Thursday, February 02, 2006

The Messenger of Allah (Peace be upon him) said:>>>>

“Allah will give shade, to seven, on the Day when there will be no shade but His. These seven categories of people are:

a just ruler;

a youth who has been brought up in the worship of Allah (i.e. worships Allah sincerely from childhood);

a man whose heart is attached to the mosques (i.e. to pray the compulsory prayers in the mosque and in congregation);

two persons who love each other only for Allah's sake and they meet and part in Allah's cause only;

a man who refuses the call of a charming woman of noble birth for illicit intercourse with her and says: I am afraid of Allah;

a man who gives charitable gifts so secretly that his left hand does not know what his right hand has given (i.e. nobody knows how much he has given in charity);

and a person who remembers Allah in seclusion and his eyes are then flooded with tears.” (Bukhari)

Sunday, January 15, 2006

The Hand of God

Ever wondered what these five prayers are? "NAMAZ" as we call them. Fajr, zuhr, asr, maghrib, isha... These five different words are the names of five different prayers at five different times of a single day read in five different ways.

If we grasp someone's fingers, it means he can push us or we can pulled. But all five fingers are not alike... they are not the same size... they are made with the same method.. just like all five distinct prayers are read with the help of the same method.

Ever pondered upon the fact that whenever we offer our prayers, all our sins are washed away each time we perform abolution (wazu) and most humbly submissive our selves to our lord leaving all our tasks aside, taking out just 5 to 10 minutes to take our "BREAK FROM LIFE"? Our prayers are a break from our lives, they bring us back to reality, and life meets this reality.
Allah has blessed us with His five fingers, that if which we grasp, we can pulled towards Him and taken to the heavens He has built for us- His most fascinatingly Supreme Creation...