8/24/11

Ramadan 10

السلام عليكم
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

1241. Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Prophet (PBUH) said, "If one does not eschew lies and false conduct, Allah has no need that he should abstain from his food and his drink.''

[Al-Bukhari].

Commentary: This Hadith exhorts those observing Saum to fulfill all the requirements of fasting. One should not conduct himself in such a manner that on the one side he observes Saum and on the other he is fearless of Allah. To save himself from Allah's Wrath and to get the reward of the fasts, one must abstain from all sorts of vices, such as cheating, lying, backbiting, and using obscene language. The threat held against such people in this Hadith should make them fear that their Saum will go waste and they would be deprived of its reward. It does not mean that such people should start eating and drinking during Saum but what is intended is that they should save themselves from all kinds of sins so that they may earn the reward of Saum.


8/21/11

Ramadan 9

السلام عليكم
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

1229. Anas (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, "Eat Suhur (predawn meal). Surely, there is a blessing in Suhur.''

[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].

Ramadan 8

السلام عليكم
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

1221. Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, "Observe Saum (fast) on sighting the crescent and terminate it on sighting it (the new moon), but if the sky is cloudy before you, then complete the number (thirty days) of the month.''[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].

8/19/11

Ramadan 7

السلام عليكم
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

1220. Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, "When Ramadan begins, the gates of Jannah are opened, the gates of Hell are closed, and the devils are chained.''

[Al-Bukhari and Muslim]


8/16/11

Ramadan 6

السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

1219. Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Prophet (PBUH) said,"He who observes fasting during the month of Ramadan with Faith while seeking its reward from Allah, will have his past sins forgiven.''[Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

8/8/11

Ramadan 5

السلام عليكم
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

1218. Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, "Every slave of Allah who observes Saum (fasting) for one day for the sake of Allah, Allah will draw his face farther from Hell-fire to the extent of a distance to be covered in seventy years.''

[Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

8/7/11

Ramadan 4

السلام عليكم
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

1217. Sahl bin Sa`d (May Allah be pleased with him): The Prophet (PBUH) said, "In Jannah there is a gate which is called Ar-Raiyan through which only those who observe Saum (fasting) will enter on the Day of Resurrection. None else will enter through it. It will be called out, "Where are those who observe fasting?'' So they will stand up and proceed towards it. When the last of them will have entered, the gate will be closed and then no one will enter through that gate.''
[Muslim]


8/6/11

Gul Ameen. A dua

السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ
If there are any mistakes they are mine feel free to point them out.
..........
O Allah Creator of the whole universe
O Giver of food
O Fashioner
O Bestower
O Beneficent
O Lord
O Merciful
I ask of you
Faith (Iman)
Knowledge (Ilm)
Action (Aml)
Sincerity (Ikhlas)
Manners (Adab)
Humility (Kushu)
Fear (Khauf)
Restraining from Haram (Taqwa)
Hope (Rija)
Acting on your commands (Shariat)
Your Remembrance (Zikr)
Your thanks (Shukr)
Success in both the worlds (Falah)
Certainty (Yaqeen)
Patience (Sabr)
Working hard in Your cause (Saee)
Desiring you (Raghbat)
Loving you (Muhabbat)
Desiring to meet you (Mulaqat)
Feeling comfortable with you (uns)
Becoming my guardian and friend (Wali)
Safety in both worlds (Aafiat)
Blessings (Barkat)
Mercy (Rahmat)
Save me from
Hell (Jahannum)
Make me
Enter Paradise (Jannat)
Propagate your Deen (Tableegh)
Deliver your message to others (Tableegh)
Bear hardships in your cause (Adha)
One who gets up at night (Tahajjud prayer)
I want to worship you (Ibadat)
Do proper prayers on time (Salat)
Fulfill promises (Waada)
Keep my hands open for Charity (Sadaqa)
Let me not waste money by over spending (Mubazzireen)
Save me from
Stinginess (Bukhal)
Idolatry (Shirk)
Hypocrisy (Nifaaq)
Disbelief (Kufr)
Unthankfulness (Kufr)
Greediness (Lalach, Tama)
Anger (Ghadab)
Sudden death (Mout)
Jealousy (Hasad)
Backbiting (Gheebat)
Do not keep my heart attached to anything (Tama)
Mischief of the devil (Shaitaan)
Whispering of the devil (Waswasa)
Trials that mislead us (Fitna)
Vain talk (Laghu)
Wasting time
Lustful things
Seeing evil (Basar)
Hearing evil (Sama)
Keep my heart clean (Khalb)
Keep my body clean (Badan)
Save me from arguments (Ikhtelaaf)
Make Me
Respect my elders (Ikraam)
Love my youngers (Mohabbat)
Forgive others (Ghafar)
Overlook the faults of others ( Afu)
Make my foot firm on the bridge (Sirat)
Brighten my face on the Day of Resurrection ( Yaum ul Qiyama)
Give the book of deeds in my right hand (Kitaab Fe Yameen)
Give me your light (Noor)
Make me read the Quran
Give me understanding of it,
Make me remember it
and read it in the hours of the night and the day.
Give me love of the Quran
Make me believe in it
Act according to it
Make it for me a guide, light, a path to Iman and Mercy
Ya Rab
Accept my prayers
Accept my taraweeh
Give me pious children
Who are hafizu quraan
O Allah! Allow me to die as a Muslim with La ilaha ilallah on my tongue.
Give me good health so that I can spend more years worshipping you but give me death, when death is better for me.
Grant me patience and wisdom in all my affairs.
Forgive us for all our shortcomings and insufficiencies in our good deeds
Accept our prayers and disregard our mistakes and wrongdoings
Grant all of us without a spouse a righteous, loving spouse who will be good for our life, dunya, religion, hereafter.
O Allah! Answer the duas of those oppressed and grant them the best in Jannah
Make us from amongst the pious people (Muttaqeen)
Make us amongst the doers of good (Saleheen)
Save us from doing mischief (Fasad)
Make us fast for your pleasure (Saum)
Make us sent forth good deed and leave some behind that our future generations can continue on our account (Sawab-e-Jariah)
Surely your promise is true
Your meeting in true
Heaven is true
Hell is true
The bridge of Sirat is true
The scale is true (Meezan)
Angels are true (Malaika)
Your books are true (Kitab)
O Allah Daree (bitter grass), Ghassaq (puss from the sinners wounds), Uqba (mountain in hell), Saud
(mountain in hell)
and Jahannum are true.
Jaheem (gloomy place in hell), Hutma (shattering place) Hawia (bottomless pit) are true.
Ya Allah save us from these
Save us from Aghlaal (yokes around the neck) and Salaseel (chains)
O Allah paradise is eternal and true
You are Merciful have mercy on us
O Allah grant us Janaat Ul Firdaus
Jannatul Ma'wa (Garden of Eternity), Janaatul Adn (Garden of Eden)
Jannatul Naeem (Garden of Blessings)
O Allah Make us amongst those people who are foremost in faith (Muqarraboon)
O Allah!
Ya Rahman,
Ya Raheem,
Do not make us amongst those of the left hand.
O Allah Give us our book of deeds in the right hand.
Take easy recokoning from us.
O Allah make us smell the sweet smell of paradise.
O Allah Make us drink from Tasneem
(fountain of drink that comes out of Janat Ul Firdous)
O Allah please do not send a single one of us into the hell fire
O Allah we cannot bear a spark of fire of this world nor a cup of boiling water on us, how will it be that we bear the fire of hell made by lava and which has no bottom with boiling water and puss and food of zaqoom.
O Allah! Please save all of us and leave not a single one of us for hell.
O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for all my sins. I ask You to forgive me for all my wrongdoings [mazalim] against people that You have recorded, for there are many rights [huquq] and dues [mazalim] owed to Your servants that I am burdened with and for which I am hostage [murtahin]. O Allah, even if these (wrongdoings) are many they are insignificant in comparison with the magnitude of Your forgiveness. O Allah, any male or female servant of Yours who has rights upon me, in either that I have unjustly taken from him [ghasabtu] in regards to his land, possession, honor, body; whether he was absent or present; or he or his representatives demanded it from me and neither was I able to return it to him nor did I seek release of it from him. So I ask You through Your benevolence, generosity, and abundance of what You possess that You satisfy them on my behalf, and not give them a position over me that will decrease my good deeds; for You possess what You can satisfy them with on my behalf and I do not possess what to satisfy them with; and do not allow for their bad deeds to find a path over my good deeds on the Day of Judgment.
AAMEEEN

Ramadan 3

السلام عليكم
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ
1216.
Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, "
He who spends a pair in the way of Allah will be called from the gates of Jannah: `O slave of Allah! This gate is better for you' and one who is constant in Salat (prayer), will be called from the Gate of Salat; and whoever is eager in fighting in the Cause of Allah, will be called from the Gate of Jihad; and who is regular in observing Saum will be called from Ar-Raiyan Gate. The one who is generous in charity will be called from the Gate of Charity.'' Abu Bakr (May Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Messenger of Allah (PBUH)! May my mother and father be sacrificed for you! Those who are called from these gates will stand in need of nothing. Will anybody be called from all of those gates?'' He replied, "Yes, and I hope that you will be one of them.''

[Al-Bukhari and Muslim]


The five blessings

السلام عليكم
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ
"My ummah was given 5 things for Ramadan, which were not given to anyone.
(1) The smell from the mouth of a fasting person is sweeter to Allah the that of musk.
(2) The fish in the sea seeks forgiveness for the fasting persons until they break their fast.
(3) Allah prepares and decorates a special garden in paradise everyday and then says (to it). " The time is near when faithful servants will set aside the great trials of the world and come to you."
(4) In this month evil minded Saitan is chained so people can not reach those evils which they normally reach during other months.
(5) On the last night of Ramadan they are forgiven." The Sahaba inquired, " O Messenger of Allah
(صلى الله عليه و سلم ); is the last night Laylatul Qadr?
Rasulullah
(صلى الله عليه و سلم ) replied, " No. But it is the right that a servant is given his reward when he completes his service."
[Ahmed, Bazzar, Bayhaaqi]

8/5/11

Ramadan 2

السلام عليكم
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ
1215. Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, "Allah the Exalted and Majestic said: `Every act of the son of Adam is for him, except As-Siyam (the fasting) which is (exclusively) for Me, and I will reward him for it.' Fasting is a shield. When anyone of you is observing fast, he should neither indulge in obscene language nor should he raise his voice; and if anyone reviles him or tries to quarrel with him, he should say: `I am fasting.' By Him in Whose Hand the soul of Muhammad is, the breath of one observing Saum is sweeter to Allah than the fragrance of musk. The one who fasts, experiences two joys: he feels pleasure when he breaks the fast. He is joyful by virtue of his fast when he meets his Rubb.''
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

In a narration by Al-Bukhari, the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, "Allah says: `(The person observing Saum) has abstained from food and drink, and sexual pleasures for My sake; fasting is for Me, and I will bestow its reward. Every good deed has ten times its reward'.''

In a narration by Muslim, the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, "The reward of every (good) deed of a person is multiplied from ten to seven hundred times. Allah (SWT) says: `The reward of observing Saum is different from the reward of other good deeds; Saum is for Me, and I Alone will give its reward. The person observing Saum abstains from food and drink only for My sake.' The fasting person has two joyous occasions, one at the time of breaking his fast, and the other at the time of meeting his Rubb. Surely, the breath of one observing Saum is better smelling to Allah than the fragrance of musk.''


8/4/11

Ramadan 1

السلام عليكم
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ
سُوۡرَةُ البَقَرَة
يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ كُتِبَ عَلَيۡڪُمُ ٱلصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبۡلِڪُمۡ لَعَلَّكُمۡ تَتَّقُونَ (١٨٣) أَيَّامً۬ا مَّعۡدُودَٲتٍ۬‌ۚ فَمَن كَانَ مِنكُم مَّرِيضًا أَوۡ عَلَىٰ سَفَرٍ۬ فَعِدَّةٌ۬ مِّنۡ أَيَّامٍ أُخَرَ‌ۚ وَعَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ يُطِيقُونَهُ ۥ فِدۡيَةٌ۬ طَعَامُ مِسۡكِينٍ۬‌ۖ فَمَن تَطَوَّعَ خَيۡرً۬ا فَهُوَ خَيۡرٌ۬ لَّهُ ۥ‌ۚ وَأَن تَصُومُواْ خَيۡرٌ۬ لَّڪُمۡ‌ۖ إِن كُنتُمۡ تَعۡلَمُونَ (١٨٤) شَہۡرُ رَمَضَانَ ٱلَّذِىٓ أُنزِلَ فِيهِ ٱلۡقُرۡءَانُ هُدً۬ى لِّلنَّاسِ وَبَيِّنَـٰتٍ۬ مِّنَ ٱلۡهُدَىٰ وَٱلۡفُرۡقَانِ‌ۚ فَمَن شَہِدَ مِنكُمُ ٱلشَّہۡرَ فَلۡيَصُمۡهُ‌ۖ وَمَن ڪَانَ مَرِيضًا أَوۡ عَلَىٰ سَفَرٍ۬ فَعِدَّةٌ۬ مِّنۡ أَيَّامٍ أُخَرَ‌ۗ يُرِيدُ ٱللَّهُ بِڪُمُ ٱلۡيُسۡرَ وَلَا يُرِيدُ بِڪُمُ ٱلۡعُسۡرَ وَلِتُڪۡمِلُواْ ٱلۡعِدَّةَ وَلِتُڪَبِّرُواْ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ مَا هَدَٮٰكُمۡ وَلَعَلَّڪُمۡ تَشۡكُرُونَ (١٨٥)
Al-Baqara
O you who believe! Observing As-Saum (the fasting)[] is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may become Al-Muttaqûn (the pious - see V.2:2). (183) [Observing Saum (fasts)] for a fixed number of days, but if any of you is ill or on a journey, the same number (should be made up) from other days. And as for those who can fast with difficulty, (e.g. an old man), they have (a choice either to fast or) to feed a Miskîn (poor person) (for every day). But whoever does good of his own accord, it is better for him. And that you fast, is better for you if only you know.[] (184) The month of Ramadân in which was revealed the Qur'ân, a guidance for mankind and clear proofs for the guidance and the criterion (between right and wrong). So whoever of you sights (the crescent on the first night of) the month (of Ramadân i.e. is present at his home), he must observe Saum (fasts) that month, and whoever is ill or on a journey, the same number [of days which one did not observe Saum (fasts) must be made up] from other days. Allâh intends for you ease, and He does not want to make things difficult for you. (He wants that you) must complete the same number (of days), and that you must magnify Allâh [i.e. to say Takbîr (Allâhu-Akbar; Allâh is the Most Great) for having guided you so that you may be grateful to Him.[] (185)