Reason for earthquakes
28 November, 2008

Anas (may Allaah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:

"In this ummah there will be punishments of earthquakes, showers of stones and deformity (transformation into animals); that will be when the people drink khamr, listen to female singers and play musical instruments." (See al-Silsilah al-Saheehah, 2203; attributed to Ibn Abi'l-Dunyaa, Dhamm al-Malaahi; the hadeeth was narrated by al-Tirmidhi, no. 2212).

Paraphrased authentic narration: aisha ra stated re: earthquakes, that when music, zina, ... become widespread, the earth can not take it anymore.


Allahu alam.
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hadith: ...Paradise lies under the shade of swords
22 November, 2008
Wa3lamu annal jannah ta7ta dhilaal as-suyoof: Narrated 'Abdullah bin Abi Aufa: Allah's Apostle said,"Know that Paradise lies under the shade of swords."Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 73 & Abu Dawud vol.2 no.2625 p.727
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Why I Am Never Going Back To America
21 December, 2005

Why I Am Never Going Back To America

May 10, 2003
By Zeba Khan, US Citizen

A Thoughtful Article By A Sister For The Parents In
America.

I may be an American citizen, but thats not my fault.
I ask the reader to please forgive me that much and
continue with the rest of the article. As a
consequence of having been born, raised, and college
educated in the States, I have gora-saab Urdu, a
severe allergy to mosquito bites and a blue passport,
but again, thats not my fault.


Often at parties, mostly at weddings, people (with
sons my age who eat, drink, and dream in red, white
and blue) will slyly ask whether or not I have plans
of returning. I say no, not at all, not unless pigs
fly, hell freezes over, and the Cubs win the World
Series, all on the same day. Then they ask me why, and
I can never answer them. I âm ashamed to, and the
reason why is because the true nature of American
society is obscene, and Islamic Taboos are often rites
of Passage back in God Bless America. The sins that
Americans proudly broadcast are so fahosh (obscene!)
that I cannot mention them in mixed company in more
than a whisper. But luckily I can type though, and
here, dear readers, dear sly aunties, dear people who
think I âm insane, is why I âm never going back to the
US.


America is famous for turning out highly qualified
doctors and engineers, and I will not insult their
universities and colleges. The Ivy League universities
offer the best education that money can buy...in an
environment where 90% of all on-campus rape cases are
linked to alcohol and approximately 240,000 to 360,000
of the nations 12 million current undergraduates will
ultimately die from alcohol-related causes. (Stats
from SAMHSA, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration website)


But like I said, I âm not going to slander
institutions where illicit affairs betweens professors
and students are common enough to be part of campus
life. It's a lovely collegiate society where emergency
phones with blue light beacons are installed every 100
or so feet on college grounds to curb crime and sexual
assault. I said I wouldnt slander the colleges, and I
âm not. To slander something is to lie, to demean it
with incorrect information, and I'm doing neither.
Everything Ive mentioned it true blue (and white, and
red) and 100% certifiable by anyone who has been to
college in any major city like Chicago.


Enough about college, let's go further back to public
high school. I'll tell you no lies here, either. The
state of Illinois has mandated a health and safety
class for all students, and the class is taught to
grade 9. The safety part of the class curriculum
includes drivers education. The health part of the
class involves skin care, fitness, how to use a
condom, how to recognize transmitted diseases in your
sexual partner and why, if you decide you âre a
homosexual; it's ok to feel that way.


I was blessed, truly blessed by Allah that I was
absent the day that my teacher showed a live video of
a woman giving birth, the natural way, in the nude, in
stirrups. This all-natural, all-nude video was shown
in front of my mixed 9th grade class, it was shown to
both the boys and the girls at the same time. I heard
horror stories the next day from my fellow miserable
Muslimahs.


I, and hundreds of thousands of other young Muslims
who were unfortunate enough to be educated in the US,
was taught that being gay (Hijra!) is quite normal.
Never mind the two girls sitting outside the class
window kissing each other with open mouths - they âre
exercising their right of choice. Homosexuality is not
a deviation, its a lifestyle, and a rather trendy one
at that.


Hooray for gay-rights and the yearly gay-pride parades
held in most major cities of the US. If youre
fortunate enough not to know what a gay-pride parade
is, allow me to ruin your day. It's a procession of
cars, decorated floats, dancers, near-naked hijras and
brainwashed heterosexuals who are proud to be part of
a sin so severe that it caused the destruction of
Sodom and Gomorrah.


Back to school, if your son or daughter needs a condom
so that they can have a little fun on their lunch
break, they don't need to be ashamed. They can just go
to the school counselors office and get one from her,
for free. If any of the students want to exercise the
freedom that the American forefathers fought and died
for, and engage in some pre-marital relations without
any of the consequences, then there are hundreds of
NGOs to help them with birth control, adoption, or
abortion, without ever letting the parents know whats
going on.


I âm being quite bay-sharam, I know, but how else can
I explain these things? How else can I tell you that
high-school in Chicago, a very average place, is a
beer-drinking, pot-smoking, hormonally charged orgy
where young girls and boys play merry-go-round with
their sexual partners. Oh, and theres very
high-quality biology, chemistry and physics in there
somewhere too.


If you think that my merely mentioning this is
outrageous, then what do you think of the unfortunate
Pakistanis and Muslims who study this as part of
school curriculum and are taught to practice these
things in their daily life? It's not their fault they
âre subjected to such an immoral brainwashing, and
thats why I call them (and myself) unfortunate instead
of guilty. These poor 9th graders (aged 14-15 on
average) did not chose to be born in a society where
talk is cheap, love is free, and God is banned from
public schools.


Yes, God is officially banned in public schools.
Prayer in school is quite a controversial issue back
over there in God Bless America. Religion is a private
affair, and much like STDs, you âre supposed to keep
them to yourself.


The American educational assault goes farther than
immorality; it extends into the illogical and absurd.
Did you know that our ancestors were monkeys? What?
You say that you knew your ancestors, and though one
of your uncles had a low forehead, he was hardly
simian? You may also say that the first man was
Prophet Adam, peace and blessings be upon him, and he
was no monkey. You know this because God said so, not
just in Islam but in all three major religions of the
world, and plus evolution has been deemed impossible
by a huge but muffled community of scientists. (Read
Evolution Deceit: The Scientific Collapse of
Darwinism... by Harun Yahya) If you make the mistake
of expressing your religious beliefs in class, you
will be laughed out of class and scolded when you come
eventually come back.


Teacher:(laughing with cocky attitude further
bolstered by authority and his/her own brainwashing)
Silly, backwards, fundamentalist student, how
foolish can you be to believe in God? What, have you
ever seen God? Look around, I don't see anything
remotely worship-able in the universe, do you?
Student:(muttering under breath to avoid being failed
for bad behavior) Well teacher, come to think of it,
when I look around I can't see radio waves, microbes,
heat, radiation, wind, or even your brain for that
matter...


The secular American scientific community boasts of
its superior knowledge, but if you went by the same
empirical logic that they use to ignore God (seeing is
believing) then they don't have any brains, either.
Both belief in God and belief in your teacher,s brain
can only be confirmed by sight apparently, and since
both cases involve death to do so, (dying to see God,
killing your teacher and extracting his brain...) then
the issue stays mostly unresolved in circles who
refuse to use higher reasoning.


I must stop here and give credit to a few very
intelligent, very religious college professors that I
had. For example, Dr. P. Lancki, a religious Christian
and a professor of Microbiology. During a long
conversation about religion, science and society at
large, Dr.Lancki told me with wonder in her eyes how
it was impossible for a single cell, miraculous in
function and complex in design, to have been created
by accident or random events. Not one single cell
could be produced through the methods that educators
teach to students in the US; evolution, but Dr.Lancki
is forbidden to teach that in her class. God,
one of her coworkers told her, ...died with the
dinosaurs. Man doesn't need religion anymore.

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So that you don't get stressed out!
05 December, 2005

assalaamu alaikum,

Emaan

Taqwa

Tawwakal

Sabr

Reciting and/or listening to the Quran and pondering on it.

Salah--especially if you have khushoo.

Duaa

Constantly being organized,

Not being very materialistic--the less you have the easier it is to clean stuff every week. (I'm what some call a cleanfreak. I even start cleaning the keyboard, the phone, door knob, anything I can find spot a speck of dust on...)

Good time management skills. ( not being a procastinator would come under this!)

Remembering (I don't know what word to use?) our priorities.

Taking care of our health.

Good communications skills.

Not being popular.

Remembering that money itself does not buy happiness.

To sum it all up, remembering the purpose of life--which is to worship Allah alone.

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The blog looks very boring
28 November, 2005
Edit: I needed to look more carefully. And the copy/paste problem was on my side--I just didn't think of checking earlier.
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wa alaikum salam at the end
29 October, 2005

assalaamu alaikum ala manitabal huda,

There is a slight problem with saying wa alaikum salam at the end of a conversation, letter, email,etc. How can another Muslim reply when what was said was already what is the sunnah way of replying a person's salams? The meaning is basically the same, but we should stick to the sunnah insha' Allah.

Wallahu alam.

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