بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
Dear Friends
I pray that you are well.
Before we complain about the situation of Muslims today, we should have a long look at ourselves first. Are we doing anything, anything at all, to help the situation---at the individual level and as a group?
We can do a lot! But many of us talk a lot but no action. They react to situations and after a while they calm down and back to their business as usual. Some fall into despair and think that they cannot do anything. Unfortunately, most of us won't do anything at all, either they are afraid or being selfish.
Allah tests His servants according to their iman. Like the professors, when they write an exam, they would have easy questions that can be answered by the majority of their students, some tough ones that can be answered only by A students and a few that can be answered only by A+ students. These questions will separate between the B and C students, the A and B students, and the A+ and A-. Everyone receive their questions according to their level.
Likewise, if your iman is weak, Allah will give you a simple test. If your level of iman is strong, you will receive a more difficult test.
When Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, Allah be pleased with him, put his hands on the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, when he had the fever, the companion had to withdraw his hands because of the intense heat. He said: "You are going through very severe illness." The Prophet then said that this is because the Prophets suffer double the suffering than everyone else. Indeed, Allah put them through tougher tests because Allah loves them and because they are stronger, greater and better.
We are being tested but how many of us will fail. We have to do our part to the best of our ability and keep doing our part until we meet our Lord. No doubt, there is going to be a lot of struggling and a lot of patience. But there is no victory without struggle and without patience. May Allah save us from being the heedless and make us among the successful and victorious. Ameen.
Why did Prophet Musa, Allah grant him peace, hit the sea with his stick? Because the victory from Allah will not come until you do your part, even with a stick. It was not the stick that parted the sea which allowed the Children of Israel to escape from Fir'aun, it is the Will of Allah.
Allah says, "And We made a people, considered weak (and of no account), inheritors of lands in both east and west, - lands whereon We sent down Our blessings. The fair promise of thy Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel, because they had patience and constancy, and We leveled to the ground the great works and fine buildings which Fir'aun (Pharoah) and his people erected (with such pride)." Qur'an Al-'Araf 7:137
Please do your part. Sign this Petition To Save UCLA's Islamic Studies. It only takes a few clicks. May Allah count this as your good deeds that travel like pillars of light to the heavens.
May Allah increase our iman and our patience and give victory to the Muslims. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.
And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
It Is A Done Deal
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
Dear Friends
I pray that you are well.
We worry about tomorrow. We worry about how to make it in the future. We worry about lack of enough savings to send our children to college, no retirement funds to support ourselves when we reach old age, etc...We are always in the state of despair when it comes to money. Money is in the top 10 causes of marital discord and family breakups.
Why worry? Why fight over money? Your provision is a done deal. What you are going to get was written before the creation of the heavens and the earth. So, don't worry. Your job is to work, not to turn yourself into a workaholic, and neglect your duties to Allah. Leave the bottom line to the Provider (Ar-Razzaq).
When we had to leave Paradise to earth with our father, Adam, and our mother, Hawwa, it is only for an appointed term. We are not going to be here forever. We don't belong here. We should busy preparing ourselves to go home. If we want to go back to a nice home, we better start setting our priorities right, Allah before anything, and straighten out our acts. Allah is watching everything we do. Not a leaf that falls is without His Knowledge.
We know how Shaytan deceived Adam into eating from the forbidden tree and that was how our father and mother got out of Paradise. We also have a long history of mankind to derive lessons from. So learn from their mistakes and don't make the same mistakes.
(Allah) said: "Get down, one of you is an enemy to the other. On earth will be a dwelling-place for you and an enjoyment, - for a time." He said: "Therein you shall live, and therein you shall die, and from it you shall be brought out (i.e.resurrected)." O Children of Adam! We have bestowed raiment upon you to cover yourselves (screen your private parts) and as an adornment, and the raiment of righteousness, that is better. Such are among the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allah, that they may remember. O Children of Adam! Let not Shaytan deceive you, as he got your parents [Adam and Hawwa out of Paradise, stripping them of their raiments, to show them their private parts. Verily, he and Qabiluhu (his soldiers from the jinn or his tribe) see you from where you cannot see them. Verily, We made the Shaytan (devils) Auliya' (protectors and helpers) for those who believe not. (Qur'an Al'Araf 7:24-27)
May Allah increase our Iman and taqwa, and protect us from Shaytan. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.
And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
Dear Friends
I pray that you are well.
We worry about tomorrow. We worry about how to make it in the future. We worry about lack of enough savings to send our children to college, no retirement funds to support ourselves when we reach old age, etc...We are always in the state of despair when it comes to money. Money is in the top 10 causes of marital discord and family breakups.
Why worry? Why fight over money? Your provision is a done deal. What you are going to get was written before the creation of the heavens and the earth. So, don't worry. Your job is to work, not to turn yourself into a workaholic, and neglect your duties to Allah. Leave the bottom line to the Provider (Ar-Razzaq).
When we had to leave Paradise to earth with our father, Adam, and our mother, Hawwa, it is only for an appointed term. We are not going to be here forever. We don't belong here. We should busy preparing ourselves to go home. If we want to go back to a nice home, we better start setting our priorities right, Allah before anything, and straighten out our acts. Allah is watching everything we do. Not a leaf that falls is without His Knowledge.
We know how Shaytan deceived Adam into eating from the forbidden tree and that was how our father and mother got out of Paradise. We also have a long history of mankind to derive lessons from. So learn from their mistakes and don't make the same mistakes.
(Allah) said: "Get down, one of you is an enemy to the other. On earth will be a dwelling-place for you and an enjoyment, - for a time." He said: "Therein you shall live, and therein you shall die, and from it you shall be brought out (i.e.resurrected)." O Children of Adam! We have bestowed raiment upon you to cover yourselves (screen your private parts) and as an adornment, and the raiment of righteousness, that is better. Such are among the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allah, that they may remember. O Children of Adam! Let not Shaytan deceive you, as he got your parents [Adam and Hawwa out of Paradise, stripping them of their raiments, to show them their private parts. Verily, he and Qabiluhu (his soldiers from the jinn or his tribe) see you from where you cannot see them. Verily, We made the Shaytan (devils) Auliya' (protectors and helpers) for those who believe not. (Qur'an Al'Araf 7:24-27)
May Allah increase our Iman and taqwa, and protect us from Shaytan. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.
And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam
Monday, May 17, 2010
The Best Supplication (Du'a)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
Dear Friends,
I pray that you are well.
When you lose something that your life or your happiness depended on--wealth, job, status, friends, relatives, husband/wife, children--what will happen to you? You lost your job, no job interviews, and now all your savings are gone, the creditors have not stopped calling asking you for payment. Your friends who you hang out with a lot don't even answer your emails or return your calls. Now your spouse left you and took all your children. What will you do? Some people, they will jump off the cliff, some people they will go into a deep depression, some people they will become angry, and some people regress. InshaAllah, all of us will remember the All-Merciful Lord and turn to Him in supplication.
This time when you turn to your Lord, the experience is not going to be like the supplication that you normally did. This du'a is when you feel a sense of intense need. Why? Because all of the other doors have been closed in your face. You have no other recourse besides Allah, Most Compassionate, All Generous. You will feel an utter need, a sense of worthlessness. You will turn to Allah and feel in your heart that only Allah has the answer to your problems. This du'a is the essence of worship.
Worship is the expression of one's slavehood. For most of us, this kind of supplication only appears from the heart in times of extreme need. But for some, this type of supplication is always like that. They don't need to be fired from their jobs, to be run out of money, to be abandoned by their friends, to lose their loved ones, in order to feel this way. If everything is in their hands, this is how they make du'a when they turn to Allah.
What is it that keep most of us from making this kind of du'a? It is our attachment to the object of the supplication. For most of us, the only reason we make du'a is in order to be given what we want. We ask Allah to give us a job, to give us wealth, to make us pass the exam, to give us a big house, to give us a beautiful wife or a rich husband, to give us many children or a son and all those endless things we ask Allah to give us. While this asking is not wrong because we turn to Allah for everything, we should work on making the du'a with our hearts attached to Him instead of our hearts attached to these things. You go to Him because you need Him, not because you need things from Him.
When we make du'a and received a response, the response is pure generosity of Allah. So, inwardly you should have gratitude and you should feel no sense of importance. Before you came into existence and before you did anything, there was nothing but Allah's pure largess and mighty bestowals. Any blessing that you have is purely from Allah.
So when you make du'a and you ask Him to fulfill your needs, you are not reminding of anything that He was heedless of. Don't imagine that because of your du'a He is giving you what you asked for. Allah knows everything and He did not learn about what you want from you. If you imagine that, your du'a will be a veil from Allah.
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ وَٰسِعُ ٱلْمَغْفِرَةِ ۚ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِكُمْ إِذْ أَنشَأَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ وَإِذْ أَنتُمْ أَجِنَّةٌۭ فِى بُطُونِ أُمَّهَٰتِكُمْ ۖ فَلَا تُزَكُّوٓا۟ أَنفُسَكُمْ ۖ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنِ ٱتَّقَىٰٓ
"Very well He knows you, when He produced you from the earth, and when you were yet unborn in your mothers' wombs; therefore hold not yourselves purified; God knows very well him who is Godfearing." Qur'an An-Najm/Stars 53:31
Allah chooses for His mercy to give to whomever He wills. It is pure generosity from Him.
يَخْتَصُّ بِرَحْمَتِهِۦ مَن يَشَآءُ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ ذُو ٱلْفَضْلِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ
"He singles out for His mercy whom He will; God is of bounty abounding." Qur'an AleImran 3:74
So, if you have the traces in your life of obedience or closeness to Allah, you have nothing to be proud of but everything to be grateful. Your job is to turn to Him with gratitude.
We still need to supplicate, pray and obey Allah. The effort need to be there because Allah's mercy is near those who excel in goodness. In the end there is a need for gratitude.
إِنَّ رَحْمَتَ ٱللَّهِ قَرِيبٌۭ مِّنَ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ
"Verily, the mercy of Allah is near to those who excel in goodness" Qur'an Al-'Araf 7:56
The du'a becomes a means to take you to Allah rather than distracts you from Him. Check your heart next time you ask Allah to give you wealth, don't start thinking about what nice company you will have or the vacation you always want to take with your loved ones (for example).
May Allah make us among His thankful slaves and bring us closer to Him. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.
Wassalaam
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
Dear Friends,
I pray that you are well.
When you lose something that your life or your happiness depended on--wealth, job, status, friends, relatives, husband/wife, children--what will happen to you? You lost your job, no job interviews, and now all your savings are gone, the creditors have not stopped calling asking you for payment. Your friends who you hang out with a lot don't even answer your emails or return your calls. Now your spouse left you and took all your children. What will you do? Some people, they will jump off the cliff, some people they will go into a deep depression, some people they will become angry, and some people regress. InshaAllah, all of us will remember the All-Merciful Lord and turn to Him in supplication.
This time when you turn to your Lord, the experience is not going to be like the supplication that you normally did. This du'a is when you feel a sense of intense need. Why? Because all of the other doors have been closed in your face. You have no other recourse besides Allah, Most Compassionate, All Generous. You will feel an utter need, a sense of worthlessness. You will turn to Allah and feel in your heart that only Allah has the answer to your problems. This du'a is the essence of worship.
Worship is the expression of one's slavehood. For most of us, this kind of supplication only appears from the heart in times of extreme need. But for some, this type of supplication is always like that. They don't need to be fired from their jobs, to be run out of money, to be abandoned by their friends, to lose their loved ones, in order to feel this way. If everything is in their hands, this is how they make du'a when they turn to Allah.
What is it that keep most of us from making this kind of du'a? It is our attachment to the object of the supplication. For most of us, the only reason we make du'a is in order to be given what we want. We ask Allah to give us a job, to give us wealth, to make us pass the exam, to give us a big house, to give us a beautiful wife or a rich husband, to give us many children or a son and all those endless things we ask Allah to give us. While this asking is not wrong because we turn to Allah for everything, we should work on making the du'a with our hearts attached to Him instead of our hearts attached to these things. You go to Him because you need Him, not because you need things from Him.
When we make du'a and received a response, the response is pure generosity of Allah. So, inwardly you should have gratitude and you should feel no sense of importance. Before you came into existence and before you did anything, there was nothing but Allah's pure largess and mighty bestowals. Any blessing that you have is purely from Allah.
So when you make du'a and you ask Him to fulfill your needs, you are not reminding of anything that He was heedless of. Don't imagine that because of your du'a He is giving you what you asked for. Allah knows everything and He did not learn about what you want from you. If you imagine that, your du'a will be a veil from Allah.
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ وَٰسِعُ ٱلْمَغْفِرَةِ ۚ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِكُمْ إِذْ أَنشَأَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ وَإِذْ أَنتُمْ أَجِنَّةٌۭ فِى بُطُونِ أُمَّهَٰتِكُمْ ۖ فَلَا تُزَكُّوٓا۟ أَنفُسَكُمْ ۖ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنِ ٱتَّقَىٰٓ
"Very well He knows you, when He produced you from the earth, and when you were yet unborn in your mothers' wombs; therefore hold not yourselves purified; God knows very well him who is Godfearing." Qur'an An-Najm/Stars 53:31
Allah chooses for His mercy to give to whomever He wills. It is pure generosity from Him.
يَخْتَصُّ بِرَحْمَتِهِۦ مَن يَشَآءُ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ ذُو ٱلْفَضْلِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ
"He singles out for His mercy whom He will; God is of bounty abounding." Qur'an AleImran 3:74
So, if you have the traces in your life of obedience or closeness to Allah, you have nothing to be proud of but everything to be grateful. Your job is to turn to Him with gratitude.
We still need to supplicate, pray and obey Allah. The effort need to be there because Allah's mercy is near those who excel in goodness. In the end there is a need for gratitude.
إِنَّ رَحْمَتَ ٱللَّهِ قَرِيبٌۭ مِّنَ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ
"Verily, the mercy of Allah is near to those who excel in goodness" Qur'an Al-'Araf 7:56
The du'a becomes a means to take you to Allah rather than distracts you from Him. Check your heart next time you ask Allah to give you wealth, don't start thinking about what nice company you will have or the vacation you always want to take with your loved ones (for example).
May Allah make us among His thankful slaves and bring us closer to Him. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.
Wassalaam
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
What is the Story?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
Dear Friends
I pray that you are well.
A story is a meaningful narrative. It has a beginning--an exposition, a middle--conflicts and climax, and an ending--resolution. Otherwise you don't call it a story--it would be a blog, blab, snippets, events, history, news.
If you read a good romantic novel, you want to jump to last page and see what the ending is. Sometimes the ending can be like this "...and they live happily ever after," and sometimes it can be like this "...and she swallowed the poison and fell by his lifeless body." And you closed the book with a sense of satisfaction or dissatisfaction depending on the ending. But you missed all the excitement in the middle and the story is meaningless for you because you didn't take the time to read the entire book.
Allah tells us the best of stories.
"We relate to you the best of stories by revealing this Qur'an to you, though before it you were one of the heedless." Qur'an Yusuf 12:3
"..so, relate stories, haply they will reflect." Qur'an Al-'Araf 7:176
Our life is a story. A life without meaning is not worth living. We will self-destruct if life is stripped of meaning.
Someone who experiences life as a mere "series of events"--get up, take the kids to school, go to work, work, come home, fight with wife (or wife fight with him), go to sleep, get up, take kids to school, go to work, work, come home, make up with spouse, go to sleep--he doesn't know what the meaning of life is.
Someone who experiences life as a small part of a larger story has found meaning, and this will satisfy a deep psychological need.
Different stories resonate to different degrees, but the story that will resonate the most powerfully is the story that we are psychologically wired to belief in, which is the true and wonderful story that Allah tells us in the Qur'an. The degree to which the story resonates within us is commensurate with the degree to which we realize our slavehood to our Lord. The meaning of life is found in our slavehood to our Lord, which is what the "Primoridal Covenant" was all about.
"And when thy Lord took from the Children of Adam, from their loins, their seed, and made them testify touching themselves, 'Am I not your Lord?' They said, 'Yes, we testify'-- lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection, 'As for us, we were heedless of this,...'" Qur'an Al-'Araf 7:172
If you turn away from your selfish desires, you will live a more pleasurable life. Someone without a slavehood-mindset cannot imagine humbling himself to his Lord. He equates submission to his Lord with the deprivation of pleasure. He doesn't realize that his frenzied pursuit of pleasure desensitizes him from feeling pleasure (that's why he gets bored) and keeps him from grateful contentment, which brings a delight to pleasure that cannot be found anywhere else.
Someone with a slavehood-mindset will enjoy the pleasures of life with a deep feeling of gratitude, which will accentuate the pleasures of the world. If he lets desires overcome him, he will sense first-hand that the pleasurable feeling leaves him
Our lives is but a part of the story of creation. The ending is told, and to remind us, Allah shows us signs along the way. The signs are meant for you to stop and refocus your life towards Allah for a good ending. Just like the red light you see ahead of you and if you keep accelerating, it doesn't help you in the slightest, ignoring Allah's signs and continue busy yourselves with this world, your story won't end with happily ever after.
"What, did you think that We created you only for sport, and that you would not be returned to Us?' Then high exalted be God, the King, the True! There is no god but He? the Lord of the noble Throne." Qur'an The Faithful 23:115-116
"We have not created the heavens and earth, and what between them is, for vanity; such is the thought of the unbelievers, wherefore woe unto the unbelievers because of the Fire! Or shall We make those who believe and do righteous deeds as the workers of corruption in the earth, or shall We make the Godfearing as the transgressors? A Book We have sent down to thee, Blessed, that men possessed of minds may ponder its signs and so remember." Qur'an Sad 38:27-29
May Allah make us His obedient slaves and make our ending better than our beginning at the highest of Iman. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.
Wassalaam
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
Dear Friends
I pray that you are well.
A story is a meaningful narrative. It has a beginning--an exposition, a middle--conflicts and climax, and an ending--resolution. Otherwise you don't call it a story--it would be a blog, blab, snippets, events, history, news.
If you read a good romantic novel, you want to jump to last page and see what the ending is. Sometimes the ending can be like this "...and they live happily ever after," and sometimes it can be like this "...and she swallowed the poison and fell by his lifeless body." And you closed the book with a sense of satisfaction or dissatisfaction depending on the ending. But you missed all the excitement in the middle and the story is meaningless for you because you didn't take the time to read the entire book.
Allah tells us the best of stories.
"We relate to you the best of stories by revealing this Qur'an to you, though before it you were one of the heedless." Qur'an Yusuf 12:3
"..so, relate stories, haply they will reflect." Qur'an Al-'Araf 7:176
Our life is a story. A life without meaning is not worth living. We will self-destruct if life is stripped of meaning.
Someone who experiences life as a mere "series of events"--get up, take the kids to school, go to work, work, come home, fight with wife (or wife fight with him), go to sleep, get up, take kids to school, go to work, work, come home, make up with spouse, go to sleep--he doesn't know what the meaning of life is.
Someone who experiences life as a small part of a larger story has found meaning, and this will satisfy a deep psychological need.
Different stories resonate to different degrees, but the story that will resonate the most powerfully is the story that we are psychologically wired to belief in, which is the true and wonderful story that Allah tells us in the Qur'an. The degree to which the story resonates within us is commensurate with the degree to which we realize our slavehood to our Lord. The meaning of life is found in our slavehood to our Lord, which is what the "Primoridal Covenant" was all about.
"And when thy Lord took from the Children of Adam, from their loins, their seed, and made them testify touching themselves, 'Am I not your Lord?' They said, 'Yes, we testify'-- lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection, 'As for us, we were heedless of this,...'" Qur'an Al-'Araf 7:172
If you turn away from your selfish desires, you will live a more pleasurable life. Someone without a slavehood-mindset cannot imagine humbling himself to his Lord. He equates submission to his Lord with the deprivation of pleasure. He doesn't realize that his frenzied pursuit of pleasure desensitizes him from feeling pleasure (that's why he gets bored) and keeps him from grateful contentment, which brings a delight to pleasure that cannot be found anywhere else.
Someone with a slavehood-mindset will enjoy the pleasures of life with a deep feeling of gratitude, which will accentuate the pleasures of the world. If he lets desires overcome him, he will sense first-hand that the pleasurable feeling leaves him
Our lives is but a part of the story of creation. The ending is told, and to remind us, Allah shows us signs along the way. The signs are meant for you to stop and refocus your life towards Allah for a good ending. Just like the red light you see ahead of you and if you keep accelerating, it doesn't help you in the slightest, ignoring Allah's signs and continue busy yourselves with this world, your story won't end with happily ever after.
"What, did you think that We created you only for sport, and that you would not be returned to Us?' Then high exalted be God, the King, the True! There is no god but He? the Lord of the noble Throne." Qur'an The Faithful 23:115-116
"We have not created the heavens and earth, and what between them is, for vanity; such is the thought of the unbelievers, wherefore woe unto the unbelievers because of the Fire! Or shall We make those who believe and do righteous deeds as the workers of corruption in the earth, or shall We make the Godfearing as the transgressors? A Book We have sent down to thee, Blessed, that men possessed of minds may ponder its signs and so remember." Qur'an Sad 38:27-29
May Allah make us His obedient slaves and make our ending better than our beginning at the highest of Iman. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.
Wassalaam
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Surely we belong to God, and to Him we return
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Alah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
I pray that you are well.
Yesterday we had an announcement after Jumah prayer of the passing of a young member of our community, a medical school student, due to a car accident. May Allah have mercy on him and forgive him and admit him into the highest Paradise, and may Allah grant abundant patience to his parents and family. إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّآ إِلَيْهِ رَٰجِعُونَ Inna lillahi wainna ilaihi raji'un
Narrated Abu Huraira, Allah be very pleased with him: The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "(A believer) who accompanies the funeral procession of a Muslim out of sincere faith and hoping to attain Allah's reward and remains with it till the funeral prayer is offered and the burial ceremonies are over, he will return with a reward of two Qirats. Each Qirat is like the size of the (Mount) Uhud. He who offers the funeral prayer only and returns before the burial, will return with the reward of one Qirat only." Bukhari
It has been said that whenever someone escorts the funeral of his brother Muslim, Allah orders the angels to escort his own funeral and pray over him when he dies.
"Who, when they are visited by an affliction, say, 'Surely we belong to God, and to Him we return (Inna lillahi wainna ilaihi raji'un)'" Qur'an Al-Baqarah 2:156
"Those whom the angels take while they are goodly, saying, 'Peace be on you! Enter Paradise for that you were doing.' " Qur'an An-Nahl 16:32
"Those who have said, 'Our Lord is God.' then have gone straight, upon them the angels descend, saying, 'Fear not, neither sorrow; rejoice in Paradise that you were promised. We are your friends in the present life and in the world to come; therein you shall have all that your souls desire, all that you call for, as hospitality from One All-forgiving, One All-compassionate.'" Qur'an Fussilat 41: 30-32
رَبَّنَا لَا تُزِغْ قُلُوبَنَا بَعْدَ إِذْ هَدَيْتَنَا وَهَبْ لَنَا مِن لَّدُنكَ رَحْمَةً ۚ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ ٱلْوَهَّابُ
"Our Lord, make not our hearts to swerve after that You have guided us; and give us mercy from You; You are the Bestower." Qur'an AleImran 3:8
رَبِّنَا لَمَّا جَآءَتْنَا ۚ رَبَّنَآ أَفْرِغْ عَلَيْنَا صَبْرًۭا وَتَوَفَّنَا مُسْلِمِينَ
"Our Lord, pour out upon us patience, and gather us to You as Muslims.'" Qur'an al-'Araf 7:126
Ameen
Wassalaam
In the Name of Alah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
I pray that you are well.
Yesterday we had an announcement after Jumah prayer of the passing of a young member of our community, a medical school student, due to a car accident. May Allah have mercy on him and forgive him and admit him into the highest Paradise, and may Allah grant abundant patience to his parents and family. إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّآ إِلَيْهِ رَٰجِعُونَ Inna lillahi wainna ilaihi raji'un
Narrated Abu Huraira, Allah be very pleased with him: The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "(A believer) who accompanies the funeral procession of a Muslim out of sincere faith and hoping to attain Allah's reward and remains with it till the funeral prayer is offered and the burial ceremonies are over, he will return with a reward of two Qirats. Each Qirat is like the size of the (Mount) Uhud. He who offers the funeral prayer only and returns before the burial, will return with the reward of one Qirat only." Bukhari
It has been said that whenever someone escorts the funeral of his brother Muslim, Allah orders the angels to escort his own funeral and pray over him when he dies.
"Who, when they are visited by an affliction, say, 'Surely we belong to God, and to Him we return (Inna lillahi wainna ilaihi raji'un)'" Qur'an Al-Baqarah 2:156
"Those whom the angels take while they are goodly, saying, 'Peace be on you! Enter Paradise for that you were doing.' " Qur'an An-Nahl 16:32
"Those who have said, 'Our Lord is God.' then have gone straight, upon them the angels descend, saying, 'Fear not, neither sorrow; rejoice in Paradise that you were promised. We are your friends in the present life and in the world to come; therein you shall have all that your souls desire, all that you call for, as hospitality from One All-forgiving, One All-compassionate.'" Qur'an Fussilat 41: 30-32
رَبَّنَا لَا تُزِغْ قُلُوبَنَا بَعْدَ إِذْ هَدَيْتَنَا وَهَبْ لَنَا مِن لَّدُنكَ رَحْمَةً ۚ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ ٱلْوَهَّابُ
"Our Lord, make not our hearts to swerve after that You have guided us; and give us mercy from You; You are the Bestower." Qur'an AleImran 3:8
رَبِّنَا لَمَّا جَآءَتْنَا ۚ رَبَّنَآ أَفْرِغْ عَلَيْنَا صَبْرًۭا وَتَوَفَّنَا مُسْلِمِينَ
"Our Lord, pour out upon us patience, and gather us to You as Muslims.'" Qur'an al-'Araf 7:126
Ameen
Wassalaam
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