tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40678459560374298262024-02-20T16:10:04.844+03:00THE GUIDING FRIENDSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger321125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-43701732744008040592012-12-21T19:01:00.001+03:002012-12-21T19:01:40.992+03:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: x-small;">Prophet Muhammad </span><img height="12" src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/Islam/SAWS_sm__14x12.JPG" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: small;" width="14" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: x-small;">, "O followers of Muhammad! By Allah, if you knew what I know, you would weep much and laugh little." </span><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Verdana, arial; font-size: x-small;">[Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 8, #627]</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-23807782149425312442012-11-10T01:41:00.001+03:002012-11-10T01:41:14.556+03:00For our mother<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I get teary eyed in just reading your name<br />
It's unbelievable that some look at you with disdain<br />
When your beauty was the light of his eye<br />
When you are the one who carried his words on your tongue<br />
And his honor in your breath<br />
Through you he never left<br />
With you was his final rest<br />
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The Red One<br />
The little black thing<br />
The 3rd of many<br />
The wife of a king<br />
The brilliance of the blazing sun<br />
Born in to the world knowing God is One<br />
The daughter of the truthful<br />
The daughter of the loyal<br />
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What is it about you that made him so in love?<br />
What is it about you that made the angels come?<br />
Being kept away from your physical space<br />
Couldn't shoot down what I feel with every hadith you relate<br />
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I hope and pray for your widened grave<br />
Ya Ayesha, Oh Umm Muminin<br />
I will not die until they all know your grace<br />
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O God<br />
There is no God but you<br />
The living<br />
The eternal<br />
O God<br />
There is no goal but you<br />
The high<br />
The great<br />
O God<br />
There is no better cause then your cause<br />
O God<br />
There are no better words<br />
Then to praise you continuously<br />
O God their is no greater gift<br />
Then knowing you<br />
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Allow our souls to depart<br />
And our spirits to reconnect with you<br />
O God their is no better presence then yours<br />
O Lord<br />
Their is no worse fate then to be turned away<br />
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O God<br />
Were humbled by you<br />
Your might<br />
Will overcome<br />
Our weakness will be on display<br />
Faces of hope<br />
Faces of dismay<br />
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O God there is no God but you<br />
The living<br />
The eternal<br />
The high<br />
The great<br />
The holder of time<br />
The watcher of all<br />
The hearing<br />
The living<br />
The self sufficient<br />
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O living<br />
O eternal<br />
There is no God but you</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-77731108950278918152012-04-26T22:13:00.000+03:002012-04-26T22:16:51.464+03:00Marriage, slavery and freedom 24: 32- 33<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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“If you fear becoming deluded and impressed by your deeds then remember whose pleasure you are seeking, and the joy (paradise) in which you want to be, and what punishment you fear. Whoever thinks about these things will diminish his deeds.” – Imam Shafi’i</blockquote>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="commentbody">Our strength is limited but Allah has unlimited Mercy, Love, Power,…. so have faith and move on, don’t lose hope as it will drain all our positive energy…put our great trust in Allah with ardent effort as we move on & </span><span class="textexposedshow">try to develop positive self talk each day to gain self esteem, and stay close to those who are positive minded as we will be energized by their positive aura, and all our pressure will turn to pleasure inshaAllah..</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">“Oh my heart,</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Don’t become discouraged so easily.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Have faith.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">In the hidden world, there are many mysteries,</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">many wonders.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Even if the whole planet threatens your life,</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">don’t let go of the Beloved’s robe</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">for even a breath.”</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">~ Maulana Rumi</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-34079266375181826112012-02-22T02:51:00.000+03:002012-02-22T02:51:22.074+03:00Surah Al-A'lâ, Sheikh Mishary<iframe width="459" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sTcFguiYO5c?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-63222481610971748572011-12-15T17:25:00.001+03:002011-12-15T17:30:20.889+03:00A promise to the foremost<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="English" id="fon10" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan10">And those Foremost (in Faith) will be Foremost (in the Hereafter). (10) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont10" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="English" id="fon11" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan11">These will be those Nearest to Allah: (11) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont11" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="English" id="fon12" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan12">In Gardens of Bliss: (12) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="English" id="fon13" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan13">A number of people from those of old (13) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont13" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="English" id="fon14" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan14">And a few from those of later times. (14) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont14" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="English" id="fon15" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan15">(They will be) on Thrones encrusted (with gold and precious stones). (15) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont15" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="English" id="fon16" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan16">Reclining on them facing each other. (16) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont16" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="English" id="fon17" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan17">Round about them will (serve) youths of perpetual (freshness). (17) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont17" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="English" id="fon18" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan18">With goblets, (shining) beakers, and cups (filled) out of clear-flowing fountains: (18) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont18" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="English" id="fon19" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan19">No after-ache will they receive therefrom, nor will they suffer intoxication: (19) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont19" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="English" id="fon20" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan20">And with fruits, any that they may select; (20) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont20" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="English" id="fon21" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan21">And the flesh of fowls, any that they may desire. (21) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont21" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="English" id="fon22" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan22">And (there will be) Companions with beautiful, big, and lustrous eyes-- (22) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont22" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="English" id="fon23" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan23">Like unto Pearls well-guarded. (23) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont23" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="English" id="fon24" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan24">A Reward for the Deeds of their past (Life). (24) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont24" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="English" id="fon25" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan25">No frivolity will they hear therein, nor any taint of ill― (25) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont25" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span class="English" id="fon26" style="background-color: white; color: black; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Time New Roman', Tahoma; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan26">Only the saying "Peace! Peace."</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-27068339942986848072011-12-15T07:04:00.002+03:002011-12-15T07:05:44.818+03:00Covering<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">“Man in early times was almost naked, and as his intellect evolved he started wearing clothes. What I am today and what I’m wearing represents the highest level of thought and civilization that man has achieved, and is not regressive. It’s the removal of clothes again that is regressive back to ancient times''- Noble (Peace Prize Winner) from Yemen, Tawakul Karman</span></blockquote>
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"Everyday two angels come down from heaven and one of them says, 'O, Allah! Compensate every person who spends in Your cause and the other says 'O Allah! Destroy every Miser.'<br />
[Sahih Al Bukhari 2/ 1442]</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-70104821260969835342011-11-19T08:37:00.001+03:002011-11-19T08:38:33.084+03:00Updated repost: Safa and Marwa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;">Oh my mother Hagar!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">The wife of Ibrahim</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Running and searching to fed your dying babe</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">In distress</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Running out of breathe</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Feeling helpless</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">And feeling weak</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Taking your faith to every mountain</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">In search of water for your boy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Your dying boy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Oh how the angel took pity on you</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Striking the ground and causing water to flow</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Fed your babe</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">All alone in the desert</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Wasting away</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">But it was not the wish of your husband</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">To cause you such cruelty</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">He could not even turn back to you</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">As you pleaded for a reason</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">His heart was soft</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">But their was someone he loved more then you</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">For Allah?, you asked</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">And he said yes</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">For Ibrahim loved unconditionally</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">More then anyone in the world</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">The one who created the heavens and earth</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">When Allah spoke to him, he listened</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">He tested repeatedly his most faithful servant</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">And in turn Ibrahim is a friend to Allah</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">And now my mother</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">We run like you run</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Retracing your steps</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Not with a babe in our arms</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">But with our hearts filled</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Asking for mercy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Praying that a mere ritual</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Will grant us a place in paradise</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">But for you Hagar, my sweet mother</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">My faithful mother</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">I pray for you, a place beside your husband</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Where you'll wear gold and never be cold</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">And never have to run again</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;">____________________________________</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, arial, tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;">Current pictures of Safa and Marwa courtesy of Ibn Hanif,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://lifenatureandme.blogspot.com/2011/11/recent-photos-of-al-safa-and-al-marwah.html">http://lifenatureandme.blogspot.com/2011/11/recent-photos-of-al-safa-and-al-marwah.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipOe-TWFucZX0pbWsq455Ewl8N1BEJi-J4pJtYET8ZDTokXiLL9GjkyDwIJv2Z-E302W_EUUrrYEGbfOAuOvzuQz5ovTJLACtsXU93Bv3F9cxFxVefV4K_JcWl0gKmM6EZcM_ALyw_Sa4/s1600/Pilgrims+making+dua+at+Safa+facing+the+holy+Kabah.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipOe-TWFucZX0pbWsq455Ewl8N1BEJi-J4pJtYET8ZDTokXiLL9GjkyDwIJv2Z-E302W_EUUrrYEGbfOAuOvzuQz5ovTJLACtsXU93Bv3F9cxFxVefV4K_JcWl0gKmM6EZcM_ALyw_Sa4/s320/Pilgrims+making+dua+at+Safa+facing+the+holy+Kabah.JPG" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirPtxUf4cuEZu5cXkPAa-jcRJDmV-TYagUBBQvjJCQwz6swOa66mWSrM6Xb9-ubipcLAWinFDASb912OzegeJT0a_CJuRKLUs96-uC01KwdoypW7zRcwTnkhyIWtB6wmrSSyRfFS9HEOI/s1600/Safa+Mountain+Current+Photograph.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirPtxUf4cuEZu5cXkPAa-jcRJDmV-TYagUBBQvjJCQwz6swOa66mWSrM6Xb9-ubipcLAWinFDASb912OzegeJT0a_CJuRKLUs96-uC01KwdoypW7zRcwTnkhyIWtB6wmrSSyRfFS9HEOI/s320/Safa+Mountain+Current+Photograph.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirc4rnnQ14qS1Rp0cewEuJqFF4G32UewkdyGsPAYhrosmeAbIwadUbOPS4opiRZ1d9b3qwk_eaMNEfPCSldhYq8yWTv1Rq0UTJOEspMcuGpPnr_B4MO-qM4MOUG5he4iRV8YeJjnAmVsk/s1600/Verse+of+the+Quran+about+Safa+and+Marwa.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirc4rnnQ14qS1Rp0cewEuJqFF4G32UewkdyGsPAYhrosmeAbIwadUbOPS4opiRZ1d9b3qwk_eaMNEfPCSldhYq8yWTv1Rq0UTJOEspMcuGpPnr_B4MO-qM4MOUG5he4iRV8YeJjnAmVsk/s320/Verse+of+the+Quran+about+Safa+and+Marwa.JPG" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-69281794277663751632011-11-14T08:23:00.000+03:002011-11-14T08:23:24.927+03:00Misfortunes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 14px;"></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">‘Do not detest the misfortunes that befall you, for what you detest may be the cause of your salvation and what you like may be the cause of your ruin.’</strong></span><span style="color: #993300;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">~ Hasan Al-Basri</strong></span><span style="color: #993300;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">(may Allah <em style="font-style: italic;">ta’ala </em>be pleased with him)</strong></span></blockquote><div style="color: #a8a8a8; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
</strong></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://sidramushtaq.wordpress.com/category/hasan-al-basri/">http://sidramushtaq.wordpress.com/category/hasan-al-basri/</a></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-2373570568925571212011-11-10T06:32:00.000+03:002011-11-10T06:32:39.786+03:00God doesn't tire<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"I swear by God, He does not tire of your deeds, rather it is you who become tired; and the best religious acts are those that the worshiper performs consistently"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)</span></i></span></span></blockquote></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-92008469554798267332011-10-22T23:22:00.000+03:002011-10-22T23:22:50.267+03:00My Lord has sufficed me -Imam Al Haddad (translated to english)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">My Lord’s knowledge has sufficed me<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> from asking or choosing<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />For my du’a and my agonising supplication<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> is a witness to my poverty.<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />For this secret (reason) I make supplication <br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />in times of ease and times of difficulty<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />I am a slave whose pride <br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />is in his poverty and obligation<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />———-<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />O my Lord and my King<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> You know my state<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />And what has settled in my heart <br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />of agonies and preoccupations<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Save me with a gentleness <br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />from You, O Lord of Lords<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Oh save me, Most Generous <br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />before I run out of patience (with myself)<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />———-<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />O One who is swift in sending aid<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> I ask for aid that will arrive to me swiftly<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />It will defeat all difficulty <br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />and it will bring all that I hope for<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />O Near One Who answers <br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />and All-Knowing and All-Hearing<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />I have attained realisation through my incapacity, <br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />my submission and my brokenness<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />———-<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />I am still standing by the door, so please my Lord<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> have mercy on my standing<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />And in the valley of generosity, I am in i’tikaf (solitary retreat) <br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />So, Allah, make my retreat here permanent<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />And I’m abiding by good opinion (of You)<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> For it is my friend and ally<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />And it is the one that sits by me and keeps me company <br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />All day and night<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />———-<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />There is a need in my soul, O Allah <br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />so please fulfill it, O Best of Fulfillers<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />And comfort my secret and my heart<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> from its burning and its shrapnel<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />In pleasure and in happiness and<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />as long as You are pleased with me<br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />For joy and expansion is my state <br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />and my motto and my cover</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-73023154737332668052011-10-17T16:50:00.003+03:002011-10-17T16:51:00.720+03:00Surah Al-Lail<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 0.75em/normal Arial, sans-serif;"><div align="center" dir="LTR"><blockquote>In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful</blockquote></div><div align="Left" dir="LTR"><blockquote><span class="English" id="fon1" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan1">By the night enshrouding (1) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont1"></span><span class="English" id="fon2" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan2">And the day resplendent (2) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont2"></span><span class="English" id="fon3" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan3">And Him Who hath created male and female, (3) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont3"></span><span class="English" id="fon4" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan4">Lo! your effort is dispersed (toward divers ends). (4) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont4"></span><span class="English" id="fon5" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan5">As for him who giveth and is dutiful (toward Allah) (5) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont5"></span><span class="English" id="fon6" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan6">And believeth in goodness; (6)</span></span><span id="SubTotFont6"></span><span class="English" id="fon7" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan7">Surely We will ease his way unto the state of ease. (7) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont7"></span><span class="English" id="fon8" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan8">But as for him who hoardeth and deemeth himself independent, (8)</span></span><span id="SubTotFont8"></span><span class="English" id="fon9" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan9">And disbelieveth in goodness; (9) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont9"></span><span class="English" id="fon10" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan10">Surely We will ease his way unto adversity. (10) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont10"></span><span class="English" id="fon11" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan11">His riches will not save him when he perisheth. (11) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont11"></span><span class="English" id="fon12" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan12">Lo! Ours it is (to give) the guidance (12) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont12"></span><span class="English" id="fon13" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan13">And lo! unto Us belong the latter portion and the former. (13)</span></span><span id="SubTotFont13"></span><span class="English" id="fon14" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan14">Therefor have I warned you of the flaming Fire (14) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont14"></span><span class="English" id="fon15" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan15">Which only the most wretched must endure, (15) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont15"></span><span class="English" id="fon16" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan16">He who denieth and turneth away. (16) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont16"></span><span class="English" id="fon17" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan17">Far removed from it will be the righteous (17) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont17"></span><span class="English" id="fon18" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan18">Who giveth his wealth that he may grow (in goodness). (18) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont18"></span><span class="English" id="fon19" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan19">And none hath with him any favour for reward, (19) </span></span><span id="SubTotFont19"></span><span class="English" id="fon20" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan20">Except as seeking (to fulfil) the purpose of his Lord Most High. (20)</span></span><span id="SubTotFont20"></span><span class="English" id="fon21" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span id="mspan21">He verily will be content. (21)</span></span></blockquote></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-65347662571954457182011-09-29T07:01:00.003+03:002011-09-29T07:01:21.335+03:00The light of Allah<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-11315716950009167822011-09-28T19:47:00.000+03:002011-09-28T23:04:40.417+03:00Orphan Girls<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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" If you fear that you would not be able to observe equity in case of orphan girls)," it was revealed in reference to a person who had an orphan girl (as his ward) and he was her guardian, and her heir, and she possessed property, but there was none to contend on her behalf except her ownself. And he (her guardian) did not give her in marriage because of her property and he tortured her and ill-treated her, it was in relation to her that (Allah said: )" If you fear that you would not be able to observe equity in case of orphan girls, then marry whom you like among women," i. e. whatever I have made lawful for you and leave her whom you are putting to torture.</div>
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English reference: Vol. 1, Book 43, Hadith 7158<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-82870659516323060982011-09-27T07:55:00.000+03:002011-09-27T08:01:23.703+03:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBtTyZbJCxF1Rzx6Jc5BfRzYpooCI2x16ETY-Y3k2zgmCzl8PAcEiTIJqgYdSrpwTi-yy3ktSm4ddgToLoDUp-AQ8uUK6ZTAzlzo3LieHrB7EAattw_M7Z1XR7qmf3FU1OUhm95Jmi/s1600/muslim-woman-praying.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBtTyZbJCxF1Rzx6Jc5BfRzYpooCI2x16ETY-Y3k2zgmCzl8PAcEiTIJqgYdSrpwTi-yy3ktSm4ddgToLoDUp-AQ8uUK6ZTAzlzo3LieHrB7EAattw_M7Z1XR7qmf3FU1OUhm95Jmi/s1600/muslim-woman-praying.jpg" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Asalamu Alakum Dear friend,</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Today, Insha Allah, instead of a poem or a quranic verse I want to give a reminder, to you and myself to set aside time today for God. Whether its reading Quran, making dua, dhikr, or simply thanking God for his continuos blessings in our life it is extremely important that we keep our connection to our Rabb (on top of our daily obligations, i.e. salah). Those of us who are Muslim are blessed in this world with the true message of God sent down from his prophets (peace be upon them all). For those of us who are not yet Muslim I urge you to set aside time today for you creator, God willing, he will soon point you in the right the direction.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>May the peace and blessings of Allah be on our dear Prophet Muhammad and may we all look forward to meeting our Lord.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Your sister in islam, Nuriddeen bint Yusuf</i></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-35531397771987007822011-09-25T18:19:00.000+03:002011-09-25T18:19:33.815+03:00Journey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It is a matter of certainty<br />
That day will come<br />
When none will matter but the One<br />
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And yet our aims are different<br />
Each striving for success<br />
Striving for happiness<br />
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Our aims will be unmet<br />
When our hearts, our minds, and limbs forget<br />
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For were all traveling on a path<br />
And we who would like to meet our Lord<br />
will be met the same by him<br />
And we who would spend every moment of breath denouncing his being<br />
Will be before him with despondent souls<br />
Begging God to go back home<br />
Begging God for a second chance<br />
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For some -what we would do for just one glance!<br />
For those who know<br />
the hereafter is home<br />
The present life is the time for growth<br />
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I beg of you<br />
As I beg of me<br />
Please don't be blind in this sea of illusion<br />
Please bring your heart to this final conclusion<br />
Where all going to meet our Rabb<br />
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Where all on the same journey<br />
So why not hope to meet with him?<br />
Why not face the afterlife hoping for his mercy?<br />
May God bless us all, all of us on the journey</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-53177173658079301032011-09-25T18:02:00.000+03:002011-09-25T18:02:06.306+03:00Sura Lail (The Night) Mishary Rashed Alafasy<iframe width="459" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-Bpowj_VPSs?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-56968706990746936882011-09-25T03:45:00.000+03:002011-09-25T03:45:31.407+03:00Mary and Jesus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">[And mention] when the angels said, "O Mary, indeed Allah gives you good tidings of a word from Him, whose name will be the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary - distinguished in this world and the Hereafter and among those brought near [to Allah ].</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">He will speak to the people in the cradle and in maturity and will be of the righteous." </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">She said, "My Lord, how will I have a child when no man has touched me?" [The angel] said, "Such is Allah ; He creates what He wills. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it, 'Be,' and it is. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">And He will teach him writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">And [make him] a messenger to the Children of Israel, [who will say], 'Indeed I have come to you with a sign from your Lord in that I design for you from clay [that which is] like the form of a bird, then I breathe into it and it becomes a bird by permission of Allah . And I cure the blind and the leper, and I give life to the dead - by permission of Allah . And I inform you of what you eat and what you store in your houses. Indeed in that is a sign for you, if you are believers.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">And [I have come] confirming what was before me of the Torah and to make lawful for you some of what was forbidden to you. And I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, so fear Allah and obey me. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">Indeed, Allah is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him. That is the straight path."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">Al Quran 3: 42- 51</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-56800007631273657262011-09-22T07:18:00.000+03:002011-09-22T07:18:38.705+03:00Surah ash - Shams - Mishary Rashid al-Afasy<iframe width="459" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4L2IOhsyh_s?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-5819206531778152882011-09-17T23:19:00.001+03:002011-09-17T23:22:40.334+03:00Salaah The Best Gift<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FQorH-eSBigP_j8CqBWLDn3v7CCrLB7DkiGW3KvdWaZTTYw5n2KQ7AiHSkSiQB75msIb0POord3Iv3Gf8FAlUXKQ1kztFeCNcA7afwMypKdbWHSRhReQRScK9SLVccqAZms3oaaUDDy-/s1600/imagesCACSDJQC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FQorH-eSBigP_j8CqBWLDn3v7CCrLB7DkiGW3KvdWaZTTYw5n2KQ7AiHSkSiQB75msIb0POord3Iv3Gf8FAlUXKQ1kztFeCNcA7afwMypKdbWHSRhReQRScK9SLVccqAZms3oaaUDDy-/s1600/imagesCACSDJQC.jpg" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tired feet touch the soft prayer mat and the heart finds peace,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Almost immediately the limbs are put at ease,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Spiritual and physical benefits in each posture,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">All the blessings we’ll never know for sure.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The prayer, so perfect and holistic,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Everything beautifully in sync,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Until we reach the ultimate position,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Bowed down, head and body flat, completely surrendered in prostration.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The words that are uttered have brought many to tears,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">That is, of course, for those with open hearts and ears.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It shouldn’t matter how long you take,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Everything else should be left to wait.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The hustle and bustle of the world drowned out,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Remembering what this world and our existence is really about,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Everything seems so insignificant and small in comparison,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The prayer bringing us together in unison.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some have spoken about a light that emanates,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We cannot all see, but there are different states.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The servant connecting with the Master, the Creator,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Building our faith, stronger and stronger.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah! This is a special kind of sweetness,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">That we simple human beings are allowed to witness,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The ultimate truth, in the best of ways,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And it really doesn’t matter what who says.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There were times when I used to take it for granted,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Forgetting the treasure I had being given,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But with Allah’s will I was brought back to my senses,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And now I am no longer content to sit on fences.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I wouldn’t give it up for the world,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Because it surpasses all that we know,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The goodness is only for our own benefit,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And this salaah, this prayer is truly the best gift.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong><em>(SubhanAllah, Alhamdullillah, Allahu Akbar)</em></strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;">I also just want to say Jazakallah Khayr to brother Ibn Hanif who invited me to post on this blog after reading this poem on my blog, <a href="http://muslim-women-exposed.blogspot.com/">Muslim Women Exposed.</a> And Jazakallah Khayr to sister Nuriddeen as well. May Almighty Allah reward both of you and accept all your efforts in His path, Inshaa Allah. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-40966016227872904862011-08-31T02:37:00.002+03:002011-08-31T02:41:37.008+03:00Goodbye Ramadan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Oh God please protect us from the accursed devil (and his companions),<br />
In the name of God, The Kind and The Merciful:<br />
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So how many regrets can you count?<br />
Do they take up a mountain?<br />
An ocean or a sea?<br />
Can you count them on your hands?<br />
Do you see them in your sleep?<br />
If your regrets could follow you how many tears would you weep?<br />
<br />
Ramadan is gone<br />
Like a soul without its body<br />
We weep for all the things we should have said, should have done together<br />
Do you wish that Ramadan could spend just one more day<br />
So you could fast in the daytime and stay up all night to pray?<br />
<br />
Its gone and left us<br />
In a year it will return<br />
But will we be returned?<br />
Will we live to see again?<br />
And if the sweetness of mercy is brought to us<br />
Will we have the wisdom to repent?<br />
<br />
Hell is now reopened and shaitan has been set free<br />
Though somehow I feel we've noticed its our souls that are diseased<br />
<br />
Ramadan has come and gone<br />
Yet God's mercy is everlasting<br />
Ya Rabb let us pray for the next 6 months for a Ramadan that is accepted and the 5 months till it comes again<br />
To have Ramadan full of long nights and tedious days...<br />
<br />
Goodbye Ramadan<br />
Insha Allah we'll meet again<br />
Ya Rabb<br />
Accept our efforts<br />
Making us winners in the end</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067845956037429826.post-12694363070982150202011-08-23T06:05:00.001+03:002011-08-23T06:11:54.523+03:00For love of the Mother!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ3syekG91KtX2PcJS3cEqbpQVSbNpSY5z0QMk0OSjs1gDaJEReaTFWNUbFijd_pqLgP_MYUIUMfAacs2XmCeSxV4w1aGxjyQF59PspjkL01xKG_fvpaU8TawmpYyevAm8HwAOE9AV/s1600/DownloadedFile" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ3syekG91KtX2PcJS3cEqbpQVSbNpSY5z0QMk0OSjs1gDaJEReaTFWNUbFijd_pqLgP_MYUIUMfAacs2XmCeSxV4w1aGxjyQF59PspjkL01xKG_fvpaU8TawmpYyevAm8HwAOE9AV/s1600/DownloadedFile" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;">"My father said, "The Prophet <small><small><img border="0" height="18" src="http://muttaqun.com/graphics/saaws-long.gif" width="104" /></small></small> said, 'When I stand for prayer, I intend to prolong it but on hearing the cries of a child, I cut it short, as I dislike to trouble the child's mother.' "</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Hadith - Bukhari 1:675, Narrated 'Abdulla bin 'Abi Qatada</span></i></b></span> <img align="top" border="0" height="25" src="http://muttaqun.com/graphics/ranhu.gif" style="cursor: move;" width="69" /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;">A man came to Allah's Apostle <small><small><img border="0" height="18" src="http://muttaqun.com/graphics/saaws-long.gif" width="104" /></small></small>and said, "O Allah's Apostle! Who is more entitled to be treated with the best companionship by me?" The Prophet <small><small><img border="0" height="18" src="http://muttaqun.com/graphics/saaws-long.gif" width="104" /></small></small>said, "Your mother." The man said. "Who is next?" The Prophet <small><small><img border="0" height="18" src="http://muttaqun.com/graphics/saaws-long.gif" width="104" /></small></small> said, "Your mother." The man further said, "Who is next?" The Prophet <small><small><img border="0" height="18" src="http://muttaqun.com/graphics/saaws-long.gif" width="104" /></small></small> said, "Your mother." The man asked for the fourth time, "Who is next?" The Prophet <small><small><img border="0" height="18" src="http://muttaqun.com/graphics/saaws-long.gif" width="104" /></small></small>said, "</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;">Your father."</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Hadith - Bukhari 8.2, Narrated Abu Huraira</span></i></b></span> <img align="top" border="0" height="25" src="http://muttaqun.com/graphics/ranhu.gif" width="69" /></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;">The Prophet <small><small><img border="0" height="18" src="http://muttaqun.com/graphics/saaws-long.gif" width="104" /></small></small>said, "</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;">Allah has forbidden for you, (1) to be undutiful to your mothers*, (2) to bury your daughters alive, (3) to not to pay the rights of the others (e.g. charity, etc.) and (4) to beg of men (begging). And Allah has hated for you (1) vain, useless talk, or that you talk too much about others, (2) to ask too many questions, (in disputed religious matters) and (3) to waste the wealth (by extravagance).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Hadith - Bukhari 1:3:591, Narrated Al-Mughira bin Shu'ba</span></i></b></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><img align="top" border="0" height="25" src="http://muttaqun.com/graphics/ranhu.gif" style="cursor: move;" width="69" /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0