Excel Your Faith

Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “It is the excellence of a man’s faith that he gives up meaningless work.” [Tirmidhi, Ahmad]

We need to check all our activities and label them to see which belong to the category of meaningless. If the activity is not taking us towards a meaningful goal for any of the roles that arise from our ideology (e.g. Muslim, parent, son/daughter, self, breadwinner,da'ee, etc), then it would be to our advantage to replace it with more meaningful activity.

 Anything that does not bring us closer to Jannah and distance us from the Fire is meaningless in the long run, and will cause us to regret when it will be too late to realize why did we bother to waste your time with it.

Life is too precious to be wasted for worthless or meaningless matters. The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life -- i.e. akhira. Life is like a cash register, in that every thought, every deed -- like every sale is registered and recorded.

Life is not lost by dying; rather life is lost minute by minute, day by day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

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Do You Own World ????

Reported by Aisha (RA): Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said “The two rak’as before dawn are more valuable to me than the world and what it has.”
(Muslim)

A Muslim Submits....

Islam is submission. As Muslims we submit, surrender and hand over ourselves to the Divine command of Allah Ta‘ala and the perfect Sunnah of Nabi (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam). In our Imaan, we submit and surrender our intelligence and understanding to believe in Allah Ta‘ala and in the unseen, as explained to us by Nabi (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam). In our Salaah, we submit and surrender our physical limbs and place them down before Allah Ta‘ala. In fasting we submit and surrender our desire to eat and drink for the pleasure of Allah Ta‘ala. In Zakaat and qurbaani we submit and surrender our wealth for the pleasure of Allah Ta‘ala. In Haj we submit and surrender to the command of Allah Ta‘ala by sacrificing our health, wealth, time and homeland; and we present ourselves in the blessed lands in search of the grace and mercy of Allah Ta‘ala. A Muslim is an embodiment of submission.

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One into Ten

Reported by Ibn Mas’ud (RA): The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: “Whoever recites a letter from the Book of Allah, he will be credited with a good deed, and a good deed gets a ten-fold reward. I do not say that Alif-Lam-Mim is one letter, but Alif is a letter, Lam is a letter and Mim is a letter.”
[Al Tirmidhi]

Why is it that....??

Why is it that we know the purpose of our life yet we are not fulling the purpose of our creation?Why is it that we know we could die at any second yet we are not preparing for our imminent death?

Why is it that we know our life is short & temporary & that the Hereafter is for eternity yet we continue to invest everything into our short temporary life which can end at any second but neglect the Hereafter which will last forever?

These are questions we must keep asking ourselves because we have become truly deluded chasing a path that leads to a dead end rather than a path that will lead to eternal success.

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Where are You Bending Towards??

Following section is started as a reminder for myself first so that i could get the reality of this Duniya, to come out of  mundane acts and could make preparation for the return to Allah Ta'ala.Quote below are taken from the book written by Abdul Malik Al Qasim ' The Life of This World Is  a Transient Shade' and from other sources.May Allah Ta'ala make it easy for me and all to get our heart detatched from this Duniya and strive to earn our real goal ie Akhirah Ameen.

‘Amr Ibn Abdullah (radiyallahu anhu) said: "The life of this world and the Hereafter, in the heart of a person, are like the two scales of a balance, when the one becomes heavier the other becomes lighter." 

Ramadan Mubarak

As Ramadan have knocked at the door ,to welcome Ramadan and to make the most of every moment of it I will be off for this month. so im taking spiritual retreat  inshaAllah.

May Allah grant Barakah to all of us and make this blessed month a mean to adopt Taqwa and strengthen our Imaan Ameen.

Ramadan Mubarak