GEMS: Journey of Faith (Part 17)

GEMS: Journey of Faith (Part 17)
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◆ Seek your afterlife but do not forget about your share in this dunya.

Surah Al-Qasas, Verse 77:

وَابْتَغِ فِيمَا آتَاكَ اللَّهُ الدَّارَ الْآخِرَةَ وَلَا تَنسَ نَصِيبَكَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَأَحْسِن كَمَا أَحْسَنَ اللَّهُ إِلَيْكَ وَلَا تَبْغِ الْفَسَادَ فِي الْأَرْضِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ الْمُفْسِدِينَ

But seek, with that (wealth) which Allah has bestowed on you, the home of the Hereafter, and forget not your portion of legal enjoyment in this world, and do good as Allah has been good to you, and seek not mischief in the land. Verily, Allah likes not the Mufsidun (those who commit great crimes and sins, oppressors, tyrants, mischief-makers, corrupts).

(English - Mohsin Khan)

◆ When you ask something from this dunya, tie it with the akhirah. Example: Ask for provision so that you can spend in the way of Allah.

◆ Keep insisting on your dua.

◆ Everytime you wake up, make dua with your goal.

◆ You can have dunya in your hand but dunya should not have you in its hand. Remember that Prophet Sulayman a.s. was very rich and powerful but he was among the best slave of Allah SWT.

◆ Shaytan will always deceive you with the "all or nothing" trick. He will make you think that you can't do something good if you don't have at least an hour or more of free time. Dont be tricked! You can always do something beneficial in even 5 minutes!

◆ Consistent small deeds do make a difference in your life. A man memorizes a line of Quran per day and manage to memorize the whole Quran in 6 years.

http://sunnah.com/urn/1293430

◆ Prioritize your goals. Write down what you need to do. Do what's important first.

◆ Try this! Donate from your pocket without knowing how much you put in. This is one of the groups of people which will be under the Shade of Allah on the Day of Resurrection.

http://sunnah.com/riyadussaliheen/1/659

GEMS: Journey of Faith (Part 16)

GEMS: Journey of Faith (Part 16)
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◆ Say good or remain silent. Just because you have an opinion, it doesn't mean that you have to say it out.

http://www.sunnah.com/bukhari/78/163

◆ The brotherhood in faith is stronger than in blood.

◆ When you are merciful to each other, Allah will be merciful to you.

http://www.sunnah.com/riyadussaliheen/6/49

◆ Always make dua for others as it will bounce back to you.

http://www.sunnah.com/riyadussaliheen/17/30

◆ When you love your brother or sister, tell her. Brother to brother. Sister to sister.

http://www.sunnah.com/riyadussaliheen/1/383

◆ Do not mock people. Are you making fun of the creations or the Creator?

◆ Everyone deserves to get knowledge. Share it! Spread the khayr!

http://www.sunnah.com/abudawud/26/20

◆ No other religion impose on the importance of seeking knowledge as our deen. Knowledge will be the reason why this ummah will prosper.

GEMS: Journey of Faith (Part 15)

GEMS: Journey of Faith (Part 15)
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◆ Reflect on the seed, how it can grow back when planted into earth even if it is hundred years old. We will also sprout back from our death from the end of our tailbone.

http://www.sunnah.com/abudawud/42/148

◆ When you have firm belief in the hereafter, it will make you strong, motivates you to strive for goodness and stay away from sins.

◆ If you are conscious of the hereafter, no disturbance will bother you.

◆ A Muslim who bows down to Allah, can stand up to anything. True believers are the strongest people on earth.

◆ Just because Allah knows everything, it doesn't mean that He doesn't give us choices. He knows what will happen and if things were to be done differently, then how it will be.

◆ The choice is ours. We can't blame qadr for our actions.

◆ You can't claim that you love someone for the sake of Allah if you don't make dua for them.

◆ Give rights to your health, to your family and to Allah. Balance it all. Politely decline people's request in order to follow your schedule.

http://sunnah.com/riyadussaliheen/1/149

◆ Seek 70 excuses for your brother and sister when you are in doubt about them. Shaytaan will always make the situation seems worse than what it really is.

◆ Intentionally denying The Creator is the worst thing one can do.

GEMS: Journey of Faith (Part 14)

GEMS: Journey of Faith (Part 14)
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◆ Surah Al Fatihah is a dua. You are having a beautiful dialog with Allah SWT when you recite Al Fatihah. So don't rush into it. Savour the moment.

http://www.sunnah.com/qudsi40/8

◆ As long as your dua is not a sin, it will be answered. Allah is All Hearing.

http://sunnah.com/muslim/48/127

◆ Surah An Noor talks about modesty and chastity but in the middle of the surah, Allah SWT said that "He is The Light of the sky". Theme of surah is how to gain the light of Allah SWT. One of the ways is attained through modesty and guarding your chastity.
Surah An-Noor, Verse 35:

اللَّهُ نُورُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ مَثَلُ نُورِهِ كَمِشْكَاةٍ فِيهَا مِصْبَاحٌ الْمِصْبَاحُ فِي زُجَاجَةٍ الزُّجَاجَةُ كَأَنَّهَا كَوْكَبٌ دُرِّيٌّ يُوقَدُ مِن شَجَرَةٍ مُّبَارَكَةٍ زَيْتُونَةٍ لَّا شَرْقِيَّةٍ وَلَا غَرْبِيَّةٍ يَكَادُ زَيْتُهَا يُضِيءُ وَلَوْ لَمْ تَمْسَسْهُ نَارٌ نُّورٌ عَلَىٰ نُورٍ يَهْدِي اللَّهُ لِنُورِهِ مَن يَشَاءُ وَيَضْرِبُ اللَّهُ الْأَمْثَالَ لِلنَّاسِ وَاللَّهُ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمٌ

Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His Light is as (if there were) a niche and within it a lamp, the lamp is in glass, the glass as it were a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither of the east (i.e. neither it gets sun-rays only in the morning) nor of the west (i.e. nor it gets sun-rays only in the afternoon, but it is exposed to the sun all day long), whose oil would almost glow forth (of itself), though no fire touched it. Light upon Light! Allah guides to His Light whom He wills. And Allah sets forth parables for mankind, and Allah is All-Knower of everything.
(English - Mohsin Khan)

◆ Only in Surah As Saffaat that Allah doesn't mention the west after mentioning the east. That's because Allah SWT is talking about the unstoppable rise of Islam. Thus only the side where the sun rises is mentioned.
Surah As-Saaffat, Verse 5:

رَّبُّ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا وَرَبُّ الْمَشَارِقِ

Lord of the heavens and of the earth, and all that is between them, and Lord of every point of the sun's risings. (None has the right to be worshipped but Allah).
(English - Mohsin Khan)

◆ Wisdom is to put things at the right time and the right place, using the right method.

◆ The life and character of Rasulullah SAW itself is enough proof that he is indeed the Messenger of Allah.

◆ One of the challenges faced by children and youth is hearing about good manners but not seeing it. We must demonstrate Islam by putting it into practice!

◆ The first stage of Hereafter is in the grave, after you die.

◆ Some signs of the Last Day are apearing right before our eyes. Fear Allah!

http://sunnah.com/bukhari/2/43

http://sunnah.com/muslim/53/63

◆ Sleep is the minor death and should make us reflect on death. The dream that we have is different from one another and the emotion in it is physical. The effect of it is also physical. Just like how whatever we will experience in lying in the grave is physical.

GEMS: Journey of Faith (Part 13)

GEMS: Journey of Faith (Part 13)
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◆ Have we done our job (practising Islam) the best that we can or are we just complaining?

◆ Our words and conduct may become the reason for someone to be interested in Islam or digusted with Islam. We are representing our deen whether we like it or not, whether we want it or not.

◆ You will not be successful nor creative enough in the field that you don't like. You must pursue the field that you like.

◆ Read Ayatul Kursi after your solah as Rasulullah SAW said that whoever does this, then nothing will come between him and Jannah except for death.

◆ Believers should have the attitude of wanting to excel in halal matters better than others. Competitiveness in doing good deeds!

◆ When you lose something precious, always ask Allah SWT to replace it with something better.

“When a calamity strikes one of you, then let him say: ‘Indeed, to Allah we belong and to Him we shall return. O Allah, I seek reward with You for my affliction, so reward me for it, and replace it for me with something better (Innā lillāhi wa innā ilaihi rāji`ūn, Allāhumma `indaka aḥtasibu muṣībatī fa’jurnī fīhā wa abdilnī minhā khair).’

http://www.sunnah.com/tirmidhi/48/142

◆ You are on a battlefield against shaytaan. Always wear your armour! Recite your adzkar and dua in the morning and evening.

◆ Those who turn away from Allah's reminder, their life will be miserable no matter how much is in their possession.

GEMS: Journey of Faith (Part 12)

GEMS: Journey of Faith (Part 12)
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◆ We are living in this dunya temporarily and do not know when our passport will expire.

◆ There are messengers who had very few followers or only one follower and even had no follower at all. It was not their fault that their people do not accept Islam, rather it is the people's fault for rejecting the truth. Generally, people do not like to accept the truth that they consider strange.

◆ Do not care about numbers of people rather focus on the quality of our work. Result is from Allah.

◆ If you obey most people on earth, they will indeed lead you astray
Surah Al-Anaam, Verse 116:

وَإِن تُطِعْ أَكْثَرَ مَن فِي الْأَرْضِ يُضِلُّوكَ عَن سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ إِن يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا الظَّنَّ وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَخْرُصُونَ

And if you obey most of those on earth, they will mislead you far away from Allah's Path. They follow nothing but conjectures, and they do nothing but lie.
(English - Mohsin Khan)

◆ Allah SWT told Prophet SAW that most people even if you care for them, won't believe.
Surah Yusuf, Verse 103:

وَمَا أَكْثَرُ النَّاسِ وَلَوْ حَرَصْتَ بِمُؤْمِنِينَ

And most of mankind will not believe even if you desire it eagerly.
(English - Mohsin Khan)

◆ The truth is strange so only few people will accept it. The number of believers compared to disbelievers are like a white hair on a black bull during the Day of Judgement. Be among the few!

http://sunnah.com/bukhari/81/119

◆ Commit yourself to Allah, not to people.

◆ Your happiest, best moments should be the moments of your obedience to Allah SWT.

◆ Even if you are alone, do not compromise your deen regardless the pressure.

◆ Sadly, people now leave the sunnah but do the bidaah.

The beautiful hadith of Yaum Al Mazeed

The beautiful hadith shared by Ustaz in last night's Quranication class 

As reported from the truthful worthy of credibility (Muhammad S.A.W.) and is found in Sahih, in the Sunans and Massanids, reported by Jarir, Suhayb, Anas, Abu Huraira, Abu Musa and Abu Said, (May Allah be pleased with them all). 

And listen on the Day when the caller will call out, ' O people of Paradise, Your Blessed and Exalted Lord wants to meet you.  So come to visit!  They will say : 'At your service'. They will rise and hasten to visit.  They will have najaib (special vehicles) and will leave in a hurry until they will arrive to the valley of 'Al-Afyah'.  That is their point of meeting as they will all be gathered there. Not one of them will leave.  The Lord Almighty will ask that His Throne be brought and put in the place of the meeting.   

Then they will set up platforms in Nur (for the people of Paradise), and platforms of pearls, and platforms of aquamarine, and platforms of gold and silver.  And the lowest of them will be sitting on hills of musk.  And there is no one lower among them.  They will see the owners of the chairs (the more righteous) above them in due happiness.  Until they are all well established and reassured of their place, the caller will call out 'O people of Paradise, you have a meeting with Allah.  He wants to reward you.'  They will say, 'What? Has he not instructed our scales [good deeds] made our faces shine,  and made us enter Paradise and saved us from the Fire?'   

And while they stand, a light (unlike no other) will illuminate through Paradise.  They will raise their heads.  Then when the All-Compeller, Perfect in His Majesty with His Exalted names is present above them, He will say, 'O people of Paradise, Salamun Alaikum (may the peace and blessings be upon you).   They will not have anything better to say than 'Allaahumma antassalaam wa minkassalaam tabarakta ya zaljalali wal-ikram.(O our Lord, Allah! You are Peace, from You comes peace, Blessed is the Owner of Majesty and Honour!   

And the Lord, the Majestic, to Him belong all Blessings will then say to them, 'O people of Paradise.' This is the first thing they will hear from Him, 'My servants who obeyed Me while they did not see Me, this is Yaum al Mazeed (Day of Increase),' So they will all come together on a single word which is 'we are satisfied, be pleased with us.  He will say 'O people of Paradise, if I was not happy with you, I would not have let you enter into My Paradise.  Today is Yaum al Mazeed, so ask of Me.'   

They will all unite on a single word, which is 'show us Your Face so that we may see You'  And so the Lord Almighty will remove the veil [between Him and the people of Paradise] .  He will manifest Himself in all His glory, and the brilliance of His Nur, they will forget all the benefits they had seen (from their time in Paradise).  And had Allaah not willed, they would have burned by the brilliance of His Nur.  And there will be no one there but each person will meet with his Lord!.  Then He [Allaah] will say, 'Do you recall the day when you did such-and-such (sin)?'.  They will then remember the sins committed in dunya [standing before Allaah]. They will respond, 'O Lord do you not then forgive us?'   Allaah will say, ' Only thanks to My forgiveness have you arrived at this grade'