| TAWBAH DOES NOT MERELY A DECLARATION | for everyone |
Tawbah isnot accepted from one who merely declares, “I repent.” There are a number of conditions that must be fulfilled before the acceptance of Tawbah. These are mentioned below in the following hadith:
It is narrated that someone said: Astaghfirullah (I seek God's forgiveness) before Imam ‘Ali (a). He said to him. "May your mother mourn for you! Do you know whatistighfar is? Verily istighfar is a degree of the 'illiyyun(people of high station) and it is a word that means six things. First is remorse over the past. Second, the resolution not to return to it ever. Third, to return to creatures their (formerly usurped) rights so that you meet God Almighty in a state of purity in which no one has any claim against you. Fourth,that you fulfil every duty that you neglected in order to satisfy your obligation in respect to it.Fifth,that you attend to the flesh of your body that has grown on unlawful nourishment so that it melts away as a result of grief and mourning and your skin adheres to your bones, after which new flesh grows in its place. Sixth,that you make your body taste the pain of obedience in the same way as it earlier tasted the pleasure of sins.When you have done these things then say Astaghfirullah! [Nahj al‑Balagha, saying # 417]
This noble tradition mentions two prerequisites for Tawbah(remorse and resolution), two important conditions for its acceptance (returning the rights of creatures and of the Creator), and finally two points for the perfection of repentance.
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| HADEES OF THE HOLY PROPHET (S.A.W.S.) -2 | for everyone |
1 - Hypocrites are characterized by three features: telling lies, reneging on promises, breaching of trust.
2 - The most hateful thing to Allah among those lawful ones is divorce.
3 - Oh, Adam’s descendant! If you have a healthy body and a peaceful mind, and can afford your livelihood for one day , don’t worry about anything else!
4 - Oh, Adam’s descendant! You have within your reach whatever meets your needs, whereas you are seeking things that develop disobedience in you, you do not choose contentment, and nothing, however abundant, can satisfy you.
5 - Avoid the curse of the opressed, since they seek adjudication from Allah and He will never let them down & deny them their rights.
6 - Refrain from using unlawfully obtained construction materials in your building, for they will ruin it.
7 - Fear the believer’s insight, for in seeing things, he is assisted by the light of Allah.
8 - He who grants a respite to his debtor or cancels his debt will be in heaven on the Day of Judgement.
9 - Fear the curse of the oppressed for it spreads up as the flames of fire.
10 - God punishes man for two sins in this world: injustice and ungratefulness towards parents.
11 - Whoever from among you is more valiant to take solemn oath is nearer to the Hell.
12 - Be moderately wordly minded; since everybody shall receive whatever is apportioned to him by fate.
13 - To God, the best act is timely prayer, then right conduct towards parents, then struggle in the way of God.
14 - To God, the most popular servants are unknown pious ones.
15 - To God. The best act is the one which is more lasting, however scanty that might be.
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| HADEES OF THE HOLY PROPHET (S.A.W.S.) | for everyone |
1. A true believer is he in who people trust more than in their lives and property.
2. A true believer is alert, exact and prudent.
3. One hour of deep reflection is better than sixty years of worship.
4. Your belly is the den of all diseases and abstention therefore the best cure
5. The best rapprochement between two parties is the reconciliation between a husband and a wife.
6. Anyone who acts precipitously without insight and knowledge breaks more than what he makes.
7. All the offsprings of Adam are sinners and the best among them are the penitent.
8. A believer can have any quality except treason and mendacity.
9. Live like guests in this world. Take mosques as your houses. Let your hearts get used to tenderness, reflect and cry in abundance. Don’t let your desires lead you astray. You make buildings you never reside in and provide all kinds of food you never eat and entertain hopes you never realize.
10. How can God bless a nation that doesn't take the right of the oppressed from the oppressors?
11. It is far better for a man to give a dirham as alms during his life than giving hundreds at the time of death.
12. Encourage people to do good deeds and discourage them from doing bad ones , lest the unscrupulous among you hold you in sway and the prayers of true believers lose efficacy .
13. One of the best deeds is making a believer happy. It means paying his debt and meeting his needs and removing whatever hardships that exist.
14. There are tithes for everything and tithes for owning a house is a guest room.
15. There is a key to everything and the key to heaven can be obtained by loving and caring the deprived and the needy.
16. Those who pester Muslims on their course of life deserve imprecation.
17. If a man owns two valleys of gold, he will still wish for the third one; nothing can fill the human mouth better than dust.
18. If faith existed in Pleiades Iranians would find access to it.
19. If knowledge were suspended from Pleiades Iranians would reach it.
| HADEES | for everyone |
| VERY WELL SAID...... | for everyone |
You will enjoy the new insights that Rick Warren has, with his wife now having cancer and him having 'wealth' from the book sales. This is an absolutely incredible short interview with Rick Warren.
In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said:
People ask me, What is the purpose of life?
And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.
One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body-- but not the end of me.
I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity..
We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.
Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one.
The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort; God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.
We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character.
This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer.
I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore.
Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life.
No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on.
And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.
You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems:
If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, which is my problem, my issues, my pain. But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.
We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her- It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people.
You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life.
Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy.
It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease.
So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. First, in spite of all the money coming in, we never changed our lifestyle one bit.. We made no major purchases.
Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary.
Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation.
Fourth, I added up all that my work had paid me in the 24 years since I started work, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.
We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity?
Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes ?
When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do!
That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD!!
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD!!
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD!!
Painful moments, TRUST GOD!!
Every moment, THANK GOD!!!
| THAT IS THE WAY OF LIFE | for everyone |
It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Someday your prince charming will come. Mine just took a wrong turn, got lost, and is too stubborn to ask for directions.
Today I caught myself smiling for no reason... then I realized I was thinking about you
If I could be any part of you, I’d be your tears. To be conceived in your heart, born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
Did you ever fall for someone you know you shouldn't?
Try hard to fight your feelings, but you just couldn't?
Try hard to fight your feelings, but you just couldn't?
You fall deeper with each passing day,
But try to hide it in every possible way.
He's only a friend, and nothing else--
That's the lie you keeping telling yourself.
You keep on saying he's just a bud,
But deep inside, you're falling in love.
You get so giddy when you meet his eyes,
But keep reminding yourself it isn't right.
A simple glance turns into a stare,
But you pretned that you don't care.
It's "not right" for you two to be.
Is that why you hide it so no one can see?
But how long will you pretend?
Keep lying that he's just a friend?
Perhaps your feelings you can never show.
Perhaps it's "wrong" for him to know.
Your friendship can't be risked over this,
So being his girl is an impossible wish...
Should I smile because we are friends? Or cry because we'll never be anything more?
There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.
Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.
"I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry."
| I'M SORRY -LESSON OF LIFE | for everyone |
Pencil: I'm sorry
Eraser: For what? You didn't do anything wrong. Pencil: I'm sorry cos you get hurt bcos of me. Whenever I made a mistake, you're always there to erase it. But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a part of yourself. You get smaller and smaller each time. Eraser: That's true. But I don't really mind. You see, I was made to do this. I was made to help you whenever you do something wrong. Even though one day, I know I'll be gone and you'll replace me with a new one, I'm actually happy with my job. So please, stop worrying. I hate seeing you sad.  ================= I found this conversation between the pencil and the eraser very inspirational. Parents are like the eraser whereas their children are the pencil. They're always there for their children, cleaning up their mistakes. Sometimes along the way... they get hurt, and become smaller (older, and eventually pass on). Though their children will eventually find someone new (spouse), but parents are still happy with what they do for their children, and will always hate seeing their precious ones worrying, or sad |
| HADEES -Ali is the master of successors | for everyone |
‘God did not create anything unless He made a master in it. The eagle is the master of the birds. The bull is the master of beasts. The lion is the master of wild animals. Friday is the master of the days of the week. Ramadan is the master of the months. Israfil is the master of the angels. Adam is the master of the humans. I am the master of the Prophets and Ali is the master of successors.'
The Prophet (saws)
Beharul-Anwaar, vol.40 p.46
| ENCOURAGE GOOD AND FORBID EVIL | for everyone |
Can you be indifferent to the actions of other people? Can you exist in "isolation" and as totally cut off from the rest of the society? Can you exist without any relations with other people? What effect does the goodness or badness of the society have on the individual? What kind of individuals grow up in a religious society? When a person grows up in an evil, corrupt and perverse society, to what evils is he led? What responsibility does the Muslim have towards the society he or she lives in?
In Islam, everyone is responsible before Allah towards the society and no one can be indifferent to the actions of his neighbors.
Each person must realize that he is linked to the rest of society, and that the society is like a single body of which he is a part.
Therefore, the true Muslim strives with all his might for the benefit and good of his society.
Islam teaches Muslims that the heaven-sent programs of Islam lead the society to perfection and happiness provided that those programs are properly carried out and followed by all the people in the society.
Therefore, in order that all the aspects of the laws and regulations of religion be properly carried out, Islam places the responsibility of ensuring the proper implementation of the Islamic teachings upon two factors.
Firstly, the legal Islamic authority, that is, the legitimate Islamic government.
It is the duty of the government in Islam to put into practice all the Islamic laws, regulations and programs.
Islamic government has the duty of leading the individuals of the society towards good deeds, and it must put an end to all instances of injustice, oppression, corruption and perversion.
It must severely punish those who are guilty of these crimes, and must constantly encourage those who are religious and benevolent.
These are some of the most important duties of the Islamic government.
Secondly, each and every Muslim is considered in Islam to be responsible for the society and for practicing the divine laws.
Each person is counted as a kind of guardian and policeman.
In Islam, every Muslim must pay attention to the actions and behavior of the people of his society, and must do what he can to prevent corruption.
A Muslim must himself be good and must also encourage others to do good, and he must strive for the welfare of society.
Islam calls this duty "aI- amr bilma'ruf', which means enjoining the right.
A Muslim must also refrain from sins and from breaking the laws of Islam and the Islamic government (if it is truly Islamic), and as far as he can, he must try to prevent sins and corruption from occurring in the society.
Islam calls this duty "al-nahy an al-rnunkar".
which means forbidding the wrong.
Al'amr bilma'ruf and al-nahy an al-munkar together form one of the most important public duties in Islam, and one of the foremost duties of every Muslim.
It is obligatory for every Muslim to defend the laws of his religion in this way, and to strive to safeguard them and have them carried out.
Allah tells us in the Qur'an: "You are the best nation (O Muslims) brought out for mankind, because you enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong, and you have faith in Allah.
(3:109)."
The Prophet (P.B.U.H.)
of Islam has said: "Enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong.
for as long as you do so your society will be strong and happy; but when the Muslims would fail in this, their society will be dominated by oppressors and no matter how much they pray to Allah for deliverance from the oppressors, Allah will not answer their prayers and they will find no justice anywhere, neither in the skies nor in the earth.
' Now that you know about this great and sacred duty, what programs will you draw up for the rest of your life? How will you cooperate with your friends in performing this great duty?
| KINDNESS WITH WORD | for everyone |
Our Holy Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) was sitting one day with his Companions and they were talking together.
A person came in without asking permission and didn't even Offer his salam.
"Why didn't you say salam?" questioned the Prophet.
"Why didn't you ask permission to come in?!" "Go back.
Ask our permission and greet us with your salam before you come in, he instructed.
Regarding salams.
the Holy Prophet has told us: * "O Muslims! you will not enter Paradise unless you are kind to each other.
unless you warmly say salam to each other whenever you meet.
Do you think that Allah has created us just to live in this world for a few days, just to eat and drink, to sleep and to wear clothes, and then to die, with nothing more? Do you think that this is all we should live for? And that Allah, Who does nothing in vain, has created us merely for this? In the Qur'an we are told: "Your creation was not in vain, you have been created to live in this world and perform the best kind of deeds, and to strive towards goodness and perfection.
Then, after your life in the world, you will be taken to the Hereafter, where you will receive the result of your deeds."
The Hereafter is the place where the good are separated from the bad.
The people who have performed acts of goodness in their lives will be allowed into Paradise, where they will live in happiness and bliss.
Allah is pleased with them, and they too are pleased with the many blessings of Allah.
But the bad and irreligious people are sent to Hell, where they receive the punishment for their evil deeds.
Allah is angry with them and they live in suffering and pain, and that is the result of their own deeds, and what they deserve.
"Always say salam in a loud voice and reply in the same way.
"God loves most the person who says salam first and gives him better rewards and blessings."
"First give your salam, then say whatever you have to say."
| Gunah-e-Saghira and Gunah-e-Kabira | for everyone |
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| Curse of Allāh (aza wa jal) | for everyone |
Bismillah Arrahman Arraheem
Holy Prophet Muhammad al Mustafā (S.A.W.W) said:
“This [Ali (a.s.)] is a sea full of treasures. He is the rising sun. He is more generous and giving than the river of Euphrates* and his heart is larger than the entire world. May Allāh’s curse be on those who hate him.”
[References: Kanz Al-Ommal Page 62; Bihar Vol 27 Page 227 Hadees 29]
* River, sea, and water are used to express unlimited generosity in the Arabic language. Euphrates was commonly used as an example of a large river/sea.
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A humble request
Please do pray for restoration of Jannat al-Baqi & early re-appearance of Imam-E-Zamana (atfs)