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i wrote behind the phrases. i hope i'm right in their translation. salam.
Thanks Palestine!
wa `Alaykum As-Salām Sister Nazihah.
May Allah s.w.t make you among the righteous. Ameen
Thank you for your kind wishes.
i wrote behind the phrases. i hope i'm right in their translation. salam.
May Allah s.w.t make you among the righteous. Ameen
When you say 'struggle against the self', do you mean one's desires and temptations, or that it's a struggle against our own mundane nature in order to seek unity with Allah?
Every new-born child is born in a state of fitrah.
Well, I don’t know what to say. That was uncomfortable to watch.
That gave me a feeling in the pit of my stomach which was really bad.
The woman Coulter, said, ‘I think we need to be a little less worried about civilian casualties.’. Under no circumstances what so ever should any person in any war situation be ‘less worried’ about civilian casualties, on any side. Then again, this is something a decent Muslim understands well, according to what I have been learning.
That made me feel sick, that really was quite disgusting.
I can remember seeing what happened with the Bosnian men on the news when I was younger, and I found it pretty upsetting, although I didn’t really know what it was all about - it was a bad feeling to witness such misery.
The thing that I found most distressing about it, was seeing the British soldiers beating the young boys. I better reserve comment upon this particular matter.
Army privates aren’t exactly renowned for their intelligence, that’s why they’re called ‘cannon fodder’. Anyway I better reserve comment here before I say something against Islamic principles - so I won’t backbite, I’d rather say it to their faces.
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Then I was caused to wonder what the ‘fitna’ video was all about that this video was a response to. I was totally mortified. I know that the quotes from the Quran were taken right out of context, and without knowledge of the themes of the true path in general, but everything else I saw I was distressed and physically sickened by.
I actually interpreted the ‘transgressing apes’ when I found it in the Quran, as a description of those who adhere to the theory of evolution, not to Jews. The child abuse was - well, there just aren’t the words. Such a beautiful, innocent child.
I did not at all appreciate being surprised by being subjected to the Ken Bigley horror. I never, ever wanted to see that. I am now only too wary of telling anyone I am a Muslim, in case they have seen that most terrible of spectacles. I never wanted to see this, in the same way that I refused to watch the hanging of Saddam Hussein, I’m one of the few people in the world that had soul enough not to, because I am a good, decent, healthy, sane and rational human being - that’s what brought me to Islam. I take no pleasure in witnessing murder. I seriously question the mental health of those that do.
If a person who has seen that film of Ken ever collar me in the street and gives me a good kicking, and I don’t get chance to explain, I will not be able to blame them, after seeing that. I probably will get subjected to beatings for the things that people like that do, if not killed.
To think I was about to tell my family I was a Muslim. I don’t know about that now, I don’t know about that at all.
Those films have really got under my skin and into my nervous system, I don’t know how to describe how I feel now - I feel really lost, I have a horrible empty feeling of emptyness, and I felt so content before.
I’m feel like I have been hollowed out.
What Trials and Tribulations are expected to break out in the future?
The Holy Prophet has, therefore, informed the future generations of the events that shall occur in their times. Accordingly all books of Ahadith contain permanent chapters on Trials. In the Chapters all such Ahadith have been collated in which the Holy Prophet has informed of, and warned the people against, the tribulations expected to occur in the future. The Holy Prophet has said in a Hadith:
In the future trials will fall down into your houses like the falling down of the drops of rain water.
These trials have been compared to the drops of rain water because the trials will fall down on your houses in an unbroken succession one after another.
The Holy Prophet has said in another Hadith:
Very soon trials and tribulations will appear which will be like dark nights.
In other words, just as a man is not able to find his way in dark nights in the same way during these blinding trials people will not know what to do and where to go Those trials will encompass the entire society, leaving no place of shelter for the people. The Holy Prophet also taught the people a supplication to find refuge with Allah from these trials:
O Allah, we seek refuge with You from these apparent or hidden trials. This supplication was included in the Prophet's daily routine.
What is a Trial?
We should now try to understand the meaning of (Trial). we should also try to find out the teachings of the Holy Prophet for all of us to obey in order to remain safe from the harms of these trials. We are not aware of the real implications of this term, although we use it from morning till evening. This word has also been used in the Holy Qur'an many times. It has been mentioned in the Holy Qur'an at one place meaning that:
"... The creation of a trial is more grievous sin than murder...."
The meaning of Trial
The word (fitna or fitnah ) is an Arabic word the dictionary meaning of which is to find out the purity or impurity of precious metals like gold or silver by melting it on fire. Melting the metal on fire discloses the reality. For the same reason, it is also used to mean testing and examining something. Thus, a second meaning of this word is "trial". When hardships and misfortunes descend on a man his real worth and character are tested by his conduct and behavior under these trying situations. It is observed whether he bears these trying hours, days with patience makes a fuss and raises hues and cries. this testing is also called (Trial).
The word (Trial) as used in the Ahadith
The word d (Trial) has been used in the Ahadith to express a situation at any time. When the truth is obscure and it becomes very difficult to distinguish between good and bad, right and wrong and truth and falsehood. When such a situation arises, it is said that it is a time of trial. It is also a time of trial when sins, crimes and disobedience become rampant. In the same way to regard falsehood as truth and truth as falsehood and to put forward something as a proof which is not proof; these are forms of (Trial). For example, if you tell a person that such an act is unlawful and strictly prohibited, the person shall reply that the entire society, the whole world including Saudi Arabia is doing this act. In our times it has become a common practice that when an objection is raised to any act, the doer at once replies that he has seen the same act being done in the Saudi Arabia. This is also a (trial) to put forward some act or practice as a proof which is not at all a proof. In the same way we find that many groups and parties have sprung up in the city, each with its slogan and tenet and it is difficult to decide which is on the right path and which is on the wrong path. Truth and falsehood have thus become mixed up. All these fall within the definition of (Trial).
A quarrel between two parties is a (Trial)
It is also a case of trial when two Muslims or two Muslim groups fall out with each other so violently that they are ready to shed blood and commit murder and it is not known which of the two is right and which is wrong.
The Holy Prophet is reported to have said in a Hadith
When two Muslims begin to fight With each other with their swords, the murderer as well as the murdered will both enter Hell-Fire.
One of the Companions said to the Holy Prophet O Messenger of Allah It is understandable that the murderer shall go to Hell for murdering a Muslim, but why shall the murdered shall enter Hell? The Holy Prophet replied, saying: The murdered will enter Hell because he too had come out to fight with the intention of murdering his opponent but he did not succeed in his intention but his opponent succeeded in his intention. None of the two was fighting in the cause of Allah, but worldly benefit in the form of money or some political benefit. Both will, therefore, enter Hell.
Killing and robbing are Trial
The Holy Prophet said in another Hadith:
A time will come upon the people when there will be a great deal of a (confusion/disturbance). on being asked about he answered: It is killing and robbing, i.e., in those days these crimes will increase by leaps and bounds and human life will become meaner than that of mosquitoes and flies.
The Holy Prophet has said in another Hadith:
A time will come upon the people in which the killer will not know why he killed the victim nor will the victim killed know why he was killed.
Look at the conditions obtaining today in the society which fully confirms the truth of the Holy Prophet's prediction. This is as if the Holy Prophet was seeing these conditions with his own eyes.
Surely this is how We deal with Sinners. For they, when they were told that there is no god except Allah, would puff themselves up with pride. And say: ''What! Shall we give up our gods for the sake of a Poet possessed?''. No! He has come with the very Truth, and he confirms the Message of the Messagers before him. You shall indeed taste of the Grievous Chastisement - But it will no more than the retribution of the Evil that you have wrought - (37:34-39)
Can u contact somebody in the Mosque where u live and talk to Imam and tell him whats happening
Do u live alone ?
I think u getting all this wrong