Saturday, 9 July 2016

IMAAN

What are the seventy 70 parts of Imaan?
 
May Allah Subhanwatala bless us total understanding of Islam and taufeeq to continue to follow it throughout our lives.   Please read carefully, understand and share this checklist within your family and friends. Jazak Allah Khairan!!

"Bismil Laa-hir.Rahmaa-nir-Raheem""Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil 'Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu 'Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma 'een

(Tauheed- Risalat- Ahkirat and Islam-Iman-Ehsan)



PARTS OF IMAN :-

Iman has 70 parts they are :
The actions of the heart -These 24 qualities include beliefs and intentions.
The actions of the tongue -These include 07 qualities.
The actions of the body - of which 15 apply to individuals.
The actions of the body –of which 07 apply to dependents.
The actions of the body –of which 17 apply to general behaviour .

1.THE ACTIONS OF THE HEART :-

1. Belief in Allah, which includes belief in His Essence, Attributes, tawhid , and that there is nothing like Him and that everything beside Him is in time.
2. Belief in His angels, His books and Messengers, and the decree of good and evil
3. Belief in the Last Day
4. Belief in the questioning in the grave, the Resurrection, the Gathering, Reckoning, Balance, Sirat and the Garden and the Fire.
5. Love of Allah
6. Loving and hating in Allah.
7. Love for the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
8. The belief that he should be esteemed. That includes the prayer on him and following his Sunna .
9. Sincerity
10. Lack of showing-off and hypocrisy
11. Repentance
12. Fear
13. Hope
14. Thankfulness
15. Fidelity
16. Steadfastness
17. Contentment with the Decree
18. Reliance on Allah
19. Mercy
20. Humility, which includes respect for the old and mercy to the young
21. Abandoning pride and arrogance
22. Abandoning envy
23. Abandoning malice
24. Abandoning anger

2. THE ACTIONS OF THE TONGUE :-

1. Articulating Tawhid
2. Recitation of the Qur'an
3. Teaching knowledge
4. Learning knowledge
5. Supplication
6. Dhikr , which includes asking forgiveness
7. Avoiding foolish talk

3. THE ACTIONS OF THE BODY :-

1. Purification, physically and legally, which includes avoiding impurities and covering the private parts
2. The prayer, obligatory and voluntary
3. Zakat
4. Freeing slaves
5. Generosity, which includes feeding people and being generous to the guest
6. Fasting, obligatory and voluntary
7. Hajj
8. 'Umra
9. Tawaf
10. I'tikaf
11. Seeking the Night of Power
12. Fleeing for the sake of the deen which includes hijra from the Abode of shirk
13. Fulfilling vow
14. Care for oaths
15. Performing kaffara

4.GENERAL BEHAVIOUR :-

1. Chastity in marriage
2. Taking care of the rights of the family
3. Dutifulness to parents, which include avoiding disobeying them
4. Care for children
5. Maintaining ties of kinship
6. Obeying masters
7. Gentleness to slaves

5.SOCIETY :-

1. Undertaking command with justice
2. Following the Community
3. Obeying those in authority
4. Making peace between people, which includes fighting rebels and Kharijites
5. Helping one another to piety, which includes commanding the correct and forbidding the bad
6. Establishing the hudud
7. Jihad , which includes ribat (manning the frontiers)
8. Carrying out the trust, which includes performing the five prayers
9. Loans and repaying them
10. Generosity towards neighbours
11. Good behaviour, which includes getting money from what is lawful
12. Spending wealth properly, which includes lack of squandering and extravagance
13. Returning the greeting
14. Blessing the person who sneezes
15. Refraining from harming people
16. Avoiding diversion
17. Removing harmful things from the road .

These are 69 qualities and they can be counted as 70. In the version of Muslim,

"The highest of them is 'There is no god but Allah' and the least is removing something harmful from the road." This indicates that there is disparity in their ranking.

Allah & his Prophet (peace be upon him) knows best.

TREATMENT FOR WEAK IMAN

1. Belief in the Oneness of Allah
2. Sincerity
3. Well wishing for all
4. Abstinence
5. Contentment
6. Firm committed Faith
7. Knowledge
8. Assigning oneself to Allah
9. To place all reliance and assurance to none but Allah
10. The intention of the ultimate goal i.e. The Straight Path to Allah, the Friend, The Protector, The Glorious
11. Patience
12. Remembrance of death
13. Generosity
14. Repentance
15. Humility
16. Fear
17. Hope in none but Allah
18. To endure hunger
19. Sound and pleasant thoughts relating to any occurring matter
20. The Remembrance and Love for Allah.

When I want to talk to Allah I say prayers and when I want that He talk to me I recite quran-   Hazrath Ali(Radi Allahu Taala Anhu)

Make sure you forward this to others within your family and friends.  

JAZAK ALLAH KHAIR

Thursday, 7 July 2016

THE START SIX DAYS OF SHAWWAL....

The Six Days of Shawwal...

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said that whoever fasts Ramadan and then fasts six days in the month of Shawwal has fasted the whole year, since each good deed is multiplied by ten. Thus the thirty days of Ramadan equal three hundred days and the six days equal sixty which together make up the whole year of three hundred and sixty days. The scholars say that what is meant is that one has the reward of a whole year’s compulsory fasting, not merely supererogatory fasting. The Prophet ﷺ also said that whoever completes Ramadan and the six days will emerge as free from sins as a new born baby. It is thus recommended to fast any six days of Shawwal.

Imam al-Nawawi said that it is preferable that they be fasted consecutively immediately after Eid. The Ramadan schedule and atmosphere thus continue for another six days. It is also easier on the self (nafs) to continue doing what it has become accustomed to, whereas if fasting these six days were left to the end of the month it would be much harder to achieve.
The people of Tarim, Yemen then celebrate Eid a second time once they have fasted the six days and they have attained the promised reward.

Some of the scholars also allow for intentions to be combined. Thus if someone has Ramadan fasts to make up they can intend making up the compulsory fast along with the sunnah of the six days of Shawwal. The scholars also mention that fasting in Sha`ban before Ramadan resembles praying the supererogatory prayers which come before the obligatory prayer, while fasting in Shawwal after Ramadan resembles praying the supererogatory prayers which come after the obligatory prayer.

Monday, 4 July 2016

BELEIF CONCERNING ALLAH'S BEING AND ATTRIBUTES :- PART 06


BELIEF CONCERNING  ALLAH'S BEING AND ATTRIBUTES  :-


Mubram-e-Haqeeqi can not be changed. If the Pious servants of Allah intend to intercede in these issues, then their thoughts are diverted from such issues.

When the Angels descended upon the nation of Lut (alaihis salaam) with punishment,? Hazrat Ibraheem (alaihis salaam) who was very merciful, as even his name Ibraheem means 'merciful father', began to present the case of these infidels in the Court of Allah. Almighty Allah says, "He began to protest with us about the nation of Lut" In this verse, the Holy Quran has refuted those irreligious people who say that the Most Pious servants of Allah have no say in His Exalted Court. In this verse, Almighty Allah refutes their false beliefs by showing that they verily have great right to be heard in His Court, for He says that Hazrat Ibraheem (alaihis salaam) began to protest about the nation of Lut (alaihis salaam) .

It is in the Hadith Shareef that on the night of Me'raaj, Huzoor (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) heard the voice of someone speaking in a very loud and audible manner to Almighty Allah. The Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) asked Jibraeel (alaihis salaam) about who this was and he replied that it was Hazrat Moosa (alaihis salaam).

 The Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) said, "Does he speak to his Rub in such a high pitched voice?" and Hazrat Jibraeel (alaihis salaam) said, "His Rub is aware of his intense nature." When Almighty Allah revealed the verse, "Verily it is near that Your Lord may give you so abundantly that you shall be pleased (satisfied)", the Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) said, "I will not be pleased if even one of my Ummati remains in the fire of Hell." It is stated in the Hadith Shareef concerning a child of miscarriage, that on the day of Qiyaamah the child will demand for the forgiveness of his parents with Allah in such a way that a creditor demands from one who owes him, until Almighty Allah will say, "O child of miscarriage! O you who is demanding (quarrelling) with his Lord! Take your parents by the hand and lead them into Jannat.

Friday, 1 July 2016

BELIEF CONCERNING ALLAH'S BEING AND ATTRIBUTES :-PART 05


BELIEF CONCERNING  ALLAH'S BEING AND ATTRIBUTES  :-


The Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) has said that one who rejects Taqdeer is like the fire worshippers in this nation.

Here the issue of Taqdeer is being discussed. Many people commit sins and say that it is because it is in their Taqdeer and because Allah has written it to be so. This is incorrect. Allah with His self knowledge knew that they were going to sin, so He wrote that which they were to do. It is not so that His writing has forced them to sin. An Example without comparison is being present for the purpose of understanding. A five year old boy stands in front of a bus. He says to his brother, 'I am going to pick up this bus.' His brother says, 'You will not pick it up.' The boy tries, but he does not pick it up.

The brother knew that the boy would not pick up it, thus, because of his knowing this, he said that the boy would not be able to pick up the bus. Was the boy unable to pick up the bus because his brother said that he would not be able, to do so? Definitely not.

You can now realise that whatever we will do, Allah has knowledge of it. Allah recorded this knowledge on the sacred Tablet and this is Taqdeer.

Aqida: Fate is of three types
 (a). Mubram-e-Haqeeqi refers to inevitable fate and is not changeable.
 (b) Mu'allaq Mahz refers to that which is evidently pending the books of the Angels and can be  changed   
 (c) Mu'allaq Shabi Ba Mubram refers to that which is not evidently shown to be pending in the books of the Angels, but it is in the Knowledge of Allah, that it is a pending situation (can be changed for example through the duas of Allah's chosen servants).