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Post by Ummati on Aug 23, 2011 13:46:58 GMT 5
Golden Stories from times of past
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Post by Ummati on Aug 29, 2011 20:57:26 GMT 5
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Post by Ummati on Sept 17, 2011 15:15:10 GMT 5
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Post by Ummati on Sept 17, 2011 15:31:46 GMT 5
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Post by Ummati on Sept 23, 2011 14:27:14 GMT 5
A True Muslim Leader  Once Umar (Radhiyallaho Anho), during his caliphate, was going on his usual rounds towards Harrah (a suburb of Madinah) with his slave Aslam, when he saw a distant fire in the desert. He said, “There seems to be a camp. Perhaps, it is a caravan that could not enter the town due to night fall. Let’s go and look after them and arrange for their protection during the night.” When he reached there, he found a woman and some children. The children were crying. The woman had a pan of water over the fire. Umar (Radhiyallaho Anho) greeted her with salaam and, with her permission, went near her. (The woman didn’t recognize that it was Umar). Umar, “Why are these children crying?” The Woman, “Because they are hungry.” Umar, “What is in the pan?” The Woman, “Only water to soothe the children, so that they may go to sleep in the belief that food is being prepared for them. Ah! Allah will judge between Umar (Radhiyallaho Anho) and me, on the Day of Judgment, for neglecting me in my distress.” Umar (weeping), “May Allah have mercy on you! How can Umar know of your distress?” The Woman, “When he is our Amir, he must keep himself informed about us.” Umar (Radhiyallaho Anho) returned to the town and straight away went to the Baitul Mal (House of Charity) to fill a sack with flour, dates, fat, and clothes, and also drew some money. When the sack was ready, he said to Aslam, “Now put this sack on my back, Aslam.” Aslam, “No please, Amir-ul-Momineen! I shall carry this sack.” Umar refused to listen to Aslam, even on his persistent requests to allow him to carry the sack, and remarked, “What! Will you carry my load on the Day of Judgment? I must carry this bag, for it is I who would be questioned (in the Hereafter) about this woman.” Aslam most reluctantly placed the bag on Umar’s (Radhiyallaho Anho) back, who carried it with a swift pace right to the woman’s tent. Aslam followed at his heels. He put a little flour and some dates and fat in the pan and began to stir. He blew (with his mouth) into the fire to kindle it. Aslam says, “I saw the smoke passing through his thick beard.” After some time, the pottage was ready. He himself served it to the family. When they had eaten to their fill, he made over to them the little that was left for their next meal. The children were very happy after their meal and began to play about merrily. The woman felt very grateful and remarked, “May Allah reward you for your kindness! In fact you deserve to take the place of Khalifah instead of Umar.” Umar consoled her and said, “When you come to see the Khalifah, you will find me there.” He sat for a while at a place close by and kept on watching the children. He then returned to Madinah. On his way back, he said to Aslam, “Do you know why I sat there, Aslam? I had seen them weeping in distress. I liked to see them laughing and happy for some time.” Source: From the book “Stories of the Sahaba” by Shaikh Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalvi.
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Post by Mujaahid on Sept 24, 2011 20:03:10 GMT 5
An Amazing Story – Trust in Allah
Al Haafidh ibn Rajab mentioned in the commentary of the tabiqaat of Al Hanaabila (196/1) in the biography of Al Qaadi Abi Bakr Muhammad Abdul Al Baaqi Al Bazzaz who died in the year 535 from the migration of the Messenger of ALLAH, peace and blessing be upon him. Sheik Saalih Abu Al Qaasim Al Khazaz Al Bagdadi said, “I heard Al Qaadi Abi Bakr Muhammad Abdul Al Baaqi Al Bazzaz Al Ansaari say”…
 I used to live in the vicinity of Mecca, may ALLAH the Exalted protect it, so one day I was stricken with severe hunger and I did not find anything to fight against this hunger. So I found a bag made from silk, tied with a tassel that was also made from silk, so I grabbed it and took it to my house. When I unfasten it I found in it a necklace made from pearl such that I had not seen the like of it before. So when I exited my house I saw an old man that was seeking this bag. With him was a torn rag containing five hundred dinar and he was saying, “This is for the one who returns to me the bag containing the pearls.” So I said, “I am in need, I am hungry, so I will take this money and benefit from it and return to him the bag”. So I said to him, “Come to me”, so I took him and brought him to my home. So he gave me the description of the bag, and the description of the tassel, and the description of the pearls along with their number, and the description of the thread that fasten it. So I removed it from the bag and gave it to him, so he gave me the five hundred dinar, but I did not take it. Then I said to him, “It is incumbent upon me to return this to you and I will not take any reward for it.” He said to me, “You must take it”, and he persisted in this, but I would not take it from him so he left me and went about his way.As for me, I didn’t have anything so I left Mecca and began sailing in the sea. So the ship tore apart and everyone aboard it drowned and their wealth was destroyed. I was saved by holding onto a piece of the ship. So I remained for a time period in the sea not knowing where I was going. I then arrived at an island that was inhabited by people. I sat in some of the masjids and the people heard me reading, and there did not remain anyone on the island except that he came to me and said, “Teach me the Koran”, so I acquired from the people a lot of wealth. Then I saw in the masjid some paper from a Mushaf, so I took it and began to read it. They said to me, “Do you have good handwriting?” I said yes. So they said, “Teach me handwriting”. So they came to me with their children from amongst the small kids and the young men and I used to teach them. I acquired from this also, a lot of wealth.
After this they said to me, “We have a young orphan girl who has some things from the dunya, (worldly wealth) we would like for you to marry her. I refused, but they said, “It is a must!” And they made this incumbent upon me, so I agreed. After they married her to me, I turned my glance toward her and I found that exact same necklace hanging around her neck! At this time I did not busy myself with anything except staring at this necklace. So they said to me, “Oh Sheik! You have broken this young orphan girl’s heart by looking at this necklace, and you have not even looked at her. So I relayed to them the story of the necklace. So they screamed and yelled out, “There is no deity worthy of worship except ALLAH, ALLAHU AKBAR, until it reached everyone on the island. So I said, “What is with you?” They said, “The old man that took the necklace from you is the father of this young girl.” He used to say, “I have not found in the dunya (world) a Muslim (what is meant here is a trustworthy, kindhearted, one who knows the rights of found property) except the one who returned to me this necklace.” And he used to make dua (supplication) saying, “Oh ALLAH, join me and him together so that I may marry him to my daughter”, and now it has happened. So I remained with her for a time period and I was provided with two sons by her. Then she passed away, so I inherited the necklace, me and my two sons. Then my two sons died, therefore the necklace became mine. So I sold the necklace for one hundred thousand dinar, and the money that you see me with now is what is left over from that money.
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Post by Ummati on Sept 24, 2011 22:42:17 GMT 5
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Post by Mujaahid on Nov 18, 2011 2:30:11 GMT 5
 The best thing to do with the Qur'an is to know it in the head, stow it in the heart, sow it in the world, and show it in the life... |
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Post by Ummati on Jan 19, 2012 9:02:50 GMT 5
A tabi'ee asked Mu'aawiya (radi Allahu anh) to describe Ali (radi Allahu anh), he replied, "I saw Ali one night. It was very dark. It was pitch black. I saw Ali standing in his mehraab and he had caught hold of his beard in his hands. He was crying so incessantly, like a woman who had been given news of a great calamity. He was shivering with fear and was shaking as if he had been bitten by a scorpion. He was saying, 'Oh my Allah, what will become of me? What is going to happen to me?' He then addressed the dunya and said, 'Are you trying to entice me? Have you beautified yourself for me? Are you trying to cause me to fall into your trap? Are you trying to deceive me? Oh gold, oh diamond, oh silver, deceive someone else. You are valueless!'"
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Post by Ummati on Jan 29, 2012 23:35:40 GMT 5
alsafh.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/azaan-e-bilali/Azaan-e-BilaliJanuary 29, 2012 by fkhan They say your voice penetrated the hardest of hearts, and made them weep. The Call, its words, that the Most Merciful put into the hearts of those eleven sahaba. The words, that you climbed onto a lofty place to repeat. You were the first person to call them out, they say, jumping at RasoolAllah (saw)’s instruction as always. He picked you, over the rest, ‘the leader of all muazzins’, he said and you continued to Call for him, every where he went. It soothed him, and he asked you often. Your voice was deep, and loud and clear they tell me. And I wonder again, what it sounded like. I go through different azaans, the muezzins of my neighborhood, the best recorded azaans, from Syria to Egypt, trying so hard to imagine what yours must be like. But I can’t. I can’t imagine the sweetness it contained from the tears you wept, when you were whipped in persecution. And you cried out Ahad in pain, with the same voice. And the khushu it contained, just like your wudhu and the nawafil you prayed after it. The same nawafil that you hoped were the reason to acquire your place in jannah, one step behind the Prophet (saw). “I heard your footsteps in jannah, Bilal’ he said. And you thought, with all your humility, that it were your nawafil that had earned you that place. Not your jihad, not the pain, or the tears and the lashing or your unflinching tawheed against it. Not your azaan everyday or being the favourite muezzin of the most beloved mosque. Neither your khidmaat of RasoolAllah (saw) nor the love in his eyes for you. You didn’t think that must be it. It has to be. And it was your ikhlaas that spoke, and said it could be your tahayatul wudhu perhaps? I can’t imagine the sound of that humility. And they tell me you couldn’t call out the azaan, after your Beloved (saw) left the world. The words would not form and leave you loud and clear like they used to. Not without you being overcome with grief. They tell me you left Madinah, because it broke your heart to have that masjid and that city without your gentle Prophet (saw) And the city craved to hear your voice, till the Prophet (saw) appeared in your dream, and said to you ‘O Bilal, how is it that you do not visit us?’ You rushed to Madinah the very next day. And they insisted, the people of the city, for you to Call them to prayer again. But you just couldn’t. Till the grandsons of the Prophet (saw) asked it of you, and Hassan and Hussain (ra) were much too dear for you to refuse. So Madinah heard your azaan again, one last time. And it brought tears to all who heard. They say you broke down in tears when you said “Ash’hado anna Muhammadur Rasulullah”. And so did the sahabah, at Baitul-Muqaddas -the only other time and place you called out the azaan after the Prophet (saw) was gone. At Umar ibn Khattab’s (ra) insistence, they tell us. I wonder, what it must have been like both those times. And all the other times before it. I really don’t know. So I crave, from the depths of lost corners of my heart, to hear the Call in your voice. For it to echo in my ears, and not just as my imagination. To be able to reply to your Azaan and say Ash’hadu alla-illaha illAllah after you. It seems so distant and unattainable, and inappropriate because it mingles with the desires of the dunya in my heart..but I come back to it, again and again. The azaan-e-bilal (ra) and its shaan. One can only wonder…and crave. May Allah (swt) grant us all who crave, the Toufeeq, just for the sake of that fleeting naaqis talab. And a heart that continues to yearn, for things it knows it deserves not.
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Post by iloveAllah on Feb 5, 2012 17:07:08 GMT 5
Ahmad bin Hanbal's son, Abdullah, asked his father one day:
“Abi when will we ever relax?”
His father, one of the greatest revivers of the Sunnah and a role model for all Muslims, looked him in the eye and said:
“With the first step we take into Jannah."
Ya Allah, what a beautiful response!
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Post by Ummati on Feb 27, 2012 1:22:15 GMT 5
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Post by bint e adam on Mar 11, 2012 4:09:17 GMT 5
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 2.468 Narrated by Samura bin Jundab (part)
The Prophet (saws) said: ..... I had seen (a dream) last night that two men (Angels) came to me, caught hold of my hands, and took me to the Sacred Land (Jerusalem). There, I saw a person sitting and another standing with an iron hook in his hand pushing it inside the mouth of the former till it reached the jawbone, and then tore off one side of his cheek, and then did the same with the other side; in the meantime the first side of his cheek became normal again and then he repeated the same operation again. I said, 'What is this?' They told me to proceed on and we went on till we came to a man lying flat on his back, and another man standing at his head carrying a stone or a piece of rock, and crushing the head of the lying man, with that stone. Whenever he struck him, the stone rolled away.
The man went to pick it up and by the time he returned to him, the crushed head had returned to its normal state and the man came back and struck him again (and so on). I said, 'Who is this?' They told me to proceed on; so we proceeded on and passed by a hole like an oven; with a narrow top and wide bottom, and the fire was kindling underneath that hole. Whenever the fire-flame went up, the people were lifted up to such an extent that they were about to get out of it, and whenever the fire got quieter, the people went down into it, and there were naked men and women in it. I said, 'Who is this?' They told me to proceed on. So we proceeded on till we reached a river of blood and a man was in it, and another man was standing at its bank with stones in front of him, facing the man standing in the river. Whenever the man in the river wanted to come out, the other one threw a stone in his mouth and caused him to retreat to his original position; and so whenever he wanted to come out the other would throw a stone in his mouth, and he would retreat to his original position. I asked, 'What is this?' They told me to proceed on and we did so till we reached a well-flourished green garden having a huge tree and near its root was sitting an old man with some children. (I saw) another man near the tree with fire in front of him and he was kindling it up. Then they (i.e. my two companions) made me climb up the tree and made me enter a house, better than which I have ever seen. In it were some old men and young men, women and children.
Then they took me out of this house and made me climb up the tree and made me enter another house that was better and superior (to the first) containing old and young people. I said to them (i.e. my two companions), 'You have made me ramble all the night. Tell me all about that I have seen.' They said, 'Yes. As for the one whose cheek you saw being torn away, he was a liar and he used to tell lies, and the people would report those lies on his authority till they spread all over the world. So, he will be punished like that till the Day of Resurrection.
The one whose head you saw being crushed is the one whom Allah had given the knowledge of Qur'an (i.e. knowing it by heart) but he used to sleep at night (i.e. he did not recite it then) and did not use to act upon it (i.e. upon its orders etc.) by day; and so this punishment will go on till the Day of Resurrection. And those you saw in the hole (like oven) were adulterers (those men and women who commit illegal sexual intercourse). And those you saw in the river of blood were those dealing in Riba (usury). And the old man who was sitting at the base of the tree was Abraham and the little children around him were the offspring of the people. And the one who was kindling the fire was Malik, the gatekeeper of the Hell-fire. And the first house in which you have gone was the house of the common believers, and the second house was of the martyrs. I am Jibrael and this is Michael. Raise your head.' I raised my head and saw a thing like a cloud over me. They said, 'That is your place.' I said, 'Let me enter my place.' They said, 'You still have some life which you have not yet completed, and when you complete (that remaining portion of your life) you will then enter your place.' "
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Post by Ummati on Jul 26, 2012 16:45:25 GMT 5
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Post by binte adam on Nov 26, 2012 0:38:27 GMT 5
SubhanAllah! A beautiful heart-melting conversation between Hazrat Abu Bakr & Hazrat Ali (radhiAllahu anhuma) ♥ A Conversation Between Abu Bakr & Ali (radhiAllaahu ‘anhuma) It is recorded in Sunan ad-Darimi, upon the authority of Abu Hurayrah (radiAllahu anhu) that both Abu Bakr (radiAllahu anhu) & Ali (radiAllahu anhu) arrived at the door of Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wa wasalaam). Abu Bakr said: “Ya Ali, you go first.” Ali replied: “Please you go before me. I will never go in front of a man of whom the Messenger (sallallahu alayhi wasalaam) said the sun never rises or sets on any better man than Abu Bakr.” Abu Bakr replied: “How can I go before whom the Messenger (sallallahu alayhi wasalaam) said the best woman (Fatimah, radiAllaahu anha) was given to the best man.” Ali then said: “I will never enter before a person whom the Messenger (sallallahu alayhi wasalaam) said on the Day of Judgement a call will come from Almighty Allaah saying “O Abu Bakr! You & the ones that love you enter Jannaah!’” Abu Bakr replied: “I will never go before you because you will come rising on the Day of Judgement and it will be said that ‘he was a good man, a good brother & a good father.’” So Ali then said: “I will never go before you when the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasalaam) said, ‘If the Imaan of Abu Bakr was placed on one side of the scale and the Imaan of the Ummaah on the other, the Imaan of Abu Bakr would outweigh it.’” Abu Bakr replied: “I cannot go before the one who the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasalaam) said on the Day of Judgement ‘Ali will come with his wife Fatimah (radiAllaahu anhâ), their two children riding on a camel and the people will ‘Who is this O Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasalaam)?’ and the reply will be given, ‘This is the one whom Allaah loves.’” Ali then replied that the Messenger (sallallahu alayhi wasalaam) said: “Allaah said, “The one who brought ‘Sidq’ was Rasool’Allaah (sallallahu alayhi wa alihi wasalaam) & the ‘Siddeeq’ is the one that follows.” Jibreel (alayhee salaam) was then instructed to go to Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wasalaam) and say, “Allaah sends His salam & all the malaaika are listening to the conversation between Abu Bakr and Ali go out and be the third one to resolve it! Allaah (subhanahu wa ta’ala) sends his special rahmah & has built a fence of Iemaan & Adab between them.” (Meaning they are the people of Adab) The Prophet -sallallahu alayhee wa aalehee wasalaam- then came out & kissed both of them & said: “By the one in whose hand lays my soul – if the sea was ink & the trees pens and the creations of the heavens & the earth were writing they would never be able to write about your virtues nor describe your words.” SHARE, If you love both of them (radhiAllaahu ‘anhuma) |
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