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  • Duas for Wudu (Ablution)

    Duas for Wudu (Ablution)

    What to say before performing ablution
    Bismillaah
     
    In the Name of Allah.
    بِسْمِ اللهِ
    Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah, and Ahmad. See also Al-Albani
     
    Dua for Wudu (Ablution)
     
     

    Do you want your SINS TO BE FORGIVEN?

    Read this invocation upon the COMPLETION of your WUDU (ABLUTION).

    “Glory is to You O Allah , and praise ,and I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but You. I seek Your forgiveness and turn to You in repentance.”

    سُبْحَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ وَبِحَمْدِكَ، أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ، أَسْتَغْفِرُكَ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْكَ


    Subhaanaka Allah humma wa bihamdika ash hadu an laa ilaaha illaa anta astaghfiruka wa atoobu ilayk

     

    ‘Amr b Sa’id b al-As reported: I was, with Uthman Radi Allahu anhu that he called for ablution water and said: I heard Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) say: When the time for a prescribed prayer comees, if any Muslim perform ablution well and offers his prayer) with humility and bowing, it will be an expiation for his past sins, so long as he has not committed a major sin; and this applies to for all times.


    Muslim :: Book 2 : Hadith 441

    What to say upon completing ablution

    O Allah, make me among those who turn to You in repentance, and make me among those who are purified.
    اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْنِي مِنَ التَّوَّابِينَ وَاجْعَلْنِي مِنَ الْمُتَطَهِّرِينَ
    Allaahummaj’alnee minat-tawwaabeena waj’alnee minal-mutatahhireen
     
    At-Tirmidhi 1/78. See also Al-Albani, Sahih At- Tirmidhi 1/18.
     
     
    What to say upon completing ablution
     

    I bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah alone, Who has no partner; and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His Messenger.

     
    أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إلَّا اللهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ، وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ
     
    ‘Ash-hadu ‘an laa ‘ilaaha ‘illallaahu wahdahu laa shareeka lahu wa ‘ash-hadu ‘anna Muhammadan ‘abduhu wa Rasooluh
    Muslim 1/209.
     

     

  • Am I one of those who justify his haram (forbidden) acts?

    Am I one of those who justify his haram (forbidden) acts?

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    Am I one of those who justify his haram (forbidden) acts?

    A very important question we all need to ask ourselves.

    Justifying Evil Deeds

    Imam Sadiq had heard that an old man had become famous for his piety. One day, he saw him surrounded by a large crowd. A little later, the man came out of the crowd and distancing himself from them, proceeded alone, whereupon the Imam began to follow him.

    After a short time, the Imam observed that he had stopped near a bakery from where he stealthily picked up two loaves of bread. After a short distance, he stopped at a fruit store, picking up two pomegranates in the same manner and once again continued on his way.

    As he walked further, the old man approached a sick person, handed over the loaves and fruits to him and was about to move on when Imam Sadiq came up to him and said, “I have witnessed something greatly astonishing from you”, and then proceeded to narrate the acts, which he had witnessed.

    The old man said, “I suppose you are Imam Sadiq”

    The Imam replied in the affirmative.

    The man continued, “It is really unfortunate that in spite of being of the progeny of the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him) you do not seem to know anything.”

    The Imam asked, “What act of ignorance have you noticed from me?”

    The man said, “But do you not know that God has said in the Quran “Whoever brings a good deed, he shall have ten like it and whoever brings an evil deed, he shall be recompensed only with the like of it”.

    On this basis, since I have stolen two fruits and two loaves of bread, I have four sins in my account, but on the other hand, since I have given it in the way of God, I have earned forty good deeds. Reducing four from forty, I still have thirty-six good deeds in my account; a pity that you possess no knowledge of such computations!”

    The Imam explained to him, “But have you not heard this verse of the Quran, which says: “Allah only accepts from those who guard (against evil)”. You have earned four sins by stealing those four items and four more sins for giving them to someone else without the permission of the owners, so you have collected eight sins but not a single good deed.”

    Later, the Imam said to his companions, “With such interpretations and justifications, not only do they mislead themselves, but others as well.”

    Imam Sadiq has said:
    (Surely, the effect of an evil deed upon the doer is faster than that of a knife upon a piece of meat.)

    Click here to learn a beautiful Dua to gain MERCY of Allah & FORGIVENESS of your sins

     

  • MAJOR SINS- 1) Shirk i.e Ascribing Associates To Allah, the Most High

    MAJOR SINS- 1) Shirk i.e Ascribing Associates To Allah, the Most High

    shirk

    The worst major sin is Shirk.

    It is of two kinds:

    1. a) To hold that Allah has an equal, whereas He has created you, and to worship another with Him, whether it be a stone, tree, sun, moon, prophet, sheikh, star, angel or other. This is the greatest shirk mentioned by Allah, the Most High.

    The Almighty, says,

    • “Allah forgives not (the sin of) joining other gods with Him; but He forgives whom He pleases, other sins than this; one who joins other gods with Allah has strayed far, far away (from the right).”(An-Nisa:l16)
    • “False worship is indeed the highest wrong-doing.” (Luqman:13)
    • “Whoever joins other gods with Allah; Allah will forbid him the Garden, and the Fire will be his abode.”

    (Al-Ma’idah:72)

    The Qur’anic verses concerning this are very numerous. It is being absolutely certain that whoever ascribes associates to Allah and dies in such a state is one of Hell’s inhabitants, just as whoever believes in Allah and dies as a believer is one of the inhabitants of Paradise, even if he should be punished first.

    The Prophet (Peace be upon him) said,

    “Shall I tell you of the worst major sins? Worshipping others with Allah, showing disrespect to parents, giving a false statement, and testifying to the truth of a falsehood. “ And he kept repeating it until we were telling ourselves (out of sympathy for him because of the strain of repeating it)

    “Avoid the seven heinous sins.” and he mentioned ascribing associates to Allah.

     Click here to read a beautiful Dua for forgiveness and PROTECTION from SHIRK [Polytheism]

    b) Ostentation

    “Beware of the lesser shirk.“ They asked, “What is the lesser shirk?” He said, “Showing off in good works.”

    Allah, the Almighty will say when recompensing the mankind for their deeds:

    • “Go to those whom you showed off to in the world to see how they could recompense you .” 1

    The Prophet (Peace be upon him) said,

    • “A person who does some good work in order to boast will have his faults exposed by Allah Most High and a person whose motive in doing some good deed is to show it, Allah the Most High will treat him as a hypocrite.” 2

    The Prophet (Peace be upon him) said,

    • “There may be a faster who does not gain from his fasting but hunger and thirst.”

    A wise man said, “Just as the one who shows off in good works is the one who fills his purse with pebbles and leaves for the market to buy food. If he opened it before the seller he will be stoned with it in his face. He gains nothing but the people’s inquiry about what fills his purse, nothing more. Thus, the one who shows off in good works will have no value but the people’s saying that he did good and he will not be rewarded in the Hereafter.”

    Allah, the Almighty, says,

    • “And We shall turn to whatever deeds they did (in this life), and We shall make such deed as floating dust scattered about.” (AI-Furqan:23)

    The Prophet (Peace be upon him) said,

    • “On the Day of Judgment some groups of people will be brought near Paradise. Having smelt its fragrance, and seen palaces and blessings therein, they will hear a call saying “Take them away, it is not for them.”

    Accordingly, they return so sorrowful that no one could have such feeling. They will call upon Allah, “O Lord were we entered into the Hell-Fire before seeing what You have prepared for Your Friends,it would have been better.”

    Then Allah will say, “ That is what I want. When you were alone you defied Me with grievous sins, but when you meet people you showed off in good works, You only respected people not Me, You only refrain (from things) for their sake. Hence, today, I will severely torment you in addition to depriving you from My bountiful reward.” 3

    It was related that a man asked the Messenger of Allah (Peace be upon him)

    “How can I be redeemed?” The Prophet said, “If you do not deceive Allah” The man asked, “How is Allah deceived?” He replied, “When you do something which Allah and His Messenger commanded you to do but you intended other than pleasing Allah. Beware of ostentation, it is the lesser shirk (polytheism); On the Day of Judgment, the ostentatious will be called at the presence of all creatures by four names: O Ostentatious, O traitors, O corrupt, O loser; what you did is wasted and your reward is nullified. We will not reward you, go and get your reward from whomever you acted to deceive?”

    • A wise man was asked, “Who is the sincere one?” He replied, “It is he who hides his good deeds as he does with his bad deeds.” Someone asked, “What is the good of sincerity?” He said, “When you dislike to be praised by people.”

    Al-Fudail Ibn Eiad, may Allah be pleased with him said, “To refrain from an action for the sake of people is ostentation. To do something for their sake is shirk (polytheism). But sincerity is to be aware of them.

    O Allah! Let us be away from them and forgive us.

    Click here to read a beautiful Dua for forgiveness and PROTECTION from SHIRK [Polytheism]

    1 Reported by Ahmad.

    2 Reported by A1-Bukhari.

    3 Mentioned by A1-Siuti in “AI Laiali AI-Masnu’ah” who related that Ibn Hibban said that it is false and has no reference.

  • Major Sins – Introduction

    Major Sins – Introduction

     

    Assalamu alikum, today we will look at the definition of major sins and what ALLAH Subhanahu wataa’la says in the Quran. InshaAllah,in our future posts,we will discuss them one by one.
    We are obliged to learn what the major sins are, so that Muslims may avoid them.
     
    DEFINITION:
     
    Major sins are defined as what is FORBIDDEN by Allah and His Messenger in the Qur’an and the Sunnah.
     
    In addition to what is narrated on the authority of early Muslims. Allah, the Most high, promises to expiate his minor sins, whoever avoids the major sins.
     
    Allah, the Almighty says,
    “If you(but) eschew the most heinous of the things which you are forbidden to do, we shall remit your evil deeds, and admit you to a gate of great honour.” (An-Nisaa :31)
     
    In this text, Allah, the Most High, also promises whoever avoids the major sins to admit him to Paradise.
     
    Allah, the Almighty says,
    “Those who avoid the greater sins and indecencies, and when they are angry even they forgive”
    (Ash-Shura:37)
     
    The Qur’an also states,
    “Those who avoid great sins and indecent deeds, save lesser offences, verily thy Lord is ample in forgiveness.” (An-Najm:32)
     
    The Prophet (Peace be upon him) said,
    “The five prescribed Prayers, and from one Friday Prayer to another and from Ramadan to another entail forgiveness for what is between them as long as you do not commit the major sins.”
    Scholars of Sacred knowledge are of different opinions about the number of the major sins. It is argued that they are
    only seven owing to the Prophet’s (Peace be upon him) saying,
    “Avoid the seven heinous sins:
    1. Worshipping others with Allah,
    2. sorcery,
    3. taking a life which Allah has made sacred except in the course of justice,
    4. devouring usury,
    5. appropriating the property of the orphan,
    6. fleeing from the battlefield, and
    7. charging believing women, unmindful though innocent, with adultery.”
     Reported by Muslim, Tirmidhi, Ibn Khuzaymah and Ahmed.
    Ibn Abbas holds that they are likely counted as seventy not seven. That is a good point of view because enumeration is not intended in the Hadith.
    As a matter of fact, any sin entailing either a threat of punishment in the Hereafter explicitly mentioned by the Qur’an or Hadith, a prescribed legal penalty (Hadd), or being accursed by Allah or His Messenger (Peace be upon him) is called a major sin.
    We have to bear in mind that some major sins are more heinous than others. This is because the Prophet (Peace be upon him) has enlisted Shirk (worshipping others with Allah) though a polytheist will suffer eternal torture in Fire and will never be forgiven.
    Allah, the Almighty, says,
    “Indeed, Allah does not forgive association with Him, but He forgives what is less than that for whom He wills. And he who associates others with Allah has certainly gone far astray.“

    (An-Nisa:116)