as salam alykom brothers and sisters and peace to others

Alhamdulelah, I finally edited avatar setting to allow u a larger size.

Alhamdulelah, and I also finally have one.

sorry for the delay

Assalamu' Alaykum

I was reading ash-Shinqeetee's Tafseer, Adwaa' ul-Bayaan, on Soorat Muhammad. And he, Rahimahullaahu Ta3aalaa, made a good point, that through Taqleed of the 4 Madhhabs it was easier for the Kuffaar to win over followers from the Muslims, into accepting manmade laws, through their ideological warfare. When the Muslims thought of their laws as being the words of some men, who passed away, like the students of the students of the students of Aboo Haneefah, then they didn't think it was a big difference between that and manmade laws (even though there is a difference between the two). The Sharee3ah's awe was removed from their hearts. But if they were practicng the Sharee3ah because of the statements of Allaah and His Messenger, and because of awareness, knowledge and familiarity with the revelation, such a loss would have been much much more difficult to accomplish. Since the words of Allaah and His Messenger bring about an awe, respect, and love, in the Muslim heart which the words of others does not bring about.

Asalam~O~Alykum

How is everyone doing? yah and happy Eid. Sorry. I know its too late. Anyways I want to talk about el thikr. I know that all of us know it, but some of us do it and some don’t, but I want to tell you about my experience in this issue. I was depressed and feeling sad. I was so confused and at the same time no one could help me with my problem. I have been asking my friends and family for help, but no one seemed to have the answer for my problem. At that time I never realized that I was supposed to ask Allah first before anyone. Until one day I discovered that no one could help me, but Allah. After all this time searching for ppl to help me I found out that they can’t help themselves. So one day one of my friends told me to spend some time making thikr. Although I heard that in tapes for many sheikhs talking on how important thikr is to our life. I was lazy to do what the tapes said. I still didn’t considered it a major thing in my life. Until when I decided to start making thikr. Since then I have been using it until now. I never leave a day without making thikr. Al7amdullah you will never believe how much I feel secure and comfortable and this feeling no one can give it to u except Allah so I want all of you just try to fight the devil and also fight yourself by using thikr and inshallah you will see the difference.

If you think thikr is to much then start with 10 mins of thikr a day. Then keep on adding until u could reach your maximum. Don’t fell shocked that I am telling u to do this, but it really helps. Why can’t u spend 10 mins for Allah and you can spend 5hr in front of the TV? Believe me if u start doing thikr everyday u will c how Allah will reward u and how ur up coming days will be more and more happier than ever.

Salam~~~~~~~~~~~Masriahmuslimah

P.S. Plz pray 4 me and 4 my friend who gave me this advise.

Assalaamu 'Alaikum wa RahmatAllahi wa Barakatuh.

Recently, I heard something that caught my attention in a lecture off a CD by Anwar Al-Awlaki from his set titled "The Hereafter". It was in regard to the creation of the Hellfire.

He said that when Allah created the Hellfire it was blue and He burned it for 1000 years and then it turned white. He then burned it for another 1000 years until it turned black. It was something along these lines.

If anyone has a Hadeeth or excerpt from the Qur'an to back this statement up, it would be very nice.

What brought this to my attention lately is that I was reading up on Quantum Theory as part of my homework for Chemistry. It states in the book the following:

Kirchhoff was interested in the light emitted by blackbodies. The term "blackbody" is used to describe an ideal, perfectly black object that does not reflect any light, and emits various forms of light (electromagnetic radiation) as a result of its temperature.

As a solid is heated to higher and higher temperatures, it begins to glow. Initially, it appears red and then becomes white when the temperature increases. Recall that white light is a combination of all colours, so the light emitted by the hotter object must now be accompanied by, for example, blue light.

I concluded that there may be a connection and here another scientific fact proven earlier in the times of Muhammad SAWS, possibly?

AstaghfirAllah, and forgive me if I'm wrong. Any input would be appreciated. JazakAllahukhair.

Assalaamu 'Alaikum wa RahmatAllahi wa Barakatuh.

Salams,

The Muslim world today is like a plant. A plant that has not been watered by their gardner. They are thirsty for water, they yearn for it.

But no water. The soil is dry and cracked, the stem is piable, and the petals are yellow. And the plant anxiously awaits the water that will rejuvenate it.

What is this water that is so necessary? Why can they not cope without it?

Muslims, this water is the Khalifa. Its purity will erase the cracked soil and add greenary back into the plant (the ummah).

This water will fortify the stem, and raise the plant higher then its former glory.

Muslims! We have faced odds greater then what we face now!

What happened to the Muslims who fought Badr? Did they give up in their hope of a land ruled by justice? No...and against all odds they fought and were crowned victorious.

What must we derive from this lesson? We can start out by thinking...it is what seperates us from the status quo.

Oh Muslims! It is the pen that starts the uphevel not the sword!

I will leave you with a thought...what does our garden (the ummah) look like today? Is it green? Is it blossoming? What does it look like--are the plants struggling for their survival?

So what can we do to bring the water to us?

Are you a gardener?

Wa'Salam

Your Brother in Islam and Humanity,

Ahmed Syed

as salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullah... can any one help me with this....

i live in a non muslim english country... and i want to learn to speak arabic... i can already read the language... but i want to learn to speak...

what i am looking for is an audio tape, cd mp3 download that can help me with this... if i get it maybe i can get better with it insha allah......

can any one direct me to a proper download

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2B6...05820FCC886.htm

Tuesday 03 February 2004, 14:02 Makka Time, 11:02 GMT

Stampedes have become a regular feature during the stoning ritual

About two million pilgrims joined the final ritual of the annual Hajj on Tuesday despite the deaths of 251 people in a stampede on Sunday.

Several hundred policemen kept watch over the proceedings on the last day of the pilgrimage.

Monday's event passed off "without any incident", health ministry spokesman Khalid al-Mirghalani said, denying an earlier official statement that dozens of pilgrims had been taken to hospital after a "minor stampede".

The ministry said 47 people remained in hospital out of 240 injured in Sunday's crush.

Apart from the 251 people killed in the stampede, another 272 pilgrims had died of natural causes during the pilgrimage, Hajj Minister Iyad Madani said.

After repeated human tragedies over the years, King Fahd issued a royal decree overnight on Sunday to modernise the holy cities in a 20-year project.

And the council of grand ulama, the highest religious body in Saudi Arabia, said it would meet on Thursday in Makka to seek a solution to halt the stampedes.

Grand Mufti Shaikh Abd al-Aziz explained Sunday's stampede as "the will of God", but stressed the council intended "to seek by all means to avoid similar accidents" in the future.

The Jamarat, the name given to the place where pilgrims symbolically stone three pillars representing the devil, has been a regular troublespot during the several day pilgrimage.

Over three days, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims converge on the narrow site set in the valley of Mina, several miles east of Makka. The construction of a flyover to reduce congestion has failed to halt the tragedies.

Dying in Makka

Dying while on Hajj is considered

to be very auspicious

The deaths have not shocked many people, with several pilgrims certain that those who die during Hajj enter paradise.

"I wish I was among the pilgrims who died on Sunday," Kamal Shahada, an Egyptian pilgrim, said.

"I would have gone to heaven, because dying in these holy sites of Islam would assure one a place in heaven," he said, echoing a widespread conviction in the Islamic world.

Libyan Muhammad Taylamun agreed. "The two million faithful who gathered every year at the holy sites for the pilgrimage hope to have the honour of being buried in this sacred soil," he said.

The scale of the tragedy which cast a shadow over the Hajj

certainly provoked compassion among the gathering, but fatalism predominates among "the guests of God".

"Those who died will be missed by their families and friends but they have a chance no one else can have by dying on the holy land of Islam where they are then buried," said a Bangladeshi.

Ancient belief

King Fahd has ordered the holy

cities to be modernised

"When our ancestors left for the pilgrimage to Makka they bid farewell to their friends and set off by camel or boat for a journey which often lasted several months each way," said Abd Allah Muhammad, a Senegalese.

"The death of a pilgrim, which would be known only when the caravan returned, was met with respect and piety because of the honour accorded to he who ended his days in Makka and the holy sites in Saudi Arabia," he said.

Last year 14 pilgrims were killed in a stampede during the first day of the stoning ritual and 35 in 2001, while the 1998 Haj saw 118 killed and more than 180 hurt at the pillars.

The worst Hajj disaster struck in July 1990, when 1426 pilgrims were trampled or asphyxiated to death in a tunnel in Mina.

Numerous other deaths have been caused by fires in the pilgrims' camps.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E6F...844853959DB.htm

Saturday 07 February 2004, 17:12 Makka Time, 14:12 GMT

An 11-year old boy and an Islamic Jihad member have been killed in a missile attack by Israeli helicopter gunships on a vehicle in the Gaza Strip.

The attack on Saturday is believed to be an assassination attempt against Islamic Jihad members Aziz al-Shami and Khalil al-Basyuni.

"Aziz Shami, 37, died of his injuries shortly after being admitted to the Shifa Hospital in Gaza," Dr Bakr Abu Safia, told reporters.

Our correspondent said the targeted Jihad members may have heard the helicopters overhead and managed to get out of their car seconds before a missile hit their car in the busy al-Wihda Street of central Gaza.

However, they were seriously injured and were rushed to hospital. Several passers-by, including the boy who later died, were hit by shrapnel.

The boy, Tariq al-Susi, was identified from textbooks in his bag. He was on his way home from school.

Explosion

"I heard the three helicopters. I saw them overhead and suddenly a big explosion happened," witness Ahmad Nihal told Reuters.

Tariq al-Susi, killed in attack, was

on his way home from school

"I saw the car catch fire. The driver had lost his leg which was lying outside the car," Nihal added.

Israel has killed about 140 Palestinian activists in airborne missile attacks on their cars since the Palestinian uprising or Intifada began in September 2000.

The strikes, which have also killed more than 110 bystanders and left hundreds others injured, have been widely condemned by the international community.

An Israeli army spokesperson had no immediate comment.

Condemnation

An Islamic Jihad leader, Nafiz Azzam, has condemned the attack, saying it represents the Israeli military's continuous aggression against the people of Palestine and not just his movement.

"The attack is a message form Israel that it will continue its violent policy against the Palestinians"

Nafiz Azzam,

An Islamic Jihad leader

"The attack is a message from Israel that it will continue its violent policy against the Palestinians," Azzam told Aljazeera's satellite channel.

Azzam has said he believes Palestinian resistance factions should sit with the Palestinian Authority to produce a joint political programme to address the difficult situation facing Palestinians.

"We should have a united political stance against the escalating Israeli violence on Palestinians," he said.

Azzam also slammed the so-called road map to peace, saying it would never be applied. "The road map would fail just like many previous internationally-backed peace projects," he stressed.

Aljazeera + Agencies

اللهم إنا نسألك زيادة في الدين

وبركة في العمر

وصحة في الجسد

وسعة في الرزق

وتوبة قبل الموت

وشهادة عند الموت

ومغفرة بعد الموت

وعفوا عند الحساب

وأمانا من العذاب

ونصيبا من الجنة

وارزقنا النظر إلى وجهك الكريم

اللهم ارحم موتانا وموت المسلمين واشفي مرضانا ومرض المسلمين

اللهم اغفر للمسلمين والمسلمات والمؤمنين والمؤمنات الاحياء منهم والاموات

اللهم ارزقني قبل الموت توبة وعند الموت شهادة وبعد الموت جنة

اللهم ارزقني حسن الخاتمة

اللهم ارزقني الموت وانا ساجد لك يا ارحم الراحمين

اللهم ثبتني عند سؤال الملكين

اللهم اجعل قبري روضة من رياض الجنة ولا تجعله حفرة من حفر النار

اللهم اني اعوذ بك من فتن الدنيا

اللهم اني اعوذ بك من فتن الدنيا

اللهم اني اعوذ بك من فتن الدنيا

اللهم قوي ايماننا ووحد كلمتنا وانصرنا على اعدائك اعداء الدين

اللهم شتت شملهم واجعل الدائرة عليهم

اللهم انصر اخواننا المسلمين في كل مكان

اللهم ارحم ابائنا وامهاتنا واغفر لهما وتجاوز عن سيئاتهما وادخلهم فسيح جناتك والحقنا بهما يا رب العالمين

وبارك اللهم على سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم.

رجاء من الجميع أن ينشر هذا الدعاء لكي نكسب ثواب

نشره .... والدعاء للراسل حتى تقول لك الملائكة "ولك بالمثل"....

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

السلام عليكم

جائتنى هذه الفكرة أن أبدأ هذا الموضوع عن العيد فى الدول الإسلامية والعيد بالنسبة للأعضاء الذين يعيشون فى دولا غير إسلامية

كل عام وأنتم إلى الله أقرب وعلى طاعته أدوم

كيف كان العيد بالنسبة لكل منك خاصة ونحن نعيش فى دول مختلفة فمنا من يعيش فى دول اسلامية

ومنا من يعيش فى أمريكا أو غيرها من الدول غير الإسلامية

هيا نرى كيف كان العيد بالنسبة للجميع.

بالنسبة لى اجتمع الأهل عندنا يوم الوقفة لقراءة القرآن والتدبر وتناول الإفطار معا حيث كان الجميع صائمون الحمد لله

ويوم العيد ذهبت إلى الصلاة مع أخى وأولاده

ثم الذبح طبعا وتوزيع اللحم على الفقراء والشعور بساعدة الطاعة والحمد لله

والاجتماع وع الأهل مرة أخرى لتناول طعام الغذاء

ولن أنسى أن أقول لكم أن الهاتف لم يتوقف عن الرنين علاوة على المحمول ورسائله

مع أنى لست من محبى الحديث فى الهاتف ولكنه العيد

هه فى انتظار ردودكم إن شاء الله