tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39912056427432087272024-03-04T20:30:51.585-08:00One God...One Straight Path...A Place for Learning about Islam. It is a Muslims Duty to seek knowledge, therefore, I seek.Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-48135724453400855102008-04-24T22:18:00.000-07:002008-04-24T22:25:12.819-07:00my thoughts<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_D5yCh8JDSd0ubl6Nk-eWVPdorBkklQyRQs14-9rHy0TqaLBIYg557eF8kJvU5B67-U87sR3cCwEbjhfMwJ6pId5Dio1RcUmyaurSBlPxa52Qy4o0Iy0fUuv33TraOzibO7cSg1-yMvo/s1600-h/DSC07085.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193049689761489714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_D5yCh8JDSd0ubl6Nk-eWVPdorBkklQyRQs14-9rHy0TqaLBIYg557eF8kJvU5B67-U87sR3cCwEbjhfMwJ6pId5Dio1RcUmyaurSBlPxa52Qy4o0Iy0fUuv33TraOzibO7cSg1-yMvo/s400/DSC07085.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><p>People ask me why i wear niqab.</p><br /><p>I tell them i wear niqab because i am muslim and i can.</p><br /><p>People ask me why i wear hijab.</p><br /><p>I tell them because i am muslim and ALLAH commands me to.</p><br /><p>see how simple and clear that is?</p><br /><p>no need for complication...just a straight answer!</p>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-20227919877341289692008-04-20T03:09:00.000-07:002008-04-20T04:20:22.872-07:00SAVE THE EARTH ::: Planet Earth BBC DVD<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxhUCQCEZohMZ3ckKU8lPnnU-U2W_nnAsW8OTpPL9h09IfzLx4aMxvQOWewn-hDUG4Bb8NzkEY34EiqXK5APl0AbWvWHcNFkPshnixBK8-2QMs7Q2QGcVlJ2vSAd7shEgPJ_VNFuROZf0/s1600-h/DSC07033.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191284949627136050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxhUCQCEZohMZ3ckKU8lPnnU-U2W_nnAsW8OTpPL9h09IfzLx4aMxvQOWewn-hDUG4Bb8NzkEY34EiqXK5APl0AbWvWHcNFkPshnixBK8-2QMs7Q2QGcVlJ2vSAd7shEgPJ_VNFuROZf0/s400/DSC07033.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color:#006600;"><strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Quran</span> Verses regarding The Earth and its Balance</strong></span></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color:#006600;"></span></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color:#006600;">"When the earth is shaken with a (violent) shaking, And the earth reveals what burdens her,And man says: What has befallen her? On that day she shall tell her story...." </span></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color:#006600;">(<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Qur'an</span> 99:1-4) </span></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span><span style="color:#006600;"><br /></div></span><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">“He erected heaven and established the balance.” </span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">(<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Quran</span> 55:7)</span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span><span style="color:#006600;"><br /></div></span><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">The Exalted also said "There is not an animal in the earth, nor a flying creature flying with two wings, but they are nations like you. We have neglected nothing in the book. Then unto their Lord they will be gathered." </span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">(6;38).</span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><br /><p align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day, there are Signs for people with intelligence: those who remember God, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth: 'Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire. </span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">(Surat Al <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Imran</span>: 190-191)</span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">________________________________________________________________</span></p><span style="color:#000099;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><blockquote><br /><p align="center"><span style="color:#000099;"><span style="font-size:130%;">PLANET EARTH BBC DVD</span> </span></p></blockquote><br /><p align="left"></span></span></p><span style="color:#000099;">The makers of The Blue Planet present the epic story of life on Earth. Five years in production, over 2000 days in the field, using 40 cameramen filming across 200 locations, this is the ultimate portrait of our planet. A stunning television experience that combines rare action, unimaginable scale, impossible locations and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest and most elusive creatures. From the highest mountains to the deepest rivers, this blockbuster series takes you on an unforgettable journey through the challenging seasons and the daily struggle for survival in Earth's most extreme habitats. Using a budget of unprecedented proportions, photography and unique, specially developed filming techniques, Planet Earth takes you to places you have never seen before, to experience sights and sounds you may never experience again.</span><br /><p align="left"><span style="color:#000099;">As of its release in early 2007, Planet Earth is quite simply the greatest nature/wildlife series ever produced. Following the similarly monumental achievement of The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, this astonishing 11-part BBC series is brilliantly narrated by Sir David <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Attenborough</span> and sensibly organized so that each 50-minute episode covers a specific geographical region and/or wildlife habitat (mountains, caves, deserts, shallow seas, seasonal forests, etc.) until the entire planet has been magnificently represented by the most astonishing sights and sounds you'll ever experience from the comforts of home. </span></p><br /><p align="left"><span style="color:#000099;">The premiere episode, "From Pole to Pole," serves as a primer for things to come, placing the entire series in proper context and giving a general overview of what to expect from each individual episode. Without being overtly political, the series maintains a consistent and subtle emphasis on the urgent need for ongoing conservation, best illustrated by the plight of polar bears whose very behavior is changing (to accommodate life-threatening changes in their fast-melting habitat) in the wake of global warming--a phenomenon that this series appropriately presents as scientific fact. With this harsh reality as subtext, the series proceeds to accentuate the positive, delivering a seemingly endless variety of natural wonders, from the spectacular mating displays of New Guinea's various birds of paradise to a rare encounter with Siberia's nearly-extinct Amur Leopards, of which only 30 remain in the wild. </span></p><br /><p align="left"><br /><span style="color:#000099;">That's just a hint of the marvels on display. Accompanied by majestic orchestral scores by George <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Fenton</span>, every episode is packed with images so beautiful or so forcefully impressive (and so perfectly photographed by the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">BBC's</span> tenacious high-definition camera crews) that you'll be rendered speechless by the splendor of it all. You'll see a seal struggling to out-maneuver a Great White Shark; swimming macaques in the Ganges delta; massive flocks of snow geese numbering in the hundreds of thousands; an awesome night-vision sequence of lions attacking an elephant; the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Colugo</span> (or "flying lemur"--not really a lemur!) of the Philippines; a hunting alliance of fish and snakes on Indonesia's magnificent coral reef; the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">bioluminescent</span> "vampire squid" of the deep oceans... these are just a few of countless highlights, masterfully filmed from every conceivable angle, with frequent use of super-slow-motion and amazing motion-controlled time-lapse cinematography, and narrated by <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Attenborough</span> with his trademark combination of observational wit and informative authority. The result is a hugely entertaining series that doesn't flinch from the predatory realities of nature (death is a constant presence, without being off-putting). </span></p><br /><p align="left"><span style="color:#000099;"><br /><span style="color:#000099;">At a time when the multiple threats of global warming should be obvious to all, let's give Sir David the last word, from the closing of Planet Earth's final episode: "We can now destroy or we can cherish--the choice is ours." --Jeff Shannon<br /></span></p></span><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;">I <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">recently</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">purchased</span> a DVD set called Planet Earth. It is a compilation of the earth's lands and animals as you have NEVER seen them before. This DVD set should be on the top of your list of things to buy for your own education and your children. I think that ALL schools should have this DVD shown to the students. </span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">It really changes your view on our precious earth and what it contains within it, as well as the horrendous rate of destruction its plant and animal life is experiencing. We are loosing the most important balance of life very quickly because of our own actions. We are raping our planet to destruction.</span></strong></span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Thankfully it also teaches us and makes us aware of how we can help to rescue our planet from destruction and how we can start to save its <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">plant life</span> and wildlife. </span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">This DVD set WILL change your view on our Planet Earth.</span></strong> </span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;">As <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Muslims</span>, we have a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">responsibility</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">towards</span> caring properly for our <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">enviornment</span> and what it contains. </span></p><br /><p align="left"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></p><br /><p align="left"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"><strong>Here are some facts from the DVD set:</strong></span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;color:#990000;">-The Amur Leopard has only 30 animals left in the wild.</span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;color:#990000;">-The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Bactran</span> camel are less than 1000.</span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;color:#990000;">-Polar bears are starving and drowning.</span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;color:#990000;">-<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Approximately</span> 280 cross river gorillas remain.</span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;color:#990000;">-The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">WWF</span> estimates there are between 25,600 and 32,750 individual Asian elephants left in the wild.</span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;color:#990000;">-Grey whale Grey whales are now restricted to the North Pacific ocean (along east and west coasts). The North Atlantic population is extinct. .</span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;color:#990000;">-The Maui's dolphin is the rarest and smallest marine dolphin. There are thought to be fewer than 100 left. </span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;color:#990000;">The DVD set has much more!</span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:Courier New;"></span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;">For more info from BBC Science and Nature click here: </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/conservation/"><span style="font-family:courier new;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/conservation/</span></a></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;">For more info from and Islamic viewpoint by <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Harun</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Yahya</span> click here: </span><a href="http://www.harunyahya.com/"><span style="font-family:courier new;">http://www.harunyahya.com/</span></a><br /></p><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></div><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /><p align="center"><br /></p></span><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span></div><br /><p align="center"><br /></p><br /><div></div>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-69526340359605756922008-02-02T12:08:00.000-08:002008-02-02T12:19:38.742-08:00Childrens Rights on Thier Father in Islam<div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#006600;">The children’s rights</span></strong></div><br />Allaah has given children rights over their parents just as the parents have rights over their children.<br /><br />It was narrated that Ibn ‘Umar said: “Allaah has called them abraar (righteous) because they honoured (barru) their fathers and children. Just as your father has rights over you, so too your child has rights over you.<br /><br />Al-Adab al-Mufrad, 94.<br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#663366;">The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, according to a hadeeth narrated by ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Umar, “… and your child has rights over you.” </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663366;">Muslim, 1159. </span></div><br />The child’s rights over their children include some that come even before the child is born, for example:<br /><br />1 – Choosing a righteous wife to be a righteous mother.<br /><div align="center"><br />It was narrated from <span style="color:#663366;">Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “A woman may be married for four reasons: her wealth, her lineage, her beauty and her religious commitment. Marry the one who is religiously committed, may your hands be rubbed with dust (i.e., may you prosper).” </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663366;">(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 4802; Muslim, 1466).</span></div><br /> Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Dahlawi said: Choose from among women those who are religiously committed and righteous, and who are of good descent, for if a woman is of illegitimate descent, this bad characteristic may be passed to her children. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):<br /><div align="center"><br /> <span style="color:#006600;"><em>“The adulterer — fornicator marries not but an adulteress — fornicatress or a Mushrikah; and the adulteress –fornicatress, none marries her except an adulterer — fornicater or a Mushrik”<br />[al-Noor 24:3]</em></span> </div><br />Rather Islam recommends compatibility for the purpose of harmony and to avoid a person being shamed if he marries into a family that is not compatible.<br /><br />Sharh Sunan Ibn Maajah, 1/141<br /><br />Rights after the child is born:<br /><br />1 – It is Sunnah to do tahneek for the child when he is born:<br /><div align="center"><br />It was narrated that <span style="color:#663366;">Anas ibn Maalik (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The son of Abu Talhah was sick. Abu Talhah went out and the child died, and when Abu Talhah returned he said, “What happened to my son?” Umm Sulaym (his wife) said, ‘He is quieter than he was.” Then she brought him his dinner and he ate, then he had marital relations with her, and when he finished she said, “They buried the child.” The following morning, Abu Talhah went to the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and told him what had happened. He said, “Did you have marital relations last night?” He said, “Yes.” He said, “O Allaah, bless them.” She later gave birth to a boy. Abu Talhah said to me, “Keep him until I bring him to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).” He brought him to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and I sent some dates with him. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) took him and said, “Is there anything with him?” They said, “Yes, some dates.” The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) took some and chewed it, then he took some from his mouth and put it in the child’s mouth (tahneek), and named him ‘Abd-Allaah. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663366;">Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 5153; Muslim, 2144 </span></div><br />Al-Nawawi said:<br /><br />The scholars are agreed that it is mustahabb to do tahneek with dates for the child when he is born; if that is not possible then to use some similar kind of sweet. The dates should be chewed until they become soft enough to be swallowed, then the child’s mouth should be opened and a little of the dates put in his mouth.<br />Sharh al-Nawawi ‘ala Muslim, 14/122-123<br /><br />2 – The child should be given a good name, such as ‘Abd-Allaah or ‘Abd al-Rahmaan.<br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#663366;">It was narrated from Naafi’ that Ibn ‘Umar said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The most beloved of your names to Allaah are ‘Abd-Allaah and ‘Abd al-Rahmaan.” <br />(Narrated by Muslim, 2132) </span></div><br />It is mustahabb to give the child a Prophet’s name:<br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#663366;">It was narrated that Anas ibn Maalik said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “A child was born to me last night and I called him by the name of my father Ibraaheem.”<br />Narrated by Muslim, 2315 </span></div><br />It is mustahabb to name the child on the seventh day, but there is nothing wrong with naming him on the day of his birth, because of the hadeeth quoted above.<br /><br />It was narrated from Samurah ibn Jundub that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Every child is in pledge for his ‘aqeeqah which should be slaughtered for him on the seventh day, his head should be shaved and he should be named.<br />Narrated by Abu Dawood, 2838; classed as saheeh by Shaykh al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’, 4541<br /><br />Ibn al-Qayyim said:<br /><br />The purpose of naming is to define the thing named, because if there is something whose name is unknown it is difficult to refer to it. So it is permissible to name him (the child) on the day he is born, and it is permissible to delay the naming until the third day, or until the day of the ‘aqeeqah, or before or after that. The matter is broad in scope.”<br />Tuhfat al-Mawlood, p. 111<br /><br />3 – It is Sunnah to shave the child’s head on the seventh day and to give the weight of the hair in silver in charity.<br /><br />It was narrated that ‘Ali ibn Abi Taalib said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) slaughtered a sheep as the ‘aqeeqah for al-Hasan, and he said, “O Faatimah, shave his head and give the weight of his hair in silver in charity.” So she weighed it and its weight was a dirham or part of a dirham.<br />Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 1519; classed as hasan by Shaykh al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Tirmidhi, 1226.<br /><br />4 – It is mustahabb for the father to do the ‘aqeeqah, as stated in the hadeeth quoted above, “Every child is in pledge for his ‘aqeeqah.”<br /><br />Two sheep should be sacrificed for a boy and one for a girl.<br /><br />It was narrated from ‘Aa’ishah that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) commanded them (to sacrifice) two similar sheep for a boy and one for a girl. <br />Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 1513; Saheeh al-Tirmidhi, 1221; Abu Dawood, 2834; al-Nasaa’i, 4212; Ibn Maajah, 3163<br /><br />5 – Circumcision<br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#663366;">It was narrated that Abu Hurayrah said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The fitrah is five things, or five things are part of the fitrah: circumcision, shaving the pubic hairs, plucking the armpit hairs, clipping the nails and trimming the moustache.”<br /> Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 5550; Muslim, 257 </span></div><br />The child’s rights with regard to education and upbringing:<br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#663366;">It was narrated from ‘Abd-Allaah (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Each of you is a shepherd and is responsible for his flock. The ruler who is in charge of people is a shepherd and is responsible for them. The man is the shepherd of his household and is responsible for them. The woman is the shepherd of her husband’s house and child and is responsible for them. The slave is the shepherd of his master’s wealth and is responsible for it. Each of you is a shepherd and each of you is responsible for his flock.”<br />Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 2416; Muslim, 1829. </span></div><br />So parents must take care of teaching their children the duties of Islam and other virtues that are recommended in sharee’ah, and worldly matters that they need in order to live a decent life in this world.<br /><br />The man should start by teaching them the most important things, then the next most important. So he starts by teaching them correct ‘aqeedah, free from shirk and bid’ah. Then he teaches them the acts of worship, especially prayer. Then he teaches them and trains them in good manners and characteristics, and everything that is good.<br /><br />Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):<br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#006600;"><em>“And (remember) when Luqmaan said to his son when he was advising him: “O my son! Join not in worship others with Allaah. Verily, joining others in worship with Allaah is a great Zulm (wrong) indeed”<br />[Luqmaan 31:13] </em></span></div><br />It was narrated from ‘Abd al-Malik ibn al-Rabee’ ibn Sabrah from his father that his grandfather said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Teach the child to pray when he is seven years old, and smack him if he does not pray when he is ten.”<br />Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 407; Abu Dawood, 494. Classed as saheeh by Shaykh al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’, 4025<br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#663366;">It was narrated that al-Rubayyi’ bint Mu’awwidh said: The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) sent word on the morning of Ashoora’ to the areas where the Ansaar lived (on the outskirts of Madeenah), saying: Whoever did not fast this morning, let him not eat for the rest of the day, and whoever started fasting this morning, let him complete his fast. She said: We used to observe this fast after that, and we used to make our children fast and make them toys of wool; if one of them cried for food we would give him that toy until it was time to break the fast.<br />Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 1859; Muslim, 1136 </span></div><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#663366;">It was narrated that al-Saa’ib ibn Yazeed said: I was taken for Hajj with the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) when I was seven years old.<br />Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 1759 </span></div><br />Training in good manners and characteristics:<br /><br />Every father and mother should train their children in praiseworthy characteristics and good manners, whether towards Allaah, His Prophet the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), towards their Qur’aan and ummah, and with everyone whom they know and who has rights over them. They should not behave badly with those whom they mix with, their neighbours or their friends.<br /><br />Al-Nawawi said:<br /><br />The father must discipline his child and teach him what he needs to know of religious duties. This teaching is obligatory upon the father and all those in charge of children before the child reaches the age of adolescence. This was stated by al-Shaafa’i and his companions. Al-Shaafa’i and his companions said: This teaching is also obligatory upon the mother, if there is no father, because it is part of the child’s upbringing and they have a share of that and the wages for this teaching may be taken from the child’s own wealth. If the child has no wealth then the one who is obliged to spend on him may spend on his education, because it is one of the things that he needs. And Allaah knows best.<br /><br /><br />Sharh al-Nawawi ‘ala Saheeh Muslim, 8/44<br /><br />The father should bring them up with good manners in all things, eating, drinking, dressing, sleeping, going out of the house, entering the house, riding in vehicles, etc, and in all their affairs. He should instill in them the attributes of a good man, such as love of sacrifice, putting others first, helping others, chivalry and generosity. He should keep them away from evil characteristics such as cowardice, stinginess, lack of chivalry, lack of ambition, etc.<br /><br />Al-Manaawi said:<br />“Just as your parents have rights over you, so too your child has rights over you, rather many rights, such as teaching them the individual obligations, teaching them Islamic manners, giving them gifts equally, whether that is a gift, a waqf, or other gift. If preference is shown with no reason, that is regarded as invalid by some of the scholars and as makrooh by others.<br />Fayd al-Qadeer, 2/574<br /><br />He must also protect his sons and daughters from everything that may bring them close to the Fire. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):<br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#006600;"><em>“O you who believe! Ward off yourselves and your families against a Fire (Hell) whose fuel is men and stones, over which are (appointed) angels stern (and) severe, who disobey not, (from executing) the Commands they receive from Allaah, but do that which they are commanded”<br />[al-Tahreem 66:6] </em></span></div><br /><br />al-Qurtubi said:<br />al-Hasan commented on this verse by saying, Command them and forbid them. One of the scholars said: <span style="color:#006600;"><em>(The phrase) Ward off (or protect) yourselves includes children, because the child is part of him, as it says in the verse (interpretation of the meaning): “…nor on yourselves, if you eat from your houses…” [al-Noor 24:61]</em></span>, where the various relatives are not mentioned individually. So he should teach him what is halaal and what is haraam, and make him avoid sin, and teach him other rulings.<br />Tafseer al-Qurtubi, 18/194-195.<br /><br />Spending:<br /><br />This is one of the father’s obligations towards his children; it is not permissible for him to fall short in that or to neglect this matter, rather he is obliged to do this duty in the fullest sense.<br />It was narrated that ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Amr (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “It is sufficient sin for a man if he neglects those on whom he is obliged to spend.”<br />Narrated by Abu Dawood, 1692; classed as sahan by Shaykh al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’, 4481.<br /><br />Another of the greatest rights is to give the child a good upbringing and take good care of him or her – especially in the case of girls. The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) encouraged this righteous deed.<br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#663366;">It was narrated that ‘Aa’ishah the wife of the Prophet (S) said: A woman came to me with two daughters and asked me for food, and I could not find anything except one date which I gave to her. She shared it between her two daughters, then she got up and went out. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) came in and I told him what had happened. He said: “Whoever is in charge of any of these girls and treats them well, they will be a shield for him against the Fire.”<br />Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 5649; Muslim, 2629</span> </div><div align="center"><br />Another important matter which is one of the rights of children to which attention must be paid, is treating children fairly. This right was referred to by the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) in the saheeh hadeeth: <span style="color:#663366;">“Fear Allaah and treat your children fairly.” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 2447; Muslim, 1623). </span></div><br />It is not permissible to show preference to females over males, just as it is not permissible to show preference to males over females. If the father makes this mistake and shows preference to some of his children over others, and does not treat them fairly, this will lead to many evils, such as:<br />The harm that befalls the father himself, for the children whom he denies or deprives will grow up to hate him. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) referred to this in the hadeeth narrated by Muslim (1623) when he said to the father of al-Nu’maan, “Would you like them to honour you equally?” He said, “Yes.” In other words, if you want them all to honour you equally, then be fair in giving gifts to them.<br /><br />Another evil consequence is the children hating one another, and stoking the flames of hatred and enmity between them.<br /><br />And Allaah knows best.<br /><br />Excerpt from:Islam Q&A @<a href="http://www.islamqa.com/index.php?ref=20064&ln=eng">http://www.islamqa.com/index.php?ref=20064&ln=eng</a>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-49527090213001723202008-01-25T02:17:00.001-08:002008-01-25T02:37:32.819-08:00My Opinion and Rant....<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Im</span> really sick and tired of people in the Muslim and Arab world blaming the westerners for <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">their</span> shortcomings in <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">their</span> religion and mistakes. <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Everytime</span> we see a girl not covering <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">correctly</span> or a guy drinking <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">alcohol</span> or having a girlfriend or someone <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">wearing</span> tight western cloths or <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">acting</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">certain</span> way it is blamed directly on western influence.<br /><br /><div align="center"><strong>People wake up! Its your OWN fault if you make mistakes or we could say <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">whispering</span> from the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">shaytan</span>, NOT <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Westerners</span>!</strong></div><strong></strong><br />We have the choice to say yes or no to any given situation. What you choose is up to you! There is not a westerner holding a gun to your head telling you to do <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">something</span> wrong!<br /><br /> For example when a guy goes to a western country to study in university and comes back to his country and has picked up some bad habits like partying <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">and</span> drinking or <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">sleeping</span> with girls. This is then blamed on western <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">influence</span> in his life, not him for his bad decisions.<br /><br /> <strong>He had the choice to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">either</span> go to a club or stay home and pray or go to the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">masjid</span> and pray</strong> or just resist his <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">temptation</span> to go to a club and seek refuge in Allah with prayer and fasting! Its <strong>HIS </strong>choice that will either be good or bad....<br /><br />We know, as <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Muslims,</span> what is halal and what is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">haram</span>, so <strong>any mistakes we make are our own</strong>, <strong>not anyone e<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">lse's</span></strong>!<br /><br /><strong>Wake up and take responsibility for your own stupidity when you do something <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">haram</span>!</strong><br /><br />Living in the Middle East as a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Muslim</span> is EASY....you cannot deny that fact!<br /><br />Living in the USA for example is going to be harder because there is more <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">temptation</span> to do wrong and etc. BUT, you still have the choice to say yes or no to situations.<br /><br />Look at the Arab <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">who lives</span> in the M<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">iddle</span> East and he blames western influence for his behaviour and bad <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">choices</span>, meanwhile, there is a revert in USA who is surrounded by bad things daily YET chooses to live his life <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Islamically</span> even with all these hardships!<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong>All <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">I'm</span> trying to say is Muslims wake up and blame yourself for your bad deeds, not westerner influence! Its YOUR choice to follow your religion or not to follow it!</strong></div>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-63313227618659430742008-01-22T22:28:00.000-08:002008-01-23T00:08:31.884-08:00A selection of Ayats and Ahadith from the Quran and the Prophet Muhammed(sallalahu alayhi wa sallam)“and [Allaah] has not laid upon you in religion any hardship” [al-Hajj 22:78].<br /><br /><br />“Were they created by nothing? Or were they themselves the creators?<br />Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, but they have no firm Belief”<br />[al-Toor 52:35]<br /><br /><br />"And whatever the Messenger gives you, take it, and whatever he forbids you, leave it. And fear Allah: truly Allah is severe in punishment. " [<a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/">Qur'an</a> 59:7]<br /><br /><br />The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said to us: “If one of you attends the mosque, let her not put on perfume.” Narrated by Muslim (443).<br /><ul><li><br /><em>If the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) forbade women to go out to the mosque wearing perfume, because men will usually smell some of the fragrance because of close proximity and there being no barrier between men and woman, then it is more likely that women are not allowed to go out to the marketplace and gatherings wearing perfume, although it is not regarded as a major sin, rather it is something that is clearly haraam.</em></li></ul><em></em>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-60947978458276227522008-01-11T01:51:00.000-08:002008-01-11T01:55:05.983-08:00Quran (10:24) Present Life<div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Quran(10:24)</span></div><br /><strong>YUSUFALI:</strong> <em>The likeness of the life of the present is as the rain which We send down from the skies: by its mingling arises the produce of the earth- which provides food for men and animals: (It grows) till the earth is clad with its golden ornaments and is decked out (in beauty): the people to whom it belongs think they have all powers of disposal over it: There reaches it Our command by night or by day, and We make it like a harvest clean-mown, as if it had not flourished only the day before! thus do We explain the Signs in detail for those who reflect. </em><br /><div align="center">--------------------------</div><br /><strong>PICKTHAL:</strong> <em>The similitude of the life of the world is only as water which We send down from the sky, then the earth's growth of that which men and cattle eat mingleth with it till, when the earth hath taken on her ornaments and is embellished, and her people deem that they are masters of her, Our commandment cometh by night or by day and We make it as reaped corn as if it had not flourished yesterday. Thus do we expound the revelations for people who reflect. </em><br /><br /><div align="center">--------------------------</div><strong>SHAKIR:</strong> <em>The likeness of this world's life is only as water which We send down from the cloud, then the herbage of the earth of which men and cattle eat grows luxuriantly thereby, until when the earth puts on its golden raiment and it becomes garnished, and its people think that they have power over it, Our command comes to it, by night or by day, so We render it as reaped seed; produce, as though it had not been in existence yesterday; thus do We make clear the communications for a people who reflect. </em>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-61323086530011792192008-01-10T04:16:00.000-08:002008-01-11T01:35:32.821-08:00A Punishment in Islam for Cruelty to Cats<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Hadith</span> - <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Bukhari</span> 3:553, Narrated '<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Abdullah</span> bin '<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Umar</span> [Also in Muslim, Narrated <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Abu</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Huraira</span>]<br /><br /><span style="color:#006600;">Allah's Apostle said, </span><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">"A woman was tortured and was put in Hell because of a cat which she had kept locked till it died of hunger." Allah's Apostle further said, "(Allah knows better) Allah said (to the woman), 'You neither fed it nor watered when you locked it up, nor did you set it free to eat the insects of the earth.' "</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#000000;"><em>***I think I need to print this on billboards in my neighborhood. All my neighbors are Muslims, yet everyday i see their children running after cats and kittens with big sticks ready to knock them dead. Two days ago "someone or something" killed one of two sibling kittens I care for and feed from the street. I found him, dead, in his favorite sleeping spot. His brother is all alone now. They were inseparable since birth. Its a shame and very sad. His home now is with me and my other 2 cats for the time being, inshallah it will be permanent if my female cat ever accepts him as part of the family!</em></span></div>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-53801266756128092512008-01-06T10:47:00.000-08:002008-01-06T10:56:40.322-08:00A Situation I Faced TodayToday as I was in the elevator going down from the 16<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">th</span> floor to the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">GF,</span> the elevator stopped on the 7<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">th</span> floor and a man got in. I was the only person with him in the elevator and I had this really big feeling I should walk out of it when he walked in, but, i didn't, I hesitated.<br /><br />When I got home, I looked up this problem on Islam Q&A to see what their opinion was on this issue, and this is what I found below...Now, some people wont agree with what they have written and others will, BUT, <strong>for me</strong>, now<strong> i know next time I'm in that situation I should get out of the elevator and wait until I can get in again with other women present or alone...</strong> <div align="center">-------------------------------</div><br /><strong><em>Is it permissible for a woman to travel in an elevator alone with a non-mahram man?</em></strong><br /><br /><strong>Question:</strong>It allowed to go in a lift if there is a man who is a non mahram in it?(ie if there are just the two of you) Is there a separate ruling for open and closed lifts which have doors?.<br /><br /><strong>Answer:</strong>Praise be to Allaah.<br />Allaah has forbidden a man to be alone with a woman who is not his mahram. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “No man is alone with a woman but the shaytaan is the third one present.” Narrated by al-Tirmidhi (1171); classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Tirmidhi.<br /><br />Al-Bukhaari (1862) and Muslim (1341) narrated that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “No man should be alone with a woman unless her mahram is with her.”<br />Al-Nawawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) narrated in Sharh Muslim (14/153) that there is scholarly consensus that it is haraam for a man to be alone with a non-mahram woman. This was also mentioned by al-Haafiz in al-Fath (4/77).<br /><br />What is meant by a man being alone with a woman is that they are alone together in a place with no one else present.<br /><br />This meaning applies when a woman travels in an elevator with a man who is not her mahram and there is no one else with them, whether it is open or closed.<br /><br />Based on that, it is not permissible for a woman to travel in an elevator on her own with a non-mahram man. If there is one or more other women with her, then there is nothing wrong with her travelling on the elevator in that case, because then she is not alone with the man.<br /><br />If there are both men and women with her, there is nothing wrong with her travelling on it if the elevator is spacious, and she will not be forced to touch or rub against the men. But in this case it is safer for the Muslim woman to walk up the stairs, and seek reward with Allaah for the difficulty that she encounters by doing that, because she is only doing that so as to avoid that which Allaah has forbidden and to avoid fitnah and its causes.<br /><br />And Allaah knows best.<br /><br />Islam Q&ASultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-60597042367215552722008-01-03T09:36:00.000-08:002008-01-03T09:48:46.221-08:00My Thoughts<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Don't</span> make a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Dua</span> "against" someone,<br /><br />forgive them,<br /><br />make a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Dua</span> FOR them and leave the justice to ALLAH...<br /><br />When a person makes <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Dua</span> after prayer for someone the Angels say <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Ameen</span> after the person does. So, whatever <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Dua</span> you are making for someone whether good or bad you are also making on yourself, because, the Angels say <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Ameen</span> on the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Dua</span> you made against someone FOR YOU...<br /><br />Ex...a Mother in law makes a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">dua</span> AGAINST her Daughter in law asking God to never give her children or happiness with her son in <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">their</span> marriage...This is horribly WRONG!<br /><br />Ex...A sister in law goes to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">MAKKAH</span> and makes <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Duas</span> against her sister in law asking God to make her not able to bear children and to let her brother divorce his wife....This is even MORE HORRIBLE...<br /><br />We should always try our best to give our <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">muslim</span> brothers and sisters second chances to be better <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Muslims</span>, we should conceal <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">their</span> flaws and try our utmost to guide them to the straight path <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">inshallah</span>....Never give up trying to spread a good word and good deeds. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Inshallah</span> Allah will reward the patient and the ones who guided others to Islamic monotheism and Islamic lifestyle and Ideals...Do your best to give a good example of yourself and show kindness to non <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Muslims</span>, you never know how much that might influence <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">their</span> opinion on Islam and it may even help them to become a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Muslim</span> and that could be because of you!Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-2388508410266216422007-12-26T08:02:00.000-08:002007-12-26T08:12:38.207-08:00A Message to Someone Drowning<div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">A message to someone Drowning</span></strong></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span>Author: Sh. Hamed ibn Abdullah Al-Ali</div><strong><div align="left"><br /></strong><br /><strong>Question:</strong></div><div align="left"><em>I would like to let you know that I have committed most major sins and I am not saying this in order to take pride in my sins; I used to feel this before but not any longer. I have drunk wine twice in my life or perhaps three times, I don’t know. I have committed adultery with almost 10 women and I was about to destroy the future of a girl but Allah saved her from my harm; I do not know is it possible that Allah repents on me and forgives me? I don’t know, I have tried to repent more than once and every time I return to the same sins to the degree that I have felt I am a hypocrite who is not afraid of death and being accounted. Sometimes I feel that Allah loves me and that I love Him, but then Satan quickly takes over my heart again. </em></div><em><div align="left"><br />I have defeated Satan in many rounds, but he defeated me in more battles; Is it possible for me to return to Allah once again and how? </div><div align="left"><br />I have prayed a lot but more than that I have interrupted my prayers. My weakness has reached points a believer cannot imagine.</div><div align="left"><br />I have sworn upon the Holy Quran that I will stop smoking but I haven’t.</div><div align="left"><br />I have promised Allah Himself that I will not view pornographic sites and that I will never visit them again and that I will not watch those unclean movies that the west uses to kill our faith but I have broken my promise to Allah; My will has weakened to a level that nobody can imagine after I used to have strength in performance and the ability to change my personality and my way of life; </div><div align="left"><br />I have become a person who does not feel the pleasure of life even though I still maintain my soul and my rounds of vice, sins, lying, cheating; so how do I get rescued?</div><div align="left"><br />I want to know what religious people have known but what<br />I haven’t. I am sure that they know something I don’t know and don’t feel, so why? This is me so what do I do to benefit me, may Allah benefit you.<br /><br /></em><strong>Answer:</strong><br />In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. All praise be to Allah, and prayers and greetings upon our prophet Muhammad and his family and companions. </div><div align="center"><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;">The prophet (sallalahu alayhi wa sallm) said Allah will repent upon whoever repents before the sun rises from the west [reported by Muslim from the hadith of Abu Hurairah]</span></em></div><em><span style="color:#006600;"><div align="left"><br /></span></em>I have read your message, and I know that nothing prevents you from repenting, even if your sins reach the sky or fill the whole earth. As long as the human is in this life, the door of repentance is open. I have noted from your letter that you are living a battle between the call of faith in your heart, and the call of desire that is guided by Satan in your heart.</div><div align="left"><br />Praise be to Allah the Exalted who has retained in your heart some of the light of faith, which blames you for sins, and beautified good deeds to you.</div><div align="left"><br />But this light is weak, because the darkness of sins, which are the blowings of Satan, has weakened this light. This is why it sometimes shines, making your conscience awake a little, only to extinguish again and you return to committing sins.</div><div align="left"><br />I will clarify to you the illness that you are suffering from, then I will describe the treatment, so please read this with reflection and interest, may Allah benefit you from it.</div><div align="left"><br />Dear brother, the heart is the place of will in the human; sometimes it wants good, and sometimes evil, and the body parts are nothing but soldiers that obey the heart according to what it desires.</div><div align="left"><br />The difference between religious people and yourself is that the hearts of the former firmly want good, so their body parts obey this will and are thus persistent in obeying Allah the Exalted. As for yourself, your heart knows good and evil, and differentiates between good and bad deeds, but it cannot want good, so you find that it wants desires even though it knows they will harm it, so it commands the body parts so they obey it, but what is the reason?.</div><div align="left"><br />The reason is that the hearts that are immune to Satan easily want to do good because these hearts are healthy and strong. On the other hand, in hearts that Satan can enter and wonder in freely, Satan can easily achieve making the heart want sins, after he has made them look attractive to the heart, because the latter is ill and full of satanic germs.</div><div align="left"><br /> For some people, Satan only briefly enters their hearts owing to the strong immunity surrounding them. For example, those who commit minor sins then quickly repent from them, and those are the ones about whom Allah (SWT) has said (interpretation of the meaning):</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"><em> {The pious ones, when a visitation from Satan afflicts them they become mindful, then lo! they see.}. </em></span></div><div align="left"><br />There are some people whom Satan never comes close to their hearts, as they are like the sky, which is guarded from devils by flames; likewise their hearts are guarded from devils. </div><div align="center"><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;">The Prophet (PBUH) has said about this heart white like a smooth rock not harmed by temptation as long as the heavens and earth exist [reported by Muslim from the hadith of Huzaifah (RAA)].</span></em> </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">Satan has entered the hearts of other people and has dwelled there and created a nest for himself in which he lays his eggs and hatches them. So he has controlled these hearts, commanding them to do forbidden desires, so their hearts want these desires and command their body parts to commit them and they indeed do that. This is because Satan has found hearts that have no immunity, their doors open, weak and ill owing to committing sins, and this is why Allah the Exalted has said about this type (interpretation of the meaning)</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="center"> <em><span style="color:#006600;">{Satan has gained the mastery over them, so he has made them forget the remembrance of Allah}. </span></em></div><em><span style="color:#006600;"><div align="left"><br /></span></em>Because the zikr (remembrance) of Allah is immunity from Satan, Satan has made them forget it in order to control and drive their hearts, which their body parts will then follow.</div><div align="left"><br />The heart is not immunized from Satan except with the zikr of Allah the Exalted, and it does not have the strength to want good except by doing good deeds. </div><div align="left"><br />Satan does not defeat the heart unless it is inattentive of the zikr of<br />Allah the Exalted and weak because of committing sins and vice.</div><div align="left"><br />And now, after you have known the reason why your heart does not obey you in wanting to do good and avoid sins, and cannot preserve its righteousness, the treatment is in the following medical prescription. Take it and maintain it as its results are guaranteed -Allah willing - if you persevere it honestly:<br /><br />1. Maintain the five prayers in congregation, especially the fajr prayer and never miss it. Allah the<br />Exalted says {and the fajr reading, for the fajr reading is witnessed} i.e. the fajr prayer is witnessed by angels.</div><div align="left"><br />2. After the fajr prayer remain in the mosque to read the Quran until sunrise, and then offer 2 rakas 10 minutes after sunrise.</div><div align="left"><br />3. Say subhan Allah wa bi hamdih (may Allah be glorified and praised) one hundred times a day at any time in the mosque or house, whether walking, sitting, in the car, etc. This zikr wipes out sins.</div><div align="left"><br />4. Ask forgiveness of Allah one hundred times each day, saying astaghfirullah wa atoobu ilayh (I ask forgiveness of Allah and I repent to Him), once again at any time you wish and in whatever condition you are in.</div><div align="left"><br />5. Say this zikr: la ilaha illa Allahu wahdahu la sharika lah, lahulmulku wa lahulhamdu wa howa ala kul shayin qadeer (there is no god but Allah; He has no partner; He has the possession and praise, and He is capable of everything) one hundred times each day at any time you wish and in whatever condition you are in. It doesn’t necessarily have to be said in the mosque. The prophet (PBUH) maintained these zikrs, as they are the life of the heart and its indispensable nutrition.</div><div align="left"><br />6. Between Maghrib and Ishaa remain in the mosque and do not leave it, and recite as much as you can of the Quran while concentrating.<br /><br />7. You should totally avoid watching TV and reading magazines, and going to places where there is vice, as you are in quarantine in order to restore health to your heart, and the medicine (good deeds) will not benefit you if you induce disease (sins) into your heart during the treatment period.</div><div align="left"><br />8. Continue this program for at least a month: living with the Quran reciting it with consideration, and acting upon what is in it; spending time alone for long hours for the zikr of Allah the Exalted. The proof of doing this for a month is that the </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">Prophet (sallalahu alayhi wa sallm) ordered that by saying “Recite the Quran in a month, in 25 days, in 10 days, in 7 days” [Bukhari & Muslim from the hadith of Ibn Omar].</span></em></div><div align="left"><br />9. If the environment in which you live does not support you in applying this program then change this environment: abandon bad friends, and avoid places in which you spend your free time if they encourage you to commit sins, and if you can travel to Makkah for example to follow this program then do it.</div><div align="left"><br />10. Donate part of your money as a form of repentance to Allah the Exalted, as secret charities are seen only by Allah the Exalted. In the authentic hadith </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">“Secret charities extinguish the anger of the Lord”</span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;"> [narrated by ibn Hibban from the hadith of Anas].</span></em></div><div align="left"><br />11. Try to perform umrah with the intention of renewing your faith and cleansing your past with the water of this blessed trip. </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">The Prophet (sallalahu alyhi wa sallm) said A umrah causes forgiving of sins since the previous umrah, and an accepted hajj has no reward other than paradise </span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">[Bukhari & Muslim from the hadith of Abu Hurairah (RAA)].</span></em></div><div align="left"><br />12. If you owe anything to others return everything, and do not retain anything you will be accounted for, as a form of repentance to Allah.</div><div align="left"><br />13. Ask Allah every night during the sahar (prior to fajr) with this supplication <em><span style="color:#006600;">Rabbi inni zalamtu nafsi zulman kathiran wa la yaghfir uzunuba illa Ant, faghfir lee maghfiratan min indik warhamni, inaka Anta Alghafoor Urraheem (My Lord, I have oppressed myself a lot and only You forgive sins, so forgive me a forgiveness from You and have mercy upon me, You are Most Forgiving, Most Merciful),</span></em> and also <em><span style="color:#006600;">Allahuma alhimni rushdi wa qini shar nafsi(O Allah, grant me my the right way and protect me from the evil of myself),</span></em> as the Prophet (sallalahu alyhi wa sallm) taught these two to some of his companions.</div><div align="left"><br />In addition, perform a lot of istighfar and supplication, as the sahar is a time of acceptance of supplication.</div><div align="left"><br />This is your prescription, and one month is not necessarily the period required, as change might appear on you before that, or you might need more than a month in this quarantine. The goal is to expel Satan from the heart and clean his traces and dirt and the filth that he has placed there, as this is the reason behind the weakness of your heart and its incapability of wanting good and doing good deeds, and its quickness to follow desires.</div><div align="left"><br />So if health returns to your heart and you become fit and strong when it comes to the zikr of Allah the Exalted, immune from the cunningness of Satan, then you may slightly reduce this program to the extent that you can withstand, as the</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="center"> P<em><span style="color:#006600;">rophet (sallalahu alayhi wa sallm) said “You should do what you can withstand”</span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;"> [Bukhari & Muslim from the hadith of Aisha (RAA)],</span></em></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">unless you can withstand more than this, for in this case you should increase doing good as long as your heart loves good deeds. </div><div align="left"><br />These faithful duties are the levels as considered by Allah: the more a servant does, s/he ascends in the levels of piety. The best things to perform are what Allah has prescribed upon you (obligatory forms of worship). You will notice that things have changed in a surprising manner, as long as you maintain the prescription I have given you, and you will find yourself hating to commit sins and your heart not wanting them, looking at them with inferiority and disdain. You will also like good deeds and feel enthusiastic about them, and feel their good taste in your heart. The secret behind this change is that you have treated you heart with the zikr of Allah the Exalted and good deeds until your heart has become healthy wanting good and loving it after it was ill, wanting evil and sins and loving them. </div><div align="left">Allah, the Truth and Exalted says (interpretation of the meaning) </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">{but Allah has endeared the faith to you and has made it seemly in your hearts, and He has made hateful to you unbelief and transgression and disobedience; those are the followers of the right way).</span></em></div><em><span style="color:#006600;"><div align="left"><br /></span></em><br />By grace from Allah and as a favor; and Allah is Most Knowing, Most Wise and Allah knows best<br /><br />Sh. Hamed ibn Abdullah Al-Ali, who loves good for You. </div>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-63591141714857505952007-12-26T07:48:00.001-08:002007-12-26T07:50:29.015-08:00Tawheed for Children: (Level One) Knowing ALLAH<a href="http://www.understand-islam.net/Books/TawheedforChildren.pdf">http://www.understand-islam.net/Books/TawheedforChildren.pdf</a>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-60499114597958239532007-12-26T07:44:00.000-08:002007-12-26T07:47:39.448-08:00Interview with Umm ‘Abdullaah Wife of Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih Al-'Uthaimeen (rahimahullaah)<a href="http://www.understand-islam.net/Articles/InterviewwithSh.Uthaimeen-swife.pdf">http://www.understand-islam.net/Articles/InterviewwithSh.Uthaimeen-swife.pdf</a>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-56201444682923035542007-12-21T01:04:00.000-08:002007-12-21T01:14:27.627-08:00Scientific Proofs From the Quran about Creation<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRSzSmS6WPF-Mp_FhcAwhDxPdhGdYEMZ2qOChuzKnVPLd5UBZ-AdzPsLis-OqsLTti7xfntaXhjviufHflwSgtWDQIGGXtzUKlKJHEqa6-G5PjMFvzIWvYaJBpGkK-0BA4_pyRzWGRrOc/s1600-h/078.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146349650320594434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRSzSmS6WPF-Mp_FhcAwhDxPdhGdYEMZ2qOChuzKnVPLd5UBZ-AdzPsLis-OqsLTti7xfntaXhjviufHflwSgtWDQIGGXtzUKlKJHEqa6-G5PjMFvzIWvYaJBpGkK-0BA4_pyRzWGRrOc/s400/078.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong>Thought #1:</strong> "A century ago, the creation of the universe was a concept that astronomers as a rule ignored. The reason was the general acceptance of the idea that the universe existed in infinite time. Examining the universe, scientists supposed that it was just a conglomeration of matter and imagined that it had no beginning. There was no moment of "creation"–a moment when the universe and everything in it came into being. "</div><div align="left"><br /><em><span style="color:#663366;">Ponder This: Who or what created that matter, how did that matter come into being? Who or what created the supposed infinite time? How can an “object” like matter not be a created item? And lastly, if this was how the universe “came about”, this matter and infinite time had all the power of creation within itself, if this were the case, where did this infinite time and matter get this power to create from and how did it decide when to create our universe without intelligent thought?</span><br /></em><br /><strong>Thought #2:</strong><a name="3."></a> "The universe was not a created object, if it were, then it would have to be created instantaneously by God and brought into existence from nothing. To admit creation, one has to admit, in the first place, the existence of a moment when the universe did not exist, and that something came out of nothingness. This is something to which science can not accede. <a href="http://www.creationofuniverse.com/html/bigbang_01.html#3#3">2</a>"<br /><br /><span style="color:#663366;"><em>Ponder This: Can scientists prove with “all their abundance of knowledge” that there is no God? Many scientists chose to ignore the belief of God because it is the one thing that they have NO explanation for!<br /></em><br /></span><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;"></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">"He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth." </span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">(The Qur'an, 6:101)<br /><br />"And it is We who have constructed the heaven with might, and verily, it is We who are steadily expanding it." </span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">(The Qur'an, 51:47)</span></em></div><div align="center"><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;">"Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before We clove them asunder, and We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?"</span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">(The Qur'an, 21:30)</span></em></div><div align="center"><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;">"It is He Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. They swim along, each in an orbit. " </span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">(The Qur'an, 21:33)</span></em></div><div align="center"><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;">"And the sun runs to its resting place. That is the decree of the Almighty, the All-Knowing. " (The Qur'an, 36:38)</span></em></div><div align="center"><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;">"By the sky full of paths and orbits." </span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">(The Qur'an, 51:7)</span></em></div><div align="center"><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;">"He has created the Heavens and the Earth for Truth. He wraps the night up in the day, and wraps the day up in the night." </span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">(The Qur'an, 39:5)</span></em></div><div align="center"><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;">"By Heaven with its cyclical systems." </span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">(The Qur'an, 86:11)</span></em></div><div align="center"><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;">"We made the sky a preserved and protected roof yet still they turn away from Our Signs.." </span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">(The Qur'an, 21:32)</span></em></div><div align="center"><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;">"It is He Who created everything on the earth for you and then directed His attention up to heaven and arranged it into seven regular heavens. He has knowledge of all things."</span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">(The Qur'an, 2:29)</span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;"></span></em></div><div align="left"><br />If we count the number of layers cited in this source, we see that the atmosphere consists of exactly seven layers, just as stated in the verse.<br />1. Troposphere<br />2. Stratosphere<br />3. Ozonosphere<br />4. Mesosphere<br />5. Thermosphere<br />6. Ionosphere<br />7. Exosphere</div><div align="left"><br /><em><span style="color:#663366;">SUBHNALLAH…..how could the Prophet Mohammed (sallalahu alayhi wasallm) have known this all by himself!</span></em></div><em><div align="left"><br /><span style="color:#663366;">How could the Quran then not be considered TRUTH.</span></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="color:#663366;">What HUMAN in the time of the Prophet Mohammed (sallalahu alayhi wasallm) or any time before that have known that the atmosphere had 7 layers! </span></div><div align="center"><br /></em></div><br /><br /><span style="color:#006600;">"Then He turned to heaven when it was smoke. In two days He determined them as seven heavens and revealed, in every heaven, its own mandate."</span> <div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span><span style="color:#006600;">(The Qur'an, 41:12)</span></div><span style="color:#006600;"><div align="left"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><em><span style="color:#663366;">Ponder these verses…Research on Science and the Universe and Look to the explanation of the Verses from the Quran which pertain to this matter.<br /><br />The Quran itself tells us to Ponder its verses…</span></em> <div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#006600;">"Do they not reflect upon the Qur'an? Or are there locks upon their hearts?" </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">(Quran 47:24).</span></div><span style="color:#006600;"><div align="center"><br />"Indeed, in the skies and the earth...are signs for people who reason"</div><div align="center">(Quran 2:164)</div><div align="center"><br />"Most surely in the creation of the skies and the earth...are signs for people who understand, those who remember Allah...and who ponder the creation..." </div><div align="center">(Quran 3:190-1)</div><div align="center"><br />"Thus does Allah clarify for you the verses, so that you may think" </div><div align="center">(Quran 2:219)</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">"Do they not ponder the Qur'an?" (Quran 47:24)</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">For more in depth info on this topic go to:</span></strong></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.creationofuniverse.com/index.html">http://www.creationofuniverse.com/index.html</a></span></div>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-72607636668963669522007-12-19T07:29:00.000-08:002007-12-19T09:16:18.422-08:00Muslims, Tell me whats wrong with these pictures.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisuk8u2GDIvNi0iG_WE2kqkHwsfk2KaoQcpvPgj5SrwwntWodY5ga3BUqiwr_y3bA_NGKbeW48uZax17hy4kohqIE1i4XKg0OMHEmasKrTb7cocYx0yaKTIXQcu37-qWgUU6ccTA7Y4vI/s1600-h/DSC06022-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145707797522978258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisuk8u2GDIvNi0iG_WE2kqkHwsfk2KaoQcpvPgj5SrwwntWodY5ga3BUqiwr_y3bA_NGKbeW48uZax17hy4kohqIE1i4XKg0OMHEmasKrTb7cocYx0yaKTIXQcu37-qWgUU6ccTA7Y4vI/s400/DSC06022-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNJIbsjTSOl3MsJOo3iBGyOCj_H_-cNmJgX8t_EFhVGRb7v9NIT-9UgAz82wGO2PuUWtgB9Y-VnR3WjlP1WRTwTM4GSWEFU4VoQuRSOa1aGoAgeyl5Fh0vZzF7wGWcSWS0nk_EUrx8DA/s1600-h/DSC06020-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145707325076575650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNJIbsjTSOl3MsJOo3iBGyOCj_H_-cNmJgX8t_EFhVGRb7v9NIT-9UgAz82wGO2PuUWtgB9Y-VnR3WjlP1WRTwTM4GSWEFU4VoQuRSOa1aGoAgeyl5Fh0vZzF7wGWcSWS0nk_EUrx8DA/s400/DSC06020-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTlxeHdxBgWD0dQ7JtW12qgiTT5HDFdQeGUmMe4u-BP9VGpLgo4lo6eyRTv_FwjXkaZOOWmpINzLLeRCuHbtH0pKQQNXiXDneL9koDm_KU88KnMoUM07q9iHQA_rP22ip20KVtFetCezs/s1600-h/DSC06023-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145707329371542962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTlxeHdxBgWD0dQ7JtW12qgiTT5HDFdQeGUmMe4u-BP9VGpLgo4lo6eyRTv_FwjXkaZOOWmpINzLLeRCuHbtH0pKQQNXiXDneL9koDm_KU88KnMoUM07q9iHQA_rP22ip20KVtFetCezs/s400/DSC06023-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Prophet Mohammed(sallalahu alayhi wa sallm) said that : Let the knives be sharpened and concealed from the animals and whenever you do the sticking, it should be quick. </span></strong></div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">I have asked for guidance concerning these above pictures and the lawfullness of this situation. I am waiting on a response, when I get it inshallah I will post it here.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Until then, I leave you with this thought: I feel we have a need to pray for guideance of the Muslim Ummah more than ever before....</p><div align="center"><br /></div></span></strong><div align="center"></div>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-51378765289877496662007-12-18T07:16:00.000-08:002007-12-18T07:26:40.107-08:00Super Rich mistake!<em></em>"Objects of desire: Millionaire fair<br /><br />XPRESS<br /><a href="http://www.xpress4me.com/myxpress/blogs/mustseemustdo/20004683.html">http://www.xpress4me.com/myxpress/blogs/mustseemustdo/20004683.html</a><br /><br />Dubai’s first-ever Millionaire Fair is an exclusive event for the region’s elite and the super rich.<br />A Dh5.4 million bottle of Tequila Ley 925 (see below) – the most expensive in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records – will be the highlight of the Millionaire Fair, which is all set to dazzle the region’s aficionados and followers of luxury.<br />The three-day event is expected to bring together key players from the "industry of opulence" and offer the finest luxury products from the world over.<br /><br />Where: International Marine Club, Dubai<br />When: December 15 to 17 "<br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;">Because this is what a millionare from this part of the world would want to see? hummmm...</span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;"><strong>A 5.4 million dirham bottle of Tequila is being shown as the "highlight" of an event for the super rich in a MUSLIM country.</strong></span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;"></span></em><br /><br /><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;"><strong>What did I miss here???</strong> </span></em></div><em><span style="color:#006600;"></span></em><br /><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;"></span></em>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-58632527147109557192007-12-18T02:07:00.000-08:002007-12-18T02:21:13.213-08:00<div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color:#009900;"><em>Our Lord! Forgive us our sins and efface our bad deeds and take our souls in the company of the righteous (Quran 3:193)</em>. </span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#009900;">-------</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#009900;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#009900;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#006600;">Ya Muqallib al-Quloob Thabbit Qalbi 'Ala Deenika wa ya Musarrifal Quloob Sarrif Qalbi Ela Ta'atika.</span></div><div align="center"><em><span style="font-size:180%;color:#006600;">-------</span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="font-size:180%;color:#006600;"></span></em> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#006600;"><em>(O, Controller of Hearts, make firm my heart in your faith in your worship. O, Holder of Hearts, turn my heart to Your obedience.)</em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div><div align="center"> </div>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-81802386824080223722007-12-14T13:29:00.000-08:002007-12-14T13:42:23.187-08:00Rain by Design<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56XVfoDTfmNYhWOREE-oNwbuSnPUo8CIBRwqysDlNiwD6-S7lxH084jlF67PnQMaHFiWoTxAZ-YgnTA7w7alTFVTdufMrr9JoZRQYf3xtF_ViurzdG8oSKzV_eDfVMxQ1bXAn3tRDe3U/s1600-h/Satellite.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143946646165665666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56XVfoDTfmNYhWOREE-oNwbuSnPUo8CIBRwqysDlNiwD6-S7lxH084jlF67PnQMaHFiWoTxAZ-YgnTA7w7alTFVTdufMrr9JoZRQYf3xtF_ViurzdG8oSKzV_eDfVMxQ1bXAn3tRDe3U/s400/Satellite.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><br /><strong>Rain by Design </strong></div><br /><div align="center"><br /><strong>By </strong><a class="Author" href="http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1157365857578&pagename=Zone-English-HealthScience%2FHSELayout#**1"><strong>Harun Yahya </strong></a></div><br /><div><br />Rain is indeed one of the most important factors for the permanence of life on earth. It is a prerequisite for the continuation of activity in a region. Rain, which carries great importance for all living things, including human beings, is mentioned in various verses of the Qur’an, where substantial information is given about the formation of rain, its proportion and effects. This information, which never could have been known by the people of the time, shows us that the Qur’an is the word of God. </div><br /><div><br />Now, let us examine the information given in the Qur’an about rain.</div><br /><div align="center"><br /><strong>The Proportion of Rain</strong></div><br /><div><br />In the eleventh verse of Surat az-Zukhruf, rain is defined as water sent down in “due measure”. The verse is as follows:</div><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#009900;">{He sends down (from time to time) water from the sky in due measure, and We raise to life therewith a land that is dead. Even so will you be raised (from the dead)} (43: 11)</span></div><br /><div><br />This “measure” mentioned in the verse has to do with a couple of characteristics of rain. First of all, the amount of rain that falls on the earth is always the same. It is estimated that in one second, 16 million tons of water evaporate from the earth. This number is equal to the amount of water that drops on the earth in one second. This means that water continuously circulates in a balanced cycle according to a “measure”.</div><br /><div><br />Another measure related with rain is about its falling speed. The minimum altitude of rain clouds is 1,200 meters. When dropped from this height, an object having the same weight and size as a rain drop, would continuously accelerate and fall on the ground with a speed of 558 km/h. Certainly, any object that hits the ground with that speed would cause great damage. If rain happened to fall in the same way, all harvested lands would be destroyed, residential areas, houses, and cars would be damaged, and people would not be able to walk around without taking extra precautions. What is more, these calculations are made just for clouds at a height of 1,200 meters; there are also rain clouds at altitudes of 10,000 meters. A raindrop falling from such a height could normally reach a very destructive speed.</div><br /><div><br />But this is not how it works; no matter from what height they fall, the average speed of raindrops is only 8-10 km/h when they reach the ground. The reason for this is the special form they take. This special form increases the friction effect of the atmosphere and prevents acceleration when the raindrops reach a certain speed “limit”. (Today parachutes are designed by using this technique.)</div><br /><div><br />This is not all about the “measures” of rain. For instance, in the atmospheric layers where it starts to rain, the temperature may fall as low as 400 °C below zero. Despite this, raindrops never turn into ice particles. (This would certainly mean a fatal threat to the living things on earth.) The reason is that the water in the atmosphere is pure water. As is well known, pure water hardly freezes even at very low temperatures.</div><br /><div align="center"><br /><strong>The Formation of Rain</strong></div><strong></strong><br /><div align="left"><br />Raindrops fall on the ground with a speed of 558 km/h. Any object that hits the ground with that speed would cause great damage.</div><br /><div><br />How rain forms remained a great mystery for people for a long time. Only after weather radar was invented, was it possible to discover the stages by which rain is formed.<br />The formation of rain takes place in three stages. First, the “raw material” of rain rises up into the air. Later clouds are formed. Finally, raindrops appear.</div><br /><div><br />These stages were clearly defined in the Qur’an centuries ago where precise information is given about the formation of rain:</div><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#009900;">{It is God Who sends the Winds, and they raise the Clouds: then does He spread them in the sky as He wills, and break them into fragments, until you see rain-drops issue from the midst thereof: then when He has made them reach such of his servants as He wills, behold, they do rejoice!} (30: 48)</span></div><br /><div><br />Now, let us look at the three stages mentioned in the verse:</div><br /><div><br /><em>1st Stage:</em> <span style="color:#009900;">{It is God Who sends the winds...}</span></div><br /><div><br />Countless air bubbles formed by the foaming in the oceans continuously burst and cause water particles to be ejected towards the sky. These particles, which are rich in salt, are then carried away by winds and move upwards in the atmosphere. These particles, which are called aerosols, form clouds by collecting around themselves the water vapor, which again ascends from the seas, as tiny drops by a mechanism called “water trap”.</div><br /><div><br /><em>2nd Stage:</em> <span style="color:#009900;">{...and they raise the Clouds: then does He spread them in the sky as He wills, and break them into fragments...}</span></div><br /><div><br />The clouds form from the water vapor that condenses around the salt crystals or the dust particles in the air. Because the water drops in these are very small (with a diameter between 0.01 and 0.02 mm), the clouds are suspended in the air and they spread in the sky. Thus, the sky is covered with clouds.</div><br /><div><br /><em>3rd Stage:</em> <span style="color:#009900;">{...until you see rain-drops issue from the midst thereof}</span></div><br /><div><br />Water particles that surround salt crystals and dust particles thicken and form raindrops. So the drops, which become heavier than air, depart from the clouds and start to fall on the ground as rain.</div><br /><div><br />Every stage in the formation of rain is told in the verses of the Qur’an. Furthermore, these stages are explained in the right sequence. Just as with many other natural phenomena in the world, it is again the Qur’an that provides the most correct explanation about this phenomenon, and more, it has announced these facts to people centuries before they were discovered by science.</div><br /><div align="center"><br /><strong>Life Given to a Dead Land</strong><br /><br /></div><br /><div align="left">In the Qur’an, many verses call our attention to a particular function of rain, which is <span style="color:#009900;">{giving life to a dead land}</span><span style="color:#000000;">:</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="color:#009900;">{We send down pure water from the sky. That with it We may give life to a dead land, and slake the thirst of many beings We have created, beasts as well as humans} (25: 48- 49)</span></div><br /><div><br />In addition to furnishing the earth with water, which is an inevitable need of living beings, rain also has a fertilization effect.</div><br /><div><br />Raindrops that reach the clouds after being evaporated from the seas, contain certain substances<span style="color:#009900;"> {that will give life}</span> to a dead land. These “life-giving” drops are called “surface tension drops”. Surface tension drops form on the top level of the sea surface, which is called the “micro layer” by biologists. In this layer, which is thinner than one tenth of a millimeter, there are many organic leftovers caused by the pollution of microscopic algae and zooplankton. Some of these leftovers select and collect within themselves some elements that are very rare in seawater, such as phosphorus, magnesium, potassium and some heavy metals like copper, zinc, cobalt and lead. These “fertilizer”-laden drops are lifted up into the sky by the winds and after awhile they drop on the ground inside the raindrops. Seeds and plants on the earth find numerous metallic salts and elements essential for their growth here in these raindrops. This event is revealed in another verse of the Qur’an:</div><br /><div><br /><span style="color:#009900;">{And We send down from the sky rain laden with blessing, and We produce therewith gardens and grain for harvests} (50: 9)</span></div><br /><div><br />Salts that fall with rain are small examples of certain elements (calcium, magnesium, potassium, etc.) used for increasing fertility. The heavy metals found in these types of aerosols are other elements that increase fertility in the development and production of plants.</div><br /><div><br />A barren land can be furnished with all the essential elements for plants in a 100-year period just with these fertilizers dropped with the rain. Forests also develop and are fed with the help of these sea-based aerosols. In this way, 150 million tons of fertilizer falls on the total land surface every year. If there were no natural fertilization like this, there would be very little vegetation on the earth, and the ecological balance would be impaired.</div><br /><div align="center"><br /><strong><em>What is more interesting is that this truth, which could only be discovered by modern science, was revealed by God in the Qur’an centuries ago.</em></strong></div><br /><div><br /><a name="**1"><em><span style="color:#999999;">Harun Yahya is the author, who writes under the pen name Harun Yahya, was born in Ankara in 1956. He studied arts at Istanbul's Mimar Sinan University and philosophy at Istanbul University. Since the 1980s, the author has published many books on political, faith-related and scientific issues. Harun Yahya is well known as an author who has written very important works disclosing the imposture of evolutionists, the invalidity of their claims and the dark liaisons between Darwinism and bloody ideologies. Some of the books of the author have been translated into English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Albanian, Arabic, Polish, Russian, Bosnian, Indonesian, Turkish, Tatar, Urdu and Malay and published in the countries concerned. Harun Yahya's books appeal to all people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, regardless of their age, race and nationality, as they center around one goal: to open the readers' mind by presenting the sign's of God's eternal existence to them.</span></em></a></div><br /><div><em><span style="color:#999999;">Please visit : </span></em><a href="http://www.harunyahya.com/" target="_blank"><em><span style="color:#999999;"><strong>www.harunyahya.com</strong></span></em></a><em><span style="color:#999999;"> e-mail : </span></em><a href="mailto:info@harunyahya.com"><em><span style="color:#999999;"><strong>info@harunyahya.com</strong></span></em></a><em><span style="color:#999999;"> </span></em></div>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-82644294089497181282007-12-12T11:00:00.000-08:002007-12-12T11:44:42.624-08:00A MUST View!!!<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4jQi0Gjy3M">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4jQi0Gjy3M</a><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/F4jQi0Gjy3M&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F4jQi0Gjy3M&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-71867558135868805402007-12-08T09:48:00.000-08:002007-12-08T10:07:39.780-08:00Random Thoughts<span style="color:#660000;">-So an American presidential candidate was giving a speech on why he would make a good president, <em>he says to the audience that he will not base any presidential decisions on his own religion or anyone else's religion for the matter, no matter what church they come from...</em></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;"></span><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#660000;">ERM, do you see the most ignorant idiotic mistake I do in that comment!</span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#660000;">Yikes , no wonder he doesn't have enough supporters!</span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong></strong> </div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;">-Just because a person wants to follow their religion 100 percent to their ability doesn't make them a fanatic...Why do something half way, especially when its what you base you <strong>whole life</strong> on! </span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="color:#330099;">-Why do some people cover their awrah for prayer only, and not when they are in public?!?!?</span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="color:#cc0000;">-No matter what status level of life you grew up on you should always have patience and respect for other people. A poor person who is humble is more honorable and noble than a rich man whose ignorant!</span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="color:#330033;">-I learned this weekend that people should think about what they want to say before they speak, although i knew that already, i really understood it this weekend when i heard someone put their foot in their mouth more than once</span>.</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000099;">-I also observed over the weekend something I see alot: A Muslim who thinks that they know everything their is to know about Islam and they think you don't know anything like them....</span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000099;"></span> </div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#000099;">HELLO! We NEVER know enough! Its not a competition people!</span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong></strong> </div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#006600;">My BIGGEST lesson I learned was that sometimes you have to keep you mouth shut and not comment on other peoples ignorance, because they don't hear you say anything once they've said what they want to say. You could say it 12 times and they will still repeat their sentence to you! Alot of people only hear what they want to and they don't open their minds to the fact that you might be right and they wrong!</span></em></strong></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> </div>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-9757639317052416392007-12-03T09:03:00.000-08:002007-12-03T09:13:42.367-08:00Help Needed!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbDL6rsWpy0rv7oV-uqpOvQA4HUVSty3w40jKnAk3CqxtMhkmgBtqG3O_vi7qy9ygXIgS_OYewxTEqiqzZywRNyDblwNn-norxECqdZlq_G6J8gLJEJSiuCIpZ6Xj8n7uh5vtASkrZjKc/s1600-r/hello+kitty.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139795863410197634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM-QGnke-azvZNwl3RMfeL4rS7XNc1zzjOWWUaz9PWVDQpOo8GyyQW52-IuQqcJ1AHGyXid9xZQZUVfUqcrwuP7gvYv2LP4zTDE6aTCNUPMISNZ-T37CC6Gh94gmD_3cRRQRjy1x0BO_w/s400/hello+kitty.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#000000;">Salam Alaykum Readers :)</span></em></div><br /><div><em></em></div><br /><div><em></em></div><br /><div align="center"><em><strong>I have a dilemma that I need help with.</strong> </em></div><br /><div><em></em></div><br /><div align="center"><em>If anyone of you who reads this blog is a Muslim with some knowledge or even an opinion on "The lawfullness of spaying/neutering animals(specifically cats and dogs)" in Islam, please email me with your advice or any info you could point me to. Id like to see what other peoples opinions are on this issue. I will, inshallah, have the chance later in the year to conduct some classes on Islamic Animal Rights and Proper care for household pets, so I would be so grateful for help in this topic! </em></div>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-34955018799099398432007-11-29T23:25:00.000-08:002007-11-30T00:01:12.574-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj672umgu2FTXXzIGnOLMXbEXb2AXJF9NkI1Lu-Fg6fuA6zCNKqyGdViqCwAGx9U5YEVCWXwFqS8LWcAeaal2LiXKAQ0LFTvMZIGGxPUZo8QnHu_WGCB9PHYkVB9L8biS4Jp_7zCNERUc/s1600-r/DSC05732-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138540323712501762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtl87Q5-AQqXR_tGQ5EvI8__W2zQQqZdWwGmkULtB9E3uQ3VwWZ71CXRgAjZRyAppzxxZ3IAiChfgX4xeR0-CvXOWq9kJ6e-iSSgqWSEbxLLVv4wloNKncgbi5wnPgwAwmK2_gD1yNSTE/s400/DSC05732-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">"AHAD!" </span></div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center"><em>By Waleed Gubara</em></div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">Why shed these tears of sorrow? </div><br /><div align="center">Why shed these tears of grief? </div><br /><div align="center">Ya nafsy how soon you forget, </div><br /><div align="center">After trials come sweet relief</div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">Why turn you from Ar-Rahman? </div><br /><div align="center">Why yearn for a listening friend? </div><br /><div align="center">Ya nafsy, do you not remember, </div><br /><div align="center">On ALLAH, you must depend? </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">Read you not those stories, </div><br /><div align="center">of the trials in days gone by, </div><br /><div align="center">Of the Sahabi beloved by Allah, </div><br /><div align="center">Who for Allah's cause did strive? </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">Why loosen your hold upon him? </div><br /><div align="center">Why fling away, His outstretched Hand?</div><br /><div align="center">Ya nafsy, do you not remember, </div><br /><div align="center">Bilal's sabr on the blazing sand? </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">"Ahad! Ahad!" He cried, </div><br /><div align="center">While his flesh did drip and burn.</div><br /><div align="center">"Ahad! Ahad!" He cried, </div><br /><div align="center">To Allah alone he turned. </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">Forget you the firmness of Hamza, </div><br /><div align="center">As the gleaming swords did fall? </div><br /><div align="center">With Sabr he turned to Allah, </div><br /><div align="center">as the qureish did slice and maul. </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">Why drown in salty teardrops? </div><br /><div align="center">How can you dare compare your pain? </div><br /><div align="center">To that of Yasir and Summayah, </div><br /><div align="center">As the lay tortured on the scorching plain? </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">Forget you the charring of Khabbab,</div><br /><div align="center">As on burning coals he lay? </div><br /><div align="center">Ya nafsy how meager your suffering,</div><br /><div align="center">Wherefore do you lose your way? </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">Why befriend you not Al-Wali? </div><br /><div align="center">Why not in Salat to Him complain? </div><br /><div align="center">Like Job who only to Allah, </div><br /><div align="center">Turned in all his grief and pain? </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">Forget you those trials in this life, </div><br /><div align="center">Cleanse your heart and make it clean?</div><br /><div align="center">Ya nafsy, why all this sadness? </div><br /><div align="center">Do you not wish your heart to gleam? </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">Be patient in all your hardships, </div><br /><div align="center">Allah hears your cries of woe. </div><br /><div align="center">So trust Him and His hikma, </div><br /><div align="center">For He knows best and you don't know. </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">So tighten your hold upon him, </div><br /><div align="center">Lest He withdraw His outstretched Hand! </div><br /><div align="center">And remember the example of Bilal, </div><br /><div align="center">As he lay anchored on the blazing sand. </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">"Ahad! Ahad!" he cried, </div><br /><div align="center">While his flesh did drip and burn.</div><br /><div align="center">"Ahad! Ahad!" he cried, </div><br /><div align="center">To Allah alone he turned. </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center"></div>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-24529969462188619402007-11-29T12:23:00.000-08:002007-11-29T13:09:19.136-08:00"A small part" of Womans' Rights in Islam<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqrBhIIIYZqH-_4eQyLuUlxoag4IDGj0jDwnkbbA2yGJnWZ2CS4HV1Lo1JKR0gm6AzOEfWjixgWxWuqxJfoebKRk5ylbhA0qMiFqnscExNqF12hAMS6YnMLRDVF8L9zwvVxHBXpu3qnIA/s1600-h/DSC05673-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138370260187449330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqrBhIIIYZqH-_4eQyLuUlxoag4IDGj0jDwnkbbA2yGJnWZ2CS4HV1Lo1JKR0gm6AzOEfWjixgWxWuqxJfoebKRk5ylbhA0qMiFqnscExNqF12hAMS6YnMLRDVF8L9zwvVxHBXpu3qnIA/s400/DSC05673-1.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"><strong>"…He created for you mates from among yourselves that you may dwell in tranquility with them, and He has put love and mercy between your hearts …"(Quran 30:21)</strong></span></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">_________________________________________________</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">"And they (women) have rights similar to those (of men) over them, and men are a degree above them." (Qur'an 2:228). </span></div><br /><br /><br /><em>Such degree is Quiwama (maintenance and protection). This refers to that natural difference between the sexes which entitles the weaker sex to protection. </em><br /><br /><em>It implies no superiority or advantage before the law. Yet, man's role of leadership in relation to his family does not mean the husband's dictatorship over his wife. Islam emphasizes the importance of taking counsel and mutual agreement in family decisions. </em><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">The Qur'an gives us an example:"...If they (husband wife) desire to wean the child by mutual consent and (after) consultation, there is no blame on them..." (Qur'an 2: 233).</span></div><br /><br /><br /><em>Over and above her basic rights as a wife comes the right which is emphasized by the Qur'an and is strongly recommended by the Prophet (P); kind treatment and companionship.</em><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">The Qur'an states:<br />"...But consort with them in kindness, for if you hate them it may happen that you hate a thing wherein God has placed much good." (Qur'an 4: l9). </span></div><br /><br /><br /><em>The Shari'ah regards women as the spiritual and intellectual equals of men. The main distinction it makes between them is in the physical realm based on the equitable principle of fair division of labor. It allots the more strenuous work to the man and makes him responsible for the maintenance of the family. It allots the work of managing the home and the upbringing and training of children to the woman, work which has the greatest importance in the task of building a healthy and prosperous society. </em><br /><br /><br /><em>It is a fact, however, that sound administration within the domestic field is impossible without a unified policy. For this reason the Shari'ah requires a man, as head of the family, to consult with his family and then to have the final say in decisions concerning it. In doing so he must not abuse his prerogative to cause any injury to his wife. Any transgression of this principle involves for him the risk of losing the favor of Allah, because his wife is not his subordinate but she is, to use the words of the Prophet (peace be upon him), 'the queen of her house', and this is the position a true believer is expected to give his wife.</em><br /><br /><em></em><br /><br /><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">"O you who believe! When you deal with each other in transactions involving future obligations in a fixed period of time, reduce them to writing. Let a scribe write down faithfully as between the parties: let not the scribe refuse to write: as Allah has taught him, so let him write. Let him who incurs the liability dictate, but let him fear his Lord, Allah, and not diminish aught of what he owes. If the party liable is mentally deficient, or weak, or unable himself to dictate, let his guardian dictate faithfully. And get two witnesses out of your own men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as you choose for witnesses so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her. The witnesses should not refuse when they are called on (for evidence). Disdain not to reduce to writing (your contract) for a future period, whether it be small or big: it is more just in the sight of Allah, more suitable as evidence, and more convenient to prevent doubts among yourselves, but if it be a transaction which you carry out on the spot among yourselves, there is no blame on you if you reduce it not to writing. But take witnesses whenever you make a commercial contract; and let neither scribe nor witness suffer harm. If you do (such harm), it would be wickedness in you. So fear Allah; for it is Allah that teaches you. And Allah is well acquainted with all things" </span></em></div><br /><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;">(Quran 2:282) </span></em></div><br /><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#006600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Nowhere in this above Ayah does it say that the reason it is "two females to one male" is because the Male's brain is bigger than the Females and therefore he is the smarter sex! This is nonsense! Women need to learn their rights within Islam so men cannot make them their personal slaves and baby machines...We as Muslims have rights given to us by Allah and men must be informed of these rights and we as women should use them...Never accept something you know is wrong...Pursue what is Islamically correct and never make yourself any ones slave. </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><blockquote><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><blockquote><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><blockquote><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><blockquote><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><blockquote><div align="center"><em><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>We are only Slaves to<br />Allah.</strong></span></em></div></blockquote></strong></span></em></div></blockquote></strong></span></em></div></blockquote></strong></span></em></div></blockquote></strong></span></em></div></blockquote></strong></span></em></div></div>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-41284278471282172007-11-28T12:39:00.000-08:002007-11-28T12:58:07.206-08:00The Quran on Human Embryonic Development<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJh4SUsr1SB3359ptkQ81U9FPgd1zolgB3YJUAApgiS78RSpfOqyMoO5Xif-c_AfQr4bUrxZlPDz-vMWZADSWOKZPuEvx76TCd_Ju23Nru4cpdBK5tYtTGAhaqrBAnvUKD1Q0TpLuJFFw/s1600-h/1.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137998054026610594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJh4SUsr1SB3359ptkQ81U9FPgd1zolgB3YJUAApgiS78RSpfOqyMoO5Xif-c_AfQr4bUrxZlPDz-vMWZADSWOKZPuEvx76TCd_Ju23Nru4cpdBK5tYtTGAhaqrBAnvUKD1Q0TpLuJFFw/s400/1.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"><strong>23:12</strong> </span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">NOW, INDEED, We create man out of the essence of clay,<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Walaqad</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">khalaqna</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">alinsana</span> min <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">sulalatin</span> min <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">teenin</span> </span></div><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#006600;">وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ مِن سُلَالَةٍ مِّن طِينٍ</span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"><strong>23:13</strong> </span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">and then We cause him to remain as a drop of sperm in [the wombs] firm keeping,</span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Thumma</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">jaAAalnahu</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">nutfatan</span> fee <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">qararin</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">makeenin</span> </span></div><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#006600;"><span style="font-size:130%;">ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَاهُ نُطْفَةً فِي قَرَارٍ مَّكِينٍ</span> </span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"><strong>23:14</strong></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">and then We create out of the drop of sperm a germ-cell, and then We create out of the germ-cell an embryonic lump, and then We create within the embryonic lump bones, and then We clothe the bones with flesh - and then We bring [all] this into being as a new creation:<br />hallowed, therefore, is God, the best of artisans!</span></div><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#006600;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Thumma</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">khalaqna</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">alnnutfata</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">AAalaqatan</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">fakhalaqna</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">alAAalaqata</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">mudghatan</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">fakhalaqna</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">almudghata</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">AAithaman</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">fakasawna</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">alAAithama</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">lahman</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">thumma</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">anshanahu</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">khalqan</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">akhara</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">fatabaraka</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Allahu</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">ahsanu</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">alkhaliqeena</span> </span></div><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#006600;">ثُمَّ خَلَقْنَا النُّطْفَةَ عَلَقَةً فَخَلَقْنَا الْعَلَقَةَ مُضْغَةً فَخَلَقْنَا الْمُضْغَةَ عِظَامًا فَكَسَوْنَا الْعِظَامَ لَحْمًا ثُمَّ أَنشَأْنَاهُ خَلْقًا آخَرَ فَتَبَارَكَ اللَّهُ أَحْسَنُ الْخَالِقِينَ </span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><br /><div align="center">The explanation of this and discussion can be found here:</div><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://theunjustmedia.com/Islam/Science/The%20quran%20on%20human%20embryonoic%20development.htm">http://theunjustmedia.com/Islam/Science/The%20quran%20on%20human%20embryonoic%20development.htm</a></div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">I strongly <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">recommend</span> you to ponder these <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">Ayats</span> from the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">Quran</span> and the lesson we can learn from it...</div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-43240137272237999092007-11-25T09:20:00.000-08:002007-11-25T10:25:53.689-08:00Fatimah Bint Muhammed<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwkqilO4Y1-PRCk382JK1pM6BlDS5mg_TAtoB1FMk6kmkaVCaFF0MW3Jl3oBrfetvyFQ96alnQefwYNIQZvFuwLal3QsVjwHz1aAPC67FVoVmwOjTnMUVTBcCdbpHbFpEfBpFrEta7U_w/s1600-h/themuslimwoman.org.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136844644766665202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwkqilO4Y1-PRCk382JK1pM6BlDS5mg_TAtoB1FMk6kmkaVCaFF0MW3Jl3oBrfetvyFQ96alnQefwYNIQZvFuwLal3QsVjwHz1aAPC67FVoVmwOjTnMUVTBcCdbpHbFpEfBpFrEta7U_w/s400/themuslimwoman.org.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Fatimah bint Muhammad (radiallaahu 'anhaa)</span></strong><br /></span><br /></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;"><span style="font-size:85%;">From Alim® Online</span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>Fatimah was the fifth child of Muhammad and Khadijah</strong>. She was born at a time when her noble father had begun to spend long periods in the solitude of mountains around Makkah, meditating and reflecting on the great mysteries of creation. This was the time, before the Bithah, when her eldest sister Zaynab was married to her cousin, al-Aas ibn ar Rabiah. Then followed the marriage of her two other sisters, Ruqayyah and Umm Kulthum, to the sons of Abu Lahab, a paternal uncle of the Prophet. Both Abu Lahab and his wife Umm Jamil turned out to be flaming enemies of the Prophet from the very beginning of his public mission.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The little Fatimah thus saw her sisters leave home one after the other to live with their husbands. She was too young to understand the meaning of marriage and the reasons why her sisters had to leave home. She loved them dearly and was sad and lonely whe n they left. It is said that a certain silence and painful sadness came over her then.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Of course, even after the marriage of her sisters, she was not alone in the house of her parents. Barakah, the maid-servant of Aminah, the Prophet's mother, who had been with the Prophet since his birth, Zayd ibn Harithah, and Ali, the young son of Abu Ta lib were all part of Muhammad's household at this time. And of course there was her loving mother, the lady Khadijah.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In her mother and in Barakah, Fatimah found a great deal of solace and comfort. in Ali, who was about two years older than she, she found a "brother" and a friend who somehow took the place of her own brother al-Qasim who had died in his infancy. Her other brother Abdullah, known as the Good and the Pure, who was born after her, also died in his infancy. However in none of the people in her father's household did Fatimah find the carefree joy and happiness which she enjoyed with her sisters. She was an unusually sensitive child for her age.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">When she was five, she heard that her father had become Rasul Allah, the Messenger of God. His first task was to convey the good news of Islam to his family and close relations. They were to worship God Almighty alone. Her mother, who was a tower of strength and support, explained to Fatimah what her father had to do. From this time on, she became more closely attached to him and felt a deep and abiding love for him. Often <strong>she would be at his side walking through the narrow streets and alleys of Makkah , visiting the Kabah or attending secret gatherings of the early Muslims who had accepted Islam and pledged allegiance to the Prophet.</strong></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><br /></strong>One day, when she was not yet ten, she accompanied her father to the Masjid al-Haram. He stood in the place known as al-Hijr facing the Kabah and began to pray. Fatimah stood at his side. A group of Quraysh, by no means well-disposed to the Prophet, gathe red about him. They included Abu Jahl ibn Hisham, the Prophet's uncle, Uqbah ibn Abi Muayt, Umayyah ibn Khalaf, and Shaybah and Utbah, sons of Rabi'ah. Menacingly, the group went up to the Prophet and Abu Jahl, the ringleader, asked:</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"Which of you can bring the entrails of a slaughtered animal and throw it on Muhammad?"</em></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Uqbah ibn Abi Muayt, one of the vilest of the lot, volunteered and hurried off. He returned with the obnoxious filth and threw it on the shoulders of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, while he was still prostrating. Abdullah ibn Masud, a companion of the Prophet, was present but he was powerless to do or say anything.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Imagine the feelings of Fatimah as she saw her father being treated in this fashion. What could she, a girl not ten years old, do? She went up to her father and removed the offensive matter and then stood firmly and angrily before the group of Quraysh thu gs and lashed out against them. Not a single word did they say to her. The noble Prophet raised his head on completion of the prostration and went on to complete the Salat. He then said: <em>"O Lord, may you punish the Quraysh!" </em>and repeated this imprecation on three times. Then he continued:<br /><em>"May You punish Utbah, Uqbah, Abu Jahl and Shaybah.</em>" (These whom he named were all killed many years later at the Battle of Badr)</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">On another occasion, Fatimah was with the Prophet as he made; tawaf around the Kabah. A Quraysh mob gathered around him. They seized him and tried to strangle him with his own clothes. Fatimah screamed and shouted for help. Abu Bakr rushed to the scene and managed to free the Prophet. While he was doing so, he pleaded:</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"Would you kill a man who says, 'My Lord is God?'"</em> Far from giving up, the mob turned on Abu Bakr and began beating him until blood flowed from his head and face.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Such scenes of vicious opposition and harassment against her father and the early Muslims were witnessed by the young Fatimah. She did not meekly stand aside but joined in the struggle in defence of her father and his noble mission. She was still a young girl and instead of the cheerful romping, the gaiety and liveliness which children of her age are and should normally be accustomed to, Fatimah had to witness and participate in such ordeals.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Of course, she was not alone in this. The whole of the Prophet's family suffered from the violent and mindless Quraysh. Her sisters, Ruqayyah and Umm Kulthum also suffered. They were living at this time in the very nest of hatred and intrigue against the Prophet. Their husbands were Utbah and Utaybah, sons of Abu Lahab and Umm Jamil. Umm Jamil was known to be a hard and harsh woman who had a sharp and evil tongue. It was mainly because of her that Khadijah was not pleased with the marriages of her daughters to Umm Jamil's sons in the first place. It must have been painful for Ruqayyah and Umm Kulthum to be living in the household of such inveterate enemies who not only joined but led the campaign against theft father.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />As a mark of disgrace to Muhammad and his family, Utbah and Utaybah were prevailed upon by their parents to divorce their wives. This was part of the process of ostracizing the Prophet totally. The Prophet in fact welcomed his daughters back to his home w ith joy, happiness and relief.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Fatimah, no doubt, must have been happy to be with her sisters once again. They all wished that their eldest sister, Zaynab, would also be divorced by her husband. In fact, the Quraysh brought pressure on Abu-l Aas to do so but he refused. When the Qurays h leaders came up to him and promised him the richest and most beautiful woman as a wife should he divorce Zaynab, he replied:</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"I love my wife deeply and passionately and I have a great and high esteem for her father even though I have not entered the religion of Islam."</em></span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Both Ruqayyah and Umm Kulthum were happy to be back with their loving parents and to be rid of the unbearable mental torture to which they had been subjected in the house of Umm Jamil. Shortly afterwards, Ruqayyah married again, to the young and shy Uthma n ibn Allan who was among the first to have accepted Islam. They both left for Abyssinia among the first muhajirin who sought refuge in that land and stayed there for several years. Fatimah was not to see Ruqayyah again until after their mother had died.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The persecution of the Prophet, his family and his followers continued and even became worse after the migration of the first Muslims to Abyssinia. In about the seventh year of his mission, the Prophet and his family were forced to leave their homes and seek refuge in a rugged little valley enclosed by hills on all sides and defile, which could only be entered from Makkah by a narrow path.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">To this arid valley, Muhammad and the clans of Banu Hashim and al-Muttalib were forced to retire with limited supplies of food. Fatimah was one of the youngest members of the clans -just about twelve years old - and had to undergo months of hardship and suffering. The wailing of hungry children and women in the valley could be heard from Makkah. The Quraysh allowed no food and contact with the Muslims whose hardship was only relieved somewhat during the season of pilgrimage. The boycott lasted for three years. When it was lifted, the Prophet had to face even more trials and difficulties. Khadijah, the faithful and loving, died shortly afterwards. With her death, the Prophet and his family lost one of the greatest sources of comfort and strength which had sustained them through the difficult period. The year in which the noble Khadijah, and later Abu Talib, died is known as the Year of Sadness. Fatimah, now a young lady, was greatly distressed by her mother's death. She wept bitterly and for some time was so grief-striken that her health deteriorated. It was even feared she might die of grief.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Although her older sister, Umm Kulthum, stayed in the same household, Fatimah realized that she now had a greater responsibility with the passing away of her mother. She felt that she had to give even greater support to her father. With loving tendernes s, she devoted herself to looking after his needs. <strong>So concerned was she for his welfare that she came to be called "Umm Abi-ha the mother of her father". She also provided him with solace and comfort during times of trial, difficulty and crisis.</strong></span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Often the trials were too much for her. Once, about this time, an insolent mob heaped dust and earth upon his gracious head. As he entered his home, Fatimah wept profusely as she wiped the dust from her father's head.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"Do not cry, my daughter," he said, "for God shall protect your father." </em></span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>The Prophet had a special love for Fatimah</strong>. He once said: ang<em>"Whoever pleased Fatimah has indeed pleased God and whoever has caused her to be angry has indeed angered God. Fatimah is a part of me. Whatever pleases her pleases me and whatever</em> <em>angers her angers me."<br /></em>He also said: <em>"The best women in all the world are four: the Virgin Mary, Aasiyaa the wife of Pharoah, Khadijah Mother of the Believers, and Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad."</em> Fatimah thus acquired a place of love and esteem in the Prophet's heart that was only occupied by his wife Khadijah.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>Fatimah, may God be pleased with her, was given the title of "az-Zahraa" which means "the Resplendent One". That was because of her beaming face which seemed to radiate light. It is said that when she stood for Prayer, the mihrab would reflect the light of her countenance. She was also called "al-Batul" because of her asceticism. Instead of spending her time in the company of women, much of her time would be spent in Salat, in reading the Quran and in other acts of ibadah.</strong></span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>Fatimah had a strong resemblance to her father, the Messenger of God</strong>. Aishah. the wife of the Prophet, said of her: <em>"I have not seen any one of God's creation resemble the Messenger of God more in speech, conversation and manner of sitting than Fatimah, may God be pleased with her. When the Prophet saw her approaching, he would welcome her, stand up and kiss her, take her by the hand and sit her down in the place where he was sitting."</em> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">She would do the same when the Prophet came to her. She would stand up and welcome him with joy and kiss him.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><strong>Fatimah's fine manners and gentle speech were part of her lovely and endearing personality. She was especially kind to poor and indigent folk and would often give all the food she had to those in need even if she herself remained hungry. She had no craving for the ornaments of this world nor the luxury and comforts of life. She lived simply, although on occasion as we shall see circumstances seemed to be too much and too difficult for her.</strong></span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">She inherited from her father a persuasive eloquence that was rooted in wisdom. <strong>When she spoke, people would often be moved to tears. She had the ability and the sincerity to stir the emotions, move people to tears and fill their hearts with praise and gratitude to God for His grace and His inestimable bounties.</strong></span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Fatimah migrated to Madinah a few weeks after the Prophet did. She went with Zayd ibn Harithah who was sent by the Prophet back to Makkah to bring the rest of his family. The party included Fatimah and Umm Kulthum, Sawdah, the Prophet's wife, Zayd's wife Barakah and her son Usamah. Travelling with the group also were Abdullah the son of Abu Bakr who accompanied his mother and his sisters, Aishah and Asma.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In Madinah, Fatimah lived with her father in the simple dwelling he had built adjoining the mosque. In the second year after the Hijrah, she received proposals of marriage through her father, two of which were turned down. Then Ali, the son of Abu Talib, plucked up courage and went to the Prophet to ask for her hand in marriage. In the presence of the Prophet, however, Ali became over-awed and tongue-tied. He stared at the ground and could not say anything. The Prophet then asked: <em>"Why have you come? Do you need something?"</em> Ali still could not speak and then the Prophet suggested: "<em>Perhaps you have come to propose marriage to Fatimah."<br />"Yes,"</em> replied Ali. At this, according to one report, the Prophet said simply: <em>"Marhaban wa ahlan - Welcome into the family,"</em> and this was taken by Ali and a group of Ansar who were waiting outside for him as indicating the Prophet's approval. Another re port indicated that the Prophet approved and went on to ask Ali if he had anything to give as mahr. Ali replied that he didn't. The Prophet reminded him that he had a shield which could be sold.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Ali sold the shield to Uthman for four hundred dirhams and as he was hurrying back to the Prophet to hand over the sum as mahr, Uthman stopped him and said:</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"I am returning your shield to you as a present from me on your marriage to Fatimah."</em> <strong>Fatimah and Ali were thus married most probably at the beginning of the second year after the Hijrah. She was about nineteen years old at the time and Ali was about twenty one</strong>. The Prophet himself performed the marriage ceremony. At the walimah, the guests were served with dates, figs and hais ( a mixture of dates and butter fat). A leading member of the Ansar donated a ram and others made offerings of grain. All Madinah rejoiced.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">On her marriage, the Prophet is said to have presented Fatimah and Ali with a wooden bed intertwined with palm leaves, a velvet coverlet. a leather cushion filled with palm fibre, a sheepskin, a pot, a waterskin and a quern for grinding grain.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Fatimah left the home of her beloved father for the first time to begin life with her husband. The Prophet was clearly anxious on her account and sent Barakah with her should she be in need of any help. And no doubt Barakah was a source of comfort and sol ace to her. The Prophet prayed for them:</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"O Lord, bless them both, bless their house and bless their offspring."</em> In Ali's humble dwelling, there was only a sheepskin for a bed. In the morning after the wedding night, the Prophet went to Ali's house and knocked on the door.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Barakah came out and the Prophet said to her: <em>"O Umm Ayman, call my brother for me."<br />"Your brother? That's the one who married your daughter?"</em> asked Barakah somewhat incredulously as if to say: <em>Why should the Prophet call Ali his "brother"?</em> (He referred to Ali as his brother because just as pairs of Muslims were joined in brotherhood aft er the Hijrah, so the Prophet and Ali were linked as "brothers".)</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The Prophet repeated what he had said in a louder voice. Ali came and the Prophet made a du'a, invoking the blessings of God on him. Then he asked for Fatimah. She came almost cringing with a mixture of awe and shyness and the Prophet said to her:</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"I have married you to the dearest of my family to me."</em> In this way, he sought to reassure her. She was not starting life with a complete stranger but with one who had grown up in the same household, who was among the first to become a Muslim at a tender age, who was known for his courage, bravery and virtue, and whom the Prophet described as his "brother in this world and the hereafter".</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>Fatimah's life with Ali was as simple and frugal as it was in her father's household. In fact, so far as material comforts were concerned, it was a life of hardship and deprivation.</strong> Throughout their life together, Ali remained poor because he did not set great store by material wealth. Fatimah was the only one of her sisters who was not married to a wealthy man.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In fact, it could be said that Fatimah's life with Ali was even more rigorous than life in her father's home. At least before marriage, there were always a number of ready helping hands in the Prophet's household. But now she had to cope virtually on her own. To relieve theft extreme poverty, Ali worked as a drawer and carrier of water and she as a grinder of corn. One day she said to Ali: <em>"I have ground until my hands are blistered</em>."</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"I have drawn water until I have pains in my chest,"</em> said Ali and went on to suggest to Fatimah: <em>"God has given your father some captives of war, so go and ask him to give you a servant."<br /></em>Reluctantly, she went to the Prophet who said: <em>"What has brought you here, my little daughter?" "I came to give you greetings of peace,"</em> she said, for in awe of him she could not bring herself to ask what she had intended.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">"<em>What did you do?</em>" asked Ali when she returned alone.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"I was ashamed to ask him,"</em> she said. So the two of them went together but the Prophet felt they were less in need than others.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"I will not give to you,"</em> he said, <em>"and let the Ahl as-Suffah</em> (poor Muslims who stayed in the mosque) <em>be tormented with hunger</em>. <em>I have not enough for their keep..</em>."</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Ali and Fatimah returned home feeling somewhat dejected but that night, after they had gone to bed, they heard the voice of the Prophet asking permission to enter. Welcoming him, they both rose to their feet, but he told them:</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><em>"Stay where you are," and sat down beside them. "Shall I not tell you of something better than that which you asked of me?" </em>he asked and when they said yes he said: <em>"Words which Jibril taught me, that you should say "Subhaan Allah- Glory be to God" ten ti mes after every Prayer, and ten times "Alhamdu lillah - Praise be to God," and ten times "Allahu Akbar - God is Great." And that when you go to bed you should say them thirty-three times each."</em></strong></span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Ali used to say in later years: <em>"I have never once failed to say them since the Messenger of God taught them to us."</em></span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">There are many reports of the hard and difficult times which Fatimah had to face. Often there was no food in her house. Once the Prophet was hungry. He went to one after another of his wives' apartments but there was no food. He then went to Fatimah's ho use and she had no food either. When he eventually got some food, he sent two loaves and a piece of meat to Fatimah. At another time, he went to the house of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari and from the food he was given, he saved some for her. Fatimah also knew that the Prophet was without food for long periods and she in turn would take food to him when she could. Once she took a piece of barley bread and he, said to her: <em>"This is the first food your father has eaten for three days."</em></span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Through these acts of kindness she showed how much she loved her father; and he loved her, really loved her in return.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Once he returned from a journey outside Madinah. He went to the mosque first of all and prayed two rakats as was his custom. Then, as he often did, he went to Fatimah's house before going to his wives. Fatimah welcomed him and kissed his face, his mouth and his eyes and cried.<br /><em>"Why do you cry?"</em> the Prophet asked. </span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"I see you, O Rasul Allah," she said, "Your color is pale and sallow and your clothes have become worn and shabby." </em></span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"O Fatimah," the Prophet replied tenderly, "don't cry for Allah has sent your father with a mission which He would cause to affect every house on the face of the earth whether it be in towns, villages or tents (in the desert) bringing either glory or h umiliation until this mission is fulfilled just as night (inevitably) comes."</em></span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">With such comments Fatimah was often taken from the harsh realities of daily life to get a glimpse of the vast and far-reaching vistas opened up by the mission entrusted to her noble father.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Fatimah eventually returned to live in a house close to that of the Prophet. The place was donated by an Ansari who knew that the Prophet would rejoice in having his daughter as his neighbor. Together they shared in the joys and the triumphs, the sorrows and the hardships of the crowded and momentous Madinah days and years.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In the middle of the second year after the Hijrah, her sister Ruqayyah fell ill with fever and measles. This was shortly before the great campaign of Badr. Uthman, her husband, stayed by her bedside and missed the campaign. Ruqayyah died just before her father returned. On his return to Madinah, one of the first acts of the Prophet was to visit her grave.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Fatimah went with him. This was the first bereavement they had suffered within their closest family since the death of Khadijah. Fatimah was greatly distressed by the loss of her sister. The tears poured from her eyes as she sat beside her father at the edge of the grave, and he comforted her and sought to dry her tears with the corner of his cloak.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The Prophet had previously spoken against lamentations for the dead, but this had lead to a misunderstanding, and when they returned from the cemetery the voice of Umar was heard raised in anger against the women who were weeping for the martyrs of Badr and for Ruqayyah.</span></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><div><br /><em>"Umar, let them weep,"</em> he said and then added: <em>"What comes from the heart and from the eye, that is from God and His mercy, but what comes from the hand and from the tongue, that is from Satan." </em>By the hand he meant the beating of breasts and the smiting of cheeks, and by the tongue he meant the loud clamor in which women often joined as a mark of public sympathy.</div><br /><div><br />Uthman later married the other daughter of the Prophet, Umm Kulthum, and on this account came to be known as Dhu-n Nurayn - Possessor of the Two Lights.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The bereavement which the family suffered by the death of Ruqayyah was followed by happiness when to the great joy of all the believers <strong>Fatimah gave birth to a boy in Ramadan of the third year after the Hijrah</strong>. The Prophet spoke the words of the Adhan into the ear of the new-born babe and <strong>called him al-Hasan</strong> which means the Beautiful One.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>One year later, she gave birth to another son who was called al-Husayn, which means "little Hasan" or the little beautiful one.</strong> Fatimah would often bring her two sons to see their grandfather who was exceedingly fond of them. Later he would take them to the Masjid and they would climb onto his back when he prostrated. He did the same with his little granddaughter Umamah, the daughter of Zaynab.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>In the eighth year after the Hijrah, Fatimah gave birth to a third child, a girl whom she named after her eldest sister Zaynab who had died shortly before her birth</strong>. This Zaynab was to grow up and become famous as the "Heroine of Karbala". <strong>Fatimah's fourth child was born in the year after the Hijrah. The child was also a girl and Fatimah named her Umm Kulthum after her sister who had died the year before after an illness.</strong></span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>It was only through Fatimah that the progeny of the Prophet was perpetuated</strong>. All the Prophet's male children had died in their infancy and the two children of Zaynab named Ali and Umamah died young. Ruqayyah's child Abdullah also died when he was no t yet two years old. This is an added reason for the reverence which is accorded to Fatimah.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Although Fatimah was so often busy with pregnancies and giving birth and rearing children, she took as much part as she could in the affairs of the growing Muslim community of Madinah. Before her marriage, she acted as a sort of hostess to the poor and destitute Ahl as-Suffah. As soon as the Battle of Uhud was over, she went with other women to the battlefield and wept over the dead martyrs and took time to dress her father's wounds. At the Battle of the Ditch, she played a major supportive role together with other women in preparing food during the long and difficult siege. In her camp, she led the Muslim women in prayer and on that place there stands a mosque named Masjid Fatimah, one of seven mosques where the Muslims stood guard and performed their devotions.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Fatimah also accompanied the Prophet when he made Umrah in the sixth year after the Hijrah after the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah. In the following year, she and her sister Umm Kulthum, were among the mighty throng of Muslims who took part with the Prophet in th e liberation of Makkah. It is said that on this occasion, both Fatimah and Umm Kulthum visited the home of their mother Khadijah and recalled memories of their childhood and memories of jihad, of long struggles in the early years of the Prophet's mission.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>In Ramadan of the tenth year just before he went on his Farewell Pilgrimage, the Prophet confided to Fatimah, as a secret not yet to be told to others:</strong></span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"Jibril recited the Quran to me and I to him once every year, but this year he has recited it with me twice. I cannot but think that my time has come."</em></span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">On his return from the Farewell Pilgrimage, the Prophet did become seriously ill. His final days were spent in the apartment of his wife Aishah. When Fatimah came to visit him, Aishah would leave father and daughter together.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">One day he summoned Fatimah. When she came, he kissed her and whispered some words in her ear. She wept. Then again he whispered in her ear and she smiled. Aishah saw and asked:<br /><em>"You cry and you laugh at the same time, Fatimah? What did the Messenger of God say to you?"</em> Fatimah replied:</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>"He first told me that he would meet his Lord after a short while and so I cried. Then he said to me: 'Don't cry for you will be the first of my household to join me.' So I laughed."</em></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em></em><br />Not long afterwards the noble Prophet passed away. Fatimah was grief-striken and she would often be seen weeping profusely. One of the companions noted that he did not see Fatimah, may God be pleased with her, laugh after the death of her father.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">One morning, early in the month of Ramadan, just less than five month after her noble father had passed away, Fatimah woke up looking unusually happy and full of mirth. In the afternoon of that day, it is said that she called Salma bint Umays who was looking after her. She asked for some water and had a bath. She then put on new clothes and perfumed herself. She then asked Salma to put her bed in the courtyard of the house. With her face looking to the heavens above, she asked for her husband Ali.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">He was taken aback when he saw her lying in the middle of the courtyard and asked her what was wrong. She smiled and said: <em>"I have an appointment today with the Messenger of God."<br /></em>Ali cried and she tried to console him. She told him to look after their sons al-Hasan and al-Husayn and advised that she should be buried without ceremony. She gazed upwards again, then closed her eyes and surrendered her soul to the Mighty Creator.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">She, Fatimah the resplendent one, was just twenty nine years old.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">RELATED (as at 10th November 2000):</span></div>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991205642743208727.post-9068749694033784662007-11-24T08:38:00.000-08:002007-11-24T08:49:07.844-08:00My Sea, My History...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1nuvCf3grOqPSPHNSv08iyvFLzwDmjPx-t5GhTue3jgKo46YV496DQyvcUrOigvgQgbe5nCLDwt-r2VA00nz-0l2OSFUmbIRQQj6Mt6JU1SHBW3_3p6bQlNSE1DVCJkbA82qPp8sYwH8/s1600-h/DSC05735-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136448859235371474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1nuvCf3grOqPSPHNSv08iyvFLzwDmjPx-t5GhTue3jgKo46YV496DQyvcUrOigvgQgbe5nCLDwt-r2VA00nz-0l2OSFUmbIRQQj6Mt6JU1SHBW3_3p6bQlNSE1DVCJkbA82qPp8sYwH8/s400/DSC05735-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIEln6pWfeyy7BTgdproiPy_SPDPAwLs_7UukFhty0yGDxGNv93UrLyNWFy9sD2E_mspGbBvfjhQ6EKGkF_ENyPkU1E1eDQcMgkNjHucwn2Zg9oriqkPlrIDZiRZ3cU5BlgoU3BpPsFtc/s1600-h/DSC05729-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136448099026160002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIEln6pWfeyy7BTgdproiPy_SPDPAwLs_7UukFhty0yGDxGNv93UrLyNWFy9sD2E_mspGbBvfjhQ6EKGkF_ENyPkU1E1eDQcMgkNjHucwn2Zg9oriqkPlrIDZiRZ3cU5BlgoU3BpPsFtc/s400/DSC05729-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb6_Lch9UPlklYc1sCCngYXTtcyrHtEoDgLAJgqwVApCthaMyNGoWz0ADHpjYa7N8qVZw31J6V0bDcImQ2AgaOMh0X-vRF1P95YQXcYuLGDwuDDTUMB1Ickat-oaw6WkthUSSYGiEHeWE/s1600-h/DSC05713-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136448116206029218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb6_Lch9UPlklYc1sCCngYXTtcyrHtEoDgLAJgqwVApCthaMyNGoWz0ADHpjYa7N8qVZw31J6V0bDcImQ2AgaOMh0X-vRF1P95YQXcYuLGDwuDDTUMB1Ickat-oaw6WkthUSSYGiEHeWE/s400/DSC05713-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyGULvt8-H0JFKh7MjI__CP6hyphenhyphenexNCUUeRrbOKteVaxVw7NCutAC2ZoXXR049oMVHHvrMauXiUyjLXxlncw2JZTXGdN4eN6sTkVXvyvQ55irHZM0LEknx1qiqx8a-lK1i_1oD1bz3_mvs/s1600-h/DSC05696-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136448120500996530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyGULvt8-H0JFKh7MjI__CP6hyphenhyphenexNCUUeRrbOKteVaxVw7NCutAC2ZoXXR049oMVHHvrMauXiUyjLXxlncw2JZTXGdN4eN6sTkVXvyvQ55irHZM0LEknx1qiqx8a-lK1i_1oD1bz3_mvs/s400/DSC05696-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJXJen8PUZY7k02pqOjxk6Awwc3nhGua77-xdfQulfhA-a_fJf8Fh5btbz5ndPM09mUX1t4TVKg4QMSRLY3K3d9nqD4zHPjHm3Zpc-WXY2auy01STsDDrzJnIBxzsH4qR6608TmTK7I0/s1600-h/DSC05694-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136448124795963842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJXJen8PUZY7k02pqOjxk6Awwc3nhGua77-xdfQulfhA-a_fJf8Fh5btbz5ndPM09mUX1t4TVKg4QMSRLY3K3d9nqD4zHPjHm3Zpc-WXY2auy01STsDDrzJnIBxzsH4qR6608TmTK7I0/s400/DSC05694-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />This is a place in Abu Dhabi,UAE...It is near the sea...I grew up on the sea and its the only place i know to go to when i am stressed out or depressed...Something about the sea lifts my soul and makes me feel light...I love the smell of the sea, the sound of the water lazily folding and crashing against the rocks, and the peace that can be found in an afternoon at the sea watching the sun go down...</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">My people are sea people. It is in my blood. My history.<br /><div></div></div>Sultanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115527299738100832noreply@blogger.com0