Beautiful Woman and her husband

A simple story i would like to share, from my sister in Islam,

There was this beautiful woman, who wanted to get married, but she wanted a very pious husband, so she said that she'll marry the man who recites the whole Quran every single day, fasts for the whole year and stays awake and worships Allah all throughout the night. She was a very beautiful woman, and a lot of suitors wanted to marry her, but they knew they couldn't fulfill the conditions she set. Until this one man stepped forward and said he could fulfill them. So the Imam got both of them married. 

After the first night of the marriage, the wife sees that the husband doesn't recite the whole of the Quran, nor does he fast, nor does he stay awake in the worship of Allah, she decided to let it roll on for a few weeks to see if there were any changes, there weren't, so she filed a complaint and asked for a divorce.

They are both taken in front of the judge, and the judge asked, 'What were the conditions of the marriage?' the man replied 'They were for me to recite the whole Quran daily, keep fast for the whole year and to worship Allah all throughout the night.'

The Judge asked, 'did you fulfill them? The man calmly answered, '...yes.'

The judge answers, 'you lie; your wife has said that you don't, that's why she's asking for a divorce'.

But the man insisted that he had fulfilled the conditions, so the judge asked, 'did you recite the full Quran every day?' The man answered yes. The Judge, baffled asked, 'how? How can you do that?' The man coolly answered, 'I recite Surah Ikhlas three times a day and according to Prophet Muhammad (saw), reciting Surah Ikhlas three times is equivalent to reciting the whole Quran.'

The Judge was intrigued, so he asked, 'how did you fast the whole year?' The man answered, ' I fasted for the whole month of Ramadan, then kept another six fasts in the month of Shawwal, according to Prophet Muhammad(SAW), keeping all of the fast of Ramadan then keeping six fasts in the month of Shawwal, is as if you have fasted for the whole year.'

The Judge remained silent, he couldn't give a reply saying the man was wrong, so finally he asked, 'how did you stay awake all night and worship Allah, when your wife saw you sleeping?' The Judge thought the man wouldn't be able to answer this one, but the man, cool as a cucumber answered, 'I prayed Salatul Isha with jamaat, then the next day prayed Salatul Fajar with jamaat, according to Prophet Muhammad (saw), the one who prays Salatul Isha and Salatul Fajar with jamaat, it is as if he had stayed up all night worshipping Allah.'

The Judge sat there looking at the man; the final verdict was about to be released... He said to the man and his wife, '...go, just go, there is nothing wrong with this marriage'.

The man was one of the companion of the our beloved Prophet, Salman Farsi (ra), and the Judge was our Prophet Muhammad himself (saw).

The moral of the Story- ISLAM is not hard; it is great and a simple way of life. 

Adolf Hitler: Siapa kau sebenarnya?

Adolf Hitler yang ku kenal adalah pemimpin tentera Nazi di Jerman yang anti Yahudi dan menyebabkan petaka ngeri 'Holocaust' yang sehingga ke hari ini masih disebut sebagai jenayah paling kejam ke atas bangsa Yahudi. Semua yang keji dan negatif di lemparkan pada sebuah watak lelaki bernama Hitler. Saya juga kurang mengkaji secara mendalam siapakah Hitler selain gelaran pemimpin Nazi. Email yang saya terima baru-baru ini membuatkan saya terfikir betapa fakta begitu mudah dimanipulasi oleh pihak-pihak yang bermimpi untuk memimpin dunia dengan cara mereka. Fakta hari ini yang kita terima tidak semestinya betul dan terlalu banyak keraguan sehingga kadang-kadang kita dikelirukan oleh fakta-fakta tersebut dan menyebabkan kita semakin jemu untuk mengetahui tentang fakta lalu mengambil jalan mudah untuk tidak peduli dan tidak mengkaji. Email yang saya terima itu menceritakan sisi watak Hitler yang amat berbeza berbanding apa yang saya tahu mengenainya. Dalam email itu, si pengirim menceritakan tentang perbualannya dengan saudaranya yang membuat kajian thesis phD nya mengenai Hitler dan menjumpai sesuatu yang kita tidak tahu mengenai Hitler. Biarlah saya namakan pengirim dengan "A" dan saudaranya sebagai "B". 

Setelah mendengar bahawa "B" membuat kajian mengenai Adolf Hitler, "A" dengan sinis berkata "Sudah habiskah pejuang Islam yang ingin dikaji sehingga kamu memilih si bodoh ini?" Si "B" menjawab: "Apakah yang kamu tahu mengenai Hitler?”  "Hitler seorang pembunuh yang membunuh secara berleluasa dan meletakkan German mengatasi segala-galanya. lalu "B" bertanya dari mana sumber "A". "A" menjawab sumbernya dari TV pastinya. 

Lalu "B" pun  berkata :
"Baiklah, pihak British telah melakukan lebih dahsyat dari itu…pihak Jepun semasa zaman Emperor mereka juga sama…tapi kenapa dunia hanya menghukum Hitler dan meletakkan kesalahan malahan memburukkan nama Nazi seolah-olah Nazi masih wujud hari ini sedangkan mereka melupakan kesalahan pihak British kepada Scotland, pihak Jepun kepada dunia dan pihak Afrika Selatan kepada kaum kulit hitam mereka?”

"A" lantas meminta jawapan dari "B:. Beliau menyambung : “ Ada dua sebab -

1. Prinsip Hitler berkaitan Yahudi, Zionisme dan penubuhan negara Israel . Hitler telah melancarkan Holocaust untuk menghapuskan Yahudi kerana beranggapan Yahudi akan menjahanamkan dunia pada suatu hari nanti.

2. Prinsip Hitler berkaitan Islam. Hitler telah belajar sejarah kerajaan terdahulu dan umat yang lampau, dan beliau telah menyatakan bahawa ada tiga tamadun yang terkuat, iaitu Parsi, Rome dan Arab. Ketiga-tiga tamadun ini telah menguasai dunia satu ketika dulu dan Parsi serta Rome telah mengembangkan tamadun mereka hingga hari ini, manakala Arab pula lebih kepada persengketaan sesama mereka sahaja. Beliau melihat ini sebagai satu masalah kerana Arab akan merosakkan Tamadun Islam yang beliau telah lihat begitu hebat satu ketika dulu.

Atas rasa kagum beliau pada Tamadun Islam, beliau telah mencetak risalah berkaitan Islam dan diedarkan kepada tentera Nazi semasa perang, walaupun kepada tentera yang bukan Islam.Beliau juga telah meberi peluang kepada tentera German yang beragama Islam untuk menunaikan solat ketika masuk waktu di mana jua…bahkan tentera German pernah bersolat di dataran Berlin dan Hitler ketika itu mennggu sehingga mereka tamat solat jemaah untuk menyampaikan ucapan beliau. Hitler juga sering bertemu dengan para Ulamak dan meminta pendapat mereka serta belajar dari mereka tentang agama dan kisah para sahabat dalam mentadbir. 

"A" kemudian sedaya upaya mencari maklumat tambahan di internet dan berjumpa beberapa perkara :

1: Pengaruh Al-Quran di dalam ucapan Hitler.
Ketika tentera Nazi tiba di Moscow, Hitler berhajat menyampaikan ucapan. Dia memerintahkan penasihat-penasihat nya untuk mencari kata-kata pembukaan yang hebat tak kira dari kitab agama, kata-kata ahli falsafah ataupun dari bait syair. Seorang sasterawan Iraq yang bermastautin di German mencadangkan ayat Al-Quran :

(اقتربت الساعة وانشق القمر) bermaksud : Telah hampir Hari Kiamat dan bulan akan terbelah…

Hitler berasa kagum dengan ayat ini dan menggunakannya sebagai kalam pembukaan dan isi kandungan ucapan beliau. Memang para ahli tafsir menghuraikan bahawa ayat tersebut bermaksud kehebatan, kekuatan dan memberi maksud yang mendalam.

Perkara ini dinyatakan oleh Hitler di dalam buku beliau Mein Kampf yang ditulis di dalam penjara bahawa banyak aspek tindakan beliau berdasarkan ayat Al-Quran, khususnya yang berkaitan tindakan beliau ke atas Yahudi…

2. Hitler bersumpah dengan nama Allah yang Maha Besar

Hitler telah memasukkan sumpah dengan nama Allah yang Maha Besar di dalam ikrar ketua tenteranya yang akan tamat belajar di akademi tentera German.

” Aku bersumpah dengan nama Allah (Tuhan) yang Maha Besar dan ini ialah sumpah suci ku,bahawa aku akan mentaati semua perintah ketua tentera German dan pemimpinnya Adolf Hitler, pemimpin bersenjata tertinggi, bahawa aku akan sentiasa bersedia untuk berkorban dengan nyawaku pada bila-bila waktu demi pemimpin ku”

3. Hitler telah enggan meminum beer (arak) pada ketika beliau gementar semasa keadaan German yang agak goyah dan bermasalah. Ketika itu para doktor mencadangkan beliau minum beer sebagai ubat dan beliau enggan, sambil mangatakan ” Bagaimana anda ingin suruh seseorang itu minum arak untuk tujuan perubatan sedangkan beliau tidak pernah seumur hidupnya menyentuh arak?” 

Sehingga di situ email itu tamat dan saya tinggalkan para pembaca untuk menilai mana fakta yang benar dan mana yang salah. Allah jua lah yang Maha Mengetahui. 

Allahualam 

friend versus true friend

One youngster started coming home very late. Several days passed in this manner. One day the father asked, Son, you come home late every night. Where do you go? The son replied, O Father, I have a friend. I visit him every night. We sit and talk. That is why it gets so late. The father said, Really? Does one still find friends in this age? I was under the impression that friends existed in previous times. What use is a friend these days? Are there really such friends in this age? The son replied, Yes, O Father! He is such a friend, one who says that he will shed his blood where my perspiration drips! The father said, Very well. Tomorrow, when you go visit him, take me with.

The following evening the father deliberately delayed setting off, with the result that it was past the normal time of his visit when they reached the friends house. The front door was locked. The son knocked, and also called out to his friend. After having called out several times, the friend, from inside the house, asked, Who is it? The son replied, It is I, your friend, mentioning his name. The friend said, Oh! You have come rather late. He came and opened the door. Before the son could say a word, this friend of his, the one who had said that he was prepared to shed his blood where the sons perspiration drips, quickly spoke, I slept rather late. I'm still feeling very drowsy. At this moment my tabiyet does not feel at all right. I ask to be forgiven. So saying, he closed the door and latched the chain again, and went back inside. The father spoke, You had said that he is your friend. How has he turned out to be? Come. Let me show you. I have a friend living nearby. I have gone old, and so has he. I have not visited him for several years. Come. Let us go to him. Then you can judge for yourself.

So saying, they set off again. When they reached the father's friend's house, the father called out to his friend. Immediately the friend replied from inside, Hang on. I'm coming! It's many years since you have visited me!

Kindly note that the son's friend did not recognise the voice of his nightly visitor, but the father's friend immediately recognised who it was, even after a lapse of several years!

After a short delay the door opened, but what a spectacle the friend presented! On his head was a dish, in his one hand he held a bag, and in the other hand a staff (lathi). After salam and formalities were over, the father asked his friend, pointing to the items he was carrying What is all this? The friend replied, I thought to myself, My friend has come, after such a long time, at such an odd hour! He must be in some difficulty! It is possible that he is impoverished and hungry. So this dish contains some food. I shall feed him from this. Or, it may be possible that somebody he owes money to, has made life difficult for him.

So, this bag contains some money to give to him. Or, it may be possible that some enemy is after him, and a fight is imminent. So, this stick(lathi) will serve some use. Dear friend! I'm somewhat old, but i'll still be able to dish out a shot or two! The father reassured him, There is no fight, there is no debt, and I am not famished. This here is my son. He has found himself a friend. I have seen this friend of his. So, now I have brought him to see my friend.

Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) has actually asked to be protected from the type of friend one comes across today. He has said,
"0 Allah! I seek protection from such a trickster friend - I am seeking protection from such a deceitful friend - that he stares at me so fixedly with both his eyes, and it appears that he stares at me with eyes of tremendous love, but in his heart he is tearing me apart and devouring me! I am seeking protection from such a cunning, conniving friend! "

How does one know that he is such a deceitful person? Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) added, "Whenever he sees anything good in me, he buries it! Whenever he sees anything favourable, anything good, any perfection in me, he buries it! He does not bring it to his lips, never mind tell anybody about it. However, whenever he sees anything bad in me, he goes around telling others about it, he publicises it. He discloses my faults to others! 0 Allah! I seek protection from such a friend."

In these times one will find more friends of this type (with a few exceptions).

THERE ARE MANY FRIENDS OUT THERE , BUT TRUE, SINCERE FRIENDS ARE INDEED VERY FEW.

What a Wonderful World

Oh what a wonderful world this would be

If we all open our eyes to see

He is all that we need right now

And we can all come together somewhere, somehow.

His door is open no matter who you are

Just take the first step youll see its not so far

Down this road that holds all the answers

Open your heart to something greater.

His holy book speaks pure and true

And always tells us what we must do

His last Prophet was sent as a guide

An example by which we abide.

There is salvation for those who seek

To find the one and only source of peace

An understanding of why we are here

Who created us who we must fear.

So what a wonderful world this would be

If we all open our eyes to see

He is all that we need right now

And we can all come together somewhere, somehow.

Such different people from different lands

Were all descendants from the first man

We can be one nation facing one

God With no hatred, no envy, no war.

Created equal are you and I

Which of His favors can we ever deny

We may have everything or nothing at all

But our purpose lies with this call.

To worship Him to praise Him all day

Until the straight path lets not go astray

He is the greatest and most merciful

And everything acts upon his will.

So what a wonderful world this would be

If we all open our eyes to see

He is all that we need right now

And we can all come together somewhere, somehow.

Like every sunrise that brings forth each day

Brings new meaning, new hope, a new way

Such is the blessing bestowed upon us

Every hardship and heartache will pass.

From the mountains to the deep blue sea

Everything in perfect harmony

And as the stars fill the evening sky

Without us sensing life is passing by

So if you want a solution, my friend Seize this moment this day before it ends

Turn to him dont you see its so clear Believe in Allah Hes always near.

So what a wonderful world this would be

If we all open our eyes to see

He is all that we need right now

And we can all come together somewhere, somehow

Why Are The Drums So Silent? (Dawud Wharnsby Ali)

A ll the sounds that surround us,

All the noises that dumbfound us,

The clatter and the clamor of the clutter in our lives.

Cars and streets make silence shatter, Idle minds fill up with idle chatter,

If we fill our void, that's all that matters.

Why are the drums so silent?

Why can't we hear the rhythm?

What's wrong with you and I?

Why are the drums so silent?

Why can't we hear the rhythm,

From the heels of believers,

Marching to the garden as they strive?

We digitize the revelation,

Does our rehearsed recitation,

Go any deeper than our throats?

Our calls to prayer seem to rise up to the sky,

Conferences and lectures, seminars for you and I,

The words that blow away with anasheed that make us cry.

Yet... Why are the drums so silent? Why can't we hear the rhythm?

What's wrong with you and I? Why are the drums so silent?

Why can't we hear the rhythm,

From the heels of believers marching to the garden as they strive?
And if we could just be brave enough to be each other mirror,

We may finally recognize, The face of conscience that we fear.

And if we can take the time,

To mute the noise we've built around ourselves,

The rhythm of the heartbeat, And the purpose may be clear.
If we beat the drum, (A whisper of peace),

Beat the drum, (Moving through the land) Beat the drum.
If we beat the drums of hope and faith,

We will all fall into rhythm.

I have faith in you and I.

If we beat the drums of hope and faith,

Then we will feel the rhythm,

From our footsteps and our striving,

Marching to the garden as we try.
If we beat the drums of hope and faith,

We will all fall into rhythm. I have faith in you and I.

If we beat the drums of hope and faith,

Then we will feel the rhythm,

From our footsteps and our striving,

Marching to the garden as we die.