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-by Azzam Supardi -

Daripada Abu Hurairah r.a., Rasulullah s.a.w. bersabda yang bermaksud:
"Sesungguhnya pada hari kiamat kelak, Allah akan befirman yang bermaksud: 'Di manakah orang yang saling mencinta kerana-Ku? Pada hari ini Aku akan menaungi mereka di bawah naungan-Ku; pada hari ini tidak ada naungan selain naungan-Ku'" (Riwayat Muslim)

Dari puncak gunung, pandangan matanya melebar ke segenap dataran yang luas terbentang. Dataran yang kaya dengan flora dan fauna anugerah Tuhan. Rongga dadanya segar menghirup udara dari puncak.

Di sudut itu dia memikirkan tentang agama yang disayanginya. Agama yang dianutinya. Memiliki penganut tetapi ramai yang tidak setia. Ramai yang telah lupa. Ramai mengaku masih beriman tetapi terpesong daripada amalan. Jika kita punyai teman, kemudian berlalu pergi dan tidak setia lagi, bagaimanakah perasaan ini? Pasti hati akan bersalut perasaan marah dan sedih. Sedih memikirkan teman tidak setia lagi.

Namun andai kita lupa pada Islam, Allah sesekali tidak akan berasa rugi dan bersedih kerana janji Allah itu pasti. Islam tetap akan tertegak suatu hari nanti biarpun kini, mata ini tidak akan sempat melihat kemilau cahayanya menerangi seluruh alam. Biarpun kini cita-cita itu terasa sukar untuk digapai, pasti Allah menggantikan golongan yang lalai ini dengan golongan yang memiliki hati yang jitu untuk bangkit membawa obor Islam. Golongan ini mencintai Allah dan Allah juga mencintai mereka.

Islam yang indah akan dapat diamalkan sepenuhnya. Dunia ini akan dibanjir kasih sayang kepada Pencipta dan sesama makhluk. Tiada yang menindas dan tiada yang tertindas. Dunia akan dilimpahi rahmat berpanjangan. Tertegaknya hukum Allah menjamin kebahagiaan hidup di dunia dan akhirat kerana Dia tahu segalanya. Kerana Dia yang mencipta kita dan mengatur sistem hidup kita.

Saat itu akan terpadamlah api marak kejahilan yang meratah minda umat Islam. Akan musnahlah kata-kata sinis yang memperlekehkan Islam. Tiada lagi kata-kata nista menghina agama Allah ini. Seluruh alam akan bersatu untuk berlindung di bawah redup kasih-Nya.  
Green Tea

- by Asma bint Shameem -


"What the *******!"
"Hey you, ******, how are you?" "Where in the *******have you been?"
If you listen to the conversation of the average Muslim youth talking to each other, unfortunately this is what you will hear.......expletives, bad words and cusses. In fact, foul language is often heard as part of their everyday life at school, universities and work place.
What's worse is that they use these words without thinking..... without remorse and without even realizing that these words are obscene, filthy or repulsive.... using 'four letter words' in every sentence and in every conversation.
Using the words 'hell' and calling each other 'dog' and 'gay' like it's nothing.
And these are some of the more 'decent' words.
There are other, much worse words that are totally unmentionable. May Allaah protect us.
These people, like their non-Muslim peers, seem to be completely desensitized to the use of foul and offensive words, including many that make others cringe with shame and embarrassment.
Yet, when you reprimand them for using such language, what do they say?
"O come on! This is how everyone talks!" or "This is how I 'express' myself. or "We don't mean it in a bad way, we're just joking around with each other!"
Subhaan Allaah! Calling each other bad names and using foul language!
Since when did that become a 'joke'? Since when did cussing become part of a Muslim's vocabulary?
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Marriage is never an easy thing. We think of it as this amazing romantic bliss that we will somehow attain one day.
Sisters dream of marrying that amazing brother who has the character of the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu 'alayhi wa sallam), the Eemaan of Aboo Bakr, the courage of Hamzah, the wealth of 'AbdiRahmaan bin 'Awf but the fact still remains, everyone wants to marry that one truly amazing person and it is not much different for guys.
We wish to bump into a Hoor al-'Een that has lost her way from Jannah. I mean why wouldn't that ever happen? It won't happen, because you are daydreaming bro that's why.
Now wake up and listen to this short lesson in some important "Do's and Dont's" along with other useful information inshaaAllaah.

#8 AVOID FACEBOOK SPOUSES
And any other social network for that matter
Since we spend most of our time online these days, it is very easy to try to fulfil all our needs online, even the need of finding a soul mate. Now don't get me wrong, there are marriages who actually do work out, and I am not by any means hating on brothers and sisters who made it work (whatever floats your boats akhis and ukthis, just keep it halaal), but let's face it, the Internet is a very weird place.
Everyone always tries to seem holier than they really are, even a Kaafir could pretend to be Muslim scholar for all you know.  In the good old days people married other people who they actually knew, and life was much more smooth, in very broad terms.
But today you marry someone who comes across as religious online only to find out on your wedding night he isn't really that strict on Salah, oh and did I mention he has tons of friends who just happen to be girls? And not to mention he smokes (sorry forgot to tell you that too, my bad) the point is, be very careful concerning ANY online proposals.
If the person is serious and a good guy, drop them your wali's number and don't communicate with them anymore, then you'll know if the person is really a gentleman or not.
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It was from the practice of the pious (Muslim) men and women who came before us that if they were defeated by an enemy, they would scrutinise themselves and would search for the cause of this defeat. As a consequence, if they found in themselves any opposition to the prophetic traditions in any matter, they hastened in changing it, following the Sunnah (prophetic traditions) and cultivating the Ummah (the Islamic Nation) accordingly.
The fact that they were fewer in number than their enemies proved to be of little consequence as after executing their plan of attack Allâh, The Most High, would aid them, thus actualising what He, The Most High, mentioned in His Book:
"If you help Allâh (strive in the way of your Lord), He will help and strengthen you."
These are some plans of action with regards seeking to procure the True Help (the Help of Allâh) for the Ummah, if Allâh so wishes:
1 – Strive and be earnest to desist and refrain from sins that you commit and find yourself continuous upon - and we ask Allâh to help us in abstaining from them.
2 – Be observant on attending the prayer in the Masjid (praying with the people), five times a day and especially the Fajr (dawn) prayer ("Indeed prayer has been prescribed upon the believers ... ").
3 – Try to give charity to the poor and destitute people even if it is something very small, for indeed charity given in secret extinguishes the anger of your Lord.
4 – Be mindful (O Sisters!) of being modest and covering yourself completely from now (according to the prescribed ways) and do not be of those who say, 'I will start doing it from tomorrow'.
5 – Be observant on raising your children with a true Islamic cultivation, so that they maybe like the children of the Companions, may Allâh be pleased with them all. So that they may become a people better in the sight of Allâh than the people of today.
6 – Increase your superogatory prayers daily.
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Is love that ends in marriage haraam?
Praise be to Allaah.
Firstly:
 The relationship that develops between a man and a non-mahram woman, which people call “love” is a combination of haraam things that transgress shar’i and moral limits.
No wise person will doubt that this relationship is haraam, because it involves a man being alone with a non-mahram woman, looking at her, touching her, kissing, and speaking words filled with love and admiration, which provokes desire.
This relationship may lead to things that are more serious than that, as is happening nowadays.
We have mentioned a number of these haraam things in the answer to question no. 84089.
Secondly: 
Studies have shown that most of the marriages that are based on prior love between a man and woman fail, whereas most marriages that are not based on haraam relationships, which people call “traditional marriages”, succeed.
In a field study done by a French sociologist, the conclusion was:
Marriage is more likely to succeed when the two parties did not fall in love before marriage.
In another study of 1500 families, undertaken by Professor Isma’eel ‘Abd al-Baari, the conclusion was that more than 75% of love marriages ended in divorce, whilst the rate among traditional marriages – those which were not based on prior love – was less than 5%.
We can mention the most important causes of this outcome: 
1-    Emotion blinds one to seeing faults and dealing with them, as it is said: “Love is blind”. One or both parties may have faults that make them unsuitable for the other, but those faults only become apparent after marriage.
2-    The lovers may think that life is an unending journey of love, so we see that they only speak of love and dreams, etc. They never speak about the problems of life and how to deal with them. This notion is destroyed after marriage, when they are confronted with the problems and responsibilities of life.
3-    The lovers are not used to debate and discussion, rather they are used to sacrifice and compromise in order to please the other party. Often they have arguments because each party wants to compromise and please the other. Then the opposite happens after marriage, and their arguments lead to a problem, as each one is used to the other agreeing with him or her, without any argument.
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Green Tea

Runnymede Trust:
The Runnymede Trust has identified eight components that they say define Islamophobia.

This definition, from the 1997 document 'Islamophobia: A Challenge For Us All' is widely accepted, including by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia.

The eight components are:
1) Islam is seen as a monolithic bloc, static and unresponsive to change.
2) Islam is seen as separate and 'other'. It does not have values in common with other cultures, is not affected by them and does not influence them.
3) Islam is seen as inferior to the West. It is seen as barbaric, irrational, primitive and sexist.
4) Islam is seen as violent, aggressive, threatening, supportive of terrorism and engaged in a 'clash of civilisations'.
5) Islam is seen as a political ideology and is used for political or military advantage.
6) Criticisms made of the West by Islam are rejected out of hand.
7) Hostility towards Islam is used to justify discriminatory practices towards Muslims and exclusion of Muslims from mainstream society.
8) Anti-Muslim hostility is seen as natural or normal.

Islamic Human Rights Commission on Runnymede Trust report:
The report itself is not without fault. In particular it advocates that Muslims, as a self-help measure should be more accommodating towards the Jewish community regarding events in the Middle East. It suggests we should condemn every action taken that offends Jewish sensibilities in the Middle East, almost regardless of the rights and wrongs of each individual incident. The Runnymede Trust published a similar report on anti-Semitism in 1993, and no similar recommendation was made to the Jewish community. This aside, the report documented the problems faced by Muslims in a very real and thorough manner. The Runnymede Trust was set up in 1968 as a think tank to advise government on race relations issues. It is well-respected, and the fact that its findings can be so easily brushed aside augurs ill for Muslims in the UK, who already face bleak prospects.

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Ada yang yang berpendapat, manusia hidup bertujuan untuk menyelesaikan pelbagai masalah. Bangun sahaja pagi-pagi, sudah memikirkan apa yang dimakan hari ini, berapa banyak rezeki yang akan diperoleh, krisis dengan manusia dan sebagainya. Ini semua punca stres.

Hairan, manusia hakikatnya tidak sedar bahawa mereka sebenarnya lebih kerap stres kerana risaukan urusan dunia, bukan kerana risaukan urusan akhirat. Bukan begitu? Jarang yang berasa tertekan kerana belum lagi solat ataupun tertinggal solat. Jarang yang risau andai sehari yang berlalu dalam hidupnya tidak diisi dengan amalan soleh yang boleh menyelamatkannya daripada azab akhirat.

Lihat Nabi Adam a.s., saat diarahkan keluar dari syurga dan diturunkan ke dunia, tangis Nabi Adam a.s. berpanjangan. Baginda merintih dan merayu dalam doanya. Nabi Adam tertekan kerana kesal dengan dosanya.

Lihat pula kepada Rasulullah, Baginda pernah tidak dapat tidur malam kerana tidak bersedekah dalam satu hari. Tetapi manusia lain sebaliknya, tertekan dan tidak dapat tidur malam memikirkan wangnya akan berkurangan kerana bersedekah.

Kita bagaimana? Jika memilih untuk rasa stres, pilihlah untuk stres kerana akhirat berbanding stres risaukan urusan dunia.
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Green Tea
- by Muhammad Isa al-Jambuli -


SOMBONG atau takbur (takabbur) adalah sifat hati yang terkeji (madzmumi) dan merupakan satu daripada penyakit hati yang membawa akibat kebinasaan diri.
Pengertian tentang takbur dapat difahami daripada maksud beberapa hadis yang berikut :
Rasulullah bersabda:
“Dianggap sebagai takbur itu ialah menolak apa yang benar dan mengganggap hina kepada orang lain”. (HR. Muslim)
Bersabda Rasulullah saw kepada sahabatnya, Abu Dzar :
“Takbur itu meninggalkan kebenaran dan engkau mengambil selain kebenaran. Engkau melihat orang lain dengan pandangan bahawa kehormatannya tidak sama dengan kehormatanmu, darahnya tidak sama dengan darahmu”.
Rasulullah saw bertanya kepada sekumpulan Sahabat:
“Tahukah kamu, orang gila yang sebenar-benarnya?” Para Sahabat menjawab, “Tidak tahu, ya Rasulullah”. Lalu Rasulullah menjelaskan, “Orang gila ialah orang yang berjalan dengan takbur, memandang rendah kepada orang lain, membusungkan dada, mengharapkan syurga sambil membuat maksiat dan kejahatannya membuat orang tidak aman dan kebaikanya tidak pernah diharapkan. Itulah orang gila yang sebenarnya”.
Berdasarkan kisah di dalam al-Qur’an, makhluk yang pertama yang diserang dan menjadi mangsa penyakit takbur ialah iblis (la’natullah). Walaupun diperintah oleh Allah swt, iblis enggan menghormati Adam a.s (manusia dan nabi Allah yang pertama) kerana dia menganggap dirinya lebih mulia daripada Adam. Katanya:
“Aku lebih baik daripadanya (Adam). Engkau ciptakan aku daripada api, sedangkan dia Engkau ciptakan daripada tanah” (QS 7:12)
Iblis lalu dilaknati oleh Allah swt kerana sifat degil dan takburnya itu. Sekurang-kurangnya dua akibat kecelakaan yang menimpa Iblis kerana ketakburnya :
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As time has gone by, the people have gone further from the Prophetic way (of Islam and all the Prophets). And so the people have lost much of the sunnah and piety, so that the amount of sincere and righteous Muslims has decreased. It has fallen to such an extent that it has related to the increased selfishness in society.


As society and culture has become more selfish (through materialism, love of dunya etc), more people became influenced by the selfishness. And it kept increasing every decade (and even years at times), such that it has become the norm, and the path that people think is good and aspire to. They think its a "dog eat dog eat world", a "cut throat economy", and that we need to care for ourselves because no one will care for us. It became so accepted that people in general tended to think that there are no people who are pious, sincere or selfless. Thus they negated the existence of the Awliya (friends of Allah swt) of the present (and in many cases, of the past).

The selfish people (which is the norm in society, even amongst Muslims) struggle to overcome their selfishness (which includes their desires) if they try, and because of their ego, they think that if they can't do it (become selfless), then no one can. So they assume wrongly about the selfless people, deny their existence, and treat them like the selfless are selfish people. Since the Prophet said A believer is a mirror of the believer.” [Abu Dawud], the selfish person is seeing his own selfishness in the other.