Narrations on Ramadan

Jabir bin Abdillah (radi Allahu anhuma) said: “When you fast, then your hearing should fast, and your sight and your tongue from lying and sinning. Let there be a tranquility and calmness over you on the days of your fasting, and do not make the days that you are not fasting and the days you are fasting equal.”
Some of the Salaf used to say: “Indeed Allah, the Most High, has made the month of Ramadan as a competition for His creatures, in which they may race with one another to His pleasure, by obeying Him. Thus, one group comes first and so they prosper and another group comes last and so they fail.”
Al-Zuhri said: “When Ramadan comes, then it is [the time for] reading Qur’an and feeding others.”
Hafsah bin Sireen said, “Fasting is a shield for the one who does not rip it apart - and backbiting will rip it apart.”
Some of the Salaf would say: “For me to invite 10 of my companions and offer them iftar is more beloved to me than freeing 10 slaves from the children of Isma’eel.”
Abu Al-Aliyah said: “The one who is fasting is in a state of worship - as long as he does not backbite- even if he is sleeping on his bed.”
Ubaydah Al-Salmani said: “Be cautious of the two that break the fast: backbiting and lying.”
Mujahid said: “If you want your fasting to be complete and sound, then stay away from backbiting and lying.”
It was narrated that when Abu Hurayrah (radi Allahu anhu) and his companions were fasting, they would sit in the masjid and say: “let’s purify our fasting.”
-Taken from the short treatise “Ramadan is Before Us” - Shaykh Muhammad al-Muqaddim

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Friday, August 13, 2010 at 7:39 PM , 0 Comments

The Importance of Fixing a Time for Daily Tilawah

“A person once told me that he was so busy that he did not have any time for daily recitation of the Qur’an. I put the point to him that he did not possess a true appreciation of the Qur’an or a true sense of its importance. We all have countless things to do every day, yet if we can do them but not have time for the Qur’an, it is a sign that we do not give the Qur’an its due importance.
I advised the person to develop a sense of the Qur’an’s greatness in his heart by studying the ahadith pertaining to the status and virtues of the Qur’an. I then advised him to fix a definite time of day, bearing in mind his other commitments, solely for tilawah. He chose to do his tilawah after ‘Isha salah. I told him not to leave the masjid after ‘Isha without having completed his tilawah. Some time afterwards, I learned that he had become punctual in his tilawah.
So we all need to do these two things: 1) realise the greatness of the Qur’an; 2) fix a time for daily tilawah and stick to it.
Beware of the tricks of the nafs in this regard; take the example of someone who, after reaching the masjid, has ten minutes in which he can engage in tilawah. He thinks to himself that ten minutes is insufficient to complete one juz, and his nafs persuades him to do his tilawah afterwards when he has enough time.
This is a trap, for the ‘afterwards’ promised by the nafs will never come! If he had made use of those ten minutes and recited as much as possible, he would have been well on his way to completing his daily tilawah. By following the devious nafs he deprived himself completely of any tilawah.
Treat your nafs as you would your child: without fixing a time every day for your child to attend maktab to study, he/she will not be able to learn. Similarly, without forcing your nafs to do certain things at certain times, you will not get it to do what you want.”

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 10:31 AM , 0 Comments

Lost Property


Abû Hurairah (ra) said, The Messenger of Allâh, (salallahu alayhi wasallam), said:

"The word of wisdom is the lost property of the believer, so wherever he finds it, he has a better right to it."

Knowledge is the Lost Property of the beliver

Knowledge Belongs to the Muslims where ever they find it.

Wake up, look for our lost property.

Knowledge is Power, there was a time when the Muslims were unmatched in knowledge and Power.

Now we are in a time where Muslims are unmatched in Dunya.

We have the best cars, we have all the wealth, we have the biggest buildings in the world, we have,, we have ,we have....

We have NOTHING!

We DONT have our first Qibla, we DONT have the respect due, we DONT have rights, we DONT have a say, we DONT, we DONT, we DONT....
WE DONT HAVE ANYTHING, BECAUSE WE HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DUNYA FOR THE DUNYA

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Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 10:14 AM , 0 Comments

Lessons in the waiting room

This is a beautiful story that brings to mind the wasted times of our lives:
Last night my young son has been unwell. When I got back from work this evening I decided to take him to hospital despite my exhaustion. Indeed, fatigue for his sake is rest. There were many waiting; perhaps we will be delayed by more than an hour. I took my number and sat down in the waiting room. There were many faces, young and old, but all silent. Some brothers made use of the many booklets available in the waiting room. Some of those waiting had their eyes closed, while others were looking around. Most were bored.
Once in a while a nurse calling out a number broke the long silence. Happiness appears on the one whose turn it is, and he gets up quickly; then silence returns.
A young man grabbed my attention. He was reading a pocket-sized Qur’an continuously; not raising his head even once. At first I did not think much about him. However, after one hour of waiting my casual glances turned into a deep reflection about his lifestyle and how he utilizes his time. One hour of life wasted!
Instead of making benefit of that hour, it was just a boring wait. Then the call for prayer was made. We went to prayer in the hospital’s mosque. I tried to pray close to the man who was reading the Qur’an earlier in the waiting room.
After the prayer I walked with him. I informed him of how impressed I was of him and how he tries to benefit from his time. He told me that most of our time is wasted without any benefit. These are days that go from our lives without being conscious of them or regretting their waste. He said that he started carrying the pocket-sized Qur’an around when a friend encouraged him to make full use of his time. He told me that in the time other people waste he gets to read much more of the Qur’an than he gets to read either at home or in the mosque. Moreover, besides the reward of reading the Qur’an, this habit saves him from boredom and stress.
He added that he has now been waiting for one and a half hours. Then he asked, when will you find one and a half hours to read the Qur’an? I reflected; how much time do we waste? How many moments of our lives pass by, and yet we do not account for how they passed by? Indeed, how many months pass by and we do not read the Qur’an? I came to respect my companion, and I discovered that I am to stand for account and that time is not in my hand; so what am I waiting for?
The nurse calling out my number interrupted my thoughts; I went to the doctor. But I want to achieve something now. After I left the hospital I quickly went to the bookshop and bought a pocket-sized Qur’an. I decided to be mindful of how I spend the time. That was my intention when I put that Qur’an in my pocket. How many people will do this?
May Allah (SWT) help us to benefit from what we know and guide us towards knowledge that will benefit us here and here-after.
Imam Shafi’ said, “All humans are dead except those who have knowledge … and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds … and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere … and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.”

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Monday, August 2, 2010 at 10:29 AM , 0 Comments

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