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LOVE AND HATRED – PART 2

Posted in Religion, True Fact, War on May 11, 2013 | 1 Comment »

Men will not be able to obey all the orders of Allah in the way shown by the Prophet Muhammad saw and with the intention to please Allah, unless men have the love of Allah in their heart. This is known as having the true iman or faith towards Allah. Men will not be able to have the true iman or faith toward Allah unless men do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evil after reciting the Great Kalimah. When Muslims are not inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah, it means the Muslims have committed the greatest evil. The greatest evil of the Muslims must be prevented by inviting the Muslims to do the work of inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah and to remind the Muslims about the Great Kalimah and to invite Muslims to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils and to perform the five times daily prayers. It is obligatory (fardu ain) on all Muslim males and females to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils and to perform the five times daily prayers. It is also obligatory on some Muslims males (fardu kifayah)to do the work of inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah and to invite the Muslims to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evil and to perform the five times daily prayers with congregation (Jemaah). Both of the orders are obligatory to all Muslims and the obligatory is fardu kifayah and fardu ain. In Islam, it is only these two orders of Allah, which are obligatory to Muslims, and the obligatory is both of fardu kifayah and fardu ain. (more…)

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LOVE AND HATRED – PART 1

Posted in Religion, True Fact, War on April 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Allah has created us because He wants us to love Him. Allah gives us many orders to be followed by us with the intention only to please Allah until Allah is pleased with us. Allah orders us to love Allah, those who are loved by Allah and to love all the other creations of Allah. Allah has never order us to hate anyone, any race or any religion. Who are the peoples who are loved by Allah? The peoples who are loved by Allah are those who obey all the orders of Allah with the intention only to please Allah until Allah is pleased. How would we know that Allah loves a person? The peoples who are loved by Allah are those who have the quality of humbleness or tawa’dhu. Allah is Great. There is no one who is Great except Allah. A person who thinks that he or she is great is a person who is away from Allah and not loved by Allah. A person who is humble or tawa’dhu will have good characters. A person, through who, good come to other peoples is a good person. A person who always does good to other peoples, even to those who do evils to him or her is a good person. Good or bad comes only from Allah. Allah showers His blessing to the entire mankind through a man whom Allah has chosen to become the mean to spread His blessing to the entire mankind. The persons who are chosen to be the mean to spread the blessing of Allah to the entire mankind are known as the Prophets. Prophet Muhammad is one of the men who is chosen by Allah to become the mean for Allah to shower His blessing to the entire mankind and to the other creations of Allah. Allah has mentioned in the Quran with the approximate meaning; we have not sent you oh Muhammad except as a blessing to the entire mankind. What is mean by the words; a blessing to the entire mankind? The blessing to the entire mankind means is the correct lifestyle of the Prophet Muhammad saw, which when practiced by the entire men, will ensure men to have a life of blessing which is full of happiness in this world and the hereafter. (more…)

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CONFUSION BETWEEN SUNNAH & SUNNAT – PART 2

Posted in Religion, True Fact on April 3, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

With the permission of Allah in many of my previous articles, I have explained about the meaning of Sunnah. All the actions of our Prophet Muhammad saw are known as Sunnah. Sunnah is to explain the Quran. Quran and Sunnah are both from Allah. Quran is the words of Allah which expound the wishes of Allah and Sunnah is the actions of the Prophet Muhammad directed by Allah to explain all the actions which should be done by Muslims in order to fulfill the wishes of Allah. In other word, Sunnah is the actions of Prophet Muhammad saw to explain the Quran. Prophet Muhammad saw had left us the Quran and the Sunnah and whoever among the Muslims who follow the Quran and Sunnah, they will always be guided on the correct path. Hadis is the words of Prophet Muhammad saw which explain about Sunnah. Hadis could be a true Hadis or it could be a false Hadis but none of the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw is a false Sunnah. There are many Hadis which are false Hadis and Muslims should not be practicing on whatever mention in false Hadis. Quran was written during the times of Hazrat Abu Bakar only a few years after the demise of our Prophet Muhammad saw but Hadis was written about two hundred years after the demise of Prophet Muhammad saw. I think one good reason why they are so many false Hadis is because Allah did not promise to guard the sanctity of the Hadis as Allah has taken the responsibility to guard the sanctity of the Quran. (more…)

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CONFUSION BETWEEN SUNNAH & SUNNAT – PART 1

Posted in Religion, True Fact on April 3, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Many Muslims do not aware of the difference between the term Sunnah and Sunnat. Many Muslims think that the two words have the same meaning. Many Muslims know the word Sunnat but very few who knows and understand the word Sunnah. Many Muslims think that the word Sunnah also means Sunnat. When something is mentioned to be a Sunnah, many Muslims think that the Sunnah is also Sunnat to be practiced. When a practice is Sunnat, it means that the practice is not obligatory or Fardu to be practiced by the Muslims. A practice which is Sunnat can either be a practice which is recommended or highly recommended for Muslims to practice. Many Muslims men are having beard because they believe the practice of having beard is the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw. However there are many Muslims who do not know the Hukum of having beard is only Sunnat Muakkad or highly recommended to be practiced by Muslims. On the other hand according to the Indian Muslim who majority is following the Mazhab of Imam Hanafi, the practice of having beard is Wajib. However, the Hukum of Wajib in Mazhab Imam Hanafi is the same as Sunnat Muakkad or highly recommended practice in Mazhab Shafie. Some Muslims men are wearing turban and jubbah because they believe the practice is the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw. However many Muslims do not really know what the Hukum of wearing turban and jubbah is. The Hukum of wearing turban and jubbah is only Sunnat which is not Muakkad or recommended to be practiced by Muslims. There are some Muslims who are so particular in wearing turban and jubbah but they are not particular in observing the Sunnah which is Fardu or obligatory to be practiced by Muslims. (more…)

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DOA OR PRAYER- PART 2

Posted in Religion on April 2, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Many non-Muslims as well as Muslims want to have the God who is able to grant them whatever they want, the God who is able to serve them and the God who is able to solve their problems. Many non-Muslims and even Muslims believe that religion or God is only important when they have problems. They believe that the work of God is only to solve their problems. When men are having problems, men start to make doa to God which they think to be an act of worship to God. When men are not having problems, men will not make doa to God which means to many men as not performing an act of worship to God. Many non-Muslims as well as Muslims think that they do not need of God or religion when they have no problems. Many men in this world choose not to believe in God or to have any religion because they do not have any problems. Many men think and believe that God or religion is only important to those who have problems and they believe and think that God is synonymous to religion and religion is synonymous to problems and only those with problems will want to have God or religion. Many non-Muslims as well as Muslims believe that religion is about solving problems. (more…)

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DOA OR PRAYER- PART 1

Posted in Religion on March 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Allah orders Muslims to make doa. There is no one who can fulfill our doa except Allah. When we make doa we are obeying the order of Allah and when obey any order of Allah, our intention must be only to please Allah. When we do not make doa, we have disobeyed the order of Allah. When we have disobeyed the order of Allah, Allah will not be pleased with us. Allah orders the Muslims to make doa and we should make doa because it is the order of Allah and our intention of making doa is only to please Allah. Many Muslims are making doa with the intention their doa will be accepted by Allah. We usually will make doa only when we have problems and our intention of making doa is to solve our problems. In order to solve our problems we may have tried so many ways to solve our problems but in spite of doing so many efforts to solve our problems, our problems remain unsolved. When this happen only then we are convinced that there is no one who can solve our problems except Allah. When we are convinced that only Allah who can solve our problems then we will resort to prayers, reading of Surah Yassin, acts of charity and doa. We will only make doa to Allah when we are convinced that there is no one other than Allah who can solve our problems. When we make doa we want Allah to solve our problems. Our intention of making doa is to solve our problems. We usually do not make doa with the intention to please Allah. When we make doa with the intention so that our problems are solved by Allah, we are making doa without sincerity. When we are not sincere in making doa, our doa is not accepted by Allah. When our doa is not accepted by Allah, naturally our problems will not be solved by Allah. (more…)

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TRIP TO DANAU TOBA AND ACEH TENGGARA, INDONESIA

Posted in Dakwah, Religion, True Fact on March 3, 2013 | 1 Comment »

We took our flight to Medan in the morning of Friday on the first February 2013. Our destination was a small village of our friend, Diki, known as Lawe Loning Harapan in Aceh Tenggara of Northern Sumatra. Our friend, Diki was waiting for us at the airport of Medan and with him there were two vans which will take us to his village. According to Diki, the whole journey to his village will take about seven hours. When our vans were cruising along the winding roads from Medan to Aceh Tenggara we could realize how beautiful the roads in Malaysia are. Immediately I realized that Malaysians will only feel thankful to Allah over the bounties which are given to all Malaysians when they are made to travel along the winding roads in remote Indonesia and Cambodia. In many remote areas of Indonesia such as Bengkulu and Aceh Tenggara, all the roads are not well maintained and there are so many holes all along the roads. Although there were very few cars moving along the road but all of them were moving at a very slow speed. All the cars had to move at a very slow speed because there were so many pot holes on the roads which were filled with water. When our vans were cruising along the roads I could observe that there were also many heavy trucks which carry heavy loads of goods using the roads. I think the heavy trucks which carry the heavy loads of goods and together with the poor quality of the material used to make the road, had caused many roads in remote areas of Indonesia to have many pot holes. (more…)

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TYPES OF MEN IN THIS WORLD – PART 2

Posted in Religion on March 3, 2013 | 1 Comment »

Ahluliblis are those who do the work of syaitan. What is syaitan? Syaitan is the name of the work of inviting men to other than Allah or the work of inviting men to evils and forbidding men from good. What is evil? Evil means bad actions. What is a bad or evil action? When a person is unwilling to recite the Great Kalimah or after reciting the Great Kalimah is unwilling to obey the orders of Allah, that person is said to have done evils action. What is good? Good means a good action. What is a good action? When a person is willing to recite the Great Kalimah or after reciting the Great Kalimah is willing to obey all the orders of Allah that person is said to have done good action. What is the Great Kalimah? The Great Kalimah is the Kalimah which states that I bear witness that there is no God except Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. Whoever is doing the work of inviting men to other than Allah or inviting men to evils and forbidding men from good is doing the work of syaitan. Ahluliblis are either from among men or Jinns. Ahluliblis are occasionally known as syaitan. Ahluliblis or syaitan are the inhabitants of the hellfire. Ahluliblis or syaitan are the men and the women from among the human beings or Jinns who are under the command of Iblis. Iblis is the leader of those who do the work of syaitan. Ahluliblis or syaitan are not only practicing evils deeds but they are also inviting others to practice evils deeds. All the non-Muslims and the Munafikin in this world belongs this group of Ahluliblis and they will have no light either in their heart or in their faces. (more…)

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TYPES OF MEN IN THIS WORLD – PART 1

Posted in Religion on March 2, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Men are the creations of Allah. Allah has created men so that men will love Allah and become the lover of Allah. Allah wants men to become the lover of Allah. Allah wants men to obey all the orders of Allah with the intention only to please Allah until Allah is pleased with men. Allah is most merciful and compassionate. Allah introduces Himself in the Quran, as the most merciful and the most compassionate which is the meaning of the repeated verses in the Quran; Bismillah-hirrahman-nirrahim. Allah loves men, more than a mother loves her child seventy times. Allah had said in a Hadis Qudsi to ask men to make Allah as the purpose of men’s lives, to make Allah as the aims of men’s lives and to make Allah as men’s lover. Allah also said in the Hadis Qudsi, in case men are able to make Allah as the purpose of men’s lives, as the aims of men’s lives and as men’s lover, men will be able to obtain anything which men want to have in this world and the hereafter. As men, we should know, what is the purpose of our lives? In this Hadis Qudsi, it is clearly mentioned that the purpose of men’s lives is to become the lover of Allah. I still remember, when I was with Jemaah Tabligh, I was told by Sheikh Abdul Wahab who is one of the leaders of Jemaah Tabligh that the aim or purpose of lives of a Muslim is to do the work of Dakwah. He used to tell us and all other Muslims in the whole world that the work of Dakwah is the purpose of live of every Muslims. At that time, I used to think that he was correct and I also used to speak to others that dakwah is the purpose of our lives. At that time I used to follow the elders of Jemaah Tabligh almost blindly and it is only now I know that they are in the wrong path. What is understood by Sheikh Abdul Wahab who is one of the leaders of Jemaah Tabligh in my opinion does not come from the Quran and Hadis but it comes from the Iblis. The purpose of lives of a Muslims is to become the lover of Allah. (more…)

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