If Muslims stepped back just a little to look at the mutual rights owed to each other and fellow human beings theyd always remember the following statements from our Beloved peace be on him
Prophet (pbuh) said,
“There is a group from my followers who will continue to be openly on the truth. No one opposing them can harm them until the coming of the Hour”
Companions asked, “Where will they be?"
Messenger said “They'll be in & around Bayt AlMaqdis (Jerusalem)”
(Ahmad)
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Makkah & Madinah
Sunday, May 24th will be
#EidUlFitr
#EidMubarak
to all
May the Almighty accept our fasting, prayers, & rain down us His blessings, mercy, acceptance, & may He rid us of the pandemic sickness.
A video of what Madinah looked like in the time of the Prophet Muhammad peace be on him... his masjid, his home, the streets...
Islam built on simplicity but showed the world that faith teaches humanity.
Breathtaking.
🇲🇦 Morocco lost one of the greatest scholars of our time
He was 106 yrs old, Sh AbdulRahman Al Kittani of the family of hadith whose father recited books of hadith & Al Shifa inside the Ka'bah
With one of highest chains of Hadith in world, he had only 18 between him and Bukhari
Read Surat Al Kahf
it talks about 4 trials in life & protection from falling into them:
1. Holding on to your faith despite the struggles
2. Wealth and not deluding you with it
3. Knowledge that can lead to arrogance
4. Power that destroys
Make dua before the hour before sunset
Masjid Al Aqsa is always attacked in Ramadan and today on Friday during prayers
It's Easter weekend, imagine Vatican being attacked by an army
100+ worshippers injured, church damaged, windows broken, smoke & frags thrown in
Why is world not only silent but doesnt even report?
The Malaysian government sent the French government a copy of the Shamail - Description of the Prophet Muhammad peace be on him, his manners, character, and appearance.
This, is an awesome sentiment.
Educate.
The verse he's reciting itself is more powerful than even the recitation...
وَكَأَيِّن مِّنۡ ءَايَةٖ فِي ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ يَمُرُّونَ عَلَيۡهَا وَهُمۡ عَنۡهَا مُعۡرِضُونَ
How many signs in the heavens and the earth do they pass by with indifference!
- Yusuf, 105
As an Afghan can people please sanctify the loss of our lives by not RTing videos of the souls who fell from planes.
I am not going to compared this to anything.
But please sanctify and respect the souls, and honor them and our conscience.
Herat, Afghanistan
It has been and remains one of the bastions of Islam - history, scholarship, reciters, poets, artisans, craftsmanship, knowledge, etc.
27th night of Ramadan
Allah
Your name brings ease to our worn souls
Your mention softens our hardened hearts & consoles
Your Messenger gives us ultimate hope
Your mercy we feel even in the depths of our hardship
How kind you are to us
How neglectful we are of you
When you see sheer energy our Muslim Palestinian brothers & sisters have to start walking *miles* to pray in Masjid Al Aqsa after road blocks were put up by occupation & it forced to allow them all in to pray
Muslim
When are you going to wake up & realize the honor of prayer?
This is Islam
Not a performance to be accepted
Not to be praised because brown people or minority citizens or residents have to prove themselves to anyone
But because this is what our faith teaches us.
Genuine care.
Taking care of the less fortunate of society
Warms my heart.
Muhammad and his sons decided to open their chip shop on Christmas day to feed the homeless for free.
They received a huge response online and Muhammad wanted to say thank you. "Great people make Great Britain - we love you all"
You are literal trash
@nytimes
You & media like you are part of reason hate crimes happen when youve perpetuated media bias against Muslims as long as I have literally had waking memory as a child of diaspora growing up in the US
Muslims are NEVER impt when victims
Despicable
Allah is so amazing.
If youre really trying
He will send you signs and make easy for you whats in your path
Sometimed you may not know if something you really want REALLY is NOT good for you until AFTER the fact & it passes.
The love you feel in that moment!
God is kind.
May we love the Prophet Muhammad (Allah's peace, blessings, honor, and prayer be on him) so much it hurts to think about our sins preventing us from seeing him, all of the Prophets and righteous in the next life.
Amin
Muslims
Take it as a reminder every time slander of the Prophet Muhammad peace be on him makes the news -
it's a reminder to every one of us that we individually arent doing enough to teach the world about him and God's message of true faith, meaning, and mercy.
Turkey not on ban list from travel & has one of the least reported cases yet the NY Times on their front page posts for the EUROPEAN BAN all pictures from Turkey and of Mosques
This is why
@nytimes
is literal trash
Internalized perpetuation of Islamophobia
#CoronaVirusUpdate
Having genuine righteous friends is such a relief to the soul.
People who dont
aim to judge you
or grudge against you
speak ill of you behind you
arent vain & superficial
who have
genuine care
uplift you
love you to advise you
all because you share a higher purpose.
May God protect us from posturing and response based on popularity, from politically engaging based on comfort, from seeking clout through faith or charity, and not wanting to speak truth when it's not convenient, or from deciding when truth is selectively said based on desire.
Call to Prayer from the Prophets Masjid Madinah, after
#Coronavirus
#COVID
ー19 curfew
Not a soul in sight now except emergency personnel while the call rings out -
"God is the greatest"
Genuinely awe inspiring
It will be full again soon inshaAllah
May the sickness be removed
"Halal on the label while having no mark on its neck means:
The chicken either said its shahadah before it died, or was killed in battle."
- sh Omar Tunisi
😆🤣
Humility is a mark of our faith.
Keep your head to the ground no matter how high you make it.
Dont be disillusioned by your own words.
Always have mentors that keep you in check & friends that arent fans
Constant praise corrodes your heart so cleanse it w social work.
To Allah we belong and to Him we return
Saddened by the loss of the great Syrian scholar Sh Al Sabuni
He was among the most proflic authors in Tafsir of our time, and his work we used as a reference in our Quranic Seerah class.
Allah have mercy on him & grant him paradise.
I honestly am amazed by the Prophet Muhammad peace be on him even more.
Try being a civil servant.
The selflessness he had to see everyone with a smiling face and listen.
It's absolutely a trait of leadership that is the most difficult to perfect even in the nost noble
The 10 best days of the year are upon us soon:
The 1st 10 days of Dhul Hijjah iA start in 12/13 days
Protip:
What you may have not fulfilled in
#Ramadan
try to capitalize & do your best in these 10 days.
We need to build thats spirit of striving in these 10.
#BestDays
Seek acceptance from Allah in doing what is right.
He will be enough even if you stand by yourself.
It is better to stand alone on truth than to join a whole board on falsehood.
We march to what is right by God, for God, & in service to the oppressed & voiceless.
How're we doing my Ummah?
Its okay to feel hurt & have pain
The Prophet peace be on him felt pain for an entire year after the loss of family & months when 70 of his companions were massacred in Bi'r Maunah.
Self care yall
Reach out. Love one another. Cry. Pray.
"You cant have fun as a Muslim.
Im tired all things are haram" is a great discussion on finding purpose in life & seeing beyond material.
We are taught as children that among greatest forms of happiness is bringing it to others
Spirituality gives meaning
materialism removes it
The Prophet peace be on him welomed Ramadan but he never bid Ramadan farewell
Why?
The spirit of Ramadan remains throughout the entire year, so it's not farewell.
- Fasting voluntarily
- Praying nights
- Giving charity
- Improving character w others & devotion to the Almighty
Muharram is not a month of grieving nor lamenting.
To learn the lessons of the Martyrdom of Hussain (radyAllahu anhu) at Karbala is not an act of grieving, it's an act of learning and remembering loved ones and commemoration of courage against tyranny.
"My eyes have not seen anything better than you.
No women gave birth to anything as beautiful as you.
You were created free from all deficiencies.
It is as though you were created as you wished."
- Hassan ibn Thabit's poem eulogy about our Beloved Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
So...
Everyone is no longer shaking hands w opposite gender (essentially everyone I know)
Bidet buying has sky rocketed
And ... now
Youre doing 0% interest because interest is bad for the economy
America has become a Muslim country!
President Trump welcomed the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates to near zero in another emergency move to help shore up the U.S. economy amid the escalating global
#coronavirus
crisis
Whoever says
أستغفر الله وأتوب إليه
Astaghfirullah wa atubu ilaih
(I seek forgiveness from Allah & repent to him)
100x in a day
will have their sins forgiven
even if they were so many like they were the foam of the ocean.
Malaysian Muslim Twitter QTing the tweet and repeatedly thanking me for advising them is not only cute, humbling, why I love Malay and Indonesian Muslims, but also a lesson to learn for all of us in gracefully taking advice as well as how to have good faith.
Mary accepts Islam at 85 in London
Via
@HanifJWilliams
_______
I'm genuinely amazed by hearts that see truth & accept it despite all that tries to veil our eyes & hearts from it.
A man came to the Prophet ﷺ & said, "O Messenger of Allah, guide me to an action which if I do Allah will love me & people will also love me."
He ﷺ said, "Have no desire for this world, Allah will love you; & have no desire for what people possess, and people will love you."
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Makkah, Madinah
Eid
Tomorrow - Sunday May 1st will be 30th of Ramadan
Monday - May 2nd will be Eid
Eid Mubarak to all
May the Almighty accept our worship & aid the oppressed.
May he remove the oppressors everywhere & free Masjid Al Aqsa from siege.
Some thoughts on:
"How it started
How it ended"
1. Hasan AlBasri said
"Jealousy will burn your faith faster than a body decays after death."
- If you feel jealousy pray for them instead
- know God has something in store for you as well
For those who think they shouldnt fast
#Ramadan
because they cant give up certain things.
Fam
Fasting wasnt intended only for perfect people.
Fasting is for all of us imperfect beings to cleanse & find God with our shortcomings.
Dont stop yourself from enjoying
#Ramadan
I feel sorry for the one who cant see the sign of God's existence in
- a mother's body regulating the amount of milk a child receives based solely on the child's need for it
- the happiness you find in the selflessness of being a parent
- simply holding a child while they sleep
Shaban
#RamadanPrep
If you don't make a plan, you will not be prepared for Ramadan, you won't take advantage of Ramadan, and you won't benefit from its purpose
Ramadan is not about fasting from food, drink, & carnal desires
Fasting is a mechanism
The purpose is soul refinement
God forgive and have mercy on all those who passed in the
#Karachi
#PIACrash
#PlaneCrash
May they be granted highest of heavens & gather us all in companionship of Our Beloved, our loved ones, & the righteous.
God take care & grant solace to their loved ones.
🇵🇰 in our hearts
All praise to the Almighty who guided us to faith that requires us to take care of others and every soul not because of the color of their skin or their eyes but for the sole reason that they are a human in need.
Raising 700 million dollars in only 24 hours for a burnt down church of archaeological & religious significance is honorable but it's also telling.
Ridding world poverty & funding important things like education & social programs isnt about limitation of resources... but of will
@jesuisarya
Hi, we conducted a Halal trial a few years ago and learnt that Halal certified food is only popular with a very small percentage of customers. Given it would require significant changes to our kitchen procedures and supply chain, we have no plans to offer Halal food in the UK.
You're ultimately responsible for your own actions.
What you make of your situation is based on how you react
Study & master art of communication
Defusing even the most volatile kind of vitriol directed at you saves you energy than constantly responding to "prove your point."
Speak only to those who want to listen.
A collective concern for everyone is a mark of sincerity but you can't chase people who shut their ears, close their minds, mock others, and simply do not want to understand.
Dave Chapelle asked why he doesnt bring up or speak about Islam in his comedy
"I don't normally talk about my religion publicly bc I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws w this beautiful thing & I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way"
cc:
@hasanminhaj
Whenever I'm having a hard time in my life, I call my grandmother, she was the first Muslim in our family. She always says, pray salatul Haja (prayer of fulfillment of a need or desire). She says dont leave it until you get what you need from Allah.
If you're not happy with yourself, look inwards to see what needs to change from within.
Outward superficial changes are going to make you even more discontent.
Discovery of your souls refinement is a journey that begins with an inward inspection.
Contentment isn't cosmetic.
Those struggling this
#Ramadan
God loves you the most
Why?
Because you almost didnt even attempt... but you did anyway & God honors those who turn to Him & praises them in the heavens.
When the mosques closed down... 448 H/1056 CE
A Historical Lesson for us in light of Coronavirus 1441 H/2020 CE
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a thread ... 4 min read
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Knowing you have a character flaw you need to fix is the start of the struggle.
Ignoring it is choosing to live in the pain of your own misery.
Some people choose such misery... sometimes for decades or even a lifetime.
My followers who aren't posting about Afghanistan even once
I ask you genuinely why?
Afghans dont see solidarity from anyone, not even dua or humanitarian relief or even a reminder against nationalism & infighting, or a call for peace
How do you literally not post anything?
Muslims are as outraged about
@netflix
depicting Jesus (peace be on him) in such a way as we would be outraged if Muhammad (peace be on him) would be.
Netflix is doing a great job losing business by not just offending but deeply insulting Christians & Muslims
#BoycottNetflix
Netflix is releasing a comedy about a “gay Jesus” & the Left has been telling conservatives and Christians not to be so outraged about it
Ok fine, then let’s make a sequal about a gay Mohammed and see how that goes over with y’all.
Abu Bakr AlSiddiq - Allah be pleased with him said
"Tears didn't dry except due to hardness of the hearts, and hearts didn't harden except due to many sins."
The death of a Muslim, ANY muslim, is not the time nor place for theological discussion,
fiqh debates,
giving advice when they just passed
or
using their death to tokenize whatever view you hold OR antagonize a group you disagree with.
Have a heart.
"Are they not a soul?"
Not letting girls go to school in Afghanistan is as nonsensical to Islam as gender segregation laws.
The Prophet’s Mosque didnt even have barriers betwen men and women until they were placed there in 1995.
He didnt place them there
neither did the Rashidun Caliphate.
If we worshipped the Almighty only when our prayers were answered for things we asked for, our lives would be miserable
The All Knowing gives us according to His knowledge & what is *best* for us in this life and the next
Imagine every single time you ask you get what is best
Willingness to listen is a greater character than demanding to be heard
Willingness to adapt & change is what makes relationships last
Knowing how to say sorry & not demanding someone know how to address you go together
Expectations can be your own enemy
Allow people to grow