tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88779870442247163392024-03-04T23:27:46.431-08:00Salvation PathA Blog for Seekers of Truth.inamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06250727633118233063noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8877987044224716339.post-41468669786058231462017-09-14T10:39:00.001-07:002017-11-22T01:53:43.773-08:00Rohingya.... A heart touching tale ....taken from Al jazeera<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My name is Ahessan, I am 30 years old. Before the crisis, I was a farmer in my home village of Chin Khali, but I also taught English to children after work, so I was a very busy man. </div>
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On the morning of August 25, I was having breakfast with my family when the military entered the village and started firing their guns at us. It was indiscriminate and five members of my family died.<br />
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I found my mother lying on the floor with bullet wounds in her back, my sister lay nearby with stab wounds to her face and body. It was the most distressing scene I have witnessed, but I did not have time to be sad as I was scared the military would shoot me, too.</div>
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A soldier tried to rape my sister, she resisted but they still beat her up. She is so traumatised that she has not spoken a word since, and she can barely move - my brother and I carried her here with some bamboo and a blanket. </div>
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We saw many terrible things on the road to <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/bangladesh.html" style="background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 80, 121) !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" target="_self">Bangladesh</a> - there were dead bodies, children crying and old people starving. When we reached the border there were over a thousand other <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/08/rohingya-muslims-170831065142812.html" style="background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 80, 121) !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" target="_self">Rohingya</a> trying to cross the river - eventually, we found a boat which took us across. </div>
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Our life in Bangladesh is very miserable - we do not have proper shelter, there is no sanitation and there is not enough space for all the <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/subjects/refugees.html" style="background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 80, 121) !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" target="_self">refugees</a> to sleep. We are living, but it is so horrible we might as well be dead. I worry that the Rohingya people will die out soon - if we stay in <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/myanmar.html" style="background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 80, 121) !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" target="_self">Myanmar</a> then we will be killed, but here we have no life. </div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I believe the whole world is helping and supporting us and for that, I am very grateful. But I want the world to put themselves in our shoes - we are humans in the same way that you are humans, yet you are citizens of a country and we are not. I appeal to the whole world, please let us be citizens of a country, let us live like you. </span></div>
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inamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06250727633118233063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8877987044224716339.post-51930219333895218462016-10-20T20:28:00.000-07:002016-10-20T20:28:35.301-07:00Woman before and after Islam<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22182" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22183" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><br id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22185" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22186" style="line-height: 1.22em;">Islam: The True Liberator of women</b></span></span></div>
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<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22188" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22189" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22190" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22191" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22192" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /></span></b><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22193" style="line-height: 1.22em;">After this long history of injustice, Allah, the Most Exalted showered His Mercy on humanity by a Religion (Islam) the teaching of which came to change the ugly human history and to create a life which humanity had never witnessed before in all its civilizations.</span></span></span></div>
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<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22195" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22196" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><br id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22198" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22199" style="line-height: 1.22em;">Women in the Quran:</b></span></span></div>
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<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22204" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22205" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;">The Noble Quran, Muslims' Infallible Book revealed by Almighty Allah, is replete with verses speaking about women, which indicates the honorable status Islam holds for them. There is a full Soorah (Chapter) named: "Women". This Chapter is among the longest ones in the Quran. Hereunder are some of such verses (which mean):<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<ul id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22207" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;">
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22208" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22209" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22210" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22211" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22212" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22213" style="color: blue; line-height: 1.22em;">{…And due to the wives is similar to what is expected of them, according to what is reasonable.}<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22214" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span></i></b><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22215" style="line-height: 1.22em;">[Quran 2:228]</span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22216" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22217" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22218" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22219" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22220" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22221" style="color: blue; line-height: 1.22em;">{…And live with them in kindness.}</span></i></b><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22222" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22223" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span>[Quran <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1898234334" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 1.22em; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="line-height: 1.22em; position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4:19</span></span>]</span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22224" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22225" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22226" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22227" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22228" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /></span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22229" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22230" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22231" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22232" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22233" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22234" style="color: blue; line-height: 1.22em;">{…do not prevent them… (from remarrying their [former] husbands if they agree among themselves on an acceptable basis).}</span></i></b><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22235" style="line-height: 1.22em;">[Quran</span><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22236" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22237" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1898234335" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 1.22em; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="line-height: 1.22em; position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4:19</span></span>]</span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22238" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22239" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22240" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22241" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22242" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22243" style="color: blue; line-height: 1.22em;">{…But give them [a gift of] compensation - the wealthy according to his capability and the poor according to his capability.}</span></i></b><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22244" style="line-height: 1.22em;">[Quran<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22245" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22246" style="line-height: 1.22em;">2:236]</span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22247" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22248" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22249" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22250" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22251" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22252" style="line-height: 1.22em;">{<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22253" style="color: blue; line-height: 1.22em;">Lodge them [in a section] of where you dwell out of your means and do not harm them in order to oppress them.}</span></span></i></b><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22254" style="line-height: 1.22em;">[Quran<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22255" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22256" style="line-height: 1.22em;">65:6]</span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22257" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22258" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22259" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22260" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22261" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22262" style="color: blue; line-height: 1.22em;">{…give them their due compensation as an obligation.}</span></i></b><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22263" style="line-height: 1.22em;">[Quran<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22264" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22265" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1898234336" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 1.22em; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="line-height: 1.22em; position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4:24</span></span>]</span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22266" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22267" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22268" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22269" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22270" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22271" style="color: blue; line-height: 1.22em;">{… and for women is a share of what the parents and close relatives leave.}</span></i></b><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22272" style="line-height: 1.22em;">[Quran</span><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22273" style="line-height: 1.22em;">4:7]</span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22274" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22275" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22276" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22277" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22278" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22279" style="color: blue; line-height: 1.22em;">{…for women is a share of what they have earned.}</span></i></b><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22280" style="line-height: 1.22em;">[Quran<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22281" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22282" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1898234337" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 1.22em; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="line-height: 1.22em; position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4:32</span></span>]</span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22283" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22284" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22285" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22286" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22287" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22288" style="color: blue; line-height: 1.22em;">{…and give them from the wealth of Allah which He has given you.}</span></i></b><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22289" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22290" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span>[Quran<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22291" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22292" style="line-height: 1.22em;">24:33]</span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22293" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22294" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22295" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22296" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22297" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22298" style="color: blue; line-height: 1.22em;">{… and you (husbands) are their (wives) garments.}</span></i></b><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22299" style="line-height: 1.22em;">[Quran<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22300" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22301" style="line-height: 1.22em;">2:187]</span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22302" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22303" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22304" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22305" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22306" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22307" style="color: blue; line-height: 1.22em;">{…seek not against them means (of annoyance).}</span></i></b><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22308" style="line-height: 1.22em;">[Quran<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22309" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22310" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1898234338" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 1.22em; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="line-height: 1.22em; position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4:34</span></span>]</span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22311" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22312" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22313" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22314" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22315" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22316" style="color: blue; line-height: 1.22em;">{…it is not lawful for you to inherit women by compulsion…} </span></i></b><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22317" style="line-height: 1.22em;">[Quran<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22318" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22319" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1898234339" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 1.22em; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="line-height: 1.22em; position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4:19</span></span>]</span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22320" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22321" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22322" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22323" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22324" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22325" style="color: blue; line-height: 1.22em;">{And do not make difficulties for them in order to take [back] part of what you gave them…}<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22326" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span></i></b><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22327" style="line-height: 1.22em;">[Quran<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22328" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22329" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1898234340" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 1.22em; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="line-height: 1.22em; position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4:19</span></span>]</span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22330" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22331" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22332" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><b id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22333" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22334" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22335" style="color: blue; line-height: 1.22em;">{…either you retain her on reasonable terms or release her with kindness.}</span></i></b><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22336" style="line-height: 1.22em;">[Quran</span><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22337" style="line-height: 1.22em;">2:229]</span></span></span></li>
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<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22372" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22373" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;">Whenever he<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22375" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span><img align="middle" alt=" sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam ( may Allah exalt his mention )" border="0" class="CToWUd" data="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgEmn_6GJ07aIyRSkbIQkFPs7TYLqrn6zamJ3cUmTKxTWhzIx9LARkKQ5VMcZxS6r4glYfE8M-PkqlF11Y9wyaq4PHELa4LWlbz4tn3irRcJquPW1335g50d3unO-nXfvO1K95uLR4MHwdD6A=s0-d-e1-ft" id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhFpgS8d-rcq6ibnVn7DI1fD1sEqW8t5Gsn9NFrwlSh_UtPqVoQ3VgRsPYo5dw6eY7elj9rwAyRx-JvzEwhkaJN_GBPAPFca_LQO7W_PmPqPFMA5NAnixj17bUPnqUusCF5mFVKHyB4VpdDWtsrrQ_JeOdSEhc54Q=s0-d-e1-ft" style="float: none; line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" /><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22377" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span>was given a gift or something he<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22378" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span><img align="middle" alt=" sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam ( may Allah exalt his mention )" border="0" class="CToWUd" data="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjHf1-nGncnqBt-Ry_ktcMNzRnANrL0NgJ9iM65fGatMKWRkvs8CcYsSnP6QhsTfO8Z4HYge1alGJcqyy4ksHC6Q08iSwgDY7d9giUsN8TZ4i74ITx5BerLbnGOQOhRfMlpFxh6gSxlKAJwag=s0-d-e1-ft" id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhFpgS8d-rcq6ibnVn7DI1fD1sEqW8t5Gsn9NFrwlSh_UtPqVoQ3VgRsPYo5dw6eY7elj9rwAyRx-JvzEwhkaJN_GBPAPFca_LQO7W_PmPqPFMA5NAnixj17bUPnqUusCF5mFVKHyB4VpdDWtsrrQ_JeOdSEhc54Q=s0-d-e1-ft" style="float: none; line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" /><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22380" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span>would say:<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22381" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22382" style="line-height: 1.22em;">"Take this to so and so because she was a friend of Khadeejah’s</i><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22383" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span>(his wife, may Allah be pleased with her)" [as a token of his<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22384" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span><img align="middle" alt=" sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam ( may Allah exalt his mention )" border="0" class="CToWUd" data="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjTIz0pCyJWUOkTi2hQRQ-Lg4wsiqhvh_bzt2gV0Iwhf8hpg0Fk_E38wL_pQnNUstZz1GP7FSQ06-B9E2ey9-keimndZYOupveYFSL2vo8vyoLg_Qg3iHD4smLUotCfOXINk514uqArAfME2Q=s0-d-e1-ft" id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhFpgS8d-rcq6ibnVn7DI1fD1sEqW8t5Gsn9NFrwlSh_UtPqVoQ3VgRsPYo5dw6eY7elj9rwAyRx-JvzEwhkaJN_GBPAPFca_LQO7W_PmPqPFMA5NAnixj17bUPnqUusCF5mFVKHyB4VpdDWtsrrQ_JeOdSEhc54Q=s0-d-e1-ft" style="float: none; line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" /><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22386" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span>loyalty to her may Allah be pleased with her after death].<br id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22387" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22388" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />He<span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22389" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span><img align="middle" alt=" sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam ( may Allah exalt his mention )" border="0" class="CToWUd" data="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiCaeGJVo5I6ZOotdOu-aP0DINztsKj8vIwa6RbXmnp87t-70wTNt_UXBhIdHXqmeba7jdVzIcMEZqodNpulI8QMaWlLu8j3mfu4H5ZM_aYESpjBUmY9KaQ403prL1b0bG0dMmnQYVTViNqCg=s0-d-e1-ft" id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhFpgS8d-rcq6ibnVn7DI1fD1sEqW8t5Gsn9NFrwlSh_UtPqVoQ3VgRsPYo5dw6eY7elj9rwAyRx-JvzEwhkaJN_GBPAPFca_LQO7W_PmPqPFMA5NAnixj17bUPnqUusCF5mFVKHyB4VpdDWtsrrQ_JeOdSEhc54Q=s0-d-e1-ft" style="float: none; line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" /><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22391" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span>said:</span></span></div>
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<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22393" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22394" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22395" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22396" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22397" style="color: green; line-height: 1.22em;">"Treat women good."</span></i><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22398" style="line-height: 1.22em;">[Al-Bukhari and Muslim]</span></span></span></li>
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<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22405" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22406" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22407" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22408" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22409" style="color: green; line-height: 1.22em;">"You (men) are responsible for providing for them (women) in the best way".</span></i><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22410" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22411" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span>[Muslim]</span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22412" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22413" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22414" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22415" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22416" style="color: green; line-height: 1.22em;">"The most rewarding wealth is the wealth you spend on your family".</span></i><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22417" style="line-height: 1.22em;">[Ahmad]</span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22418" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22419" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22420" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22421" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22422" style="color: green; line-height: 1.22em;">"From the good fortune of the man is a righteous wife".</span></i><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22423" style="line-height: 1.22em;">[At-Tayaalisi]</span></span></span></li>
<li id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22424" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-left: 15px;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22425" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22426" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em;"><i id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22427" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22428" style="color: green; line-height: 1.22em;">"Whatever you spend (on your family) is counted as a charity, even the morsel of food that you feed your wife".</span></i><span id="m_-3758266034513547134yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1476855724350_22429" style="line-height: 1.22em;">[Maalik]</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Life is a mystery which cannot be solved merely by walking in darkness. As a consumer when we buy a brand new electronic device we refer the manual to know how to use same way humans are the best of all the creations it is the most sophisticated and delicate work of the creator the Quran says </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">LAQAD QALAQNAL INSANA FEE AHSANI TAQWEEM</span><br />
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<i style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Certainly We created man in the best make.</span></i><br />
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<strong>By Ibn Al-Qayyim</strong></div>
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Enjoining good and forbidding evil, amr bi’l-ma’ruf wa’n-nahiy an al-munkar, is the pivot and most important principle in Islam and it is the main reason why Allah sent His Prophets and Messengers to His creatures. If this principle is not implemented and put into practice, then prophethood is ineffective, the deen fades away, misguidance, corruption and ignorance prevail, civilizations decline, and nations are destroyed.</div>
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Whenever this principle has been extinguished, people follow their desires and whims, ignore their Lord, and live like animals — and then you can hardly find anyone who adheres to the principle of enjoining good and forbidding evil, even though the reward of putting it into practice is great in the sight of Allah.</div>
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<strong>The Obligation to Enjoin Good and Forbid Evil</strong></div>
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Allah says:</div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><b>"Let there be a community among you who call to the good, and enjoin the right, and forbid the wrong. They are the ones who have success."</b></span><br />
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Allah also says:</div>
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"They are not all the same. There is a community among the People of the Book who are upright.They recite Allah’s Signs throughout the night, and they prostrate. They have iman in Allah and the Last Day, and enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and compete in doing good. They are among the salihun."<br />
(3: 113-114)</blockquote>
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In the above verse, Allah does not accept their righteousness just by their believing in Allah and the Last Day, until He has added to it the principle of enjoining good and forbidding evil.</div>
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In another verse, Allah says:</div>
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"The men and women of the muminun are friends of one another. They command what is right and forbid what is wrong."<br />
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Here Allah refers to the believers as those who enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil — therefore, anyone who forsakes this pillar is excluded from the ranks of the believers.</div>
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In another verse, Allah has cursed some of the tribe of Israel for abandoning the principle of enjoining good and forbidding evil. He says:</div>
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"Those among the tribe of Israel who were kafir were cursed on the tongue of Dawud and that of ‘Isa, son of Maryam. That is because they rebelled and overstepped the limits. They would not restrain one another from any of the wrong things that they did. How evil were the things they used to do!"<br />
(5: 78-79)</blockquote>
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Whereas, Allah has praised those who have implemented the principle of enjoining good and forbidding evil. He says:</div>
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"You are the best nation ever to be produced before mankind. You enjoin the right, forbid the wrong and have iman in Allah."<br />
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Abu Sa’eed al-Khudri said, ‘I heard the Messenger of Allah say’,</div>
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"He who amongst you sees something objectionable should change it with the help of his hand; and if he does not have the strength to do it, then he should reject it with his tongue; and if he does not have the strength to do it, then he should reject it in his heart — and that is the least of faith." [7]</blockquote>
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This hadith shows that rejecting evil should be done according to your strength and ability, but should be done at least with your heart, because if your heart does not deny evil, this means that your iman is gone. Therefore you must change evil with your hand and tongue if you are able to do so, but in any event you must reject it with your heart — and this is an obligation and the least of faith — otherwise Allah’s punishment will come.</div>
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Hudhaifah related that the Prophet (salalahu alayhim wa salam) said,</div>
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"By Him in Whose hand my soul is, you must enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil, or Allah will certainly soon send punishment from Him to you. Then you will make supplication and not receive any answer."[8]</blockquote>
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An-Nu’man Ibn Bashir related that the Prophet said,</div>
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"The metaphor of a person who complies with Allah’s orders and prohibitions in comparison to those who violate them is like the metaphor of some people who drew lots for their seats in a boat. Some of them were given seats on the upper deck, and the others on the lower deck. When those on the lower deck needed water, they would have had to go up to fetch the water, so they said, ‘Let us make a hole in our part of the ship and save those who are above us from our troubling them.’ If the people on the upper deck let the others do what they suggested, all the people in the boat would be destroyed, but if they prevented them, both groups would be safe."[9]</blockquote>
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Abdullah Ibn Mas’oud related that the Prophet said,</div>
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"There was never a Prophet sent before me by Allah to his nation who did not have among his people disciples and companions who followed his ways and obeyed his command. Then after them came their successors who said what they did not do, and did what they were not commanded to do. Whoever strove against them with his hand was a believer; whoever strove against them with his tongue was a believer; and whoever strove against them with his heart was a believer; and beyond that there was no faith, not even as much as a mustard seed."[10]</blockquote>
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Abu Bakr related that the Prophet said,</div>
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"If acts of disobedience occur among any people and they do not change them even though they are able to do so, Allah will soon punish them all."[11]</blockquote>
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<u>Footnotes</u>:</div>
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[7] Muslim, 2/22-25; At-Tirmidhi, 9/18-19; Abu Dawud, 1128; An-Nasa’i’, 8/111; Ibn Majah, 4013.</div>
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[8] At-Tirmidhi, 9/17; classified as hasan. Albani also classifies it as hasan.</div>
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[9] Al-Bukhari, 5 / 132; At-Tirmidhi, 9/19.</div>
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[10] Muslim, 2/27.</div>
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[11] Abu Dawud, 4316; Ibn Majah, 4005; Ahmed, 1/16.</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Talha Faiyazuddin....... Student MBBS</span></b><br>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">O</span>n a bench, by the side of a lake with my eye balls rolling in all possible directions, I found the love of my life. The sun was rising; the world of my side was getting lit and also was my brain and heart. After a night of darkness and loneliness, at last there was the time of illumination.</b><br>
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<b>The largest object, full of energy which one can see every day, the sun with its heat and brightness, brought another day. There are mobile energy generators of different companies, moving on four wheels and providing electricity of 1000 of watts to people. But, this sun had no wheels or any stand supporting it; it was just there every day with its own. I could not think of any ‘Co. Ltd’ or ‘Bros.’, which could have made the sun. </b><br>
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There were clouds floating in the sky, carrying a form of water to rain at places, taking shapes one can imagine. Though there are water tankers carrying 5000 liters of water throughout the city, it is only the clouds which could bring life to the dead soil, and make the trees look rejuvenated. I could not think of any ‘Co. Ltd’ or ‘Bros.’, which could have manufactured them on demand.<br>
Leaving the ornaments, when I tried to look behind them into the blue background, the eyes could not reach the end (even the telescopes haven’t). I was looking for a defect in the curtain, the sky, to know what is beyond, in every attempt my sight returned worn out and frustrated. The sky was entirely perfect, high without any pillars.<br>
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</div><a href="https://salvation-path.blogspot.com/2013/11/when-i-found-fell-in-love-and-submitted.html#more">Read more »</a>inamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06250727633118233063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8877987044224716339.post-57292510688440145362013-11-15T08:45:00.003-08:002013-11-15T08:57:30.294-08:00True Path Towards Salvation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dear Readers,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Those who believe that we have been created by a creator always try to ponder how to achieve true salvation, some follow human words and think that this being or that being can lead us to salvation but when we confront them and ask can you please give us clear proofs they ask us to blindly follow their words. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Some others just show some tricks and try to fool the gullible public to believe that they can lead them to salvation but a serious seeker of truth will never come in there trap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <a href="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcShlil751ofSVBxBUxWZrhL5jbmiLQygsceN2bQJChcHgP2tm0rSw" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcShlil751ofSVBxBUxWZrhL5jbmiLQygsceN2bQJChcHgP2tm0rSw" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Now the big question is how to find the true path, If we are really serious and willing to do all the sincere efforts to find it ,such determination if it exist then finding the true path is not at all difficult.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> First if we look at the religious heads they can only be followed if they really show concrete proof , alas they run away once we question them or they are shy to admit that they are just following say Paul or this or that man. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> If we turn towards divine guidance then a ray of hope comes and we turn towards them ,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First lets analyse Bible .. No doubt it is a revelation from Almighty Creator but later generations not only played with the text they also interpolated and added new text in it making it a error prone revelation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Read about it from this pdf which can be downloaded from this link</span><br />
<a href="https://archive.org/download/50000ErrorsInBibleBySheikhAhmedDeedat/50000_errors_in_the_Bible.pdf"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> https://archive.org/download/50000ErrorsInBibleBySheikhAhmedDeedat/50000_errors_in_the_Bible.pdf</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If we move towards the Qur'an which claims to be the final revelation,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It starts with verses which shows how a creation is supposed to ask from the creator and what is the biggest need of a human it is the right path,once the prayer in chapter one completes the straight path asked in the first chapter is answered by beginning with this is a book which has got no doubt and this unique statement cannot be shown in any other book other than the Qur'an.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The above statement is not the only distinct one, Qur'an challenges the readers to show any contradiction in the whole Qur'an ,it also asks the whole humanity to come together an make 10 chapters like them and at one place it asks to make atleast one chapter like it,and it declares that Humans cannot create a single chapter even the smallest chapter similar to the chapter of the Qur'an.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Leave alone theses challenges the path Qur'an shows is so clear that it mentions the purpose of Man's Creation and declares that it is to see who does the best of deeds (chapter 67 verse 2).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It connects all the puzzles of human life and gives in a clear picture of life from birth to death, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it declares that </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lets come and explore this divine revelation and lets crack the Puzzle of Life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Please read the Quran Translation and commentary at the below link</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.islamicstudies.info/tafheem.php"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">http://www.islamicstudies.info/tafheem.php</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Please download this book to understand Islam</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.sa.niu.edu/msa/books/towardsunderstandingislam.pdf"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">http://www.sa.niu.edu/msa/books/towardsunderstandingislam.pdf</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">May Almighty Creator lead us to the right path .... Ameen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Please E-Mail me if you have any doubts mohd.inam@gmail.com</span><br />
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inamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06250727633118233063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8877987044224716339.post-23724099202166301622013-08-25T08:42:00.001-07:002013-08-25T08:42:16.177-07:00Egypt's dead - dehumanised and disregarded - Al Jazeera English<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/08/20138221351599341.html#.UholveYAcio.blogger">Egypt's dead - dehumanised and disregarded - Opinion - Al Jazeera English</a>inamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06250727633118233063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8877987044224716339.post-32688093667918949902013-08-20T18:18:00.001-07:002013-08-20T18:18:28.978-07:00We Will ask Military for Coup if Muslim Brotherhood wins ...Israel said Long back<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/DWnr27FvNhs" width="480"></iframe>inamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06250727633118233063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8877987044224716339.post-78006308098040290202013-08-18T12:03:00.001-07:002013-08-18T12:03:36.277-07:00Egypt Crisis a Blot on Human Rights Activist<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As tragedy is occupying day by day in many Egyptian homes with Egyptian Military in the garb of protectors of Civilians is trying hard to gain back the lost power which it kept holding for so many decades the World is mostly silent with few voices in favor of those who are fighting for legitimacy of there right to freedom..<br />
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The most cruel part of this present crisis is on one hand we have USA the champion of Human Rights which not only kept a sinful silence but from back door it provided the much needed help to dethrone a civilian government and kept its hypocritic policy of supporting the tyrants. One the other hand we have the Arab World (Except Qatar) which is providing the much needed cash to carry on the Murder of the innocents.<br />
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Sooner or later the People will win insha Allah how hard the West and its faithful try to fool the public by using propaganda war.<br />
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inamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06250727633118233063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8877987044224716339.post-68267378620509083832013-07-26T04:03:00.000-07:002013-07-26T04:03:03.738-07:00The Importance of Acquiring Knowledge in Islam<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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To seek knowledge is a sacred duty, it is obligatory on every Muslim, male and female. The first word revealed of the Qur?an was "<b>Iqra</b>" READ! Seek knowledge! Educate yourselves! Be educated.</div>
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Surah Al-Zumr, ayah 9 reveals: "<b>Are those equal, those who know and those who do not know?</b>" Surah Al-Baqarah, ayah 269 reveals: "<b>Allah grants wisdom to whom He pleases and to whom wisdom is granted indeed he receives an overflowing benefit.</b>"</div>
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Centuries old monarchy, colonialism and the oppressive rule of their own people have brought about moral and spiritual degeneration of Muslims throughout the world. To retrieve them from this degeneration, it?s about time that the Muslim Ummah restructures its educational priorities along Islamic lines, fulfilling the existing needs as well. By virtue of such an educational program, the future generations will become the torch-bearers of Islamic values and play an effective role in the present world. The challenges of modern times call for rebuilding the structure of our educational program on such a foundation as to fulfil our spiritual as well as temporary obligations. Today we need an education system which can produce, what the late Sayyid Abul A?la Mawdudi said, "Muslim philosopher, Muslim scientist, Muslim economist, Muslim jurist, Muslim statesman, in brief, Muslim experts in all fields of knowledge who would reconstruct the social order in accordance with the tenets of Islam."</div>
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The Muslims today are the most humiliated community in the world. And should they persist in following the same educational program as given by their colonial masters, they will not be able to recover themselves from moral and spiritual decadence.</div>
Ibn Mas?ud (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (S) said: The position of only two persons is enviable; the person whom Allah bestowed wealth empowering him to spend it in the way of righteousness, and the person whom Allah gave wisdom with which he adjudges and which he teaches to others.<br />
According to <i>Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah</i>, Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Messenger of Allah (S) said: A single scholar of religion is more formidable against shaytaan than a thousand devout persons.<br />
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Islam is our greatest gift. We have to be thankful for this gift. We have to render to Allah His due. Allah has given us so much by making us a part of the Ummah of the Prophet Muhammad (S) so we must totally commit ourselves as followers of the Prophet (S). We must become true Muslims.</div>
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Now how can we become Muslims in the true sense of the word? First let?s define what a Muslim is. A Muslim is not a Muslim simply because he?s born one.<b>A Muslim is a Muslim because he is a follower of Islam</b>, a submitter to the Will of Allah. We?re Muslim if we consciously and deliberately accept what has been taught by the Prophet Muhammad (S) and act accordingly. Otherwise we?re not true Muslims.</div>
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The first and most crucial obligation on us is to acquire knowledge and secondly to practice and preach this knowledge. No man becomes truly a Muslim without knowing the meaning of Islam, <b>because he becomes a Muslim not through birth but through knowledge</b>. Unless we come to know the basic and necessary teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (S) how can we believe in him, have faith in him, act according to what he taught? It is impossible for us to be a Muslim, and at the same time live in a state of ignorance.</div>
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It is essential to understand that the greatest gift of Allah ? for which we are so over whelmed with gratitude ? depends primarily on knowledge. Without knowledge one can?t truly receive Allah?s gift of Islam. If our knowledge is little, then we will constantly run the risk of losing that magnificent gift, which we have received unless we remain vigilant in our fight against ignorance.</div>
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A person without knowledge is like someone walking along a track in complete darkness. Most likely his steps will wander aside and he easily can be deceived by shaytaan. This shows that our greatest danger lies in our ignorance of Islamic teachings and in our unawareness of what the Qur?an teaches and what guidance has been given by the Prophet (S). But if we are blessed with the light of knowledge we will be able to see plainly the clear path of Islam at every step of our lives. We shall also be able to identify and avoid the dangerous paths of Kufr, Shirk and immorality, which may cross it. And, whenever a false guide meets us on the way, a few words with him will quickly establish that he is not a guide who should be followed.</div>
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On this knowledge depends whether our children and we are true Muslims and remain true Muslims. It is therefore not a trivial to be neglected. We do not neglect doing whatever is essential to improve our trades and professions. Because we know that if we do neglect, we will starve to death and so lose the precious gift of life. Why then should we be negligent in acquiring that knowledge on which depends whether we become Muslims and remain Muslims? Does such negligence not entail the danger of losing an even more precious gift ? our Iman? Is not Iman more precious than life itself? Most of our time and labor is spent on things, which sustain our physical existence in this life. Why can we not spend even a tenth part of our time and energy on things, which are necessary to protect our Iman, which only can sustain us in the present life and in the life to come? It is not necessary to study extensively to become a Muslim. We should at least spend about one hour out of twenty-four hours of the day and night in acquiring the knowledge of this Deen, the way of life, the Islam.</div>
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Every one of us, young or old, man or woman, should at least acquire sufficient knowledge to enable ourselves to understand the essence of the teachings of the Qur?an and the purpose for which it has been sent down. We should also be able to understand clearly the mission, which our beloved Prophet (S) came into this world to fulfil. We should also recognize the corrupt order and system, which he came to destroy. We should acquaint ourselves, too, with the way of life which Allah has ordained for us.</div>
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No great amount of time is required to acquire this simple knowledge. If we truly value Iman, it cannot be too difficult to find one hour every day to devote for our Iman.</div>
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Knowledge is identified in Islam as worship. The acquiring of knowledge is worship, reading the Qur?an and pondering upon it is worship, travelling to gain knowledge is worship. The practice of knowledge is connected with ethics and morality ? with promoting virtue and combating vice, enjoining right and forbidding wrong. This is called in the Qur?an: <b><i>amr bil-l ma?ruuf wa nah-y ?ani-l munkar</i>.</b></div>
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Not only should we seek knowledge, but when we learn it, it becomes obligatory on us to practice it. Though we must remember that correct knowledge should come before correct action. Knowledge without action is useless because a learned person without action will be the worst of creatures on the Day of Resurrection. Also, action should not be based on blind imitation for this is not the quality of a thinking, sensible human being.</div>
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Knowledge is pursued and practiced with modesty and humility and leads to beauty and dignity, freedom and justice.</div>
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The main purpose of acquiring knowledge is to bring us closer to God. It is not simply for the gratification of the mind or the senses. It is not knowledge for the sake of knowledge or science for the value of sake. Knowledge accordingly must be linked with values and goals.</div>
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One of the purposes of acquiring knowledge is to gain the good of this world, not to destroy it through wastage, arrogance and in the reckless pursuit of higher standards of material comfort.</div>
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Another purpose of knowledge is to spread freedom and dignity, truth and justice. It is not to gain power and dominance for its own sake.</div>
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Obviously, what we may call the reservoir of knowledge is deep and profound. It is a vast and open field that is not limited.</div>
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It is impossible for anyone to gain anything more than a fraction of what there is to know in the short span of one?s life. We must therefore decide what is most important for us to know and how to go about acquiring this knowledge.</div>
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The following ahadith shows how important and how rewarding knowledge is.</div>
"He who acquires knowledge acquires a vast portion." AND "If anyone going on his way in search of knowledge, God will, thereby make easy for him the way to Paradise."<br />
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We, the children, are the future. The future lies in our hands, but only through knowledge because whoever neglects learning in youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.</div>
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May Allah (SWT) give us strength to behave and act just as He likes us to do and be pleased with us, and that should be the purpose of our lives. <b>Rabbi zidnee ilma</b> (O Lord, increase us in knowledge). Aameen.</div>
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Soon, once again, the blessed month of Ramadan will be with us; once again, like ‘golden hours on angel wings’, will descend upon us its blessed moments. Like every other year since Hijrah, it will summon Muslims, as individuals and as a corporate body, to an intense and sustained life of Fasting and Prayer, of worship and obedience, of devotion and discipline — all centered on the Quran which, too, was sent down in these very moments in the custody of ‘noble and trustworthy’ angels. Call will go forth to every believer to take to prolonged companionship with the Book of God. To a life of redoubled endeavor to become what God desires Muslims to be. Ramadan bids our hearts and minds, our society and polity, to come to.</div>
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Joyfully and dutifully the Muslims will respond. Every day will be spent in Fasting: from dawn to sunset, for one whole month, not a morsel of food, nor a drop of water, indeed nothing shall pass down the throat; nor will sex be indulged in. Each night. hours will be devoted to standing in Prayers before Allah, reciting and reading His words as sent down in the Quran. During the day, too, reading the holy text will be a cherished business.</div>
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Fasting, in one form or another, has always been an important and often necessary part of religious life, discipline and experience in every faith. As a means <i>par excellence</i> to come nearer to God, to discipline the self, to develop the strength to overcome the temptations of flesh, it needs no emphasis. Yet Islam turns Fasting, as it does every other act of worship and devotion, into something different and unique, the life-giving centre of life.</div>
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How does it impart new meaning and force to Fasting?</div>
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Put simply: by prescribing for it the time of Ramadan. This may sound like making things too simplistic, or trivializing the important. But Ramadan is no trivial event. For it is the month ‘in which was sent down the Quran: the Guidance for mankind, with manifest truths of guidance and the Criterion [by which to judge the true and the false’ (Al-Baqarah 2:185). It was on a night in Ramadan that the last Divine message began to come down: ‘Read in the name of your Lord...’ (Al-’Alaq 96:1). That is why you must fast in Ramadan, says the Quran.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #274e13;">Ramadan therefore centers the entire discipline of Fasting on the Quran. The sole purpose is to prepare us for receiving the Divine guidance, for living the Quran, for witnessing the Truth and Justice that it perfects, for striving to make the word of God supreme.</span></b></div>
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How is this purpose achieved?</div>
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The fruit of Fasting ought to be that rich inner and moral quality which the Quran calls <i>taqwa.</i> ‘Ordained for you is Fasting . . . so that you might develop <i>taqwa</i>’ (2:183). The most basic condition for being guided by the God, too, is <i>taqwa.</i> The significance is plain to see. Fasting, linked to Ramadan in which Allah’s guidance came down, generates a <i>taqwa</i> which becomes directed on the supreme goal of entering the world of the Quran and of living therein, instead of being a spiritual ecstasy to be frittered away in the delights of soul. It becomes the key with which can be unlocked all the doors leading to the blessings which the Quran has to offer; honour, prosperity and freedom from fear and anxiety in <i>this</i>-world; success, Paradise and God’s good pleasure in the life-to-come. No time for Fasting other than Ramadan could have made <i>taqwa</i> such a potent force.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #38761d;"><b>More importantly, the fulfillment of being guided by the Quran comes about when we strive to discharge the mission it entrusts to us. For, having the Book of God — a weighty word — places on our shoulders a heavy responsibility: to hear is to make it heard, to know is to act, to have is to share, to say <i>shahadah</i> is to do <i>shahadah</i>. This means an unflinching pursuit to create a new self within us, and to create a new world of Quranic ideals outside us.</b></span></div>
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This is the sole purpose for which a new Ummah was created and charged with the mission of bringing man to God by witnessing to His guidance, ‘so that you be witnesses unto mankind, and the Messenger be witness unto you’ (Al-Baqarah 2: 143). Otherwise, when the Quran came, the world was not devoid of godly men who fasted, and stood in prayers before God, and wept.</div>
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Discharging that mission requires immense inner and moral resources like knowledge of and devotion to the Quran, strong faith<i>(Iman)</i>, resolve and steadfastness <i>(sabr)</i>. For it is no light task. Few have a full and clear understanding of what it means. Let us pause here and reflect why, otherwise we shall never grasp what the Ramadan Fasting is for and what it achieves.</div>
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When in Ramadan the first ray of Divine revelation reached the Prophet, blessings and peace be on him, in Hira, its message of <i>Iqra</i>was impregnated with world-shaking forces; he, therefore. trembled. The second revelation made things clear: ‘arise and warn; make the greatness of your Lord the greatest’ (Al-Muddaththir 74:2-3); he, then, took up his task with a single-minded dedication, and encountered stiff opposition. For, the call to ‘let God be the Greatest’ <i>(fakabbir)</i> implied that all false claiments — and every claimant is false — to greatness, to unlimited power, authority and lordship over men and things, to obedience, loyalty and servitude from God’s creatures be challenged, and dethroned.</div>
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This, it is not difficult to see, requires supreme sacrifices in ‘giving up’ (Hijrah) everything one loves and fighting with all that one possesses for the sake of that love of Allah which must be greater than all else (Al-Baqarah 2:165). A life of Jihad therefore necessarily requires important qualities: knowledge of and devotion to the Quran, deep and strong faith (Iman), resolve and steadfastness <i>(sabr)</i>, total trust <i>(tawakkul)</i> and, of course, taqwa. Read the Quran and you will find every promise of success here and in the Hereafter conditional upon these qualities.</div>
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Fasting, combined with the Quran recital in night-prayers, generates these rich resources which Ramadan harnesses to the fulfilment of the Quranic mission.</div>
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First, look at <i>taqwa</i>. What is it? Literally it means saving ourselves from harm. In moral life, therefore, taqwa must primarily mean.<i>firstly</i>, accepting that some actions and beliefs <i>are</i> harmful, that is to say, right and wrong do exist, and <i>secondly</i>, having the resolve and will to avoid the wrong and do the right. As a consequence, <i>thirdly</i>, his conduct should reflect this consciousness and resolve, if he is not a hypocrite.</div>
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To have the Quranic <i>taqwa</i>, which will entitle us to its guidance, we must know that there are realities and values beyond matter, beyond what we are incapable of perceiving by our physical senses, beyond this world, that man needs to be guided to what is right and what is wrong, <i>(yu'minuna bil- ghayb).</i> We should also be prepared to submit, willingly, all that we possess — mind, body, wealth — to the truth that we know and believe <i>(yuqimunas salata wa mimma razaqnahum yunfiqun)</i>.</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Every moment in Ramadan engraves these lessons on our hearts. Integrates them in our practice. The most elementary physical needs — food and water and sleep — are readily and joyfully sacrificed. Hunger and thirst are no more harmful; God’s displeasure is. Physical pleasures no more hold any lure; God's rewards do. The scale of values is turned upside down. The measure of comfort and pain, success and failure is radically changed. Without this change, none is entitled to take up Allah’s cause.</b></span></div>
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To the uninitiated, or an outsider, the devotional regimen of Ramadan may appear harsh and austere, but, in fact, it is eagerly awaited by believers. The sighting of new moon, the crescent that signals the beginning of Ramadan is met with celebrations and jubilation. Even children — who are not required to fast — look forward to their first experience of Ramadan fasting. The sick, too, remain restless for having been deprived of this blessing. Such jubilation and eagerness, to sacrifice time, wealth, and life in submitting to whatever God asks of us, and a regret and sorrow if prevented from doing so for reasons beyond our control, is highly desirable in the way of Allah.</div>
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These qualities spring from genuine faith in heart. For a Muslim the fast is primarily a commandment to his person, though its collective aspect is no less important. Little wonder, then, that individuals gladly take on the tribulations of Ramadan as an expression of their faith. Just as Fast is something special between man and his God which only He can reward, so should we take Jihad to be.</div>
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Whatever the physical discomfort, the mortification of flesh is certainly not a desired object in Islam. The gifts of God are there to be enjoyed, but the limits by Him must also be strictly observed — that is another lesson of <i>taqwa </i>in Ramadan. As the sun sets, the fast must be broken, and sooner the better. All that became forbidden at His command, becomes permissible, again at His command.</div>
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Similarly eating before dawn is strongly urged, even though the hour is unearthly. For it provides the necessary strength for the rigors of the day ahead. Fasting and praying are obvious acts of worship, but eating, drinking and sleeping, too, constitute forms of worship. So in the way of Allah: what matters is His command, the whole life must witness to Him.</div>
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The month-long regimen of dawn-to-sunset abstinence from food, drink and sex, for the sake of Allah alone, internalizes the lesson that one must never touch, acquire or enter that which does not belong to one under the law of God. A man can no more remain a slave to his own self-indulgence as he prepares for the arduous journey on the road to his Lord.</div>
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For many it is difficult to see the value of long hours of hunger, thirst and sleeplessness. Productivity losses are difficult to accept in an age that has tried to make gods of gross national product and economic growth. According to Islam, however, man is created to live a life of total submission to the One and Only God, and this purpose must be paramount in all scales of values. Ramadan fasting is crucial to this understanding. It shows that its purpose, like God’s guidance through His Prophets and Books and all other rituals of worship, is to train the believer in how he must live totally and unreservedly, at all costs, in submission to God.</div>
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Obedience, let there be no misunderstanding. is not limited to mere outward conformity with the letter of law. The law must be observed, but evil, in all its forms, must be eschewed. lbn Maja the great Hadith scholar, reports that the Prophet said: When the month of Ramadan arrives, the gates of Paradise are flung open while those of Hell are closed. All the <i>shayatin</i> (satans) are put in chains and a herald cries out. 'O you who seek good come here and those who desire evil desist'.</div>
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Imam Bukhari, the most renowned Hadith scholar narrates: Eyes should refrain from seeing evil, ears from hearing evil, heart from reflecting evil, tongue from speaking evil. The Prophet said: ‘One who does not give up speaking false words and acting by them is not required by God that he give up only his food and drink.’ On another occasion he said: ‘Many are the observers of fast who gain nothing from their fast but hunger and thirst’ (Darimi).</div>
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As a collective experience Ramadan suffuses the entire life of communities with the spirit of <i>taqwa </i>; even the air, it seems, is changed with a new fervor. In Ramadan we can see a beautiful example of how Islam unites the individual and the society under the sovereignty of One Lord alone.</div>
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In Ramadan, therefore, the demands of Allah take precedence over all other demands; no part of personality, no aspect of our life remains outside His writ, even aspects as mundane as timings for eating and going to bed. Thus, will is strengthened, determination is reinforced, spirit of sacrifice is intensified, self-control is heightened.</div>
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But, above all, the life in Ramadan revolves, as it must, round the Quran which, as the Word of God, must become the core of all devotional activities. At least one reading of Quran is a required duty during nightly Prayers, after the <i>'Isha.'</i> But it ought to be extensively recited both within and without ritual prayers. Ramadan is not only the annual celebration of the coming down of the Quran by disciplining every moment of life into surrender of God, it is also the occasion for heart and mind to get absorbed in its words and teachings.</div>
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Closely linked to fasting is the nightly prayer. Sleep is deliberately avoided to enter into communion with God’s words, to prostrate before Him, and thus to move nearer to Him. It is during the quiet and calm of the night that we can dwell upon God’s words, and the truths which might otherwise elude us can be grasped.</div>
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No time is like the Ramadan time. For in it lies that night which is ‘better than a thousand months’, the ‘Night of Destiny ... in it the angels and the Spirit descend’ (AlQadr 97:1-4). It is ‘that blessed night in which was made distinct everything wise’ and ‘a warning’ and a ‘mercy’ was sent down which God has always sent for mankind (AlDukhan 44: 3-6).</div>
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That is why the Fasting is placed in Ramadan. In this technological age, when clock has become the only measure of time and every concept of sacredness of time has been erased from human memory, some may find it difficult to visualize how every moment of Ramadan encompasses centuries in it, how it allows us to draw nearer to God at a much faster pace. Acts of virtue during the month are especially rewarded; an obligatory act <i>(fard)</i> increases seventy times; a voluntary one <i>(nafl)</i> is rewarded like the obligatory. Each of its moments offers immense possibility of great spiritual journeys. As the poet Iqbal said:</div>
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If Ramadan is blessed because the Quran began to come down in this month; it is blessed, too, because the Quran triumphed in this month. The Quran is the <i>al-Furqan</i> (criterion by which to judge the truth and the falsehood); in Ramadan falls that day which the Quran calls the <i>Yawmul Furqan</i>, Day of Criterion, on which the truth and the falsehood were judged, and the Truth triumphed. That was the Day of Badr, when the Prophet, blessings and peace be on him, beseeched God for help and victory thus: O God if this group perishes today, You will not be worshipped any more’ (Ibn Ishaq). This was both a petition and a pledge; an expression of the final goal of all of his strivings, and of what our lives ought to be devoted to. Only an inattentive mind can ignore the significant link between <i>al-Furqan</i> descending in Ramadan. and <i>Yaum al-Furqan</i> falling in Ramadan.</div>
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Thus, to come back to the center: Ramadan reminds us of our mission, the only purpose of our existence as Muslims. It prepares us to discharge that mission; it deepens our consciousness, brings us closer to Quran and the Prophet, blessings and peace be on him, strengthens our resolve, schools us to <i>taqwa </i>and patience.</div>
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The end of Ramadan brings Eid-al-Fitr. the feast of the breaking of the fast, which celebrates the revelation of the Quran. The Quran makes it clear: ‘that you complete the number, and proclaim the greatness of God for His having guided you, and that you render your thanks’ (2:185). Man’s response to the Divine initiative of guidance must be gratitude and extolling Him as the Greatest. That is why constantly on lip is the <i>tasbih: Allahuakbar. . . walillahil-Hamd.</i></div>
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Even so, the heart still remembers wistfully the trying days and the silent, busy nights when the soul was engulfed in a dawn of light and cries out:</div>
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Stand still, you ever moving</div>
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sphere of heaven,</div>
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That time may cease, and</div>
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midnight never come.</div>
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