tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9630138663669339612024-03-13T06:15:05.979-07:00TRAPKNOWLEDGEWhen the Salaf were during a class and when their paper used to run out, they used to start writing on their sleeves. When the place would run out, they would take off their shoes and write on their upper clean part. They would, then, go home bare feet on scorching sand. As soon as they would reach home, they would copy the ‘Ilm down on paper.
We have the internet. Lets use it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-963013866366933961.post-22079872554134586502013-03-26T06:40:00.001-07:002013-06-24T07:05:35.114-07:00There is No God ...
The basis of our entire belief starts with a simple statement لَا إِلَّهَ (There is NO إِلَّه). The reason I didn't define that word إِلَّهَ is because it doesn't just mean God. إِلَّهَ means someone or something that is loved, adored, worshipped and obeyed.
The reason the true definition is important because we are not muslim until we have completelyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-963013866366933961.post-30278114491320755202013-03-20T05:46:00.001-07:002013-03-20T11:49:42.174-07:00Everyone wants to be happy but ...
In Surah Taha (20:124) Allah says:
"And whoever turns away from My remembrance - indeed, he will have a depressed life, and We will gather him on the Day of Resurrection blind."
The word ضَنكًا does not just mean 'depressed'. If we look at different translations and the Tafsir, the better english word used is 'straitened'.
Poverty here is not poverty of material life but povertyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-963013866366933961.post-25456507853132389832011-10-18T07:50:00.000-07:002011-10-18T08:01:55.207-07:00Awesomeness of Istighfar!!!
A lady who had to provide for her children and asked the shaykh "Ya shaykh i'm so poor i cannot feed my children properly, what should i do?"
The shaykh responded by saying - Do istighfar, in all of your affairs, all the time, working or resting, sitting or standing. So the lady did istighfar (saying Astaghfirullah, or Astaghfirullah wa atubu ilaih) to the extent it reached 1000s of times a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-963013866366933961.post-37788174181330005022011-06-25T04:21:00.000-07:002013-06-24T07:12:24.708-07:00Prophet's Smile"Better than you my eyes have never laid uponand more beautiful than you no woman has ever given birth toit is as if you were born free from every deficiencyor it is as if you were created as you yourself had pleased"
INTRODUCTION TO HIS CHARACTER
He was always seen to be smiling.
He never got angry for himself nor did he avenge himself, only when Allah's laws were being violated. Even then itUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-963013866366933961.post-8715759831894265712011-04-18T17:29:00.000-07:002011-04-18T18:01:23.738-07:00Allah is Greater than ____ الله اگبر*These Notes are based on the Meaningful Salah class taught by Sheikh Abdul Nasir Jangda*
الله [Allah] - Not derived from any root but a unique name of divinity.
اگبر [Akbar] - Great or Greatest.
الله اگبر - Put together, it means: Allah is Greater than ____?
The common misconception is that it means 'Allah is Great'. But the actual meaning as given above leaves the listener withUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-963013866366933961.post-121410714729343172011-03-17T09:00:00.000-07:002011-07-01T05:39:48.333-07:00Description of Salah*These Notes are based on the Meaningful Salah class taught by Sheikh Abdul Nasir Jangda*
وَمَا كَانَ اللَّهُ لِيُضِيعَ إِيمَانَكُمْ And thus we have made you just a community that you will be witnessed over the people and the Messenger will be witness over you. And we did not make the Qiblah which you used to face except that We might make evident who would follow the Messenger and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-963013866366933961.post-13539907292653382242011-03-05T17:11:00.000-08:002011-04-18T18:04:02.677-07:00Importance of Salah*These Notes are based on the Meaningful Salah class taught by Sheikh Abdul Nasir Jangda*
حدبث: أول ما يحاسب عليه العبد يوم القيامة الصلاة، فان صلحت صلح سائر عمله إن فسدت فسد سائر عمله'رواه الطبر اني Rasulullah (SAW) said, “The first matter that the slave will be brought to account for on the Day of Judgment is the prayer. If it is sound, then the rest of his deeds will be sound. And Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-963013866366933961.post-5696708893329094532011-03-01T06:24:00.000-08:002011-03-05T19:24:01.294-08:00Repentance [Imam ash-Shaafi`ee]Al-Muzni who is Abu lbraaheem Isma`eel ibn Yahya said:
"I entered upon ash-Shaafi'ee during his illness which resulted in his death, so I said to him: 'What is your condition?' He replied: "I am journeying from this world, and departing from my brothers, drinking from the cup of death, and upon Allaah - Exalted is His remembrance - arriving. And no! By Allaah, I do not know if my soul is Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-963013866366933961.post-37824405400862661322011-02-28T13:48:00.000-08:002011-07-01T05:49:36.724-07:00Definition of Salah*These Notes are based on the Meaningful Salah class taught by Sheikh Abdul Nasir Jangda*
Linguistic Definition of Salah:
صئلا - Connection
Root of the word Salah
الصلوان - Hips
The hips are the most important part of movement. Just like in any sports, the most important part of the body to strengthen is the core. For a muslim Salah is the core of our deen.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-963013866366933961.post-41859498736178802082011-02-27T15:22:00.000-08:002011-03-16T05:27:45.980-07:00Tools of the Shaitan [Wisam Sharieff]These notes are based on a lecture by Wisam Sharieff - [Youtube]
وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَاكُمْ ثُمَّ صَوَّرْنَاكُمْ ثُمَّ قُلْنَا لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ اسْجُدُوا لِآدَمَ فَسَجَدُواإِلَّا إِبْلِيسَ لَمْ يَكُن مِّنَ السَّاجِدِينَ And We have certainly created you, [O Mankind], and given you form. Then We said to the angels, "Prostrate to Adam"; so they prostrated, except for Iblees. He was not of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2