Does having children increases or decreases your iman?
I used to think that the fact that Allah tests us by providing us with wealth and children implies that it's the children that keep us from remembering Allah, that we think that as long as we have wealth and kids we may run the risk to underestimate our need of Allah and his continuous mercy and provision.
But I believe that now I understand what is meant, at least for me personally.
Since having children I felt like all my time to worship Allah has been taken, I remember how I would go to the mosque, attend lectures, read Quran, wake up for fajr and feel very strong in my iman...
All that before having babies.
Once the babies came all I could think of, if I found time to think, was how to get some sleep, how to run the household, what to clean next and to resent that my strong connection to Allah had been weakened.
Whenever Ramadan came I felt sad that I couldn't find time and strength to worship Allah as much and as intensely as before, even I felt that the first Ramadan after my sons birth had been completely lost as I couldn't fast at all.
But I believe that now I understand what is meant by children being a test for our iman.
Children don't take our worship away, raising children in itself is worship!
Maybe I don't read Quran as often as before, but I raise Muslims!
My worship hasn't decreased, it has changed!
I don't resent my children our my household to take my time to worship away as being with my kids and taking care of my household is one of the biggest forms of worship.
Alhamdoulilah that Allah has blessed me with my husband and my sons!
May Allah let me be successful in raising my children,
May Allah make it easy for us and let me always remember that by being there for my children I am worshipping Allah and that being there for my children is one of the biggest gifts I can give them.
Well, I started to think and finally research about that after our neighbour came over today. Our neighbour is an old lady who is actually just few years older than my mommy and she comes to visit my mother in law a lot, daily almost. Since Mesut is with us she comes to see him too and never misses to give some comment:
- ah, when ever I see him sleeping you are holding him, he should sleep alone.
- what he sleeps with you in the same bed? you will kill him because you will roll on top of him while sleeping!
- ...
I don't intend to comment on these statements now and when she is talking I just nod and smile...
Usually I will forget what she said after about 5 minutes, but today she kept me busy for quite some time and even made me google!
She said:
- You should not sleep with your baby in the same bed, it is HARAM (forbidden in Islam)!
This sentence turned all my lights on!
once because I could not imagine that this was true and twice because to say something is actually haram is a big thing and comes with the risk of loading a sin on the one who states something haram that is halal (allowed in islam).
I asked her who said that and she said it was written in the holy Quran..
Well, anyway her statement stayed in my head and made me research:
Alltough in Quran or Sunnah there is no statement about co-sleeping as such, children should sleep seperately once they reach "the age of reason" which is according to the Hadith narrated in Abu Dawud about 10 years. "Order your children to observe Salat
when they reach the age of seven and spank them for not observing it when
they reach the age of ten, and arrange their beds (for sleeping) separately."
(Abu Dawud)
some define the age of reason as the age once the child knows what is his right and what is his left hand.
So there is totally no restriction about having your baby sleep in the same bed as his parents, in fact it is only beneficial for the baby (decreased risk of sudden infant death, less waking in the night and therefor better sleep without crying), for the mother (more sleep) and for the relation between them. Even for the father-baby relation it is very beneficial that both feel the proximity during the night and be greeted by a smile first thing in the morning.
Sometimes you need a small reminder to tell you how lucky you are for having what you have. By watching that video I just remembered (eventhough I never forgot) how much I really love my Hijab!
First of all I wear Hijab to obey and please Allah in the very very first place and there are a couple more reasons why I love my Hijab so much. And by talking about Hijab I mean headscarf and abaya.
Hijab makes me feel protected and valued.
Hijab makes me feel beautiful, when I wear it outside and when I don't wear it infront of my husband and close family members.
The fact that I cover outside makes me feel even more special and pretty when i dress up for my husband.
Wearing Hijab simply makes me feel good, remembering Allah and knowing I am doing right.
Even though I tried to replace my abaya by wearing a coat (turkish style) I came back to my abaya because it's the only thing that truly makes me feel comfortable.
Sometimes when I am sick i wear Hijab at home because it makes me feel comfortable and protected.
Alhamdoulilah that Allah gave us this great way to please him by feeling so wonderful at the same time. I don't want to miss my Hijab ever!
Alhamdoulilah!
when I first read the title of this lecture/khutba I was confused and beieved that something had gone wrong.. so out of curiousity I started to watch it. and the i before jannah is there for a purpose: it's realted to the hype about iPad, 1 million were sold in 28 days, people slept infron of the store to get an iPad. So, people do anything possible and impossible to attain these worldly pleasures, but what do we do to enter paradise? So this is a very nice khutba about paradise and how we can "unlock" it's doors.
Today I was attending a lecture which was about forgiving people. If you loose something or something os taken from you, it will be recorded for you as if you had given this as sadaqa. And if somebody does bad to you, you should forgive him to seek Allahs appreciation. Even if a person hates us or is bad to us we should not lower ourself to the same level of bad feelings but do our best to love and forgive that person, praying that he/she will be forgiven. We don't do this because we are week or because we fear confrontation. We do this because we seek Allahs appreciation abd compensation.
Anyways, the thing that really impressed me and made me think was when my teacher told us the following story: Sometimes her son would borrow two € from his sister and then refuse to give it back to her. Her daughter would then come to complain about his wrong doing. So how would the mother react? She said to her daughter, you have to possibilities, or you ask him to give it back and you have all the right to do so, or you forgive him. If the daughter would want to get the money from her brother back, the mother would criticise the son for his behaviour and give two € to the daughter. If the daughter would chose to forgive her brother, the mother would go and give her daughter 5 €!!! She would do this to teach her children that you have the right to get what belongs to you but also to teach them that it is better to forgive someone who did something bad to you and seek Allahs recompensation instead of hating that person or wanting bad for him.
This story made me once again realize what a responsibility we have as mothers to teach our children to be good muslims, to understand our religion and our values and to act accordingly. The mother and the education she gives is the basis of the child, so how careful we must be and how hard we must strive to fulfill our responsibility!!!
May Allah let us be a good parent and make it easy for us to raise our children according to his will. Ameen.
A man once asked our beloved Prophet: "What is iman?" He replied: "When your good deeds make you happy and your bad deeds make you sad, you have Iman." [Ahmad]
Love There are so many shades of love. The love we feel for our parents, the love we feel for our closest family members, for all family members. The love we feel for people we like, for people that touch our heart. The love that makes us cry simply because it is so rich of emotions. The love between friends, between closest friends. The love between a man and a woman. The love at first sight. The love that is fresh and new and whose future remains somehow unknown. The love that grows by time, the love that comes with trust. All those shades of love feel different, you can feel some of them at the same time and if you are very lucky you can feel them all. But what is above that? Whats about the one who created all those shades of love? The one who created in us the ability to feel and to give all those shades of love? Allah is the ever loving, the continuously loving. Allahs love is above all the love he created, because every shade of love we feel in this live is just a very very small part of the love he has. You have never tasted the sweetness of this life until you have loved Allah! You have never seen the real beauty of love until you have seen the love of Allah!
I once attended a lecture back home in Germany when our imam talked about the love to Allah. We must love Allah more than everything in this world simply because he is exalted over everything in this world, he created this world! And if your love to Allah is greater than every other love you feel, if one of these loves let you down or falls apart, there is always the love to Allah that is so much greater than the loss you just suffered from. Some people say that they cannot live without their partner/husband/wife. But if you say that and really meant it, it means that you love that particular person more than you love Allah! Of course you can be without that person, you can be without that persons love because the only thing important in this life is to believe in and to love Allah alone! That being said, it is only natural that we want to love and be loved by people, that we need to be around people we care for and that care for us as well. And the most beautyful way to love a person, is to love her/him for the sake of Allah. When you love for Allah, you love that person desspite all his defaults. You will love that person for the sake of Allah so that Allah may love you too. When u love for the sake of Allah, it will be so much easier to apply beautyful charactertraits we should always strive for. Allah is forgiving, not a forgiver but the forgiving, continuously forgiving!!! When you forgive a person for the sake of Allah, Allah will forgive you too and if you love a person for the sake of Allah, Allah will love you as well! In all the lectures I have heared about that topic it has been said that loving a person for the sake of Allah is different than the love a husband may feel for his wife and vice versa. And I must say I disagree with that. I believe that there can be physical love as well as spiritual love between a couple and in fact I believe that there should be those two types of love inorder to make the union of the couple strong and complete.
When Allah created us he knew that we would sin, we were created as human beings, not as angels who never sin. What makes us good humans and loved by Allah is not the fact that we don't sin, what makes us good and loved by Allah is the fact that after commiting a sin we return to Allah and repent to him alone and ask him for guidance. Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him said: "the worst of the worst of the worst people are those who think they commited so many sins that Allah cannot forgive them!" Because he can, he can forgive everything because he is the all-mercyful, the all-forgiving! Sometimes we cannot imagine how Allah could forgive our sins, but that is only natural since we don't have the merci Allah has, we cannot even imagine how merciful Allah is. So it is only natural that we cannot understand the extend of his mercy, but that does not meant that it doesn't exist!
Once I met a lady who told me that she would like to wear hijab but she was ashamed and affraid she would fail a second time. She had been wearing hijab some years before but struggled so much that she took it of. And now she was so a shamed about that and said she could never forgive herself. So maybe she could never forgive herself, but Allah surely already forgave her long time ago. because what is her mercy on her self compared to the mercy of Allah, the most mercyful?
Our iman (faith) never remains on one level, it goes up and down all the time and when wver it decreses we should strive to reinforce it and when ever our iman is up we should strive to keep it up or even increase it more. When I was a child I was thought that iman is something private, something that is just between you and Allah and that its no ones business what and to which extend you believe in. When I found Islam I started to make more and more muslim friends who were mostly muslims by birth. I met some converts as well but they just seemed to be too strikt for my liking so that I didn't befriend them. So, although i had many muslim friends, Islam was almost never our topic of discussion. Maybe apart from questions about my conversion, but that was the only Islam-related topic we talked about, and that also just in the beginning coz if a question is answered once, why ask again? Since I was raised believing that religion is just between the believer and god alone I never questioned that behaviour or type of friendship, I liked them simply because I found them to be nice and that was reason enough for me to be their friend. But is friendship really just about enjoying to be together, about passing time, not being alone and sharing some similar intrests and ideas? More and more I got bored of having muslim friends and got more close with my non-muslim friends, I found that there was really no big difference between being with my muslim friends and being with non-muslim friends, because anyways the topics were the same, there was no different behaviour amongst them and the impact these friendships had on my heart and my iman were the same. Some years later, actually last year, I met two girls. muslim girls, two russian sisters, both converted to Islam, living together. At first I though we will never become friends because anyways they are much more strikt in Islam than I am and so we might not fit together anyways. But how wrong I was! I wouldn't say we became friends, but we became somehow sisters in Islam. And allthough I saw them such a little time, just fridays at the mosque or when we went out for coffee one time their presence had an huge impact on my iman!!! Only seeing them once a week for an hour made my iman rise, so imagine if we had become close friends? I guess that was the time I tasted the sweetness of brotherhood in Islam! I started to compare the impact all my friendships had on my iman with the impact of those two sisters. And suddenly the friendships started to seem just shallow! Sure I have two girls that have a huge place in my heart, that are so important and very close to me, but still, our friendship doesnt help me to grow stronger in my faith.
There is a very nice article about friendship in Islam by Amr Khaled http://amrkhaled.net/articles/articles2779.html
And a lecture by Sheikh Yasir Qadhi, it is a very long lecture, but worth to hear every single minute of it!
So that is what I wish for, true friendship, friendship that goes beyond worldly things, friendships in which we wish for our friend what we wish for our selves, friendships in which we help, encourage, strengthen and support eachother because we wish for the other that he will please Allah just as we wish for our selves to be able to please Allah. I don't want friendship just to make the time pass quicker, just to don't feel alone. I want friendship that enriches me, my heart and my faith and has the same effect on my friend, my friend that will be my sister in Islam, Inshallah.
My neighbour back in germany, Hicham, once asked me how listening to the Quran could have an impact on me, even if I could not understand the meaning of the words being said. When I found this lecture on youtube this morning, it made me remember him and his question. And as the lecturer says, even if you don't undertsand the meaning, the language of Q'uran touches your heart. Even when reading Quran can make me cry like no other thing except prayer, the Quran itself seems to remain a huge challenge for me, my understanding and my patience. I try to read as often as I can but as probably many other believers, I fails too often and seem to be unable to read Quran continuously and regularly. And even if I read, its so often so hard for me to understand, and even if I might understand the language since I read the german translation, the real meaning and wisdom of its signification remains very often unrevealed to me. I am sure this is because the huge lack of knowledge I possess and it would be probably easier for me to understand the Quran and taste its entire beauty when I could understand arabic. So for now, reading and first and foremost understanding the Quran seems to be my religious challenge number one. And Inshallah I will improve, my knowledge will grow and my faith increase, Ameen.
I wish that one day I will be sitting in an arabic lecture where the Quran is recited and I will be able to easily understand and comprehend every single word.
But back to the topic i initially wanted to talk about, the Quran and its impact on our hearts. There are no words I can tell, just emotions I feel. But let me tell you one little story: I was once invited at a birthday of my mothers friend when I met a woman who had an handicaped son, about 4 or five years old. I was sitting with them, playing with the boy who could not walk or talk. The mother had to leave for a few mnutes and asked me to watch her son while she was away and of course I agreed. just few seconds after she had left the boy started to became nervous and I was honestly worried and didn't know what to do and how to calm him. So I started to recite Quran for him. And I swear by Allah, the moment I started reading Quran for him, he became quiet, held my finger and looked at me, watching my lips reading Quran to him!!!
I must admitt I only watched this lecture until 36:13 and I also don't agree with some things he said, for example that when reading newspaper etc you will act like an unbeliever and such statements.. I also know from experience that on some hearts are not softened by the Quran and can make them even angry and hard.. But in the end, it is Allah who decides whom he leads to Islam and whom not. But I really like the beginning and think that it is still a beneficial lecture with an touching topic.
This is an amazing lecture on salatul istikhaara and on putting your trust in Allah only. Allah will inshallah guide us if we just ask him sincerely for guidance and put our trust in Him, put our heart in his hands. Just Allah knows whats best for us and inshallah He will guide us the right was and make us happy with what he has planned for us. Ameen
The imam is of vietnameese origine and mashallah he is shining of happyness.
(1. Read! In the Name of your Lord Who created.) (2. He has created man from a clot.) (3. Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous.) (4. Who has taught by the pen.) (5. He has taught man that which he knew not.)
The Beginning of the Prophethood of Muhammad and the First of the Qur'an revealed
Imam Ahmad recorded that `A'ishah said: The first thing that began happening with the Messenger of Allah from the revelation was dreams that he would see in his sleep that would come true. He would not see any dream except that it would come true just like the (clearness of) the daybreak in the morning. Then seclusion became beloved to him. So, he used to go to the cave of Hira' and devote himself to worship there for a number of nights, and he would bring provisions for that. Then he would return to Khadijah and replenish his provisions for a similar number of nights. This continued until the revelation suddenly came to him while he was in the cave of Hira'. The angel came to him while he was in the cave and said, "Read!'' The Messen- ger of Allah said,
«فَقُلْتُ: مَا أَنَا بِقَارِىء»
(I replied: "I am not one who reads.)
Then he said, "So he (the angel) seized me and pressed me until I could no longer bear it. Then he released me and said: `Read!' So I replied: `I am not one who reads.' So, he pressed me a second time until I could no longer bear it. Then he released me and said:
[اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِى خَلَقَ ]
(Read in the Name of your Lord who has created.)
until he reached the Ayah,
[مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ]
(That which he knew not. )''
So he returned with them (those Ayat) and with his heart trembling until he came (home) to Khadijah, and he said,
«زَمِّلُونِي زَمِّلُونِي»
(Wrap me up, wrap me up!)
So they wrapped him up until his fear went away. After that he told Khadijah everything that had happened (and said),
«قَدْ خَشِيتُ عَلَى نَفْسِي»
(I fear that something may happen to me.)
Khadijah replied, "Never! By Allah, Allah will never disgrace you. You keep good relations with your relatives, you speak the truth, you help the poor and the destitute, you serve your guests generously, and you help the deserving, calamity afflicted people.'' Khadijah then accompanied him to her cousin Waraqah bin Nawfal bin Asad bin `Abdul-`Uzza bin Qusay, who, during the period of ignorance became a Christian and used to scribe the Scriptures in Arabic. He would write from the Injil in Hebrew as much as Allah willed for him to write. He was an old man and had lost his eyesight. Khadijah said to him, "O my cousin! Listen to the story of your nephew.'' Waraqah asked, "O my nephew! What have you seen'' Allah's Messenger described what he saw. Waraqah said, "This is An-Namus[1] whom Allah had sent to Musa. I wish I was young and could live until the time when your people would drive you out.'' Allah's Messenger asked,
«أَوَ مُخْرِجِيَّ هُمْ؟»
(Will they drive me out)
Waraqah replied in the affirmative and said, "Anyone who came with something similar to what you have brought, was treated with hostility and enmity; and if I should remain alive till that day then I would firmly support you.''
But Waraqah did not remain. He died and the revelation paused[2] until Allah's Messenger became sad according to what we were told. Due to this grief he set out a number of times with the intent of throwing himself from the mountain tops. However, every time he would reach the peak of a mountain to throw himself from it, Jibril would appear to him and say, "O Muhammad! You are truly the Messenger of Allah!'' Therefore, his worry would be eased, his soul would be settled and he would return (down from the mountain). Then, when the revelation did not come again for a long time, he set out as he had done before. So when he reached the peak of the mountain, Jibril appeared to him again and said to him the same as he had said before.''[3]
This Hadith has been recorded in the Two Sahihs by way of Az-Zuhri.[4] We have already discussed this Hadith's chain of narration, its text and its meanings at length in the beginning of our explanation of Sahih Al-Bukhari. Therefore, whoever would like to read it, it is researched there, and all praise and blessings are due to Allah.
So the first thing that was revealed of the Qur'an were these noble and blessed Ayat. They are the first mercy that Allah bestowed upon His servants and the first bounty that Allah favored them with.
The Honor and Nobility of Man is in His Knowledge
These Ayat inform of the beginning of man's creation from a dangling clot, and that out of Allah's generosity He taught man that which he did not know. Thus, Allah exalted him and honored him by giving him knowledge, and it is the dignity that the Father of Humanity, Adam, was distinguished with over the angels. Knowledge sometimes is in the mind, sometimes on the tongue, and sometimes in writing with the fingers. Thus, it may be intellectual, spoken and written. And while the last (written) necessitates the first two (intellectual and spoken), the reverse is not true. For this reason Allah says,
(Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous. Who has taught by the pen. He has taught man that which he knew not.)
There is a narration that states, "Record knowledge by writing.''[5] There is also a saying which states, "Whoever acts according to what he knows, Allah will make him inherit knowledge that he did not know.''[6]
(6. Nay! Verily, man does transgress.) (7. Because he considers himself self-sufficient.) (8. Surely, unto your Lord is the return.) (9. Have you seen him who prevents) (10. A servant when he prays) (11. Have you seen if he is on the guidance) (12. Or enjoins Taqwa) (13. Have you seen if he denies and turns away) (14. Knows he not that Allah sees) (15. Nay! If he ceases not, We will scorch his forehead --) (16. A lying, sinful forehead!) (17. Then let him call upon his council.) (18. We will call out the guards of Hell!) (19. Nay! Do not obey him. Fall prostrate and draw near (to Allah)!)
The Threat against Man's Transgression for the sake of Wealth
Allah informs that man is very pleased, most evil, scornful and transgressive when he considers himself self-sufficient and having an abundance of wealth. Then Allah threatens, warns and admonishes him in His saying,
[إِنَّ إِلَى رَبِّكَ الرُّجْعَى ]
(Surely, unto your Lord is the return.)
meaning, `unto Allah is the final destination and return, and He will hold you accountable for your wealth, as to where you obtained it from and how did you spend it.'
Scolding of Abu Jahl and the Threat of seizing Him
(Have you seen him who prevents. A servant when he prays)
This was revealed about Abu Jahl, may Allah curse him. He threatened the Prophet for performing Salah at the Ka`bah. Thus, Allah firstly admonished him with that which was better by saying,
[أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَانَ عَلَى الْهُدَى ]
(Have you seen if he is on the guidance.)
meaning, `do you think this man whom you are preventing is upon the straight path in his action, or
[أَوْ أَمَرَ بِالتَّقْوَى ]
(Or enjoins Taqwa) in his statements Yet, you rebuke him and threaten him due to his prayer.' Thus, Allah says,
[أَلَمْ يَعْلَم بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ يَرَى ]
(Knows he not that Allah sees)
meaning, doesn't this person who is preventing this man who is following correct guidance know that Allah sees him and hears his words, and He will compensate him in full for what he has done Then Allah says by way of warning and threatening,
[كَلاَّ لَئِن لَّمْ يَنتَهِ]
(Nay! If he ceases not,)
meaning, if he does not recant from his discord and obstinacy,
[لَنَسْفَعاً بِالنَّاصِيَةِ]
(We will scorch his forehead.)
meaning, `indeed We will make it extremely black on the Day of Judgement.' Then He says,
[نَاصِيَةٍ كَـذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ ]
(A lying, sinful forehead!)
meaning, the forehead of Abu Jahl is lying in its statements and sinful in its actions.
[فَلْيَدْعُ نَادِيَهُ ]
(Then let him call upon his council.)
meaning, his people and his tribe. In other words, let him call them in order to seek help from them.
[سَنَدْعُ الزَّبَانِيَةَ ]
(We will call out the guards of Hell!) `And they are the angels of torment. This is so that he may know who will win -- Our group or his group' Al-Bukhari recorded that Ibn `Abbas said, "Abu Jahl said, `If I see Muhammad praying at the Ka`bah, I will stomp on his neck.' So this reached the Prophet , who said,
«لَئِنْ فَعَلَ لَأَخَذَتْهُ الْمَلَائِكَة»
(If he does, he will be seized by the angels.)''[7]
This Hadith was also recorded by At-Tirmidhi and An-Nasa'i in their Books of Tafsir.[8] Likewise, it has been recorded by Ibn Jarir.[9] Ahmad, At-Tirmidhi, An-Nasa'i and Ibn Jarir, all recorded it from Ibn `Abbas with the following wording: "The Messenger of Allah was praying at the Maqam (prayer station of Ibrahim) when Abu Jahl bin Hisham passed by him and said, `O Muhammad! Haven't I prevented you from this' He threatened the Prophet and thus, the Messenger of Allah became angry with him and reprimanded him. Then he said, `O Muhammad! What can you threaten me with By Allah, I have the most kinsmen of this valley with me in the large.' Then Allah revealed,
[فَلْيَدْعُ نَادِيَهُ - سَنَدْعُ الزَّبَانِيَةَ ]
(Then let him call upon his council. We will call out the guards of Hell!)''
Ibn `Abbas then said, "If he had called his people, the angels of torment would have seized him at that very instant.'' At-Tirmidhi said, "Hasan Sahih.''[10]
Ibn Jarir recorded from Abu Hurayrah that Abu Jahl said, "Does Muhammad cover his face with dust (i.e., from prostration) while he is among you all'' They (the people) replied, "Yes.'' Then he said, "By Al-Lat and Al-`Uzza, if I see him praying like this, I will stomp on his neck, and I will certainly put his face in the dust.'' So the Messenger of Allah came and he began praying, which made it possible for Abu Jahl to stomp on his neck. Then the people became surprised at him (Abu Jahl) because he began retreating on his heels and covering himself with his hands. Then it was said to him, "What's the matter with you'' He replied, "Verily, between me and him is a ditch of fire, monsters and wings.'' Then the Messenger of Allah said,
(If he had come near me, the angels would have snatched him limb by limb.)
The narrator added; "Allah revealed an Ayah, but I do not know whether it is concerning the Hadith of Abu Hurayrah or not:
[كَلاَّ إِنَّ الإِنسَـنَ لَيَطْغَى ]
(Nay! Verily, man does transgress.)
to the end of the Surah.''[11]
Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal, Muslim, An-Nasa'i and Ibn Abi Hatim all recorded this Hadith.[12]
Amusement for the Prophet
Then Allah says,
[كَلاَّ لاَ تُطِعْهُ]
(Nay! Do not obey him.)
meaning, `O Muhammad! Do not obey him in what he is forbidding from such as steadfastness in worship and performing worship in abundance. Pray wherever you wish and do not worry about him. For indeed Allah will protect you and help you, and He will defend you against the people.'
[وَاسْجُدْ وَاقْتَرِب]
(Fall prostrate and draw near (to Allah)!) This is just like what has been confirmed in the Sahih of Muslim on the authority of Abu Salih who reported from Abu Hurayrah that the Messenger of Allah said,
(The closest that a servant can be to his Lord is when he is in prostration. Therefore, make abundant supplications (i.e., while prostrating).)''[13]
It has also been mentioned previously that the Messenger of Allah used to prostrate when he recited
[إِذَا السَّمَآءُ انشَقَّتْ ]
(When the heaven is split asunder.) (84:1) and
[اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِى خَلَقَ ]
(Read! In the Name of your Lord Who has created.)[14] (96:1)
This is the end of the Tafsir of Surah Iqra' (Surat Al-`Alaq). Unto Allah is due all praise and thanks, and He is the Giver of success and protection against error.
Footnotes:
[1] The keeper of the secerts, meaning Jibril.
[2] From this part to the end of the narration is from Az-Zuhri as narrated by Ma’mar, as explained at length by Ibn Hajar in Fath Al-Bari no. 6982.
[3] Ahmad 6:232.
[4] Fath Al-Bari 12:368, and Muslim 1:139.
[5] This “narration” is an unauthentic Hadith. See Al-Hakim 1:106. It is also attributed to a saying of ‘Umar with a weak chain of narration with Ibn Abi Shaybah (26418) and others.
[6] This is a false Hadith, and they also narrate it as a saying of ‘Isa, upon him be peace. It was recorded by Abu Nu-aym in Al-Hilyah 10:14-15, See Ad-Da’ifah no. 422.
[7] Fath Al-Bari 8:595.
[8] Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhi 9:277, and An-Nasai in Al-Kubra 6:518.
[9] At-Tabari 24:649.
[10] Ahmad 1:329, At-Tirmidhi 3349, An-Nasai in Al-Kubra 11684, and At-Tabari 24:648.
[11] At-Tabari 24:649.
[12] Ahmad 2:370, Muslim :2797, and An-Nasai in Al-Kubra 11683.
actually that was last weeks Deen Show but I am a little behind these days..
two things that touched me in this episode: he says that when the AirFrance plane crashed, there was one woman who missed that plane and therefore survived. Two days later she dies in an car accident!!! Subhanallah!!! You cannot turn the destiy away from you, when Allah has planned something to happen to you, you cannot turn it away from you!! We dont know when we are going to die, but for sure it will be exactly at the moment Allah has planned for us!!! second thing was that he said, when you are going to have an exam at school you will do all you can to study the lecture-material, to be very good prepared so that you may please ur teacher and pass the exam.. How many days and weeks have I not looked at the Quran? How many weeks went by without me trying to study the Quran and to memorize some of its words and versets??? Staqfirullah!!! If you fall in love and get a letter from your loved one, how many times per day will you read it? remember him and reflect upon him? You cannot stop thinking of him and miss him every single second right?! But what about Allah? The one who is worthy our submission and true love!!! The one who provides for us, protects us and is the allmighty, all merciful!!! Ya Allah, let me remember you and worship you every single moment in my life, may it be a short life or a long life, please let it be a life lived in your name and in your rememberance. Ameen
Saudades de mim – missing me – in search of myself
This is an attempt to get to know me more, I feel that I have already found myself but there are still some parts missing, some parts not fully developed, parts that needto be discovered in order to complete me, “me, myself and I” as Beyoncé would say it..…
I am planning to simply write about things I like, things I have in mind, things I am thinking about, things that have touched me and things that made me the person I am.
So in short words, this is going to be a blog about things… just like every other blog is.
I am going to write mostly in English, again, just like almost every other blog is.
This is also an attempt to be more available for my family and my friends since I don’t have the chance to be with them as much as I would love to. So maybe through this blog I can show them what my life is about at the moment and to let them feel close to me even when I am far away.
I hope you will enjoy what you see on this blog, if you don’t, please be aware that this is a personal blog with my personal opinions and feelings.
“I believe that harmonies are colours; every time I paint it sharpens my harmony.
Yesterday I tried to paint you, but the colours weren’t beautiful enough.
