“Whomever the recitation of reading My book, the Qur’an, busies from asking Me, I shall grant the best of what I grant those who ask Me.”
-Hadith Qudsi
character Ekim 4, 2009
“You can’t reach everyone with your wealth nor your status,
but you can reach everyone with your character.”
Taken from the Q & A session with Shaykh Yahya, Shaykh Faraz and Sidi Umar.
young or old ? Ekim 1, 2009
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
Henry Ford
We dare not breathe… Eylül 29, 2009
Through valleys so still we dare not breathe, To be by your side.
(Nick Cave / To Be By Your Side)
Discover the world… Eylül 22, 2009
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long… but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our feet – and learn to be at home.
~Wendell Berry, The Unforeseen Wilderness
But for tears.. Eylül 17, 2009
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears
~John Vance Cheney~
last laugh Eylül 7, 2009
”If you want to have the last laugh, you have to let them laugh first.”
V.Eswaran
Küsmeyelim.. Ağustos 18, 2009
Hiçbir mü’minle küs kalınmamalıdır. Tüm haklar helal edilmelidir.
Herkes bağışlanmalıdır. Zira herkesin bağışlanmaya ihtiyacı vardır.
Yüzümüzü çevirip bakmadıklarımızın yüzlerine Allah sevgiyle bakmakta onları koruyup kollamaktadır. Allah’ın sevgililerine küsmeye, gönül koymaya, öfkelenmeye, surat asmaya kimsenin hakkı yoktur. Değil mi ki mümindir, yüzünü secdeye koymaktadır, o yüz muhabbetle öpülmeye layıktır, kaş çatılmaya değil. Yoksa Allah’ın yüzümüze bakmasına çok muhtaç olduğumuz o günde hafizanallah gözden düşen İblis gibi olma ihtimalimiz vardır.
Mona İslam
Being a Neighbor to the Hungry Ağustos 17, 2009
“Whoever goes to bed while his neighbor is hungry is not a true believer.” (Heysemi, Mecmeu’z-zevaid, VIII, 167) Selfishness is a trait found in man, but it is looked down upon in our religion. It is one of the most basic characteristics of the ego – the desire to feel pleasure and possess something. Saying, “I want it all, or let someone else have less or worse than me, and I don’t even want to see that,” the voice of the ego is constantly fighting with our other inner voice (conscience). The feeling of altruism command by Allah and giving to others which was so strongly recommended by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) mean sharing the blessings of Allah with others and spending on the path of goodness. Actually it is a bottom line. It cannot be compared to generosity. However, man’s hand still trembles when paying the poor tax which is mandatory. It seems as if a person’s possessions will melt away and become exhausted and that the person’s existence, which is tied to these possessions, will be consumed with them. This is a groundless fear, an anxiety created by Satan… “The Evil One threatens you with poverty and bids you to conduct unseemly. God promises you His forgiveness and bounties” (2:268). “Nothing do ye spend in th least (In His Cause) but He replaces it” (34:39). Our Prophet stated, “Giving charity does not decrease possessions” (Muslim, Birr 69). It is a fact admitted today by economic experts that no one will die from hunger when the resources of this earth are shared correctly and fairly. The general picture that will emerge when we look after those closest to us will lead us step by step closer to the social model foreseen and desired by Islam. The material difficulties experienced by our next-door neighbors or friends across the hall can be due to their own deceit or inexperience. The empathy that will result from the idea, “we all make mistakes; we could be in their shoes now,” instead of the idea, “if they hadn’t acted like that; it’s their own fault,” will be a vehicle for us to knock on their door to help. When one first reads the title hadith, he might panic because it mentions not a deficiency of faith, but the non-existence of it. But when it is thought about and when we put ourselves in the neighbor’s place, not even our ego will be able to find an “excuse.” If the breath of people close to us is smelling from hunger while we and our family members are at the limits of obesity due to eating too much, and we hesitate to help even though we could easily do so by giving up one kind of weekly fruit and by cutting down the size of our portions, or, even worse, if we have absolutely no idea about the financial situation of our neighbor, then it is just the time to question our faith. One of the ego’s traps is made from the bricks, “I don’t have anything either; if I did, wouldn’t I give it?” We do not even want to think about the person that looks at the companions who fearlessly shared a handful of dates or half their possessions or all of them in order for Islam to grow, and then hesitates to give to others saying, “of course they would give but I don’t have anything to give.” Thank goodness, the model generation is not like this. Every Muslim definitely has something to share. It is our prayer that no person (Muslim or non-Muslim) go to bed hungry if he has a Muslim neighbor.
Ayse Uckan
Source: LastProphet.info
