Until the Day i Die

Ramadan Goals

2007-09-07T00:39:00.000-04:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in an ever increasing state of iman. Alhumdulilah I have decided to start writing again, and thus the following. Ramadan is in about two weeks or less, so now its time to start fasting and to mentally prepare ourselves for the upcoming month of spiritual cleansing. Many people are holding halaqas and programs welcoming Ramadan, and its best to attend these events because it puts us in the Ramadan mode. We should set some goals that we want to achieve out of this Ramadan, so I will be the first to set my own and may Allah help me. The first one is, to fast not only from food but fast with my eyes, ears, tounge, hands, feet, and with my mind. Thats inshallah how I can get maximum benefit. I know that I waste time and I am aware that each second in this glorious month is precious, thus I will try to take advantage of my time. The last thing which I think we overlook is eating less. I tried this last year and I can tell you that eating less feels so awsome that you have to feel it to understand it. Also it is from the sunnah, and when iftar comes along we should tear everything in sight but continue to practice patience even then. The benifits are numerous, including that you will be able to pray taraweeh quite easily, you will more energy, and you will just feel overall good. Inshallah may Allah help me and all of us to become what we must to earn Allahs pleasure and jannah. The heart needs to beat...and so we stay alive. salaam

Back

2007-09-03T22:24:00.001-04:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. The last post was in May, thats quite a long time, but anyway I am back and hopefully if Allah wills then I can do my regular weekly posts. The summer has gone with the wind and school is up and running for some its the second week, like yours truly, however some are starting tomorrow. Inshallah I will be posting with different topics but for right now this is it. The heart needs to beat... and so we stay alive. salaam

Its Been To Long

2007-05-30T19:21:00.000-04:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. Salaam to all of my brothers and sisters. Much has happened in the month and a half, I started a new job in which i get paid every week with consistency, Alhumdulilah. Uhaul it is, too many rules but i get paid and thats all i care about. College is done and it was an odd semister, I am glad its over. The summer is in high gear and fitnah is in the air. Inshallah we will need to remedy that. I went to watch pirates yesterday and while the other 2 were excellent the third was such a horid disappointment. Even though one of the actress was gourgous, it still was a disappointment. You have to lower your gaze man. Anyway our masjid is complete and mashallah it looks beautiful, now what we need is people to pray in the masjid. I went almost all of last week and another brother so we have like 5 or 6 brothers coming regularly for maghrib and isha. I have been trying to make it for fajar but the i guess i need to try harder. I have been doing better with my quran schedule but i can do much better. Make dua for me people. The heart needs to beat...and so we stay alive.salaam

Seerah tu-Nabi (saw)

2007-04-26T21:53:00.000-04:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. This is the month of Rabi ul Awal and we know that that Prophet Muhammad (saw) was born in this month and darkness was filled with light. This month we should read the books of seerah and listen to lectures regarding the glorious life of our noble messenger. Its time to reevaluate ourselves, and reflect on how close our daily lives are to the sunnah of the Prophet (saw). We can not forget the struggles that the Prophet (saw) went through so that we can be sitting here claiming to be muslims, how can we forget the ephithets toward the Prophet (saw) from the Quraish, how can we forget Taif, and how can we overlook the long nights that he spent crying for us with his feet swelling. How can we forget that even on his deathbed he kept uttering "Umaathi, Umaathi". The reality is that we cant forget and if we do then we must come back and begin to reflect again and ponder and think about his message and the sacrifices he made.

Unfortunantly there are a group of Muslims who dont speak about the message and his sunnah and his life, yet they engage themselves in singing praise of the Prophet (saw)and although there is nothing wrong with that, they forget the essence of the seerah and it does nothing for us except that we enjoy listinging to the poetry and the beautiful voices. This is so dangerous that it leads to bid'ah and our messenger (saw)has said that "...the innovations lead to the hell fire". Inshallah lets pray for us and those brothers and sisters that Allah guides us to the straight path and gives is istiqamah and perseverance on the truth. The heart needs to beat....and so we stay alive.salaam (the picture is of the prophets masjid, i took it when i visited madinah)

Scattered Thoughts

2007-04-09T23:02:00.000-04:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. The baseball season has started and the Yankees played a nice game today. But the main thing was that A-Rod is out of his shell. Yesterday or Saturday he hit a walk off grand slam in the bottom of the 9th. He finaly came through in the clucth. Mashallah. He hit a homer today as well, so i hope he continues this the whole year and into the playoffs.
Anyway I have been just empty in these past couple of weeks. So i turned to Salah again, and Subhanallah it filled me up to a certain degree. I went to the Masjid the other day for Zuhur and even though no nobody was their it was still very sprirtualy uplifting. I have to do that way more often. But the pressures of life and parents get to you, and the false success that we try our hardest to acheive are ever present. We spend our lives in the pursuit of material happiness and we forgot the day when we will meet allah, and we leave the life of this world in a state of confusion. May Allah protect us. Inshallah College is coming to a close next month and we all will be busy with exams and its kind, but after that its waking up in the late afternoons and sleeping after fajar for an entire 3 months. May Allah protect us. With the summer rapidly aproaching, I think we should set some goals. So let me start with myself.
First and foremost is to make a significant change in my Islamic knowledge and in my person. Next is to workout as much as I can and participate in my sports, like everyday. Third I want to save some money inshallah, for Umrah. Since coming back from Hajj I have had an urge just to go back as soon as possible. Mabye it will be possible, remember your brother in your duas, I really need them. I will probably come up with more but for now these will suffice. The heart needs to beat....and so we stay alive. salaam

Temptations

2007-03-25T20:15:00.000-04:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. Just coming out of my spring break, I spent it at my sisters house taking care of my four year old newphew, how exciting!! How many people wish they were me?? As we all heard that Pakistan is out of the world cup, that is the best news I have heard, most of my family is so nationlistic about Pakistan over cricket that its quite amusing. I like playing cricket more then watching it, you really have to be obsessed about it in order to sit and watch an eight hour match. So even though I couldnt care less about the world cup I told everyone how bad Pakistan was going to lose and that I have betrayed the country of my parents and now I side with India. The reactions I got should have been filmed and sent to Americas funniest home videos.

Anyway what has been on my mind that is of some importance is how to stay away from temptations. Temptations can vary from girls to biting your nails. Why is it that we are always surrounded by women who are so rich yet cant afford to cover themselves properly? That way guys are forced to look their way. Then the imfamous questions arises, "why dont you lower your gaze" let me answer it for all those people with that mentality. You cant walk around with your head in you shirt!! Promiscuously dressed women are everywhere, you cant lower your gaze from all of them. So what in the world are we (men) suppose to do? We cant get married because we have no money, our beloved sisters need to get married to rich handsome men, or it appears to be so. So the next imfamous question arises, "why dont u fast"? Again I will answer the question, fasting only diminishes the desire, as soon as you walk out of the house it starts to come at you like a speeding car or somthing. Fasting may work for a day or even two, but staying away from zina in our society has become nearly impossible. I know so many brothers who happen to be hufaaz commiting such henious deeds and actually showing off about it. So, again what do we do?? In the time of the Prophet (saw) they didnt have men and women showing off their bodies like today. Their was haya (modesty) even in the Kufar of that time. So, I humbly ask again, what do we do (by we i mean men and women)?????
The heart needs to beat....and so we stay alive.salaam

To Him is Our Return

2007-03-12T11:16:00.001-04:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. I came across very disturbing news today, in the Bronx NY a muslim family who lived in a 3 family home burned to death except for the dads. That in itself cluthches the heart with grief, but what is most surprising is that the 2 dads who survived the fire said on the janazah an ayah from the quran which is somthing to deeply reflect on, inshallah. "Be sure we shall test you, with something of fear, and hunger, some loss, in goods or lives or the fruits (of your toil), but give glad tidings to those who patiently persevere -- who say, when afflicted with calamity: 'To Allah we belong and to Him is our return." Subhanallah, they lost everything and yet they still remain patient and strong and their faith has grown. May Allah give us the ability to be steadfast when our test is given to us, we ask Allah to help us to be patient and thankful to him. Amen, the heart needs to beat....and so we stay alive.salaam

The Wake Up Call

2007-03-05T08:17:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. Mashallah many people are benifiting from Almaghrib institute, the recent class is about the names and atributes of Allah (swt), Subhanallah. I was not able to attend this extraordinary class due to family concerns, but anyway what I wanted to say was this: As i was driving back from work a few days I was planning on what to do when I got home and what I was going to do after whatever I had planned, my thoughts were so far from the remeberance of Allah that it surprised me later, Iam driving the speed limit and out of absolutly no where a deer comes running full speed into my car, out of impulse I swirved to the left and almost lost control of the car, but I was in the mercy of Allah. As I regained control and stopped to get out, it hit me "that could've been it" my qiyamah could have started right then and there! As i was swirving around I thought to myself about my last salah, my last deed, was it pleasing to Allah or not. Was I ready to meet Allah, was I ready to be worthy of jannah, was I even able to show my heart to Allah. Its amazing how close we are to death, when I pass by a cemetary, I see the only difference between us and them is the fence, we are just on the other side. My little incident with the deer opened my eyes again. But, the question is for how long will they stay open. Subhanallah, If you were to die in a matter of two days and u knew that in two days it was going to be it, what would u change about yourself.....(reflect on that), the scholors of old would say that we would not change a thing in their lives, Subhanallah. Absolotuly amazing. The heart needs to beat....and so we stay alive. salaam

Road to Guantanamo

2007-02-25T22:05:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of increasing iman. Subhanallah since snow is coming down outside the college has decided to give us another snow day, alhumdulilah. On a down note, I saw a movie called Road to Guantanamo, it was a huge shock for me, even though we know what our brothers and sisters are going through, we dont know its extremeity until we actually see it with our own eyes. The three British brothers, may Allah give them the highest levels of paradise, endured so much that we should thank Allah that we have such brothers in the Ummah in this day and age. When you all watch this movie, and I encourge everyone to see this movie, whether or your muslim or non muslim. The American goverment is full of lies and they really become are clear as day when you watch this film.

Watch this movie people and do somthing about it. Inform people, spread the word in your communties, make flyers and distirbute them on your college campuses, work,neighbors, etc. Lets remember all of our brothers and sisters in our duas, all the time, its the least we can do for them. May Allah bless them each and every second, may he ease their suffering and grant them istiqamah and the highest level of iman and jannahtul firdous. The heart needs to beat...and so we stay alive.salaam

How to Achieve

2007-02-16T09:22:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. Subhanllah we had a snow day this week, we were hit by almost a foot of snow on tuesday night and into wednesday, it was awsome. Didnt have to go to class or work, its been a long time since I have been as lazy as I was that day. I did have to blow away all the snow from the garage but that was fun. Playing in the snow is the best. Anyway I have been going through this feeling for a long time, its frustrating at times. Its my intentions. I ask myself, "who Iam I praying for", "who Iam I reciting quran for", and things like that. The more i ask myself the less I can tell what my own intentions are. How iam I to acheive iklas in my actions. Its not like I do what I do for people, I want it to be only for Allah, but i find myself wrestling with my intenitons and always worrying about the last good deed. We know the hadith that the Prophet(saw) said they have failed who gained knowledge, without doing amal, and they have failed who did amal but without sincere intentions, and the ones who do have sincere intentions are in trouble because intentions sway like the wind. I just powerphrased it but thats what he said. If iam not doing what iam doing for Allah's pleasure then iam wasting my time. I dont know what to do, i read and listen about the scholors in the past who spent the whole night in worhship and then they would cry to Allah, because of their intentions, they use to say "Ya Allah, forgive us if our intention faultered at any time" Subhanallah. The only thing i guess i can do is make dua and continue to wrestle with my niyaah and i know that Allah is just. If any one has suggestions, Iam here to listen. (Btw dont you just love that picture)

On a diffrent note, I came across this absolutley beautiful hadith
"Be in this world as though you were a stranger or a traveler/wayfarer.
"When evening comes, do not expect (to live till) morning, and when morning comes, do not expect (to live till) evening.
Take from your health (a preparation) for your illness, and from your life for your death." The heart needs to beat...and so we stay alive.salaam

Revenge

2007-02-09T08:01:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. Subhanallah its friday and the week is coming to a screeching hault. This week went by extremly slow, i guess because i didnt have to much work at college and worked 3 days excluding today. Anyway who cares, I saw a movie recently called Fearless with Jet Li. It is an awsome movie, the martial arts and all of that stuff was great,iam really fond of martial arts. Their was a line that he said in the movie that really jumped out at me and it was quite relevent to us muslims. He said, "Revenge only leads to more bloodshed". As I thought about it, it became more and more clear to me that he was absolutly right. If we look at the condition of the muslim ummah, we see that we are fighting amoung ourselves. Why?? Because we cant agree on a political matter so we start to kill each other. In Iraq the Shia Sunni thing, which is so out of hand thats it seems like its a civil war. If one group just says STOP and think and look at the others ideas or where they're coming from, we would be in a much better situation. It would also unite us, and we need as much unity as possible.

All we need to do is try to understand where the opposing person is coming from. For example we have so many sects in Islam, if two sects got together and respectfully related their views and the others tried to understand without judging them and telling them so bluntly "you will burn in jahanum" that would ease our basless tensions. We need a little sacrifice a little patience and a little unity, and it will go a long way for us, people. Think about it, if someone smacks you and you forgive him, it will bring you closer. They will feel bad and soon apoligize and if we are united in our communities then society will follow and then eventually the ummah. The heart needs to beat....and so we stay alive. salaam

Mother

2007-02-04T02:44:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. Alhumdulilah my beautiful mother has returned from pakistan, as she went their for the nikah of my brother. In the past two weeks that she wasnt around, my house was just so empty and lonley. I told a very good friend of mine that their is nothing in this world that is more important then our parents. They take care of us when we are so helpless, they teach us the things that we need to learn, and they sacrifice so much for us, that it is beyond our imgination. Subhanllah, and then we speak to them like they are our slaves. Allah has "say not to them a word of disrespect and lower to them the wing of humility, and say, oh Allah have mercy on them as they did on me when i was a child." My mother and I are Mashallah very close, and your mother is really your best friend. She knows when your down, and upset, she knows when your happy and content, I ask myself, how?? The answer is a poem in arabic which i will relate to you in english.

There was a boy who met a man one day amd the man said to him "If you bring me the heart of your mother I will give you all the riches of this world". The boy was overjoyed and ran home, he grabbed a knife from his kitchen and stabbed his mother and ripped out her heart and began to ran to the man who had made him the promise. While running fear gripped him when he understood what he had done to his beloved mother. In his aniexty he tripped and fell, the heart then rolled out of his hand. Then the heart spoke out "Oh my son are you okay, are your hurt?" They boy again was overwhemled with what he had done, and out of rage decided to kill himself. But then the heart spoke again "Oh my son kill me not twice, kill me not twice."

That is the heart of our mothers and we can only understand the mother when she is no longer their. Lets thank Allah for what we have today and take advantage of every second with our mothers because soon Allah will call them back. And we will have nothing left except for the memories. They are our jannah, lets serve them and please them, for the sake of Allah. That is our succes, inshallah. Iam glad my mother is back home with us, because she is my best friend. I have the answer to my question that I asked above, if you havent already figured it out, it is love. They love us more then anything and everyting in this world. Mothers are our best friends. The heart needs to beat....and so we stay alive. salaam

If the Prophet Visited You

2007-01-28T15:52:00.000-05:00

IF THE PROPHET VISITED YOU,JUST FOR A DAY OR TWO,
IF HE CAME UNEXPECTEDLY,I WONDER WHAT YOU WOULD DO.

OH, I KNOW, YOU’D GIVE HIM YOUR NICEST ROOM, TO SUCH AN HONOURED GUEST;

AND ALL THE FOOD YOU’D SERVE HIM,WOULD BE THE VERY BEST.

AND, YOU WOULD KEEP ASSURING HIM,YOU ARE GLAD TO HAVE HIM THERE,

THAT SERVING HIM IN YOUR HOME,IS JOY BEYOND COMPARE.

BUT… WHEN YOU SAW HIM COMING,WOULD YOU MEET HIM AT THE DOOR.

WITH ARMS OUTSTRETCHED IN WELCOME,TO YOUR VISITOR?

OR…WOULD YOU HAVE TO CHANGE YOUR CLOTHES,

BEFORE YOU LET HIM IN?OR HIDE SOME MAGAZINES AND PUT,

THE QURAN WHERE THEY HAD BEEN?

WOULD YOU STILL WATCH FORBIDDEN MOVIES,ON YOUR TV SET?

OR WOULD YOU RUSH TO SWITCH IT OFF,BEFORE HE GETS UPSET?

WOULD YOU TURN OFF THE RADIO,AND HOPE HE HADN’T HEARD?

AND HOPE YOU HADN’T UTTERED,THE LAST LOUD, HASTY WORD?

WOULD YOU HIDE YOUR WORDLY MUSIC,AND INSTEAD TAKE HADITH BOOKS OUT?

COULD YOU LET HIM WALK RIGHT IN,OR WOULD YOU RUSH ABOUT?

AND, I WONDER… IF THE PROPHET* SPENT,A DAY OR TWO WITH YOU,

WOULD YOU GO RIGHT ON DOING THE THINGS,YOU ALWAYS DO?

WOULD YOU GO RIGHT ON SAYING THE THINGS,YOU ALWAYS SAY?

WOULD LIFE FOR YOU CONTINUE,AS IT DOES FROM DAY TO DAY?

WOULD YOU KEEP UP EACH AND EVERY PRAYER,WITHOUT PUTTING ON A FROWN?

AND WOULD YOU ALWAYS JUMP UP EARLY,FOR PRAYERS AT DAWN?

WOULD YOU SING THE SONGS YOU ALWAYS SING,AND READ THE BOOKS YOU READ?

AND LET HIM KNOW THE THINGS ON WHICH,YOUR MIND AND SPIRIT FEED?

WOULD YOU TAKE THE PROPHET WITH YOU,EVERYWHERE YOU PLAN TO GO?

OR WOULD YOU, MAYBE, CHANGE YOUR PLANS,JUST FOR A DAY OR SO?

WOULD YOU BE GLAD TO HAVE HIM MEET,YOUR VERY CLOSEST FRIENDS?

OR WOULD YOU HOPE THEY’D STAY AWAY,UNTIL HIS VISIT ENDS?

WOULD YOU BE GLAD TO HAVE HIM STAY,FOREVER ON AND ON?

OR WOULD SIGH WITH GREAT RELIEF,WHEN HE AT LEAST WAS GONE?

IT MIGHT BE INTRESTING TO KNOW,THE THINGS THAT YOU WOULD DO,

IF THE PROPHET MOHAMMAD,IN PERSON CAME,

TO SPEND SOME TIME WITH YOU.

The heart needs to beat....and so we stay alive.salaam

Baitullah

2007-01-20T21:29:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. Salaam to everyone, alhumdulilah allah has given me the opportunity to perform the hajj. I ask you all to pray that allah accepts my humble efforts inshallah. Hajj is somthing that is so physicaly challenging, that its unbelievable. But it is the most beautiful thing that a muslim goes through in his life. It requires so much sabr, and one really has to be mindful of where they are, if one does not understand the magnitude of the sacredness of the haraam, then they will utter words that are displeasing to allah. Subhanallah, in a hadith of the Prophet (saw) he said that an accepted hajj has no other reward than paradise. The way one gets their hajj accepted is simple, allah says you can't be intimate with your spouses, you can't sin, and you can't fight. If one does these 3 things and adds ikhlas then jannah is their final abode inshallah.

The best part about the whole trip was spending time in the haraam. As I walked through King Abdul Aziz gate for the first time, i went down the stairs and slowly walked with all the poeple waiting to lay eyes on the kabah for the very first time. As i came closer and closer to it, i started to see the black cover through the pillars in the beatiful masjid. Then all of a sudden, there it was in front of me and i was in a state of awe, the sight was absolutly breathtaking . Then i went down the small stair case and in the courtyard where the kabah itself is, and began the tawwaf. Subhanallah it was beyond words. While doing tawwaf one can do anyform of worship, obviously accept for salah. You can recite quran, make dua, make zikr, or any form of ibadah, and the best part is walking around the kabah is worship itself, so while walking and making dua we are doing 2 types of ibadah at the same time. I hope that made sense. I took alot of pictures there, but as i said hajj is so physicaly straining that i need to catch up on sleep and things like that. Inshallah i will have the pictures up soon, and the 5 or 6 people who read this can check them out. The heart needs to beat.....and so we stay alive. salaam

Palestine

2006-12-05T12:53:00.000-05:00

Gihad Ali -

Look into my eyes and tell me what you see. You don’t see a damn thing,`cause you can’t possibly relate to me.
You’re blinded by our differences. My life makes no sense to you. I’m the persecuted Palestinian. You’re the American red, white and blue.
Each day you wake in tranquility. No fears to cross your eyes. Each day I wake in gratitude thanking God He let me rise.
You worry about your educationand the bills you have to pay. I worry about my vulnerable life and if I’ll survive another day.
Your biggest fear is getting ticketed as you cruise your Cadillac. My fear is that the tank that just left will turn around and come back.
America, do you realize,that the taxes that you pay feed the forces that traumatize my every living day?
The bulldozers and the tanks, the gases and the guns, the bombs that fall outside my door, all due to American funds.
Yet do you know the truth of where your money goes? Do you let your media deceive your mind? Is this a truth that no one knows?
You blame me for defending myself against the ways of Zionists.I’m terrorized in my own landand I’m the terrorist?
You think you know all about terrorism but you don’t know it the way I do. So let me define the term for you and teach you what you thought you knew.
I’ve known terrorism for quite some time,fifty-four years and more.It’s the fruitless garden uprooted in my yard. It’s the bulldozer in front of my door.
Terrorism breathes the air I breathe. It’s the checkpoint on my way to school. It’s the curfew that jails me in my own home, and the penalties of breaking that curfew rule.
Terrorism is the robbery of my land. And the torture of my mother. The imprisonment of my innocent father. The bullet in my baby brother.
So America, don’t tell me you know about the things I feel and see.I’m terrorized in my own landand the blame is put on me.
But I will not rest, I shall never settle for the injustice my people endure.Palestine is our land and there we’ll remain until the day our homeland is secure.
And if that time shall never come, then you will never see a day of peace. I will not be thrown from my own home, nor will my fight for justice cease.
And if I am killed, it will be in Falasteen. It’s written on my every breath.So in your own patriotic words, Give me liberty or give me death.

The heart needs to beat and so we stay alive. salaam

(watch) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4855942093602125753&q=look+into+my+eyes+outlandish&hl=en

Hajj and Reality

2006-12-03T20:28:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. We near hajj the season. Some people have waited there whole life to make this blessed journey, and others dont even think about it. Some people dream about making tawaf around the ka'bah and others cant stop circling the world. Some people anticpate this journey so much that even before they make it, there life begins to change, and they become pure in thought and deed. Other people dont make time to even pray salah. Some people will go on this journey and be the guest of allah and it will change there whole life, and other people will stay with the same neglectful life. Some people will return to their homes life a new born baby, and others will be still drowning in themselves. Some people will go to jannah because of this journey and others will go to hell. Brothers and sisters if you have the means to go to allah house then by all means do so, because life is not garunteed to anyone, young or old.

There were a group of young muslim brothers who were far from allah, and they used to party every weekend. They would drink and pick up women and take them to diffrent abandoned places and engage in intercourse and other haram activties. They would bring alcohal and food and women, so this one weekend they brought the alcohal and picked up the ladies but forgot the food. One of the guys said to his friend go and pick up some food for us. So, he drove off in his car to get somthing to eat. After one hour, two, three and then four hours the brother did not return. The other guy become worried and knew in his heart that somthing had gone wrong, and so he drove after him. In the distance he saw a flame and as he got near to he saw his friends car turned upside down and on fire. He ran to the car not thinking of himself and pulled out his friend, he noticed that he was burned severly from the waist down. He told him "Its gonna be okay" and his friend who was alive said to him "This is it for me, what iam i going to say to allah." He looked at him and then took him to his car and franticlly started to drive to find a hospital. All the while saying "Its going to be okay" his friend kept saying to him "This is it for me, what iam i going to say to allah, what iam i going to say to allah." Soon after he started to breath hard and fast and screamed OH ALLAH!! and the angel had taken his soul and the brother returned to allah. The brother who was driving said that all i could think about was when he would say "What iam i going to say to allah." That is the reality brothers and sisters, we have to ask ouselves when we have time "What are we going to say to allah, what iam i going to say to allah." Death is the ultimate reality and, and we live only to die. We need to fulfil our obligations to allah before he takes us, and lets make our meeting with allah the best meeting of our lives.

Hajj is somthing that gives us that fresh brand new start that we somtimes ask for, the young brothers and sisters who go to college have vacation in this time and should take advantage of this oppurtunity. Go to hajj and come back a changed person before death over takes us. The Prophet Muhamaad (saw) has said "Take advantage of 5 things, take advantage of youth before old age, time before we become tied up with obligations, wealth before poverty, health before sickness, and life before death overtakes us. The heart needs to beat....and so we stay alive. salaam

Astagfirullah

2006-11-29T22:18:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. When i post these blogs i dont speak my own words, these are the words of allah and his beloved messenger. Someone added a comment on the last blog saying "Stop barking" i thought to myself how could somone say that, because i spoke the words of allah. This person doesnt have this much respect for allah and his messenger, then that is why allah has prepared the hell fire for them. If someone says stop barking to the messenger of allah, then there is no place for him except in the fire. May allah forgive us. Sometimes we sink to the level that is below the animals, allah says that in the quran. People act like they dont want paradise and are arrogant about it. We cannot handle the fire people, we need to work for allah and for islam. The reason we feel the emptiness inside of us is because we are far from allah. In the third part of the night allah decends down to the lowest heaven and says "is there anyone who wants to ask of me so i shall grant it for him" but sadly we are asleep at that time, if we were to be awake at that time and praying and having a conversation with the one who is suppose to be our beloved then we would say the type of things that i have stated above. One of the cures of the heart is to wake in the last portion of the night and beg allah's mercy. Believe me people, we need our hearts to be cured from the diseases that we have. Allah says " Verily they have succeded who have purified themselves, and success is jannah, if we dont purify ourselves then may allah have mercy on us. The heart needs to beat and so we stay alive....salaam

Shukar and Ikhlas

2006-11-13T22:45:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. Today we as muslims lack somthing called shukar, or gratitude to allah (swt). Allah says in the holy quran "if you thank me then i will increase you in your blessings, and if you are ungrateful then for you is a painful torment." If we look at the first part of the verse allah tell us that he will increase our blessings if we thank him, subhanallah. The first blessing that we need to thank allah with is islam, we are muslim and on the straight path because allah has just given it to us without us asking or anything. If we dont follow what out lord has given us, then allah will take it from us. How do we thank allah for the greatest blessing. First we thank allah by simply saying it, then we thank allah by doing what he has told us to do, Allah says in the quran that "Take what the prophet is giving you and stay away from what he is telling you to stay away from." We need to follow allah and his messenger and that is essentially thanking allah for his blessings on us. In the end we want and need paradise because we cant stand the fire so lets do what we need to do and get to jannah brothers and sisters.

Inshallah iam planning to go to hajj this year, hajj is such a spirtual ibadah that it changes a persons life and there is nothing close to that experiance. I hope that you will pray for me that i do what i say in my humble blogs, and pray that allah increases me and knowledge and amal. Pray that allah accepts my hajj and everything that i do. Most important is that me as well as you keep our intentions for the sake of allah, because without sincerity we are wasting our time. Ikhlas is needed more then anything. Stay moderate yet consistent in worship. The heart needs to beat....and so we stay alive. salaam

I Often Think When I Might Sin

2006-11-06T22:27:00.000-05:00

I often think when I might sin,What if the Angel would come to me then?Would I want to be risen doing that sin?I often think quietly to myself,Where will I go, oh, where will I go,When the Angel comes to me?

What if the Angel comes at night,With a command from Allah to take my soul?Where will I run, oh, where will I run?What if the Angel comes to me when I'm driving my car?Can I lock my doors, so the Angel can't get in?Where will I hide, oh where will I hide?
I often think when I might sin,What if the Angel would come to me then?Would I want to be risen doing that sin?I often think quietly to myself,Where will I go, oh where will I go,When the

Angel comes to me?

What if the Angel comes in the middle of tea?Maybe I can plead for a later return.How will I plead, oh, how will I plead?What if the Angel comes to me when I'm watching TV?Can I beg to the Angel for a little more time?How will I beg, oh how will I beg?

I often think when I might sin,What if the Angel would come to me then?Would I want to be risen doing that sin?I often think quietly to myself,Where will I go, oh, where will I go?When the Angel comes to me?

i did not write this poem...but whoever did wrote somthing powerful. The heart needs to beat....and so we stay alive. salaam

Natural Again & What Happend to Isha

2006-10-30T14:31:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing. It has been a slow long sad week for muslims as we say salaam to ramadan and the eid mubaraks have come to a hault. Most of us are eating and drinking again. This is natural, in ramadan we were going against our nature to get close to allah. When our stomach would call us so that we could fill it, we didnt becasue allah forbade us. That is why allah has said that the only reward for fasting is jannah, subhannalah. Now we are in the month of Shawal and in this month fasting for 6 days is preferable, i have no started them yet but inshallah i plan on starting tommorw. I dont know the exact virtue of fasting the six days but i know that the prophet (saw) did it and we should as well. Just a reminder people we need to keep up the spirtuality that we picked up in ramadan. Sometimes i feel as if iam going back to my old state, and if we used ramadan in a positive manner then inshalah we can become better muslims throughtout the whole year.

As we all know that Salutul Isha is still fard on the muslims, i cant believe it, our masjd empty subhanallah the muslims have forgotten salah. A famous scholor said that one of the cures of the heart is being regular in salah. I know that people say that just because we dont pray in the masjid doesnt mean that we pray at all... but the prophet (saw) said that he wishes that he could burn down the houses of those men that hear the call to prayer and go home and pray. Plus it is fard on the men to pray in the masjid. I say this and try to do amal on this as best as i can so inshallah pray for me. The heart needs to beat...and so we stay alive. salaam

Eid Mubarak

2006-10-24T23:43:00.000-04:00

I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. First of all i would like to say Eid Mubarak to all of my muslims brothers and sisters. To the non muslims eid is a muslim holiday that we celebrate after ramadan has ended. Subhanllah, when ramadan ends it feels as if we had a guest in our home and now the guest has left, and the home feels so empty. I mabye wrong but i feel that way...its quite depressing. I hope we all had a great time with our families and friends... since now eid is over we have to continue our gratitude that we picked up while fasting inshallah. Subhanallah it was amazing that 99% of muslims celebrated eid together...there were a few weridos that did it on tuesday...but hey whatever makes them feel good is ok. I think that somtimes we get too rigid in our beliefs when we really dont have to be. If someone has seen the moon and he is a normal person..then we as muslims should take his or her word for it and celebrate it.

Well the world series is going on and the cardinals are up 2 games to 1 i really want them to win... after the yanks got eliminated i hate the tigers. The giants have been doing some good things this season especially their win last night aganist the cowboys..they beat them pretty bad thats always good. Well lets keep up all the good we got from ramadan and continue with dua for ourselves and each other and the ummah in general. The heart needs to beat...and so we stay alive. salaam

Dua

2006-10-19T00:21:00.000-04:00

i hope that everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. I really wanted to mention somthing that i learned today... and it was so disturbing that my heart still is in shock. Dont worry ppl iam ok.... a friend of mine who is a hafiz, which means he has memorized the entire quran.. has taken a diffrent path. It is not the path of islam... infact its not any religion. This person has rejected allah (swt)... he has forgotten his creator... forgotten all the bounties on him and his family...and hes denied the undeniable existance of allah (swt). I lived with this person when i was enrolled in islamic school... and to see that a close person like that has drifted so far away....its scary. Thats why the title of this blog is dua...which means to supplicate to allah (swt) we need to beg allah to let us die not unless we die in a state of iman and islam. Subhanallah, so many people revert to islam and then some people who allah gave this blessing too without asking for it, totaly reject it... allah says in the quran...if you are thankful then allah will give you more and if you are ungratful then allah has a severe torment waiting for you. In this case that is what happened allah has sealed his heart... and he cant see properly anymore. May allah strengthin our iman and let us be practicing muslims until the day we die. Let our last words be La ilaha illah Muhamadur rasullah... there is no god but allah and Muhammad (saw) is his messenger. I hope we can see that the devil is always working 24 hours a day... and we are at war with him... and he swore to allah that he will not rest until every single son and daughter of Adam (as) is in the hell fire. Our weapons are the quran and the sunnah. We have examples in the prophet (saw) and his companions. I hope that u will keep me in your prayers and also this brother who has wandered off, Ya allah bring him back, he doesnt know what good for him, u know everything... pray that allah keeps our iman and makes it stronger everyday.... and we die not unless we die in the state of islam. The heart needs to beat...and so we stay alive. salaam

Last Ten Days

2006-10-15T00:59:00.000-04:00

i hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. We have reached the last ten days of ramadan, alhumdulillah. We need to keep in mind the significance of these blessed days. In one of the days is a night which is better then 1000 months. 1000 month is about 80 years, so who ever is in the company of allah this night, then they have succeded... and they have a home in paradise. The catch is we do not know which night is the night of power is, therfore we need to worship allah every night, and that is the trick...thats how we can catch this night. On Layla-tul qadar we should be very constant in the supplication " o allah forgive me because you love to forgive." I hope we can make the most of these last ten days. We know that ramadan is leaving, and eid is coming up...but we are still in ramadan and we have a chance to get into paradise and we still have the oppurtunity to please allah. We can please allah until we are alive...but in ramadan there is only mercy, forgiveness, and blessings. We need to stay awake and stand in prayer...almost every masjid has some sort of night prayer and we need to take advantage of that. We need allah more then he needs us. I want to leave you with this beautiful hadith. After a battle there was a women who was taken from the battle as a prisnoer of war .... and she was really anxious, she was pacing around in her room... the prophet (saw) asked the companions what is wrong with the women.... the companions asked her and she told them that my son is out there and he still drinks my milk.... the prophet (saw) said go immediatly and find the child and bring the child to the mother.... the sahaba brought the baby to the mother.. and when she was reunited with the child.. she showed so much love and compassion towards the child that the sahaba were amazed and said Ya rasullah look how much she is loves her child.... and our prophet on whom our parents are sacrified said that allah (swt) loves his slaves 1000 times more then a mother. For the mothers out there, you guys can relate to this more then men, because you know what you feel towards your children... and take all that love and multiply it by 1000 and thats how much allah loves us. Allah waits for us to ask forgivness so that he can forgive us...but we need to beg him and take the first step ppl. Keep me in your prayers in the last ten days and lets get down to what we have to do and lets make a home for ourselves in paradise. The heart needs to beat... and so we stay alive. salaam

knowledge

2006-10-12T01:01:00.000-04:00

It is so important for us muslims to have knoweldge about our religion. Our religion is being disgraced by ppl like robert spencer and Serge Trifkovic they are taking our ayahs and the hadith of the prophet muhammad (saw) and showing the west in the most terrible negitive way. What will we do about this O muslims?? when will we wake up?? how will ppl understand real isalm when they are being bombarded by these types of ppl. We need to kno wat allah and his messenger are telling us. These guys made this documentary about how islam is filled with violence and it is such a inhuman religion. I would like to ask them this... if islam is so inhuman why is it the fastest growing religion in not only america but all over the world....if islam is so inhuman why hasnt anyone before 9/11 said anything like this....if islam is such a monstrous religion why in this goddamn world why is the most followed religion in the world, even more then christianity......the fact is islam is not a religion of violence....for the love of allah it comes from the root word salaam, which mean peace. There are a few aspects about islam that can be taken the wrong way and be interpertated as being violent, but when cleared up they make perfect sense. I really dont want to get into jihad, because it has been spoken about many times... but what i wanna say is that islam is a way of life more then it is a religion... therefore in a way of life protecting urself and ur land calls for defense. I hope my non muslim brothers and sisters will not just listen to ignorent ppl... but i urge u to go and look it up for urselves and try to understand the real message of islam...hell..dont even take my word for it...study ppl. For my muslim brothers and sisters.... we need to study islam.... islam will never be wiped out no matter wat ppl do or say bout it....but we need to learn it and get into jannah ppl. The heart needs to beat...and so we stay alive. salaam

Really???!!!!

2006-10-10T10:11:00.000-04:00

Are they really getting rid of joe torre...this is the biggest mistake the yankees organization will ever make...he has been one of the most winningest managers in yankees history. 4 world series in the span of just 5 years and after that one world series apperance in 2001. Steinbrenier has not made a decision yet but everyone on espn and sportscenter is sayin he might go. Its obvious that the players dont want him to leave...every player they interveiwed they said that it was a team fault and you cant just blame one person for the meltdown. Anyway i really want him to stay...i think the yankees can still win a world series with the lineup that joe torre puts out...they just need young pitching.....as good as mussina did this year....he is about 37 years old...and randy johnson he is 43.....u cant have these type of pitchers as you aces. The yanks need to go and get andy pettite...one of the original yankees. As much as clemens would help the yanks i just cant stand him....he is a trader...he said iam retiring and then signed with the stupid astros.... Again the yanks need solid young pitching and defense....a rod needs to focus and cashman needs to get rid of shef...he is on the decline. We will see wat will happen next year if we are alive till then.

I just hope everyones ramadan is going according to there plans....mine is getting much better. I hope we are reading the quran and implementing it in our lives. I hope this ramadan is bringing a change into our lives.... and we will stay much like we are now after this month passes us by. The weather has been absolutly gourgeos...and at night it is somthing else...so we should sit out at night and ponder on the creation of allah...it really brings a person closer to allah. If you are pakistani and understand panjabi then listen to merey allah by muhammad ali...it is the most beautiful conversation that a person can have with his creator. I leave with you with this. Imam ahmed ibn hambal's son asked him "abi (father) when will we relax" the world has been so harsh with us when will allah take us into his mercy. The reviver of the sunnah and one of the greatest scholors of islam said when we take our first steps into paradise. Subhanallah!!! Pateince ppl..we have to do what we have to do..and inshallah we will be beholding allah (swt) alongside the prophet muhammad (saw), all of the other prophets, the great sahaba, amazing scholors, the aulia, and friends of allah. The heart needs to beat...and so we stay alive. salaam

Jack Straw???!!

2006-10-08T16:59:00.000-04:00

Who the hell is Jack Straw and why is he telling our muslim sisters who wear niqab (veil) to take it off when they are in the constiuency...why the hell does he care....he said he wants to see there faces....why?? what is that gonna do?? Thats not a barrier.. the sisters can get there point across without taking it off. Somtimes all these ppl who think they r so smart say some real stupid things. On islamonline they have a poll and u can vote, its pretty interesting, u guys should chek out that website. They have good articals for men and women. A sister by the name of Ammina Hernendaz wrote a very good artical about why she wears the headscraf, its very good for non muslims to read and it will forsure better your understand of why muslim women wear hijab.

Yes, today it has been one year since the catastrophic earthquake that shook pakistan. May allah give the highest level of paradise to those who pershied on that fateful day. May allah give stength to our brothers and sisters who were left behind,without homes, and without shelter, and without the basic need to survive. For ppl like us who were not effected by the earthquake, we should first of all thank allah, then supplicate to him and beg his protection from such natural disasters. It is a sign from allah.. ppl wake up do what you have to do, you are not listing to my commandments. Somtimes allah uses pain and suffering to bring people back. Its funny when we are in a good situation we forget the lord who gave us that peace, and we say it was my efforts and my hard work. But when we are in harships and suffering then we pull out or prayers mats and roseries, and we are in the masjid with tears in our eyes.. some of us even grow beards for a little while. We act so pethictic somtimes. I leave you with this ayah from the noble quran. It may be that you detest something which is good for you; and it may be you love something even though it is bad for you. Allah knows, and you do not know.~ Surat AlBaqarah 2/216. And like always...the heart needs to beat....and so we stay alive. salaam

noooooo!!!!!!!!!

2006-10-08T02:52:00.001-04:00

Oh my god the yankees lost!!!! i cant belive it ppl....this is so terrible...i really thought they were gonna go all the way this year...they had pitching and awsome hitting....their hitting was like the 96 yankees...making their own breaks and clutch hitting. As much as i like A rod he hasnt done anything in the playoffs or in the clutch.....when the yanks get eliminated from the playoffs its so depressing....iam so down....but there is always next year...i really want joe torre to stay i hope he doesnt get fired because of this extremly terrible performance. We all kno that the yanks are much better then this and they can easily beat the stupid tigers...but wats written is written. well iam goin for the mets now.I have been thinking about how we like to memorize rap songs and other useless stuff, but we never take out time to memorize quran. It is so important to move on from the regular surahs that we recite like surah ikhlas and suarah kauther n some others to some long ones like surah naba and surah naziat. Then wen we stand up in prayer at night we can stand a little longer. This came to mind when a brother in the masjid was rapping and a brother said to him "hey why dont you memorize quran instead of rap music". Its funny we wanna be like them so much but if they dont come to islam, they r gonna be in hell.. may allah guide them to the truth.We kno that ramadan is a month of being extra generous. The prophet Muhammad (saw) use to be more generous in the month of ramadan then in the whole year. Him being generous is somthing to think about because he didnt have much...he would come home and ask aisha (ra) wat is in the home and she would say Ya rasuallah 1 date or 2 dates and somthing there would be nothing....subhanallah. I want u guys to read this.....A man served God for seventy years and then committed a sin which canceled the merit of his service. Afterwards he gave a loaf of bread to a poor man, so God pardoned his sin and gave him back the merit of his seventy years' service. His alms are vain who does not know that his need of the reward for giving is greater than the poor man's need of the gift. That is so amazing...fall into the depth of that last statement. A reminder ppl we are gettin to the last ten days of ramadan and closer to the night that is better then 1000 months of worship.. yes..laylatul qadar!! so lets buckle down and get ourselves to paradise. Because somtimes we act like we dont want paradise....so lets act like we want it. The heart needs to beat....and so we stay alive. salaam

i welcome myself

2006-10-08T02:52:00.000-04:00

i hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of ever increasing iman. this is my first time doin this blog stuff i think its pretty cool..so iam giving it a shot. well we are in the middle of ramadan and we all kno this is the month of blessings. Ramadan for me gets real hard somtimes, not because its hard to fast, but because i do taraweeh and i go to college...man oh man i get so drained it not even funny...but i kno u guys dont care that much about me... so let me just say that we are half way thru this amazing month and we need to evaluate our use of time so far....ask urself how much quran have you read??!! haveyou asked forgivness from allah yet??!! and the most important.... have we made enough dua to allah so that allah will grant us paradise??!! i for one have been lacking in all of these areas....i would luv to be alone at night with allah talking to him like talking to a friend.... ahhhhh man!!!!! that sounds so beautiful... so in the next 2 weeks of ramadan lets get down and do wat we gotta go do. Another thing for guys who go to high school or college we need to lower our gaze as much as possible...because that stuff is everywhere!!! and a fast is like a white cloth when you sin little black dots come on it and the white cloth becomes dirty so we want our fast to be as clean and as beautiful as we can get it to be so that we can present it to allah!! The heart needs to beat..so that we stay alive.....go to depth of that statment ppl. salaam