Friday, March 12th, 2010

Practical Tips on Getting Your Little Loved Ones to Make and Enjoy Salah
By Maysoon Zaza
In a hadeeth narrated by Abdullah ibn Qart the Messenger of Allah (saws) said, “The first act that the servant of Allah will be accountable for on the Day of Judgment will be salah. If it is good, then [...]

“…And I want to remind you of the saying of the Prophet  (صلى الله عليه و سلم): “The believer who mixes with the people and is patient with the harm they inflict is better than the believer who doesn’t mix with the people and isn’t patient with the harm they inflict,” as reported by Ahmad [...]

“…It is not a coincidence that the Qur’an tells us in ‘al-Qasas’ about the conflict between Musa and Fir’awn (Moses and Pharaoh), and the Qur’an’s focus on this conflict is the verse: {“And We wished to do a favor to those who were oppressed in the land, and to make them rulers and to make [...]

Once there was a very handsome, pious, well educated young man, whose parents emphasized for him to get married. they had seen so many marriage proposals, and he had turned them all down. The parents thought it was becoming a little ridiculous or suspected that he may have someone else in mind.
However every time the [...]

Our Parents: Our Masters
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These are collected from as-Samarqandi’s ‘Tambih al-Ghafilin’ (p. 84-91):
From the chapter on the rights of the parents:
1 – Ibn ‘Abbas said:
“There is not a single believer who has two parents and wakes up while he is good to them except that Allah opens up for him two gates to Paradise, and if [...]