Friday, February 27, 2015

Do Not Be Addicted to Money

 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakaatuhu 

Money shouldn't make people stingy or make them keep accounts of everything. Money was given to us for spending on our family and to give rights to other needy being. Allah blessed us with money as a responsibility to spend moderately on those who depend on you, not to make you stingy, collect and then hoard on it.

Allah says in the Qur'an, 'Woe TO EVERY SLANDERER AND BACKBITER. WHO AMASSES WEALTH AND KEEPS ON COUNTING IT. HE THINKS THAT HIS WEALTH WILL INSURE HIS STATUS FOREVER. By no means! He shall be thrown into the crushing fire." (AL Humaza 1-4)

Let us all become responsible and wise enough to deal with money carefully and beautifully. May Allah make us among those whom He is pleased with. Ameen 


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Friday, February 20, 2015

Muslim Families

A Muslim family is where all the members of the family pray five times a day. One may ask why do we have so many family problems? Does your family give zakat, pray five times a day, give sadaqah, read Qur'an or read hadith daily? If not then how are you expecting life to be perfect? Life can never be perfect anyways but one can atleast be at peace with having very little in their lives. But most commonly our Muslim families are living a life of finding happiness in this Dunya. They all love Dunya so much they can't help it. They grow up all their lives earning to build a happy house and raise their children to become bug successful businessmen or doctors to bring money at home.

A real Muslim family is where there are boys of the house who understand the Qur'an and have Memorized it.  They understand the difference between wrong and right, haram and halal. A Muslim boy is he who respects his father and loves his mother deeply. He is not reminded to help his parents when he grows up but he is grown up with a dream to take care of tnem as he already knows it. He is given the freedom to learn how to deal with money financially with his own independent decisions and corrected when he errs.

A Muslim house is where a women is respected and treated with dignity and tenderness. She is educated with high Islamic education with secular education as well.  She is not brought up with the norm that women are maids of the house.  Rather she should be believed that she is the care taker of the house.  She is taught the proper values and rights of being a women.  She is someone who is taught Qur'an and hadiths with understanding and not made to believe that this is only the work of a man. 

But sadly, some Muslim families have a lot of expectations from Allah wanting Him to provide everything for them without them giving any huqooq to Allah or huqooq AL ibaad. They don't follow hadith, they are involved in biddat, they are following major kinds of shirk their children are involved in illegal relationships and alcohol and drugs, and they don't have any purpose for making their aakhirat any better. They are only running after making their Dunya successful yet they have actually forgetten working for the success of the aakhirat, And on top of that they want Allah to do everything good for them. They depend upon the intercessors to save them in the aakhirat without doing any good deed. 

Allah says in the Qur'an, "Or should man have whatever he wishes? Nay! To Allah belongs the Last (hereafter) and the First (world). How many are the angels in the heavens; yet, their intercession can avail none unless Allah gives them permission in favor of whom He wants and is pleased with. " Surah An Najm ayat 24-26

This ayat shows that if Allah wills then only He will allow our intercession, if Allah is pleased with us, then only He'll let the intercessors intercede for us. But we are in the delusion of not doing any good deed and hoping the intercessors to save us in the aakhirat. How deluded! Allah is the One Who will recompense for us not the intercessors. 

Our families might not be that bad but there is always some room for improvement in terms of akhlaaq and what not.

We all need to give our families dawah, do not ignore their major sins, do not let them dwell in their own misery, help them, keep giving them dawah, keep stopping them, do not ignore. You will be questioned. Change yourself and bring them to change as well, slowly but surely. In sha Allah 

May Allah protect our families and make us a source of guidance for our families and bring eachother close on the path of real success. Ameen

Friday, February 13, 2015

Is blaming the media the answer?

Blaming the media has become one of the easiest things we do online especially when we know media isn't on our sides.

Media has and will always be one of those things of our generation that has made one point clear, that they will do anything to defame us and they will do anything to hide the real oppression caused by their people whilst they call Muslims terrorists without any clear proof or without a valid reason. 

We as muslims can't blame media for everything especially for not reporting the sad news of the shootings of the three Muslim young adults at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Why? Because we know they aren't on our sides and they never will be.  So what's the point? Moreover, we are our own media. We have our own social media. We can create awareness through those.  But is that the only solution? To create awareness of the oppression and humiliation we are facing as a Muslim Ummah?

The only thing we, as a Muslim Ummah need to do is, to get up at night and pray tahajjud. Get up and pray fajr in the masjid and wake up. Wake up from your delusional worldly life. Get back to the tawheed. Remove shirk. Stop worshipping anybody or anything be it money, job, love, children, career and entertainment, more than Allah. Devote your life to Allah. When will we realise Allah will only give us victory when we return back to Allah??

How weak are we to be mesmerised into the plot of shaitaan? For How long will we not pray? For How long will we remain in haram relationships? For how long will we keep disobeying and disrespecting our parents? For how long will we not give zakat or do hajj? For how long will we keep hatred and grudges in our hearts for our beloved Muslims and humans in general? For how long will we have the worst manners? Remember Allah said that the plot of the shaitaan is the weakest. Then it is YOU who is responsible. Let's begin the change now. Do not respond to hate by hate. Do ehsaan. Be patient over the humiliation we are facing as an UMMAH. And have taqwa of Allah, FEAR ALLAH BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING. Fear Allah.... This is the only way we can truly gain the victory of Allah.  We wouldn't have to plead and cry for the disbelievers to report for us or have sympathy for us. 
Allah won't change our conditions when we aren't even willing to change ourselves. 
May Allah have mercy of the souls of the three Muslims, Deah, Yusor and Razan. May Allah forgive all their sins and keep their charity mission running to give them immense reward even in their Graves. Ameen. 

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