I am a Muslim

18.2.12

I am a Muslim
And God I praise
For all His blessings
My voice I raise


In One God I believe
No equal has He
Lord of the universe Compassionate to me


Muhammad the Prophet
Taught me the way
To be honest and truthful
Throughout everyday


The Holy Quran
To life is my guide
Its teachings I follow
By it I abide


Islam is my religion
Preaches good deeds
Mercy and kindness
To the path it leads


Upon all humanity
God showers His grace
Regardless of colour
Nationality or race


Trough working together
Our hopes increase
To live in a world


Full of love and peace

Full of love and peace




I am a Muslim
And God I praise


For all His blessings
My voice I raise


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Leaving the beloved city for a while !

17.2.12



Alhamdulillah,

This post is to inform the regular visitors that I have finally been successful to get my annual vacations in my planned period. I had planned several months ago that I will try to go to my homeland in the spring season so that I have enough greenery and flowers to photograph for www.voiceofnature.net. 

I really find it difficult to leave my beloved city but I am satisfied that I am leaving for good and I will come back after month with hundreds of nature photos to share with all of you insha-Allah.

This is the last post from this city until I come back here soon, insha-Allah.  If I got a reasonable net connection I hope I will publish my next post from my homeland.



The following sayings of prophet Muhammad describe the virtues of the holy Makkah:

While departing from Makkah, Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) halted on a plateau, faced the Qibla and said: “By Allah! You are the most beloved portion of Allah’s earth to me, and verily you are the most beloved portion of the earth to Allah too. Verily you are the best, spot on the face of the earth. And the most beloved to Allah. If your people did not expel me, I would not have departed from you.” (Al-Muatta)

Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) stated in a Hadith-

“The best and the most beloved city on the face of this earth to Allah is Makkah.” (Sahih Al-Bukhari)
Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) stated: “The earth was rolled out from Makkah. Allah stretched (the earth) from underneath it. Thus it is called the mother of all cities.” (Sahih Al-Bukhari)

“Whosoever offers a salat therein, then that salat is enhanced a hundred thousand fold over.” (Sahih Muslim / Sunan Nisai)


Photos :  Ibn Hanif

Selected Sayings of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) about Jesus (peace be upon him) .

14.2.12




Volume 4, Book 55, Number 642:
Narrated 'Ali:

I heard the Prophet saying, "Mary, the daughter of 'Imran, was the best among the women (of the world of her time) and Khadija is the best amongst the women. (of this nation)."

Volume 4, Book 55, Number 651:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "I am the nearest of all the people to the son of Mary, and all the prophets are paternal brothers, and there has been no prophet between me and him (i.e. Jesus)."


Volume 4, Book 55, Number 607:
Narrated Abu Huraira:

Allah's Apostle said, "On the night of my Ascension to Heaven, I saw (the prophet) Moses who was a thin person with lank hair, looking like one of the men of the tribe of Shanua; and I saw Jesus who was of average height with red face as if he had just come out of a bathroom. And I resemble prophet Abraham more than any of his offspring does. Then I was given two cups, one containing milk and the other wine. Gabriel said, 'Drink whichever you like.' I took the milk and drank it. Gabriel said, 'You have accepted what is natural, (True Religion i.e. Islam) and if you had taken the wine, your followers would have gone astray.' "


Volume 4, Book 55, Number 640:
Narrated Malik bin Sasaa:
That the Prophet talked to them about the night of his Ascension to the Heavens. He said, "(Then Gabriel took me) and ascended up till he reached the second heaven where he asked for the gate to be opened, but it was asked, 'Who is it?' Gabriel replied, 'I am Gabriel.' It was asked, 'Who is accompanying you?' He replied, 'Muhammad.' It was asked, 'Has he been called?' He said, 'Yes.' When we reached over the second heaven, I saw Yahya (i.e. John) and Jesus who were cousins. Gabriel said, 'These are John (Yahya) and Jesus, so greet them.' I greeted them and they returned the greeting saying, 'Welcome, O Pious Brother and Pious Prophet!;' "


Volume 4, Book 55, Number 653:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "Jesus, seeing a man stealing, asked him, 'Did you steal?, He said, 'No, by Allah, except Whom there is None who has the right to be worshipped' Jesus said, 'I believe in Allah and suspect my eyes."


Volume 4, Book 55, Number 658:

Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said "How will you be when the son of Mary (i.e. Jesus) descends amongst you and he will judge people by the Law of the Quran and not by the law of Gospel (Fateh-ul Bari page 304 and 305 Vol 7)


Volume 4, Book 55, Number 654:
Narrated 'Umar:
I heard the Prophet saying, "Do not exaggerate in praising me as the Christians praised the son of Mary, for I am only a Slave. So, call me the Slave of Allah and His Apostle."


Volume 4, Book 55, Number 656:

Narrted Ibn Abbas:

Allah's Apostle said, "You will be resurrected (and assembled) bare-footed, naked and uncircumcised." The Prophet then recited the Divine Verse:-- "As We began the first creation, We shall repeat it: A promise We have undertaken. Truly we shall do it." (21.104)

He added, "The first to be dressed will be Abraham. Then some of my companions will take to the right and to the left. I will say: 'My companions! 'It will be said, 'They had been renegades since you left them.' I will then say what the Pious Slave Jesus, the son of Mary said: 'And I was a witness over them while I dwelt amongst them; when You did take me up, You were the Watcher over them, and You are a Witness to all things. If You punish them, they are Your slaves, and if you forgive them, You, only You are the All-Mighty the All-Wise.' " (5.117-118) Narrated Quaggas, "Those were the apostates who renegade from Islam during the Caliphate of Abu Bakr who fought them".


 Volume 4, Book 55, Number 657:
Narrated Abu Huraira:

Allah's Apostle said, "By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, surely (Jesus,) the son of Mary will soon descend amongst you and will judge mankind justly (as a Just Ruler); he will break the Cross and kill the pigs and there will be no Jizya (i.e. taxation taken from non Muslims). Money will be in abundance so that nobody will accept it, and a single prostration to Allah (in prayer) will be better than the whole world and whatever is in it." Abu Huraira added "If you wish, you can recite (this verse of the Holy Book): -- 'And there is none Of the people of the Scriptures (Jews and Christians) But must believe in him (i.e Jesus as an Apostle of Allah and a human being) Before his death. And on the Day of Judgment He will be a witness Against them." (4.159)

Volume 4, Book 55, Number 644:
Narrated 'Ubada:

The Prophet said, "If anyone testifies that None has the right to be worshipped but Allah Alone Who has no partners, and that Muhammad is His Slave and His Apostle, and that Jesus is Allah's Slave and His Apostle and His Word which He bestowed on Mary and a Spirit created by Him, and that Paradise is true, and Hell is true, Allah will admit him into Paradise with the deeds which he had done even if those deeds were few." (Junada, the sub-narrator said, " 'Ubada added, 'Such a person can enter Paradise through any of its eight gates he likes.")



Photos: Ibn Hanif
Source: http://www.sultan.org/books/bukhari/055.htm

Queries of a Desert Dweller

12.2.12



Anas bin Malik (ra) narrated:

We were forbidden to ask the Messenger of Allah PBUH (without the genuine need). Therefore, we liked it when an intelligent person from dwellers of the desert came and asked him while we listened.

A man from the dwellers of the desert came (to the Prophet PBUH) and said: "O Muhammad, your messenger came to us and told us your claim that Allah had sent you (as a Prophet).

He (Prophet PBUH) said: "He told the truth."
He asked: "Who created the heaven?"
He (Prophet PBUH) replied: "Allah."
He asked: "Who created the earth?"
He (Prophet PBUH) replied: "Allah."
He asked: "Who raised these mountains and who created in them whatever is created?"
He (Prophet PBUH) replied: "Allah."
Upon this he remarked: "By Him Who created the heaven and created the earth and raised mountains, has Allah sent you?"
He (Prophet PBUH) said: "Yes."
He said your messenger also claimed that five Salat (prayers) druing the day and the night are obligatory on us."
He (Prophet PBUH) said: "He told the truth."
He said: "By Him Who sent you, is it Allah Who ordered you this?"
He (Prophet PBUH) said: "Yes."
He said: "Your messenger claimed that Zakat is obligatory on our wealth."
He (Prophet PBUH) said: "He told the truth."
He said: "By Him Who sent you, is it Allah Who ordered you this?"
He (Prophet PBUH) said: "Yes."
He said: "Your messenger claimed that it is obligatory on us to fast every year during the month of Ramadan."
He (Prophet PBUH) said: "He told the truth."

He said: "By Him Who has sent you, is it Allah Who ordered you this?
He (Prophet PBUH) said: "Yes."
He said: "Your messenger also claimed that Hajj (pilgrimage) to the House (of Ka'bah) is made obligatory on him who can afford the journey."

He (Prophet PBUH) said: "Yes."

The narrator said that the bedouin set off (at the conclusion of this answer), saying:

"By Him Who sent you with the Truth, I would neither add to them nor diminish anything of them."

Upon this, the (Prophet PBUH) remarked: "If he is truthful, he will enter Jannah."

(Summarized Sahih Muslim, Vol.1, Hadith No.20)



Photographs: Ibn Hanif

Remembrance

10.2.12

Remembrance
Is remembering what it feels like to be whole
What it feels like to be completely in love
What it feels like to be in peace
In silence

Every pebble pushed
Every breathe taken
Is another reason
To remember
To call to mind
A presence greater then ourselves

To feel blessed
To have a breathe
To break the silence
And feed the words
In reverse order of there conception

To remember every blessing
To remember the sweet taste of heaven
To remember the pain of hell
To remember the deeds of our father
To remember the hardship of our mother

To listen and obey
And remember
Remember Allah
Though he does not need you
But wants you

Wants you to remember him
In trials and tribulations
Wants you to remember
In joy and happiness

Because we live
We live
To remember
La illaha ilala


Poetry : bint Yusuf
The Guiding Friends

And"When My Servants Ask You Concerning Me, Then Surely I am Very Near..."

 I found the following verse embroidered on the cover (Kiswah) of the holy Kaaba. Here I am sharing the photograph and the translation of the verse with the visitors of the blog. The photograph was captured on 09/02/2012.


Allah (S.W.T) says in the holy quran, in Sura Baqarah, ayat 186

"Wa idha sa alaka ibadi anni, fa inni qareeb. Ujeebu da’watad daa’ee idha da aaani"
Translation of the Complete verse 2.186:
"And when My servants ask you concerning Me, then surely I am very near; I answer the prayer of the suppliant when he calls on Me, so they should answer My call and believe in Me that they may walk in the right way. "

Do they not then look up to heaven above them how We have made it and adorned it and it has no gaps?

8.2.12



1 Qaf. I swear by the glorious Quran (that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah)
2 Nay! they wonder that there has come to them a warner from among themselves, so the unbelievers say: This is a wonderful thing:
3 What! when we are dead and have become dust? That is afar (from probable) return.
4 We know indeed what the earth diminishes of them, and with Us is a writing that preserves.
5 Nay, they rejected the truth when it came to them, so they are (now) in a state of confusion.
6 Do they not then look up to heaven above them how We have made it and adorned it and it has no gaps?
7 And the earth, We have made it plain and cast in it mountains and We have made to grow therein of all beautiful kinds,
8 To give sight and as a reminder to every servant who turns frequently (to Allah).
9 And We send down from the cloud water abounding in good, then We cause to grow thereby gardens and the grain that is reaped,
10 And the tall palm-trees having spadices closely set one above another,
11 A sustenance for the servants, and We give life thereby to a dead land; thus is the rising.

12 (Others) before them rejected (prophets): the people of Nuh and the dwellers of Ar-Rass and Samood,
13 And Ad and Firon and Lut's brethren,
14 And the dwellers of the grove and the people of Tuba; all rejected the messengers, so My threat came to pass.
15 Were We then fatigued with the first creation? Yet are they in doubt with regard to a new creation.
16 And certainly We created man, and We know what his mind suggests to him, and We are nearer to him than his life-vein.
17 When the two receivers receive, sitting on the right and on the left.
18 He utters not a word but there is by him a watcher at hand.
19 And the stupor of death will come in truth; that is what you were trying to escape.
20 And the trumpet shall be blown; that is the day of the threatening.
21 And every soul shall come, with it a driver and a witness.
22 Certainly you were heedless of it, but now We have removed from you your veil, so your sight today is sharp.
23 And his companions shall say: This is what is ready with me.
24 Do cast into hell every ungrateful, rebellious one,
25 Forbidder of good, exceeder of limits, doubter,
26 Who sets up another god with Allah, so do cast him into severe chastisement.
27 His companion will say: Our Lord! I did not lead him into inordinacy but he himself was in a great error.
28 He will say: Do not quarrel in My presence, and indeed I gave you the threatening beforehand:
29 My word shall not be changed, nor am I in the least unjust to the servants.
30 On the day that We will say to hell: Are you filled up? And it will say: Are there any more?
31 And the garden shall be brought near to those who guard (against evil), not far off:
32 This is what you were promised, (it is) for every one who turns frequently (to Allah), keeps (His limits);
33 Who fears the Beneficent Allah in secret and comes with a penitent heart:
34 Enter it in peace, that is the day of abiding.
35 They have therein what they wish and with Us is more yet. 

 [The Holy Quran, Surah: Qaf]

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And one of His signs is that He created you from dust, then lo! you are mortals (who) scatter.....



20 And one of His signs is that He created you from dust, then lo! you are mortals (who) scatter.
21 And one of His signs is that He created mates for you from yourselves that you may find rest in them, and He put between you love and compassion; most surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect.
22 And one of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your tongues and colors; most surely there are signs in this for the learned.
23 And one of His signs is your sleeping and your seeking of His grace by night and (by) day; most surely there are signs in this for a people who would hear.
24 And one of His signs is that He shows you the lightning for fear and for hope, and sends down water from the clouds then gives life therewith to the earth after its death; most surely there are signs in this for a people who understand
25 And one of His signs is that the heaven and the earth subsist by His command, then when He calls you with a (single) call from out of the earth, lo! you come forth.
26 And His is whosoever is in the heavens and the earth; all are obedient to Him.
27 And He it is Who originates the creation, then reproduces it, and it is easy to Him; and His are the most exalted attributes in the heavens and the earth, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
28 He sets forth to you a parable relating to yourselves: Have you among those whom your right hands possess partners in what We have given you for sustenance, so that with respect to it you are alike; you fear them as you fear each other? Thus do We make the communications distinct for a people who understand.
29 Nay! those who are unjust follow their low desires without any knowledge; so who can guide him whom Allah makes err? And they shall have no helpers.
30 Then set your face upright for religion in the right state-- the nature made by Allah in which He has made men; there is no altering of Allah's creation; that is the right religion, but most people do not know--

A Leaf of Grass

5.2.12




 I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars,

And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg
of the wren,

And the tree-toad is a chef-d'oeuvre for the highest,

And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,

And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,

And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue,

And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

Photographs :  Ibn Hanif 
(Photography by Ibn Hanif, really? prove!!!   :))

Ode to Prophet Muhammed

31.1.12

Why do you pray, Oh Prophet!
When God has promised you
Paradise
Shouldn't I be thankful
Is how my Prophet responds

Oh that he would spend
Hours and hours
Waking from bed
Praying and crying to his Lord

Shouldn't I be so thankful?
To have a Prophet
Whose only aim
Was to save my soul
From the torment of the hell fire

A fire so harsh
That its asks for relief
From its own self

Could you imagine that
Being so hot that your skin melts off?
Forgive me for not being discreet

But my prophet was given this warning
As a mercy to you and me

Oh Prophet!
Who cried for his ummah
In fear that we'd go astray

But Prophet we keep your words in our heart
Though sometimes we twist and bind them
Most times your words make us cry

Oh why?
Why did you have to leave us
Your followers!
Where left in shambles
With broken hearts
And empty souls

Trying to hold on to the past
Oh Prophet!
What kind of clothes did you wear?
Oh prophet!
Did you sit on the floor or a chair?
Oh Prophet!
What was your favorite food?

Oh Prophet I have a prophetic love for you
Which doesn't always translate to action
We try to do
Everything you tell us to

Praying the way you prayed
Fasting the way you fast
Crying for a glimpse of hope
In a world of utter darkness

Hoping for the ultimate chance
To follow you in to paradise
For Allah to see us
As one of your own
And forgive us in this life


Poetry : bint Yusuf
The Guiding Friends