Jumuah Mubarak!!!

Asalaamu alimkum wa ragmatullah hi wa barakatu...

 

Alhumdulillah... i trust that you all had a beautiful and blessed EID.

 

I also pray that Allah swt accepts all your efforts during the month of Ramadaan.

 

WOW... what a gorgeous day!!!

 

Just take a look out of the window... whereever you are ..stop . pause. and ponder upon the creation of YOUR LORD... BEAUTIFUL!!!

 

 

i also pray that Allah swt gives us the ability and steadfastness. to take advantage of the 6 days of shawaal...

 buy 6 get the rest of the year FREE ... Allahu AKbar!!!!

 

 

If i think back... i was never good at maths at school. In matric i just scrapped thru with a pass ... but as i sit in my chair thinking back over the month that has just been ... i innevitably start doing some random sums...  29 + 6 = 365 and a 1/4.

 

If i tell you that my answer to the aforementioned sum is correct... how would you react?  wot would you say? would you laugh?

i guess some may laugh and others would say i must go for tuition.

 

 

it doesnt make sense. does it?

  

 

HOW MERCIFUL A RABB DO WE HAVE... it is reported that the prophet (SAW) had mentioned that if a  person follows the month of ramadaan by fasting 6 days of shawaal ... then such person will receive the reward as if they fasted the whole year...

Allahu Akbar!!!  ... i dont have a reference ... sorry ... but if any one can assist ...

 

 

ok ...lets do the sum over ... 29 (days of ramadaan) + 6 (days of shawaal) = 365 and a 1/4.

 

 

So if we think about it ...  if we make the effort, and niyaah  to fast a further 6 days... just imagine the mountain of reward that awaits us.... Allah hu akbar!!!

 

My message this week is to encourage.. if you are able to ... to fast 6 more days ... if you are fasting then all praise is to ALLAH SWT for allowing you to perform such an act of Ibaada for HIS sake... and May ALLAHswt keep us all sincere ... 

i encourage one and all to delay the innevitable ... and delay the ' its back to normal ' attitude and strive ... with your best efforts to take advantage of the MERCY and Gifts ALLAH SWT makes available to us... and let us all purchase 6 more days of fasting for the the Sake of Allah ( SWT) and get ... the rest of the year FREE.

 

and May Allah SWt accept from us our Good Deeds and increase us all in Goodness, ameen.

 

i leave you with a portion of an ayaat to ponder over ... it comes from surah yusouf : verse 90 ...  

[إِنَّهُ مَن يَتَّقِ وَيِصْبِرْ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لاَ يُضِيعُ أَجْرَ الْمُحْسِنِينَقَالُواْ تَاللَّهِ لَقَدْ آثَرَكَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْنَا]

"Verily, he who has Taqwa, and is patient, then surely, Allah makes not the reward of the gooddoers to be lost.''

think. reflect. ponder.

PS: travel safely brother Yusuf ... may Allah swt ... take you safely and dont forget us in your duas .. (musafir)

PS2:What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work?
A stick.
PS3:Where do you find a no legged dog?
Right where you left him.

PSP: no doggz were hurt during the making of this email ... lol.... :-)

xbox: There are 96 000 km of blood vessels in the average adult body.

wii: HALAAL TOUR 2009 ... TRY THE NEW PRIMI EXPRESS ... I HEAR ITS GOOD ..

Peace. Love . AND A  two day marinated piece of braiied chop ... mmh:-p  ... well done dupsie!!!

JUMUAH MUBARAK!!!

Asalaamu ALaikum ...

 

I trust all is well?

 

On this GReat day .. of Jumuah ... RAMDAAN 1430 i greet you with a smile... and a heart  bursting at the seams overflowing with an energy .. a strange form of spiritual juice .. forged in the depths of my conscious and beating to the tune of laa illah ha illalaa Muhumad durrasoolulah ...(saw)  ... WOW!.. wot a month ...

 ALLAH hu ALbar!!

 

i pray that Allah swt makes us all sincere ... ameen.

my message is firstly to myself and then to who ever else can find benefit herefrom...

 

i trust that this email finds with an certain something extra ... heightened and excitable ... ready to make a difference in the pursuit of ALLAH SWt's Mercy.

 

 

I must say that his year has been different in so many ways ... the first and most apparent to me is the fact that i am married this year[ ALHUMDILLIAH] AAND LOVING IT ... AND SECONDLY ... for the first time in YEARS ... i didnt stand next to someone during TARAWEEG salaah who burped a mixture of PINEapple DOUBLE 'O and fish curry... AWESOME!!!!

 

:- ) 

 

QUIT WHILST YOU ARE AHEAD ... never!

 

... THEIR was once a man who had a son ... his son was deformed .. in that he was only borne as  AHEAD. HE HAD NO BODY, ARMS, LEGS... NOTHING... just a HEAD.

Inspite of the enormous obstacles he faced .. this HEAD .. i mean boy... managed to graduate from UCT ... The HEADS father... oops .. i mean boys ... father was so pleased and proud of his sons achievement that he decided to take his SON to the BAR to celebrate ... he called the bartender and said ... " HEY! BARtender give my boy the shot of your best alchohol " ... the Bartender looked concerned but said nothing and gave the drink ... the boy drank and BOOM! out popped a set of arms ... the father became so excited that he said to the bartender " give him another" ... the boy again drank and this time OUT Popped a body/ torso ... the father and son now both happy hugged each other ... and shouted in unison " bartender another " ... the BARTENDER was still not happy ... and reluctantly poured the drink ...

The entire BAR exploded with excitemetn for what was unfolding before their eyes... THE boy drank again ... and out popped two legs and genitalia ... the father got so excited that he fell off his chair and the BOY got up and excitedlly started staggerring out the door and into  the street ... ONLY TO BE KNOCKED DOWN by a truck...DEAD SILENCE over took the bar patrons ... until the BARTENDER RECKONED ... " THAT BOI SHOULD QUITTED WHILE HE WAS AHEAD! .... HEHEHEEHEHhehehe lol:-)  

 

 

The very nature of our behaviour during ramadaan sees us catapult from mere mortals ... to ...  well,  we remain mere mortals but way ahead in our previous spiritual condition.

 

The question is ... do we maintain that condition ... or do we quit whilst we are ahead...?

 

simple answer to that ... isnt it? 

 

consistency and steadfastness... is key ... we are coming out of a month in which, through the MERCYof Allah  (swt), our sins could very well have been obliterated... and if we now dwindle back to our old ways then we may very well be building up that mountain once again... MAY ALLAH  SWT GUIDE us all.

 

the trick is to realise that whatever we have done during ramadaan,,, does exist outside of ramadaan ...

 

Salaah, Quraan, charity, good deeds... fasting ( albeit not compulsory) exists outside of the month of ramadaan ... you probably saying ...wait just a minute ..their aint no taraweeg outside ramadaan... GOT YOU... maybe you do ... but i remind one and all that Qiyaamul layl ( the night prayer) exists outside of Ramadaan ... and so does its more popular but often neglected big brother, TAHUJJUD SALAAH.

 

its the same thing ... all we have to do is sacrifice ... recommit ourselves to the basis of of DEAN ... the fard (compulsory) acts  ... and make a greater effort to stay away from haraam...

 

 

 

أفش السلام وأطعم الطعام وصل الأرحام

وقم بالليل والناس نيام تدخل الجنة بسلام"

 

 the Prophet SAW said: spread peace and feed people food, and join family ties and stand in the night whilst people are sleeping. You will enter jannah with peace.

 

i love this hadith...  it is simple and clear ... a form of spiritual food ... and if we allow  ... can sustain us beyond ramadaan ... IF WE ARE MORE CONSCIOUS ABOUT OUR FARD ACTS ... then we build upon it with the voluntary acts ... and in the end ... perhaps our our extra deeds may weigh in our favour when it counts most.  

 

AT the beginning of the month ... i related this  hadith which i hoped would inspire us to do more through during this GREAT MONTH ... and i relate it once more ... to emphasise that what we do in ramadaan does not need to end ... BY ALLAH SWT MERCY ... we have done so well to get ahead of the game ... the time is now to strive with our utmost to maintain the levels ... for Allah swt loves those who are consistent and who persevere in PURSUIT of HIs path...

 

we must never quit.

 

and may Allah most high BLESS and GUIDE us all.

 

 

think. ponder. reflect.

 

PS: JUST A REMINDER RAMADAAN IS NOT OVER... AND LAYLATUL QADR MAY STILL BE TONIGHT ... SO I URGE ALL NOT TO BE COMPLACENT AND RELAX...

PS2: FROM MY FAMILIY AND MYSELF ( especially my wife and i) this is our first EID MUBARAK TO ONE AND ALL... enjoy and dont over do it ... do it over ...  

PS3:  The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

PSP: PLEASE MAKE A SPECIAL DUA FOR OUR BROTHER AND SISTERS IN PALESTINE

Wii: no heads were lost duringhte making of this email ... :-)

xbox: if i have said any thing wrong or incorrectthen i ask maaf and isurely it is my error .. and if i have said anything beneficial.. then it comes from ALLAH, most high... and May he bless all that we do.

 

 

Peace. Love. EID MUBARAK

a day before JUMUAH... MUBaRAK

 

----

Asalaamu alikum wa rag matullah hi wa barakatu ...

 Itrust you all are well?

 

ALHUMDULIILAH... WOT A MONTH... i am feeling a bit nostalgic and sad ... but i live in the Hope that Allah swt.. has forgiven all our sins ... AMeen.

 

Wot a month.. the people ... the pancakes... and of course the poojies...  i must admit ... i like the poojies... on the other hand i like pancakes as well.

 

:-) 

 

 

THEBESTOFPEOPLE

 

I was listening to a lecture the other day.. and the learned Alim.. was talking about what made the Sahaaba ( companions of the prophet) the best of people... The learned Alim went on to say that they were the best of people becuase when they accepted ISLAM ... they excepted ALL of of ISLAM... and if you look at the Lives of the Sahaaba... they were living at a time when revelation was coming down piece by peice ... and their was no complete version of the Quraan in book format... and when certain events took place .... Allah Swt revealed verses to assist/ GUIDE the Prophet SAW in providing a solution to a situation in which the sahaba and/ or He(SAW) found themself in...

 

in effect literaly one minute something was allowed and the next it wasn't and as result of a certain occurence  ... bang... Jibreel (AS) would decend with ayat and the Prophet SAW would relay it to the Sahaba... and immediately they would submit and surrender to the GUIDENCE of ALLAH SWT...

in a nut shell that is what made them the BEST of PEOPLE... they RESPONDED.

 

 as a case in point the learned Sheigh spoke about when the Ayahs prohibiting the consumption of liquor were revealed... the people of medina  were reporably at a ' party ' and some of them were in a state of drunkeness and when the ayaahs were revealed they immediatly spat the liquor out of thier mouths.. and starting destroying the stock... it was said that that evening in medina was overflowing with rivers of alcohol... ALLAH hu akbar... no sooner had they heard the commands of ALLAH swt did they put it into PRACTICE...they RESPONDED...  

 

As ramadaan closes ... EID approaches...  a celebration afforded to us by Allah swt... AFTER we have humbly submitted to Him in sincere observation of the FASTing month to reach a pinnacle of our spirituals selves... perhaps for the year...

HOWEVER I came accross an email the other day...

AND I must say that it firstly reminded me and secondly... it alerted me to a danger that our society faces... an issue which  the more i think about the more i believe we have become desensitised toward ... becuase it so prevelant and widespread in our communitties that we have accepted it as the norm... thinking that it is allowed ...

 

As i read the very explicit pamphlet ... i was reminded that in ISLAM the touching of  a non maharim member of the opposite sex is not allowed ... and is the stepping stone to ZINA ... and sin [ MAY ALLAH FORGIVE AND PROTECT US]  ... which is prohibited.

 

IT HAS BECOME COMMON cause for members of the opposite gender to great each other with a handshake and even worse a peck on the lips/ cheeks. [MAY ALLAH SWT PROTECT US AND GRANT US UNDERSTANDING]

 

THE PAMPHLET GOES ON TO QUOTE THE AYAH which states which persons we are not allowed to marry and in so doing tells us the persons we are allowed to greet

" Forbidden to you (for marriage) are: your mothers, your daughters, your sisters, your father's sisters, your mother's sisters, your brother's daughters, your sister's daughters, your foster mothers who suckled you, your foster milk suckling sisters, your wives' mothers, your stepdaughters under your guardianship, born of your wives unto whom you have gone in -- but there is no sin on you if you have not gone in unto them (to marry their daughters), -- the wives of your sons who (spring) from your own loins, and two sisters in wedlock at the same time, except for what has already passed; verily, Allah is Oft- Forgiving, Most Merciful.) Surah 4, verse 23

 

a special note is made that your wifes sister is not a permanent maharim and thus no touching is allowed...

 

furthermore... the following  hadith is also mentioned ... " It is better for an iron ROD to be driven into the head of a man, than for him to touch a woman who is not permissable for him" ... at- Tabarani, al Mu'jam al Kabir ( vol20, p. 211) graded as authentic

 

INTENSE ... I KNOW ... i shiver at the thought ... knowing what i now know ...

 

i am in no doubt that  We all would love to be considered to be amongst the BEST OF PEOPLE... or to be in their company

We have been through 28 or so days of spritual awakening... we have gone hungry ... we have prayed more than ever ... and on time ...we have read quraan and we have stood in taraweeg...  we may of been tired ...but thier we stood... Why? ...

 becuase we wanted Allah SWt's  MErcy and forgiveness...

 

RAMADAAN ... IS ALMOST GONE ... but its legacy has to be respected ... and we HOPE that ALLAH SWT has forgiven us ... as i read that pamphlet ... i told myself that here it is in black and white ... not from just any source.... but from the Quraan .

and i am left asking the question which burns the brightest

 are we going to RESPOND?

I suggest we at the very least try.

 

Wa Aliakum Salaam.

 

 

i pray that ALLAH SWT GRANTS US ALL UNDERSTANDING AND GUIDANCE AND THE CONVICTION TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT... AMEEN.

  

THINK. PONDER. REFLECt.

PS: I KNOW THIS WAS  a intense email ... but can we ignore it?

PS2: IF I HAVE offended any one or made and error .. i ask forgiveness ... and if i have said any thing that will benefit ...or is of benefit then It comes from ALLAH SWT and He is MOST MERCIFUL, MOST HIGH.

ps3:

Doctor OSMAN: Did you know that there are more than 1,000 bones in the human body?

muhgsin parker: Shhh, doctor! There are three dogs outside in the waiting room!

PSP:

 Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What's the nature of your emergency?
Caller: My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart.
Dispatcher: Is this her first child?
Caller: No, you idiot! This is her husband!

PEACE . LOVE. RAMDAAN KAREEM

JUMUAH MUBARAK!!!

Asalaamualikum wa rag matullaah hi wa barakatu

 

 i trust all is well?...

 

 

Jumuah Mubarak on this great day... the sky is blue... and the mountain is... well there... which is good thing...

just imagine one day you wake up ... and theres no mountain!!!

 

WOW... for any who lives in CT you will know what a shock that wOULD be... and we just haveta ask ourselves...

 

" then which of your favours of your LORD shalL ye deny?"

 

... THE AMAZING RACE

A FEW WEEKS AGAO I TOOK PART IN A RACE... it saw us driving all over the Western cape from Tygervalley to milnerton to a race...  CT etc... it was great fun...

 

Teams had to complete certain tasks much like the HIT TV show ... and would receive points for the position they arrived at each task and the time it took to complete a particular task ... the higher you finish the more points you score... but theri were BONUS POINTS ON OFFER ... the less time spent on a task and completing a task BETTER earned you more points. 

 

througout the day we had arrrived at each taskmore or less in 5th or 6th position... and By the end of the day we had resigned ourselves to having finished 5th or 6th ... HOWEVER TO OUR GREAT SURPISE... we actually ended 3rd... OVERJOYED and CONTENT with the result... we scratched our heads... and the only reason we could come up with how we ended higher than other teams who had finished before us had to be as result of the BONUS POINTS we collected along the way... awesome... ABSOLUTELY! 

 

it just goes to show that if you concentrate on doing things properly ... and focus on quality over quanitity then a nice surprise certainly awaits you... and THE BONUS POINTS ... do add up... 

 

Talking about favours... Aint Ramadaan just one great big FAVOUR? i was thinking about the other day... HOW GREAT IS OUR RABB ... this month is so awesome that it was made a fard for us... and yet Allah swt makes obtaining the benefits of this month easier for us... think about it... would we in any other month of the year even contemplate fasting for 29 or so days? Would we? 

 

Probably not.. and therein lies the bueaty of this month ... Allah swt ... makes the rewards so easy... eg. if you dont know already any sunnah act done in this month is transformed and its reward is that of a fard... ALLAH Hu akbar! How MERCiFUL is our RABB? So if we greet our brother/ mothers/ wives with a smile ... BONUS!!! 

 

having listenined to the many scholars this month ... i have realised that ONE COULD SAY THAT this is a month of BONUS POINTS ...    everything good we do ... every ibaada we perform sincerely for the Sake of Allah swt ... is multiplied... and recorded and locked away for us... ALLAH hu akbar... 

 

BONUS POINTS ARE ON OFFER ... during this month.. and as the month slowly comes to end... our ibaada should be sharply increasing becuase the best is one its way.. or occured last evening... ALLAH KNOWS BEST.... LAYLA TUL QADR...

 

we should the seek it in the ODD eveninings of the last 10 days our Beloved Proophet (SAW) has told us... A NIGHT GREATER THAN A 1000 MONTHS ... WHAT i understand is that the night of Lailatul Qadr is the most blessed night in any year and should we miss out on it we may be missing out on the great benefits on offer...AND IT IS FURTHER RECOMMENDED THat we spend these last few days in supplication... and standing in Thajjud prayers... dovoting our time and SLEEP... in the remembrance of Allah SWT...

 

 AND JUST IMAGINE.. on the day when we are all gahtered and acounted... on the day when our books are handed to us... just imagine how overjoyed we will be to receive our books in our right hand... imagine how AWESOMe we will feel if our heightened efforts over the next few days could result in us obtaining Allah swt's Mercy... JUST imagine...

 

WE SHOULD ALL HOPE IN THE MERCY OF OUR LORD...

 

in closing...

It has also been reported by Aishah (Ra): "The Messenger of Allah SAW used to exert more (in worship) on the last ten than on other nights." {Muslim}

 

... if the Honourable Prophet did so... i think we all know what we should do.

 

think ponder. reflect.

 

AND MAy ALLAh SWT GUIDE AND PROTECT US ALL...

 

PEACE. LOVe. and a dozen or so feta cheees and spinach samoosas... mmh:-)

 

PS: MUBARAK TO (hAZRET) aASHIQ ans sister NADIA on the birth of their baby boi last evening...

PS2: ALL the best to Yusuf Arrief and Ammeera ontheir trip to Medina and makkah ...travel safely and remember us all in your duas...

PS3: a man walks into a bar... OOUCH!!!

PSP: if any thing in this email is beneficial then surely it comes from ALLah swt.. and if i have made a istake or error i ask maaf and forgiveness... 

Xbox: did you know.... Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

Wii:  no joke this weekk....