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Beware of negligence
Masih al-quloob Mawlana Masihullah Khan (Allah have mercy on him) said,
Stay among people, but remain aloof.
Your body should be among creation, but your heart with the Creator. This will ensure that negligence does not overtake you. Beware of such negligence lest you conform with people in a way which entails opposition to Allah and His displeasure.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Ceramah di Masjid Jamek Sri Petaling
Masjid Jamek Sri PetalingA very good posting taken from http:/// provides us some important guidance how to preserve our iman or belief. Thanks for sharing. Jazakallahu khair!
Pada 15/11/2009, aku ke Masjid Jamek Sri Petaling ikuti program mingguan di sana. Berikut adalah perkara-perkara penting dalam ceramah (maghrib) yang disampaikan oleh Ustadz Hamid:
1) Manusia akan yakin dengan apa yang diusahakan pada setiap hari. Apakah yang kita usahakan hari-hari?
2) Disisi Allah perbezaan antara dua orang yang pergi bekerja dengan iman dan tanpa iman umpama langit dan bumi.
3) Dakwah nabi 13 tahun di Mekah amar makruf untuk hancurkan keyakinan yang salah dalam hati.
4) Sebenarnya kita masih lagi tidak faham bagaimana dengan agama boleh berjaya.
5) Kisah paling banyak diceritakan di dalam al-Quran adalah kisah bani Israel, namun setiap hari tanpa sengaja kita ulang ‘perkataan’ yang pernah dilafazkan oleh bani Israel…
6) Semua kisah di dalam Al-Quran menceritakan kesudahan yang baik (berjaya) adalah bagi orang yang bertaqwa.
7) Dengan agama kita Berjaya. Bagaimana nabi telah tunjukkan agama akan datang pada ummat ini adalah dengan cara yang telah tunjukkan baginda Muhammad Rasulullah saw.
8) Apabila dakwah ditinggalkan maka, generasi masa hadapan yang lahir dengan shahwat mereka meninggalkan solah (kami minta lindungan dari Allah).
9) Nahi munkar = indirect (major)/ direct (minor)
10) Dalam diri kita sendiri ada bukti kekuasaan dan kehebatan Allah yang ditunjukkan.
11) Tidak pergi ke sekolah pun boleh cerita kebesaran dan kehebatan Allah.
12) Perkataan yang betul untuk guna ‘kalau’ adalah supaya kesalahan yang sama tidak berulang semula. Jangan buka ruang pintu syaitan dengan menggunakan ‘kalau’ dengan cara yang salah.
13) Rasa kematian adalah sama seperti dicincang dengan 1000 pedang, namun seorang yang syahid umpama rasa gigitan semut.
14) Apabila kita ada takluk dengan seseorang, kita suka/ rindu nak jumpa. Adakah hati kita ada takluk kepada Allah?
15) Setelah habis ilmu manusia maka bermulalah ilmu anbia’ ‘alaihimusollatu wassalam.
16) Mana yakin kita kepada kehidupan Rasulullah?
17) Allah telah letakkan keredhaan/ janji-Nya pada cara nabi dan yang golongan yang mengikuti nabi.
18) Walau nabi telah wafat, semasa Rom nak menyerang Islam, namun bantuan Allah tetap datang. replica watches Bantuan Allah datang pada amalan agama. Maka, jagalah agamamu!
19) Dua perkara, sama ada jaga agama (Islam) atau jaga orang Islam? Allah akan jaga orang Islam selagi orang Islam jaga agama Allah (Islam). Tiada jaminan dari Allah untuk menjaga orang Islam yang tidak menjaga agama Allah.
Monday, December 7, 2009
The Importance of Fixing a Time for Daily Tilawah
by Dhaakir at http:///
“A person once told me that he was so busy that he did not have any time for daily recitation of the Qur’an. I put the point to him that he did not possess a true appreciation of the Qur’an or a true sense of its importance. We all have countless things to do every day, yet if we can do them but not have time for the Qur’an, it is a sign that we do not give the Qur’an its due importance.
I advised the person to develop a sense of the Qur’an’s greatness in his heart by studying the ahadith pertaining to the status and virtues of the Qur’an. I then advised him to fix a definite time of day, bearing in mind his other commitments, solely for tilawah. He chose to do his tilawah after ‘Isha salah. I told him not to leave the masjid after ‘Isha without having completed his tilawah. Some time afterwards, I learned that he had become punctual in his tilawah.
So we all need to do these two things: 1) realise the greatness of the Qur’an; 2) fix a time for daily tilawah and stick to it.
Beware of the tricks of the nafs in this regard; take the example of someone who, after reaching the masjid, has ten minutes in which he can engage in tilawah. He thinks to himself that ten minutes is insufficient to complete one juz, and his nafs persuades him to do his tilawah afterwards when he has enough time.
This is a trap, for the ‘afterwards’ promised by the nafs will never come! If he had made use of those ten minutes and recited as much as possible, chanel handbags he would have been well on his way to completing his daily tilawah. By following the devious nafs he deprived himself completely of any tilawah.
Treat your nafs as you would your child: without fixing a time every day for your child to attend maktab to study, he/she will not be able to learn. Similarly, without forcing your nafs to do certain things at certain times, you will not get it to do what you want.”
“A person once told me that he was so busy that he did not have any time for daily recitation of the Qur’an. I put the point to him that he did not possess a true appreciation of the Qur’an or a true sense of its importance. We all have countless things to do every day, yet if we can do them but not have time for the Qur’an, it is a sign that we do not give the Qur’an its due importance.
I advised the person to develop a sense of the Qur’an’s greatness in his heart by studying the ahadith pertaining to the status and virtues of the Qur’an. I then advised him to fix a definite time of day, bearing in mind his other commitments, solely for tilawah. He chose to do his tilawah after ‘Isha salah. I told him not to leave the masjid after ‘Isha without having completed his tilawah. Some time afterwards, I learned that he had become punctual in his tilawah.
So we all need to do these two things: 1) realise the greatness of the Qur’an; 2) fix a time for daily tilawah and stick to it.
Beware of the tricks of the nafs in this regard; take the example of someone who, after reaching the masjid, has ten minutes in which he can engage in tilawah. He thinks to himself that ten minutes is insufficient to complete one juz, and his nafs persuades him to do his tilawah afterwards when he has enough time.
This is a trap, for the ‘afterwards’ promised by the nafs will never come! If he had made use of those ten minutes and recited as much as possible, chanel handbags he would have been well on his way to completing his daily tilawah. By following the devious nafs he deprived himself completely of any tilawah.
Treat your nafs as you would your child: without fixing a time every day for your child to attend maktab to study, he/she will not be able to learn. Similarly, without forcing your nafs to do certain things at certain times, you will not get it to do what you want.”
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Knowledge that is useless
by Rawa Muhsin on http:///
Contrary to popular belief, the tree whose fruit Adam and Eve ate was not necessarily an apple tree.
Scholars disagree over the type of the tree. Some people have tried to determine its type by looking into books of hadith, athaar, and the Bible.
But is this issue worth all the debate? Imaam Abu Ja'far at-Tabaree, who was a Mufassir (scholar of tafsir), didn't think so:
وذلك عِلمٌ، إذا عُلم لم ينفع العالمَ به علمه، وإن جهله جاهل لم يضرَّه جهلُه به
"For such type of knowledge: If one knows it, then his knowledge of it doesn't benefit him, and if one is ignorant of it, then his ignorance of it doesn't harm him."*
There are other examples of trivial details that we need to ignore. For example Allah (swt) in Suratul Kahf (chapter 18 of the Quran) talks about how people debated about the number of the Men of the Cave, but after mentioning this He doesn't tell us their real number,chanel handbags because it is not important. Instead He asks us not to dwell on it.
We can look at the Quran to find out what Allah (swt) wants us to focus on. For example, Allah (swt) keeps reminding us of the Day of Judgment, and He keeps describing Paradise and Hell. When Allah constantly reminds us of something, it means He wants us to think about it.
Points to remember
* Don't busy yourself with trivial details that have no benefit for you in this life or the Hereafter. It wastes your time and makes you ignore more important matters.
* To determine what is important, read the Quran. Certain subjects are repeated constantly—these are your priorities.
* The point of this post is not to discourage you from seeking details (you can memorize all the details about Paradise that are mentioned in the Quran, this will be a great Islamic motivation for you); we only mean useless details.
Contrary to popular belief, the tree whose fruit Adam and Eve ate was not necessarily an apple tree.Scholars disagree over the type of the tree. Some people have tried to determine its type by looking into books of hadith, athaar, and the Bible.
But is this issue worth all the debate? Imaam Abu Ja'far at-Tabaree, who was a Mufassir (scholar of tafsir), didn't think so:
وذلك عِلمٌ، إذا عُلم لم ينفع العالمَ به علمه، وإن جهله جاهل لم يضرَّه جهلُه به
"For such type of knowledge: If one knows it, then his knowledge of it doesn't benefit him, and if one is ignorant of it, then his ignorance of it doesn't harm him."*
There are other examples of trivial details that we need to ignore. For example Allah (swt) in Suratul Kahf (chapter 18 of the Quran) talks about how people debated about the number of the Men of the Cave, but after mentioning this He doesn't tell us their real number,chanel handbags because it is not important. Instead He asks us not to dwell on it.
We can look at the Quran to find out what Allah (swt) wants us to focus on. For example, Allah (swt) keeps reminding us of the Day of Judgment, and He keeps describing Paradise and Hell. When Allah constantly reminds us of something, it means He wants us to think about it.
Points to remember
* Don't busy yourself with trivial details that have no benefit for you in this life or the Hereafter. It wastes your time and makes you ignore more important matters.
* To determine what is important, read the Quran. Certain subjects are repeated constantly—these are your priorities.
* The point of this post is not to discourage you from seeking details (you can memorize all the details about Paradise that are mentioned in the Quran, this will be a great Islamic motivation for you); we only mean useless details.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Sabrun Jamil - Beautiful Patience
Source: http:///
Mujâhid said: “Beautiful patience is patience without any panic.” ‘Amr ibn Qays said: “Beautiful patience means to be content with adversity and to surrender to the will of Allâh.”
Yûnus ibn Yazîd said: I asked Rabî‘ah ibn Abu ‘Abdur-Rahmân: “What is the ultimate of patience?” He said: “To be outwardly the same at the time of affliction as one was the day before it struck.” (This does not mean that a person does not or should not feel pain or anguish; patience in this instance means that one refrains from panicking and complaining.)
"Whoever tries to be patient, Allah will make him patient. And nobody can be given a better and greater gift than patience."
(Bukhari: Volume 2, Book 24, No. 548)
Omar ibn Al Khattab said: "Whatever hardship befalls a believing servant, Allah will make an opening for him after it, chanel handbags and one hardship will be overcome by two eases." (Malik Muwatta Book 21, No. 21.1.6)
Commenting on the meaning of Sabrun Jamîl, i.e, beautiful patience, in the verse : "So be patient with a good (i.e, beautiful) patience." (Quran Ma'aarij 70:5) Qays ibn al-Hajjâj said: “The person who is suffering from some affliction should behave in such a way that nobody is able to distinguish him from others (Ibn Qayyim)
Mujâhid said: “Beautiful patience is patience without any panic.” ‘Amr ibn Qays said: “Beautiful patience means to be content with adversity and to surrender to the will of Allâh.”
Yûnus ibn Yazîd said: I asked Rabî‘ah ibn Abu ‘Abdur-Rahmân: “What is the ultimate of patience?” He said: “To be outwardly the same at the time of affliction as one was the day before it struck.” (This does not mean that a person does not or should not feel pain or anguish; patience in this instance means that one refrains from panicking and complaining.)
"Whoever tries to be patient, Allah will make him patient. And nobody can be given a better and greater gift than patience."
(Bukhari: Volume 2, Book 24, No. 548)
Omar ibn Al Khattab said: "Whatever hardship befalls a believing servant, Allah will make an opening for him after it, chanel handbags and one hardship will be overcome by two eases." (Malik Muwatta Book 21, No. 21.1.6)
Commenting on the meaning of Sabrun Jamîl, i.e, beautiful patience, in the verse : "So be patient with a good (i.e, beautiful) patience." (Quran Ma'aarij 70:5) Qays ibn al-Hajjâj said: “The person who is suffering from some affliction should behave in such a way that nobody is able to distinguish him from others (Ibn Qayyim)
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