As i was going through an articles i read these verses of the quraan that had me DUMBSTRUCK....

SIMPLY AMAZING:

Quote:<i>Sura Taa haa(20):123-126</i><b></b>

قَالَ اهْبِطَا مِنْهَا جَمِيعًا بَعْضُكُمْ لِبَعْضٍ عَدُوٌّ فَإِمَّا يَأْتِيَنَّكُم مِّنِّي هُدًى فَمَنِ اتَّبَعَ هُدَايَ فَلَا يَضِلُّ وَلَا يَشْقَى

وَمَنْ أَعْرَضَ عَن ذِكْرِي فَإِنَّ لَهُ مَعِيشَةً ضَنكًا وَنَحْشُرُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَعْمَى

قَالَ رَبِّ لِمَ حَشَرْتَنِي أَعْمَى وَقَدْ كُنتُ بَصِيرًا

قَالَ كَذَلِكَ أَتَتْكَ آيَاتُنَا فَنَسِيتَهَا وَكَذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَ تُنسَى

 

He (Allah) said:'Get you all down from here and if there comes to you guidance from Me, Whosoever follows my guidance then he will not go astray and neither will he be wretched. And whosoever turns away from My Rememberance then he will have a narrow, constricted life and We shall raise him on the day of Judgement blind. He will say ' O MY LORD! Why have you raised me blind while I had sight before?' He (Allah) will say:'Thus my signs came to you yet you forgot them so likewise, on this day will you be forgotten'

Quote:<i>Surah Ibrahim(14:32-34)</i><b></b>

اللّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضَ وَأَنزَلَ مِنَ السَّمَاء مَاء فَأَخْرَجَ بِهِ مِنَ الثَّمَرَاتِ رِزْقًا لَّكُمْ وَسَخَّرَ لَكُمُ الْفُلْكَ لِتَجْرِيَ فِي الْبَحْرِ بِأَمْرِهِ وَسَخَّرَ لَكُمُ الأَنْهَارَ

وَسَخَّر لَكُمُ الشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ دَآئِبَينَ وَسَخَّرَ لَكُمُ اللَّيْلَ وَالنَّهَارَ

وَآتَاكُم مِّن كُلِّ مَا سَأَلْتُمُوهُ وَإِن تَعُدُّواْ نِعْمَتَ اللّهِ لاَ تُحْصُوهَا إِنَّ الإِنسَانَ لَظَلُومٌ كَفَّارٌ

 

Allaah is He who has created the heavens and the earth and sends down water (rain) from thesky, and thereby bought forth fruits as provisions for you; and He has made the ships to be of service to you, that they may sail through the seas by His Command; and He has made rivers also to be of service to you. And He has made the sun and the moon, both diligently pursuing their courses, to be of service to you; and He has made the night and day, to be of service to you. And He gave you all that you asked for, and if you count the blessings of Allaah, never will you be able to count them

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3716143.stm

Quote:\"We ambush their patrols and the Americans cannot get into the area because it's full of winding lanes and underground mausoleums,\" gunman Abdul Zahra Hadi told Reuters news agency from inside the cemetery this month.  \"We can hit and run and hide inside the many tombs.\"  

More liberal than their Arab and Asian couterparts??

Sure, generalizations aren't always good, and sure there are going to be exceptions.

But, pardon me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the muslims on this site from 'the west' (to save me typing time) are more open to introspection than those from elsewhere. I find that Muslimah, and others, are more apt to say "There is no options for what the Quran means. Allah Meant what was said, and nothing else".

I don't mean this in a bad or good way to either group. Just wondering if I'm seeing something that isn't there, or if others see such things as well

(Assalam)

Al-Mustaurid narrated that Prophet (SAW) said :

By Allah, this world (is so insignificant in comparison) to the hereafter that if one of you should dip his finger, (pointing with his forefinger), in the ocean and then he should see as to what has stuck to it. (Muslim, No 2858)

Quote:<i>Originally posted by phatmonky </i><b> I like knowing what muslims really think and knowing what is true or not in my country's media.</b>

However, I find it HIGHLY ironic that so often America is chastised for being so violent, and Islam is held to be peaceful and understanding. Then I see a smilie holding two guns to look \"cool\" (nice sunglasses I guess?). I don't how this can show any self expression that is inline with Islam.  

For the rest of your post - I appreciate it, as I do all of your teachings you have given me on Islam.

aslams

wanted to know if anyones red Irshad Manji's book? she tlaks a lot of about islam and says bad things. not to mention shes gay. allah forbid!

as salam alykom

I would like to dedicate this thread to revive deserted worships one after the other, search relevant Ayahs and hadeeth, i think it will be quite an interesting exercise. What do u think.

Insh aAllah I will start by the worship on pondering on Allah's creation. yes it is a worship.

Anybody cares to search for the Ayahs???


Waiting:learn:

Maryam: Purest Of Womankind

She is Maryam bint Imran the daughter of the priest Imran and his wife Hanna, who when pregnant with Maryam vowed to dedicate the child she bore to the service of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and at her birth accordingly named her Maryam, meaning “servant of her lord” Allah the Almighty said

{Behold! A woman of 'Imran said: "O my Lord! I do dedicate unto Thee what is in my womb for Thy special service: So accept this of me: For Thou hearest and knowest all things." When she was delivered, she said: "O my Lord! Behold! I am delivered of a female child!"- and Allah knew best what she brought forth- "And no wise is the male Like the female. I have named her Mary, and I commend her and her offspring to Thy protection from the Evil One, the Rejected.} 3: 35-36

The mother of Maryam expected a male child. Was she disappointed that it was a female child? No for she had faith and she knew that Allah’s Fate was better than any wishes of hers. Maryam was no ordinary girl: only Allah knew what it was that he mother brought forth.

Maryam grew under Allah’s special protection. Her sustenance, under which we may include both he physical needs and he spiritual food, came from Allah, and he growth was indeed a “goodly growth” some apocryphal Christian writings say that she was brought up in the Temple to the age of twelve like a dove and that she was fed by angels.

The purest of woman kind, she was a great- faithed one, and miraculously conceived the prophet Isa (pbuh). Allah the Almighty said

{Behold! the angels said: "O Mary! Allah hath chosen thee and purified thee- chosen thee above the women of all nations} 3: 42

Mary the mother of Jesus was unique, in that she gave birth to a son by special miracle, without the intervention of the customary physical means. This of course does not mean that she was more than human any more than that her son was more than human.

Being chosen as the purest of womankind, she was told that she would beget a child without wedlock. Maryam was still a virgin. No human had touched her no was she married or engaged. Therefore she was stunned and wondered saying.

{She said: "How can I have a son, when no man has touched me, nor am I unchaste?} (Maryam: 20 )

She at once heard the Divine reply :

He said: "So (it will be), your Lord said: 'That is easy for Me (Allâh): And (We wish) to appoint him as a sign to mankind and a mercy from Us (Allâh), and it is a matter (already) decreed, (by Allâh).' " (Maryam:20)

Allah had destined her to be the mother of the prophet Isa (Jesus Christ) in a miraculous way.

Allah’s creation is not dependent on time, or instruments or means, or any conditions whatsoever. Existence waits on His will, or plan, or Intention. The moment He wills a thing it becomes His Word or command, and the thing forthwith comes into existence.

Allah created Adam without a father and mother. There was no man or woman before Adam, Hawwa was created after Adam and she was created from a male without a female parties. Both Maryam and her son, Isa were unfortunately taken as objects of worship by some sects of Christians because of the strangeness of Isa’s birth without a father, though as commentators point out by such reasoning the prophet Adam might better deserver to be worshipped, since he neither had father not mother.

The amazement of the people knew no bounds, in any case they were ready to think the worst of her, as she had disappeared from her kin for some time, but now she came, shamelessly parading a babe in her arms. How she had disgraced the house of Aaron, the fountain of priesthood. The people then reminded her of her high lineage and the unexceptionable morals of her father and mother, how they said she had fallen and disgraced the name of her progenitors. What could Maryam do? How could she explain would they in their censorious mood, accept her explanation? All she could do was to point to the child, who, she knew was no ordinary child. And the child came to her rescue. By A miracle he spoke defended his mother, and preached to an unbelieving audience. Allah the Almighty said.

{Then she brought him (the baby) to her people, carrying him. They said: "O Mary! Indeed you have brought a thing Fariya (an unheard mighty thing). "O sister (i.e. the like) of Hârûn (Aaron) [not the brother of Mûsa (Moses), but he was another pious man at the time of Maryam (Mary)]! Your father was not a man who used to commit adultery, nor your mother was an unchaste woman." Then she pointed to him. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle? "He ['Iesa (Jesus)] said: Verily! I am a slave of Allâh, He has given me the Scripture and made me a Prophet;[ "And He has made me blessed wheresoever I be, and has enjoined on me Salât (prayer), and Zakât, as long as I live." "And dutiful to my mother, and made me not arrogant, unblest. "And Salâm (peace) be upon me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised alive!" ( Maryam:27:33)

Hawwa- the mother of mankind

She is the mother of mankind. She is created from one of Adam’s ribs. Allah the Almighty says:

{He created you (all) from a single person: then created, of like nature, his mate} 39: 6

It was after Adam had been created the angels were asked to prostrate to him, for by Allah’s grace, his status had actually been raised higher. All of the angels prostrated save Iblis (Satan) who in turn was expelled from the Garden owing to his rebelliousness. Adam and his wife, Hawwa were placed in the Garden of comfort and Bless but it was Allah’s plan to give him a limited faculty of choice. All that he was forbidden to do was to approach the tree, but he succumbed to Satan’s suggestions.

Adam and Hawwa were innocent in matters material as well as spiritual. They knew no evil. But the faculty of choice, which was given to them and which raised them above the angels, also implied that they has the capacity of evil, which by the training of their own will, they were to reject. They were warned of the danger. When they fell, they realized the evil of the danger. When they fell they realized the evil. They were as we are still given the chance in this life on a lower plane, to make goof recover the lost status of innocence and bliss.

Adam and Hawaah were commanded to inhabit the earth. They were very sad. Both of them repented and Allah accepted their repentance because it was sincere. They were told by Allah that the earth is their original abode where they would live and die and be resurrected from one the Day of Judgment. Allah the Almighty said:

{He said: "Therein shall ye live, and therein shall ye die; but from it shall ye be taken out (at last). 7:25

Some people claim that Hawwa is the real reason why mankind does not dwell in paradise because she asked Adam to eat from the tree. They believe that if it were not for this sin we would have continued to live there. This is undoubtedly a naive view. When Allah the almighty willed the creation of Adam He told the angels.

{I will create a vicegerent on earth] Al Baqrah: 39

He almighty did not say “I will create a vicegerent on Paradise” Allah, the high exalted, knew that Adam and Hawwaa would eat from that tree and descend on earth, He knew that Satan would rob them of innocence. The knowledge they learned was to become essential for their life on earth.

From the very early down of life on earth, Satan tried to tempt our parents (and all of us) in order that he might manage to keep them away from the path of Allah. Thus, it is an ongoing was and we should fight against Satan to win paradise.

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