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Featured Article: Reaping the Benefits of Ramadan |
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Written by Noora
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Saturday, 08 August 2009 12:16 |
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Dear brothers and sisters in Islam,
As-Salaamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuh...
Allah's final Messenger Muhammed (sallallahu 'alayhi wasallam) said, "Islam is built upon five: Testifying that none has the right to be worshipped except Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, establishing the Prayer, giving the Zakaah (charity), performing Hajj to the House, and fasting in Ramadan." [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]
He (sallallahu 'alayhi wasallam) said: "There has come to you Ramadan, a blessed month, in which Allah has made it obligatory to fast. During it the gates of Paradise are opened and the gates of Hellfire are closed, and the rebellious devils are chained. In it is a night (Laylatul-Qadr) which is better than a thousand months. He who is deprived of its good truly has been deprived." [Bukhari]
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Written by Sister Noora
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Saturday, 01 August 2009 00:00 |
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Dear brothers & sisters,
As-Salaamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuh...
Allah tells us in the Qur'an: “So remember Me; I will remember you. And be grateful to Me, and do not deny Me.” (Quran 2:152)
Thabit Al Banani said, "I know when Allah remembers me." Taken aback, the people around him asked, "How do you know that?" "When I remember Him," he replied, "He remembers me." This refers to Allah's everlasting promise in the Qur'an, "Remember Me, so that I remember you."
The Qur'anic verse combines two commandments: remembrance of Allah on one hand (So remember Me), and thanking and praising Him on the other hand (Be grateful). At the same time, it calls him who does not observe these two orders a disbeliever (Do not deny Me). He who does not remember that there is none worthy of worship but Allah denies the basis of faith; he who is ungrateful to Allah's bounties denies His benediction and therefore his denial of belief and of bounty.
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