The beautiful story of the night journey and the ascension of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)


http://www.geocities.com/islamicmiracles..._of_al.htm

Personally, instead of being grateful to Allah for the precious health or whatever other gifts that He lent out to me – I get too cranky at the first whiff of an obstacle. Such has been the case with me the few times Allah put me to a simple test. Like most people I know the tendency is to dwell long on the painful episodes while the good life that are generally enjoyed are put out of sight.


Most humans instead of being grateful and happy with the merciful way Allah has treated them, they go out of their way to invite harm to themselves. It’s strange that the animal kingdom has more sense as you’ll never catch an animal in an act of discontent, disobedience or senseless violence while we humans walk this earth inflicting harm on others and on ourselves and get into all kinds of mischief ruining our health and the health of others and basically falling into all sorts of life threatening traps and harmful escapades.

Bismillah


as salam alykom


I received this on an email Sobhan Allah


I love you Dad...


Please no more tears... We will meet oneday... together in Islam.


My Daddy... Let's Jihad for Peace, Good Bye Dad... Allaah be with you always.


~*~


My dear, Allaah. How wonderful You are. You have blessed us immensely, yet we fail to thank You for these blessings. Despite this fact, You continue to bless us every day, in so many ways.


O Allaah, You are so Lovely. You guided us to the straight path and informed us of the deeds we should perform in order to enter Jannah. However, we are so imprudent that we neglect those deeds which will take us to Jannah.


O Allaah, How is my daddy? He is well isn’t he? You have admitted my daddy into Your Heavens, haven’t you?


O Allaah! My daddy abandoned everything and sacrificed his life to glorify Your Deen. He did not give priority to anything in this World; neither wealth, nor property; as a matter of fact, he forgot about everything else and just remembered that Islam should be superior on this Earth. O Allaah! It is for this reason that he used to tell us stories about Muhammad Qasim, about Mahmud Ghazanwi, about Tariq Bin Zayyad and of Khalid Bin Waleed. Eventually, he too, like them, raised arms against the enemy and continued to fight until the last drop of his blood had spilt from his body. O Allaah! Give my Salaam to my daddy and tell him that his little boy is absolutely fine. O Allah, please also tell him that his little boy will try the first fast of his life, during this Ramadhan.


Oh Allaah ! Tell my daddy not to be worried in our absence; the life of this world is very short. Mummy says that the life of this world will end suddenly, and then no mummy, daddy, brother, sister, son, or daughter will be of any use. However on that day the Shaheed will be able to intercede for seventy members of his family and lead them into Jannah (Paradise).


O Allaah! Tell my daddy that whenever mummy talks to me about him, she is very sorrowful, but she gives me a lot of courage. She weeps silently, but has never cried impatiently and uncontrollably. O Allaah! Tell my daddy not to get distressed. My mummy is very courageous. She earns a living by sewing clothes and washing dishes for people in our neighbourhood. She sends me to school during the day and to the mosque in the evening. At the mosque I learn the Qur’an from the Qari. My mummy has never complained to anyone. Instead, at night-time after finishing her work, she she tells me stories of bravery and courage, as my daddy used to, and says I must avenge the killing of my daddy.


O Allaah! Eid is near. The other children are going to buy new shoes with their daddys’. They have had new garments tailor-made and have bought Eid gifts to exchange with friends. Whenever I ask mummy to buy me some new shoes and clothes she does not answer me. She just remains silent and goes into the other room. Now I have stopped asking her. Maybe she has a good reason.


But Allaah! Tell my daddy not to worry. Even if I do not get new clothes, even if I do not get new shoes; so what? Eid is but a day, it will pass. Instead of passing the day playing, as children do and instead of going to the markets, I will spend it in the company of my mummy. Anyway, I am no longer a child. I have matured. My courage and resolve are very strong.


O Allaah! Tell my daddy that we are very happy. We do not lack anything. Just tell daddy to remember us; and Allaah, tell my daddy not to worry, as I no longer cry.


There is no-one who will lovingly tell me off, there is no-one to play fight with me, there is no-one who will pretend to be upset with me, but mummy tries to ensure that I am always happy.


When I hear of the childrens of Afghanistan,Iraq,Palestine,Ambon and checnya that their homes have been destroyed and their parents murdered by the oppressors, I forget about my own sorrows. I see their pictures in the newspapers; they sit despondently; some sit on the rubble of their houses, some sit forlorn on the dead bodies of their relatives. And that is why Allaah, I would like you to tell my daddy not to worry, because I am not sad.


wrote by a lil mujahid, Abdul Hameed Hamza.


(Translated by Umm Rawhiyah)


Sister Dina Istova


Moderator of http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MyIslam/

Just after the US Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, a call was placed to a newspaper in Cairo to claim responsibility.


Playing out a script well rehearsed in the Mideast for decades, the caller said he was from the Liberation Army of the Islaamic Sanctuaries, a previously unheard of group.


Even the journalist who took the call doubts it was genuine, and except for a threat received from Egypt's Islamic Jihad and published by the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat investigators have few clues yet, or even a sense that the bombings were the work of Mideast extremists.


State Dept.: 30,000 Threats a Year But the fact that terrorist attacks are often accompanied by multiple claims of responsibility points to the reason terror continues to be an attractive weapon for those who use it: Their message is heard around the world.


For more than half a century, most terrorists originated in the Mideast. Some did it for national redemption, others for revenge, and still others against a panoply of enemies real or imagined. Their tactics and targets have evolved as the world learns how to deal with them. In recent years, terrorism has generally declined, although the threat against Americans remains serious.


The US State Department says it receives 30,000 threats a year and takes every one seriously. The FBI database starting point for suspects is reported to include 200,000 individuals and 3,000 groups.


One of the precedents in the Middle East was set in British-run Palestine in the late 1930s and early 1940s, when the Zionist terrorist groups Irgun, Stern, and Haganah attacked British and Palestinian targets. The breakthrough came with the spectacular destruction in July 1946 less than two years before Israel was declared a state of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.


This was the impenetrable fortress, the British military and civilian headquarters, wrapped in steel doors and barbed wire and constantly guarded. When milk churns packed with high explosives in the basement sheared the building in two, the message was sent around the world that a new nation was about to be born.


Seed Sowed for Modern Terrorism.


Menachem Begin, who masterminded the King David attack, and later prime minister of Israel, described in his book The Revolt the thinking behind such acts of terrorists. There are times when everything in you cries out: your very self-respect as a human being lies in your resistance to evil, Mr. Begin wrote. Then, playing on Descartes words, he added: We fight, therefore we are.


But the creation of Israel left a losing side too. To the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians dispossessed of their land in 1948, that event is still called al Nakbah, the Catastrophe. It sowed the seed for modern terrorism, and for future attempts at more and more spectacular attacks that seek to grab the worlds attention.


That lesson was learned in the late 1960s and 1970s by Palestinian guerrillas, who recognized the propaganda value of making their issue known through violence. First gathered in 1955 for cross-border attacks into Israel as fedayeen (those who sacrifice themselves), Palestinian guerrillas made their global breakthrough in 1972 at the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.


A handful of members of the Black September group so named after the brutal crushing and expulsion of Palestinian forces from Jordan by King Hussein in September 1970 broke into the Israeli team rooms and took Jewish athletes hostage.


King David Lesson Learned


After a drawn-out saga that included helicoptering to a waiting airplane, all but three of the guerrillas were killed along with all of the hostages. A Palestinian spokesman, quoted by British journalist David Hirst in his book The Gun and the Olive Branch (1977), claimed that A bomb in the White House, a mine in the Vatican ... could not have echoed through the consciousness of every man in the world like the operation of Munich.... It was like painting the name of Palestine on the top of a mountain that can be seen from the four corners of the earth.


The King David lesson had been learned and put into practice, and galvanized Palestinian warriors. The classic definition of Black September, as noted by Mr. Hirst, holds true of terrorists today, for whom it is more of a calling than a state of mind.


As one youth described terrorism in Mr. Hirsts book: It cannot be pinpointed, tracked down, or crushed. It has no name, no flag, no slogans, headquarters, or base. It requires only men who have the determination to fight and succeed and the courage to die.


Americans Become Targets


The 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran galvanized Islamic extremists, especially of the minority Shia sect scattered throughout the Islamic world, and in southern Lebanon, when Ayatollah Khomeini demanded the export of the revolution. The example was put forth: 52 Americans were taken hostage and held 444 days.


Americans became targets, and in 1983 the US Marines barracks in Beirut were bombed, leaving 241 dead. American troops soon pulled out. The bombers likely got what they wanted.


With the collapse of the Soviet Union at the turn of the decade, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and the subsequent Arab-Israeli peace process, many Middle East groups that had carried out terrorist attacks either disappeared or lay low.


But as the attacks against the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania attest, the King David lesson has not been forgotten. Who did the attacks in Kenya and Tanzania? Fingers point in many directions. High on the list of backers is multimillionaire Saudi exile Osama bin Laden, who lives in Afghanistan and earlier this year vowed to wage a Holy War against American military and civilian targets.


(Source: The Christian Science Monitor)

Bismillah


Peace


Look how Allah Is describing the consequence of what u simply said and tried to correct Anya and warning him against what he ascribed to u. Anya spoke as a Muslim man. Remember this is an Islamic board and we hold our beliefs highly for we are sure it is the truth. Just look at how the Quran which is the word of Allah is explaining how disastrous it is to ascribe a son to Allah. No matter how u explain it. Plus as far as I remember well I directly asked u on another thread who is Jesus to u is he the lord or son of Lord. U said he is all of that plus saviour, …ect. These set of Noble Ayah’s of Quran sums up all the options u made about Prophet Eassa salla Allah a`lyhee wa salla who simply has nothing to do with all of this, but rather he is totally free of any responsibility he never called people to worship him.


“They say: (God) Most Gracious has begotten a son!* Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous!* At it the skies are ready to burst, the earth To split asunder, and the mountains to fall down in utter ruin,* At it the skies are ready to burst, That they should invoke a son for (God) Most Gracious.* For it is not consonant with the majesty of (God) Most Gracious that he should beget a son.” (Quran 19: 88-92)


“In blasphemy indeed are those that say that God is Christ the son of Mary. say: who then hath the least power against God, if his will were to destroy Christ the son of Mary, his mother, and all every one that is on the earth? for to God belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between. he createth what he pleaseth. for God hath power over all things.” (Quran 5:17)


“They do blaspheme who say: God is Christ the son of Mary but said Christ: O children of Israel worship God, my lord and your lord whoever joins other gods with God, God will forbid him the garden, and the fire will be his abode. there will for the wrong doers be no one to help.* They do blaspheme who say: God is one of three in a trinity: for there is no God except one God. if they desist not from their word (of blasphemy), verily a grievous penalty will befall the blasphemers among them.” (Quran 5: 72-73)


“They say: God hath begotten a son: glory be to him. nay, to him belongs all that is in the heavens and on earth: everything renders worship to him” (Quran 2:116)


“Christ the son of Mary was no more than an apostle; many were the apostles that passed away before him. his mother was a woman of truth. they had both to eat their (daily) food. see who God doth make his signs clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded away from the truth” (Quran 5:75)


“And behold God will say: O Jesus the son of Mary didst thou say unto men, worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of God? he will say: glory to thee never could I say what I had no right (to say). had I said such a thing, thou wouldst indeed have known it. thou knowest what is in my heart, though I know not what is in thine. for thou knowest in full all that is hidden.* Never said I to them aught except what thou didst command me to say, to wit, worship God, my lord and your lord; and I was a witness over them whilst I dwelt amongst them; when thou didst take me up thou wast the watcher over them, and thou art a witness to all things.” (Quran 5:116-117)


“The similitude of Jesus before God is as that of Adam; he created him from dust, then said to him: Be: and he was.” (Quran 3:59)


I think now the situation is very clear to u.

Bismillah


A help for new Muslims to be able to pray accordingly,


http://english.islamway.com/flashpage.php?...h=782&hight=438


Wasalam

Bismillah


Assalamu aleikum,


Found this translation on another forum and thought it could be of use.


As salamu aleiykum



when you meet a muslim


Translation: Peace be upon you


Waleiykum assalam



a muslim greets you


Translation:And peace be upon you


As salamu aleiykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh



formal and great greeting to a muslim


Translation:Peace and mercy and blessings of Allah be upon you


Waleiykum assalam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh



a muslim greets you


Translation:And peace and mercy and blessings of Allah be upon you


Hiyyak Allah



When greating someone after Salams


Translation:May Allah greet you


Bismillah arRahman arRahim



before making a beginning


Translation:In the name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful


Jazak Allah Khieran



for expression of thanks


Translation:May Allah reward you with blessings


BarakAllahu feekum or Allah baraka fiki
responding to someone’s thanks


Translation:May Allah bless you


Fi Amanullah



by way of saying good-bye


Translation:May Allah protect you


But it is a Gulf area dialect.


Subhaanallah



for praising something


Translation:Glory be to Allah


let me correct here:


IT is used when one is astonished about something


Insh a Allah



for expressing a desire to do something


Translation: If Allah wills


Astaghfirullah



repenting for sins before Allah


I beg Allah for forgiveness


Mash a Allah



for expressing appreciation of something good


As Allah has willed


Alhamdulillah



for showing gratitude to Allah after success or even after completing anything


Praise be to Allah


Aameen



the end of a Dua or prayer


Translation:May it be so


Salla Allahu a`lyhi wasallam



whenever say the name of Prophet Muhammad


Translation:Prayer and Peace be upon him (S.A.W.)


A`layehi assalatu wassalaam



whenever say the name of a prophet


Translation:prayer Peace be upon him (A.S.)


Radya Allah Anhu



whenever say name of male companion of the Prophet (Sahabi)


Translation:May Allah be pleased with him (R.A.)


Radya Allah Anha



whenever say name of female companion of the Prophet


Translation:May Allah be pleased with her (R.A.)


Radya Allah Anhum



Plural form of saying companions of the Prophet


May Allah be pleased with them (R.A.)


Innaa lillaahi wa innaa ilayhi raaji'oon



this is uttered as an expression upon hearing the news of some loss or some one's death


Translation:To Allah we belong and to Him is our return


aathama allaho ajrakom



uttered to family of deseased


Translation: may allah make your ajer "reward" great


Shukr Allaho sayikum



uttered to people who attend aaza - when friends go to send condolenses upon death of a person


Translation: May Allah accept that your effort


La hawla wala quwata illah billah



during the time of troubles


Translation:There is no strength nor power except Allah


Source


www.thetruereligion.org

Bismillah,


The word WORSHIP may have a different meaning, regarding to who says it and act according to it. In Islam the ONLY ONE that is worshipped is Allah, SWT.


The Meaning of Worship


To understand why human beings need to worship God, one must first understand what is meant by the term ‘worship.’ The English term ‘worship’ comes from the Old English weorthscipe meaning ‘honor.’ Consequently, worship in the English language is defined as ‘the performance of devotional acts in honor of a deity.’6 According to this meaning, man is instructed to show gratitude to God by glorifying Him. In the Qur’an, Allah says:


“Glorify the praises of your Lord.” The Qur'an 110:3


In glorifying God, man chooses to be in harmony with the rest of creation which naturally glorifies its Creator. Allah addresses this phenomenon in many chapters of the Qur’an. For example, in the Qur’an, Allah states:


“The seven heavens and the earth and whatever is in them glorify Him and there is nothing which does not glorify His praise. (The thunder is described as gloryfying Allah in 13:13, the day and night in 21:20 and the mountains in 38:18) However, you do not understand their glorification.” The Qur'an 17:44


However, in Arabic, the language of the final revelation, worship is called ‘ibaadah, which is closely related to the noun ‘abd, meaning ‘a slave.’ A slave is one who is expected to do whatever his master wills. Consequently, worship, according to the final revelation, means ‘obedient submission to the will of God.’ This was the essence of the message of all the prophets sent by God to mankind. For example, this understanding of worship was emphatically expressed by Prophet Jesus (the Messiah or Jesus Christ), “None of those who call me ‘Lord’ will enter the kingdom of God, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.” Matthew 7:21. It should be noted that ‘will’ in this quote means ‘what God wants human beings to do’ and not ‘what God permits humans to do,’ because nothing happens in creation without the will (permission) of God. The ‘Will of God’ is contained in the divinely revealed laws which the prophets taught their followers. Consequently, obedience to divine law is the foundation of worship. In this sense, glorification also becomes worship when humans choose to obey God’s instructions regarding His glorification.


Source


The following from http://www.viewislam.com/belief/purpose3.htm.

There is a new forum on MSN, there is sooo much info on this site........ and lots of cute pictures, too


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Dear All


The first modern experiment with Islamic banking was undertaken in


Egypt under cover, without projecting an Islamic image, for fear of


being seen as a manifestation of Islamic fundamentalism which was


anathema to the political regime. The pioneering effort, led by Ahmad


El Najjar, took the form of a savings bank based on profit-sharing in


the Egyptian town of Mit Ghamr in l963. This experiment lasted until


l967 (Ready l98l), by which time there were nine such banks in the


country. These banks, which neither charged nor paid interest,


invested mostly by engaging in trade and industry, directly or in


partnership with others, and shared the profits with their depositors.


Thus, they functioned essentially as saving- investment institutions


rather than as commercial banks. The Nasir Social Bank, established in


Egypt in l97l, was declared an interest-free commercial bank, although


its charter made no reference to Islam or Shariah or Islamic law. The


IDB was established in l974 by the Organization of Islamic Countries


-OIC- but it was primarily an inter-governmental bank aimed at


providing funds for development projects in member countries.The IDB


provides fee- based financial services and profit-sharing financial


assistance to member countries. The IDB operations are free of


interest and are explicitly based on Shariah Principles !


Regards


Nawaz


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