10.15.08
Wal ‘Asr…
Story about the man in the hospital waiting room…
Since last night my young son has been unwell. When I got back from Work this evening I decided to take him to hospital despite my exhaustion.
There were many waiting; perhaps we will be delayed by more than an hour. I took my number and sat down in the waiting room. There were many faces, young and old, but all silent. Some brothers made use of the many booklets available in the waiting room. Some of those waiting had their eyes closed, while others were looking around. Most were bored. Once in a while the long silence was broken by a nurse calling out a number. Happiness appears on the one whose turn it is, and he gets up quickly; then silence returns.
A young man grabbed my attention. Read the rest of this entry »
08.23.08
marhaban ramadan
Fasting Establishes Supremacy of The Soul
By Muhaddith Shah Waliyullâh
The preponderance of animality in man is an obstacle in the path of the manifestation of angelic and celestial attributes. Therefore, it has become necessary to subjugate this attribute of animality in man.
Since the dominance and power of bestial attributes are caused by eating, drinking and excessive indulgence in lowly desires – the latter playing the dominant role in the assertion of bestial attributes – it is essential to curtail and curb the onslaught of the flesh by a reduction in these factors (eating, drinking and indulgence in desire). Precisely for this reason do we find unanimity among all those who desire the supremacy of the soul and the subjugation of the flesh. All such men are unanimous in their assertion that the method of establishing the supremacy of the soul over the body is to reduce indulgence in eating, drinking and lowly desire. A remarkable fact is that this unanimity exists despite the different religions and lands of these men (i.e. those who desire the supremacy of the soul).
conscripted soldiers
Imâm al-Bukhârî (may Allâh have mercy on him) reported in his Sahîh that ‘Ā’ishah (May Allâh be pleased with her) said: “I heard the Prophet 
saying: ‘Spirits are like conscripted soldiers; those whom they recognize, they get along with, and those whom they do not recognize, they will not get along with.’” (Sahîh al-Bukhârî, Kitâb Ahâdîth al-Anbiyâ’, Bâb al-Arwâh junûd mujannadah).
http://www.angelfire.com/al/islamicpsychology/introduction/spirits.html
04.23.08
Incredible article
Bomb Threat At My School – A Striking Similarity
Accounting 350 this week was the same as usual, slow and unexciting. There I was stuck in a three hour night class, slightly bored and fiddling with my phone. All of that changed 48 minutes into the class when I received the following text message from a Muslim brother in another building on campus also in a night class.
From: Mofees
Bomb threat, my class
was just evacuated. Tell
ur teacher
6:48pm 4/21/08
At around 6:40pm, DePaul University began to evacuate its two downtown Chicago Loop campus buildings after receiving a phone call of a bomb threat. The building I was in was not amongst those officially evacuated, but people like myself began receiving text messages from friends with classes in the evacuated buildings about the bomb threat. All the while, my class was in the middle of presentations and there I was unsure of what to do.
01.09.08
Following the Sunnah
If you’re the type that has trouble getting up for – AND STAYING UP AFTER – fajr, read these articles. Once again, science and research support islam (wow, what a surprise. not). Remember, it’s part of the sunnah to stay up after fajr!
How to become an early-riser part I
How to become an early-riser part II
06.18.07
more tragedy :’(
AFGHANISTAN: Bilqees, Afghanistan “I found my daughter’s body soaked in blood”
 Photo: Noorullah Stanikzai/IRIN  |
| Bilqees, 45, says she misses her daughter |
LOGAR, 18 June 2007 (IRIN) – On 12 June two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a crowd of female students coming out of high school in the central province of Logar. Three schoolgirls were killed and five wounded. Bilqees’ 13-year-old daughter, Shukria, was one of the three killed. The bereaved mother gave IRIN an account of the day her daughter was killed.
“That morning she recited the holy Koran longer than usual and told me she wanted to drink two glasses of milk, instead of one. Before leaving she looked back several times and asked me whether I needed anything – I said ‘No’.
“It was about 10am when my younger daughter burst into the house screaming ‘Shukria has been martyred!’
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definitely not a favorite of mine, but devestating nonetheless :’(
AFGHANISTAN: War, poverty and ignorance fuel sexual abuse of children
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KANDAHAR, 6 June 2007 (IRIN) – Abdul Kabir, not his real name, left his home in Afghanistan’s southern Urozgan province to work for a relative and attend school in neighbouring Kandahar province.
Six months later, the 12-year-old found himself in a juvenile prison after being sexually abused.
[This report is also available as a radio story on IRIN’s Afghanistan Radio Page in Dari and Pashto.]
“After my relative declined to give me a job at his shop, I went to a labour market where two men hired me for construction work for 50 Afghani (US $1) a day. They took me into an empty house where they both forcefully had sex with me,” Abdul said, recalling in vivid detail his confinement for three months before managing to get away.
But Abdul’s nightmare didn’t end there. A driver who promised to take him back to Urozgan for free also abused him, he said. Eventually, Abdul Kabir was able to find his way back to the poppy field he once worked in as a day labourer.
There, Abdul Kabir said another young man, also working in the poppy field, tried to rape him. “But I stabbed him in the stomach,” Abdul Kabir said – a move that prompted locals to turn him over to the police.
06.17.07
“Allah forgives all sins…” by Sheikh `Abd Allah b. `Umar al-Dumayjî
Allah says: “Say: O my Servants who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah: for Allah forgives all sins: for He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” [Sûrah al-Zumar: 53]
This verse speaks about those who repent. It tells us that any sin, no matter how major, is expiated by sincere and proper repentance.
There are conditions for repentance to be sincere and proper. The first of these is that the penitent person desists from the sinful act. The second is that he feels deep and genuine regret for having committed the sin. The third is that he resolves in his heart never to return to the sin again. Finally, if the sin caused a transgression against the rights of another person, he needs to do his best to make amends.
When Allah sees this sincere repentance from one of His servants – a servant who truly turns to his Lord in fear and hope – He not only forgives the sin, but replaces those sins for good deeds to the servant’s credit. This is from Allah’s infinite grace and munificence.
read the rest here:
http://islamtoday.com/showme2.cfm?cat_id=37&sub_cat_id=1195
