Weekends Over =(
The weekend passes by so quickly=( When sunday evening comes you end up asking urself - O its over? Back to school/work tomorrow? No!!! So, i had fun in my own way - reading articles and watching movies like Hannibal and Red Dragon. I just love the performance of Anthony Hopkins! Every role he plays, specially in the Dr. Lecter's role, he's so unique, stylish, and charismatic and this character suits him so much! I can't think of anybody who could be this brilliant as Hannibal Lecter. Even though he's the cannibal in the character, you cannot hate him even for the split of a second and you just got to admire him and never get enough of his dialouges!
In between the commercial times i was reading articles and this new book(which is so so good:) ). Came across several hadiths & traditions of the Prophet (saw) that i just have to share. The following are some sayings of Rasulallah (saw) that has been read over and over - yet when we come across them in books or articles they always bring such enlightenment and freshness to the heart as if are being read for the first time...
1. In relation to faith and morality:
"The man who has these three habits is a hypocrite even if he observes fast, offers prayers, performs umra (pilgrimage), and calls himself a Muslim: when he talks he speaks untruth, when he makes a promise he does not keep it, and when he is given something in trust, he commits dishonesty." -( Muslim ).
2. Poor man on the Day of Judgement:
Who is poor ? One day the Prophet asked his dear companions whether they knew who was poor. They answered that poor was one who had no dirham or dinar (money)' He said:
"In my Ummah, the poor is that man who would appear on the Day of the Judgment before Allah; he had offered prayer; he had paid Zakat ;he had observed fast; but he would have abused somebody, he would have falsely accused some one; he would have unauthorizedly taken some one else's property; he would have murdered some one; would have hit some body. All his virtues would be given to his victims. If his Virtues are finished before his wicked deeds are finished, then the errors and sins of the victims would be given to him and he would be thrown into the Hell.'' (Muslim)
Such a man is really poor. His condition is like that trader who has goods worth one thousand rupees but he is a debtor for two thousand rupees. How can such a man be called rich ? Source: http://www.islamfortoday.com/character.htm
3."Charity (sadaqah) is due upon every joint of a person on every day that the sun rises. Administering justice between two people is an act of charity; and to help a man concerning his riding beast by helping him on to it or lifting his luggage on to it is an act of charity; a good word is charity; and every step which you take to prayer is charity; and removing that which is harmful from the road is charity." (reported by Abû Hurayrah (radiyAllâhu 'anhu) )
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"They were youths, yet mature youths, their eyes fresh and free of evil, their feet refrained from approaching falsehood and futility. They sacrificed and expended themselves in worship and in withholding themselves from sleep. They sold their souls which were to pass away for souls which would never die. Allâh saw them in the latter part of the night, bending their backs, reciting the Qur'ân. Whenever one of them came to an Ayah mentioning Paradise, he would weep, longing for it. Whenever he came upon an Ayah mentioning the fire he would groan out of fear, as if the Hell-fire were directly in front of him. The earth devoured their knees their hands and their foreheads. They joined exhaustion in the night with exhaustion in the day. Their colour becoming yellowed and their bodies emaciated through standing long in prayer and frequent fasting – whilst they regarded their own actions to be negligible before Allâh. They fulfilled their covenant with Allâh and attained Allâh's promise." - Jamarah Khutabil 'Arab (2/475) of Ahmad Zakiyy Safwat.
May Allah (swt) help us become one of them and let us all hasten to resemble them inshaAllah.... Ameen!
In between the commercial times i was reading articles and this new book(which is so so good:) ). Came across several hadiths & traditions of the Prophet (saw) that i just have to share. The following are some sayings of Rasulallah (saw) that has been read over and over - yet when we come across them in books or articles they always bring such enlightenment and freshness to the heart as if are being read for the first time...
1. In relation to faith and morality:
"The man who has these three habits is a hypocrite even if he observes fast, offers prayers, performs umra (pilgrimage), and calls himself a Muslim: when he talks he speaks untruth, when he makes a promise he does not keep it, and when he is given something in trust, he commits dishonesty." -( Muslim ).
2. Poor man on the Day of Judgement:
Who is poor ? One day the Prophet asked his dear companions whether they knew who was poor. They answered that poor was one who had no dirham or dinar (money)' He said:
"In my Ummah, the poor is that man who would appear on the Day of the Judgment before Allah; he had offered prayer; he had paid Zakat ;he had observed fast; but he would have abused somebody, he would have falsely accused some one; he would have unauthorizedly taken some one else's property; he would have murdered some one; would have hit some body. All his virtues would be given to his victims. If his Virtues are finished before his wicked deeds are finished, then the errors and sins of the victims would be given to him and he would be thrown into the Hell.'' (Muslim)
Such a man is really poor. His condition is like that trader who has goods worth one thousand rupees but he is a debtor for two thousand rupees. How can such a man be called rich ? Source: http://www.islamfortoday.com/character.htm
3."Charity (sadaqah) is due upon every joint of a person on every day that the sun rises. Administering justice between two people is an act of charity; and to help a man concerning his riding beast by helping him on to it or lifting his luggage on to it is an act of charity; a good word is charity; and every step which you take to prayer is charity; and removing that which is harmful from the road is charity." (reported by Abû Hurayrah (radiyAllâhu 'anhu) )
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"They were youths, yet mature youths, their eyes fresh and free of evil, their feet refrained from approaching falsehood and futility. They sacrificed and expended themselves in worship and in withholding themselves from sleep. They sold their souls which were to pass away for souls which would never die. Allâh saw them in the latter part of the night, bending their backs, reciting the Qur'ân. Whenever one of them came to an Ayah mentioning Paradise, he would weep, longing for it. Whenever he came upon an Ayah mentioning the fire he would groan out of fear, as if the Hell-fire were directly in front of him. The earth devoured their knees their hands and their foreheads. They joined exhaustion in the night with exhaustion in the day. Their colour becoming yellowed and their bodies emaciated through standing long in prayer and frequent fasting – whilst they regarded their own actions to be negligible before Allâh. They fulfilled their covenant with Allâh and attained Allâh's promise." - Jamarah Khutabil 'Arab (2/475) of Ahmad Zakiyy Safwat.
May Allah (swt) help us become one of them and let us all hasten to resemble them inshaAllah.... Ameen!
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