Saturday, November 29, 2008

ISLAMIC(HALAL) BANKING



Islamic (halal) banking and its importance


In the lately time are growing informations about Islamic banking and Islamic finansial sevrices which are practing trough models of Islamic banking,Islamic insurance,Islamic investment fonds and emision of halal share(part)

Islamic banking is based on Sharia(islamic low),not existing of interests ,devision of risk trough banking betwen Bank and its clients,services by Shariah Low,and its influence on Economy,bank like partner in all bussiness actions and importance those princips for Muslims and islam and garating of keeping halal properies.


-Not existing of interests


Islamic banks,like all other banks have their role of agency betwen thrifty cliant and investor.

Thier principal role is to take and keep propeties of cliants trough giving diffrents kind of services for thrifty clients and investing and on that way creating of property which will after be used for diffrent kind of investment enterprises.

Than in what is diffrence betwnen Islamic and other banks???

That difference could be desribed in diffrente levels whcih mean diffrence in the basic princip of bussines,clients,the way of taking and keeping properties,so as in way investing those properies in diffrente bussines projects.

In Islamic banking the money is not cosider like goods,so like that it can not be offer.Other banks are offering money like principal good and the prise of that good is interest who is paying the cliente of that bank.

Islamic abnks are offering the goods like principal way of satisfaing the necesery of thier cliants trough models which are permisible with Shraih Low.

Those models are based on:

-mudareb(partnership)

-Musharek(common bussiness project)

-marabeh(baying-selling models)

-selem(baying in advance)

-ijara wa iktina(leasing)

-qard al-hasen(kredits without interest


The most of services which Islamic banks are offering is based on partnership betwen Bank and her clients,where bank is sharing the resolt of bussines project and it is sharing risk with her clients.

Islamic banks are offering the equel rights to all cleints which shws and pruve that thier idea is valuable for ivesting.no metter do they have property with they could get back money in the way of mortgage on his property.


-Our halal alternative


On of the most importante thing for every Muslim is his property because he will be responable in front of Allah Subane we teal for the way on which he acquire thar property,the way how he spend it and the way how he multiply that property.

Shariah statment is very clear:"It is forbiden to give or to take interest" And on thart princip are based all Islamic banks.

Neither one bank is garanting to you that money which you are keeping on your account will not be used for production of alcohol,for gambling.....etc,but in onother side Islamic bank is garanting you that.

All other which is above mentioned is showing to us that Islamic banking is our halal alternative,which is also giving us oportunity to keep and multiply our property on halal way.













Friday, November 28, 2008

HIJAB;THE SIMBOL OF ISLAM AND MUSLIMA!!!

In the Holy Quran Allah sais:"And to lift down thier veils"

Design by:Asja



Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Palastine,the land of light!!!


~~~ Palastine,the land of light~~~

Palastine,the land of light
is it the same the Sun which is bringting you,
is the sky over Qudsa still so beautiful,
is it olive tree still the same colour,
is is Sinay mountain on the same place.
Are Mosques beautiful as before ,
is Zeytun hill still the hill and is there a place
for all of us becasue to everyone are the same
sunrises and apearing the downs,only people
love them diffrent.
***

I do not know Palastine yours long distances,
but I wish to see the sky over Qudsa,to see
Beytul-l-Magdis and Sinay mountain,I want to see
the Sun of Palastine,to pray there where oure souls are
servents and to see lands of Sham which are friends with you
Holy Palastine and I want to wach you but they are not
leting me.They say that my place is there and your light
is neer to me and Quds yours is neer to me.
So I am asking those who loves you,
do they hear your cry.
***

Do you feel Omer how hands are in chens of Palastine,
how hards are stones on inoccent children.Do you hear Eyub
the call of those who suffer.Do you hear how Palastine is crying,
how Quds is calling you that you bring piece on them
with holy selam,do you hear Eyube the call of Palastine.
***

They are waiting for you,oh Isa a.s the God Messanger,
Generous souls are looking for you.The eyes of Palastine
are directed to the sky,her eyes are sad,crying she is calling you,
Oh Isa the God Messanger.
***

Great are suffers of you Palastine,and people in three Ummah
are walking on your land.Bring them in peace with your Holyest
becasue your Holyest none can not destroy,neither killing,
niether sandess or pain,nither black neither white,
neither these,neither those one becasue on your land Ibrahim a.s. walked,
and over your sky Mohammed a.s. walked and do not cry Holy land
becasue you have Your Lord like all of us and all preise belongs only to Him,
to Allah Almighty.And He made you to be Holy land,Oh Palastine the land of light.
***

Written by:Asja








Sunday, August 31, 2008

The effects of Holy Quran upon the Hearts of People!!!


The Prophet [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] said: “Allaah did not send any Messenger to a people except that He sent him with something through which people would believe in him.” When Allaah [subhaanahu wa ta’aala] sends a Messenger, He sends him with a miracle or something that is amazing that people cannot reproduce and that is suitable for that time.

If we look at the example of Moosaa [‘alayhi-sallam], we find that he was sent with a staff that was used for and turned into a snake, since in that time magic was wide spread.


If we look to ‘Isa [‘alayhi-sallam], his time was famous for practicing medicine and finding cures for different diseases, so Allaah [subhaanahu wa ta’aala] sent him with that ability [by His will] to cure the lepers, the blind and the deaf.


One of the greatest miracles that the Prophet [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] was sent with is the Qur’aan. It is the miracle that will remain until nobody believes in Allaah and it is the miracle with which Allaah [subhaanahu wa ta’aala] challenged the Jinn and Mankind to produce the like thereof. Allaah described it as:“[This is] a Book [the Qur’aan] which We have sent down to you, full of blessings that they may ponder over its Verses, and that men of understanding may remember.” [Sad 38:29]


Before the Qur’aan was sent, at that time the Prophet [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] lived in a time in which the Arabs used to pride themselves on their eloquence and they used to gather in their seasonal markets and recite poems to each other. A poet would come and recite a poem consisting of 100 or 200 lines and people would go home having memorised the entire poem, and they used to take pride in that. Allaah [subhaanahu wa ta’aala], challenged the Jinn and Mankind, after revealing it, to reproduce anything that is similar or the like of the Qur’aan and He challenged them by saying:“Say: ‘If the Mankind and the Jinn’s were together to produce the like of this Qur’aan, they could not produce the like thereof, even if they helped one another’.” [Al-Isra 17:88]


In order for us to appreciate and truly understand the greatness of the Qur’aan, we need to ponder and reflect over those verses in which Allaah challenged the Jinn and Mankind to bring the following: We have different degrees of that challenge, starting with the verses we just mentioned [above], Allaah said that they are not able to bring a whole book that resembles the Qur’aan, since they were not able to do it to that degree, Allaah [subhaanahu wa ta’aala] lessened the challenge and He [subhaanahu wa ta’aala] said: “Say: ‘Bring you then ten forged Surah [chapters] like unto it’.” [Hud 11:13]The challenge was reduced from the whole book to ten chapters like that of the Qur’aan.

Allaah [subhaanahu wa ta’aala] then challenged anyone to bring just one chapter like a chapter in the Qur’aan, and that the word chapter here is indefinite which from Arabic Grammar implies any chapter, short or long. And then lastly Allaah [subhaanahu wa ta’aala] said: “...then produce a Surah [chapter] of the like thereof...” [Al-Baqarah 2:23]Meaning that since you have not been able to bring anything like that of the above then something close to any chapter, but nobody from mankind or from the Jinn was or has been able to achieve this. Does that not prove beyond any doubt that this Book is indeed very great because nobody has been able to meet the challenge? This also proves to us that this Book, as Allaah [subhaanahu wa ta’aala] said, is from the Revelation of the One Who is Wise and the One who is All-Aware of everything. The greatness of the Qur’aan is shown by the fact that even Non-Muslims may [come to] realise its greatness, even though they may not understand the meaning of the Qur’aan they may still find its greatness. Unfortunately, as Muslims, sometimes we may not appreciate the greatness of the Qur’aan.

When the Prophet [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] was in Makkah, the people gave him an offer, they said: “Oh Muhammad, if you want wealth or money we will give it to you, if you want women we will marry you to the most beautiful women of the Arabs, and if you want to rule us, we will give you the kingdom, just leave what you are doing and stop calling the people to Allaah [to tawheed].” After which the Prophet [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] said: “Have you finished?” And this shows the manners of the Prophet [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] to a Non-Muslim who is calling him to disbelief, he did not interrupt him until he finished and asked him: “Have you finished”, and the man stated that he had.


Then the Prophet [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam], started reciting Surah Fussilat in reply to his offer, and he kept reciting until he reached the saying of Allaah:“But if they turn away, then say [O Muhammad]: ‘I have warned you of a Saa’iqah [a destructive awful cry, torment, hit, a thunderbolt] like the Saa’iqah which overtook 'Ad and Thamood [people]’.” [Fussilat 41:13]When he [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] reached the above verse, the man who had come to negotiate and make an offer, he said: “Enough O Muhammad, enough O Muhammad.” He could understand the meaning [of what was being recited] and he became affected by it


.Another example is the story of Jibrayah Muta’im. Before [his reversion to] Islam the disbelievers of Makkah waged a public relations war on the Prophet [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam]. They used to tell everyone not to listen to him and spread propaganda claiming that he [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] was magician, a poet etc., despite this, Jibrayah Muta’im went to see the Prophet [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] and he saw him praying near the Ka’bah. The Prophet [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] [after Maghrib] was reciting Surah at-Tur, and he said: “When he reached: ‘Were they created by nothing, or were they themselves the creators?’ [At-Tur 52:35]I thought my heart was going to fly out of my body.”


One of my friends was studying in America. He was travelling on a bus and he was reciting Surah ad-Dhua. An American woman heard him, approached him and asked: “What are you reciting?” He said: “This is the Book of Allaah, I am reciting the Qur’aan.” She said: “This attracted me can you recite it again?” So the brother started to recite Surah Zalzalah, the women said: “This is not what you recited before but it is still nice, could you give me something that I can benefit from, like a tape or something I can listen to?” The brother went and he forgot, but when she saw him again [on the bus] she reminded him: “Remember you promised to give me a tape.” He said: “I searched through my sound library but I only found a tape by Shaykh Ali ‘Abdullaah Jaabir, which was recorded in a studio as opposed to the Masjid in Makkah. There is a difference because the recitation in the Masjid in Makkah is generally more beautiful, but inshaa’Allaah she will be affected by it!” He gave her the tape. After three months they met again and she said: “There has not been a single night from that time until now except that every single night I listened to this tape, and when I tried to go to bed without this tape I couldn’t do it.” This woman didn’t even know the difference between Alif, Baa and Taa, so how comes it affects the Non-Muslims and many times it does not affect us, the Muslims?Imaam al-Qurtubi [rahimahullaah] related a story in which he said: In that time it was the custom of the rulers to gather yearly and to have meetings.


They would invite the scholars and the people of knowledge so that the meetings would be full of knowledge. There was a man in that gathering who could speak Arabic well and it was said to the ruler that this individual is not actually a Muslim, he is a Jew. He [the ruler] was surprised and so he said to him: “Why don’t you become a Muslim and I will give you something to strengthen you in Islam, like some money or something material?” But he [the Jewish man] said: “This is the religion of my forefathers and so I will stay on it.” When the next years gathering was taking place, the same man was in the gathering and so the ruler looked at him and said: “Are you the same man I saw last year?” It appeared that the man had embraced Islam, and so he asked him: “Have you embraced Islam?” He said: “Yes!” The ruler asked him: “What made you embrace Islam?” He replied: “I am a man with very good handwriting so I decided to try the three books, the Torah, the Bible and the Qur’aan, to see which one of them is the truth. I copied three copies of the Torah with my nice handwriting and I added things to it from myself and I took some things out of it myself, and I took it to the market and decided to sell it, and the people bought all of them from me, so I knew that the religion [of Judaism] is false.” He did the same with the Bible and the same happened, he did the same with the Qur’aan and nobody bought a single copy from him because they realised that this was not the true Qur’aan, he said: “Then I knew that this is the true religion and I embraced Islam.”A great scholar was at that gathering by the name and when he heard the story [of the man’s reversion]; he addressed the ruler and informed him that there is what confirms to what he has just said in the Qur’aan, in Surah al-Ma’idah. Allaah [subhaanahu wa ta’aala] says: “And the rabbis and the priests [too judged the Jews by the Tauraat [Torah] after those Prophets] for to them was entrusted the protection of Allaah’s Book, and they were witnesses thereto. Therefore fear not men but fear Me [O Jews] and sell not My Verses for a miserable price.” [Al-Ma’idah 5:44]And:“It is We Who have sent down the Dhikr [i.e. the Qur’aan] and surely, We will guard it [from corruption].” [Al-Hijr 15:9]


So Allaah took it upon himself to protect the Qur’aan and with everything that has been mentioned, unfortunately, many of us have abandoned the Qur’aan and we do not treat it seriously, nor do not study it. The Messenger [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] said:“Indeed my people have abandoned this Qur’aan.” Abandoning the Qur’aan can take different shapes and forms:First of all, not reciting it regularly, maybe we do not recite the Qur’aan for a few days in a row; perhaps we do not even recite the Qur’aan for several weeks.Secondly, we may recite it but we may not reflect on what we recite.Thirdly, we may leave acting upon the Qur’aan, what it makes Halaal and what it makes Haraam. Fourthly, we may abandon treating one another with the Qur’aan. Finally, we may even abandon taking the Qur’aan as our judge between us.So if you have abandoned the Qur’aan, then which type of abandonment have you fallen into? We must be very careful not to fall into that du’aa in which the Prophet [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] said to Allaah that his people have abandoned the Qur’aan.There is a great hadeeth in the Musnad of Imaam Ahmad [rahimahullaah] stating that the Qur’aan is the accepted intercessor, meaning that when it defends someone and intercedes for that person, Allaah accepts its intercession, and a defender who is believed, when the Qur’aan defends someone Allaah believes and accepts their defence. Whoever puts the Qur’aan in front of him, the Qur’aan will take him to Paradise, and whoever puts the Qur’aan behind him, the Qur’aan will take him to the Fire. Imaam Muslim [rahimahullaah] narrated in his book as part of a long hadeeth a saying of the Prophet [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] in which he said: “The Qur’aan is either a proof for you or against you.” There is no third choice, the Qur’aan will either testify for you and will be proof for you or it will be against you, you have to think which way it is going to testify, you have to look at yourself and decide in all honesty, are you really in the group that will be protected and defended by the Qur’aan. That is why we must pay attention to the Qur’aan by studying it, memorising it and understanding its meanings, because the Qur’aan is a treasure that we must learn and discover its knowledge. ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab [radee Allaahu ‘anhu] appointed as a governor of an area, a person who was set free at that very moment, who used to be a slave and he was set free, and he appointed him as a governor straight after that, some people said to him: “Why are you appointing this man to be a governor when we have other Companions?” ‘Umar replied to them and said: “Keep quiet because I heard the Messenger of Allaah [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] say: ‘Indeed Allaah raises the status of some people through this Book and lowers the status of some other people through this Book’.” This man [the freed slave] has memorised the Qur’aan and this is what made ‘Umar respect him and raise his status; and that is why a person who memorises the Qur’aan, his status will be raised in this world and he will be mentioned with good things in this world and in the Hereafter.


And finally, I want to advise all of my brothers and sisters to be keen and eager and to put effort into memorising the Qur’aan, they should not be prevented by age or things that may occupy them because learning and memorising the Qur’aan little by little all the time is better than something you do a lot but doesn’t last, you must have that intention in your heart that you want to memorise the Qur’aan, and I indeed hope for every single person who truly intends to memorise the Qur’aan and does what he or she can to do so.


Even if they die and they have not memorised the Qur’aan, I hope sincerely that Allaah will treat them on the Day of Judgement as if they have memorised the Qur’aan and that is why we must expend extra effort to try and memorise, learn and understand this Qur’aan, because one day the Qur’aan will be taken away from the earth to the extent that not a single verse will remain.




By Shaykh-ul-Islam ibn Taymiyyah [d.728H]If it is asked why is one supplicating for guidance to the Straight Path when a Muslim is already regarded to be on the Straight Path? Shaykh-ul-Islam ibn Taymiyyah says,…The case mentioned above is similar to what some of them ask concerning His saying, “Guide us to the Straight Path” [Al-Fatihah 1:6] saying: ‘Allaah has already guided the believer, so what benefit is there in seeking guidance?’ Then some of them reply by saying that the meaning is ‘Keep us firm upon guidance’ as the Arab would say to the one who is asleep, ‘Sleep until I come to you’. Others say that the meaning is, ‘Keep our hearts form upon the guidance’ and that the request for firmness has been omitted. Yet others from amongst them say that it means, ‘Increase me in guidance.’This question really occurs due to the absence of their pondering the Straight Path to which the servant seeks guidance to, for the meaning [of this verse] is [seeking guidance to] act according to what Allaah ordered, and leaving what He forbade in all matters.This is because the person, even if he has believed that Muhammad [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] is the Messenger of Allaah and that the Qur’aan is the truth in a general way, I is commonly in need of knowledge of that which would benefit him and harm him. He is in need of knowledge concerning what he has been commanded to do and forbidden from doing in the finer aspects of his life and in those areas of which he has no knowledge. [Not only this but we find that] that which he does have knowledge of, he does not put the greater part of it into practice! Assuming that all of the commands and prohibitions contained within the Qur’aan and Sunnah have reached him, then the Qur’aan and Sunnah contain laws that are general and universal for which it is not possible to specify to every individual person - therefore the person has been commanded due to the likes of this to ask for guidance to the Straight Path.Guidance to the Straight Path includes all of the following matters: cognisance of what the Messenger [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] came with in detail, cognisance of what comes under his general orders and concern for acting according to ones knowledge, for indeed just having knowledge is not a cause for attaining guidance if one does not act according to his knowledge. This is why He said to His Prophet [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] after the treaty of Hudaybiyyah,“Indeed We have given you a manifest victory. That Allaah may forgive you your sins of the past and the future, complete His favour upon you, and guide you on a Straight Path.” [Al-Fath 48:1-2]And He said with respect to Moosaa and Haroon,“And We gave them the clear Scripture, and guided them to the Right Path.” [As-Saffat 37:117-119]The Muslims have differed as to what Allaah willed from the textual matters - matters of knowledge, belief and action whiles all of them are agreed that Muhammad [sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam] is the truth and the Qur’aan is the truth. If all of them were to have attained guidance to the Straight Path in totality, they would have never have differed. Furthermore the majority of those who know what Allaah has ordered disobey Him and do not follow His Way. If they were guided to the Straight Path in these matters then they certainly would have performed what they had been commanded to do, and left what they had been forbidden from. As for those whom Allaah guided from amongst this nation until they became from the God-Fearing Friends of Allaah, the greatest reason for this was their supplicating to Allaah with this supplication [guide us to the Straight Path] in ever prayer along with the knowledge of their continuous need of Allaah that He guide them on the Straight Path. So due to their continually saying this supplication and their acknowledging their continuous need of Him they became God-Fearing Friends of Allaah. Sahl bin ‘Abdullaah at-Tustari said, ‘There is not a route between a servant and Allaah closer to Him than need.’The one who has attained guidance in the past is in need of guidance in the future, this is the real meaning behind the saying of those who say that it means: ‘Establish us and guide us to being firm upon the Straight Path.’ The opinion of those who say that it means: ‘Increase us in guidance’ includes what has preceded. But all that has been stated refers to His guidance to the Straight Path that is to be granted in the future, for indeed action in the future is upon knowledge that is not yet attained. And the person is not considered to be on who is guided until he acts according to his knowledge in the future, but it is possible that this knowledge may not be there in the future, rather it could be removed from the heart, and if it still be there it is also possible that it not be acted upon. Therefore all of mankind is in dire need of this supplication, this is why Allaah made it obligatory upon them in ever prayer and they are not in need of any supplication as they are of this one. When guidance is obtained to the Straight Path then help, provision and all of the happiness that the soul seeks are obtained [from Allaah]. Allaah knows best. [19]Allaah commands His servants to supplicate,“Our Lord! Let not our hearts deviate after You have guided us and grant us mercy from Yourself. Indeed You are the Bestower.” [Aali Imran 3:8]Footnote:[19] Ibn Taymiyyah, ‘Diseases of the Heart and their Cures’ Eng. Trans., pp. 44-47. The original text is to be found in his Majmu Fatawa, vol. 10, pp.91-138. [Daar us-Sunnah Publishers 2003]Refer also to Ibn ‘Atiyyah, vol. 1, pg. 74-75; al-Baghawi, vol.1, pg. 54; Ibn Kathir, vol.1, pg. 52; al-Alusi, vol.1, pg. 126Transcribed from: The Spiritual Cure: An Explanation of Surah al-Fatihah [A Summary of Numerous Classical Commentaries on the Qur’aan], Pgs. 152-155, Prepared by Abu Rumaysah, Translated by Abu Rumaysah, Published by Daar us-Sunnah Publications

THE TORTURE OF ASIYA(one of the best women in Islam)

The wife of Fir'awn (Aasiya) was honored by Allah Ta'ala in the Quran:And Allah has set forth an example for those who believe: the wife of Fir'awn, when she said: "My Lord! Build for me a home with You in Paradise, and save me from Fir'awn and his actions, and save me from the people who are wrong-doers!"[Surah at-Tahrim 66:11]
Commenting on this verse, Ibn Kathir spoke about the torture she under went to test her faith:"Fir'awn's wife used to ask: "Who prevailed (in the conflict between Fir'awn and the Prophets of Allah)?"
When she was told that Musa and Harun had prevailed, she said: "I believe in the Lord of Musa and Harun."Fir'awn sent his aides to her and said to them: "Find the biggest stone you can. If she insists on keeping her faith, throw the stone on her. Otherwise, she is still my wife."They came to her and tortured her under the sun and when the torture session was over, the angels would shade her with their wings and she would look up to the sky and was able to see her house in Paradise. She persisted on her faith until her soul was taken. The heavy stone was then thrown on her lifeless body."[Tafsir Ibn Kathir; 4/505]

Friday, August 29, 2008

LEYLA

Who asked of me Love.
Who touched my heart and
soul,so that now is bitting
of such a strong love,and me
I do not see anyone around me.

Who covered me with waiting,
so He hide himselfe from me,
make my iman strong,the beliver
He made me.

This Love bring me a conclustion,
who I am,what I am,to who I belong,
and to who I will be back,she rised me
up to the Arsh of sky.

Leyla get tired,she rised on the
highest mountain but there she could
not also find Most loving one.
Leyla with tears in her eyes called
"Where are you my Almighty Lord".

In her heart she looked deep,
The Most Loving One she found.
Who I am,what I am to who I belong
and to I will be back,to the Arsh of
sky she rised me up.

Written by:Asja

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

ADEM A.S GOES AWAY!!!

ADEM A.S. GOES AWAY!!!
The time was spinding round in a circle. The day was coming, and the night was going away. The children were growthing, changing their look, and their look were changing Adem a.s. and Hava. Their bodys were loseing their youth freshness, beauty and strenght. Their skin was becomeing more and more winkle. Behind them they have left many years spend in a big effort fulfill with constant worry and fight. All that they were attending they attended it hard. And on that way they have realised that behind every scess on this world stays big effort. The many years past away, and on the Earth many times again the night was droping down. It was a special night, different then the others. That night was a witness of something that hapend for the first time on the Earth. The win was blowing strongly. The leafs were folling down from old trea that was plant by Adem a.s. When the win stoped blowing and the trea stranghten up from twigs was droping the water, and it seemd that the trea was crying. The trea was very sad just like the stars on the sky. Only the Moon with his silver face quietly watched on the Earth. He felt that down on the Earth was hapening something huge and important, but he did not know what. So he gave an order to his rays, to go fast on Earth and bring him a news about that what was hapening there. And his rays drop down on the Earth and light up hills, rivers, seas and valleys. They were supprised: all creatures were depressed and they were crying. The rays then entered in Adems room, trying to realise why the creatures were so sad. They drop down on Adems face and it was palier and silverier than the face of the Moon. And than it was when Moon has realised that Adem a.s. was daying. So he start to cry to... Adem in his last moments on This world called his children. He spoke to them quietly and distinctly: " Children, there is one ship which takes man way of salvation and there is also one weapon that makes one person strong. That ship is Gods instruction and the weapon are Gods words". The children were listening carefuly, but they did not knew that they are listening the voice of their father for the last time. "You have to know that Allah will never live you alone". Carry over to your children that Gods messangers will come, so respond to their call... And never do forget on dear God. Than he stiff his look and sow that Melek of death was coming to him. That was the first human death on Earth. The death of first man and first Gods messanger.

How to recognise Almighty Allah and his existence

1- What I realize through my senses
I cannot doubt its existence This is a rational spontaneous intuition which is taken for granted, but what is witnessed is that when one walks, at midday, in the desert and sees a pond of water at a remote distance, but when he reaches it, he will discover that is a dust because what he saw was a mirage. By the same token, when one puts the straight pen in a cup of water, he will see it as if it is broken, but really it is not. If someone was at an evening party in which people talked about Jinn and ghosts, on his way home, because the road was dark and empty and if he was scared and had an active imagination, he may have thought he saw a Jinn or a ghost, but in fact it was nothing other than his imagination. The magicians and tricksters display strange things which we see, but they have no reality. Therefore, the senses can make mistakes and be deceived, they can imagine or their owner can imagine, but is this a reasonable cause to doubt the existence of what one realizes?No, because if I doubt what I hear, see, or realizes, my reality will be confused with my imagination and I will be like an insane person.Here, there is another prerequisite to attain the knowledge edge (conviction) that what I realize is existed i.e. the mind should not decree according to the previous experiment and consider it as a basis of conviction. What I felt (realized) in the beginning was an imagination or an illusion of the sense. In the first case, the mind was deluded, it thought the mirage to be water, the pen was still straight although it seemed as if it was broken. The matters in which the senses were mistaken or deluded were definite and well known. This does not invalidate or affect the rule. Amongst these things are the magic done by the magicians of Pharaoh and what is done by magicians in circus nowadays.
2- Necessity of Believing in Allah the Almighty
Belief in Allah is a rational, emotional, psychological, social, political and linguistic necessity. You may wonder why it is also a linguistic necessity and you have the right in doing so.Here, we come to the language and ask, which of them come first meanings or words? Or do the words come first then meanings?It is taken for granted that unless the meaning is very clear in our minds, it is impossible to create the word. In other words, if the meaning is not clear in the mind, we will find no word for it in the language. Therefore, if the meaning precedes the word what can we say concerning the modern meanings which were not existent before that such as for example the terminology of new inventions.The linguistic assemblies state that we should create a word for this new term because it is a modern thing such as radio, TV, missile, refrigerator, spaceship, and helicopter etc. These names accrued from a precedent and particular meanings for them in the mind.In the light of what is mentioned above, it is impossible that the concept of ‘divinity’ is a non-existent concept which has no words. If it is believed what non-existent things cannot reach the degree of having words and if the words cannot precede the meanings, then the spread of such words in the language, culture and civilization of the people is considered to be a clear-cut proof on their existence. On the top of these concepts comes the concept of divinity.Thus, we can deduce that the meaning of belief in the existence of Allah precede the language and the words. Its existence in the human languages, in the anthropological studies, and through history, is a decisive proof that his meaning has an existence in the human thought however numerous its names, forms, or patterns.If one contemplates this question, he will find that there is a harmony and cohesion in the essence of the words to such an extent that they have no contradiction altogether. For example, the word of ‘disbelief’ (kufr) may connote the meaning of ‘belief’ (Iman), for the word Kufr, in essence, means covering. So, the word indicates that there was something existent then it was covered. In other words, covering is something temporary in respect of the existent thing. For this reason, the scholars interpreted the phrase ‘they have disbelieved’ (Kafaru) in the glorious Ayah that it is a condition for something which was existent. In the light of the previous mentioned, we can say that disbelief is something temporary to the belief.Only imagine your life without Allah...How it would be???Only imagine how would you feel that you do not know that Almighty Allah exist.I could not live without Allah and Elhamdulliah that Allah showed us the right way because without knowing for Allah we would really be lost.And this is also one of the greatest gift from dear Allah.How mercisfull He is.

3-Do We Need Proof about The Existence Of Allah?
Once, a scholar of sacred knowledge was asked, what is theproof for the existence of Allah. 'Allah', the scholar replied. Then, hewas asked again, what about the apparatus of mind? 'It is deficient andleads only to something like', he replied.Ibn Ata' As-Sakandan said, "O Allah! How can they cite what needs Youas an evidence for You?! Is there anything more evident than You to be cited as an evidence for You?! When did You cease watching the world that we need an evidence for Your existence?! And how far did you go that now we have to pursue Your traces to find You?! How can He be veiled while He disclosed every-thing?! How can He be veiled while He is evident anywhere?! How can He be veiled while He is the ever Evident and the only One Who has no peer?! How can He be veiled while Lie is nearer to us than anything else?! How can He be veiled while we owe our existence to Him?!Thus there is no comparison between those who know Allah as a source of evidence or as an end of evidence. The former return the right to its owner, whereas the latter are misled. When did He cease watching the world thatwe need evidence for His Existence?! How far did He go so that we have topursue His traces?!
4-Between Faith and Atheism
Once, an atheist teacher said to his disciples, "only what you see really exists. They answered, 'yes.' You notice the tablet, the pen, the notebook and the chair? All of them are visible and touchable, aren't they?' 'Yes,' They replied. Then he said, do you see God? They replied, no. hence, God doesn’t exist. The students were perplexed, because they believed in theexistence of Allah by heart. Meanwhile, Allah disclosed the falsehood ofthese teachers at the hands of one of his disciples. A student after having permission asked, do you understand what the teacher has said, they said, yes. Ok, do you see the teacher now? Yes, they replied. Does the teacher havea mind? 'Yes,' they answered. 'Do you see his mind?' They said, 'No,' hesaid, following the teacher method i.e., "Only what we see does exist." Ourteacher has no mind because it is invisible. Then, all students laughed andthe teacher was amazed and never mentioned that again. The following is alsoanother useful discourse: you assume that Allah exists depending totallyon the law of casual influence which states that every thing made or createdshould have a maker or a creator. Likewise, the textile leads to the weaver,the painting leads to the painter, and the statue leads to the sculptor.Following the same law the universe leads to the Omnipotent God. We, then,believe in this Creator, but we might follow the same law and ask, who createsthe Creator? Who created Allah Whom you talked about? Does your evidenceand the law of casual influence not lead to such a result? To refute thisfalse assumption, we can say that it is incorrect analogy, this is becauseyou first acknowledge that Allah is the Creator then you ask about the creatorof Allah. How can you adopt Him as a creator and created at the same time.This assumption can also be refuted in the following manner: How can you imagine that the Creator is subject to human laws. The casual influence is a human law and does not apply but to human beings. Also, time and place on earth differ from time and place outside. Thus, the Creator can never be described in terms of time or place nor their laws. More than that, Allah has created such laws, therefore, it is incredible to describe Allah by the laws created by Him.Aristotle mentioned the sequence of these causes by saying, the chairis made from wood, wood from a tree, a tree from a seed, and a seed is cultivated by a teller. Then, he was obliged to say that this sequential causes in the course of endless time must lead to the necessity of the Creator, so isAllah.lbn Arabi when answering this question "who created Allah?" He said, "It is an incredible question since Allah Himself is a source of evidence. Allah is a supreme Being transcendently beyond all creatures qualities, just as light is a proof for the day-time and not the opposite.
5. Why Is Allah Invisible?
To answer this question, let us refer to science concerning matter and the like in this life. If only what we see does exist, there are many invisible things that are beyond our senses. For example, if you put a magnet opposite to a piece of iron, you will notice that the magnet pulls the iron. Where is that power placed between the iron and the magnet? Is it touchable, visible or testable? We just realize it because of its effect as it pulled the iron. This gravity is created as colors. Colors cannot be visible, because ofits great darkness, before being reflected as an object like a cloth, awall, a plate or something else. For example, if we have a green cloth,we should bear in mind that the matter in the cloth has absorbed all colorssave the green, therefore, we notice it as being green and so on. Electricityalso is invisible. Only after lighting a lamp do we notice electricity conducted through wires. But, where is electricity? It is certainly invisible as are ultra violet rays, gravity and many other things that we can only notice them by the effect they leave. Behold, although these created things, gave a small example with regards to the whole world, are invisible, no wonder Allah Who created such things is invisible.
The same example is soul.She is there but we can not see her.Allah Almighty is always there but we can not see him.

YA RABBI

Ya Rabbi keep me always on your straight way
I’ll pray tomorrow as I prayed today and yesterday

Fill my heart with your love and none but yours
With it I’ll love all brothers and sisters in your cause

All the burdens of disturbance, irritation, and frustration
Go and vanish when I bow my head for you in prostration

Ya Rabbi grant me patience and strengthen my belief
For none but you can ease my deep sorrow and grief

Ya Rabbi I ask you again and again with tearful eyes
Not protesting against your will for I know you’re the wise

You are the merciful, then, have mercy on my weakness
Straight me, restore my heart and heal my soul’s sickness

Neither the moon nor the stars will lit the dull of my night
Not even the brightening sun; but your guidance is the light

Ya Rabbi; from you what is within me is not concealed
Whether I will hide my feelings or not they’ll be revealed

You are the only one who can hear my silent screams
And only with your will I will realize all my dreams

With regret I turn to you, with a shameful face full of tears
Pardon me and forgive my tongue, my eyes, and my ears

All I see around, all the creation to your highness is a sign
I believe in your greatness and that you are Allah the one

Written by:Sister Mehr :)

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

My beautiful veil

~My beautiful veil~

She was sitting there all alone,
she was sitting there with her selfe
and her own soul.

She was hiding her look
under that beautiful veil,
that was her choice, peace and happiness.
All alone in her own world she is sitting there.

Maybe they can say that she do not think so well,
and that world is giving to her on the way,
but she is so proud to say
that this is her beautiful veil.

That beautiful veil is her protection,
her beauty,shame and modesty.
And how can they say
that that is something wrong, when that veil
makes her feel blessed and so strong.

Under that beautiful veil,
she is hidden and her secrets.
And it is not because she must hide,
or she must hide her secrets.
It is something much more than that.

They say that she become blind,
and that she do not see anithing under that veil.
But she has eyes like they does.
Her eyes are open under that veil
and their eyes are really closed.

Maybe they can say that she is really lost,
that she is missing so much things,
but they do not know,
that her beautiful veil is the thing
that she loves the most.

They can say that she is not living
anymore on that way,
but her heart understand words to say
that her veil is her only life.

She really knows that this beautiful veil
is true mercy and reword from her Lord.
Like a pearl from the bottom of the sea,
her clothes is keeping her and protecting.
That is a Muslim girl...Faith is separating her.

Written by your sister Asja

~~~PAINFULL MEMORY~~~

***PAINFULL MEMORY...***
Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim
Damned is the one,who is hiding his face
from this sun which is in blood of pain heart.
Damned is tho one who is laughing to our tears
Damned is the one who loves This world
and Onother world he has forget.
He has bound his heart for the world that
will past,
and ethernity he has ignored...
They all are claiming that they
believe in something
but their hands,eyes and hearts
are far away from that...
So,is there anything worst from those
who knows for good,and evil they are doing.
The courage of heroes from battlefield
will reach them...
Tears of mother which is crying for her lost son
it will reach them.
The childrens bounds hands
will reach them too,
and scream of joung girl hurt it will reach them.
Fathers curse,hate of brothers and sisters
it will reach them.
It will reach them humilation on both world,
because they see the truth and
they choose a lie...
They are trying to make clean river obscure.
I sweare with my Allah
that this is theirs bad choice.
Even they see the light of heven gifts
they are still choseing the darkness.
One day the chains will break and they
will understand how naive they were,
how naive they have sold their hearts.
Written by: Asja
This poem is dedicated to all my brothers and sisters who are loosing and who had lost their lifes in Iraq, Palestine, Pakistan,Afganistan and other Muslim countries. Lets never forget them. Lets always have them in our prayers. And esspecially lets never forget our most loving Prophet Muhammed a.s., his familly and his companions. Please dear brothers and sisters pray for them.

HISTORICAL PLACES

Battle of Ehzaab

Abu Sufyan had succeeded in forming a military alliance composed of the Jews and various tribes of the Arabs. The news of this great army was brought to the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). He called a meeting of His Companions. On the suggestion of Hazrat Salman Farsi, a trench of a depth of five cubits and width of more than ten cubits was dug, all around. The ten thousand strong army of Quresh tried to cross it for 25 days but in-vain. At last, the army began to defect and Abu Sufyan was forced to lead it back to Makkah in utter depression.


Ghar-E-Hira (cave of hira)

This Cave, the sanctum of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), the place of His devotions and meditations and the sacred spot where the Holy Quran began to be revealed. The Cave is situated on mount Al-Noor on way to Mina near Makkah and its peak is visible from a great distance. Muhammad (peace be upon him) had jus stepped into the forty-first year of his life, when during a night in the month of Ramadan the first 5 verses of the Surah Al-Alaque were Revealed to him.


Battle of Ohod

Ohud is a hill near Madinah. The famous battle of Ohud was fought in the valley of this hill. The non-believers from Quresh, invaded Madinah with an army of three thousand, in the third year of Hijra.







Old photo of Holy place Makkah









Qiblahtain Mosque

This Mosque is situated in Madinah. In the beginning the Muslims offered their prayers facing in the direction of "Baitul-Maqdis" (Jerusalem). Once during the second year of Hijrah the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) was leading the prayers on this mosque, at Banu Salma, when Allah's command came to turn from then on towards The KAABA. So the Mosque came to be called as Masjid-e-Qiblahtain, or the Mosque of two Qiblahs.





The batle of Badar







The first battle between the believers of truth (Islam) and the forces of evil was fought on the battle field of Badar, 60 miles from Madinah towards Makkah. On one side stood a small group of 313 men of whom merely 60 of them wore armour, while facing them was arranged an army of one thousand warriors well armed and equipped. The believers had the strength of their Faith in Allah and His Prophet. They knew that Truth must prevail and falsehood must be destroyed. Thus it was this very Faith which brought about the Miracle and Truth did triumph.






Birth place of the Holy Prophet

The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) was born on the early morning of Monday the 12th of Rabi-ul-Awwal (April 3rd, 571 AD) in Makkah. He was named Muhammad (the Praised one, peace be upon him) by his grand-father Abdul Muttalib. The ravages of time have destroyed the original building but the place is the same where stood Abdullah's house the father of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him), who belonged to the family of Hashim the noblest tribe of the clan of Quresh.






















































































































































Saturday, August 23, 2008

Elhamduillah,he also revert to Islam!!!

This is the touching story about our new brother In Islam,Elhamdulillah.

May Allah stenght his iman and bless him forerver.Amin.

I was born in Frasher of Permet in 1986 in a family of bektashi origin, though my parents are atheists. At that time, religion was prohibited.
I can remember many things of my childhood in that village and I cannot forget the lots of visitors coming there and the feasts taking place in honour of the “Frasheri Brothers”. As far as I have been living there, I remember that, as soon as the sun dropped, my grandmother took me by the hand to a big stone and, after kissing that stone three times, we light a candle. And she always kept telling me: “This stone has always been protecting us from the Greeks and the Germans”, and we both used to kiss that stone.
Yet today, that stone is still lying there, and tradition is being upheld in that village, with people kissing it and lighting candles on it.
In the year 1991 all my family came to live in Tirana. During that time, the communist system in Albania was collapsing and religion was becoming free again. I remember that in 1991 here in Tirana, while queueing up for water at the drinking-fountain, women were talking over a problem that had come up at that time, and one of them said: “This is a thing that only God knows”. This has been the first time I have ever heard the word God.
To tell the truth, it impressed me very much and with the ? of the human I spontaneously felt the grandiosity of the creator.
It seemed to me as if I already knew that power, even thought it was the first time I had heard about him. That he knew everything! Even though 16 years have passed, I can still remember that situation as well as if it were yesterday.
After attending the first class in 1992, in the endings of the academic year, when we had learned how to read, we were provided with aid from some “people of God”. They were some Italian missionaries. Each child of our class was given 7 chocolates and 2 books. One book was about painting and the other one was about the “Jesus” history with pictures and writings. By giving away such things, the christian church captured my classmates’ hearts. The same things that were narrated in the “Jesus” history of the given book, were also presented in the afternoon on a TV cartoon. There was a red robot travelling in time and coming back to the various prophets’times, according to the christian version.
After watching and reading these things, my classmates and I would do nothing but talk about them at school. In a few words, we did like them. Our parents were atheists, as religion had been “unfettered” and nothing could stop us from believing those things. In the final analysis, we also believed in Santa Claus. Christians were always eager to take us in Church and teach us more about Jesus.
But our relationship with those “people of God” did not last long, because religion was allowed and my uncle wanted our family to uphold our bektashi grandfather’s tradition, as my village is the place where bektashism was first created. So, on ashure’s feast, he took all the family’s children along with him to celebrate. But I was not very attracted, as I did not see any other thing than poetry being read and some paintings of Imam Ali. The opposite went for my brother, who became a devoted bektashi and during that period of time, at home he was always talking about Imam Ali and bektashis in general. A very dissimilar thing happened to my uncle’s son, who emigrated in Greece and I don’t know the reason why he attended a school that would make a priest out of him. Some time later, he changed the religion of his family, turning them into Orthodox Christians, so I had no more chances of attending a masjid.
After 2 more years had passed, I went to the fourth class. There were constructed some one-floor facilities in a big field near my house. They contained some classes, a place with benches for reading, a church, and also some settings with computers. One day, a friend of mine that was not from my neighbourhood told me that in that girded place with many buildings (which was called ADRA, a christian sect), one could learn how to play the guitar, sing in a group (choir), there are yellow discs for Nintendo computers etc. So, on Saturday, I decided to go there, and I liked it very much.
There were speaches on various prophets’ stories, we used to sing, be used to pray all together etc. After going twice with this friend, I got to know 2 Albanian teachers there. They were young, a boy named Elvis and a girl named Genta. And I swear to great Allah that I would always go there and after a month,
I took 12-13 friends from my block of flats and we went there week by week. Even though I was 10 years old, I often used to conduct the prayer for all my friends. But it was great Allah’s will that in 1997 our relationship with our church friends was stopped, because that year civil war broke out due to the banks, and Americans moved out of Albania. After a short period of time, my relatives developped strong relationships with Jehovah’s witnesses, up to the point that, during the war in 1997, when Jehovah’s witnesses had no place to gather, they gathered at my relatives’ home.
I also started going to them and I had a personal teacher coming to my house twice a week. I used to make lots of questions to him, so he gave up, as I used to trap him within his own sayings. I was lucky, because he didn’t know much about his doctrine, so I was left again without a religion.
Considering that in 1998 I was at the sixth class of primary school and I was one of the students whose photo lay on the school’s wall (only best students could be honoured in that way), I used to study biology very well, and I got to the conclusion that human derived from monkey, because our school books’ texts are still nowadays the same as those of the communist regime period. But during this period I often used to suffer when in bed, because I used to think of my death and it seemed quite strange for me the fact that after death, I would feel nothing, as if I were asleep, whilst others would still be living and the world would still be evolving. This has been an awful time for me. Time and again, when I quarreled with my parents, I felt the urge to commit suicide, even though I had everything a child would have at that time. In 1999 I attended a soccer team and I can recall a member of my team telling to the others: “Guys, I don’t know what I’m going to do tomorrow with the match, because I am going to be thirsty, as I am fasting for Ramazan”. At that time, even though I had a direction to look toward for my life – I had made up my mind for becoming a soccer player – I could still feel that I was not impregnated and I had not given myself what I deserved. I also had an internal feeling about the muslim communion’s seriousness, because
I had watched them on TV praying for Bairam. But there were only old people
. So I asked this friend to take me with him to the mosque, in order to see how they prayed, because I had only watched them on TV for Bairam. My friend asked me: “Are you a Muslim so that I can take you with me?” “’Yes”’, I told him, “but I feel too timid to go there alone” (I don’t know how it came to me to declare myself a Muslim).
And the next day, after workout, I went to the Mosque with this friend for aksham’s namaz. There were 10 more days till Ramazan. It was December 27th 1999. Of course, as soon as I got to the mosque, I saw things that were different from what I had thought. They all behaved very gracefully with each other, they were very simple folks, and I liked very much the fact that they were eating with each other for iftar on the second floor. It was great Allah’s will that the following day I also fasted and sat down to eat with the other guys. And the days to come I took all my friends to the mosque. They all figured out that I was a beginner and they were all smiling at me, nobody gave me an angry look. The friend that brought me to the mosque was not able to come for some days, because his parents did not let him, and he introduced me to another guy, so that I could meet him every day and learn more about Islam.
A few months later I had the chance to go to a camp for 10 days and attend an intensive course on Islam. There were 2 professors from Mekka, named Abdurrashid and Sami. At that period of time, all I knew was the Fatiha and the Keuther Sures. In that camp, I learned the kursij ajet, and 8 last sures of Quran, one sure every day. Both professors were very caring, especially with me. First, because I was new in Islam, compared to the others, and second, because I was the youngest. The first day in that camp I became 14 years old. I learned everything there, for 10 days. After coming back from the 10-day camp with Muslims, my whole life changed. I remember I was ashamed to come back home, because I felt guilty of my previous behaviour towards my parents.
And you cannot imagine how much I was embarrased when I came face to face with my mother as I was going up the stairs home. I did nothing but put my head down and leave, because I could not see her, as I had been very unfair to her. I couldn’t keep myself from crying in the evenings since the last days when I was at the camp.
The same thing happened the very last day, when I must have cried for about 10 or 12 hours on and on. Today is the 27th of December 2007. Exactly 8 years have passed since the time I have joined Islam. For that, I give thanks to God who edified me and I pray to him so as not to become one of those people deviating from the straight path after being edified, as many of my muslim friends have done. Almost 70% do not pray regularly any more. The only thing I aspire to is to die as a muslim.
** BEAUTIFUL DREAM **
Once a man saw in his dream, that a lion was chasing him.
The man ran to a tree, climbed on to it and sat on a branch. He looked down and saw that the lion was still there waiting for him. The man then looked to his side where the branch he was sitting on was attached to the tree and saw that two rats were circling around and eating the branch. One rat was black and the other one was white. The branch would fall on the ground very soon. The man then looked below again with fear and discovered that a big black snake had come and settled directly under him.
The snake opened its mouth right under the man so that he will fall into it. The man then looked up to see if there was anything that he could hold on to. He saw another branch with a honeycomb.
Drops of honey were falling from it. The man wanted to taste the honey. He drank one drop. The honey was very sweet in taste. So, he wanted to taste another drop, then another and then another. As a result, he got lost into the sweetness of the honey. Meanwhile, he forgot about the two rats eating his branch away, the lion on the ground and the snake that is sitting right under him.
After a while, he woke up from his sleep. To get the meaning behind this dream, the man went to a a pious scholar of Islam.
The scholar said "The lion you saw is your death. It always chases you and goes where ever you go.
The two rats, one black and one white, are the night and the day. Black one is the night and the white one is the day. They circle around, coming one after another, to eat your time as they take you closer to death. The big black snake with a dark mouth is your grave.
It's there, just waiting for you to fall into it. The honeycomb is this world and the sweet honey is the luxaries of this world.
We like to taste a drop of the luxaries of this world and it's very sweet. Then we taste another drop and then another.
Meanwhile, we get lost into this world and forget about our time, our death and our graves." May Allah wake us up from the sleep and save us before it's too late. Ameen.

AISHA,THE MOTHER OF THE BELIVIERS

AISHA,THE MOTHER OF THE BELIVIERS(peace be upon her).

Aisha(peace be upon her) was a chosen Muslim women from Allah to beloved Prophet Mohammed s.a.v.s.
Aisha piety and pious to Allah could not be described with words.After Prophet Mohammed s.a.v.s Aisha was teaching other Muslims with Mohammed s.a.v.s. wprds-
Her love for beloved Prophet could not be descibed with any words,because neaither one women loved her husband the way like Aisha loved our Prophet Mohammed s.a.v.s.


The life of Aisha is a proof that a woman can be far more learned than man and that she can be the teacher of scholars and experts. Her life is also a proof that a woman can exert influence over men and women and provide them with inspiration and leadership. Her life is also a proof that the same woman can be totally feminine and be a source of pleasure, joy and comfort to her husband. She did not graduate from any university; there were no universities as such in her day. But still her utterances are studied in faculties of literature, her legal pronouncements are studied in colleges of law and her life and works are studied and researched by students and teachers of Muslim history as they have been far over a thousand years.
The bulk of her vast treasure of knowledge was obtained while she was still quite young. In her early childhood, she was brought up by her father who was greatly and respected for he was a man of wide knowledge, gentle manners and an agreeable presence. More over he was closest friend of the Noble Prophet (Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam) who was frequent visitor to their home since the very early days of his mission.
In her youth already known for her formidable memory, she came under the loving care and attention of the Holy prophet (Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam) himself. as his wife and close companion, she acquired fro him knowledge and insight such as no woman has ever acquired. Aisha became the Prophet’s wife in Makkah when she was most likely in the tenth year of her life but her wedding did not take place until the second year after the Hijrah when she was about 14 or 15 years of her age.
Before and after her wedding, she maintained a natural jollity and innocence and did not seem to have an ego at all by the thought of being wedded to him who was the messenger of Allah (Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam) whom all his companions, including her own mother and father, treated with such love and reverence as they gave to no one else.
About her wedding, she related that shortly before she was leave her parent’s house, she slipped out into the courtyard to play with passing friends: “I was playing on sea-saw and my long streaming hair was disheveled,” she said. They came and took me from my play and made me ready.” They dressed her in a wedding dress made from fine red-striped cloth from Bahrain and the mother took her to the newly built house where some women of the Ansar were waiting outside the door. They greeted her with the words:” for good and for happiness may all be well”. Then in the presence of the smiling Prophet (S.A.W.W), a bowl of milk was brought. The prophet drank fro it himself and offered did to Aisha. She declined it shyly but when he insisted, she did so and then offered the bowl to her sister Asma who was sitting beside her. Others also drank of it and that was as much as there was of simple and solemn occasions of their wedding. There was no wedding feast.
Marriage to the holy prophet (S.A.W) did not change her playful ways. Her young friends came regularly to visit her in her own apartment. “I would be playing with my dolls,” she said adding,” with the girls who were my friends and the Prophet would come in and they would slip out of the house and he would go out after them and bring them back, for he was pleased for my sake to have them there.” Some time he would say “stay where you are” before they had time to leave, and would also join in their games. Aisha said: “one day, the Prophet came in when I was playing with the doll and he said: ‘O Aisha, whatever game is this?’ ‘It is Solomon horses, ‘I said and he laughed.” Some time as he came in, he would screen himself with his cloak so as not to disturb Aisha and her friends. Aisha’s early life in Medina also had its more serious and anxious times. Once her father and two companions who were staying with him fell ill with a dangerous fever, which was common in Medina during certain seasons. One morning, Aisha went to visit him and was dismayed to find the three men lying completely weak and exhausted. She asked her father how he was and he answered in verse but she did not understand what he was saying. The two other also answered her with lines of poetry, which seemed to her to be nothing but unintelligent babbling. She was deeply troubled and went home to the Holy prophet saying: “They are raving, out of their minds, through the heat of fever.” The holy prophet asked what they have said and was somewhat reassured when she repeated almost word for word the lines they had uttered and which made sense although she did not fully understand then then.
This was the demonstration of the great retentive power of her memory, which as the years went by was to preserve so many of the priceless sayings of the Holy prophet. Of the Holy prophet’s wives in medina, it was clear that it was Aisha that he loved most. From time to time, one or the others of his companions would ask:
“O messenger of Allah whom do you love most in the world?” he did not always give the same answer to this question for he felt great love for many: for his daughers and their children, for Abu bakr, for Ali, for Zayd and his son Usamah. B
ut of his wives the only one he named in this connection was Aisha.
She too loved him greatly in return and often would seek reassurance from him that he loved her. Once she asked him:” how is your love for me?” “Like the rope’s knot,” he replied meaning that it was strong and secure. And time after time thereafter, she would ask him:” how is the knot?” and he would reply:” in the same condition.”
As she loved the holy prophet so was her love and she could not bear the thought that the holy prophet’s attention should be given to others more than seemed enough to her. She asked him: “O Messenger of Allah, tell me of your self. If you were between the two slopes of valley, one of which had not been grazed whereas the other had been grazed, on which would you pasture your flocks?” “On that which had not been grazed,” replied the holy prophet. “Even so,” She said, “and I m not as any other of yours wives. “Every one of them had a husband before you, except me.” The Holy Prophet (Sall Allaho alaihe wasalam) smiled and said nothing. Aisha was really a generous soul and patient one. She bore with the rest of the holy prophet’s household poverty and hunger, which often lasted for long periods. For days on end, no fire would be lit in the sparsely furnished house of the holy prophet for cooking and baking bread and they would live merely on dates and water.
After the Khaybar expedition, the Holy prophet stayed away from his wives for a month. Returning from his seclusion, he went first to Asia’s apartment. She was delighted to see him but he said he had received revelation, which required putting two options before her. He then recited the verses: “O Prophet; Say to your wives: If you desire the life of his world and its adornments, then come and I will bestow its goods upon you, and I will release you with a fair release. But if you desire God and His Messenger and the abode of the hereafter, then verily God has laid in store for you an immense reward for such as you who do good.” Aisha’s reply was; “Indeed I desire God and His Messenger and the abode of the hereafter,” and her response was followed by all the other wives of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W). She stuck to her choice both during the life time of the Holy Prophet and afterwards. Later, when the Muslims were favoured with the Enormous riches, she was given a gift of one hundred thousand dirhams. She was fasting when she received the money and she distributed the amount to the poor and needy even immediately, though she had no provision in her house. Shortly after maidservant said to her: “Could you buy meat fro a dirham with which to break your fast?” she said, “If I had remembered, I would have done so.” The Holy Prophet’s affection for Aisha remained to the last. During his final illness, it was to Aisha’s apartment that he went at the suggestion of his wives. For much of the time, he lay there on couch with his head resting on her chest or on her lap. It was she who took a Miwak, chewed upon it to soften it and gave it to the Holy prophet. Despite his weakness, he rubbed his teeth with it vigorously. Not long afterward, he became unconscious and Aisha thought it was the onset of death, but after an hour he opened his eyes.
It was Aisha who has preserved for us these dying moments of the most honored of God’s creation, His beloved Messenger. When he opened his eyes again, Aisha remembered Iris having said to her: “No prophet is taken by death until he has been shown his place in paradise and then offered the choice, to live or die.” “He will not now choose us,” She said to herself. Then she heard him murmur: “with the supreme communication in paradise, with those upon whom Allah has showed His favour, the prophets, the martyrs and the righteous…”Again she heard him murmur: “O Lord, with the supreme communication.” and these were the last words she heard him speak.
Gradually his head grew heavier upon her chest, until others in the room began to lament, and Aisha laid his head on a pillow. In the floor of Aisha’s room, near the couch where he was lying, a grave was dug in which was buried the Seal of the Prophets amid much great sorrow. Aisha lived on almost fifty years after the passing away of the Holy prophet. She passed a decade of her life with him as his wife (and shall remain his wife forever). Much of the decade long time was spent in learning and acquiring knowledge of the two most important sources of God’s guidance, the Holy Quraan and Sunnah of His Prophet. Aisha was one of three wives of the Holy Prophet who memorized the revelation, the other two being Hafsah and Umm Salamah. So far as the ahadith or sayings of the Holy Prophet concerned, Aisha is the one who transmitted more than two thousand sayings or Ahadith. Many of these pertain to some of the most intimate aspects of personal behavior, which only some one in aisha’s position could have learnt. What is most important is that her knowledge of Hadith was passed on in written form by at least three persons including her nephew Urwah who became one of the greatest scholars among the generation after the Companion.
Many of the learned companions of the Holy prophet and their followers benefited from Aisha’s knowledge. Abu Musa al-Ashari once said, “If we, the companions of the Messenger of Allah, had any difficulty on a matter, we asked Aisha about it.” Her nephew Urwah asserts that she was proficient not only in fiqh but also in medicine and poetry. Many of the senior companions of Holy prophet’s came to her to ask for advice concerning questions of inheritance, which required high skilled mathematical mind. Scholars regard her as one of the earliest fuqaha of Islam.
Aisha not only possessed great knowledge, but took an active part in education and social reform. As a teacher she had a clear and persuasive manners of speech and her power of oratory has been described in superlative terms by al-Ahnaf, who said: “I have heard speeches of Abu bakr, Umar, Usman, Ali and the caliphs up to this day, but I have not heard speech more persuasive and more beautiful from the mouth of any person than from the mouth of Aisha.” Her house thus became a school and an academy. Among her women pupils is the name of Umrah bint-e-Abdur Rahman. After Khadijah al – Kubra and Fatimah az-Zahra, Aisha is regarded as the best woman in Islam. She was leader in every field of knowledge. She often regretted her involvement in war but lived long enough to regain position as the most respected woman of her time. She died in the year 58 hijrah in the month of Ramadan and as she instructed, she was buried in Jannat al – Baqi in mAdinah beside other companions of Holy Prophet (Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam).
May Allah join us all with our beloved Prophet Mohammed s.a.v.s,his family and his companions.AMIN.