Hadith

Most Beloved of Deeds

The Prophet was asked: What are the deeds most loved by Allah?

The Prophet replied: The most persistent, even if little!

Dara: There are people who think that praying all night is the right way to worship, and they do so for Ramadan or maybe a couple of more nights  here and there, and then they sleep all nights for the rest of the year. That is not a good form for deeds. It is better if you prayed a little but every night, a few minutes, Ramadan or not!

Some other people think that reading a lot of spiritual books is great deed, but it is not! Read a few words, yet understand and practice their truths and apply everyday, than read a lot of books without understanding and without practicing. Read one Hadith or one Aya, understand and practice, that is most loved by Allah, than memorizing the entire Qur’an and books of Hadith with little understanding and no deployment in daily life.

Some people think that fasting a lot is great, but it is better to eat lesser portions at each meal, avoid luxury foods that were obtained by warring and genocide of farmers abroad.

We all love to be the strongest the best the richest the most knowledgeable the most famous … the most this and the most that, but Allah does not love any of that. These are merely our desires, nothing of Allah’s love.

Instead Allah loves your deeds that are persistent and continual, should they be tiny deeds or insignificant in people’s judgement, but truly large for Allah.

 

فتح الباري، شرح صحيح البخاري، – للإمام ابن حجر العسقلاني
المجلد الحادي عشر >> كِتَاب الرِّقَاقِ >> باب الْقَصْدِ وَالْمُدَاوَمَةِ عَلَى الْعَمَلِ

الحديث: حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَرْعَرَةَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا أَنَّهَا قَالَتْ سُئِلَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَيُّ الْأَعْمَالِ أَحَبُّ إِلَى اللَّهِ قَالَ أَدْوَمُهَا وَإِنْ قَلَّ وَقَالَ اكْلَفُوا مِنْ الْأَعْمَالِ مَا تُطِيقُونَ
الشرح: قوله (عن سعد بن إبراهيم) أي ابن عبد الرحمن بن عوف، وأبو سلمة شيخه هو عمه.

 

 

© 2015-2002,  Dara O Shayda

Tafsir Ishari, Terminology

Qidam and Judeo-Christian views

Salaam to Shakir and Salaam to Everyone

It is of paramount importance to cognize that life is ancient! That term ancient in terminologies of Muslims and Sufis called Qidam or Qadim, one of the Divine Names and Attributes of Allah. In language of modern English we coin Qidam as Infinite-Past or Deep-Past.

Fundamentalists of Judeo-Christians view the time within the range of the Jewish calendar of about 7,000 years.

The most significant discovery of Darwin was the age of life: ranges in 100s of millions to even billions of years!

The fundamentalist Christians of his time could not accept Darwin’s theories and discoveries about life, due to their dogmatic view of Jewish calendar being about 7,000 years old. To them accepting Darwin’s theory and scientific evidence meant God was wrong. We hear that today from Right-wing Christians in USA and still amongst some Jews.

The most important pillar of Sufi metaphysics is that life is from infinite past! Humans originated from infinite past.

There are two ways of understanding scriptures:

  1. Interpretation: Scripture interprets the cosmos and life, the believers read the words of scriptures and try to match their meanings to the surrounding world and life. This leads to what we now know as Dark Ages which cloaked Europe for centuries.
  2. Ishara (Pointing): The cosmos and life interpret the words of scripture! The reversal is the enlightenment which Interpretation falls short providing.

I might add to the above that Interpretation without placing limits for the words in scriptures occludes the light and hence the dark times that befall the believers. Interpretation used in moderation is just fine, but limiting.

Therefore the most correct way I know of reading scripture e.g. Qur’an, per Qur’an’s own guidelines, is to use the cosmos and life within us to interpret the Divine Words:

41:53 In time We (Allah) shall make them fully understand Our Signs in the utmost horizons [of the universe] and within their own ­Selves, so that it will become clear unto them that this [revelation] is indeed the truth. [Still,] is it not enough [for them to know] that thy Sustainer is witness unto everything?

سَنُرِيهِمْ آيَاتِنَا فِي الْآفَاقِ وَفِي أَنفُسِهِمْ حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُمْ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ أَوَلَمْ يَكْفِ بِرَبِّكَ أَنَّهُ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ شَهِيدٌ

Therefore let’s make Ishara i.e. use the cosmos and what we know of the life to point at the scripture’s words:

Given the life-time of radioactive Carbon and given the molecular commonality of genomes we can point at the words in scriptures that life is infinitely old, Human is from deep infinite past.

 

Equipped with the latter understanding we can now cognize the concept of Qidam i.e. the infinite past and history of Humanity in that infinite range of time or timeless-ness.

The latter is a fundamental area of research and understanding amongst the Sufis.

 

Dara

 

Question, Terminology, Uncategorized

On Qidam again

Salaam Sayyidi and Salaam everyone

Two questions arised on Qidam again.

Given that each soul in presence of Divine made decision then and there in Qidam: To love Allah, or to love other-than-Allah. And given that this life is an investigation/projection of that primordial decision,

1 . Are we going back to Qidam again?
In other words , are Qidam, Akhirah, Azal the same terms?
2. What could be the wisdom to place us in this marvellous planet earth? We could still be staying in Qidam, loving Allah or other than Allah being in there! Why this short life span upon this planet?

Uncategorized

supplication

salaams dear dara thank you for that beautiful exposition. so it begins with nur shining upon us allowing us to turn towards Him. so in essence that is supplication turning towards the source which is already the answer to the supplication.
unfortunately many of us worship out of fear that God will not answer our prayers .yet…….The provision is not diminished by disobedience, and also not increased by good deeds, yet the forsaking of supplication is a form of disobedience! said the Prophet………..

this completely changes the perspective. of worshipping out of fear that provisions will be diminished….a real pointer alhamdullilah

thanks again
sheila

Hadith, Terminology

Ma’rifa (Noesis) of Supplication: معرفة الدعاء

Ma’rifa 1.

When Allah wills to respond to a servant (hear a servant), gives him permission to make Du’a (Supplication) , said the Prophet.
كنز العمال – للمتقي الهندي
المجلد الثاني >> الإكمال من الباب الثامن الفصل الأول في فضل الدعاء والحث عليه

3156- إذا أراد الله أن يستجيب لعبد أذن له في الدعاء.
(الديلمي عن ابن عمر).

 

In other words due to unital nature of Tauhid (Divine Oneness) no mind or heart could ever fathom a supplication since the Oneness does not allow any other mind or intellect or spirit to near or to approach.

But Allah gives the servant the ability to make supplication; in other words the supplicant does not commence the supplication it is Allah who commences any and all supplications. Supplicant is secondary, though to our Nafs (Self) ambiguously seems that the Self is the supplicant commencing the supplication while Allah is secondary to respond.

 

Ishara 1.

A plant situated in darkness has no particular direction to direct its growth. Now shines the light, the plant grows and moves towards the light. Allah is the light and you are the plant in darkness, when you move towards the light i.e. in supplication, the light had shone first, you supplicate second!

It is absurd that plant in darkness could ignite any light! Similarly it is absurd that you are supplicating  in and of your Self, it was Allah who called upon you first, you reacted and that reaction formed the supplication. Supplications are byproducts of Allah fulfilling the servants.

For whom the supplication has commenced, (already) gates of fulfillment had had opened for, said the Prophet.
كنز العمال – للمتقي الهندي
المجلد الثاني >> الإكمال من الباب الثامن الفصل الأول في فضل الدعاء والحث عليه

3154- من فتح له من الدعاء منكم فتحت له أبواب الإجابة.
(ش عن ابن عمر).

 

supplication

 

Ma’rifa 2.

The provision is not diminished by disobedience, and also not increased by good deeds, yet the forsaking of supplication is a form of disobedience! said the Prophet.
الجامع الصغير. – لجلال الدين السيوطي
المجلد الثاني >> [تتمة باب حرف الألف]

1999- إن الرزق لا تنقصه المعصية، ولا تزيده الحسنة، وترك الدعاء معصية
[“ولا تزيده الحسنة”: أي بالنسبة لما في العلم القديم الأزلي]ـ
التخريج (مفصلا): الطبراني في الصغير عن أبي سعيد

 

Your provisions, length of life, happiness or sorrows, gain and loss, health and illness, are all Primordial Decisions set in Azal (Sempiternity), and this life an investigation of such infinite past decisions, like unto a motion picture enacting dramatizing a historical event.

The Prophet explains why sometimes the most criminal are the richest and most affluent, yet the most pious the poorest the weakest, not always true though, but explains that Nafs (Self) commands you to do good so you might get more rewards in terms of daily provisions, and that is not always true, most times false.

The Prophet continues with an advice to avoid being a hapless fatalist, that in spite of the said earlier claims the servant should be supplicating often.

 

Adab (Etiquette) of Supplication

You could easily derive the circumstances of life that are prerequisite for a properly performed supplication:

  1. Proper language to speak during the good times and hard times
  2. Attention to orphans in you community and nationwide in your country
  3. Urging to feed the people at difficult times
  4. Avoid hoarding other people’s inheritance e.g. family members, wealth of other nations by perpetual greed and warring
  5. Controlling one’s infatuations and emotions for accumulations (of all kinds)

89:15 BUT AS FOR man,  whenever his Sustainer tries him by His generosity and by letting him enjoy a life of ease, he says, “My Sustainer has been [justly] generous towards me”;

فَأَمَّا الْإِنسَانُ إِذَا مَا ابْتَلَاهُ رَبُّهُ فَأَكْرَمَهُ وَنَعَّمَهُ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّي أَكْرَمَنِ

 

89:16 whereas, whenever He tries him by straitening his means of livelihood, he says, “My Sustainer has disgraced me!”

وَأَمَّا إِذَا مَا ابْتَلَاهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّي أَهَانَنِ

 

89:17 But nay, nay, [O men, consider all that you do and fail to do:] you are not generous towards the orphan,

كَلَّا بَل لَّا تُكْرِمُونَ الْيَتِيمَ

 

89:18 and you do not urge one another to feed the needy,

وَلَا تَحَاضُّونَ عَلَى طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِينِ

 

89:19 and you devour the inheritance [of others] with devouring greed,

وَتَأْكُلُونَ التُّرَاثَ أَكْلًا لَّمًّا

 

89:20 and you love wealth with boundless love!

وَتُحِبُّونَ الْمَالَ حُبًّا جَمًّا
الجامع الصغير.  – لجلال الدين السيوطي
المجلد الثاني >> [تتمة باب حرف الألف]

6. Silent supplication
الجامع الصغير.  – لجلال الدين السيوطي
المجلد الثاني >> [تتمة باب حرف الألف]

1250- أفضل الدعاء دعاء المرء لنفسه
التخريج (مفصلا): الحاكم في المستدرك عن عائشة

7. Additional supplications added for the Prophet and his family:

Supplication is veiled until adoration and peace sent for Muhammad and members of his household
الجامع الصغير – لجلال الدين السيوطي
المجلد الثالث >> فصل: في المحلى بأل من حرف الدال

4266 – الدعاء محجوب عن الله، حتى يصلى على محمد وأهل بيته
التخريج (مفصلا): أبو الشيخ <ابن حبان> عن علي

 

 

Long Supplications

41:51 And, too, when We bestow Our blessings upon man, he tends to turn aside and keep aloof [from remembering Us]; but as soon as evil fortune touches him, he is full of LENGTHY prayers!

وَإِذَا أَنْعَمْنَا عَلَى الْإِنسَانِ أَعْرَضَ وَنَأى بِجَانِبِهِ وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ الشَّرُّ فَذُو دُعَاء عَرِيضٍ

 

This is a problem, lack of Etiquette for Divine Presence and lack of manners during the supplications to be overly wordy and lengthy and yet just the day before we were aloof away from anything relating to Allah!

Improper conduct and behavior to remember Allah only when in need or in fear.

 

Short Supplications

Best supplication is short supplication:

Most excellent supplication is Al-Hamd-u Li-Llah-i (All perpetual praise and adoration for Allah), said the Prophet.
الجامع الصغير.  – لجلال الدين السيوطي
المجلد الثاني >> [تتمة باب حرف الألف]

1253- أفضل الذكر لا إله إلا الله، وأفضل الدعاء الحمد لله
التخريج (مفصلا): الترمذي والنسائي وابن ماجة وابن حبان في صحيحه والحاكم في المستدرك عن جابر

 

Best supplication is Al-‘Istighfar (Seeking forgiveness from Allah), said the Prophet.
الجامع الصغير. – لجلال الدين السيوطي
المجلد الثالث >> باب: حرف الخاء

4006 – خير الدعاء الاستغفار
التخريج (مفصلا): الحاكم في تاريخه عن علي

 

The Al-‘Istighfar supplication of Moses peace be upon him, short and received immediate reply:

28:16 [And] he (Moses) prayed: O my Sustainer! Verily, I have sinned against myself! FORGIVE ME!” And He/Allah forgave him – for, verily, He/Allh alone is truly forgiving, a dispenser of grace.

قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّي ظَلَمْتُ نَفْسِي فَاغْفِرْ لِي فَغَفَرَ لَهُ إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ

 

Prophet was asked by a bedouin to teach him a supplication that Allah might give him some benefit from, Prophet told him to say:

O my Lord for You all praise, and all gratitude for You as well, while all affairs return to you (for judgement and fulfillment)
كنز العمال – للمتقي الهندي
المجلد الثاني >> الأدعية المطلقة

5097- عن سعد أن أعرابيا قال للنبي صلى الله عليه وسلم: علمني دعاء لعل الله أن ينفعني به، قال قل: اللهم لك الحمد كله، ولك الشكر كله، وإليك يرجع الأمر كله.
(الديلمي).

 

 

© 2015-2002,  Dara O Shayda

 

News

Fundamental Problem Among Us: golf course more important than people

Salaam

I was a speaking with a dear childhood friend in Kuwait and he was telling me that the people in that region, for as long as their leadership and daily provisions  are preserved and no one is killing their women and children, are quite tolerant with murder and genocide of their neighboring brethren just a few kilometers away!

Had the Dubai governor been Christian or Jew, the golf course in question would have been embargoed!

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/08/golf/trump-comments-will-not-impact-dubai-course/index.html

“We would like to stress that our agreement is with the Trump Organisation as one of the premium golf course operators in the world and as such we would not comment further on Mr. Trump’s personal or political agenda, nor comment on the internal American political debate scene,” DAMAC Properties’ Senior Vice President Niall McLoughlin told CNN.

dubai

Development of empathy for others, Muslims or not, is a big part of Sufi spiritual endeavour, for we are not living in a bubble, people around us are as much belonging to Allah as does our own Nafs, while Allah watches every move we make so carefully.

The end outcome of such lack of empathy is the widespread remorselessness as we have eye-witnessed in extreme measures among Syrians. Syrians sat in their homes content with their jobs and daily bread, while all around them their very brothers and sisters were murdered in droves e.g. in Hama, Halab, Iraq, Kuwait, Kurdistan, Iran, Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt, meanwhile invested and applied for jobs and vacationed and made deals with all kinds of war criminals who were killing their brothers, in complete remorselessness which finally caught up with them in manners never recorded in human history. The rest of us to follow soon along the same path.

syrianpolio

This incessant yearning to socialize with the rich is a defect (‘Aib) of Nafs (Self) :

http://www.untiredwithloving.org/defects_of_nafs.html#69
Sixty Nine: Love to socialize with the rich

Defect: Nafs (Self) loves to socialize with the rich and is inclined towards them and is benevolent and generous to them.

Therapy: To make the Nafs (Self) to socialize with the poor, and to know that nothing comes to him from them, poor or rich, since his provision is portioned and sent only by Allah to her, and this way it may cut her greed/love from the rich, and to know that Allah blamed the Prophet to socialize with the rich: As to one who regards Himself as self-sufficient, To him dost thou attend, Though it is no blame to thee if he grow not (in spiritual understanding), But as to him who came to thee striving earnestly, And with fear (in his heart), Of him wast thou unmindful [Abas:10-5].

The Prophet addressing the poor said: To live the life is to live like you and to die is to die like you. I have been ordered to make my Nafs (Self) patient with you. And again the Prophet has prayed: Allah let me live poor, and take me poor and resurrect me amongst the poor. And the Prophet ordered the Imam Ali: You have to love the poor and be near to them.

69- حب مجالسة الأغنياء.
ومن عيوبها: محبة مجالسة الأغنياء وميله إليهم وإقباله عليهم [وإكرامه] لهم.
ومداواتها: مجالسة الفقراء والعلم بأنه لا يصل إليه مما في أيديهم إلا مقدار ما قدره الله له فيقطع الطمع منهم فيسقط ذلك محبتهم والميل إليهم، ويعلم أن الله عاتب نبيه صلى الله عليه وسلم في مجالسة [الأغنياء] فقال: أَمَّا مَنِ اسْتَغْنَى 5 فَأَنتَ لَهُ تَصَدَّى 6وَمَا عَلَيْكَ أَلَّا يَزَّكَّى 7 وَأَمَّا مَن جَاءكَ يَسْعَى 8 وَهُوَ يَخْشَى 9فَأَنتَ عَنْهُ تَلَهَّى {عبس:5-10].

 

© 2015-2002,  Dara O. Shayda,

Hadith

Who Seeks The Knowledge (من طلب العلم)

These are a collection of Hadith (Prophetic Narrations) for the reader to form an understanding of who is a scholar in religion of Islam, and who is not:

Remark: The Prophet peace be upon him said knowledge, did not say as we believe today exclusively religious knowledge, so do not limit your mind.

 

Everyone do Seek the knowledge be it (found) in China, since the seeking of knowledge is obligatory for every Muslim.

Dara: Male and female, Arab and non-Arab, virtuous or not. We do not seek knowledge because we are pure, we seek knowledge because we are not, we need to learn to cleanse our mind with light. “China” perhaps refers to remote distances.

كنز العمال الإصدار 2.01 – للمتقي الهندي
المجلد العاشر >> الباب الأول في الترغيب فيه

28697- اطلبوا العلم ولو بالصين فإن طلب العلم فريضة على كل مسلم.

 

Seeking knowledge is most preferred by Allah than prayers and fasting and pilgrimage and Jihad on the path of Allah!

Dara: Ignorant Muslim has no Jihad. He just murders innocent civilians.

الجامع الصغير – لجلال الدين السيوطي
المجلد الرابع >> باب: حرف الطاء

5268- طلب العلم أفضل عند الله من الصلاة والصيام والحج والجهاد في سبيل الله عز وجل
التخريج (مفصلا): الديلمي في مسند الفردوس عن ابن عباس

 

The best worship is seeking the knowledge.

كنز العمال – للمتقي الهندي
المجلد العاشر >> الإكمال من الترغيب في العلم

28821- أفضل العبادة طلب العلم.
الديلمي – عن أبي هرير

 

Who set out to seek knowledge is upon the Path of Allah until he returns.

الجامع الصغير – لجلال الدين السيوطي
المجلد السادس >> [تتمة باب حرف الميم]

8657- من خرج في طلب العلم فهو في سبيل الله حتى يرجع
التخريج (مفصلا): الترمذي والضياء عن أنس

 

Who seeks the knowledge, Allah (directly) guarantees his provisions.

Dara: The scholar of Islam does not accept salary, the ones who do are the worst of the evil on this planet! and the worst punished in the Day of Judgement! So a man or woman on the Path of knowledge, specially with families, worries about the daily provisions, and if in his or her heart they are true to Allah (at least intend to) Allah’s warranty is provided for their daily needs.

الجامع الصغير.  – لجلال الدين السيوطي
المجلد السادس >> [تتمة باب حرف الميم]

8838- من طلب العلم تكفل الله له برزقه
التخريج (مفصلا): الخطيب في التاريخ عن زياد بن الحرث الصدائي

 

Who seeks the knowledge, his previous wrongdoings are expiated.

Dara: The hardship and waste of time and resources and lost opportunity serve as expiation in return for the past life’s wrong doings.

الجامع الصغير. الإصدار – لجلال الدين السيوطي
المجلد السادس >> [تتمة باب حرف الميم]

8837- من طلب العلم كان كفارة لما مضى
التخريج (مفصلا): الترمذي عن سخبرة

 

Who seeks the knowledge for the sake of rubbing shoulders with other scholars, or to belittle and argue with unlearned, or boasting in the face of people, Allah shall enter him into the flames.

Dara: Today the scholars of Islam are arrogant prestige seeking boastful elitists who belittle the Muslim population and send them astray to certain death in many areas of our society, and for them the guarantee of the flames.

الجامع الصغير. – لجلال الدين السيوطي
المجلد السادس >> [تتمة باب حرف الميم]

8840- من طلب العلم ليجاري به العلماء، أو ليماري به السفهاء، أو يصرف به وجوه الناس إليه، أدخله الله النار
التخريج (مفصلا): الترمذي عن كعب من مالك

 

Who seeks the knowledge for other than Allah, or attempt a usage for it for other than Allah, shall have a (designated) seating in the flames

زيادة الجامع الصغير، والدرر المنتثرة، – للإمام السيوطي
كتاب “زيادة الجامع الصغير”، للسيوطي >> حرف الميم

3119- من طلب العلم لغير الله، أو أراد به غير الله، فليتبوأ مقعده من النار.
(ه) عن خالد بن دريك.

 

Who seeks knowledge without applying (to his own life), he is as though making fun of Allah.

 

كنز العمال – للمتقي الهندي
المجلد العاشر >> الإكمال من الباب الثاني في آفات العلم ووعيد من لم يعمل بعلمه

29066- من طلب العلم لغير العمل فهو كالمستهزئ بربه عز وجل.
الديلمي – عن ابن عباس.

 

No envy nor flattering allowed except in seeking the knowledge.

Dara: One could feel jealous and seek to compete in acquisition of knowledge, of course free of malice.

كنز العمال – للمتقي الهندي
المجلد العاشر >> الإكمال من الترغيب في العلم

28938- لا حسد ولا ملق إلا في طلب العلم.
(عد، هب) والخطيب – عن أبي هريرة.

 

 

© 2015-2002,  Dara O Shayda

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Salaam

We all fool ourselves that we know something, because of some diploma at hand, or some employment, or uttering a couple of half baked words  from some scripture.

I found only one thing that Dara knows for sure:

The Arch Angel Gabriel said to the Prophet: “Love whom you would for you shall part with him…

And in those times of sorrows and abject helplessness, there is always a Singleton Companion buying your sorrows at the highest prices, Hu trades with you wealth larger than that of all cosmos, in exchange for one of your tears!

A teacher every morning wakes up to teach, baker to bake, farmer to farm, but the Sufi wakes up to accompany a broken heart for within the shards and ashes of that heart Sufi finds That Divine Beloved bartering:

9:111 Indeed, God has bought of the believers their lives and their possessions, promising them paradise in return

إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ ٱشۡتَرَىٰ مِنَ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ أَنفُسَهُمۡ وَأَمۡوَٲلَهُم بِأَنَّ لَهُمُ ٱلۡجَنَّةَ‌ۚ

 

If you think there is something else to human experience, take your chances.

Dara

 

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Imam Ali narrated from the Prophet peace be upon him: The Arch Angel Gabriel said to me: “Love whom you would for you shall part with him, and do as you would for you shall meet with it (for judgment or reward or you will meet Hu) and live as you would for you shall die surely.”

مجمع الزوائد. الإصدار 2.05 – للحافظ الهيثمي
المجلد العاشر. >> 41. كتاب الزهد. >> 2. (أبواب في الموعظة ونحوها). >> 3. باب الإيجاز في الموعظة.
17645- وعن علي بن أبي طالب قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم:
“قال لي جبريل عليه السلام: أحبب من شئت فإنك مفارقه، واعمل ما شئت فإنك ملاقيه، وعش ما شئت فإنك ميت”.
وقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: “أوجز لي جبريل عليه السلام في الخطبة”.
رواه الطبراني في الصغير والأوسط وفيه جماعة لم أعرفهم

You loved her or him and no matter how hard you tried, when s/he was placed under the dust you could not go with the person! And when your turn arrives you shall not be able to take her or him with you, for you are now alone within the constriction of your grave.

“When the scholar dies Allah fashions/shapes his ‘Ilm (Divine Knowledge) (into some creature) within his grave, to keep him company till the Day of Judgment and it wards him off all vermin of the earth” said the Prophet, peace be upon him.

وعن ابن عباس قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: )إذا مات العالم صور الله له علمه في قبره، فيؤنسه إلى يوم القيامة ويدرأ عنه هوام الأرض
أخرجه الديلمي في الفردوس و قال السيوطي في شرح الصدور

Often Allah takes away someone you dearly loved, and no matter how dearly you loved yet you kept your Adab (Etiquette) being mindful of Allah’s Presence by being patient, and soon you find yourself drawn to ‘Ilm (Divine Knowledge), not a moment is to waste, busied with nothing else but any and all acquisition of knowledge.

Your books as your pillow, night after night you fall asleep, tearful, begging Allah: O Allah this night every soul on this earth has a soulmate but me, where is mine my dear Lord? Soon in a dream, as vivid as the daylight, you find someone of immense beauty and tranquility, mistakenly your Nafs (Self) may place some familiar face on this graceful creature, but be aware that in this moment of temporal death you have met none other than your own ‘Ilm (Divine Knowledge).

And so will be that day when everyone deliberately shall forsake you underneath the dust, except for this Divine Companion fashioned/shaped from your ‘Ilm (Divine Knowledge), that this eager creature is to keep you company in the grave and to protect you against all harm and pain.

Allah inspired Moses: Learn the good and teach the people, for I am radiant for the teacher and the learner of the ‘Ilm (Divine Knowledge) and their graves have no fearful estrangement for them.

وأوحى الله إلى موسى )تعلم الخير وعلمه الناس، فإنى منور لمعلم العلم ومتعلمه قبورهم لا يستوحشوا بمكانهم
الزهد للامام أحمد

So this night be sleepless my studious love, that you may cry to Allah begging for a soulmate, but that day shall soon arrive when every dead in their grave sorrow within their eternal loneliness, yet you shall be joyous and festive with your grave companion, your own ‘Ilm (Divine Knowledge)

“If someone memorized something of the Qur’an (some Dhikr) and died before the completion, Allah shall raise angels within his grave to make him memorize the remaining and they shall stand upright (unwavering) to teach him” Said the Prophet. (Note: This Hadtih is only found within Suyuti’s collection and some distant variations found other places.)

ان من حفظ شيئا من القران و مات قبل أن يتمه بعث الله اليه ملائكة في قبره يحفظونه ما بقي و يقومون بتعليمه

 

كنز العمال الإصدار 2.01 – للمتقي الهندي
المجلد الأول >> الباب السابع في تلاوة القرآن وفضائله وفيه خمسة فصول >> الإكمال
2449 – من قرأ القرآن ثم مات قبل أن يستظهره أتاه ملك فعلمه في قبره ويلقى الله تعالى وقد استظهره.
(أبو الحسن بن بشران في فوائده وابن النجار) عن أبي سعيد

Now do you want to learn the knowledge for the sake of people’s recognition? So they may say s/he is so great knowing all this! Or writing this book or giving that lecture, or my love you may study to have a soulmate in your grave!

And you might say: I am so sorrowful with this loneliness and left with no place for asylum and no soulmate to cheer with, tell me some words that I may chant to becalm:

“My Lord I am Your slave,
The son of Your slave,
The son of Your slave-girl,
My full control at Your Hand,
Effective is Your Decree on me,
Just is Your Judgment for me,
I ask You by all Names of Yours,
That You called Your own Self,
Or sent down in some book of Yours,
Or taught someone of Your creation,
Or preferred secretly in Your Concealed Divine Knowledge,
That You may make the Qur’an the vernal season of my heart,
And retreat of my sorrow,
And departure of my hardship.”  Prayer of the Prophet for sorrower.

المستدرك على الصحيحين،الإصدار 2.02 – للإمام محمد بن عبد الله الحاكم النيسابوري.
المجلد الأول >> – 17- كتاب: الدعاء، والتكبير، والتهليل، والتسبيح، والذكر
1877 / 77 – أخبرنا أبو بكر محمد بن أحمد بن بالويه، ثنا محمد بن شاذان الجوهري، ثنا سعيد بن سليمان الواسطي، ثنا فضيل بن مرزوق، حدثني أبو سلمة الجهني، عن القاسم بن عبد الرحمن، عن أبيه قال:
قال عبد الله بن مسعود – رضي الله تعالى عنه -:
قال رسول الله – صلى الله عليه وسلم -: (ما أصاب مسلما قط هم ولا حزن فقال: اللهم إني عبدك، وابن أمتك، ناصيتي في يدك، ماض في حكمك، عدل في قضاءك، أسألك بكل اسم هو لك، سميت به نفسك، أو أنزلته في كتابك، أو علمته أحدا من خلقك، أو استأثرت به في علم الغيب عندك، أن تجعل القرآن ربيع قلبي، وجلاء حزني، وذهاب همي، إلا أذهب الله همه وأبدله مكان حزنه فرحا).
قالوا: يا رسول الله، ألا نتعلم هذه الكلمات؟
قال: (بلى، ينبغي لمن سمعهن أن يتعلمهن).
هذا حديث صحيح على شرط مسلم، إن سلم من إرسال عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله، عن أبيه فإنه مختلف في سماعه، عن أبيه

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Silence and MicroBiology

Salaam Shakir

Please see

http://www.brain-map.org/

or

http://casestudies.brain-map.org/celltax#section_explorea

Basically instead of wasting our lives talking nonsense and anger Allah and hurt people, we could assume silence studying these beautiful microbiological structures, endeared by Allah the Divine Inventor (Khallaq).

It will take years of focus and studying to understand these, which means years tying the tongue and focusing on Allah.

You do not even need to understand everything, just looking at the images of these living structures serves your heart as Wordless Dhikr!

Per Prophet’s advice: Do not think of Allah, think of Allah’s handicraft e.g. microbiology.

Go to iTUNES and Youtube and almost all universities in the world are providing their lectures for free! From MIT to Stanford.

So what is there to talk to people about, half baked Arabic words, mixing religion of Muhammad with our personal hate and bigotry to destroy our brothers and sisters and neighbours?

What you see today is not Jihad, it is the bigotry of ignorant Muslims whom filled with hate, a tiny minority amongst us.

Dara

News

IMF to include Islamic finance in sector surveillance – Lagarde

http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2015/11/12/imf-to-include-islamic-finance-in-sector-surveillance-lagarde/

 

The International Monetary Fund will include Islamic finance in its monitoring of financial sectors around the world, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday, in a sign of the industry’s growing economic weight.

“We are keen to pursue this agenda and to further strengthen our policy advice by incorporating best practices for Islamic banking and finance into our surveillance work,” Lagarde told a conference on Islamic finance in Kuwait.

The IMF has traditionally focused on conventional banking. But last year it launched discussions with an external advisory group of Islamic finance experts and industry bodies, and this month it published a report on the impact of monetary policies on Islamic banking in Gulf countries.

Islamic finance, which bans interest payments and pure monetary speculation, has been growing faster than conventional finance and is estimated to have over $2 trillion of assets globally.

It has become important for financial systems in more than 10 countries, accounting for over 15 percent of total financial assets there, Lagarde said. Non-Muslim countries such as Britain and Luxembourg have begun to issue Islamic bonds.

She called on governments in the Gulf and southeast Asia to increase their issues of Islamic bonds in various maturities and to incorporate them into their debt management strategies, in order to provide better pricing benchmarks for a much wider range of issuers.

The IMF wants to encourage more consistency among countries in applying Islamic finance rules, fearing that conflicts among jurisdictions could stifle growth and create instability.

Lagarde said that to maintain a level playing field with conventional banks, Islamic lenders needed to adapt their capital requirements to account for their profit-and-loss- sharing models.

Countries with Islamic finance industries should harmonise tax treatment across jurisdictions and incorporate Islamic finance into international tax treaties, she told the conference, which was organised by institutions including the IMF and Kuwait’s central bank.

Source: IMF to include Islamic finance in surveillance -Lagarde | Reuters