Archive for January, 2008

Abu Dawud in his Sunan records the following hadith from Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri (radhiya Allahu ‘anhu) who said that the Messenger of Allah (’alayhis salaam) said,

“Whoever says:

رَضِيتُ بِاللَّهِ رَبًّا وَبِالْإِسْلَامِ دِينًا ‏ ‏وَبِمُحَمَّدٍ ‏ ‏رَسُولًا

Radeetu billahi rabban, wa bil-Islaami deenan, wa bi-Muhammadin rasoolan 

“I am pleased with Allah as my Lord, with Islam as my Deen, and Muhammad as a Messenger” 

Jannah becomes obligatory for him [to enter].

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Monthly Reflection for Jan. 2008 Written by Abul Layth

 In 1965, Al-Muslimoon, a journal published by the Muslims of Geneva Switzerland, sent questions regarding Islam to Br. Malcolm  X¹. This was to be his last interview before his death. In it I saw a sincere cry to the Muslims to become active, to concentrate their efforts on Islamic ideals. The entire interview is of great worth and an entire Islamic sharh(gloss) could be written just on a couple of his statements. However, there is one question and answer that I felt was very pertinent in our times. It is the question of Muslim Women and their ignorance of Islam as well as general ‘knowledge’ from the arts and sciences. I remind you to read this while keeping in mind that Malcolm (Rahimahullah) is in an era of pure racism, where both the minority man and the disenfranchised woman were fighting for education.

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Footnotes (Click ↩ at the end of the note to Go Back to Original Place in the article) :

1. Note: This is after his conversion to orthodox Islam [↩]

The SeekingIlm staff has already shown that Khidr is most probably alive, and was definitely alive during the time of Imam An-Nawawi, many years after the death of the Nabi (’alayhis salaam). So, now that we have established this fact I would like to know what you would ask him. I will begin with some of my questions:

I would ask him, if I ever meet him as others have: “What is your favorite food? Where do you stay so I can come visit you more often - or are you a hermit? Who do you believe was the greatest scholar of the Muhammedan Ummah? Besides ‘arabi, what other language(s) are you fond of? Did you ever marry or do you think women are a waste of energy? How tall was Musaa? What is your favorite literary works? of Everything you learned in your entire existence, which dunya-related knowledge do you find most useful?

Please share!

الدُّنْيَا سِجْنُ الْمُؤْمِنِ وَجَنَّةُ الْكَافِرِ

“The World is a Prison for the Mu’min and paradise for the Kafir.” 

In Lata’if Al-Minan (subtleties of the divine gifts) Ibn Ataa’illah said Abul-‘Abbas al Mursi said, Abul Hasan Ash-Shadhili said: ‘The believer in this world is a prisoner, and there is no release for a prisoner except by one of three ways:

1) Through trick and stratagem.

2) Fidya (ransom) - ransoming the self. Allah says, “Allah has bought their own selves so that they may have paradise.” One for The One, exchanging your lowly vile self for The One for whom there is no second. The goal being the presence of the Divine.

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Mark Twain was an American author and idiot. Americans today read his books, like that of Huckleberry Finn etc. It so happens that this ‘heathen’ from America set foot upon the blessed land of the Muslims, he polluted it with his stench and impurity. When Mark Twain wrote of his travels amongst the “Mohammedans”, he claimed that they were unclean, dirty people, as well is morally inferior, and therefore culturally backwards. The dirty old man stated in his worthless work The Innocents Abroad:

“Mosques are plenty, churches are plenty, graveyards are plenty, but morals and whiskey are scarce. The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy. It makes our cheeks burn with shame to see such a thing permitted here in Turkey. We do not mind it so much in Salt Lake, however.”
 

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