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Blossom Of The Youth: An Eye Opener

Following is an Eye Opener Preface of the famous Book “Bahar-e-Shabab” by Hadrat Allama Mawlana Shaykh Abd al-Aleem Siddiqui Qadiri Meerathi (Khalifa of Sayyiduna AlaHadrat Imam Ahmad Rida Khan Qadiri) written with extreme sincerity and honest concern towards the youth of the entire Islamic Ummah. A must must must read the Book and especially the Preface! Hope you will read it yourself and share it with your contacts as well…
Jazak ALLAH in Anticipation!

ALLAH SubHanuhu wa Ta’ala has blessed humankind with numerous powers, and His (SubHanuhu wa Ta’ala) Wisdom has equipped man with the knowledge of using it. Although the Creator has given such knowledge to animals, there is a unique difference between humans and animals. Since humankind is the highest order of creation, the Creator has therefore blessed it with a special faculty of knowledge that makes it superior to other creations. ALLAH has equipped human beings to use this knowledge creatively and also enhance it tremendously. Such an ability is not found in the animal kingdom.

Benefits Of Dates In Ramadan

All the Prophet’s (peace be upon him) kindness to his nation is shown in dates and in recommending them as he explained the useful things even in such matters.

The benefits and utilities of dates are shown as some doctors mentioned the benefits of Iftar on Dates and said: starting Iftar with dates has a lot of healthy and nutritional benefits, some of these benefits are:

  • Dates are easy to digest, so they don’t exhaust the fasting person’s stomach.
  • Dates decrease the great hunger feeling of the fasting person, and so he doesn’t rush into excessive food eating, which causes digestive disorders.
  • Dates prepare the stomach to receive food after being inactive throughout the day by activating the release of digestive secretions and juices.
  • Dates are rich in sugary energy, supplying the body with the most important nutrients, including sugar, which is irreplaceable as a nutrient for brain cells and nerves.
  • Dates protect the fasting person from having constipation as a result of changing meal times or as a result of having low fiber amounts in meals.
  • The alkaline salts in dates adjust the acidity of blood, which results from excessive eating of meat and carbohydrates, which causes a lot of hereditary diseases as diabetes, gout, renal stones, gall bladder inflammations, high blood pressure, and hemorrhoids.

The Messenger (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: “The best Suhoor for the believer is dates.” [Abu Dawood, Al-Baihaqee, and Ibn Hibbaan]

Rasool Allah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) used to incite the breaking of the fast with dates, and if he did not find any, he would then break it with water.

Anas Ibn Maalik (Radi Allahu anhu) said: “The Prophet (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) used to break his fast with fresh dates before he prayed. If he did not find fresh dates, then he would use dried dates. If he did not find that, he also drank a few sips of water. [Ahmad and Abu Dawood]

Umm Safoora

Eighteen Reasons For Fasting

“O ye who believe! Fasting is ordained for you, even as it was ordained for those before you, that ye may guard yourself (against evil)” Qur’an: Chapter 2, Verse 183).”

Ramadan is a month of fasting and prayers for Muslims. The fast consists of total abstinence from food and drink from dawn to dusk. There is, however, a greater significance to fasts than mere abstinence from eating and drinking. The real objective of fasts is to inculcate in man the spirit of abstinence from sins and of the cultivation of virtue. Thus, the Qur’an declares that the fasts have been prescribed with a view to developing piety in man, as is clear from the verse quoted at the top of this page.

How are the many facets of piety sought to be cultivated through the fasts?

1. The prime consideration in undertaking fast, as in any act of devotion, is to seek NEARNESS TO GOD and beseech HIS PLEASURE and FORGIVENESS. This itself generates a spirit of piety in man.

2. The willful creation of the stringent conditions of hunger and thirst for one’s own self, simply in obedience to the Divine Order, measures the FAITH of man in God and helps to strengthen it by putting it to a severe test.

3. Fasting enhances through creation of artificial non-availability, the value of the bounties of God, which man is apt to take for granted in the midst of plentiful availability, and thus inculcates in man a spirit of GRATITUDE and consequent DEVOTION to GOD. Nothing else can bring home to man the worth of God’s bounties than a glass of water and a square meal after a day‑long fast. This also reminds man that the real joy in enjoying God’s bounties lies in MODERATION and RESTRAINT, and not in OVERINDULGENCE.

Valentine’s Day: How Halal Is It?

Okay…so it’s that time of the year again. When they say that “love” is in the air. The time when you see RED everywhere…..red hearts, red candy, red flowers and red roses. And when you walk into the stores you see chocolates, and jewelry and gifts for “that someone special you know”. This is the time when the old and the young, and even kids, as young as those in elementary school, exchange valentine cards and love notes amongst themselves.
And why is all this?
Because it’s “Valentine’s Day”…that’s why.

But the sad calamity is, that even us Muslims are doing this. And its not just in the West. Those living in Muslim countries are just as involved. They, too, are exchanging cards and gifts and love notes. They, too, are celebrating Valentine’s Day,

But what is this “Valentine’s Day” after all?

Have we ever thought about it? What is the story behind it?

What does celebrating “Valentines Day” really mean?

Where does this fit in a Muslim’s life?

In fact, does it even fit in it at all?

Looking at the Quran and Sunnah, one should realize that we should not be celebrating it in the first place, because it is a celebration of the non-Muslims. Whatever we need to celebrate has been prescribed to us by Allah and His Messenger (Sal Allahu Alaiyhi wa sallam) and it is prohibited to celebrate anything else.

That is why And Allah said: “For every nation We have ordained religious ceremonies which they must follow.” [Surah al-Hajj:67]

Today’s Miscellaneous Hadith

Hadith – 1
Abu Hurairah (Radi Allahu anhu) said: The Prophet (SalAllahu alaihi wasallam) said, “The dearest parts on the face of earth near Allah are its Masjid, and the most hated parts near Allah are its markets.” Muslim, As Taken from Riyad-us-Saliheen

Hadith – 2
Narrated Abu Huraira (Radi Allahu anhu): Allah’s Messenger (SalAllahu alaihi wasallam) said, “The Hour will not be established till:
1. Two big groups fight each other, whereupon there will be a great number of casualties on both sides, and they will be following one and the same religious doctrine.
2. About thirty Dajjals (liars) appear, and each one of them will claim that he is Allah’s Messenger,
3. The religious knowledge is taken away (by the death of religious scholars),
4. Earthquakes will increase in number,
5. Time will pass quickly,
6 . Al-Fitan (trials and affliction’s etc.) will appear,
7. Al-Harj (i.e., killing) will increase,
8. Wealth will be in abundance – so abundant that a wealthy person will worry lest nobody should accept his Sadaqah, and whenever he presents it to someone, that person (to whom it will be offered) will say, ‘I do not need it,
9. The people compete with one another in constructing high buildings,
10. A man, when passing by a grave of someone, will say, ‘would that I were in his place’,
11. And till the sun rises from the west.

So when the sun rises and people will see it (rising from the west), they will all believe (embrace Islam), but that will be the time when: (As Allah, Jallay Shanahu said), “…. No good will it do to a person to believe then, if he (or she) believed not before, not earned good (by performing deeds of righteousness) through his (or her) Faith….”
(Surat Al-Anaam 6:Verse 158).

And the Hour will be established while two men spreading a garment in front of them but they will not be able to sell it, nor fold it up; and the Hour will be established when a man had milked his she-camel and has taken away the milk but he will not be able to drink it; and the Hour will be established before a man repairing a tank (for his livestock) is able to water (his animals) in it; and the Hour will be established when a person has raised a morsel (of food) to his mouth but will not be able to eat it.” Sahih Al-Bukhari 9:237