan began and gather his companions around him..." [b]* [/b]

[b]THE FAMILY OF THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH
SALLALLAHU `ALAYHI WA SALLAM[/b]

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[b]Etiquettes of Eating[/b]

[b]The Outstanding Virtues of the Companions[/b]

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[b]Gearing Up for Ramadhaan[/b]