If "Only Allah", then "Allah Alone" is our watchword
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Where and How to invest to harvest?
If you loan for the sake of Allah a beautiful loan, He will multiply it for you and forgive you. And Allah is Intent in Assessing and Forbearing.
The word 'Beautiful' implies wide ranging application such as fair, handsome, lovely, soothing, comforting, graceful, caring and so on. Allah says your giving loan to the fairly needy and very respectable individuals during their testing times, is the loveliest and most handsome of the investments. Such of them can only be identified by the signs of their restraints for they would uphold the dignity of Allah by not seeking any help from the people in such a way the ignorant ones would account them wealthy. To identify such people what is needed is the grace from Allah, His wisdom and the criterion or the distinguishing ability as the most essential Benevolence from the Most Astute; but by such of His Grace, it is impossible to invest a beautiful loan that would erase all our sins and multiply our gains wisdom wise for the best lives in both the worlds.
Where to Invest and How to Invest for the Harvest! May Allah Guide and Help Us.
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"O Allah, increase us in our wisdom; we call on You and we only seek You; Guide us in the Straight Path; the path of those upon whom You have bestowed Your favor and not of those who incurred Your wrath and who You have left astray." -
Where and how to invest to harvest - 2 ?
Who is he that will Loan to Allah a beautiful loan? He would increase it manifold for him, and he will have a liberal Reward.
A beautiful loan means giving with a sense of duty from the remains of our wealth to those who are in need and to who if we give would be pleasing to Allah so that our hearts would have solace in it for all time to come. When Allah is pleased with such, our stature would be such that
- We would be given the wisdom to pick the right kind of soul who patiently would expect Allah's help alone and about whom Allah is pleased with and upon who His Mercy is resting.
- We would personally reach out to such needy with all our help so that none besides us and the needy would ever come to know of it.
- We would not fix a time frame for returning the loan; yet we would free them from any pressure with regard to loan because we know our reward for this is with Allah.
- We put our trust in only Allah and pray for the one who has received the loan.
- Even though we are in need under unforeseen circumstances, we would choose to pray God for us and for them for patience and steadfastness in honouring the goodly loan for His sake.
- We would be helped by Allah in such a way, we would be made to forget the loan we had offered to any goodly soul.
- This is because God meantime by His Grace already had rewarded us with His Ampleness.
- Further, Allah would embark us upon even a higher pedestal.
salam
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Disease and Poverty
These two are the penultimate test from Allah for those who claim to be Muslims before they are admitted to heaven or thrown into hell. By calling oneself a Muslim we shall know by that he says, "I believe in the only God for the needs and the requirements of his entire life. I am satisfied that He alone is sufficient for me and I do not seek any help from anyone besides Allah until my soul and life is captured by Allah." The more one claims to be a Muslim, the severe the test for him from Allah. This is because he says so when he is in shirk with or without his know; and he is saying and posing what he is not which is most hateful in the eyes of Allah.
And Allah will not mislead a people after He hath guided them, and until such time He makes clear to them what to avoid - for Allah hath knowledge of all things.
The guidance from this ayat is if we want disease and distress free life in this world say not and pose not what you are not; and fear Allah to call oneself or pose oneself as a Muslim when the judgement regarding this about each one is with Allah. Show your faith and fear only to Him.
No beard, no cap, no Arabic names. This basic is necessary to allow Allah Himself to teach what fear for Him is and how to lead a faithful life.
Any input is welcome
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Thanks for the fine posts!
The more one claims to be a Muslim, the severe the test for him from Allah. This is because he says so when he is in shirk with or without his know; and he is saying and posing what he is not which is most hateful in the eyes of Allah.
I have found that the things we call tests, which can be adversities, sad events, trouble and problems etc, are partly consequences of what we believe and do, but also reminders and invitations to accept Allah as the only Source and Provider of everything. Allah is not unfair, and doesn't let things happen by accident or random. Hardship is a wake-up slap which is a tremendous blessing, because it gives us a chance to see that we need to learn something and correct something in our world view. Hardship, or test, is Allah's blessing and opportunity for us to learn and purify ourselves. If we take the opportunity, then we can grow and improve. If we don't learn from the lessons, we'll have more lessons, again and again, because Allah is The Mericful... but in the end we'll get burnt out and broken... because we refused and failed to learn when the chances were given. Allah and life is not unfair... even though it can be very tough with misery and sadness.
The degree of severity of the tests, in my understanding, depends partly on how much you can handle (and only Allah knows how much that is) and partly on how hard you are resisting the potential positive change. The more resistance you have inside, the more misery you'll have. These seem to be directly proportional to each other. Furthermore, resistance seems to stem from the mind... and when the mind is allowed to alone control a person, while there is no "heart" that can sense the presence and reality of Allah, then there will be much misery in life. The "heart" can pick up Allah's guidance, while your mind is blind.
Declaring infront of Allah that you are muslim is one way of saying that you ask Allah to guide you. Since you want guidance, you also acknowledge that you need help to be purified, and this is another way of saying that you have things to learn. Having things to learn (like learning to rely on Allah..) means you need lessons, which in turn and essence are challenging situations to overcome and go though. I believe Allah says in the Quran that those who claim to believe will surely be tested. I personally see this in two different ways. One way is what I have already mentioned, that since the conscious path toward purification has started (by claiming to believe) then we have to go through all those things that we need to learn... and they'll appear as more or less unpleasant circumstances = tests. The other way is that we need to show that we are honest and sincere in our claim of faith, and that we indeed are ready and determined to walk the talk... that we really mean business. This will show if we are hypocrites or not. And Allah never puts more burden on anyone than he or she can handle. Allah is after all not unfair. So, saying that the test is too much to handle is a lie, in the sense that it IS possible to handle it, even though our mind might disagree. We can handle much more than our poor mind wants us to believe. The question is, do we give up, or do we strive hard toward purification while asking Allah for strength and guidance? Which way do we choose? Allah is indeed The Merciful, but rarely do we realize this.
All we have to do is to accept Allah's invitation to purification. Allah will give us the means, ways and strength to pull through... but we have to have the intention and vision. We should not be quitters, especially when it gets hard. Allah's help is always there (and totally necessary for us), and that is in reality the actual lesson we need to learn. And it is important to understand that it is a process that cannot be rushed. We cannot expect to shed our fears, resistance and negativity over night. We need to be patient, work steadfast and just practise relying on Allah. It's a process...
Peace y'all
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zulf, salam
Your post speaks of your determination to stick to your faith in the Almighty Power and Its Prowess that carries you forwards and towards eternal ascent in all its fineness. A bit of preening one or two points based on the ayats shall remove the obstacles of 'fear of hard tests' such as follows
4147 What would Allah gain with your punishment if you are grateful and believe? And ever is Allah Appreciative and Knowing.
9115 And Allah would not let a people astray after He has guided them until He makes clear to them what they should avoid. Indeed, Allah is Knowing of all things.
202 We have not sent down the Quran to you to cause you distress
3935 That Allah will turn off from them the worst of what they did, and will pay them for reward the best they used to do.
3953 Say "O my bondsmen who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah for Allah forgives all sins for He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
2438 That Allah may reward them with the best of what they did, and increase reward for them of His bounty. Allah giveth blessings without short supply to whom He will.
2570 Except for those who repent, believe and behave justly - for them Allah will replace their distressful deeds with graciousness. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.
3 135 And those who, as they involve in evil or wrong themselves, remember Allah and implore righteousness from their evil - Who shows righteousness save Allah? - and will not knowingly persist in their evil ways.
3136 Those - their reward is forgiveness from their Lord and gardens beneath which rivers flow.
2286 Allah does not charge a soul beyond its capacity. It will have the good it has gained, and it will bear the evil it has earned. "Our Lord, do not impose blame upon us if we have forgotten the righteous path or committed evil. Our Lord, and lay not upon us a burden like that which You laid upon those before us. Our Lord, and burden us not with that which we have no ability to bear. And pardon us; and forgive us; and have mercy upon us. You are our protector, so give us victory over the disbelieving people."zulf, if you could include certain of the ayats I have cited above and redo your post removing the obstacle 'fear of hard test', it would be perfect. Those who believe in Allah and stand steadfast, they have no fear nor worry is the word of promise from Allah. Awaiting your complimenting post.
Salam
Thanks for the fine posts!
I have found that the things we call tests, which can be adversities, sad events, trouble and problems etc, are partly consequences of what we believe and do, but also reminders and invitations to accept Allah as the only Source and Provider of everything. Allah is not unfair, and doesn't let things happen by accident or random. Hardship is a wake-up slap which is a tremendous blessing, because it gives us a chance to see that we need to learn something and correct something in our world view. Hardship, or test, is Allah's blessing and opportunity for us to learn and purify ourselves. If we take the opportunity, then we can grow and improve. If we don't learn from the lessons, we'll have more lessons, again and again, because Allah is The Mericful... but in the end we'll get burnt out and broken... because we refused and failed to learn when the chances were given. Allah and life is not unfair... even though it can be very tough with misery and sadness.
The degree of severity of the tests, in my understanding, depends partly on how much you can handle (and only Allah knows how much that is) and partly on how hard you are resisting the potential positive change. The more resistance you have inside, the more misery you'll have. These seem to be directly proportional to each other. Furthermore, resistance seems to stem from the mind... and when the mind is allowed to alone control a person, while there is no "heart" that can sense the presence and reality of Allah, then there will be much misery in life. The "heart" can pick up Allah's guidance, while your mind is blind.
Declaring infront of Allah that you are muslim is one way of saying that you ask Allah to guide you. Since you want guidance, you also acknowledge that you need help to be purified, and this is another way of saying that you have things to learn. Having things to learn (like learning to rely on Allah..) means you need lessons, which in turn and essence are challenging situations to overcome and go though. I believe Allah says in the Quran that those who claim to believe will surely be tested. I personally see this in two different ways. One way is what I have already mentioned, that since the conscious path toward purification has started (by claiming to believe) then we have to go through all those things that we need to learn... and they'll appear as more or less unpleasant circumstances = tests. The other way is that we need to show that we are honest and sincere in our claim of faith, and that we indeed are ready and determined to walk the talk... that we really mean business. This will show if we are hypocrites or not. And Allah never puts more burden on anyone than he or she can handle. Allah is after all not unfair. So, saying that the test is too much to handle is a lie, in the sense that it IS possible to handle it, even though our mind might disagree. We can handle much more than our poor mind wants us to believe. The question is, do we give up, or do we strive hard toward purification while asking Allah for strength and guidance? Which way do we choose? Allah is indeed The Merciful, but rarely do we realize this.
All we have to do is to accept Allah's invitation to purification. Allah will give us the means, ways and strength to pull through... but we have to have the intention and vision. We should not be quitters, especially when it gets hard. Allah's help is always there (and totally necessary for us), and that is in reality the actual lesson we need to learn. And it is important to understand that it is a process that cannot be rushed. We cannot expect to shed our fears, resistance and negativity over night. We need to be patient, work steadfast and just practise relying on Allah. It's a process...
Peace y'all
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Stay away safe from all adversities
Appreciation is valuing by perception of someone's good nature or quality; and the depreciative assessment against a person starts with his failing character. The character of a good natured person would only reflect in his show of gratitude to the source from where every bit of a good thing should he cherish soulfully. If one is a believer in God, he would give thanks surely and almost instantly to such a Source, the God! If only we show our thanks to God, He says What would your God gain by punishing you if you are grateful and believe? And ever God is Appreciative of your good nature and He is Most Generous and All-Knowing as to what to recompense you with.
If our show of gratitude is to the mark of earning His pleasure, then from this moment up, all our miseries are over to the beginning of the Lasting Day.
The way to show our gratitude is never look down upon some with pride; nor would you look up at others with envy; rather, have compassion for those suffering in adversity seeking for their forgiveness and shall not pass comments on them lest we would invite the displeasure or wrath of our God.
This is because, God says If an affliction should touch you - there had already been destined for others similar afflictions. And We vary its timing among the people so that Allah may make evident those who believe and to choose witnesses from among you; - and Allah does not like the wrongdoers.
Further, here is the warning from the Almighty as to why we shall seek forgiveness to those who are suffering a trial period Fear a trial which will not strike exclusively those who have wronged among you; and know that Allah is severe in penalty.
The best and the easiest way to guard us from all adversities is to seek forgiveness for anyone who is in a testing situation for, no one knows if he is going to be the chosen witness by Allah. Seeking forgiveness for such is an intercession from us to Allah. Since by such intercession we dutifully and with due remembrance only followed Him, here is the reward for such an intercession
Whoever intercedes for a good cause will have a reward therefrom; and whoever intercedes for an evil cause will have a burden therefrom. And ever is Allah , over all things, a Keeper.
salam, All.
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Which is a Halal Food?
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Glorytothegracious,We shall not eat bad foods or spoilt foods for if we eat we fall to sickness. The Curer is the One who cures you, though there are self-claimed 'curlers, healers, doctors, specialists etc'. All these words are associations to "The Curer, The Healer, The Speacialisr or The Best". All the Best Names on earth are those what man attributes to himself, while they belong only to Allah. Thus there are many many Names of Allah, attributed to men very plainly such as King, Governor and so on without a prefix 'servant of The King, servant of The Governor, servant of The Honorable, servant of His Highness. Thus if our fear is that we shall not associate partners to Allah with reference to All His Beatiful Names, never qualify and call a man with the best of adjectives, or in other words, equate not these filthy people to His Highness, the Majesty of Allah.
We fall sick after eating bad foods or spoilt foods; after the sickness has set in, it is only The Curer cures removing the evil of the foods. Allah says while I, The Purifier make the foods pure for you, and make them Lawful to you to eat thereof, and why do you not invoke My Names O the Curer, O the Purifier, O the Lawful, O the Forgiver, O the Provider, O the Relenting, O the Knower, O the Truthful. What made you believe the organic or halal shop owners, while I am the Trustworthy, The Mumin.
Allah says nothing shall prevent you from eating before touching every food on your platter while remembering of My Names suitably invoking it where necessary and eat while you fear Me alone without fearing the food or worrying about the source from where they came. Because to do so is sin before Allah. If a food refuses to agree with your digestion, your call is upon O the Rectifier.
What has been made as unlawful foods are clearly prescribed thus the dead, the pouring blood, the meat of swine and those foods upon which other than Allah's Names are pronounced. A day to day example for this is we thank and wish each other for providing food at home feast or a feast hosted in restaurants without giving Thanks to Him, The Most Appreciative and without seeking His Forgiveness and His Mercy for our entire future to come.
Finally to invoke the Names of Allah, remember this. In all your needs are His Names. And remember not to grope for Allah' names.
Salam
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If we want Heaven
We shall not have affection for our fathers or our sons or our brothers or our relations if we find them opposed to Allah and His Messenger. Upon such of us - in our hearts, Allah would inscribe faith and support us with His RUH. And He would admit us to gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein we abide eternally. Allah would be pleased with us, and we would be pleased with Him - we are the party of Allah . Unquestionably, the party of Allah - we, are the successful.
There are those three things we shall take into account Allah, His Messenger, His RUH
If Allah is with You and His Ruh is with You, then His Messengers such as Ruhul Quddus(Gibreel, The Messenger who convey the Purest Words from Allah), Ruhul Amin(Mikhail, The Messenger who show the Surest Way by the leave of Allah), are also with You - in Your Heart. Nothing is away or outside of you, if you want to be led to heaven in both here and in the world after.
Say, "Whoever is an enemy to Gibreel - it is he who brings down upon your heart, Allah's Command and by His leave , confirming that which was before it and as guidance and good tidings for the believers." Whoever is an enemy to Allah and His angels and His messengers and Gibreel and Mikhail - then indeed, Allah is an enemy to the disbelievers.
If we mind and remind ourselves, these two are our true real time Prophets, Messengers for the rest of the world - the worlds' life time.
Your valuable inputs welcome...
salam
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This is not really about your posts... but I was wondering about how you connect ruhulquddus with jibril while ruhulamin with mikail. When I google them I find that ruhulamin is one of the names of jibril. Could you share something on this? Peace and thanks
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This is not really about your posts... but I was wondering about how you connect ruhulquddus with jibril while ruhulamin with mikail. When I google them I find that ruhulamin is one of the names of jibril. Could you share something on this? Peace and thanks
Salam zulf,
Who is Jibril? And who is Mikhail? Ruhul Quddus and Ruhul Amin are the two names of one and the same angel Jibril, or different names of the two different angels?
Except Allah none possesses multiple names to Whom belongs all the Beautiful Names in the heavens and in the earth - be they prophets, or messengers from among the men or from among the angels - none has more than one name.
Allah's RUH is with each human being. To enliven it, and to protect it two angelic messengers are assigned to it, Ruhul Quddus and Ruhul Amin.
As each RUH receives the Will of God as His well-measured Wish, this is the Haj ordained upon his soul. Thereat, the Wish induces and influences each one to set out on his Haj. And our whole life is destined to be set upon this Pilgrimage, until our life departs for His abode for good.
Say Ruhul Quddus has brought this from Allah with the truth, that it may secure belief, and as a guidance, and as good news for those who are pleased with Allah. 16102
Here, Ruhul Quddus breathes the Purest Words of Allah into the hearts of the believers to strengthen their belief in the will of Allah that becomes their Haj i.e. their wilful wish of life. In it is the guidance for their entire pilgrimage towards fulfilling Haj; and in it is also the promise of good news from Allah that He would help them and protect them in completing their Haj. There is only one life for us; and there is only one Haj for each of us. Thus Ruhul Quddus, the angel Jibril, brings down the Purest Words of promise from Allah for our entire life on this earth. Every good news is brought down to us with Truth from Allah with signs and revelation to strengthen our belief in all the Wish He had blessed us with through Ruhul Quddus.
If you look at this ayat Ruhul Amin has descended with it... 26193
The ayat is preceded by the guidance, and repeated warnings which Ruhul Amin revealed to the misguided people by the leave of Allah, before finally the destruction of the communities took place as they adamantly persisted in hot pursuit of their desires in exchange for The Haj - involving in all falsehood.
When Allah mentions about the two angels namely Jibril and Mikhail; and while Jibril is Ruhul Quddus, the other angel Mikhail should be none other than The Ruhul Amin.
While i obey Allah I follow these messengers in my life.
Salam
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The Religion of Nuh for All The Worlds
Certainly We sent Nuh to warn his people to guard before painful affliction would befall them. He said, "O my people, I am but a plain Warner; call upon Him alone; and follow me."
Here the painful afflictions are diseases and poverty. These are but a Warning from Allah, before by His command any catastrophe destroys us en masse. Today we suffer from societal disorders and social disharmony to individual afflictions both mentally and physically. All the knowledge of men such as physical, physiological, pathological, psychological, psychotic, meditation, yoga, spiritual therapies have come to a stand off. All these have been proved to be a farce before the gruesome picture of deliriously deleterious world populace. Each one's state of balance is dwindling because of their increasing incoherence and in coordination between their intuit and intellect. All the therapies of physiological cure, and subjects of mental stability hypothesised and prosthesis-ed by the men proclaimed 'doctors and nobel-laureates' in the field of all material knowledge and mental philosophies had gone down the drain thus far and would meet the same fate any far.
The severe warning from Prophet Nuh has come you are reminded again, Mind is your life and None shall secure it except Allah; and hence call upon Him alone and none besides Him.
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It is this life has Allah ordained upon Nuh and unto us. Yet it is hard for those who are wrong-doersAs long as we don't call upon for our mental derangements and physical diseases besides Allah, The Curer, The Almighty, there is no suffering or adversity of any sort that would afflict us or our family or our descendants. It is time we are done with the doctors who say We save your lives! In Prophet Nuh is a perfect exemplar for all people of peace and prosperity.
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The wind of Grace
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It is He who sends the winds as good news before His grace; and We send down pure water from the sky.Note Winds always carry the sounds of communication; or the breeze of messages; sounds in the wind are audible to the ears; but the messages in the breeze are only perceptible to the mind; there is an air of relief and solace to the breast when some good feel embraces us, as it breezes past. There is not a single breath in our breathing that does not carry winds of message to our hearts; the winds are solely about the future; and again, the winds are always sayer of good tidings. You are a believer in the glad tidings if you keep up your freeness of mind in relation to the messages your hearts have perceived; and your firmness in your resolve takes you closer to God and godliness for you have acquired this ability to understand His Communications; and it is Him who has elevated you in degree for He took account of your efforts, however meagre and minimum it is, to preserve the God-given calmness during times of perplexities. Thereat the Grace comes down upon the people having such hearts like the water pouring down from the sky on a barren land, that is sure to produce greens of splendor all around.
Patience during testing times is the sure winner of both the world's wealths. The more we endure since the breezes of message has touched our hearts, it is because of His bestow we are able to go past the difficult situation; and this is passing in our testing times. The reward for such passing is the victorious life that shall never see worry or fear in both the worlds; they shall have what they wish for; and whatever they ask of is with them in abundance and with all its freshness.
When we see it is beyond us to endure any further, God knows well our standard of perception and our degree of endurance; and it is that surely He will not test us beyond our tolerance threshold. Whoso endures more and more it is because of allowance of His wisdom and therewith the forbearance; He allows this in a measure to whoso He is pleased with only to grace them with as much as they are worth for His bounties, which would last forever.
From such perception, the best of prayers for each of us would be
"O God! Increase us in our patience and help us pass the test of time; Raise us in degrees and ranks in tolerance and wisdom; make our lives easy and smooth during the times of endurance."
Read the above verse thus
It is He who sends the WINDS as viable MESSAGES before delivering His GRACE; and We bring down the CREATIVE LIFE FORCE from the sky.fazlur rahman
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The 'Sakar' Hell
And The 19Sakar is the starting of the Hour of one bang of a 'Resounding reverberation' in the hearts of the evil-mongering for what they had been involved in their entire life. It is the start of the Hour of their retribution, by Allah. That is the beginning of the heaviest of all burdens to be borne by the hell bound; and no respite from, nor easing out of, nor delay of their punishment will ever be there for the rejecters. The Hour of questioning when each unjust would face the wrath of their God direct as to his ungrateful rejection and abuse of every good thing God had bestowed him with. The wrong doers would be placed on a steep precipice of his own pride from where he could neither move nor could he climb down except to fall to the abysmal depths of hell, the Sakar. He was contemptuous towards Quran all through his life for he could not find in it that would suit his vain desires; he hated, rejected and turned away from it - and became one of the proud; he dismissed Quran as void; and he proclaimed it to be just a figment of imagination by a man. Surely such are 'Sakar-bound'.
Sakar will neither spare nor overlook any of one's misdeeds and abuse, however small or big it could be; he would be in total wreck and an utter derangement.
The guards of the hell wouldl be malayika, the angels,19. As believers one shall believe Allah, The Lasting Day, the nineteen '19' angels guarding the Sakar hell, who shall never allow the dwellers of it escape the torment of fire.
O you who believe! save yourselves and your families from a fire whose fuel is men and stones; over it are angels stern and strong, they do not disobey Allah in what He commands them, and do as they are commanded. 666
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How to Read Quran
The languages are based on the things, events and the words of the past by which we shall understand nothing of tomorrow and upon which alone our lives exist. The rest of our lives is only tomorrow and we live only for the future; and we are not living in the present as it is already passing by; neither do we live in the past. Hence the dead past, and its knowledge, and its languages and their vocabularies are bygones, unfit for the future. Thus millions of libraries, billions of their books, and zillions of their readers are like dead and decomposing, and, until and unless they look up to the wisdom of the future, the ways of all walks of life are vanities.
There could be only One Book, the Book that reminds us of our conscience, the power of which connects us with the Creative power of the universe, The God. The God's Book, any Veda is The Book of God provided its language connects us to the language of mind, sense, conscience and The Creative Power. Any human language with its syntax and grammar application to understand Veda is farcical. Such linguistic approach towards Veda, makes them barbaric cannibals fit for hellish lives in all the worlds.
If one's heart is for Quran, shun the scholars of arabic and their dumb application of the arabic language and its physical grammar that lead to absolute misunderstanding messing up the past, the present and the future. But seek from the only Teacher, Allah, the All-Knowing, who shall convey His message to his mind and sense, for application of it in its pristine pure form throughout his practical life in both the worlds, by being with Him all the while.
Peace
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The Power Of Night - 97
Quran reading is useless unless we decisively stick to righteousness while applying our reading practically in our lives, atleast to an extent possible. Based on such keenness of a soul, Allah Guides, insuch a way that we do not transgress or become ungrateful after receiving His Mercy. Here is an instance as to how we shall read the Quran and to understand it live to follow it
Chapter Al Qadr - 97
The Reading of the chapter verse by verse
- Surely We revealed it on the Night of Power
- And what will make you comprehend what the Night of Power
- The Night of Power is better than a thousand months,.
- The angels and RUH descend in it by the permission of their God for every affair,
- Peace! it is till the break of the morning.
Now the Application of the Guidance phase by phase
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Certainly We have been showing them every day, the Power of each Night.
Allah knows all our sins through our mischievous acts and transgressions that we do conscientiously during our day time, until we retire from all our works by the evening by which time we become haggard, worried and vexed, which is the just recompense of what we had earned, all through the day. Yet while we go to sleep each Night, there is this constant prayer in the depth of our heart "May Allah forgive my sins and dawn upon me the Light of Life and Guide me free from fear and worry." Allah makes this prayer descend during the Night. -
And what will make you comprehend what the Night of Power?
Allah says, "Do not try to figure out literally what that Night is, for it is comprehension by way of perception that which is sent upon your heart as revelation from Me; and hence seek from Me alone as to what it is! I am Most Forgiving, All-Knowing, Well-Aware." -
The Night of Power is greater than a thousand months,.
This is your approximate life-span i.e., eighty-three years, wherein you would roughly live for 30,000 nights and 30,000 days. Allah, the All Knowing knows all the sins that you had earned during each day, and would know what you would earn all through for the rest of your lives. But for His Forgiveness and Mercy, we are not taught this prayer through the Malayika and the RUH who say, by the leave of Allah, to our hearts "May Allah forgive my sins and dawn upon me the Light of Life and Guide me free from fear and worry."
660 And He it is Who captures your souls and makes you die at nights and put to sleep peacefully without fear and worry accepting your prayer which has been placed in your heart the previous day, before the Night fell, by the malayika and RUH by His leave; and He knows what you earn as sins during the day, then He raises you up clearing your heart of all evil of the previous day, with brightness and Peace at dawn therein that your appointed term may be fulfilled; but, after a thousand months of your life, to Him is your return when you are made to die for the second and for the final time, then He will inform you of what you were doing.
At this point of time your prayers seeking forgiveness would not be accepted. You would seek some way of escape and plead before your God which He would decline for good; and here it is as Tom how the situation would be 40.11 They shall say Our God! twice did You make us subject to death, and twice have You given us life, so we do confess our faults; is there then a way to get out?
We will be told then that we were given a long lease of 30,000 nights of promised forgiveness from your God, and peaceful sleep in the Night. And those nights when you had spent sleepless nights were because your sins on those days were so severe, that Allah had not forgiven your sins and allowed you to repent for your evils as punitive recompense so that you shall not carry your sins to your next world. Yet we persisted in our evil ways with our disregard and utter thankless ness with arrogance belying the Final Day. This would further teach us that all the world population put together with their knowledge and power could never cause one night of peaceful sleep. The power of Night, a single Night is far greater.
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The Malayika and RUH descend in it by the permission of their God for every affair
What happens on each of those 30,000 nights is Malayika and RUH descend upon our hearts conveying forgiveness of Allah and also by His leave they take up every affair of our individual lives during the nights and set them right giving us the Night of Peace. -
Peace! it is till the break of the morning.
This is the Power of Night which lasts until dawn, until our waking up to complete our stint for the next day, and thus the Night of Power, The Night of Peace is sent down upon our hearts that which continues until the final day....
There are certain grateful bondsmen who dutifully follow the path of Light, following the Night of Power regarding who Allah says 6122. Is he who was dead then We raised him to life and made for him a light by which he walks among the people, like him whose likeness is that of one in utter darkness whence he cannot come forth? Thus what they did was made fair seeming to the unbelievers, till the Nights of Power is over for them and until their second and final raising up...
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Respected Doctor, Thank you once again for this pearl of wisdom
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Drinking alcohol is not some act of magic where the formula will "create" something without reason.
Follow the Qur'an and do not get confused with the ahadith that say such categorical things as whether you will go to hell (whatever it means "go to hell".
In alcohol, as the Qur'an says, there is some good, and there is bad, but the bad outweighs the good and it is from Shaytan, meaning, misleading and evil.
You must not think merely ont terms of hell and not hell, hell you create when you create eveil for you and for others. Drinking is a social evil. People who mind the soiety in which they live and humans in general abstain from drinking because even if it does not entail an evil for them, it does sustain the drinking penchant of society at large and helps other to become or continue to be alcoholics. When you drink you are not helping those who may be very inclined to fall into that habit or who may have fallen and broken their lives because of it, and eventually you might break yours. You never know, one day you are all right, another day you may have a heartache or troubles from which you want to escape and it is a great temptation, to look for comfort in alcohol. People do not notice they are becoming alcoholics when it starts, it is just drinking to feel better.
Summing up, do not forget that the Qur'an is not only about the individual good, but about the good of whole societies and that one should not abstract his or her own good, from that of the whole society where he lives as human.
Salaam
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Salaam,
You put it well there. Thank you. God bless you for that.
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This article is in response to God's will - How does it work?
http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9605157.msg323104#msg323104For years I have spouted the phrase "God is doing everything", and firmly "believed" in it based this on verse such as 817, 5722, and 6411.
But, I had unanswered questions such as "when a girl is raped, God is doing that?" or "when people are abused or mistreated, God is doing that?". My response was always, "God is doing everything, but nothing bad comes from him." I got this again from Khalifa's interpretation of verses 478-79.
Many Muslims say "in sha Allah" when talking about the future. I noticed that the command in sura 18 is regarding that you will do something tomorrow, and not necessarily an hour into the future. This makes sense to me as we do not know if we will be alive tomorrow, and that God ultimately controls when our life ends here. However, I would like to know what peoples understanding from the Qur'an is on the subject of God's control in all of our worldly affairs and our day to day well being.
When the Qur'an says anything good is from God and anything bad is from us, does this mean that our health, wealth, and happiness are all given by God on a daily basis through divine interventions or are the good things we enjoy is a result of using our God given brains and thanking God? On the other side of things, when bad things happen to us like sickness, accidents, falling out with our friends and family members, are these a punishment from God for committing sins, or are they a result of not using our God given brains and being selfish, etc.?
I once held the belief that God assigns angels to each human to protect them from harm if they are righteous, and these angels basically step aside and let bad things come to us when we sin. I had this understanding again from Khalifa's teachings and interpretations of 1311. Any I believed that when people are bad they "remove themselves from God's protection" and that bad things happen to them because Satan afflicts them, or since they "choose Satan as a lord" he is incapable of taking care of them like God does.
What does everyone think of these ideas from a Qur'anic perspective. What of divine intervention, miracles, etc.?
Peace, jtc
Before the humans were created, and before the earth and the sky were created, and before the earth and the sky are separated from each other, there was an atmosphere of haze and blaze of fire, in the space. While the blazing fire being the source of creation and the abode of Jinns, the haze of smoke is the atmosphere of the jinns to breathe for its living. The Jinns were living in the paradise but in most of their minds were the rejection of God, idolatry, hypocrisy, treacherousness and disbelief. Allah chose messengers from among them too but their admonitions fell in deaf ears and that they only increased their rejection and hypocrisy. Now the warning of Allah finally arrives that if they do not mend and become obedient slaves of Allah, they would be thrown away and would bring a creative generation in their place who would be above them in everything. The messengers from among the Jinns kept bringing to their people, the Quranic ayats and the Signs of Allah, until Allah began unfolding His Design of Man's abode.
The creation of the earth and the sky was almost a paradise wherein every grace of Allah had been poured in beyond measure and had been a spectacle to the eyes of the Jinns. But as per His Design, Allah placed the human creation on it, the most beautiful dwelling place, the paradise-like; and this was an eyesore for the jinns. Allah said to Man "Go forth in this paradise where you want and eat of what you want but never usurp the timber, meant for all the beings on the earth, induced by the whisperings of shaitaan, lest you should be one of them and thus become of the unjust. Yet man faltered and fell to jinns and became of the rejecters and of the disbelievers and thus became of each other.
Before Allah conferred and destined the Most Gracious Benevolence upon man i.e., conferring the Reign of Arsh upon the man, He called out to the earth and the skies to come together either willingly or unwillingly in obedience to man. They both said We are willingly coming together for the man. Then Allah ordained upon the skies and the earth, the Quran in detail, with which they both shall assess discreetly and diligently the works of man on the earth in accordance with the Quran in their moment to moment life. Then Allah shaped man to a perfect creation with Criterion i.e., with the ability to distinguishing and taught him the Quran, the Guidance to Justice and with that He set man upon the Arsh.
55 1 The Most Gracious, The Most Benevolent
55 2 He taught the Quran to the Arsh, the skies and the earth and everything in between
55 3 He created man in righteous perfection to handle the Arsh
55 4 And He taught him the Quran, The Guidance perfect.And with this, He raised mankind as Adam and taught him what is in the skies and in the earth and what is in between; and how they would respond to his needs and his actions; if he goes against the Quran, the skies and the earth would not obey him; and if he is in accordance with Quran and fearing Allah, stick to righteousness while seeking forgiveness all the time, then he is upon the Arsh. The heavens and the skies and everything in between would obey his need and orders, and the paradise is for him, ever.
The instances to this when Ibrahim was thrown into the pit fire, the heat of fire changed to one of cool comfort; when Nuh prayed, the heavens and the earth opened up to drown the world; when Musa cast his shaft, the sea cleaved into two mountainous parts, creating dry land in between; when Dawood made iron into molten fluid; and to Sulaiman, the wind, the birds, the ants, the jinns, the malayika and Allah knows what more were with him - everything from heavens down to earth obeyed to his command. This is because all were upon the Guidance of Quran and the heavens and the skies were taught Quran before and whatever the wish of man, if he is righteous and his life is in accordance with Quran, the skies and the earth come together to deliver him of his want. The Arsh, including the guardians of it, the malayika obey him, by His leave. On the other hand, if man does not follow Quran, then, he shall follow shaitaan and shaitan follows him and pushes him to hell of a life in this world itself.
And a man's life toggles between the two extreme conditions i.e. between the life of paradise and the life of hell; and struggles through all the mixture between the two, throughout his life. Either he shall rule over the Arsh with Quran, or the Arsh will finish you with earthquakes, volcanos, tsunamis, diseases, famine, floods, blood, madness to say a few.
45 22 And Allah crated the heavens and the earth on the truthful guidance of Quran, so that every man shall be recompensed for what he did and that they will not be wronged.
Let us know for sure now, both the jinns in their abode of haze; and the human beings in their abode of clear atmosphere of air living in their respective places for millions of years of generations after generations, usurping the timber and engaging in land grabbing fighting and shedding blood and losing lives over them, all being done in the abode of paradise. Jinns were much pleased to have the men at each other's throat and settled their envy against them for Allah having designed such a beautiful place as dwelling place for the human beings. Allah is well-aware of what is in their hearts.
Allah's next design is to reveal the supremacy of the man, created of the muddy-clay, against the jinns created of the blaze of fire. Toward this end, the jinns had in their hearts, the evil racist discrimination and always looked down upon man; and having made men fall to their inducements they were content with their blood-shed and losses of their lives. Allah said to the assembly of Malayika and Jinns I am going to place man on the earth as My viceroy; and all of you have to serve the man.
While the Malayikas obeyed Allah and obeyed His Will, the jinns said "Are you going to place as Your Viceroy, such as these on the earth who cause mischief and shed blood, while we praise your glory and purify Your Names?" Allah said, "You know not what I know." Then Allah taught man all that is in the heavens and in the earth and everything in between and thus brought everything under man's command. This teaching to man of the wisdom of power includes the knowledge of Malayika; the inns and out of, who and what the jinns are; and how to bring them all under man's control and obedience by the leave of Allah. Knowing very well the disobedience of the jinns Allah brings man before the jinns and malayikas for the test. The ignorance and the inferiority of the jinns before man were made clear to both the malayika and the jinns. The malayika began obeying the man, but the jinns under the command of Iblis, the leader of the jinns, disobeyed; and Allah was keenly watching this disobedience of jinns.
Allah waited relenting and forgiving the jinns and Iblis, for a long time as it is not His Way to punish then and there for the sins but destines a term appointed. The appointed time came and the jinns were brought before Adam, the knowledgeable Man, the Viceroy of Allah on the Earth, before the assembly of malayika and Allah said to the jinns "O Jinns! Why did you not obey the command of Man while I ordered you to do so." To this the leader among the rejecting jinn community, Iblis said "I am not obey the man; see how measly-looking he is; I am not to obey a man who is created out of clay while I was created out of the blaze of fire; and I am superior to him." At this point Allah said "Are you proud to say so? If that be it there is no place for such arrogant proud in this paradise. Stay out of my blessed place, you Iblis, as shaitaan! Thus the proud, arrogant and racist people became the companions of shaitaan on the earth.
Allah created the earth in the space and cleared the haze, the major area of the dwelling place of Jinns, into clear atmosphere of air for man to breathe his life energy. The haze for jinn's life, and the clear space of air for the man's life are thus separated. In the clear space and air, the Jinns would choke to death; and in the haze and smoke men would choke to death. One cannot seek the guidance from the other. Yet, the men who always sought and acquired the power of fire, and the knowledge of fire from the jinns which ranges from the voodoo and witchcraft to technology of science that which involves the fiery force of heat and fire which is nothing but terrible speed and absolute destruction.
As man's soul has the capacity to imbibe the cosmic wisdom, to keep up his command over the entire creative force from heavens down to earth, given only to drive the shaitaans away from the vicinity of the earth's atmosphere, he shall live with fear for Allah, seeking forgiveness all the while we are conscious. If we fall to the inducements of shaitaan, he will get closest to you showing his glamorous material scientific knowledge and enticing you with his fire technology to the utter destruction of the world. Now for man, it is his choice between the knowledge of shaitan, the science of destruction of the worldly wealth, or the Wisdom of Allah that would elevate your dwelling place, the earth, to the glory of a paradise.
Men among humans mostly had secret dealings with the men among the jinns for all destructive activities only to unjustly rule over the fellow human beings, towards which cause the jinns helped the men a lot by causing hatred and divisions among the humans. Because jinn have such physical speed and ability, taught them all the fiery things and fiery mentality. The human beings slowly gained mastery over all the evils of shaitan, and fell a prey to them and also fell prostrated before them as Gods. Thus the temples, mosques and churches and various other places of worship began under the auspices of satans, the worst disbelievers and the leaders among the jinns. In such worshiping places of satans, the fire and smoke is essential for them to survive; so in temples of Hindus, alighting and worshiping of fire is an essential part of prayer; in Churches, alighting candle is an integral aspect of worshiping; and in most mosques of eastern countries the smoke of various scented incense sticks is burnt while chanting rhymes in praise of Muhammad.
fazlur rahman