A simple Duaa

“O Allah! Make my love for You the most beloved thing to me, and my fear for You the most fearful thing to me, and remove from me all worldly needs and wants by instilling a passion of meeting You, and when You have given the people of the world the pleasure of their world, make the coolness of my eyes (pleasure) in worshiping You.”

The Divine Image - William Blake

To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love

All pray in their distress;

And to these virtues of delight

Return their thankfulness.

For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love

Is God, our father dear,

And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love

Is Man, his child and care.

For Mercy has a human heart,

Pity a human face,

And Love, the human form divine,

And Peace, the human dress.

Then every man, of every clime,

That prays in his distress,

Prays to the human form divine,

Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.

And all must love the human form,

In heathen, Turk, or Jew;

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell

There God is dwelling too.

Wake up and Live!

“A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset. When you wake up, take a second to think about what a privilege it is to simply be alive and healthy. The moment we start acting like life is a blessing, I assure you it will start to feel like one.”

“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy,

because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless

and they don’t want anybody else to feel that.”

-Anonymous

“Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as accomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”

-Marc Hack

Gaining the Love of the Maker

There are people who might not appear to be the best of Muslims but their struggle to gain the love of their Maker is far greater than those who may appear to be the best of Muslims.

-Mufti Menk

Hadith

“A father gives his child nothing better than a good education.”

-Muhammad SAW

(Tirmidhi)

Hardships are curing us

We ask God to cure our hardships without stopping to consider that our hardships are “curing us”.

-Yasmin Mogahed

....that you may find Tranquility!

وَمِنْ ءَايَاتِهِ أَنْ خَلَقَ لَكُمْ مِنْ أَنْفُسِكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا لِتَسْكُنُوا إِلَيْهَا وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَكُمْ مَوَدَّةً وَرَحْمَةً إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ

“And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquillity in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought.”

(Ar Rum:21 )

الْخَبِيثَاتُ لِلْخَبِيثِينَ وَالْخَبِيثُونَ لِلْخَبِيثَاتِ وَالطَّيِّبَاتُ لِلطَّيِّبِينَ وَالطَّيِّبُونَ لِلطَّيِّبَاتِ أُولَئِكَ مُبَرَّءُونَ مِمَّا يَقُولُونَ لَهُمْ مَغْفِرَةٌ وَرِزْقٌ كَرِيمٌ

“Women impure are for men impure, and men impure for women impure and women of purity are for men of purity, and men of purity are for women of purity: these are not affected by what people say: for them there is forgiveness, and a provision honourable.”

(An Nur:26)

Having Good Thoughts

If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

-Roald Dahl

Beauty of the Butterfly

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

-Maya Angelou

Adjusting the Correct Weight

In the same way that when travelling we ensure that our baggage does not exceed the airline weight, we should also ensure that we do not carry excess baggage into the Hereafter.

The correct weight is achieved through prayer, forgiving others, letting go of sin & other negative issues that we have held onto for too long, cleansing our hearts from jealousy, envy, hatred & evil thoughts, assisting others, improving our character & abstaining from foul language and oppression.

It is important to do weight check before arriving at the ultimate “scale of Justice”.

-Mufti Ismail Menk

To be Better

Every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year of every decade of our lives is an opportunity to be better than the previous one.

-Mufti Menk

7 Mistakes Parents Make

·      Worrying about their child too much

·      Comparing their child to others

·      Pushing their child into activities they don’t want to do

·      Living their life through their child

·      Not letting their child work out his or her ow problems

·      Not teaching their child manners

·      Not listening to their child

Strange World, isn't it?

We live in a strange world where the poor walk miles to get food, and the rich walk miles to digest food.

-Mufti Menk 

Quote

When you see a female dressed in a manner that is unaccepted Islamically, do not for a moment think that she is lower than you spiritually. If you do that, you are lower than her. Believe me, that is the teaching of your religion. She might have a link with her Creator that you do not know about. She might have a heart that is tons better than yours. She might have one weakness that is outward and you have 50 weaknesses that are hidden.

-Mufti Menk  

Excellence

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence , therefore is not an act but a habit.

-Aristotle

To Yearn for Jannah!

He breaks you to build you. Deprives you, to give you. This pain in your heart was created to make you yearn less for this life, and to yearn more for Jannah.

-Yasmin Mogahed

Listening to the Quran

Listening to the Holy Quran for three hours everyday enhances your immune system, protects your heart and brain and reprograms your cells.

Sound waves of recitation of Holy Quran activates body cells and cure illness, especially, heart attack and cancer.

وَإِذَا قُرِئَ الْقُرْءَانُ فَاسْتَمِعُوا لَهُ وَأَنْصِتُوا لَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ

“So when the Quran is recited, then listen to it and pay attention that you may receive mercy.”

(Surah Al’Araf: 204)

Just listen to recitation of Sarah Al-Kahf by Mishary Al Afasi! Its so beautiful. And make a routine of listening to the Quran so that you may receive God’s mercy. For indeed, He is the Merciful.

Good Relationships

“Good relationships just don’t happen. They take time, patience, and two people who truly want to be together.”

I think the most important thing in any relationship is ‘compromise’. When you really love someone, then you should be ready to compromise things as much as you can for that person. Maybe you love chocolates and you don’t want to share it with your little brother, but its love when you do share it irrespective of the fact that he had eaten his. Its love when you give your favorite dress to your sister just because you think she likes it.

And its love when you bring breakfast to bed for your wife without any reason. Its love when you smile at the poor who can give you nothing back. Its love when you listen to the depressed. Its love when you stay silent in front of an old person, who is continuously yelling at you for apparently no reason. Its all LOVE. These small deeds, how insignificant they may be, just deepen their hearts for you. It makes them give you a portion of their hearts . In which, there is no hatred, but love that is long lasting! And what is better than loving each other whilst knowing each other’s weaknesses? 

A Mercy for the Believers

In Surah Yunus, ayat 57, the Quran says:

يَاأَيُّهَا النَّاسُ قَدْ جَاءَتْكُمْ مَوْعِظَةٌ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ وَشِفَاءٌ لِمَا فِي الصُّدُورِ وَهُدًى وَرَحْمَةٌ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

O mankind, there has to come to you instruction from your Lord and healing for what is in the breasts and guidance and mercy for the believers.

Originally shared by Quanita Rizvi, Al-Huda Institute, Canada.

“Bismillah

Assalamoalaikum wrwb

Few weeks ago my daughter, who is in first grade had a science fair at her school.  We decided to do an interesting experiment.  Our Hypothesis was that listening to Qur’an has physical effects just like listening to music has physically visible effects.  To prove our point we took an apple which also has 60-70 percent water content like human bodies.  We cut the apple into half, put each half in a zip lock bag and then for seven days played Qur’an for one half of the apple and music to another half of the apple .. Both apples were kept on room temperature.  The results were amazing and so our hypothesis was accepted.

Please look at the attached pictures.  The first picture is of the apple when it was freshly cut. Second picture is after 3 weeks of the experiment.

JazakAllah Khiaran”