Daily Archives: December 21, 2011
Performing Wudhû (Ablution)
“O you who believe! When you intend to offer As-Salaah (the prayer), wash your faces and your hands (forearms) up to the elbows, rub (by passing wet hands over) your heads, and (wash) your feet up to the ankles”
[The Holy Quran Surrah Al-Maa’idah 5:6]
Narrated Abû Hurayrah radhiAllâhu `anhu: Allâh’s Apostle sallAllâhu `alayhi wa sallam said:
When a bondsman – a Muslim or a believer – washes his face (in course of ablution), every sin he contemplated with his eyes will be washed away from his face along with water, or with the last drop of water ; when he washes his hands, every sin they wrought will be effaced from his hands with the water, or with the last drop of water; and when he washes his feet, every sin towards which his feet have walked will be washed away with the water, or with the last drop of water, with the result that he comes out pure from all sins.
[Sahîh Muslim]
The Qur’an. Says Allah in the Qur’an, “O you who believe, when you rise for prayer, wash your faces and your hands up to the elbows and lightly rub your heads and (wash) your feet up to the ankles.
(The Holy Quran, Surrah al-Mai’dah 6).
Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said,
“The congregational prayer of anyone amongst you is more than twenty (five or twenty seven) times in reward than his prayer in the market or in his house, for if he performs ablution completely and then goes to the mosque with the sole intention of performing the prayer, and nothing urges him to proceed to the mosque except the prayer, then, on every step which he takes towards the mosque, he will be raised one degree or one of his sins will be forgiven.
The angels will keep on asking Allah’s forgiveness and blessings for everyone of you so long as he keeps sitting at his praying place.
The angels will say,’O Allah, bless him! O Allah, be merciful to him!’ as long as he has ablution or does not do a thing which gives trouble to the other.”The Prophet further said, ”One is regarded in prayer so long as one is waiting for the prayer.”
Bukhari (Book #34, Hadith #330)
Narrated Uthmân ibn AffânradhiAllâhu `anhu:
The Messenger of Allâh sallAllâhu `alayhi wa sallam said: He who performed ablution well, his sins would come out from his body, even coming out from under his nails. [Sahîh Muslim].
What to say before and after ablution(Wudu’) ?
ماذا نقول قبل وبعد الوضوء
قبل الوضوء
Before you start Say: Bismillaher Rahmaaner Rahim بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم
Which means: In the Name of Almighty Allah.
And…
بعد الوضوء
It is also recommended (sunnah) to say after one finishes wudu’:
أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لاَ إِلهَ إِلاَّ اللهُ وَحْدَهُ لاَ شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ،
اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْنِي مِنَ التَّوَابِينَ وَاجْعَلْنِي مِنَ الْمُتَطَهِّرِينَ.
Ash-hadu alla ilaha illallahu wahdahu la sharika lah. Wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan ^abduhu warasuluh. Allahumma j^alni minat-tawwabina waj^alni minal-mutatahhirin.
This means: “I bear witness that no one is God but Allah only, with no partners and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.
O Allah, make me among those who repeatedly repent and purify themselves.”
Performing Umrah and Hajj
Narrated by Abû Huraira : The Prophet sallAllâhu `alayhi wa sallam said,
“Whoever performs Hajj for Allâh’s pleasure and does not have sexual relations with his wife, and does not do evil or sins then he will return (after Hajj free from all sins) as if he were born anew.”
[Sahîh Al-Bukhari]
Abdullah ibn Mas’ud radhiAllâhu `anhu narrated that the Prophet sallAllâhu `alayhi wa sallam said:
“Alternate between Hajj and ‘Umrah (regularly), for these two remove poverty and sins just as the blacksmith’s bellows removes all impurities from metals like iron, gold and silver. The reward for Hajj Mabrur is nothing short of Paradise.”
[Nasa’i and Tirmidhi, who regards it a sound hadîth ]
Narrated Abû Huraira radhiAllâhu `anhu: Allâh’s Apostle sallAllâhu `alayhi wa sallam said,
“(The performance of) ‘Umra is an expiation for the sins committed (between it and the previous one). And the reward of Hajj Mabrur (the one accepted by Allâh) is nothing except Paradise.”
[Sahîh Al-Bukhari]
Control your Tongue!!!
“PICK YOUR TEETH”
ONE OF THE GREATEST SINS BUT TIME AFTER TIME WE R DOING IT
Sometimes we don’t even realise it. You’re just chatting away with your friends and you begin to talk about somebody else. Our whole lives are based around ‘Home and Away’ and ‘Neighbours’, soaps based on lying, backbiting etc.
But look at what the Prophet (SAWS) said about it:
The Prophet Salalahu Alayhi Wasallam was sitting with his companions one day and one of them was speaking badly about someone who wasn’t there. As the man got up to leave the Prophet (SAWS) said to him: “Pick Your Teeth!” “But I haven’t eaten anything,” the man protested. “No,” the Prophet (SAWS) said “YOU HAVE EATEN THE FLESH OF YOUR DEAD BROTHER“.
As Allah tells us in the Quran:“Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? No, you would hate it.”
(Al-Qur’an 49:12)
But What If It’s True?!
The Prophet (SAWS) told us:”Backbiting is to say something about someone they wouldn’t like said about them….If what bad you said about them is true, then you have backbited and if it is false then you have slandered them.”(MUSLIM)
If you’re still not convinced of how big a sin backbiting really is,
then look at the punishment Allah has in store for the backbiters.
The Prophet (SAWS) described:
“On the night of me’raaj I passed by some people who had metal hooks in their hands and were clawing at their faces and their necks with them. I asked Gabriel ‘Who were these people?’ He said ‘These are the people who eat the flesh of human beings and disgrace them’ (Abu Dawud).
This is how big a sin backbiting is looked upon and yet we continue to
backbite without a second thought. Next time you lie, talk about
somebody,remember Allah (swt) and the Prophet (SAWS) and put them in front of you before you speak.
Grace of Almighty Allah
Which Favours Of Allah Will We Deny?
فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ
“Which is it, of the favours of your Lord, that ye deny?” (The Noble Quran,Surah Rahman 55:13)
Allah’s Favours upon us:
* Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.
* Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
* Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colors surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
* Our lungs inhale over two million liters of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.
* Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.
* Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.
* Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells.
* We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.
* When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.
* We have over 600 muscles.
* We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.
* We are about 70 percent water.
* We make one liters of saliva a day.
* Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system:
* It warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
* In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
* We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies.
DID WE THANK OUR CREATOR TODAY?
REMEMBER: WORSHIP THE CREATOR, NOT HIS CREATIONS.
He got dressed, made his ablution and was on his way to the masjid.
On his way to the masjid, the man fell and his clothes got dirty.
He got up, brushed himself off, and headed home. At home,
H e changed his Clothes, made his ablution, and was, again,on his way to the masjid.
On his way to the masjid, H e fell again and at the same spot!
He, again, got up, brushed himself off and headed home.
At home he, once again, changed his clothes,
made his ablution and was on his way to the masjid.
On his way to the masjid, he met a man holding a lamp.
he asked the man of his identity and the man replied I saw you fall twice
on your way to the masjid, So i brought a lamp so I can light your way.’
The first man thanked him profusively and the
two where on their way to the masjid.
Once at the masjid, the first man asked the man with
the lamp to come in and pray Fajr with him.
The second man refused.
The first man asked him a couple more times and,
again, the answer was the same.
The first man asked him why he did not wish to come in and pray.
The man replied I am Shetan(devil/ evil)
The man was shocked at this reply.Shetan went on to explain,
‘I saw you on your way to the masjid and it was I who made you fall.
When you went home,cleaned yourself and went back on your way to the masjid,
Allah forgave all of your sins.
I made you fall a second time, and even that did not encourage you to stay home,
but rather, you went back on your way to the masjid.
Because of that, Allah forgave all the sins of the people of your household .
I was AFRAID if i made you fall one more time,
then Allah will forgive the sins of the people of your village,
so I made sure that you reached the masjid safely..’
<———- END ———–>
So do not let Shetan benefit from his actions.
Do not put off a good that you intended to do as you never know how much reward
you might receive from the hardships you encounter while trying to achieve that good.
Islam; The Religion of Peace 