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29-03-2002, 06:57
FRIDAY NASEEHAH - issue 29
QUR'AN
"The Most Gracious Allah has taught the Qur'an; He has created man; He has taught him speech."
(Surah Ar-Rahman: 1-4)
[Tafsir: "The tongue and the language are great gifts of Allah. These gifts that Allah has given him makes him superior to all other creatures....Islam has given special attention to speech, its style, and its etiquette, because the talk that comes out from a man's mouth discloses his intellectual level and moral nature, because the etiquette of speech in a group reveals its general standard, and shows the standard of decency in their environment.... People who are never tired of talking are not few in number. If you examine their talks you will find that most of these consist of senseless, and absurd things, whereas Allah has not given men their tongues for this purpose." (Taken from "Muslim's Character (Khuluq Al-Muslim)", pg. 114-115, by Shk. Muhammad Al-Ghazali)]
HADITH
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "The faith of a man cannot be straight unless his heart is straight, and his heart cannot be straight unless his tongue becomes straight."
(Collected by Ahmad ibn Hanbal)
(Taken from "Muslim's Character (Khuluq Al-Muslim)", pg. 117, by Shk. Muhammad Al-Ghazali)
Life of Sahaabah (Companions of the Prophet (pbuh))
"The Story of a Seeker of Truth-Salman al-Farisy (R)" (continued...)
When the Prophet (S) reached Yathrib (old name of Madinah) after his hijrah (migration) from Makkah, I was in fact at the top of a palm tree belonging to my master doing some work. My master was sitting under the tree. A nephew of his came up and said: "May God declare war on the Aws and the Khazraj (the two main Arab tribes of Yathrib). By God, they are now gathering at Quba to meet a man who has today come from Makkah and who claims he is a Prophet." I felt hot flushes as soon as I heard these words and I began to shiver so violently that I was afraid that I might fall on my master. I quickly got down from the tree and spoke to my master's nephew. "What did you say? Repeat the news for me."
My master was very angry and gave me a terrible blow. "What does this matter to you? Go back to what you were doing," he shouted. That evening, I took some dates that I had gathered and went to the place where the Prophet had alighted. I went up to him and said: "I have heard that you are a righteous man and that you have companions with you who are strangers and are in need. Here is something from me as sadaqah (charity). I see that you are more deserving of it than others."
The Prophet ordered his companions to eat but he himself did not eat of it. I gathered some more dates again and when the Prophet left Quba for Madinah I went to him and said: "I noticed that you did not eat of the sadaqah (charity) I gave. This however is a gift for you." Of this gift of dates, both he and his companions ate. The strict honesty of the Prophet was one of the characteristics that led Salman to believe in him and accept Islam.
Salman was released from slavery by the Prophet who paid his Jewish slave-owner a stipulated price and who himself planted an agreed number of date palms to secure his manumission. After accepting Islam, Salman would say when asked whose son he was: "I am Salman, the son of Islam from the children of Adam."
Salman was to play an important role in the struggles of the growing Muslim state. At the battle of Khandaq, he proved to be an innovator in military strategy. He suggested digging a ditch or khandaq around Madinah to keep the Quraysh army at bay. When Abu Sufyan, the leader of the Makkans, saw the ditch, he said, "This stratagem has not been employed by the Arabs before."
(To be continued next week......)
(Contributed by Br. Junaid Sohail....Taken from "Companions of the Prophet", by Abdul Wahid Hamid)
EXCERPT
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DA'WAH is a state of mind first.....
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" Da'wah (call towards Islam), prior to everything, is a state of mind, a world view, an attitude to life, indeed a kind of life. The critical prerequisite to Da'wah is a consciousness, personal and collective, imbued with a true vision of Da'wah in Islam.
Once we have understood what Islam is and what it demands of us, what place Da'wah should occupy in our Islamic life, we will have taken the first essential step towards understanding and solving our problem. This may sound too simplistic but, then, real solutions to complex problems are often simple.
What is Islam? It may seem rather naive to ask such a question here. But it is important, for a proper answer will set the whole perspective right. Islam means living in total surrender to Allah, in private and in public, inwardly and outwardly. This has two clear, important implications. One, as most of human life comprises of relationships with other people, living in surrender to Allah cannot be actualised fully unless other people join us in our endeavour, unless the whole society lives in surrender. Hence, at least inviting others to join in our venture, that is Da'wah, is an essential part of being Muslim. Two, Islam is not a once-in-a-lifetime decision; it is a process, it is a life-long pursuit. Here we must continuously invite ourselves and everyone else to join in this pursuit.
Thus Da'wah is integral to Islam. To be a Muslim means to continually strive to become Muslim, that means to do Da'wah. In my humble view, there is no other way of becoming Muslim. Da'wah is essential to the fulfillment of the very purpose of this Ummah (Nation), the purpose of its existence; the mission of Shahaadah (Witnessing)."
(Taken from "Da'wah Among Non-Muslims in the West- Some Conceptual and Methodological aspects", pg. 11-12, by Ustadh Khurram Murad)
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QUR'AN
"The Most Gracious Allah has taught the Qur'an; He has created man; He has taught him speech."
(Surah Ar-Rahman: 1-4)
[Tafsir: "The tongue and the language are great gifts of Allah. These gifts that Allah has given him makes him superior to all other creatures....Islam has given special attention to speech, its style, and its etiquette, because the talk that comes out from a man's mouth discloses his intellectual level and moral nature, because the etiquette of speech in a group reveals its general standard, and shows the standard of decency in their environment.... People who are never tired of talking are not few in number. If you examine their talks you will find that most of these consist of senseless, and absurd things, whereas Allah has not given men their tongues for this purpose." (Taken from "Muslim's Character (Khuluq Al-Muslim)", pg. 114-115, by Shk. Muhammad Al-Ghazali)]
HADITH
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "The faith of a man cannot be straight unless his heart is straight, and his heart cannot be straight unless his tongue becomes straight."
(Collected by Ahmad ibn Hanbal)
(Taken from "Muslim's Character (Khuluq Al-Muslim)", pg. 117, by Shk. Muhammad Al-Ghazali)
Life of Sahaabah (Companions of the Prophet (pbuh))
"The Story of a Seeker of Truth-Salman al-Farisy (R)" (continued...)
When the Prophet (S) reached Yathrib (old name of Madinah) after his hijrah (migration) from Makkah, I was in fact at the top of a palm tree belonging to my master doing some work. My master was sitting under the tree. A nephew of his came up and said: "May God declare war on the Aws and the Khazraj (the two main Arab tribes of Yathrib). By God, they are now gathering at Quba to meet a man who has today come from Makkah and who claims he is a Prophet." I felt hot flushes as soon as I heard these words and I began to shiver so violently that I was afraid that I might fall on my master. I quickly got down from the tree and spoke to my master's nephew. "What did you say? Repeat the news for me."
My master was very angry and gave me a terrible blow. "What does this matter to you? Go back to what you were doing," he shouted. That evening, I took some dates that I had gathered and went to the place where the Prophet had alighted. I went up to him and said: "I have heard that you are a righteous man and that you have companions with you who are strangers and are in need. Here is something from me as sadaqah (charity). I see that you are more deserving of it than others."
The Prophet ordered his companions to eat but he himself did not eat of it. I gathered some more dates again and when the Prophet left Quba for Madinah I went to him and said: "I noticed that you did not eat of the sadaqah (charity) I gave. This however is a gift for you." Of this gift of dates, both he and his companions ate. The strict honesty of the Prophet was one of the characteristics that led Salman to believe in him and accept Islam.
Salman was released from slavery by the Prophet who paid his Jewish slave-owner a stipulated price and who himself planted an agreed number of date palms to secure his manumission. After accepting Islam, Salman would say when asked whose son he was: "I am Salman, the son of Islam from the children of Adam."
Salman was to play an important role in the struggles of the growing Muslim state. At the battle of Khandaq, he proved to be an innovator in military strategy. He suggested digging a ditch or khandaq around Madinah to keep the Quraysh army at bay. When Abu Sufyan, the leader of the Makkans, saw the ditch, he said, "This stratagem has not been employed by the Arabs before."
(To be continued next week......)
(Contributed by Br. Junaid Sohail....Taken from "Companions of the Prophet", by Abdul Wahid Hamid)
EXCERPT
***************************************
DA'WAH is a state of mind first.....
***************************************
" Da'wah (call towards Islam), prior to everything, is a state of mind, a world view, an attitude to life, indeed a kind of life. The critical prerequisite to Da'wah is a consciousness, personal and collective, imbued with a true vision of Da'wah in Islam.
Once we have understood what Islam is and what it demands of us, what place Da'wah should occupy in our Islamic life, we will have taken the first essential step towards understanding and solving our problem. This may sound too simplistic but, then, real solutions to complex problems are often simple.
What is Islam? It may seem rather naive to ask such a question here. But it is important, for a proper answer will set the whole perspective right. Islam means living in total surrender to Allah, in private and in public, inwardly and outwardly. This has two clear, important implications. One, as most of human life comprises of relationships with other people, living in surrender to Allah cannot be actualised fully unless other people join us in our endeavour, unless the whole society lives in surrender. Hence, at least inviting others to join in our venture, that is Da'wah, is an essential part of being Muslim. Two, Islam is not a once-in-a-lifetime decision; it is a process, it is a life-long pursuit. Here we must continuously invite ourselves and everyone else to join in this pursuit.
Thus Da'wah is integral to Islam. To be a Muslim means to continually strive to become Muslim, that means to do Da'wah. In my humble view, there is no other way of becoming Muslim. Da'wah is essential to the fulfillment of the very purpose of this Ummah (Nation), the purpose of its existence; the mission of Shahaadah (Witnessing)."
(Taken from "Da'wah Among Non-Muslims in the West- Some Conceptual and Methodological aspects", pg. 11-12, by Ustadh Khurram Murad)
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