Monday, July 31, 2006

إشراقة أمل

لسوف نلقى الاحبة باذن الله فإن مع العـسر يـسـرا
يا إنسان بعد الجوع شبع ، وبعد الظمأ ري ، وبعد السهر نوم ، وبعد المرض عافية ،
سوف يصل الغائب ، ويهتدي الضال ، ويفك العاني ، وينقشع الظلام (فعسى الله أن يأتي بالفتح أو أمر من عنده)
بشر الليل بصبح صادق يطارده على روؤس الجبال ، ومسارب الأودية ،
بشر المهموم بفرج مفاجىء يصل في سرعة الضوء ، ولمح البصر ،
بشر المنكوب بلطف خفي وكف حانية وادعة .

إذا رأيت الصحراء تمتد وتمتد ، فاعلم أن وراءها رياضاً خضراء وارفة الظلال .
إذا رأيت الحبل يشتد ويشتد ، فاعلم أنه سوف ينقطع.
مع الدمعة بسمة ، ومع الخوف أمن ، ومع الفزع سكينة ،

النار لا تحرق إبراهيم التوحيد ، لأن الرعاية الربانية فتحت نافذة (برداً وسلاماً)
البحر لا يغرق كليم الرحمن ، لأن الصوت القوي الصادق نطق بـ (كلا إن معي ربي سيهدين)
المعصوم في الغار بشر صاحبه بأنه وحده معنا فنزل الأمن والفتح والسكينة .

الأيام دول ، والدهر متقلب ، والليالي حبالى ، والغيب مستور ، والحكيم كل يوم هو في شأن ،
ولعل الله يحدث بعد ذلك أمراً

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Dear Sister

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. May His blessings be upon His messenger and those who follow the truth. I hope this letter spreads and benefits the Umma.

Dear Sister,
I send this letter to you, because you occupy my mind, and I wonder: "When will she become the person she should be?"

I realize, that there are so many girls out there who are just like you. Good girls, but so busy with life, they feel too weak to change themselves. So what they do is, they wait for the Good Guy to come along and marry them, rescue them from the life of Duniya, to the life of Aakhira.
Don't you realize, that good guys are searching for good girls? And while you and I both know you're a good person at heart, but it doesn't show in the way you live, so how will the good guys know?

My Sister, I know you're a jewel, and that the person who'll marry you will find a treasure in you, but will he deserve it? Will he appreciate it? Will he know he has a treasure?
I fear for you, a Jewel who looks like an ordinary stone, and I know there are guys out there who are looking for ordinary stones, they're looking for people who are only pretty from the outside, not caring about the amount of Taqwa they have in their heart. So if you look like a stone, maybe the person who'll come for you will be one of those looking for a stone...
He won't care about the Jewel, and the Jewel is a girl with taqwa in her heart... and slowly, he might destroy the taqwa, and you might become just another stone.


[Has not the time come for the hearts of those who believe (in the Oneness of Allah- Islam) to be affected by Allah's Reminder (Quran), and that which has been revealed of the truth, lest they become as those who received the Scripture before, and the term was prolonged for them and so their hearts were hardened? And many of them were Fasiqoon (disobedient to Allah).] Surat Al-Hadid 57.16

So what should you do about this Noor that you have in your heart?
Feed it with Iman! Let it flourish, let it grow, let it cover you up completely !
Perhaps it will be difficult for you to very quickly cut off corruption from taking its place in your heart, but you can take it step by step.

So let's make a program now shall we? Guys have the advantage of having to pray in the Masjid, so they HAVE to go to places filled with Angels, dhikr and good people. Girls don't have to go to the Masjid, so they might miss out on a lot of ajr by not taking proper actions, like going to lectures for females, like fasting Mondays and Thursdays, and so on. There's much to do but have you sat down properly to think of all the things you could do for Ajr?

Try it out, get a paper or use your PC, write down all the good deeds that you could do, like:
1- Read Quran.
2- Listen to Quran.
3- Memorize Quran.
4- Read Tafseer.
5- Listen to lectures.
6- Give to charity.
7- Pray nawafel.

And so and so on, you'll find the list to be pretty huge, then you should take a look at it and think of how much you do compared to what you could be doing. Then you should start organizing yourself to fill up your time with some of the good deeds listed. Remember that you shouldn't put them all on your shoulders at once, start out slow but make sure you go up!

It's also important to look like the Jewel that you are. Why? First of all, because you want Allah to see you as a Jewel, not someone trying to be a pebble, right?
Secondly, you want to be grateful that you're a Jewel !
And last but not least, because it's important that a good girl marries a good guy, so your children have two good role models at home to follow in their footsteps, and thus you will be helping improve the community, and helping the Muslim Umma, which will in turn help change the world !!

How does a Jewel look like? She obeys Allah's command, He Says in the Quran:

[O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks all over their bodies. That will be better, that they should be known (as respectable women) so as not to be annoyed (abused).]

A True Believer properly covers up her BEAUTY, not just parts of her body while adorning and decorating the rest, she acknowledges her duty and fulfills it as best as she can.

There are guys these days who have enough piety that makes them refrain from wearing certain clothes as to not cause fitna to girls. Aren't girls supposed to think this way as well? Before you wear your nicely designed hijab, and tight abaya shouldn't you worry about the fitna you might cause?
Before leaving the house, do you look at yourself and wonder if you look nice enough, or do you wonder if Allah is pleased with what you're wearing?

The Mu'mina KNOWS that Allah will not let her deeds and her sacrifices go to waste, He will reward her greatly, and she will be grateful that she took the proper actions in life!



May Allah guide the author of this letter, the sender, and the reader and grant us all the highest forms of Paradise!

P.S. Please pray for the author of this letter, who is desperately in need of Allah's guidance and Mercy...


Source: DXB Muslim