There were four Cows. One of them was white and the other three were black. They used to live in a dangerous area surrounded by wolves. The way they protected themselves was that they were always together, they would stick together, watch out for each other, everyone was keeping an attentative eye, and they survived, [...]
Anas (radi Allahu anhu) reported that a person asked Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam), “Should I tie my camel and have Tawakkul (trust in Allah for her protection) or should I leave her untied and have Tawakkul.” Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) replied, “Tie her and have Tawakkul.” (Hasan) [Jami At-Tirmidhi] [...]
What would you say to the Prophet (SAW) if you were to meet him tomorrow? Would you hug and kiss him and tell him how much missed and loved him? I think it is fair to say that for every Muslim, the answers to these questions would be a resounding YES! But if the day [...]
39. Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported that: The Messenger of Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “He whom Allah intends good, He makes him to suffer from some affliction”. [Al-Bukhari]. Commentary: Troubles of this world like grief, calamity, disease, poverty, loss of life and property, etc., have a benign aspect [...]
Conditions of the Shahadah (Laa ilaaha illa Allah) The key to Paradise is none other than ‘Laa ilaaha illallaah’, but what does this really mean? Someone once asked Wahb ibn Munnabih (d. 110), ’Is not laa ilaaha illa Allah the key to Jannah?’ He replied, ‘Yes, but every key has ridges, so if y ou come [...]
Prayer is a direct link between you (the servant) and Allah (swt) and it’s an act that Allah (swt) answers directly. This is discussed in the hadith recorded by Muslim where Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, reported that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said, (Allah, the Exalted, said, `I have divided the [...]
As salamu aliakum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu Your brothers and sisters in Bristol are in need of your aid. By the grace of Allah subhanaah wa ta’aala Bristol has been blessed with a Masjid, a Quran School and most recently a Bookstore and Dawah Centre. The Masjid has been the centre of the community for years and [...]
MAKKAH: In what a doctor described as a miracle, a pilgrim from Somalia has regained his ability to hear and speak some 29 years after he lost both senses when he was shot during the turbulence in his homeland. Ali Abdula Rahman Sharif said his hearing and speaking abilities started to appear gradually Saturday after [...]
Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wasallam) said: “When Allah created Paradise, He said to Jibreel: ‘Go and look at it.’ Jibreel went and looked at it, then came and said: ‘O my Lord! By Thy might, no one who hears of it will fail to enter it.’ Allah then surrounded it with disagreeable things, and [...]
1249. Ibn `Abbas (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: The Messenger of Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said, “There are no days during which the righteous action is so pleasing to Allah than these days (i.e., the first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah).” He was asked: “O Messenger of Allah, not even Jihad in [...]
Prophet Muhammad (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “The most blessed nikah is the one with the least expenses.” [Bayhaqi] Commentary: Today, the youth of many men and women is destroyed because they cannot afford the lavish weddings that have become the standard. They do not possess, in terms of dowry or mahr, what society [...]
1079. Buraidah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said, “That which differentiates us from the disbelievers and hypocrites is our performance of Salat. He who abandons it, becomes a disbeliever.” [At-Tirmidhi]. 1078. Jabir (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (sal Allahu alaihi [...]
Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “Whoever goes to a ‘psychic’ (‘arraf) or fortune-teller and believes what he says has disbelieved in what has been revealed to Muhammad.” [Abu Dawud] Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “Whoever goes to a ‘psychic,’ asks him about something, and believes him, will not have [...]
Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said that Allah said: “I have prepared for My righteous servants what no eye has seen and no ear has heard, nor has it occurred to human heart.” [Bukhari] Commentary: In other words, Jannat is better than anything you can imagine. Our human experience does not prepare us [...]
Abu Huraira narrated from the Prophet (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) that once while a man was traveling in the wilderness he heard a voice in a cloud ordering the angel of the cloud to pour its rain on a particular farm. So the man followed the cloud and saw that it poured its rain [...]
