ASALAAMU ALIAKUM WA RAG MATULLAH HI WA BARAKATU ...
WOW ... ( 30 000 HASAANAAT) just for greeting the people i care about... Allah hu Akbar!!!
How Merciful is our RABB?
MOst Merciful.
I trust all is well?
And on this pleasant Friday... i wish to say... Jumuah Mubarak... to one and all ... May Allah swt Bestow upon us all His MERCY... and Protection...
WOW... its almost exactly a month since RAMADAAN has passed... shew!!!
and as
i think back to that most great month...
i wonder... will i see another?
i remind myself of the fond memories ... of a month filled with barakah and Allah swt's MERCY.
i recollect ... the many highlights ... amongst a a whole month of highlights ...
and ask myself ... HAVE I CHANGED? HAVE I HELD ONTO THE CHANGES I MADE DURING THE MONTH THAT WAS? HAVE I DRAWN CLOSER TO ALLAH SWT? i guess we can all ask ourselves this question till we are blue in our face... but the reality of the situation is... have we sustained the momentum we built up in the month that was?
just a thought.
ponder.
think.
react.
theTALENTED MR MUGHSIEN PARKER ...oops RIPLEY!
one of the great stories of my Ramdaan 1423 occurred one evening after Taraweeg ... having just sat an hour listenig to the visiting MUFTI ... my mouth had become somewhat dry and it begged for something sweet... but my pockets were empty ... and as i slipped my feet into my raggity aged shoes ... (right before left... its sunnah) ... out of nowhere this fella approaches me with a wide smile and sporting a bushy ramadaan beard ... his cheerful demenour illumanating the darkened parking lot ... he stretches out his hand... and says ... " Slaam wa laikum" and places a cote 'or miggonette in the palm of my hand... i smiled. i Loved Chocolate.
LATER that evening i spoke to my wife and i asked her ... i wonder if that, [the giving me of a chocolate] would be counted as a good deed on his scale... and then my wife pointed out something quite co-incendental ... a MUGHSIN = GOOD DOER ... OR DOER OF GOOD ...
AND THEN I THOUGHT SOME MORE... and it dawned on me ...snd i must admit that during ramadaan ... i read the quraan quite a bit more than i usually do... Alhumdulillah...
and i made a discovery... throughout the quraan the word muhgsin/ mughsinun is found ...
the TAFSIR DEFINES A MUHSIN AS: a good doer who performs good deeds totaally for Allah's sake only without show or for fame...
and usually the verses in which the muhsinun/ muhsin are mentioned was followed by some great reward or they were comforted by Allah swt...
eg.CH2: V112 ... " Yes, but whoever submits his face to Allah and is a Muhsin... then his reward is with his Lord [Allah (swt)] and on such shall be NO FEAR, nor shall they GRIEVE."
AND MY favourite : CH3: v148 ..." ... and Allah Loves Al- Muhsinun"
i learn two things from this event:
1. Its important to know what our names mean and to teach ourselves the meanings of our names and to the best of our capabilities act in accordance to such meanings.
2. GOOD DEEDS/ DOING GOOD could very well be a means of attaining ALLAS swt's MErcy and LOVE.
HADITH:
ANAS (RA) reported that the Mesesnger of Allah (saw) said: " three things follow a dead person 1. his family, 2. his wealth/ property and 3. his deeds. Two of them return and one remains. The family and property return and his deeds remain." [ bukhari and Muslim]
So a final thought to close off ... perhaps in our attempt to GAIN closeness to Allah SWT ... and to maintain the momentum gained during ramadaan... lets do GOOD DEEDS... lots of them ...
Salaah, charity, smiling at people, being loving to your family ...BIG or small ...
it dont matter
what matters is that we do it for the the Sake of Allah [swt].
sincerly.
Peace. Love. and a Kentucky Zinger.... yor it burns!!!
PS: HALAAL TOUR 2009 ... PRIMI EXPRESS ... ive tried it out... not bad at all... Rosmead Avenue, Claremont
Ps2:Bon voyage to brother NABZ and Sister Shafeeqa
PS3:SHADI Mubarak ... to Brother Allie WWOKAY ... hip hip WOOKAY!!! May Allah place love and mercy between you and your spouse... Muneera, ameen.
PSP:South Africa houses one of the three largest telescopes in the world at Sutherland in the Karoo
xbox: NO MORE STOCK.
Wii:
One day Hayder Dhansay was driving when his truck got stuck... he pulled over and stopped the next vehicle to pass by... it was his frend Mughsin PArker ... he asked muhsin if he would do him a fovour and that he would pay him for it... Muhsin reluctantly said yes... and then Hayder opened the truck and told Muhsin to take the two Monkeys tothe ZOO and handed him a R100 note. the three monkeys... climbed in the car and drove whilst hayder stayed behind and attempted to fix his truck ... 5hrs later Hayder makes his way to Cape Town ... and whilst Driving down Klipfontein Road he sees Muhsin and the two Monkeys ... and stops the truck and shouts at Mughsin... :
" HEY! wHAT ARE YOU DOING? i paid you to take the monkeys to the ZOO!!! BUT U WALKING AROUND ... mUGSIN REPLIES : " I DID TAKE THEM TO THE ZOO... BUT I HAD MONEY LEFT FROM THE R 100 AND DECIDED TO TAKE THEM TO SEE A MOVIE!!!
LOL
:-)
