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Assalam Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa BarakatuhuÂ
Yeah, so I disappeared for about a week or two and now that I have computer access, don’t really feel like posting on forums too much. I think I may be headed on my way to being just a reader.
Anyways, due to my absence, I was unable to make an ‘Eid card for you all. Sorry!
 So, how was your ‘Eid?
Assalam Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa BarakatuhujazakAllaah khair to the bro who showed me this on paltalk when I was feeling gloomy =]
(now i know why i left paltalk before - sheesh)Al-Hasan was told that a certain person had gossiped about him. So he sent him a dish of dates. The person came to him and asked him, “I gossiped about you and you sent me a gift?” Al-Hasan replied, “You have given me your Hasanaat as a gift, so I wanted to return the favor.”Ashhab Bin Abdul-Aziz wrote to a man who had defamed him. “I’m writing to you because I hate what you’re saying about me. But I don’t want to help you in disobeying Allah. Beware that I enjoy grazing in your Hasanaat, just like a sheep grazes in a pasture. And greetings for you.
Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said: “I met in this town (meaning Al-Madinah) people that have no faults, but when they start talking about the faults of others, they start getting faults. I also met in this town people who have faults, but who didn’t talk about the faults of others, so people overlooked their faults.Al-Rabi’a Bin Khuthaim was asked, “Why have you never criticized anyone?” He said, “I’m not satisfied with myself. How could I go criticizing others.”
Ibn Al-Mubarak said, “If I were to make Gheebah against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my Hasanaat.”
Shaikh Al-Islam Ibn Taimiyah, may Allah bless his soul, said: “Some people have the disease of criticizing all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies that avoid the good and pure places and land on the bad and wounds. This is because of the evil within the self and the spoiled nature.”
Wahab said: “I made Nadhr (a vow to Allah) that anytime I commit Gheebah about a man I would fast a day. That was too constricting, but I would make Gheebah and then fast. Then I had the intention that anytime I made Gheebah I would give a Dirham as charity. The love of Dirhams finally made me give up Gheebah.”
Sufyaan Bin Al-Husain said: “I was in the company of Iyas Bin Mu’aawiyah. A man passed by and I said bad things about him. He said, ‘Be quiet,’ and then asked ‘Have you fought against the Romans?’ I said, ‘No.’ He asked, ‘Have you fought against the Turks?’ I replied, ‘No.’ He said, ‘Both the Romans and the Turks are safe from you but your Muslim brother is not’. I never repeated what I did after that.”
Abu-Bakr Bin Abdur-Rahmaan said: “Do not let the affairs of others make you neglect your own self. Everything goes back to you. Don’t waste your day talking about this and that, for everything you say will be recorded and preserved against you.”
It was narrated by Abu Musa : Some people asked Allah’s Messenger (pbuh) whose Islam is the best? (i.e., who is a very good Muslim?) He replied, “One who avoids harming the Muslims with his tongues and hands.” (Agreed upon)
The Prophet (pbuh) defined backbiting when he said:
“Do you know what is meant by backbiting?” They said, “Allah and His Messenger know best.” He said, “To say something about your brother which he dislikes.” One asked, “Even if what I say is true about my brother?” He replied, “If such defects you say are true about him, then you have backbitten him, and if he doesn’t have what you say, then you have committed slander against him.” (Related by Muslim, Abu Dawood, and Tirmidhi)
Committing Gheebah is forbidden by the Ijmaa’ of the scholars, and considered a major sin. Scholars differ in the Kaffaarah of the Mughtaab, but they all agree that he must make Tawbah as the first step. Repentance itself has three conditions: refraining from the sin, regret for the commission of the sin, and determination not to commit it ever again. Repentance from Gheebah, however, has an additional condition, a fourth one because the Mughtaab has actually committed two offenses:
1. One offense is towards Allah ( because he committed an act which Allah ( has prohibited. The expiation is to turn to Allah ( in repentance and to regret what has been done.
2. The other one is against Allah’s creatures. If the Gheebah has reached the person, then forgiveness must be sought from him and regret must be expressed to him for what has been said. But if the Gheebah didn’t reach the person, then he should pray for the person’s forgiveness and not tell him something he didn’t know anyway, fearing that some evil may result from telling him.
This was going to be a *mad* post to someone (that person will know who it is)….and then I read the above. If I am being rewarded, then I’m happy. Yeah, majorly hurt that a brother will be that rude to a sister (and attack her like she’s a brother), but hey, it’s my akhira that is benefitting inshaAllaah.
I do not know why this is bothering me so much. Maybe because I am being falsely accused of things. Or maybe because I am just ultra sensitive and I’m even more hurt when people who hurt me were considered my friends. I have had this happen several times in the past month. Maybe it shows that I have not been wise in choosing friends? Allaahu Alam
Allaahul Musta’an. He who has no one has Allaah.
May Allaah protect us all from using our tongues in a harmful manner, ameen.
hmm, I just realized…I may have fallen into backbiting (not slandering though, like what was done to me) when I said that the person was being a jerk to me. If so then I apologize to the person for that & that only (backbiting).
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Assalam Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu
Alright, I am going to be posting less about my personal life because I’m trying to become a better Muslimah. So most of my posts will relate to Islaam somehow. Right now, I think that the only ones which may not have to do with Islaam will be the ones about Asma.
Du’a from the Quraan
http://english.islamway.com/bindex.php?section=article&id=4
” And when My servants ask thee concerning Me, I am
indeed close (to them): I respond to the dua (prayer)
of every suppliant when they calleth on Me ” [ Quran
2:186 ]
1. Our Lord! Grant us good in this world and good in
the life to come and keep us safe from the torment of
the Fire (2:201)
2. Our Lord! Bestow on us endurance and make our
foothold sure and give us help against those who
reject faith. (2:250)
3. Our Lord! Take us not to task if we forget or fall
into error. (2:286)
4. Our Lord! Lay not upon us such a burden as You did
lay upon those before us. (2:286)
5. Our Lord! Impose not on us that which we have not
the strength to bear, grant us forgiveness and have
mercy on us. You are our Protector. Help us against
those who deny the truth. (2:286)
6. Our Lord! Let not our hearts deviate from the truth
after selves, and unless You grant us forgiveness and
bestow Your mercy upon us, we shall most certainly be
lost! (7:23)
13. Our Lord! Place us not among the people who have
been guilty of evildoing. (7:47)
14. Our Lord! Lay open the truth between us and our
people, for You are the best of all to lay open the
truth. (7:89)
15. Our Lord! Pour out on us patience and constancy,
and make us die as those who have surrendered
themselves unto You. (7:126)
16. Our Lord! Make us not a trial for the evildoing
folk, and save as by Your mercy from people who deny
the truth (10:85-86)
17. Our Lord! You truly know all that we may hide [in
our hearts] as well as all that we bring into the
open, for nothing whatever, be it on earth or in
heaven, remains hidden from Allah (14:38)
18. Our Lord! Bestow on us mercy from Your presence
and dispose of our affairs for us in the right way.
(18:10) & (59:10)
19. Our Lord! In You we have placed our trust, and to
You do we turn in repentance, for unto You is the end
of all journeys. (60:4)
20. Our Lord! Perfect our light for us and forgive us
our sins, for verily You have power over all things.
(66:8)
21. Surah Al-An’am 6.162: Say (O Muhammad SAW):
“Verily, my Salât (prayer), my sacrifice, my living,
and my dying are for Allah, the Lord of the ‘Alamîn
(mankind, jinns and all that exists). Our Lord!
Perfect our light for us and forgive us our sins, for
verily
You have power over all things. (66:8)
22. Surah Al-An’am 6.162: Say (O Muhammad SAW):
“Verily, my Salât (prayer), my sacrifice, my living,
and my dying are for Allah, the Lord of the ‘Alamîn
(mankind, jinns and all that exists).
(note: the above is not a depiction of Jahannam. It is only a picture of fire)
THE COLOUR OF HELL
This is a place of grief and sorrow. Its torments and troubles are far beyond imagination. It was fanned for a thousand years till it became quite red, then it was fanned for a further thousand years till it became white, and again it was fanned for a thousand years till it became black. Now it is quite black and dark.
THE SIZE OF HELL
Distress, dismay and destruction will await one who is thrown here. Joy and happiness will be unknown. Death will have been sacrificed in the form of a Ram, so there will be no hope of that either.
This place is vast. If a stone were to be thrown into its depth, it would take approximately seventy years to reach the surface. The fire, which awaits the dwellers, is seventy times more severe than anything similar to it in this world.
THE MINIMAL PUNISHMENT FOR THE DWELLERS
No one would like to come here. It is a dreadful place. When it will be brought forth, it will have seventy thousand reigns, each one pulled by seventy thousand Angels. Imagine the sky! What chances of escaping!
This is a place of punishments. All wrongs will be dealt with. Punishments will be in various categories. The person who will be subjected to the least punishment here shall have two shoes of fire on his/her feet. And by their heat, his/her brain will be boiling like a kettle on fire. The person will feel that his/her punishment is the severest and no one else is under more punishment than he or she. I’ll take you to a small trip for what you`ll see in jahannam or hell…
1. Hell is so deep that if a stone were to be thrown into it, it would travel for 70 years to reaching at the bottom.
2. The breadth of each of the four walls around Hell is equivalent to a distance covered by a walking journey of 40 years.
3. jahannam has 7 gates.
4. Hell had been lit for one thousand years until its flames became red. Again it was heated for another thousand years till its colour became white. Still again it was burnt for further thousand years and its white color flames turned pitch black.
5. Even the most fierce fire of this world is 70 fold cooler than the fire of Hell.
6. The lightest punishment in Hell would be the wearing of “Fiery shoes which would cause one’s brain to boil.
7. Hell in infested with venomous snakes and scorpions of the size of donkeys and if they were to bite a person then he or she will suffer pain for 40 years.
8. For food, the dweller of Jahannam would be given Zaqqum which is a prickly tree, so bitter, that even if a single molecule of it were to spill onto this earth it would make all the foodstuff of the world bitter and unpalatable.
9. For drinking, the denizen of Hell would be provided with hot, boiling pus mixed with blood, matter, urine and tears etc. of the dwellers of Hell. If a bucket of this foul liquid were to be splashed over this earth, the entire world would be upset and disrupted by its most foul stink.
10. Boiling water would be poured over Jahannami’s head and this will cause their internal organs to melt and leak out through their feet.
11.The inmates of Jahannam would be lashed with heavy clubs of iron. If one such club was to be placed upon this earth, the combined strength of all the human beings, as well as all the Jinns, would fail to lift it; and if a mountain is struck with one of these clubs it would cause the whole mountain to disintegrate.
12. The dwellers of Jahannam would be burnt daily for 70 thousand times. Every time, after the skin and flesh is burnt, they would be restored to life so that they can continuously taste this punishment..
13. A drunkard will be given blood, pus, sweat, filth, etc. to drink in Hell.
14. All the haughty people will be gathered in the Hereafter and driven towards Hell but their bodies would be reduced to the size of ants and they will be given to consume the excretions of the dwellers of Hell.
15. Some sinners would be made to climb ” SAUD ” which is a mountain of fire in Hell, and then dropped from its peak and this process would continue forever and ever.
16. The dwellers of Hell would be pound in chains which would be greater in length than the distance between the sky and the earth.
17. The clothes of sinners in Hell would be highly inflammable.
18. Beside physical torture, the dwellers of Hell would also be subjected to mental harassment through the taunting by the guardian of Hell who will remind them of their misdeed on earth and remarks “Now taste the fire” etc.
19. The sinners and disbelievers would be humiliate to such an extent that besides their revolting ugliness and pitch black faces, their upper lips would be touching their foreheads and the lower lip dangling around the navel.
20. The dwellers of Hell would weep so much and shed so much of tears and blood that furrows would be formed on their cheeks.
21. The tongues of Hell-inmates would be so long and protruding from there mouths that others would trample and step on them.
22. Shayateen will also rebuke the denizens of Jahannam.
23. The dwellers of Hell would display their rage and fury on those who led them astray.
24. The inhabitants of Hell would appeal to the guardians of Jahannam to intercede on their behalf in the court of God but their pleas would reject. They would make direct supplication to God but their prayers would not be granted.
HOW TO AVOID HELL
People will want to stay many miles away from here. And why not? Many fortunate ones won’t even have to go near, many others will have no choice!
However, the greatest news for us is that the Creator of this horrible place has indeed informed us of all things to be careful of to avoid this place through His Holy Quraan and His Noble Messenger Muhammad.
We must not ascribe partners to Him, which is called Shirk. We must not be careless at times of Salaah and we must offer salaah punctually. No fit and healthy person should miss out the Fasts in Ramadhan. Also, whoever has the means should give zakaah and perform the Haj.
There are many other things as well, small things and big ones - They may be prohibited actions or words - Intentional or unintentional. Any one could lead to this wicked place.
Swearing, slandering, backbiting, stealing, drinking wine, drugs, haraam food, unlawful actions, e.t.c. Any of these could lead to destruction.
CONCLUSION
As you will have gathered by now, we have been talking about Jahannam (Hell).
It is most important that we study the Holy Quraan and Seerah - Lifestyle of the Holy Prophet Muhammad to know how to lead our lives in this temporary material world, to be successful in the Hereafter, and to be able to safeguard ourselves from Jahannam!
‘Oh Allah! Save us all from Jahannam - Ameen!’
‘Truly Hell is a place of ambush.
For the transgressors a place of dwelling.
They will abide therein for ages.
Nothing cool shall they taste therein, Nor any drink.
Except boiling water, and dirty wound discharges.
An exact recompense (according to their crimes).
For that they used not to look for any account.
But they (impudently) treated Our signs as false.
And all things have We preserved on record.
So taste ye (the fruits of your deeds);
For no increase shall We grant you;
Except in Chastisement.’
(Surah An-Nabaa: 21-30)
Source: http://www.uponsunnah.com
Assalam Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu
“The doors of success have been closed upon the creation because of six things:
Their busying themselves with the blessings of Allaah instead of thanking Allaah for them, their desire for knowledge while they abandon actions, the hastiness to sin and delaying repentance, the deception of having righteous companions and not taking them as examples, the turning away of the dunya from them while they chase it, and the approach of the afterlife towards them while they turn away from it.â€
Taken from al-Fawaai’d by Ibn Al Qayyim: Pg. 161
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