"Surely, the true religion in Allah's sight is Islam" (3:19)
Assalam Alaykum, Its been a real long time since I have written something here in my own words but I felt the time to do so was right. Firstly I want to apologise if I do not reply to comments quickly or even fail to reply at all. Unfortunately my time has become rather restricted in what Ican do for Haq Islam recently. Just in case you didn’t know I have a wife and two young kids, a full time job,
Read moreMy high school friends told me about Facebook. Since all of them had an account, I decided to create one myself although I was very nonchalant about my account. I had never displayed my pictures on social sites and told myself that I would not display my pictures on Facebook. But then everybody I knew had their pictures on. So, I started uploading pictures, and before I knew it, I had a million pictures of mine there. What happened next
Read moreThere lived in a town a very rich man, who was given every comfort and luxury by Allah. He had a servant who was slightly foolish. One day the rich man called him and presented him with a gift saying: “Keep this in a safe place until you find someone more foolish than yourself. When you do, give it to Him.” The servant replied: “Very good, Sir!” After some time, the rich man became very ill. Many doctors treated him
Read moreBy Aalimah Zafirah Mohammed Graduate of Darul Uloom Trinidad and Tobago All praises are for Allah who has given us life, the air to sustain us and has made us from amongst the best of mankind. Preparation! So much preparation. Everyday we prepare, either for a ceremony or a special occasion or just for our routine household activities in general. But we forget that there is an inevitable day that is coming. A day which we should be preparing for.
Read more8 ways to earn even after your death. Give a copy of the Qur’an to someone. Every time they read from it, you gain. Donate a wheelchair to a hospital. Each time a sick person uses it, you gain. Teach someone to recite a Dua. Share a Qur’anic CD. Participate in building a Mosque. Place a water cooler/ well in a public place. Plant a tree. You gain whenever a person or animal sits in its shade or eats from it.
Read moreShaykh Muhammad Saleem Dhorat hafizahullah on one occasion spoke on the theme of valuing time. As part of the talk, Shaykh very beautifully explained how much loss is incurred through futile activities. He took the example of watching or listening to 90 minutes of football and questioned what benefit 90 minutes bring to a person. The fact is that we don’t gain anything! If we take into account alternative actions of virtue, we will very quickly realise the great loss.
Read moreAssalamu alaikum: You’re probably rolling your eyes already, figuring this is another rant from some “auntie” weighing in on how “bad” Facebook is. But before you click away from it, for the sake of your future, please continue reading. And no, this is not another dumb chain letter. Read on. Once upon a time, I was young like you. I wanted people to like me. I wanted people to think I was funny, smart but not nerdy, and of course,
Read moreThere was a pious man among the Banu Israel who always remained busy in the worship of Allah. A group of people came to him and told him that a tribe living nearby worshipped a tree. The news upset him, and with an axe on his shoulder he went to cut down that tree. On the way, Satan met him in the form of an old man and asked him where he was going. He said he was going to
Read moreIf we were to give an exhaustive account of the benefits of the recitation of “Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim” we would need more than a single volume to do justice to it. Apart from being part of every chapter in the Noble Qur’an (except the chapter of repentance – surah at-tawba), it is also the most often repeated verse in the Holy Qur’an. It is narrated in Tafseere Burhaan that the Holy Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) has said that when a
Read moreShaitaan held a meeting one day, Furious as he watched the muslims in Ramadan pray, And he spoke at length of his ancient plans and dreams, And shouted long and hard emitting screams. If they go on at this rate, They’ll all enter Paradise through Rayyan’s gate, But I promised to lead the children of Aadam astray, This Ramadan thing’s clearly not going my way So one of his chained jinns looked up from the devilish herds, And said if
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