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Comment by Malina Mokhtar on August 15, 2010 at 7:53am

‎"Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah (RAA) Rasulullah (SAW) said: The similitude of five prayers is like an overflowing river passing by the gate of one of you in which he washes five times daily. Hasan said: No filthiness can remain on him."

(Sahih Muslim Book 4, Hadith # 1411)

Comment by s a b e r on January 12, 2010 at 11:08am

JazakAllah Khair for Quoting the Virtue of Prayer.

Comment by Malina Mokhtar on January 12, 2010 at 8:00am

Narrated Abu Huraira (Radi-Allahu 'anhu)

Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) said, "The congregational
prayer of anyone amongst you is more than twenty (five or twenty seven)
times in reward than his prayer in the market or in his house, for if he
performs ablution completely and then goes to the mosque with the sole
intention of performing the prayer, and nothing urges him to proceed to the
mosque except the prayer, then, on every step which he takes towards the
mosque, he will be raised one degree or one of his sins will be forgiven.
The angels will keep on asking Allah's forgiveness and blessings for
everyone of you so long as he keeps sitting at his praying place. The
angels will say, 'O Allah, bless him! O Allah, be merciful to him!' as long
as he does not do Hadath or a thing which gives trouble to the other." The
Prophet (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) further said, "One is regarded in
prayer so long as one is waiting for the prayer."

Bukhari Vol. 3 : No. 330

Comment by Bilal Abubakr on January 7, 2010 at 8:20pm

- (رَبَّنَا لاَ تُزِغْ قُلُوبَنَا بَعْدَ إِذْ هَدَيْتَنَا وَهَبْ لَنَا مِن لَّدُنكَ رَحْمَةً إِنَّكَ أَنتَ الْوَهَّابُ) [آل عمران/8]
"Our Lord! Let not our hearts deviate (from the truth) after You have guided us, and grant us mercy from You. Truly, You are the Bestower." (3/8)

Comment by Bilal Abubakr on January 3, 2010 at 1:23pm

Bismillahir Rahrnanir Raheem.
(In the name of Allah, the most, Merciful Benevolent.)
Nahmadoka ya Khaira Ma-moolin wa Akram
Mas-oolin, ala ma allamtma mind Munajatil
Maqboo1.Min Qurubaatin indallahi wa Salawatir
Rasoul.Fasalle alaihe makhtalafad Dabooru
wal Qabool.UTansha-abatil Furooo mind
Usool.Thumma nas-aloka bema Sanaqool. Wa
minnas So-a10 wa minkal Qabool.
We praise You as the finest of all whom we can hope from and
the most Generous whom we can beg of for granting our
Munajate M a q b l which drawn us closer to you. There are
other prayers also of the prophet(Sa1-am) Send your perfect
blessings upon the Prophet (Sal-am) when the wind blows
from west to east and it is the season of boonin and budding,
we seek from you what we submit later, because it is our
Privelege to seek from You and Your Piety to grant it.

Comment by kool on December 8, 2009 at 12:46am

THE CHALLENGE OF THE QUR’AN

Literature and poetry have been instruments of
human expression and creativity, in all cultures.
The world also witnessed an age when literature
and poetry occupied pride of position, similar to that
now enjoyed by science and technology.
Even non-Muslim scholars agree that the Qur’an is
Arabic literature par excellence – that it is the best
Arabic literature on the face of the earth. The Qur’an
challenges mankind to produce the likes of it:

“And if ye are in doubt
as to what We have revealed
from time to time to Our servant,
then produce a Surah like
thereunto;
and call your witnesses or helpers
(if there are any) besides Allah,
if your (doubts) are true.

“But if ye cannot –
and of a surety you cannot –
then fear the Fire
whose fuel is Men and Stones –
which is prepared for those
who reject Faith.”[Al-Qur’an 2:23-24]

The challenge of the Qur’an, is to produce a single
Surah (chapter) like the Surahs it contains. The same
challenge is repeated in the Qur’an several times.
The challenge to produce a Surah, which, in beauty,
eloquence, depth and meaning is at least somewhat
similar to a Qur’anic Surah remains unmet to this day.
A modern rational man, however, would never accept
a religious scripture which says, in the best possible
poetic language, that the world is flat. This is because
we live in an age, where human reason, logic and science
are given primacy. Not many would accept the Qur’an’s
extraordinarily beautiful language, as proof of its
Divine origin. Any scripture claiming to be a divine
revelation must also be acceptable on the strength of its
own reason and logic.
According to the famous physicist and Nobel Prize
winner, Albert Einstein, “Science without religion is
lame. Religion without science is blind.” Let us therefore
study the Qur’an, and analyze whether the Qur’an and
Modern Science are compatible or incompatible?
The Qur’an is not a book of Science but a book of
‘Signs’, i.e. Aayaats. There are more than six thousand
‘Signs’ in the Qur’an of which more than a thousand
deal with hard core Science.

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Comment by kool on December 8, 2009 at 12:38am

Allahum-maghfir lil mu’mineena wal mu’minaat (O Allah! Forgive the Believing men and Believing women).



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Comment by nur-inn on November 3, 2009 at 4:51pm

The Call to Prayer

1 Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Sa'id said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had wanted to take two pieces of wood to strike them together to gather people for the prayer, and 'Abdullah ibn Zayd al-Ansari, of the tribe of Harith ibn al-Khazraj, was shown two pieces of wood in his sleep. He said, 'These are close to what the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, wants.' Then it was said, 'Do you not call to the prayer?' so when he woke up he went to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and mentioned the dream to him. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, ordered the adhan."

[Also in Abu Dawud, at-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah]

2 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from 'Ata' ibn Yazid al-Laythi from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "When you hear the adhan, repeat what the mu'adhdhin says."

[cf. Bukhari 586]

3 Yahya related to me from Malik from Sumayy, the mawla of Abu Bakr ibn 'Abd ar-Rahman, from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, stated, "If people only knew what was in the call to prayer and the first row, and could find no other way to get it than drawing lots for it, they would draw lots for it. If they only knew what was in going early to the prayer, they would race each other to get there. And if they only knew what was in the prayers of 'Isha' and Subh, they would come to them even if they had to crawl."

[cf. Bukhari 590]

4 Yahya related to me from Malik from al-'Ala' ibn 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn Ya'qub from his father and Ishaq ibn 'Abdullah that they informed him that they heard Abu Hurayra say, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'When the iqama is called for prayer, do not come to it running, but come with calmness. Pray what you catch and complete what you miss. You are in prayer as long as your aim is the prayer.'"

[cf. Bukhari 610]

5 Yahya related to me from Malik from 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn 'Abdullah ibn 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abu Sa'sa'a al-Ansari, and later al-Mazini, that his father told him that Abu Sa'id al-Khudri had said to him, "I see that you love sheep and the desert. When you are among your sheep or in the desert, call the prayer and raise your voice in the adhan, because I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say, 'No jinn or man or anything within range hears the voice of the mu'adhdhin without bearing witness for him on the Day of Rising.'"

[cf. Bukhari 584]

6 Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z-Zinad from Al-A'raj from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "When the call to prayer is made Shaytan retreats, passing wind, so that he will not hear it. When the adhan is completed he comes back, until, when the iqama is said, he retreats again. When the iqama is completed, he comes back, until he comes between a man and his self and says, 'Think of such and such, think of such and such,' which he was not thinking about before, until the man does not know how much he has prayed."

[cf. Bukhari 583]

7 Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu Hazim ibn Dinar that Sahl ibn Sa'd as-Sa'idi said, "There are two times when the gates of heaven are opened, and few who make supplication have it returned to them unanswered. They are at the time of the adhan, and in a rank of people fighting in the way of Allah."

[Ibn 'Abdu'l-Barr said that most transmitters of the Muwatta' consider this to be mawquf]

Malik was asked whether the adhan on the day of Jumu'a was called before the time had come for the prayer and he said, "It is not called until after the sun has passed the meridian."

Malik was asked about doubling the adhan and the iqama, and at what point people had to stand when the iqama for the prayer was called. He said, "I have heard nothing about the adhan and iqama except what I have seen people do. As for the iqama, it is not doubled. That is what the people of knowledge in our region continue to do. As for people standing up when the iqama for the prayer is called, I have not heard of any definite point at which it is begun, and I consider it rather to be according to people's (individual) capacity, for some people are heavy and some are light, and they are not able to be as one man."

Malik was asked about a gathering of people who wished to do the prescribed prayer calling the iqama and not the adhan, and he said, "It is enough for them. The adhan is only obligatory in mosques where the prayer is said in congregation."

Malik was asked about the mu'adhdhin saying "Peace be upon you" to the imam and calling him to the prayer, and he was asked who was the first person to whom such a greeting was made. He replied, "I have not heard that this greeting occurred in the first community."

Yahya said that Malik was asked whether a mu'adhdhin who called the people to prayer and then waited to see if anyone would come and no one did, so he said the iqama and did the prayer by himself and then people came after he had finished, should repeat the prayer with them. Malik said, "He does not repeat the prayer, and whoever comes after he has finished should do the prayer by himself."

Yahya said that Malik was asked about a mu'adhdhin who called the adhan for a group of people, did voluntary prayers, and then the group of people wanted to do the prayer with some one else saying the iqama. He said, "There is no harm in that. His iqama or somebody else's are the same."

Yahya said that Malik said, "The Subh prayer is still called before dawn. As for the other prayers, we believe that they should only be called after the time has started."

8 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that the mu'adhdhin came to 'Umar ibn al-Khattab to call him to the Subh prayer and found him sleeping, so he said, "Prayer is better than sleep," and 'Umar ordered him to put that in the adhan for Subh.

9 Yahya related to me from Malik from his paternal uncle Abu Suhayl ibn Malik that his uncle's father said, "I recognise nothing nowadays of what I saw the people (i.e. the companions of the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace) doing except the call to prayer."

10 Yahya related to me from Malik that 'Abdullah ibn 'Umar heard the iqama while he was in Baqi'*, so he increased his pace of walking to the mosque.

[* Baqi' is the graveyard of Madina, about three hundred yards from the mosque.]

Al-Muwatta' of Imam Malik
by Imam Malik ibn Anas
Translated by: Ustadha Aisha Bewley

Comment by nur-inn on November 3, 2009 at 4:43pm

Forgetfulness in the Prayer
What to do if one forgets in prayer

1 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Abu Salama ibn 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn 'Awf from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "When one of you stands in prayer, Shaytan comes to him and confuses him until he does not know how much he has prayed. When one of you experiences that, he should do two sajdas from the sitting position."

[cf Bukhari 1175]

2 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "I forget or I am made to forget in order that I may establish the sunna."

3 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that a man questioned al-Qasim ibn Muhammad saying, "My imagination gets carried away in the prayer, and it happens to me a lot." Al-Qasim ibn Muhammad said, "Go on with your prayer, for it will not leave you alone until you go away saying, 'I have not completed my prayer.'"

Al-Muwatta' of Imam Malik
by Imam Malik ibn Anas
Translated by: Ustadha Aisha Bewley

Comment by Ablacem on August 31, 2009 at 6:37am

Assalamualaikum

A great reminder posted by sufisister in her videos collections.

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