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Neighbours in the Holy
Qur'an
Allah (subhanahu wa ta'ala -SWT / may He be exalted) says:
"Worship Allah, and join not any partners
with Him; and do good- to parents, kinsfolk, orphans, those in
need, neighbours who are near, neighbours who are strangers,
the Companion by your side, the wayfarer (you meet), and what
your right hands possess; For Allah loves not the arrogant, the
vainglorious". (4:36).
Al-Imam al-Qurtubi said: "As for the neighbour, Allah - may He
be exalted - has ordered us, in His Book and through His
Prophet, to protect him, to respect his rights and to care
about his welfare. Do you not see that He, may He be glorified,
has mentioned the neighbour after the parents and the close
relatives, for He, may He be exalted, says, neighbours who are
near (al-Jar Dhi'l-Qurba), meaning those who are related to you
(Qarib), and neighbours who are strangers (al-Jar al-Junub),
meaning those who are not related to you (Gharib). This is the
saying of Ibn Abbas.
In Arabic, the word Junub is defined as Fulan Ajnabi (a
stranger), and the related word Janabah means Bu'd (distance- i.
e. in relationship).
The scholars of Arabic said: Do not prevent me from seeing
Na'il because of Janabah (i. e. not being related to him), for
I am a man who in the midst of a crowd is Gharib (a stranger).
The poet al-Ash'ari said: "I came to visit Hurayth in spite of
Janabah (not being related to him), but he refused to give me
anything [i. e. because of not being related].
Al-Qurtubi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "On this basis,
concern for neighbours is a religious duty, regardless of
whether they are Muslims or Kuffar (non-Muslims), and this is
the sound opinion.
Ilhsan (doing good) could mean consoloing him, treating him
kindly, refraining form disturbing him, and defending him.
Al-Hafith Ibn Hajar said: "Al-Jar al-Qarib means those who are
related by blood, and al-Jar al-Junub means those who are not
so related. This is the opinion of the majority.. Others have
said that al-Jar al-Qarib refers to Muslims and al-Jar al-Junub
refers to non-Muslims, or that al-Jar al-Qarib refers to one's
wife and al-Jar al-Junub refers to one's travelling companions.
Definition of Neighbour:
The word Jar (Neighbour) covers both Muslims and Kafirs,
religious and irreligious, friends and enemies, foreigners and
fellow-countrymen, those who treat you well and those who would
do you harm, relatives and strangers, those whose house is
nearer to yours and those who are further away.
Neighbours fall into various categories. The best are those who
combine all of the [desirable] qualities mentioned above, and
the next best are those who bear most of these qualities, and
so on until we reach the neighbours who bear only one of these
qualities.
The worst neighbours are those who combine all the undesirable
qualities. Each neighbour is accorded rights according to the
category he falls into. If a neighbour exhibits both good and
bad qualities, we must judge which outweighs the other, and
treat him accordingly.
The Extent of the Neighbourhood:
The scholars differed as to the definition and extent of a
Neighbourhood.
Al-Uza'i and Ibn Shihab said: "Forty houses in each direction".
Ali Ibn Abi Talib said: "Whoever hears the call [for prayer] is
a neighbour".
Some scholars say: "Whoever hears the Iqamah [call immediately
preceding prayer, given within the Mosque rather than from the
minaret] is a neighbour of that Mosque".
Other scholars said: "Whoever lives with a man in a locality or
city is a neighbour".
Allah, may He be exalted, said: "Truly,
if the Hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and
those who stir up sedition in the City, desist not, We shall
certainly stir you up against them: then will they not be able
to stay in it as your neighbours for any length of time".
[33:60].
So, He, may He be exalted, considered that the Munafiqin's
(hypocrites) presence in Madinah made them neighbours (of the
Prophet - peace be upon him).
Neighbours fall into different categories; the closest is one's
wife, as the saying goes; Aya Jarata Bini fa-innaka Taliqah ("O
Neighbour- i. e. Wife -get away from me for you are divorced").
Ibn Hajar said: "Ibn Wahb reported from Yunus from Ibn Shihab:
Forty houses to the right, to the left, to the rear and to the
front".
Al-Halimi said: "As for the travelling companion, he is a
neighbour, because he shares one's physical space, and
travelling companions have much to offer each other, as is the
case with neighbours in the same market or village. This is why
Allah has commanded us to take care of him (i. e. the
travelling companion), and Allah knows best.
Allah and His angels send blessings on the Prophet: O ye that
believe! send ye blessings on him and salute him with all
respect. QURAN33/56
Sahih Muslim HadithHadith 235 Narrated byAbuHurayrah
Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said:
When it occurs to my bondsman that he should do a good deed but
he actually does not do it, I record one good deed for him, but
if he puts it into practice, I make an entry of ten good acts in
his favour. When it occurs to him to do evil, but he does not
commit it, I forgive that. But if he commits it, I record one
evil deed against his name. The Messenger of Allah (p.) observed:
The angels said: That bondsman of yours intends to commit evil,
though His Lord is more Vigilant than he. Upon this He (the Lord)
said: Watch him; if he commits (evil), write it against his name,
but if he refrains from doing it, write one good deed for him,
for he desisted from doing it for My sake. The Messenger of Allah
said: He who amongst you is of good faith, all his good acts are
multiplied from ten to seven hundred times (and are recorded in
his name) and all the evils that he commits are recorded as such
(i.e. without increase) until he meets Allah.
Islam's Female Converts
by Priya Malhotra, Newsday.com, February 16
2002 CE
"ALLAHU AKBAR [God is great], Allahu akbar!"
called Muhammad Hannini as about 15 worshipers gathered Sunday in
a mosque in the basement of a home in Richmond Hill, Queens.
Instantly, they knelt and touched their heads to the floor, a
gesture symbolizing submission to God in Islam.
The eight women bent in prayer a few feet behind the men were
dressed in scarves and long dresses or ankle-length skirts. "You
should see my humanity, my compassion, my devotion to God coming
through the surface, not my body," said Sunni Rumsey Amatullah,
who became Muslim a quarter century ago.
The women say they consider the veil and modest dress symbols not
of oppression but of liberation. They say the emphasis on the
female body in the Western world, with all its manifestations in
popular culture, has led to the sexual objectification of women.
And, despite their own often problematic relationships with men,
they say their religion treats each gender equally, though not
identically.
Like Amatullah -- who was born Cheryl Rumsey in Jamaica, Queens,
and raised Episcopalian -- these women are among the estimated
20,000 Americans a year who since the mid-'90s have adopted
Islam, a religion that has been receiving much attention since
the Sept 11 terrorist attacks.
Despite the persistent image of the oppressed Muslim woman, about
7,000 of those converts each year are women, according to the
report of a study led by Ihsan Bagby, a professor of
international studies at Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C. The
study was financed in part by the Council on American-Islamic
Relations, based in Washington. About 14,000 of the total number
of converts in 2000, the report found, were African-American,
4,000 were white and 1,200 were of Hispanic descent. (Members of
the Nation of Islam were not included in the study.)
What is the religion's draw for women? "The tightly structured
way of life, the regular set of responsibilities, where you know
what you believe and you know what you do, attracts some women,"
said Jane I. Smith, professor of Islamic studies at Hartford
Seminary in Connecticut and author of "Islam in America"
(Columbia University Press).
With laws for almost every aspect of life, Islam represents a
faith-based order that women may see as crucial to creating
healthy families and communities, and correcting the damage done
by the popular secular humanism of the past 30 or so years,
several experts said. In addition, women from broken homes may be
especially attracted to the religion because of the value it
places on family, said Marcia Hermansen, a professor of Islamic
studies at Loyola University in Chicago and an American who also
converted to Islam.
Next Saturday, the women, along with Muslims around the world,
will celebrate the festival of Eid ul-Adha marking the end of
hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. They "don't see the
structures as repressive," Hermansen said. "They see them as
comforting and supportive."
Choosing Islam can also be a type of "cultural critique" of
Western materialism, she said. "Islam represents the beautiful,
traditional, grounded and authentic."
"It is Allah talking to you directly," said Amatullah, 50, the
director of an HIV prevention program at Iris House, a
health-care organization in Harlem. She said she converted after
leading a wildly hedonistic lifestyle for several years. "It's a
spiritual awakening. What happens is you're in a fog and you
don't know you are in a fog, and when it clears up you say, ‘Hey,
I thought it was clear back there,'" she said. "My friend's
husband gave me the Quran in my early 20s, because he thought I
was too wild."
At first, Amatullah said, she paid little attention, but she was
profoundly affected when she started delving into the book.
Still, it took about five years and a great deal of
contemplation, she said, before she became truly interested in
Islam and came to believe the Quran was the divine truth. She
said she also was impressed by the rights women had under Islam
in seventh-century Arabia, a time when women in most other
cultures had virtually no power over their lives.
"Islamic law embodies a number of Quranic reforms that
significantly enhanced the status of women," according to John
Esposito, a professor and director of the Center for
Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and
author of "Islam: The Straight Path" (Oxford University Press).
"Contrary to pre-Islamic Arab customs, the Quran recognized a
woman's right to contract her own marriage.
"In addition, she, not her father or male relatives, as had been
the custom, was to receive the dowry from her husband. She became
a party to the contract rather than an object for sale," Esposito
wrote. "The right to keep and maintain her dowry was a source of
self-esteem and wealth in an otherwise male-dominated society.
Women's right to own and manage their own property was further
enhanced and acknowledged by Quranic verses of inheritance which
granted inheritance rights to wives, daughters, sisters and
grandmothers of the deceased in a patriarchal society where all
rights were traditionally vested solely in male heirs. Similar
legal rights would not occur in the West until the 19th century."
Esther Bourne, a 46-year-old accountant in Manhattan, was raised
Catholic by her American mother after her British father died
when she was 6. Spiritually inclined from a young age, she said
she first read the Quran in her mid-20s, because her former
husband, a Muslim, owned a copy. "I would go in and out of it,"
she said.
By her mid-30s, after ending an abusive relationship and enduring
the tragic death of a man she loved dearly, Bourne said she began
a spiritual quest that included classes on Islam at a mosque on
Manhattan's Upper East Side. "When the teachers would explain, my
heart just accepted it," she said. "The heart believed it."
In 1992, at the age of 36, Bourne took her shahada, the
profession of faith that is the first of the five pillars of
Islam. "I don't have panic anymore, and if some misfortune
happens, I just accept the decree from Allah," Bourne said.
"You slowly adjust yourself to an Islamic way of life, thinking
about God, doing good deeds," Amatullah said. "Some days I do it
better than others."
Amina Mohammed, a 58-year-old dental assistant at the Veterans
Administration hospital in St. Albans, has been a Muslim for more
than 20 years. She was born Doris Gregory, the daughter of an
American Indian mother and a Jamaican father, and was raised as a
Lutheran. She said she stopped going to church when she was 16.
Two years later, she began an active spiritual quest by reading
about Buddhism, Hinduism and American Indian religions, but, she
said, none of them was what she was looking for -- a way to pray
to one God in one form. "I was so disappointed," she said. "I
knew that there was a correct religion, but I just hadn't found
it. But I believed in God -- I was no atheist."
In her mid-30s, after two failed marriages and two daughters --
who are now 27 and 33 -- she said she felt a desperate need for
spiritual direction and coincidentally was exposed for the first
time to Islam. "This is what I had always felt in my heart," she
said.
For about three years she studied the religion; she began to cut
down on dating and to cover her head occasionally. Then she went
to a mosque in Manhattan and "saw women from different countries
and from different races praying together," she said. "I thought
this is how it should be on earth."
Amatullah, who lives in St. Albans, has been married and divorced
three times since she converted to Islam. Her first husband was
from Sudan, the second was from Egypt and the third was
Italian-American; all were Muslim. Allah gives both men and women
the right to divorce, she said, and she initiated each split.
Although the Quran does not prohibit women from gaining an
education or having a career, the converts said, it is a woman's
primary responsibility to take care of her children.
"Look at the Western society of today with the breakdown of
family, the mother being out of the home and the children being
alone," said Bourne, who is single and has a 28-year-old son. "I
had problems because I practically had to raise my son alone."
Their faith, the three converts said, has not been shaken by the
Sept. 11 attacks, carried out by men who said they were acting as
Muslims. The distortion of Islam by extremists and terrorists,
the women stressed, should not lead to the condemnation of a
great religion.
"To kill innocent lives," Amatullah said, "is anti-Islamic
- Yosuf Ali Quran TranslationSurah An-Nisaa
Ayats 9&10
Let those (disposing of an estate) have
the same fear in their minds as they would have for their own if
they had left a helpless family behind: let them fear Allah and
speak words of appropriate (comfort).
Those who unjustly eat up the property
of orphans eat up a fire into their own bodies: they will soon be
enduring a blazing fire!
Sahih Muslim HadithHadith 213 Narrated
byAbuHurayrah
The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon
him) observed: Be prompt in doing good deeds (before you are
overtaken) by turbulence which would be like a part of the dark
night. During (that stormy period) a man would be a Muslim in the
morning and an unbeliever in the evening or he would be a
believer in the evening and an unbeliever in the morning, and
would sell his faith for worldly goods.
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 9.651
Narrated byAbu Said Al Khudri
The Prophet said, "There will emerge
from the East some people who will recite the Qur'an but it will
not exceed their throats and who will go out of (renounce) the
religion (Islam) as an arrow passes through the game, and they
will never come back to it unless the arrow, comes back to the
middle of the bow (by itself) (i.e., impossible). The people
asked, "What will their signs be?" He said, "Their sign will be
the habit of shaving (of their beards). (Fateh Al-Bari, Page 322,
Vol. 17th)
A. Yusuf Ali Quran
TranslationSurah At-Tauba Ayat111
Allah hath
purchased of the believers their persons and their good; for
theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His
cause and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth
through the Law the Gospel and the Qur'an: and who is more
faithful to his covenant than Allah? Then rejoice in the bargain
which ye have concluded: that is the achievement supreme.
Sahih Al-Bukhari
HadithHadith 8.771 Narrated byUmar bin Al Khattab
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During the lifetime of the Prophet there was a man called
'Abdullah whose nickname was Donkey, and he used to make Allah's
Apostle laugh. The Prophet lashed him because of drinking
(alcohol). And one day he was brought to the Prophet on the same
charge and was lashed. On that, a man among the people said, "O
Allah, curse him! How frequently he has been brought (to the
Prophet on such a charge)!" The Prophet said, "Do not curse him,
for by Allah, I know for he loves Allah and His Apostle."
A Yusuf Ali Quran TranslationSurah Al-i'Imran Ayat 200
O you who believe! persevere in patience and constancy: & in
such perseverance; strengthen each
other; and fear Allah; that you may prosper.
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 1.40 Narrated byAbu Huraira
Allah's Apostle said, "If any one of you improve (follows
strictly) his Islamic religion then his good deeds will be
rewarded ten times to seven hundred times for each good deed and
a bad deed will be recorded as it is."
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 1.41 Narrated byAisha
Once the Prophet came while a woman was sitting with me. He
said, "Who is she?" I replied, "She is so and so," and told him
about her (excessive) praying. He said disapprovingly, "Do (good)
deeds which is within your capacity (without being overtaxed) as
Allah does not get tired (of giving rewards) but (surely) you
will get tired and the best deed (act of Worship) in the sight of
Allah is that which is done regularly."
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 1.424 Narrated byIbn Umar
The Prophet had said, "Offer some of your prayers (Nawafil) at
home, and do not take your houses as graves."
A. Yusuf Ali Quran TranslationSurah Al-Baqara Ayat256,
256 Let there be no compulsion in religion. Truth stands out
clear from error; whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah has
grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold that never breaks. And
Allah hears and knows all things.
(There is no compulsion to enter into Islam but once a person
declares his religion ie Islam then he has to follow ISLAM ie
QURAN &HADITH to the fullest extent)
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Sahih Muslim HadithHadith 192 Narrated byAbuDharr
The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) observed: Three are
the (persons) with whom Allah would neither speak on the Day of
Resurrection, nor would look at them nor would absolve them, and
there is a painful chastisement for them. The Messenger of Allah
(peace be upon him) repeated it three times. AbuDharr remarked:
They failed and they lost; who are these persons, Messenger of
Allah? Upon this he (the Prophet) observed: They are: the dragger
of lower garment, the recounter of obligation, the seller of
goods by false oath.
A. Yusuf Ali Quran TranslationSurah Al-Baqara Ayat1-7
1 A.L.M.
2 This is the Book; in it is guidance sure without doubt to
those who fear Allah.
3 Who believe in the Unseen are steadfast in prayer and spend
out of what We have provided for them.
4 And who believe in the Revelation sent to thee and sent
before thy time and (in their hearts) have the assurance of the
Hereafter.
5 They are on (true) guidance from their Lord and it is these
who will prosper.
6 As to those who reject Faith it is the same to them whether
thou warn them or do not warn them; they will not believe.
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- Allah hath set a seal on their hearts and on their hearing
and on their eyes is a veil; great is the penalty they (incur).
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 9.646 Narrated byAisha
Allah's Apostle said, "The painter of these pictures will be
punished on the Day of Resurrection, and it will be said to them,
'Make alive what you have created.' "
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 9.648 Narrated byAbu Huraira
I heard the Prophet saying, "Allah said, 'Who are most unjust
than those who try to create something like My creation? I
challenge them to create even a smallest ant, a wheat grain or a
barley grain.' "
A. Yusuf
Ali Quran TranslationSurah Al-Fat-h Surah 48 Ayat29
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Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah; and those who
are with him are strong against Unbelievers (but)
compassionate amongst each other.
Thou wilt see them bow and prostrate themselves (in
prayer) seeking Grace from Allah and (His) Good
Pleasure. On their faces are their marks (being) the
traces of their prostration. This is their similitude
in the Torah; and their similitude in the Gospel is:
like a seed which sends forth its blade then makes it
strong; it then becomes thick and it stands on its own
stem (filling) the sowers with wonder and delight. As a
result it fills the Unbelievers with rage at him. Allah
has promised those among them who believe and do
righteous deeds Forgiveness and a great Reward.
A. Yusuf Ali Quran TranslationSurah Al-i'Imran Ayat200
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O ye who believe! persevere in patience and constancy:
vie in such perseverance; strengthen
each other; and fear Allah; that ye may prosper.
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Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 1.47 Narrated byAbu
Huraira
One day while the Prophet was sitting in the company
of some people, (The angel) Gabriel came and asked, "What
is faith?" Allah's Apostle replied, 'Faith is to believe
in Allah, His angels, (the) meeting with Him, His
Apostles, and to believe in Resurrection." Then he
further asked, "What is Islam?" Allah's Apostle replied,
"To worship Allah Alone and none else, to offer prayers
perfectly to pay the compulsory charity (Zakat) and to
observe fasts during the month of Ramadan." Then he
further asked, "What is Ihsan (perfection)?" Allah's
Apostle replied, "To worship Allah as if you see Him, and
if you cannot achieve this state of devotion then you
must consider that He is looking at you." Then he further
asked, "When will the Hour be established?" Allah's
Apostle replied, "The answerer has no better knowledge
than the questioner. But I will inform you about its
portents.
1. When a slave (lady) gives birth to her master.
2. When the shepherds of black camels start boasting
and competing with others in the construction of higher
buildings. And the Hour is one of five things which
nobody knows except Allah.
The Prophet then recited: "Verily, with Allah (Alone)
is the knowledge of the Hour--." (31. 34) Then that man
(Gabriel) left and the Prophet asked his companions to
call him back, but they could not see him. Then the
Prophet said, "That was Gabriel who came to teach the
people their religion." Abu 'Abdullah said: He (the
Prophet) considered all that as a part of faith.
He knoweth the Unseen and that which is open: He is the Great
the Most High.
It is the same (to Him) whether any of you conceal his speech
or declare it openly; whether he lie hid by night or walk freely
by day. QURAN13/9,10
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Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 9.651 Narrated byAbu Said Al
Khudri
The Prophet said, "There will emerge from the East some people
who will recite the Qur'an but it will not exceed their throats
and who will go out of (renounce) the religion (Islam) as an
arrow passes through the game, and they will never come back to
it unless the arrow, comes back to the middle of the bow (by
itself) (i.e., impossible). The people asked, "What will their
signs be?" He said, "Their sign will be the habit of shaving (of
their beards). (Fateh Al-Bari, Page 322, Vol. 17th)
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Fiqh-us-Sunnah
Fiqh 1.22
Letting one's beard grow and become thick
This is a feature of dignity. It should not be cut so short
that it appears like a shaved beard, nor should it be left so
long that it becomes untidy. It is also a sign of manhood. Says
al-Bukhari, "Whenever Ibn 'Umar made the hajj or 'umrah, he would
hold his beard in his fist and, whatever exceeded his fist, he
would cut off."
Surah Al-Asr Surah 103 3 Ayahs
Ayah 1 Yusuf Ali By (the Token of) time (through the Ages)
Transliteration Wal ashr
Ayah 2 Yusuf Ali Verily Man is in loss
Transliteration In nal insa_na lafi khusr
Ayah 3 Yusuf Ali Except such as have Faith and do righteous
deeds and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth and of
Patience and Constancy.
Transliteration Il lal ladzina a_ma_nu_ wa amilush sha_liha_ti
wa tawashau bil haq qi wa tawa_shau bish shabr
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 9.651 Narrated byAbu Said Al
Khudri
The Prophet said, "There will emerge from the East some people
who will recite the Qur'an but it will not exceed their throats
and who will go out of (renounce) the religion (Islam) as an
arrow passes through the game, and they will never come back to
it unless the arrow, comes back to the middle of the bow (by
itself) (i.e., impossible). The people asked, "What will their
signs be?" He said, "Their sign will be the habit of shaving (of
their beards). (Fateh Al-Bari, Page 322, Vol. 17th)
Istakhara prayer
The following is from the book "Selected
Prayers" compiled by Dr.
J.Badawi.
When seeking guidance in decision-making (Istikharah)
"Allahomma Inni Astakheeroka Bi3ilmik. Wa'astaqdiroka Biqodratik.
Wa'as'aloka min Fadlikal3azeem. Fa'innaka Taqdiru Wala Aqdir.
Wata3lamo Wala-a3lam. Wa'anta-3allamul ghuyoob. Allahomma In
Kunta
Ta3lamu Anna (Hathal-Amra) Khayul-lee Fi Deenee Wama3ashi
Wa3ajila
Amri Wa'ajilah, Faqdorho lee, Wayassirho lee, Thomma-barik lee
fih.
Wa'in Konta Ta3lamo Anna (Hathal-Amra) sharrul-lee Fi Deenee.
Wama3ashi. Wa3ajila Amri. Wa'ajilaho. Fasrifho 3annee. Wasrifnee
3anh. Waqdur leyal-khayr Haytho kan. Thomma ardini Bih."
English Translation:
"I seek Your guidance (in making a choice) by virtue of Your
knowledge, and I seek ability by virtue of Your power, and I ask
You
of Your great bounty. You have power, I have none. And You know,
I
know not. You are the Knower of hidden things. O Allah! If in
Your
knowledge, (this matter) is good for my religion, my livelihood
and
my affairs; immediate and in the distant, then ordain for me,
make it
easy for me and bless it for me. And if in Your knolwedge, (this
matter) is bad for my religion, my livelihood and my affairs;
immediate and in the distant, then turn it away from me,and turn
me
away from it. And ordain for me the good wherever it be and make
me
pleased with it."
Notes:
1. The above du'a is to be recited when there is uncertainty
about
the advisability of taking a decision, provided it is Islamically
permissable.
2. After performing wudu' (ablution), one should offer two rakahs
(sunnah required for this purpose).
3. Before receiting the dua' it should be made sure that the
person
is not already inclined to a given decision; otherwise it will
mean
the person is not serious about seeking guidance from Allah (SWT).
4. In making this dua' the actual matter or decision concerning
which
divine guidance is being sought should be mentioned instead of
the
words (Hathal Amra) in trasnliteration or the words "this matter"
in
the translation above.
Yusuf Ali
Those who love (to
see) scandal published broadcast among the Believers will have a
grievous Penalty in this life and in the Hereafter: Allah knows
and ye know not. QURAN 24 /19
Transliteration
In nal lazina yuhib
bu_na an tasyial fa_hisatu fi lazina a_manu_ lahum aza_bun alimun
fid dun ya_ wal a_khirah wal la_hu yalamu wa antum la_ talamu_n
Quran 24 / 19
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 1.66 Narrated byAbu Waqid Al
Laithi
While Allah's Apostle was sitting in the mosque with some
people, three men came. Two of them came in front of Allah's
Apostle and the third one went away. The two persons kept on
standing before Allah's Apostle for a while and then one of them
found a place in the circle and sat there while the other sat
behind the gathering, and the third one went away. When Allah's
Apostle finished his preaching, he said, "Shall I tell you about
these three persons? One of them betook himself to Allah, so
Allah took him into His grace and mercy and accommodated him, the
second felt shy from Allah, so Allah sheltered Him in His mercy
(and did not punish him), while the third turned his face from
Allah and went away, so Allah turned His face from him likewise.
"
Marry those among you who are single or
the virtuous ones among your slaves male or female: if they are
in poverty Allah will give them means out of His grace: for Allah
encompasseth all and He knoweth all things. QURAN 24 / 32
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Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 9.651 Narrated byAbu Said Al
Khudri
The Prophet said, "There will emerge from the East some people
who will recite the Qur'an but it will not exceed their throats
and who will go out of (renounce) the religion (Islam) as an
arrow passes through the game, and they will never come back to
it unless the arrow, comes back to the middle of the bow (by
itself) (i.e., impossible). The people asked, "What will their
signs be?" He said, "Their sign will be the habit of shaving (of
their beards). (Fateh Al-Bari, Page 322, Vol. 17th)
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 1.25
Narrated byAbu Huraira
Allah's Apostle was asked, "What is the
best deed?" He replied, "To believe in Allah and His Apostle
(Muhammad). The questioner then asked, "What is the next (in
goodness)? He replied, "To participate in Jihad (religious
fighting) in Allah's Cause." The questioner again asked, "What is
the next (in goodness)?" He replied, "To perform Hajj (Pilgrimage
to Mecca) 'Mubrur, (which is accepted by Allah and is performed
with the intention of seeking Allah's pleasure only and not to
show off and without committing a sin and in accordance with the
traditions of the Prophet)."
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 1.27
Narrated byAbdullah bin Amr
A person asked Allah's Apostle . "What
(sort of) deeds in or (what qualities of) Islam are good?" He
replied, "To feed (the poor) and greet those whom you know and
those whom you don't know."
Abu Hurairah
(may Allah be pleased with him) reported
that he heard the Messenger of Allah (may
the peace and blessings of Allah be upon
him) saying:
A woman
is married for four things; for her
property, for her accomplishments, for her
beauty and for her religion. Select one
having religious temperament. May your
hands be rubbed with dust.
(Agreed upon)
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Lessons
Deduced
- The Hadith urges
Muslim men to choose a righteous wife,
which is considered the best thing one
should seek in this life.
- Following are
the effects of seeking a religious woman:
the man becomes reassured that he has
chosen a good wife who will know all about
him; he guarantees that his children will
be brought up well and that she will spend
his money wisely and keep the good name of
the family. These are the cornerstones of
the happiness of any family. Therefore,
religion is considered the most important
criterion in choosing one's wife. |
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