IF (ONLY) YOU WERE BORN AS A STAR!!!

Dear sons/daughters of the soil,

Did you ever think about this possibility? If you were born as a star? What would have you done then?

God Almighty whose Proper Name is Allah, created the Stars and all things including humans. If any human being thinks being an athiest is ok, then this question will give him/her enough clue to decide their place in the sight of God Almighty Allah.

As is well known, the stars follow a particular course in their orbits. That is because the creator has set them on that particular course. If you doubt every thing, then there is no remedy for such a disease. For example, if someone falls sick, and you help him/her get healthy, then you will provide him/her with medicine etc but the person should have to take it with trust.

One can't go on nagging about anything and everything. When it comes to Allah's Book -Al Qur'an, you can try to find out faults but Qur'an speaks to the reader saying that it is from the Almgihty Himself. You have complete and full authority to check it completely, like you check your medicine before consuming it for many things to be sure about its validity, originality etc. After all, it's your life. You must be well concerned about that.

When you apply any kind of rigorous test to Holy Qur'an, the answer you get is that it is not man made but it's the word of Allah, revealed through His Arch Angel Gibreel or Gabriel (peace be upon him) from Almighty Allah, the Lord, God and Creator of all to Final Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him).

But to accept this Truth, you need courage and you should shed your bias against Allah, Qur'an and Islam.

Those who are not ready to accept the light of God, will remain in darkness because if you leave Allah, then there is none who can Guide you. The stars are set in motion by Allah and they follow His laws only. They were created millions of years before (only Allah knows how old they are?).

At that time, no humans were existing and if you were to be a star then, you would definitely have been following the laws of Allah, for sure. But now you are born as a human being, you are using your freedom either to believe HIM (Almighty Creator ALLAH) or Deny HIM. But the result will be as per your decision. Allah will give His Judgment on the Day of Judgment because that is His Authority and Will. We can't stop Allah from imposing His Will and Authority. Just think about Weather. It could be anything tomorrow; Sunny, hot, rainy, snowy, cloudy, partly cloudy, hazy, windy, visit by a surprising tornado, Tsunami, etc. Who decides all these? The earth, seas, stars, the sky? or Allah Alone? Allah says He does it (all affairs happening in the Universal System are as per His Plan and Will) and we have to believe it. We know Allah is All Powerful and is having complete control on the Universe and its affairs.

But for human beings, He has given a loose rope upto the extent set by Himself (like a shepherd allows his herd of cows or sheep to graze the grass in a certain area of a meadow or green grassy land). What ever we do, they are recorded by Allah and there is a system set by Him. Our Rewards for good and evil would be given by Allah on the Day of Judgment.

Look for example: If some one touches a live Electric wire, he/she will have instant effect and it may cause even death! But when man stays inside Allah's Shariah Laws, he or she are safe and once they try to graze the others lands, then the problem starts. If the Shepherd allows his cattle or sheep to graze on your land (which is adjacent to his land, you certainly feel irritated, outraged, annoyed among so many other things! You will contemplate of taking action against the shepherd for trespassing into your land, whose owner you are.

So people think by breaking Allah's (Shariah) Laws they can be safe for sure. But It's not true. Because they are breaking the boundary set by Allah, they will face the trouble and the above two examples are sufficient to grasp why Allah has given a certain set of laws for governing human society and the individuals (the laws are until the end of the universe, like the laws of the universe, the gravitational laws, the laws of forces, etc are set by Allah since long back and will stay on until the end of the world. Because if these laws are to be wrapped up, then that is the end of the world. Those people who do not like Islamic laws, who demand that Islam, Islamic Shariah laws and muslims be expelled from the lands (whether in America, Europe, Asia or Russia are making demands for their own demise because that can happen only when they are ready to commit harakiri enmasse).

That will never happen because Allah is Governing the Universe, the countries, lands and seas and His WILL and Decision will rein supreme. People, leaders, armies will come and go like the wind, but Allah is there since ever and will be there for ever.
Presidents change, leaders change, but Allah will be there for ever...Once again to make it sure to all, Allah will be there for ever and Islam is sent by Allah until before the the end of the world. When there will be no single person is a Muslim or when not even a single believer of Islam is alive on the earth, when there is no one person to say "Allah" "Allah", Then afterwards ALMIGHTY ALLAH will bring the end on those people who will be the worst kind of people living on the face of the earth that time and they will face the Terrible Punishement of the Hour.

(Note:End of the world events that will come all of a sudden and in such forms as the breaking of stars, planets and other celestial bodies, flying of mountains like a wool particle, breaking out of the seas and oceans and other water bodies from their boundaries, terrible earthquakes etc on a Friday morning just when people have had started their daily routine of sale and purchase and other house hold chores and so on. A pregnant woman will deliver her baby due to the impact of the blast resulting from the Blowing of the Trumpet by Allahs's Angel on the Appointed time by Allah Himself).

This is why we muslims try to help others to convince them about the True path of God, through Holy Qur'an and call them to Islam, the approved religion of Allah. Islam is surely for the benefit of all mankind, like the earth is for all people (to benefit from it and not to harm it).

Envirnomentalists always talk about preserving the earth and environment. People now know how much it costs humanity if we harm the earth and the environment. So we must also ponder over harmful acts and anti Islam propaganda done by TV, News media, some individuals and political parties. We all must convince them that by such acts ultimately harm is done to us humanity only. You can not defeat Allah, you can not kick out muslims from your countries because Allah will bring upon you the unforeseen consequences for that. It's in the interest of all to know Allah and live with humility in His Sight. "Be on the Good BOOKS of Allah, that is the Single Most Achievement of your life".


May we muslims wish good to all men and women of the Single Human Family?

ISLAMIC EDUCATION AND ISLAMIC COURSES

Ladies and Gentle men,

Welcome to this part of my blog world. It is about learning Islamic ideology. There are several things one can be aquainted with regarding Islam. The horizon is vast and unlimited.

You will interact with a wonderful,amazing world of Islamic knowledge which is also soothing to heart and mind.

Suppose you attend to a party at your friends place and he or she serves you with all kinds of fruits that are available in the market and you will be very happy to taste each and every one of them, right? You will surely express your delight after having tasted them to your host in words and feelings. But do you know your host is not the producer nor creator of these fruits. He or she has just bought them from the market. God Almighty has created these things for us and it's our turn to thank Him for what He has given to us.

Similarly, the highest blessings and GIFT of Allah is ISLAM. If you could be so happy after eating some fruits, what happiness would it bring to you once you start getting to know the knowledge from Allah Himself, about His Quran where He directly speaks to you and then the words of the Holy Prophet Mohammad-peace be upon him who is the LEADER OF ALL PROPHETS OF ALLAH AND THE WHOLE MANKIND FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE THE END OF THE WORLD. So never ever underestimate him. Do not consider him as just like another person. He is the Prophet of God which was confirmed by the people who lived in his town and the country (in makkah and madina cities where he lived 1,400 years before, in today's Saudi Arabia).

They saw him doing the miracles, they believed and recorded his words and deeds and that are recorded in the Holy books called as Hadith Books or the Traiditions of Prophet Mohammad -peace be upon him. (note: He explained to us the Quranic teachings and commands of God in detail and how to act upon them. And Hadith also includes his commands, approvals and sayings which are the necessary requirements to understand the Religion of God Almighty Allah called as Islam.

One can't just go as per Qur'an because Prophet Mohammad also spoke and did something in his 23 years of Prophetic mission and while you accept Allah's words (Holy Qur'an), there is no sense in denying what the Prophet Mohammad did and spoke about which were momrized and recorded in other forms by his noble companions about whom we are not allowed to talk silly things instead we have to respect them because Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) instructed us to do so.

Who can dare talk against Allah and Allah's Prophet Prophet? Unless he or she is such a stupid person? We care for the words of Allah and His Prophet Mohammad and leave those who speak against them or contradict them whether they bear muslim names or are out of Islam until Allah's word of punishment overtakes them telling them what it's like to talk nonsense about Allah and His Prophet (peace be upon him).

They make caricatures of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) for celebrating their freedom of thoughts and expression. Can't they do this to father and mothers? Can't they draw the caricatures and cartoons of their pope and priests and bishops? Can't they draw the caricatures of their police chief, their teacher, their school principal, their ex-wives or girl friends? Why can't? Do it then if you are so ardent supporter of your free speech rights? Don't you know that Prophets of Allah (including Jesus) are above your free speech rights? Because now they have dared to touch fire, the burning experience will seize them and Allah is with those who do good and stand for Him, His Prophets and His Religion Islam. Those who fight Allah can show that by doing so but that is an excercise that will last for a few days or years in this world or until they meet Allah at the time of Death which is sure to come from Allah.

Allah is giving them chances and waiting to see if they will realise their faults but however none is out of His Reach of His power and judgment.

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As per the above website Islamiccourses.com, they say: we try to follow a saying attributed to Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him): "Acquire knowledge, it enables one to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to heaven. It is our friend in the desert, our company in solitude and companion when friendless. It guides us to happiness, it sustains us in misery, and it is an ornament amongst friends and armor against enemies."

There is more to Islam. The beauty of Islam will be visible to you when your heart is on the same frequency as that of Islam? What do you mean by that? Just listen to Holy Qur'an, especially in the silence of a night, listen to some one recite this and see how it effects your heart. It's as if the verses of the Holy Quran directly touch your heart. Do you need special effects...???? Read more and more Quran in Arabic (the Original) or its translation in any language to know more.

Holy Quran & Islam are for the brave people. The timid ones can't take and survive the attacks of enemies of Islam. One who dares face this only can come into Islam and live inside the fort of Islam. The fort of Islam is safe because Allah is the protector of Islam and the believers will have the Blessings in this world and after death where there is a permanent life....Its not 50 years or 70 years like in this world, its not even million years but its never ending life....What more you can ask for????

Hijab or Women's Security & Moral Cover, Scarf etc

The latest interesting news coming out of Turkey is as follows:-

Turkey votes to lift headscarf ban:-
February 10, 2008 (Safar 3, Hijra year 1429 or second month of Islamic Calendar-year 1429 Hijri)
Turkey's Parliament vote on charter change to relax a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves in universities.

If you are a justice and truth loving person, you will standout for them. Just think now, who has more right on women? Is it Allah Almighty Who Created women and men or the Secular Government, it's police and military? What right these people have to decide the rights of all people (including those who voted a government to power and who didn't, but the government is to take care of the rights of all people and otherwise it will create a situation like in Kenya today or Somalia).

Now in Turkey, secularists are being marginalised day by day and they are shouting like anything by using media and all other means. But it will not work against Islam and Islam loving men and women.

Before anyone (who did this great crime against women folk) imposed the ban on Hijab and Islamic values in Turkey, Turkey was a great power and in many ways it was ahead of other european countries. Turkey lived with Islam for hundreds of years and there was no ban on Islamic practices by men and women. But once the misguided folk who got the opportunity to get power in Turkey due to the weakness and the situation created by its participation in world war I, they successfully led Turkey away from Islam. But as Turkish people were Islam loving and they always cherished Islamic values. All the evil attempts of the evil people in power in almost 70 years in Turkey couldn't remove Islam from Social and Political Scene.

Islam today has rebounded maginificently and the secularists who are aliens inside Islamic society and Turkey soon have to take shelter in some other place or surrender to Allah and bring glory to themselves and their nation.

The Government under Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has done a marvelous job and as an Islamic personality, he should do more to uphold Islam. We want to ask you readers, what will a communist party do if they come to power in any country? Surely they will implement communist party rules! So when a country like Turkey which is full of muslims, it must live according to Islamic Shariah Rules and our women will wear any kind of dress that requires to cover their hair and the body as per Islamic laws. Because you can't cheat the world by saying that you are muslim and then implement anti-Islamic laws in your country.

How absurd,ironic and pathetic that Turkish people lived under secular anti-Islamic way of life and tolerated it for 70 years, which is utterly unbelievable!!! A horrible crime done by the enemies of Islam on our Muslim Ummah, the community of our Noble Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him). Enough is enough. Next time if you want to follow a line, then follow the line of our Great Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) because your success and salvation is on this path. Don't be a scape goat of secularists who neither created you nor they give your daily bread or food. Don't allow anyone to make you a slave of their tacticts and isms. Its only Allah who is the owner of our body, soul and everything (I mean He is the only Master) and we are all His Slaves. SAY NO TO MENTAL OR ANY KIND OF SLAVERY TO TAGHOOT OR FALSEHOOD FORCES THAT TRY TO FORCE YOU TO DO AGAINST ALLAH'S WILL AND SHARIAH LAWS AND THEN YOU WILL ALSO GET PUNISHED FROM ALLAH FOR THEIR TREACHERY AGAINST GOD ALMIGHTY ALLAH. Beware of the enemies of Islam and spread awareness about this...

"We will end the sufferings of our girls at university gates."
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Turkish Prime Minister

We hope only good for them at this jucture.

Let's tell you that IT IS ALLAH WHO IS THE RULER OF THE WORLD AND HE WANTS US TO RULE NOT AS PER YOUR WISHES BUT AS PER HIS WISH AND THE LAWS AND GUIDANCE -THAT IS ISLAM. PROPHET MOHAMMAD IS OUR LEADER AND WE ARE ONE (ISLAMIC) NATION UNITED UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP AND PROPHETHOOD. REAL SUCCESS IS IN ISLAM AND ALL OTHERS ARE MIRAGES. NOT ONLY THAT, YOU WILL BEAR THE BURDEN OF OTHERS FOR MISLEADING THEM FROM ALLAH'S PATH AND THE PUNISHMENT FOR THIS IS BURNING IN EVERLASTING HELL FIRE. ARE YOU COMPROMISING YOUR SAFETY AND SALVATION FOR SOME MISGUIDED LEADER WHO OPPOSES ISLAM?

Islam in the United States

Islam can grow anywhere because Islam is natural and more over it is from Almighty Creator Allah who created all the continents and the people of all color. Even though Islam reached late to Americas like the White people (British/Irish for example)it has started gaining ground in a rapid pace. Its no wonder, in the years to come, Islam will march past in a rocket speed not only in America but all parts of the world, Allah willing (Insha Allah).

Allah is the ONLY Lord and God of all lands and He is neither an Arab God nor an English people's God. He belongs to all people. He is yours when you are his. Allah's proofs are everywhere. He rains water on America and the same water rains on Africa and Asia. If at all there were to be different Allah's for each and every country and Island on the earth, then there would have been total chaos. The formula of water -H2o), an organic compound or an inorganic material, gas, carbon dioxide, oxygen etc shows that Allah is the only ONE GOD & CREATOR Who Created them with PERFECT KNOWLEDGE AND A SINGLE FORMULA.

Look at the eyes of the people. A surgeon or a Physician who studies in Africa can work on the eyes of an american, diagnose disease of the american eyes and vice versa. A russian doctor finds it no difficult to operate upon an American Eyes or vice versa because the knowledge they studied in the Branch of Medicine does not differentiate the human beings. It does not teach that eyes of the Americans have one more extra part or function or different from Russians. Its not like the case of Car engines manufactured by different car companies. Like Toyota manufactures its engine with its own technology and Mercedes or BMW would have their own technologies which are patented/copyrighted, intellectual properties. so you will find lot of variations and you need company trained personnel to carryout the particular repair and maintenance jobs (we are talking about the automobile workshops run by authorized agents of the respective brands or manufacturers).

But in the case of Allah's creation, His design is similar in all the eyes of human beings every where on the earth except that the eyes of Japanese may look small and other asians eyes look somewhat bigger comparatively. But does it change the functionality or the basic "engineering design" of Allah?

The above points were necessitated to mention because people wonder when they come across the news that such and such person in America accepted(converted/reverted) to Islam and some of the non muslims think it an abominable and horrible act on the part of a white male or a female!!! How come???? We talked about the Allah's Glorification and His relevance, His "finger print" in our lives by the above arguments. Then there is nothing to worry about or be terrified if some one accepted (converted/reverted) or embraced Islam. This is only to quench your heart that there is nothing malicious or a scandal in someone becoming a Muslim or crossing over to Islam. You are safe in the Hands of Allah because its Allah Who Protects you day and night (and in the Fort of Islam you are always safe given by by Allah for all mankind for ever. Death is to come at any time. But death itself is not an end. There is everlasting life after death and if you are with Allah here in this life, you will be with Him in Heaven as well in the Hereafter).

Let us now talk about terrorism and Islam. Its Islam and muslims who have suffered untold miseries through out the world for the last 70 years in the Arab lands, Asia and other parts of the world by colonial powers and their armies and stooges. In Iraq millions of people have suffered and millions were forced to migrate due to the late Iraqi ruler and his government and the american invasion of Iraq. Americans have suffered in more than different ways and no muslim will support the cause of terror and injustice against even the enemies. Islam does not have permanent enemies because today the one who is enemy could be a friend tomorrow and that is the basic policy of Islam. The people who are inside Islam are from different tribes and if it were not for Islam, they would have been having no common ground to hold them together and would have been warring and cutting the necks of each other. But its Islam, from the Mercy and Blessings of Allah that it holds 1.3 billion people together except a some acts of aggression and bloodshed that has become common now a days due to so many reasons. One reason could be utter poverty and state of mind in which they are living where there is a situation of utter helplessness and frustration. Islam is capable of preventing bloodshed and chaos and bringing justice, prosperity, safety and security for all. But the first step should come from the people themselves and muslims and non muslims are no exception to this rule. But Alas, it should have been from Muslims that they should have been showing the world how just Islam is by their noble acts and words. But today quite unfortunately lot of people are not listening to Islam and people act freely based on their own convictions which are not sanctioned in Islam, like suicide bombing. If that is true Islam,written in our books, you would have found lot of people leaving Islam. But in truth Islam is not like that as what these horrible humans are doing against each other. There is a very good network of malicious propagandists on the net and in the news media, tv and other formats who are destroy Islam by constant feeds of false and baseless accusations against Islam. We muslims urge them to look at Islam, keep it separate from what some suicide bombers are doing because they are not Islam. Islam is in the Holy Qur'an and the Hadith of our Noble Prophet Mohammad who was sent as a Mercy to all the worlds and the Leader of all the mankind.

So we are always commanded to uphold justice as per Islam. Justice is equal to Allah fearningness in Islam. Its the part of Taqwa (God fearingness but in fact Taqwa has more broader meaning and application).

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Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) had a clear mission and mandate from Allah, the Lord of all people and the countries and Allah took upon Himself, safeguarding Prophet Mohammad(pbuh) as Allah says in the Holy Qur'an, so that Prophet Mohammad did not lose heart and stop spreading the message of Allah:

"O Messenger, deliver that which had been revealed to thee from thy Lord; and if thou do not, thou hast not delivered His message. And Allah will protect thee from all men. Surely Allah guides not the disbelieving people. " Holy Qur'an chapter no. 5: verse no.67.

The Hadith of the Prophet Mohammad (S):

Bukhari (Hadith Book) Volume 9, Book 88, Number 242 says:

Prophet Muhammad s.w. said: "While I was sleeping, I saw myself (in a dream) performing Tawaf around the Ka'ba. Behold, I saw a reddish-white man with long hair, and water was dropping from his head. I asked, "Who is this?' They replied, 'The son of Mary.' Then I turned my face to see another man with a huge body, red complexion and curly hair and blind in one eye. His eye looked like a protruding out grape. They said (to me), He is Ad-Dajjal." The Prophet added, "The man he resembled most is Ibn Qatan, a man from the tribe of Khuza'a. "

Note: Dajjal will be the name of the person who is antichrist and jews will believe him and he will be killed by Eisa or Jesus (Alaihissalam -peace be upon him) after his second arrival. He will claim himself as God and show false miracles to people and thus he will have a large following.

Bukhari (Hadith Book) Volume 9, Book 88, Number 245:

Prophet Muhammad s.w. said, "No prophet was sent but that he warned his followers against the one-eyed liar (Ad-Dajjal). Beware! He is blind in one eye, and your Lord is not so, and there will be written between his (Ad-Dajjal's) eyes (the word) Kafir (i.e., disbeliever)."


Bukhari (Hadith Book) Volume 9, Book 88, Number 241:
Narrated Abdullah bin Umar (Abdullah ibn Umar was the son of Second Islamic Khalifa or Caliph Syedna Umar who heard this from Prophet Mohammad-peace be upon him and as recorded in Bukhari Hadith Book):

Allah's Apostle stood up amongst the people and then praised and glorified Allah as He deserved and then he mentioned Ad-Dajjal, saying, "I warn you of him, and there was no prophet but warned his followers of him; but I will tell you something about him which no prophet has told his followers: Ad-Dajjal is one-eyed whereas Allah is not."
(Here you have to see the importance of the words used : "Ad-Dajjal is one-eyed whereas Allah is not". Why? Because Dajjal will claim himself as God and deceive people by his magic and other powers (like apparently showing to people who believe him and tell them their wish that their dead parents be brought back to life so that they could see them and be happy, and he will do this but in fact the devils who are hidden would also be his followers and they perform this apparent act of the dead parents of so and so (of the requisitioner)coming out alive from the earth. But Allah is the Only God and He has no defects and the likeliness of anything created.
Dajjal is human and he can not be God and also his one eye is not ok, he has a defect but still some people will be deceived including the jews who will be his followers. He will do lot of chaos on the earth, travel length and breadth of the earth and harming the people in different ways.

Bukhari (Hadith Book) Volume 9, Book 88, Number 246:
Narrated Abu Sa'id (this is another companion of the Prophet Mohammad who heard the following from Prophet Mohammad's sermon):

One day Allah's Apostle narrated to us a long narration about Ad-Dajjal and among the things he narrated to us, was: "Ad-Dajjal will come, and he will be forbidden to enter the mountain passes of Medina. He will encamp in one of the salt areas neighboring Medina and there will appear to him a man who will be the best or one of the best of the people. He will say 'I testify that you are Ad-Dajjal whose story Allah's Apostle has told us.' Ad-Dajjal will say (to his audience), 'Look, if I kill this man and then give him life, will you have any doubt about my claim?' They will reply, 'No,' Then Ad-Dajjal will kill that man and then will make him alive. The man will say, 'By Allah, now I recognize you more than ever!' Ad-Dajjal will then try to kill him (again) but he will not be given the power to do so."

Ad-Dajjal or Dajjal will be having some powers given by Allah which are not given to other people. Allah has created mankind for a test. He sent the True Prophets and Prophet Mohammad was the Final Prophet and Messenger of Allah-peace be upon him, by whose arrival and mission, Allah completed His Religion Islam. Quran was revealed in 23 years (from his age of 40 years to 63 years until just before his death)from Allah to him,while he was in Makkah, Madina and some other places of Arabia.

Dajjal is the most dangerous person to be born. But he will be having no power to enter the cities of Makkhah and Madina which are the two of the holy places in Saudi Arabia for the world muslims. The third holy place is Jerusalem. One young muslim of good and strong faith in Islam will challenge Dajjal and it will be shown in his case and act that Dajjal is not God and the falsehood of Dajjal's claim will be shown to the people. He will leave surroundings of Madina city and move to other place.

Then on wards, the Dajjal will be on the run and his days are numbered until he will challenge Jesus in Damascus but Jesus will chase him and he will be finally killed by Jesus, in a place called "Ludd" which is in Israel near an airport.

Here one note: Jesus (peace be upon him) was on a Prophet Mission as Allah's Prophet when Allah sent him first time about 2,000 years before to the lost sheep of Israel (Israil, the children of Prophet Yaqoob or Jacob who was the son of Ishaq -the second son of Prophet Ibrahim or Abraham. Through Prophet Ishaq (Isaq) Jews originated. Through Prophet Ismael, the first son of Prophet Ibrahim, Arabs originated.

Prophet Ibrahim lived in Iraq (Babylone) and his father was a priest in the court of the King. The King and his father were idol worshippers. But Allah had chosen Ibrahim to be his Prophet and so he was not mislead by the customs and religion of the time and those people.

Please visit this website to know more about Prophet Ibrahim or Abraham:

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Peace be upon all the Prophets of Allah.

Volume 9, Book 88, Number 249:
Narrated Zainab bint Jahsh:

That one day Allah's Apostle entered upon her (house) in a state of fear and said, "None has the right to be worshipped but Allah! Woe to the Arabs from the Great evil that has approached (them). Today a hole has been opened in the dam of Gog and Magog (arabic: Yajooj and Majooj) like this." The Prophet made a circle with his index finger and thumb. Zainab bint Jahsh added: I said, "O Allah's Apostle! Shall we be destroyed though there will be righteous people among us?" The Prophet said, "Yes, if the (number of) evil (persons) increased."

Bukhari (Hadith Book) Volume 9, Book 88, Number 248:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:

The Prophet said, "Ad-Dajjal will come to Medina and find the angels guarding it. So Allah willing, neither Ad-Dajjal, nor plague will be able to come near it."

From the above Hadith or holy saying of Noble Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) we understand that Dajjal and plague can not enter the Madina City .

Bukhari (Hadith Book) Volume 9, Book 88, Number 238:
Narrated Al-Mughira bin Shu'ba:

Nobody asked the Prophet as many questions as I asked regarding Ad-Dajjal. The Prophet said to me, "What worries you about him?" I said, "Because the people say that he will have a mountain of bread and a river of water with him (i.e. he will have abundance of food and water)" The Prophet said, "Nay, he is too mean to be allowed such a thing by Allah"
(Note: but it is only to test mankind whether they believe in Allah or in Ad-Dajjal).

Other great signs of the end of the world:

Bukhari Volume 9, Book 88, Number 235:
Narrated Abu Huraira (this is one of the companions of Prophet Mohammad who was very close to Prophet Mohammad in Madina and has recorded numberous hadiths):

Allah's Apostle said, "Soon the river 'Euphrates' will disclose the treasure (the mountain) of gold, so whoever will be present at that time should not take anything of it." Al-A'raj narrated from Abii Huraira that the Prophet said the same but he said, "It (Euphrates) will uncover a mountain of gold (under it)."

As per a hadith, Euphrates which is a river in Iraq and Nile in Egypt are the two out of four rivers originating from the Heaven and flowing on the earth. Other two rivers are in the Heaven itself.

Bukhari Volume 9, Book 88, Number 237:
Narrated Abu Huraira:

Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established

(1) till two big groups fight each other whereupon there will be a great number of casualties on both sides and they will be following one and the same religious doctrine, (this could be the world warI and WWII and/or the 8 year war between Iran & Iraq (1980-88).

(2) till about thirty Dajjals (liars) appear, and each one of them will claim that he is Allah's Apostle, (note: lot of false prophets appeared after the Final Prophet Mohammad-peace be upon him, we do not know so far how many have exactly appeared).

(3) till the religious knowledge is taken away (by the death of Religious scholars)

(4) earthquakes will increase in number (note: how many earthquakes are taking place daily, is noteworthy)

(5) time will pass quickly, (note: yea, you wonder when you receive your salary check)

(6) afflictions will appear, (note: which is going on now)

(7) Al-Harj, (i.e., killing) will increase, (note: we can see how people are killed daily in hundreds or thousands of numbers around the world)

(8) till wealth will be in abundance ---- so abundant that a wealthy person will worry lest nobody should accept his Zakat, and whenever he will present it to someone, that person (to whom it will be offered) will say, 'I am not in need of it, (note: even though wealth is quite common, even people in the age group 20-30, there are millionaires, but still poverty and hunger are quite rampant now. This time when people will not be available to accept wealth given as charity, will be after Islam becomes dominant on the earth in future and the Islamic rulers or Caliphs (Khalifas) will distribute the accumulated wealth among the needy and the poor. Thus the people will be happy and lead a life of self contentment and worldly desires will be of secondary concern while morality and spiritual values of Islam will be reigning supreme).

(9) till the people compete with one another in constructing high buildings, (note: which is quite visible now).

(10) till a man when passing by a grave of someone will say, 'Would that I were in his place'. (Note: this is also true in some conflict ridden countries where people are hardest hit and great is the suffering due to war and bloodshed).

(11) and till the sun rises from the West. So when the sun will rise and the people will see it (rising from the West) they will all believe (embrace Islam) but that will be the time when: (As Allah said,) 'No good will it do to a soul to believe then, if it believed not before, nor earned good (by deeds of righteousness) through its Faith.' (Quran: Chapter 6 Verse 158) (note: this is yet to happen).

And the Hour will be established (so quickly and unexpected that) while two men spreading a garment in front of them but they will not be able to sell it, nor fold it up; and the Hour will be established (so quickly and unexpected that) when a man has milked his she-camel and has taken away the milk but he will not be able to drink it; and the Hour will be established (so quickly and unexpected that) before a man repairing a tank (for his livestock) is able to water (his animals) in it; and the Hour will be established (so quickly and unexpected that) when a person has raised a morsel (of food) to his mouth but will not be able to eat it."

From the above hadith of Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him), we come to know that the end of the world will come all of a sudden even as people were busy in their markets doing routine sales (like selling a garment in a shop) or attending to the needs of the domestic animals etc..It could be that the day has just begun and people were just starting their daily routines....when the GREATEST EVENT OF DAY OF JUDGMENT/RESURRECTION WOULD START UNFOLDING AS THE FIRST PART, by the beginning of destruction of universal system....Allah knows the best...


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"WE ARE ON A CONTRACT ON THIS EARTH"

Perhaps the Title seems to be quite interesting to you. What mean to say is this: Now let us take one example: If you are a boss of construction company and you own some land, one day you will come up with an idea to utilise your land, to build some building, a park or a factory on the land you own.

To begin with, you will plan meticulously in relation to the commercial viability, financing, marketing and safety aspects and so on, as per the governming regulations in your area.

You will use/hire manpower and machineries to do the work or to fulfill your plan or project. This could be a long term plan benefitting for a few decades to come.

The workers hired by you, will have to do the work exactly as per your design and plan and wishes and for that only you will pay to them as per agreement between you and them. You will not pay or tolerate a person who would go against your plan. There will be dispute in such a case.

Now it's time to come back to our title of this post: We are on contract on this earth.

Allah Almighty Who Created the earth and the universal system, sent us on this earth to do a project work. The project is to SERVE or WORSHIP Him and Him only by believing in Him fully as our ONLY God and the Creator, Sustainer, giver of food, security, safety, wealth, loss, pain, health, happiness, success, failure, Heaven, Hell and so on.

THE MEANING OF ISLAM:

The Medium to achieve this Project and its success is His Guidance: ISLAM.

"Islam" is an Arabic word and connotes submission, surrender, and obedience. As a religion, Islam stands for complete submission and obedience to Allah and that is why it is called ‘ISLAM’. Through this complete submission only, a soul, a person, a state, a society, a nation and the whole world will get peace. To get this peace, you have to sacrifice a little bit at some times or too much at the time of hardships which are all tests from Almighty Allah to see how much you love Him and stick strongly or hold strongly to His Religion or you leave His path of Islam and go to some worldly isms and lose the track...?

So Islam is a litmus test to see what you really are? Whether you belong to Allah Who Created and sustained you or you belong to the people who neither created you nor sustain you? You will go to Him after death (in the "soul" form) and on the Day of Judgment you will be standing before HIM only who judge your actions and life that you lived on this earth. (Note: here on interesting point to observe is that when some one smokes a cigarette, you can see the smoke going up in the air. When a man dies, his or her soul is taken up to Allah by the Angels to present it to Him and for His further command regarding this soul).

No person will save you on that Terrible Day (The Day of Judgment), if you left Allah and took others for God and worshipped them instead (instead of Allah).

The Qur’an uses "DEEN", usually translated as “religion,” in different contexts with various meanings, of which the most important and common are: judging, rewarding, punishing (QURAN Chapter No.1:Verse # 4, 51:6, 82:18-19, 37:53, 56:86); way, law, constitution (12:76); penal law (24:2); the collection of moral, spiritual, and worldly principles, system, way of conduct (33:5, 40:26); servanthood, obedience (16:52); and peace and order (8:39).

Every religion of the world has been named either after the name of its founder or after the community and nation in which that religion took its birth. For instance, Christianity takes its appellation from the name of its prophet Jesus Christ; Zoroastrians from its founder zoroaster; and Judaism, the religion of the Jews, from the name of the tribe Judah (of the country of judea) wherein it took its birth. Similar is the case with other religions. But not so with Islam. This religion enjoys the unique distinction of having no such association with any particular person or people.

"Ibrahim (Abraham) was not a Jew nor a Christian, but he was an upright (man), a Muslim; and he was not one of the Polytheists." Qur'an Chapter No. 3:67 verse.

Since the beginning Allah taught to man only one religion and the first man and the Prophet Adam got from Allah the Message of Islam only. There were 124,000 prophets of Allah sent to all parts of the world, to different tribes and nations (in different countries and different times). Allah mentions the name of some of the Prophets in the Holy Quran. Because Holy Quran is for our Spiritual and Moral guidance in all spheres of the life, Allah does not have to give us a list of all Prophets, list of things He created on the earth and in the universe, inside a star, an ocean and sun or moon etc. Allah's concern is that we are guided rightly on His Straight Path ("Sirat Al Mustaqeem" as in the first chapter of the Holy Quran, for which Allah taught us to ask for Guidance to be lead on this path chosen by Him for Mankind for all the times)and thus we become successful in this life and the permanent life of hereafter (after death)by doing the deeds or actions which are as per His Wish and Will.

There are so many people out there, who know nothing about Islam and then try to misguide by saying that what we have to learn from a riligion which only came 1,400 years ago? Our Religion and our scripture is older than Islam? So who cares to think about Islam as a religion for us? We will follow the religion of our ancestors or which we were born into (like Hinduism, Budhism, Christianity, Communism, Athiesm, Satanism, Sikhism, Jainism etc)!!!

But because Allah is the owner of our bodies and souls (if you deny it, here is a challenge: When you fall sick, and if none can cure you and even the physicians leave it to God, how come people can deny Allah's power over our bodies and the souls? When a person dies people around him or her just keep watching but they see him/her die-his/her soul or life is going out of his body at that time which is due to the Command of Allah only and none else. Why can't they just catch it and fix back into the body? SO WHO'S THE BOSS NOW? Who's the God of all who has control over all the things He Created? He says that He created all with His Pure Religion in the mother of the womb and came out to this world as a Muslim (with Islam). But the truth is that you were converted to their religion. For example, in a custody case of children during a divorce proceedings of parents, the court may order the kids to be given to either father or mother. The father can make them like himself, where he belongs to. If he is a drinker of alchohol, he will make them taste a pint or two and thus they will be moulded likewise. If he is a jew, he will manage the matters according to his beliefs and the kids will get accustomed to the jewish customs and guidance (that is if he follows the jewish religion and if simply says on the paper that he is a jewish but not at all practising it, then the kids will also be carefree and we don't know what they will do when they grow up...).

If the mother gets the custody and let's say that she is having some beliefs, she will nurture her cause and bring about her children according to her beliefs and taste.

But Allah gave only one Religion and Guidance or Direction to our Lives, that is ISLAM. All the prophets of Allah preached Islam; Adam, Noah, Ibrahim or Abraham, Ismael, Ishaq, Moses, Dawood or David, Sulaiman or Soloman, Yahya or John, Eisa or Jesus and finally Mohammad(S.A.W) the Last and the Greatest Prophet, the Leader of all Prophets of Allah and mankind. (peace be upon all Prophets of Allah).

You can't argue against Allah and bring about a justification for your argument which is contrary to what Allah says in the Holy Quran. Because Allah is Allah and you are what you are, you know and all people know around you. Do you remember when you were just born and came into the world, you saw the people around you, how much did you cry? and how loudly? Only mother's milk kept you silent at times, then and later? Do you know who gave this milk to your mother? That was Allah Almighty who is the ONLY King, Deity, God,Creator, Protector, Sustainer, giver and taker of the things and so on....All these Allah's merciful acts, glorious gifts seem to be having no effect on you, or you seem to forget easily, how come??? How come that you say no to Allah's words and arguments. How come you listen to others (other human beings) and pass a judgement on Islam, Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) and Allah who Created you and sustained you? It's time to think...think about Allah and gain His Blessings...

No sacraments or procedures are prescribed for a person who likes to join the faith of Islam. One needs only to pronounce or to believe in the contents of the Declaration of the Faith:

"I bear witness that there is no God but the Almighty God Allah and that Mohammad is a messenger of Allah."

You may ask why is such a pronouncement sufficient for the admission of a person into the faith of Islam?

Answer is when a person states that he/she believes in Mohammad, as a Prophet and Messenger of Almighty God Allah, he/she actually states that he/she believes in all what Mohammad introduced, did and in all his teachings. This includes all the Qur'anic teachings, all the deeds and all the sayings of Mohammad (peace be upon him or in Arabic Sallallahu alaihi Wasallam), whether in the matter of belief or in the area of practice. In Islam, to achieve peace in this world as individuals or as a collective society and countries and in the hereafter as in individual status, we have two Basic Sources and they are:

1: Holy Qur’an which is Allah’s words preserved in different forms since the time of Prophet Mohammad –peace be upon him and

2: The Hadith collections which are nothing but the collections compiled by Hadith collectors and compilers (example: Imam Bukhari, Imam Muslim and others) of reports recorded by the Sahaba (male and female) Muslim companions of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) who lived in his time and came into contact with him, heard him saying such and such things or saw doing him something on different occasions. These reports were recorded either on different materials and also memorized by the future generations by heart. One of the wonderful things about Arabs was that they had God given splendid memorable capacity and that seems to be one reason why God chose Arabs to carryout and carryforth His Message of Living and Success to all mankind for all the coming generations until the end of the world. Allah Himself took responsibility of preserving the Holy Qur’an and Islam. So none can destroy Islam. Anyone attempts to destroy Islam will himself be destroyed because as is sure, none will be able to win against Allah who is the Most Powerful and Almighty Creator of all.

SO WE ARE ON A MISSION (A DEFINITE CONTRACT, A DIVINE MANDATE FROM ALLAH)ON THIS EARTH.




will be continued...

How to respect yourself?

Boyz & girlz, are all of you ok?, It's quite freezing out there in some parts of the world and some where at the corner of the globe, it's wind doing lot of havocs. We care for all and pray for all. May Allah give all peace and protection.
In relation to today's post, first of all we have to know how to respect ourselves and this process starts by knowing how to respect God and this again starts by knowing who is God and so on...

It's like a chemistry equation:

Knowing God+Respecting Him = Knowing ourselves + respecting ourselves.

I hope the following websites will show you how to get to the bottom of this topic.

(because we don't have to write a lot about this subject, as you can see the fact that we don't have to reinvent the circle or zero. Already lots of great souls have put their inputs and knowledge from the holy scriptures in relation to this topic thus making the job of all of us very easy).

Following authentic websites are recommended for the above purpose: