Eid Mubarak to you all my Muslim brethren! I hope you will have a great celebration. May Allah SWT accept all our ibadahs and have mercy on us all. Please do not forget the less fortunate and the brothers and sisters who are suffering in many parts of the world.
Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Afganistan, Sudan..etc are all need our help. Please donate some of the money that Allah has given you. We need to remember that Allah is the one Who gives to whoever He wishes. So if you are the one who Allah has bestowed you with good health and some wealth, don’t you think you should be grateful and share your blessings with less fortunate? You may donate at www.muslimhands.org
Zakat nowdays…
It’s also unfortunate that many Muslims have forgotten about the Zakat at all. Please remember that Zakat is one of the 5 compulsory pillars of Islam! Not paying Zakat on your wealth is a great sin.
Allah says in the Qur’an:
“And there are those who hoard gold and silver and do not spend it in the way of Allah, announce to them a most grievous penalty (when) on the Day of Judgment heat will be produced out of that wealth in the fire of Hell. Then with it they will be branded on their forehead and their flanks and backs. (It will be said to them) This is the treasure which you hoarded for yourselves, taste then the treasure that you have been hoarding.” (Qur’an 9:34-35)
Allah is Most Merciful! He forgives anything if you repent sincerely. So let’s take this opportunity and pray for forgiveness in the Eid prayer. Let’s pray for those who have fought for the sake of Allah and attained the blessing of Allah and became shuhadah. Shahid is something that God choses and not everybody can get it. As we know from the history of the sahabah, Khalid bin Walid who has been named The Sword of Allah, after fighting whole his life, did pass away in his bed. In his last words he said “there is no an inch on my body that is free from scars from the swords, but here i am living my last moment in my bed…” he wanted to attain the status of shahid so much! But he couldn’t get. One of the reason mufassirin say that he was not killed in the battlefield is that, The Sword of Allah is not killed. Therefore Allah made him die a natural death instead. And Allah knows best. May Allah SWT have mercy on all muslims who have stood up and protected the religion of Allah. In the past and today. Ameen.
A site of a Singaporean Muslim where he discusses his life and religion in this small island-country. He questions the local madrasahs teachings of Islam, where small kids are taught to learn arabic and recite Quran but not the meaning of the verses of the Quran. As a result majority of these kids end up being like a parrot only, recite but not understand. Of course it’s still better than not knowing how to read arabic, but reading with understanding is even better. And that should be the goal of every madrasah, not only in Singapore but worldwide. Because I believe this phenomenon is not just constrained to Singapore alone.
There are many other issues that he writes in his blog. He is also a cartoonist, and that makes the blog even more livelier. Check it out: http://happeepill.com
I can say he is the only president in the world that can talk back to US and its allies. And he is the only president who can make dawah at the UN meeting. Even though he is a shia, but he is a lot better than most of the sunni presidents and kings in the world. Because all of them are afraid to be called “terrorists”, for what? For just speaking the truth? US has killed more than a million people on their War on Terror. Who is the real terrorists here? They have no right to label anybody. read more »
Allah is Most Merciful and ramadan is the month of forgiveness, therefore this is the best time to seek Allah’s forgiveness. No matter what sin you did or no matter how many of them you did, if you repent sincerely Allah will Inshallah forgive. Perhaps this short audio lecture from Imam Awlaki can describe Allah’s Mercy better.
Confirmed by official statements and military documents, the US in close coordination with Britain (and in consultation with its NATO partners), is planning to launch a war directed against Iran and Syria. US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has already initiated the draft of a UN Security Council resolution with a view to imposing sanctions on Tehran for its alleged (nonexistent) nuclear weapons program. Whether this resolution is adopted is not the main issue. The US may decide to proceed in defiance of the Security Council, following a veto by Russia and/or China. The vote of France and Britain, among the permanent members has already been secured. read more
Six years ago something terrible happened, the blame was quickly thrown on Talibans and consequently on Saddam Hussein. They were both attacked and destroyed respectively. However what really happened on 9/11 had nothing to do with Taliban, nor with Saddam. It was all a big plan of the White House, a plan that is going to include Iran and Syria in the near future. I hope people will open their eyes, and won’t let US destroy yet another country yet again.
Israel is continually showed on CNN as the victim, and helpless stone-throwing palestinians as the aggressor. Unfortunately majority of the people do believe it, they believe it because they see the suicide bombings that occur inside the Israel and they say: “Look at these palestinian suicide bombers, blowing themselves up and killing innocent Israelis, civilians”.
First of all, why do you think that they are blowing themselves up? Do you think they are doing it for fun? They are doing it because they are helpless. They are doing it because nobody really cares about them. Israel has the greatest weapons in the world, supplied by US. Palestinians have stones to throw. Israelis kill their families everyday, and palestinians can’t do anything about it. They can’t even defend themselves. Israelis demolish their homes, and they become refugees. While in refugee camps they are bombed once again by their own fellow Muslim countries.
Israelis take over the lands of arabs every day. And they literally break the bones of the arabs. (watch the video). Believe me, if there was no resistance against Israel, Israel could have taken the whole Palestine.
How long can the world look at the Palestinian issue without doing anything? Well probably long enough until Israel destroys the al-Aqsa mosque and takes over the remaining land of Palestine.
At around age 12, I asked myself, “What if I die right now? What will happen to me? Where will I go?” This was the defining moment in my life that caused me to begin my religious search.
So, what happens after death? I read what various religions had to say. The classical Catholic Popes said that there is Heaven for Saintly Catholics and those who did their sentence in Purgatory. There is purgatory for Catholic sinners. There was limbo for babies who were not baptized. Last, the Catholic Popes wrote that there was hell, which was for all people who are not part of the Catholic Church and for those Catholics who were guilty of heresy or major sins. Then, at the 2nd Vatican Council that all changed. Limbo disappeared. Purgatory may or may not exist. Good non-Catholics who were ignorant of the Catholic faith were now allowed access to Heaven. The fact that these beliefs change demonstrate that they are unreliable. Either limbo or purgatory existed or they never existed. If they did not exist, then what happened to all of the souls that were supposedly there?
I read the writings of the Evangelical Christians and Protestants that stated that if one believes in the Trinity, Christ’s Vicarious Blood Atonement, and Christ’s Resurrection, they will automatically go to heaven no matter what bad they did. On the flip side, if one does not believe in the Trinity or the Crucifixion and Resurrection, one is going to hell no matter what good they did. read more »
This people have no fear of Allah. Apparently Dubai World has agreed to buy 14 million shares of MGM Mirage–which owns the Bellagio, Mandalay Bay, and Mirage casinos among other properties–for $84 a share, or about $1.2 billion. Dubai will also acquire half of Mirage’s CityCenter hotels and condos for another $2.7 billion. And Dubai plans to buy another $1.18 billion of MGM stock from public shareholders. (MGM shares closed on Tuesday at $74.32.)
Quran clearly states in Surah al-Maidah, ayat 90:
O ye who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones, and (divination by) arrows, are an abomination,- of Satan’s handwork: eschew such (abomination), that ye may prosper.
Dubai World’s chairman, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, told Bloomberg News: “Through our Kerzner investment we’re already into gambling, so this shouldn’t come as a surprise“.
Well, Sultan Ahmed… wait until you burn in the fires of Hell, I am sure it will come as a surprise! Unless of course if you repent, and Allah is Most Merciful.
The cost of war has run into some 1.2 trillion dollars, and experts are saying that total cost is well over 2 trillion. 1 Billion is a lot of money, 1 Trillion is too much money for any economy to sustain… 2++ trillion is probably the beginning of the end for US Empire.
In Surah Al-Anfal, verse 36 Allah SWT mentions:
The Unbelievers spend their wealth to hinder (man) from the path of Allah, and so will they continue to spend; but in the end they will have (only) regrets and sighs; at length they will be overcome: and the Unbelievers will be gathered together to Hell;- Quran 8:36
Since G.Bush and his allies do not believe in Allah (The One God), they are considered unbelievers too. So do the words of the Quran in this ayat talking about collapse of US Empire? US government is spending on war on terror so much that it is starting to affect its own economy.
They seem to shut down any Islamic organizations these days, without any proof of links to terrorism or support to terrorism. Whereas US government is funding Israel billions of money every year, to kill children and destroy their houses, to take away their land. Of course nobody won’t know about it, because CNN and FoxNews never talk about atrocities that Israel is doing. (watch http://www.occupation101.com for more info)
