BENEFIT 96: following one's desires is a type of SHIRK [forwarded]❗️
{أَرَءَیۡتَ مَنِ ٱتَّخَذَ إِلَـٰهَهُۥ هَوَىٰهُ أَفَأَنتَ تَكُونُ عَلَیۡهِ وَكِیلًا}
“Have you seen ˹O Prophet˺ the one who has taken their own desires as their god? Will you then be a keeper over them?
[Surah Al-Furqân: 43]
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Sheikh ‘Uthaymīn rahimahullah said:
“Accepting a ruling even if you don’t know the wisdom behind it, this is better.…
With everyone throwing contemporary, fashionable & unique names at you, it's very easy to forget:
The most beloved names
عبدالله & عبدالرحمن
It was narrated by Abu Dawood on the authority of Abu Wahb al-Jushami radhiyallahu anhu, who said: The Messenger of Allaah ﷺ said:
((أَحَبُّ الأَسْمَاءِ إِلَى اللَّهِ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ وَعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ وَأَصْدَقُهَا حَارِثٌ وَهَمَّامٌ))
“The most beloved of names to Allaah are ‘Abdullaah and ‘Abdur-Rahmaan, and the most truthful are Haarith and…
BENEFIT 95: The difference between 'Afw and Safh
{ وَلۡیَعۡفُوا۟ وَلۡیَصۡفَحُوۤا۟ۗ أَلَا تُحِبُّونَ أَن یَغۡفِرَ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمۡۚ}
[Surah An-Nûr: 22]
'Afw (العفو) is to pardon and avoid taking revenge, and Safh (الصفح) is to avoid blaming & censuring; thus, 'Safh' is more profound in meaning than 'Afw; because a person may pardon a person and avoid taking revenge, but he continues to recall and blame them for what…
BENEFIT 94: Three reasons why we should ask for good dreams
1⃣. Good dreams are a glad tiding:
Abū Hurairah radhiyallāhu 'anhu reported that Allāh's Messenger (ﷺ) said: “Dreams are of three types: one good dream which is a form of glad tiding from Allāh; the evil dream which causes pain is from Shaytaan; and the third one is a suggestion of one's own mind...” [Muslim 2263]
2⃣. It was a practice of the salaf to…
BENEFIT 93: Meaning of 'Sallaa' & 'Salaah'
The word 'Salla' (صَلَّى) comes from 'Salaah' (صَلَاة), and 'Salaah' according to most of the scholars of the Arabic language means, 'Du'aa' (دُعَاء) (supplication) [as ibnul Qayyim stated in Jilaa'il Afhaam].
Similarly, Ibn Qudamah rahimahullah (D 620) wrote in Al-Mughni:
"As-Salah according to the (Arabic) language means Ad-Du'aa (supplication).
Allah the most high…
'Black' is usually associated with being African, just as 'Brown' with being Asian. I didn't intend this in the quiz; as I'm not sure where Musa (peace be upon him) and Luqman the wise (who some of the mufassirun said was black) were originally from. The focus of the quiz as well as the following benefits was to highlight the skin complexion of this great Prophet عليه السلام, aside from his origin.
والله أعلم
BENEFIT 92: Musa عليه السلام was black/brown!
Narrated Ibn `Abbas: The Prophet (ﷺ) said:
((رَأَيْتُ لَيْلَةَ أُسْرِيَ بِي مُوسَى رَجُلًا آدَمَ طُوَالًا جَعْدًا ، كَأَنَّهُ مِنْ رِجَالِ شَنُوءَةَ))
"On the night of my Ascent to the Heaven, I saw Musa who was a tall brown curlyhaired man as if he was one of the men of Shanu'a (a tribe from Yemen whose people are known to be tall)."
[Bukhari]
In another…
BENEFIT 91: Musa Ibn 'Imran -peace be upon him- is the 3rd greatest man to have ever lived!
Sheikh 'Uthaymeen rahimahullah said:
"The best of them (i.e. Ulul 'Azm) is Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم...then Ibrahīm...then Musa; because he is the best of the prophets of the Children of Israel and his law is the origin of their laws, as for Nooh and 'Isaa then we cannot ascertain who is better; because each one has his…
Why Has Allāh Resembled The Dunyā To Water? (forwarded) ⤴️
Imām Al-Qurtubī رحمه الله said:
The wise ones have stated: Allāh resembled the dunyā to water (due to the following reasons):
1⃣. Water does not remain motionless in one place. In the same way, the dunyā does not remain upon one state.
2⃣. Water goes and it does not remain. Likewise, the dunyā comes to an end and it does not remain.
3⃣. No one has the ability to enter into water without getting wet. Likewise,…
BENEFIT 90: If you come across two Attributes of Allah synonymous to one another, affirm them both as two separate/ distinct Attributes of Allah even though they have similar meanings.
For example:
{ وَجَاۤءَ رَبُّكَ} [Al-Fajr: 22]
{یَأۡتِیَ رَبُّكَ} [Al-An`âm: 158]
We affirm the Attributes of:
المجيء & الإتيان (coming)
in the above Ayaat as two separate Attributes, just as Sheikh Harraas mentioned in his…
BENEFIT 89: Allah created four things with His own Hand
'Abdullah Ibn 'Umar (*) radhiyallahu anhu said:
خلق الله أربعة أشياء بيده:
العرش، والقلم، وآدم، وجنة عدن،
ثم قال لسائر الخلق: كن، فكان.
"Allah created four things with His own Hand; the Throne, the pen, Adam, and Jannatu 'Adn. He then said to everything else from the creation: "be," and it was.
Sheikh Albani said: "Saheeh, in line with the condition of…
Jesus will reject and deny what Christians have fabricated in deifying him. On the Day of Judgement, Allāh will ask him, "O Jesus, did you tell them to take yourself and your mother (as the Catholic
Neither did Jesus die for your sins. "They neither killed him or crucified him but Allāh placed the resemblance of him on another man who was killed in his place." The Noble Qur'ān 4:157
You are responsible for your own sins. Jesus does not take any of them. The only one who can forgive sins is Allāh the Creator and Sovereign Lord of everyone and everything that exists.
We invite Christians and all others to…
Just when I resolved to do this, I heard a distinct voice speaking to me, "Allāh is God and Muhammad is His prophet, become a Muslim!" I went to a place near my home, where Muslims worshipped and sat
Allāh says in His Noble Qur'ān with the meaning, “Truly I have only created the jinn and mankind for My exclusive worship alone.” 51:56 And He says, “Truly I have sent to every nation and people, Messengers, telling them to worship Allāh alone and stay away from all false gods.” 16:36 (From these blessed men were the likes of Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jacob, David, John the Baptist and Jesus.) Jesus says in the Noble…
How a Christian became a Muslim
by Ismaa'eel the son of George Gauron
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It was in the winter of 1996, when Michael Anderson, vicar of our local church in Hordle, the New Forest, England was mentioning how Muslims had prevented the BBC from screening a movie which made fun of Jesus. "We Christians protested" he said, "but the BBC didn't pay any attention and it was only when the Muslims objected, that they…
After his death, they put eleven western gurus as replacements for him, all of their pure, pristine, immaculate representatives of Krishna their god and pure representatives of their own master Abhay
I spent many years connected to this exceedingly notorious sect of Hindus, working for them in Britain, America, Europe, China, India, New Zealand and other places. My own chief guru, Tamal Krishna Goswami, a New York Jew who converted in the early days of ISKCON, once boasted to me that if he was to order one of his devoted disciples to jump out of the six storey apartment in building we then used as a temple in…
Hindus claim their religion comes from four books or Vedas, written down 5,000 years ago by an incarnation of one of their gods, called Vyasadeva. They have not one iota of proof for this and even if it were remotely possible that such books were written, all they are is a jumbled collection of fables, mythology and mindless philosophical conjectures and theories that ramble on without evidence or proof.
While…
Not long after this, I embraced Islaam and haven't looked back since then.
So accept Islaam O Hindu and save yourself and your family and friends. With the meaning, He, Allaah says in His Noble Qur'aan, "Truly the only religion accepted by Allaah is strict Islaamic Monotheism, worship of one God and Lord alone. Whoever seeks a religion other than it, this will never be accepted from him and he will be in the Hereafter from the inmates of Jahanam, the Inferno of Hell."
Allaah alone is God…
These women are full breasted, remain eternally youthful, amorous only for their husbands. They have wide lovely eyes and are always cheerful; they have radiant, lustrous complexions as beautiful as p
The Noble Qur'aan, describes Jannah or the Paradise awaiting Muslims as an immense domain full of beautiful trees, flowers and verdant foliage. Through this land whose ground is made of musk, the costliest of perfumes, flow pristine crystal clear rivers of water, milk, honey and an alcohol that never inebriates or intoxicates, yet is the most stimulating and delightful to drink. The blessed inmates of this…
Yet the disbelievers say we oppress women!? In actuality the woman in Islaam is protected and continually supported by her husband and sons and she enjoys a peace and security not found in the women a
With a translation of this meaning, Allaah says,
"Truly, those who disbelieve in the religion of Islaam, from the people of the Scripture, Jews and Christians and the polytheistic Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists etc, will abide in the Fire of Hell for ever. They are the worst of creatures." (al bayinnah 6)
As for fasting in Hinduism, it's as difficult and bizarre as the rest of their religion. Hindus don't have the…
Using their limited intellects, they founded a philosophy or doctrine that led themselves and all who followed it into a great darkness of disbelief and, enslaving themselves and all those who believe
You will find computer programmers, maybe even nuclear scientists, aeronautical engineers and other intelligent men like them in India and now elsewhere, going home from their jobs and then bowing down, praying and singing praises to a rock or stone, they picked up in the Himalaya mountains in India and worshipping it as god! Students of the spiritual masters or gurus of these Hindus are encouraged to remain…
