Bismillah [IslamCity] Month Ramazan Rewards for those who Fasts
[2. Surah Al-Baqarah : Ayah 43] And keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and bow down with those who bow down. Month Ramazan Rewards for those who Fasts [Sahih Bukhari : volume 3, Book 31, Number 118] Narrated Abu Huraira (Radi Allah Anhu): Allah's Apostle (sal-allahu- alleihi-wasallam ) said, Fasting is a shield (or a screen or a shelter). So, the person observing fasting should avoid sexual relation with his wife and should not behave foolishly and impudently, and if somebody fights with him or abuses him, he should tell him twice, 'I am fasting. The Prophet added, By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, the smell coming out from the mouth of a fasting person is better in the sight of Allah than the smell of musk. (Allah says about the fasting person), 'He has left his food, drink and desires for My sake. The fast is for Me. So I will reward (the fasting person) for it and the reward of good deeds is multiplied ten times. [Sahih Bukhari : volume 3, Book 31, Number 120] Narrated Sahl (Radi Allah Anhu): The Prophet Muhammad (sal-allahu- alleihi-wasallam ) said, There is a gate in Paradise called Ar-Raiyan, and those who observe fasts will enter through it on the Day of Resurrection and none except them will enter through it. It will be said, 'Where are those who used to observe fasts?' They will get up, and none except them will enter through it. After their entry the gate will be closed and nobody will enter through it. [Sahih Bukhari : volume 3, Book 31, Number 122] Narrated Abu Huraira (Radi Allah Anhu): Allah's Apostle (sal-allahu- alleihi-wasallam ) said, When Ramadan begins, the gates of Paradise are opened. [Sahih Bukhari : volume 3, Book 31, Number 123] Narrated Abu Huraira (Radi Allah Anhu): Allah's Apostle (sal-allahu- alleihi-wasallam ) said, When the month of Ramadan starts, the gates of the heaven are opened and the gates of Hell are closed and the devils are chained. Our Lord, pour down upon us patience, and make our steps firm and assist us against the unbelieving people. PLS DO NOT WASTE TIME IN THINKING ... KEEPS FORWARDING.. .. Jazak Allah .__
Bismillah [IslamCity] Thought for the day
As Salaamu Alaikum
The Virtue of Sweetness
Just as eating and serving something sweet makes your taste buds feel
sweetness, and for a while after, you remain happy, become sweet-natured
yourself so that words filled with sweetness are constantly spoken. Such sweet
words make both you and others happy. Use this method to always sweeten
everyone's mouth; constantly maintain a sweet attitude, sweet words and sweet
actions.
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PoEtEsS
Prayer is the stepping stone of rewards and success when my life has its
trials and my eyes has its tears…Zohra Moosa
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{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom
(i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue
with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone
astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.} (Holy
Quran-16:125)
{And who is better in speech than he who [says: My Lord is Allah (believes in
His Oneness), and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites
(men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: I
am one of the Muslims.} (Holy Quran-41:33)
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: By Allah, if
Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of
camels. [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, Whoever
calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who
follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all.
[Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Peace Cycle Reports and more
Dear friends: Sometimes words are like the cage in which ideas live but cannot really be truly free (Kahlil Gibran). We struggle to describe the Orwellian reality we live in. In this land, a new colonial settler from Russia or Poland or America can roam free, get all sorts of financial gifts (from US and other taxpayers) and settle on land stolen from people whose ancestors farmed it and cared for it for 4000 years. The natives, considered children of a lesser God, are removed from their lands, live in nearby countries in refugee camps or live in shrinking concentration camps in their own homeland. Where else do we have a nation still being built on the destruction of other peoples villages, lives, and livelihood? Where else does a 19 year old white racist able to get away with insulting and degrading hundreds of dark skinned others in words and deeds that evoke KKK and White Afrikaaner racism? This Orwellian disease is not confined to Palestine. It has infected discourses from Iraq to the US. How else to explain denying an ex-president (Carter) the podium at his own party convention for speaking the truth? How else can one explain Vice Presidential Candidate Joe Biden saying he is a Zionist and joining with others regularly to condemn the victims and support racism? How else can we explain the billions of US tax money spent on a country that has the largest number of violations of UN resolutions and provisions of International and humanitarian laws? Indeed how to explain a superpower being stripped of its dignity and its wealth and its reputations around the world by a domestic lobby working for a foreign country to push for endless wars on terror when they are the ones perpetrating the the worst terror on earth? Ofcourse we could spend (waste) time exploring the problems but we must focus on the solutions. Focusing on solutions is what so many people here in Palestine (including Palestinians, Israelis, and others) do. In 2001 when the current uprising started, I started compiling data for a book envisioning peaceful future based on justice and human rights for all. Published in 2004 and other books like it published since that speak of coexistance and equality in one democratic state resonated well. Every day, more people are convinced that there is simply no other pathway to a durable peace. Just in the past few days I interacted with hundreds of fellow Palestinians (Christians and Muslims), with visiting internationals, and with some Israeli Jews who continue to cross the foolish walls and other borders that separate us. All the facts and opinions offered lead in that general direction. This is painfully obvious from conversations with people in Gaza, environmentalists, students at Bethlehem university, professors and laborers, doctors and beggars, and those in all walks of life here. So I think it is time to shed the illusions that some have had in the past that an us here, them there solution is possible. The racist laws in this apartheid state are simply not sustainable long term. Peace cannot be built on injustice; restorative justice is a prerequisite for peace. And people of good faith keep working. A group of Europeans wrode their bikes around the occupied West Bank in the past few weeks. You might want to check out their reports here. But here is an Action item for the week: 395 individuals signed the petition for protection of Academic freedom in the case of Dr. Terri Ginsberg at North Carolina State University. Please read and sign it so we can reach 1000 signatures and submit soon to the authorities http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Protect-Academic-Freedom Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD http://qumsiyeh.org PS: to those who are worried about me, I am doing great. Students are smart andlearning, projects are picking up in various areas, I skype with family remaining in the US almost everyday (voice/video connections), I meet interesting new people everyday, eat great food, and have good Mediterranean climate and brisk walks among olive trees every day, and still trying to have joyful participation in the sorrows of this world :-) _ Talk to your Yahoo! Friends via Windows Live Messenger. Find out how. http://www.windowslive.com/explore/messenger?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_messenger_yahoo_082008
Bismillah [IslamCity] Islamic Youth Awakening (Sahwah) Campaign - Introduction
Islamic Youth Awakening (Sahwah) Campaign - Introduction http://www.usislam.org/IslamicYouth/islamic_youth.htm *Can you Imagine we become a great Ummah again. This is Not going to happen unless we have *Islamic Youth Awakening (Sahwah) Campaign for all Muslim youth, the engine of our Ummah. Working with a small group of Muslims, and listening to many youth, we developed this Campaign. It consists of interesting subjects to youth such as: - Islamic History - Hadith on good manners - Stories and videos of Prophet Muhammad. - Stories of great young Muslims. - Stories and videos of many converts to Islam, and why they convert. - Islamic Inspirational songs, such as *Native Deen - Not Afraid to stand Alone* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAfUMfCtcDA if Allah is by my side, Lyrics: Stand Alonehttp://lyrics.astraweb.com/display/77/native_deen..not_afraid_to_stand_alone..stand_alone.html - Supplying youth with material to be strong Muslims against the sweeping missionary wave in our Ummah. So, there are articles, videos, and songs for youth not to be bored. This is an International campaign conducted by emails to many Islamic User Groups, and now many volunteers from Indonesia to Chile are ready to distribute articles for campaign in their own country or abroad. The list of volunteer ranges from a 12 years old girl in USA to 80 years old brother from Pakistan. AlHamd le Allah. The articles will be distributed each Monday starting from Oct. 6, 2008. You can see all that in : http://www.usislam.org/IslamicYouth/islamic_youth.htm . AlHamd le Allah, about 100 youth visit this page every day, and the campaign is not launched yet until Oct. 6, 2008 InShaa Allah. Invitation to Volunteer in Islamic Youth Awakening (Sahwah) Campaign is at: http://www.usislam.org/IslamicYouth/volunteers.htm I am asking this user group to commit each Monday to this ambitious cause starting Oct. 6, 2008. We understand that many articles in this group are inspiring Youth to be more educated about Islam, and be strong Muslims. So, post those articles under the title Islamic Youth Awakening Campaign to show focus on this subject, and for this message not to be buried in 20 articles or more. - Can moderators of this group commit only one day to Islamic Youth awakening with this title and promote this campaign and invite members to post articles about this cause each Monday? - Can we focus and work together for this great cause only one day each week? Why am doing this? I am 67 years old and VERY proud Muslim? I love Our Quran, and Our Prophet. I believe we can be a great Ummah again, by focusing on Muslim Youth, the engine of our greatness. I have seen Muslim Youth in Muslim countries and the west. I know and expect some negative comments. That is fine. I heard them before, when I published my first book, or when started contacting Muslims about this Campaign. Actually I got 3 negative comments already, out of hundreds of very encouraging comments that brought tears of happiness to my eyes. The first negative comment was Why are you doing this? Do you think you can can do that alone? There are many youth groups and no one achieved a single dent, My answer was I am a Muslim, and I just have to try, and if this campaign reaches its goal in 5 to 10 years, then that is an effort worth waiting for The goal is one million Muslim youth join this campaign each year, and YES CAN DO THAT WITH THE GRACE OF ALLAH. Dr. Adel Elsaie http://www.usislam.org/
Bismillah [IslamCity] RAMAZAN MUBARAK
There is no word as beautiful as Allah. no example as beautiful as Rasulallah . no lesson as beautiful as Islam. no song as melodious as Adhan . no charity as meaningful as Zakat. no encyclopedia as perfect as Al Quran . no exercise as perfect as Namaaz. no diet as perfect as fasting . no journey as perfect as Hajj . lets realize that islam is ever beautiful . *RAMAZAN MUBARAK.*
Bismillah [IslamCity] ramadan kareem
Alsalamo alikom wa rhmat ALLAH wa barakatoh hows everybody doing and hows everything Ramadan Kareem Everyone May ALLAH forgive our and all muslim`s sins
Bismillah [IslamCity] Sermon of the Prophet(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) welcoming Ramadhaan
Sermon of the Prophet(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) welcoming Ramadhaan Salman(R.A.) of Persia related to us that the Apostle of God (sallallaho alaihi wa sallam) delivered a sermon on the last day of the month of Shaban. In it, he said: O’ people ! A blessed month is casting its shadow upon you ; a night of this month (the Night of Power) is better than a thousand months ; Allah has prescribed the fasts of this month and ordered as a supererogatory worship the standing up in his presence (i.e.; the offering up of Taraweeh prayers ) during its nights ( on which there is great reward ). Whoever will offer, in it, a non - obligatory ( i.e.; Sunnat or Nafl ) prayer with the object of seeking the countenance of the Lord, will get a reward identical in value to the reward on a Fardh ( i.e.; obligatory) prayer on the other days of the year. It is the month of patient perseverance and the reward on patient perseverance is Paradise, and it is the month of kindness and compassion. It is the month in which the sustenance of the faithful bondsman is increased. Whoever will invite a person who is fasting to break the fast with him will get the same reward as the one who was fasting and there will be no reduction in his reward either. Upon it, It was enquired from the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) `Everyone of us does not have the means to ask (people) to break the fast with him. (So, will he remain deprived of the great reward ?) The Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) replied `Allah will give the reward to him (also) who will have a person who is fasting break the fast with a little milk or a draught of water.` (Continuing the prophet observed): ` And whoever will feed fasting person with a full meal (at the time of breaking the fast), God will satiate him in such a manner from my pond (i.e.; Kausar) that, after it, he will not feel thirsty until he has reached heaven.( After it, the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said) : `The first part of this blessed month is Mercy, the second part is Forgiveness, and the third part is Freedom from the Fire of Hell.` (After it, the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said ): `Whoever will make a reduction in the work of his slave or servant, Allah will forgive him and grant him Freedom from Hell.` - Baihaqi Commentary: The purport of the above Hadith is clear. Yet we will offer a few comments on some of the points here. (I) The first and the greatest virtue of the month Ramadan is that there occurs during it a night which is better than thousand nights but months. It has, also, been mentioned , as we know, in Sura-i -Qadr of the Quran. In fact, the whole of the Surah deals with the suspiciousness and splendour of this night which it should be enough to appreciate its worth and importance. Approximately, one thousand months thirty thousand nights. The superiority of the Night of Power to a thousand months should, therefore, be taken to mean that the devotees who are keenly desirous to earn the good graces of the Lord and His propinquity can make as much progress in one night as in a thousand other nights. Just as in the material world we see that by a jet propelled aeroplane one can, nowadays, cover as much distance in a day as, or even in an hour, as we done in a hundred years in the past, the rate of advance of the earnest seekers of the countenance of the Lord, too, is increased so greatly in the night of Power that they can attain in it was is possible in hundreds of months. The Prophet's (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) remark that if a person will seek the propitiation of Allah, in the month of Ramadan, by performing a superogatory act, it will be treated as equal in recompense to the fulfilment of an obligatory duty in the other days of the year and if he will fulfil an obligatory duty during it, it will be treated as equal in recompense to the fulfilment of seventy obligatory duties during the rest of the year should be seen in the same light. Thus, while the superiority of the Night of Power peculiar to a particular night of Ramadan, the fetching of seventy times reward by a virtuous act is the characteristic attribute of every day and night of the blessed month. (ii) Ramadan has been described in the sermon quoted above as the month of fortitude and compassion. In the Islamic usage `fortitude` signifies the suppression of sensual desires and urges and endurance of painful and unpleasant things the sake of learning the good pleasure of Allah. This is what fasting stands for, from the beginning to the end. In the same way, while fasting the bondsman has an experience of the rigours of starvation, and, from it, he learn to feel for and sympathise with those who are forced by their circumstances to go hungry. (iii) It, also, tell that, in this month, the provision of the truthful bondsman is augmented. The experience of every fasting believer is that he more and better to eat and
Bismillah [IslamCity] With rising food prices, poverty has increased worldwide. Prophet (pbuh) said if Muslims pay their Zakat no one will be poor. Please pay your dues.
As Salaamu Alaikum (Peace Be with You), The blessed month of Ramadan (month of Fasting) has started. This is the best time to take reward by prayers and helping others. Food prices are soaring and poverty is rising worldwide. Millions of people are hungry and are unable to feed their children even one square meal in a day. Hidaya Foundation (www.hidaya.org), under its One Million Meals Project, distributes dry ration to most deserving populations worldwide. It costs only 50 cents to feed one meal to a person. That's $50 for 100 meals or $500 for 1,000 meals. You can donate your Zakat (Alms) or Sadaqah (Charity) online towards One Million Meals Project by visiting the following link: https://donation.hidaya.org/donation.aspx?projectId=46 Zakat is obligatory for every Muslim who does have Nisab (Zakat-able wealth). Prophet (pbuh) has said that if Muslims pay their Zakat, then nobody will be poor and he (pbuh) also said Charity does not decrease wealth. To know more about Zakat, who should pay, on what kind of wealth it should be paid, or how to calculate Zakat, please visit www.hidaya.org/zakat. You can also contact us and we will be glad to mail you a brief guide about Zakat. Should you need help in understanding how to calculate Zakat, kindly write or call us. We will be glad to walk you through step by step. To donate online via electronic check or credit card for Zakat, please visit: https://donation.hidaya.org/donation.aspx?projectId=40 For those who are elderly or not in good health and are not able to fast during Ramadan, the instruction in Al-Qur'an is to feed a hungry person for each fast that is missed. This is called Fidya. Fidya for each missed day of fasting is $3.50 according to Hanafi school of thought or $7.00 according to other major schools of thought. To donate online via electronic check or credit card for Fidya, please visit: https://donation.hidaya.org/donation.aspx?projectId=83 You can mail checks payable to "Hidaya Foundation" at: Hidaya Foundation, P.O. Box 5481, Santa Clara, CA 95056 Sincerely, Waseem Baloch Toll free: (866) 244-3292 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hidaya Foundation is a US based non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization, with Tax ID # 77-0502583. Its mission is to implement educational, health care and social welfare projects in economically depressed areas of the world.
