What if there's no tomorrow?

Bismillah.

As time passes...

Abdullah bin Masood RA said, "Indeed I hate to see a man idle, neither working for this world nor for the Hereafter."

Hassan Basri RA said, "O' son of Adam, indeed your are only but a number of days. Whenever a day passes, a part of you leaves too."

Hassan also said, "I have met pious people who are more miserly with their time than they are with their wealth."

He also said in a sermon: Do not let the temporary and little charms of this world distract you and entice you and do not say tomorrow and tomorrow, for indeed you do not know when you will be called to head to Allah SWT.

WAllahua'lam.

NEVER STOP seeking knowledge and the truth

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim - in the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

Salam and greetings!

So I've been busy to update this blog of mine. But then again, time and tide waits for no man. I guess I gotta get myself on another gear so I'm able to do more with the 24 hours a day that God has so generously given me. So wiggle wiggle my way out of the current 'comfort zone' I am in, inshaAllah.

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Knowledge leads to paradise,

so seek knowledge.

ISLAM is based on 5 pillars, so DON'T ADD.

IMAN (Faith) is based on 6 pillars, so DON'T ADD.

HALAL & HARAM is already CLEAR, so DON'T CHANGE.

THE STRAIGHT & CROOKED PATH is CLEAR, so DON'T DEVIATE.

BID'AH is a misguidance that Leads to Hellfire,

Don't be an ignorant Muslim, <-- points to myself

Rather read the proof and CHANGE YOURSELF.

Don't blindly follow anyone with the exception of the Prophet (pbuh)

Pray on time, don't backbite, & fear ALLAH~!!

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So fellow Muslims,

If we want to change this society,
If we want to change the direction of this society,
If we want to affect this society,
We have to first REFORM ourselves.

May Allah free our neck from Hellfire
May Allah guide those who seek truth
May Allah unite us upon the understanding of Salaah

and most importantly

May Allah give me the ability to complete the next task all in His Name and for His Sake.


WAllahua'lam.

LET'S MAKE EFFORT 2 PRAY ON TIME~!!

astaghfirulla astaghfirulla...

Purity, Simplicity, & Balance

Bismillah.

And I quote, "avoid regret by lowering our expectations about the results of our decision.."

"Choose when to choose.. I have chosen to make a choice and after that I will be satisfied with it. In a consumeristic society, we should seek what is good enough rather than always wanting the best because the problem is, there will always be a better item, or a better looking spouse, school, job, etc out there. We should be ppl who say "you know what, that is good enough," NOT to avoid pursuing excellence but it doesn't mean that in everything we need the best bcos with that we will never be satisfied."

The Prophet (pbuh) said, "When you see someone who has more, look to someone who has less bcos when we see someone who has more, we are frustrated but when we see someone who has less, then we feel gratitude."

- Dr. Ingrid Mattson

3. PART 1/2: What is Love?

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim - In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.

Let's seek His Love~

Assalamu ‘alaykum & Greetings to all,

Hope everyone’s in the pink of health and for us Muslims, may we all constantly be in our highest state of Imaan, inshaAllah. So for first timers, this post addresses the 3^rd topic of  “Towards the Truth Conference 2011” Series that I wrote around mid-2011.

Please note that the following are based on my note-taking coupled with my annotations. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Shaykh Zia Ullah Khan

• So what is Love? – It’s a mixed of emotions. Something that you can’t see, it’s not tangible. It’s painful, beautiful, sweet but most of all, Love is unexplainable. It is something indescribable.
  
• People who are in love are insane. Love is an illness/sickness à the only cure is marriage i.e. to have the person and you can’t deny it, don’t try to be righteous in this matter.
  
• But the Question is: Is it halal for us to love that person? Love IS PERMISSIBLE in Islam cos it is not something you can control. It is something that Allah SWT put and plant in our hearts. The only thing Islam is asking of us is to control love, to handle it. One thing men should drill into their head is that: If a lady dislikes a guy, they just don’t love you. Women are full of compassion, yes, but they can be hard core cold-hearted when it comes to this. And this is the time you got to be a man. Find someone else or go down on your knees and say the syahadah.
• Most of the time, human face downfall when they fail/fall in this field. But when you have Allah & Islam in your heart, you will be able to pick yourself and regain you confidence, inshaAllah. Devote yourself to Him, to the Prophet (pbuh) and ask for forgiveness for having loved someone so much to the extent that you forget the meaning of the one true, sacred love – i.e. His Divine Love.
• Allah approves love. He created from yourselves wives, husbands (spouses), mawaddah (love), ar-Rahman(compassion/mercy), etc.
• What people misunderstand is that they fall in love and think that after getting married, it will be the likes of what’s displayed in the movies these days, believing it will be happily ever after but what happens a lot nowadays instead are arguments, that often lead to divorces/unhappy marriages. 
• We need to understand and acknowledge; women express feelings and men are dead. We (referring to male race) don’t know how to express feelings like women. That's just how God created us men and women different. Women express love much better than men, in most cases. Smile for your wife even if you don’t know why she’s happy. HE place love and compassion in you, make use of it well, at the right time, with the right people~!
• So what’s the problem then? It’s how we see it!

1. Unlettered Prophet (pbuh)

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim - In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Assalamu 'alaykum & Greetings to all,

I'm currently reading a book on Islam & Christianity and would like to share some of its contents with my dear readers. Hopefully it's not too dry for you though, haha. Here goes the first to this series! =)

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Muhammad's experience in the cave of Hira, widely known as Jabal-an-Nur (The Mountain of Light), and his response to that first Revelation is the exact fulfillment of another Biblical prophecy. In the Book of Isaiah (Chp 29, verse 12): "and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, read this, I pray thee: and he said, I am not learned." [Here, the book refers to the Holy Al-Qur'an.]

(53:3-5) - No human had ever taught him a word. His teacher was his Creator - Nor does he say (aught) of (his own) desire. It is no less than inspiration sent down to him: he was taught by one mighty in power.

Without any human learning, 'he put to shame the wisdom of the learned'. [SubhanAllah~!!]

WAllahua'lam.

Bismillah.

How can there be something that seems so right on one end and so wrong on the other?

Rabbi yassir wa la tu'assir, meaning: O' my Lord, make things easier for me, do not make things difficult for me. [Du'a of the Prophet (pbuh)]