Pages

Subscribe:

April 10, 2013

Ablution (Wudhu) before Prayer



"O believers! when you stand for prayer wash your face and hands to the elbows, wipe your head and wash your feet to the ankles”
(Qur'an: 5:6)

Hadith:

Allah's Messenger said, The key to Paradise is prayer, and the key to prayer is cleanliness (Ablution).

How to perform Ablution:

1.First, make the Niyyah (intention) in your heart that this act of Wudu is for the purpose of preparing for Salah, and say: "Bismillah" (in the name of Allah).
2.Wash both hands up to the wrists (starting with the right hand) three times, making sure that water has reached between the fingers.

3.Take water with your right hand, put it into your mouth and rinse thoroughly three times.

4.Take water with your right hand, splash it into your nose and blow it out three times. (Use the left hand if necessary to help blow it out).

5.Wash your whole face three times repeatedly. (The whole face includes: the right ear to the left ear, and the forehead to the bottom of the chin).

6.Wash the right arm thoroughly from wrist to elbow three times, and make sure that no part of the arm has been left unwashed.  Repeat with the left arm.

7.Move the palms of the wet hands lightly over the head, starting from the top of the forehead to the back of the head, and passing both hands over the back of the head to the neck, and then bringing them back to the forehead.

8.With the same water, rub the grooves and holes of both ears with the wet index fingers, while also passing the wet thumbs behind the ears from the bottom upward.

9.Finally, wash both feet to the ankles three times, starting with the right foot.  Make sure that water has reached between the toes and covered the rest of the foot.

Hadith:

Allah's Messenger (pbuh) saying, 'If a man performs ablution perfectly and then offers the compulsory congregational prayer, Allah will forgive his sins committed between that (prayer) and the (next) prayer till he offers it.' "

Things that will break the Wudu:

1.Natural discharges: urine, stool, gas, etc.
2.Falling asleep.
3.Unconsciousness of any kind.

Hadith:

My uncle asked Allah's Messenger (pbuh) about a person who imagined to have passed wind during the prayer. Allah' Apostle replied: "He should not leave his prayers unless he hears sound or smells something."

March 15, 2013

Atheist vs. Believer of Allah (STORY)




A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of God.

Atheist (Barber): “I don’t believe that God exists.”


Believer: “Why do you say that?” asked the customer.

Atheist:
 “Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can’t imagine a loving a God who would allow all of these things.”

Believer: The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. 


The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt.
The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again.

Believer to barber: “You know what? Barbers are not exist.”

Atheist: “How can you say that?” asked the surprised barber. “I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!”

Believer: “No!” the customer exclaimed. “Barbers are don’t exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside.”

Atheist:
 “Ah, but barbers DO exist! What happens is, people do not come to me.”

Believer:
 “Exactly!”- affirmed the customer.
“That’s the point! God, too, DOES exist! What happens, is, people don’t go to Him and do not look for him.

February 7, 2013

Are you a Woman One who uses Beauty Parlor?




“Abd-Allah ibn Mas’ood (may Allah be pleased with him) said: May Allah curse the one who does tattoos and the one who has a tattoo done, the one who plucks eyebrows and the one who has her eyebrows plucked, and those who file teeth for the purpose of beautification, changing the creation of Allah.”
Bukhari (4886) and Muslim (2125)


Also Islam doesn't allow to, 


* Use cosmetics that contain chemicals that are harmful to the body.

* Cutting or dyeing the hair in ways that resemble immoral women.
* Plucking the eyebrows, tattooing the skin and adding hair extensions or wigs
* Beautifying women who make a wanton display of themselves (tabarruj) or  women who wear hijab but leave their faces uncovered. That is helping them in their sin of tabarruj, and causing haraam adornment to appear on them before non-mahrams.
* Looking at 'awrahs when removing hair from the 'awrah or when dressing the bride in clothes that are usually revealing

* Using false nails or false eyelashes
* Putting perfume with enticing fragrances on adorned women
* Men putting makeup on women! Which is an abhorrent evil 

Quran:2:195

"And spend in the cause of God, but do not throw your resources
to disaster..."


Quran-24:31

"And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their fathers their husbands' fathers their sons their husbands' sons their brothers or their brothers' sons or their sisters' sons or their women or the slaves whom their right hands possess or male servants free of physical needs or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And repent to God, all of you believers, that you may succeed."