23-03-05, 10:26 PM
Verily there is no God save Allah the Almighty
Bismillah Ar Rahmaan Ar Raheem
"this is a quiet long post, "
HOW ARE YOU BROTHERS AND SISTERS ?SOMEONE SAID:
SOMETIMES I FEEL SO OVERWHELMED THAT I CAN'T EXPRESS MYSELF..
This extreme hurt and pain cannot be expressed in any language, through any poem. It is the state of this Ummah that tears the hearts to bits. I hear of things our brothers and sisters are doing to each other and I cannot bear to hear it. There is no shame left, no inhibitions whatsoever. We as a people have become worse than animals and we have none to blame but ourselves. This great Ummah is on its knees and it is painful. This Great Islam is neglected and forgotten. My sisters and brothers have forgotten their obligations. These beautiful people, these people whom Allah Ta3la has chosen to be Muslims are Dhulm upon themselves.
This Islamic society has decayed to a great extent; the milk has gone sour while still in its sealed packing. And my brothers are enjoying it; they say gleefully how they caught this chick doing this or what that chick did. They enjoy watching their sisters being raped on camera, truly they are worse then animals. They enjoy it when intimate moments of their sisters are caught on camera and broadcast over the internet. Truly this is perverse and it is dhulm. Fornication and adultery is rife in the city of the seal of the prophets and this heart weeps. People who pray with you five times a day cheat you the first chance they get. Truly the Muslims are following the ways of those who came before them.
It is not permissible to pray for death except in times of fitnah and I make du3a that Allah Ta3la separate me from these people.
When the Kuffar do something it might make ones blood boil but when our own people do such things then wallahi it hurts more than the death of a loved one. I make du3a that Allah Ta3la save me from becoming like them and truly guidance is in the hand of the Creator of the heavens and the earths.
Narrated An Numan bin Bashir
Allah's Apostle said, "You see the believers as regards their being merciful among themselves and showing love among themselves and being kind, resembling one body, so that, if any part of the body is not well then the whole body shares the sleeplessness (insomnia) and fever with it."
Al Bukhari
Verily this is true, my heart feels it is being wrenched from my body and I can do nothing but cry to my Lord to save me from this torment.THIS IS A BIT ABOUT WHO I AM...
*****My childhood*****
I came to this world on April 5th 1986 in the beautiful land of Abu Dhabi and have lived here ever since. I was born a Muslim al hamaduallah and ever since I could talk, my parents have been teaching me surah’s from the quran and dou’a. the problem though is that I took all this for granted, like these things came in a package with parenthood. because of my international schooling; I met people with different religions and nationalities, that made me more open minded and because of the space my dad’s given me, I’ve began to ask questions about why I’m here and why am i a Muslim and if it’s the true religion.
******Entering the teens******
At the of 12, hijab became compulsory and I had no objection with it so I wore it.
******People who made an impact*****
ninth grade I had a classmate and a best friend called Raymond who was a guitar player in his church choir. he would always fill me in on what goes on at church and how much fun it is in their weekly masses, and would ask me if we had anything similar. these talks got me thinking about why were not as active and our jum’aa prayers are crowded and stuffy and the preachers are always attacking and screaming out Allah’s ayat’s in a very provocative way that even the Arabs themselves would hardly understand anything being said, including myself, not forgetting the many non-Arab people that also come to these prayers. Then I realized that the problem Isn’t Islam, it’s the people itself. Al hamaduallah
Allah sent me someone called asma who imprinted certain special feelings in my heart, and here’s her story.
As salamu alailkum, my name’s asma omer and I met Sara when I enrolled in the same high school in the year 2000.im half Egyptian and half Sudanese and was raised in America. Islam for me was something exciting, never ending, and was not tradition or going with the flow. I was extremely proud of being a muslim and showed it by wearing the hijab at the age of 9 even though it wasn’t compulsory for me yet. My other muslim friend thought I would get teased and harassed endlessly but I ended up getting more respect and would interest people into asking questions. when I met Sara her view on Islam was that it was beautiful when it comes to her family’s gathering’s and talks about Allah, angels etc but what she wanted was to feel Islam and smile while she’s happy and fulfilled when communicating with god. But the only time she and her family would feel it would be in Ramadan time when this very pious sheikh comes all the way from his country to pray taraweh prayers and tahajud prayers with his beautiful captivating and god fearing voice that makes the blackest and hardest heart shatter into tiny winy pieces. so can you see or imagine how pathetic this is especially that they are living in a Muslim country? ! . That’s when I told her about dar al-hijra, my local mosque in Virginia. It was more of an activity center which the best years of my life was spent in. I told her how it always had some sort of bazaar, conference and was turned into a carnival at eid. Mashallah, lets just say its never empty with its fitness gyms and sat through Monday lessons. Sara couldn’t believe it at first since she’s always saying that most of the arab world Muslims are bunch of couch potatoes. These are the kind of things Sara wants to see happening here, and if anybody can make it happen, Sara can, because mashallah that girl has more energy than all the Chicago bulls put together!. Here is the rest of Sara’s story.
In my senior year of high school I started re-searching about different religions… after high school I went to mountain state university of west Virginia’s branch in Abu Dhabi and met up with more multi racial people (Hindus, Bosnians, Americans, Arabs, etc). by interacting with those people I got to know the beauty and deepness of our religion in comparison to theirs. This stage in my life is where hamza yosuf comes in with his extensive knowledge of not only religion but also the past and present cultures and how to benefit from them for future purposes. what I’m trying to say is that unlike other preachers, his presence is felt, seen and heard, and his passion for what he is doing glows like a neon-sign on his face. he attracts and pulls more people towards what he believes in each and everyday. All these words, I swear, are not enough to come close to describe who he really is.. I don’t want to ruin the letter, can you actually believe that some close people I know(very close) think that he is a spy and that he's getting paid by the American government to say what he says and that he's trying to tell the people that it’s wrong to attack the west which they believe is right and that is jihad??????!!!!!!.
Also, they misunderstood what sheikh hamza yusuf hanson said about imam nawawi elaborating the prophet’s saying “ love for your brother what you love for yourself”, where brother here means not brother in Islam and humanity, but in deen, meaning if its in Islam only, there will be enemies; and this shows how Islam is higher than everything. I pray god lightens their hearts and weird visions. The other people who really made an impact and impressed me, even though I’ve never seen them or known them personally, are the ones who converted to Islam and had the courage to talk about their stories on the internet.
ISLAM PROVED ITSSELF FOR THE PAST 1425 YEARS INDESTRUCTABLE,INDESTRUCTABLE,ISLAM IS INDESTRUCTABLE.
SO LETS PUT OUR HANDS TOGETHER TO SHARE THHIS WORLD...
HOW??
HAD MY IGCSEs f ROM CAMBRIDGE(equivelent to high school but from uk.) while studyin in u.a.e.
STUDYING NOW DISTANCE LEARNING WITH MOUNTAIN STATE UNI. IN WEST VIRGINIA WHILE LIVING IN U.A.E. DOING MANAGEMENT AND INSHAALLAH GETTING MY ASSOCIATE DEGREE IN THAT SOON( equivelent to diploma)
WORKING EXPERIENCE:
1-worked in the international islamic publishing house for 3 months voluntarely A IN THE LAST SUMMER
2-have been working for a year and a half now in the new muslims centre volunterely here in abudhabi.(ON WEEKENDS)
3-have been working SINCE SEP. 2004 IN A BRITISH SCHOOL ABC school as an islamic studies teacher for non-arab kids from grades 1-5 + teaching arts for grades 1.. ( BUT THIS TIME NOT VOLUNTARELY, I DO GET PAID.)BUT FOR THE LORD'S SAKE OFFFFFCOURSE
MARITAL STATUS---SINGLE
i dunno if this is related but i wanna spell the beans with u...
I DON'T WANT TO SEEM DESPERATE, BUT AS A MATTER OF FACT, ITS SOOOOOOO HARD TO FIND IN THIS TOWN SOMEONE WHO'S FIRST PRIORITY IS JANNAH(HEAVEN, AS MOST(NOT ALL) MEN GIVE OUT ONE OF THOSE BIG MARRIAGES, AND THEN ITS AAAAAAAAALL ABOUT MAKING MONEY AND KIDS..THE POINT IS, IF I CAN GO TO JANNAH WITHOUT GETTING MARRIED, I DONT MIND, BUT IF I COULD GET MARRIED TO SOMEONE WHO'S FIRST PRIORITY IS JANNAH, THEN HOOOOOOOOOOOOK ME UP...THE THING IS, IT IS VERY RARE TO FIND A MAN WHO WOULD HELP ME GO TO PARADISE, STABALIZE AND STRENGTHEN THE RELIGION TOGETHER, CONTAINING AS MUCH ENERGY TO GO AROUND THE WORLD, TO NOT ONLY LEARN MORE,BUT SPREAD AS MUCH KNOWLEDGE OUT AS WE CAN..ALL THEY CAN OFFER ARE THE MATERIAL THINGS-THINGS THAT I DON'T LOOK FOR..
NEWAYS
,,I COULD NOT SEE MYSELF GETTING MARRIED TO SOMEONE WHO IS NOT FROM SHIEKH HAMZA'S DIRECTION DIRECTION---I.E. A PERSON WHO WANTS AND CHOSE TO SAY AND TESTIFY THAT THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH AND THAT MOH'D. IS HIS MESSENGER...NOT A PERSON WHO WAS BORN AS A MUSLIM AND JUST LIVED WITH IT.(I DON'T MEAN TO GENERALIZE HERE, BUT IT SEEMS THAT MUSLIMS TAKE ISLAAAAM FOR GRANTED)..I, FOR INSTANCE, THOUGHT, OR USED TO BELIEVE THAT HAPPINESS COMES FROM MEETING SOMEONE, WHO **I THINK** WOULD GRANT ME HAPPINESS, BUT IT TURNS OUT TO BE TOTALLYY FROM HIM,,ALLAH, THE LORD AND MASTER OF THE WORLDS....EVEN IN MARRIAGE WE THINK THAT OUR SPOUSE GIVES US HAPPINESS OR MERCY OR SATISFACTION ,,,BUT ALLAH SAYS, IN HIS HOLY BOOK, THE QURAN,THAT WHEN WE FELL IT FROM OUR SPOUSE, ITS FROM ALLAH THROUGH OUR SPOUSE,,IF U KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING...
EXCUSE ME IF I WAS A LITTLE BLUNT,,,BUT I FULLY RESPECT U AND THIS SHOWS HOW OPEN I COULD BE WITH SOMEONE THAT I RESPECT...
SALAMU ALAIKUM..
Bismillah Ar Rahmaan Ar Raheem
"this is a quiet long post, "
HOW ARE YOU BROTHERS AND SISTERS ?SOMEONE SAID:
SOMETIMES I FEEL SO OVERWHELMED THAT I CAN'T EXPRESS MYSELF..
This extreme hurt and pain cannot be expressed in any language, through any poem. It is the state of this Ummah that tears the hearts to bits. I hear of things our brothers and sisters are doing to each other and I cannot bear to hear it. There is no shame left, no inhibitions whatsoever. We as a people have become worse than animals and we have none to blame but ourselves. This great Ummah is on its knees and it is painful. This Great Islam is neglected and forgotten. My sisters and brothers have forgotten their obligations. These beautiful people, these people whom Allah Ta3la has chosen to be Muslims are Dhulm upon themselves.
This Islamic society has decayed to a great extent; the milk has gone sour while still in its sealed packing. And my brothers are enjoying it; they say gleefully how they caught this chick doing this or what that chick did. They enjoy watching their sisters being raped on camera, truly they are worse then animals. They enjoy it when intimate moments of their sisters are caught on camera and broadcast over the internet. Truly this is perverse and it is dhulm. Fornication and adultery is rife in the city of the seal of the prophets and this heart weeps. People who pray with you five times a day cheat you the first chance they get. Truly the Muslims are following the ways of those who came before them.
It is not permissible to pray for death except in times of fitnah and I make du3a that Allah Ta3la separate me from these people.
When the Kuffar do something it might make ones blood boil but when our own people do such things then wallahi it hurts more than the death of a loved one. I make du3a that Allah Ta3la save me from becoming like them and truly guidance is in the hand of the Creator of the heavens and the earths.
Narrated An Numan bin Bashir
Allah's Apostle said, "You see the believers as regards their being merciful among themselves and showing love among themselves and being kind, resembling one body, so that, if any part of the body is not well then the whole body shares the sleeplessness (insomnia) and fever with it."
Al Bukhari
Verily this is true, my heart feels it is being wrenched from my body and I can do nothing but cry to my Lord to save me from this torment.THIS IS A BIT ABOUT WHO I AM...
*****My childhood*****
I came to this world on April 5th 1986 in the beautiful land of Abu Dhabi and have lived here ever since. I was born a Muslim al hamaduallah and ever since I could talk, my parents have been teaching me surah’s from the quran and dou’a. the problem though is that I took all this for granted, like these things came in a package with parenthood. because of my international schooling; I met people with different religions and nationalities, that made me more open minded and because of the space my dad’s given me, I’ve began to ask questions about why I’m here and why am i a Muslim and if it’s the true religion.
******Entering the teens******
At the of 12, hijab became compulsory and I had no objection with it so I wore it.
******People who made an impact*****
ninth grade I had a classmate and a best friend called Raymond who was a guitar player in his church choir. he would always fill me in on what goes on at church and how much fun it is in their weekly masses, and would ask me if we had anything similar. these talks got me thinking about why were not as active and our jum’aa prayers are crowded and stuffy and the preachers are always attacking and screaming out Allah’s ayat’s in a very provocative way that even the Arabs themselves would hardly understand anything being said, including myself, not forgetting the many non-Arab people that also come to these prayers. Then I realized that the problem Isn’t Islam, it’s the people itself. Al hamaduallah
Allah sent me someone called asma who imprinted certain special feelings in my heart, and here’s her story.
As salamu alailkum, my name’s asma omer and I met Sara when I enrolled in the same high school in the year 2000.im half Egyptian and half Sudanese and was raised in America. Islam for me was something exciting, never ending, and was not tradition or going with the flow. I was extremely proud of being a muslim and showed it by wearing the hijab at the age of 9 even though it wasn’t compulsory for me yet. My other muslim friend thought I would get teased and harassed endlessly but I ended up getting more respect and would interest people into asking questions. when I met Sara her view on Islam was that it was beautiful when it comes to her family’s gathering’s and talks about Allah, angels etc but what she wanted was to feel Islam and smile while she’s happy and fulfilled when communicating with god. But the only time she and her family would feel it would be in Ramadan time when this very pious sheikh comes all the way from his country to pray taraweh prayers and tahajud prayers with his beautiful captivating and god fearing voice that makes the blackest and hardest heart shatter into tiny winy pieces. so can you see or imagine how pathetic this is especially that they are living in a Muslim country? ! . That’s when I told her about dar al-hijra, my local mosque in Virginia. It was more of an activity center which the best years of my life was spent in. I told her how it always had some sort of bazaar, conference and was turned into a carnival at eid. Mashallah, lets just say its never empty with its fitness gyms and sat through Monday lessons. Sara couldn’t believe it at first since she’s always saying that most of the arab world Muslims are bunch of couch potatoes. These are the kind of things Sara wants to see happening here, and if anybody can make it happen, Sara can, because mashallah that girl has more energy than all the Chicago bulls put together!. Here is the rest of Sara’s story.
In my senior year of high school I started re-searching about different religions… after high school I went to mountain state university of west Virginia’s branch in Abu Dhabi and met up with more multi racial people (Hindus, Bosnians, Americans, Arabs, etc). by interacting with those people I got to know the beauty and deepness of our religion in comparison to theirs. This stage in my life is where hamza yosuf comes in with his extensive knowledge of not only religion but also the past and present cultures and how to benefit from them for future purposes. what I’m trying to say is that unlike other preachers, his presence is felt, seen and heard, and his passion for what he is doing glows like a neon-sign on his face. he attracts and pulls more people towards what he believes in each and everyday. All these words, I swear, are not enough to come close to describe who he really is.. I don’t want to ruin the letter, can you actually believe that some close people I know(very close) think that he is a spy and that he's getting paid by the American government to say what he says and that he's trying to tell the people that it’s wrong to attack the west which they believe is right and that is jihad??????!!!!!!.
Also, they misunderstood what sheikh hamza yusuf hanson said about imam nawawi elaborating the prophet’s saying “ love for your brother what you love for yourself”, where brother here means not brother in Islam and humanity, but in deen, meaning if its in Islam only, there will be enemies; and this shows how Islam is higher than everything. I pray god lightens their hearts and weird visions. The other people who really made an impact and impressed me, even though I’ve never seen them or known them personally, are the ones who converted to Islam and had the courage to talk about their stories on the internet.
ISLAM PROVED ITSSELF FOR THE PAST 1425 YEARS INDESTRUCTABLE,INDESTRUCTABLE,ISLAM IS INDESTRUCTABLE.
SO LETS PUT OUR HANDS TOGETHER TO SHARE THHIS WORLD...
HOW??
HAD MY IGCSEs f ROM CAMBRIDGE(equivelent to high school but from uk.) while studyin in u.a.e.
STUDYING NOW DISTANCE LEARNING WITH MOUNTAIN STATE UNI. IN WEST VIRGINIA WHILE LIVING IN U.A.E. DOING MANAGEMENT AND INSHAALLAH GETTING MY ASSOCIATE DEGREE IN THAT SOON( equivelent to diploma)
WORKING EXPERIENCE:
1-worked in the international islamic publishing house for 3 months voluntarely A IN THE LAST SUMMER
2-have been working for a year and a half now in the new muslims centre volunterely here in abudhabi.(ON WEEKENDS)
3-have been working SINCE SEP. 2004 IN A BRITISH SCHOOL ABC school as an islamic studies teacher for non-arab kids from grades 1-5 + teaching arts for grades 1.. ( BUT THIS TIME NOT VOLUNTARELY, I DO GET PAID.)BUT FOR THE LORD'S SAKE OFFFFFCOURSE
MARITAL STATUS---SINGLE
i dunno if this is related but i wanna spell the beans with u...
I DON'T WANT TO SEEM DESPERATE, BUT AS A MATTER OF FACT, ITS SOOOOOOO HARD TO FIND IN THIS TOWN SOMEONE WHO'S FIRST PRIORITY IS JANNAH(HEAVEN, AS MOST(NOT ALL) MEN GIVE OUT ONE OF THOSE BIG MARRIAGES, AND THEN ITS AAAAAAAAALL ABOUT MAKING MONEY AND KIDS..THE POINT IS, IF I CAN GO TO JANNAH WITHOUT GETTING MARRIED, I DONT MIND, BUT IF I COULD GET MARRIED TO SOMEONE WHO'S FIRST PRIORITY IS JANNAH, THEN HOOOOOOOOOOOOK ME UP...THE THING IS, IT IS VERY RARE TO FIND A MAN WHO WOULD HELP ME GO TO PARADISE, STABALIZE AND STRENGTHEN THE RELIGION TOGETHER, CONTAINING AS MUCH ENERGY TO GO AROUND THE WORLD, TO NOT ONLY LEARN MORE,BUT SPREAD AS MUCH KNOWLEDGE OUT AS WE CAN..ALL THEY CAN OFFER ARE THE MATERIAL THINGS-THINGS THAT I DON'T LOOK FOR..
NEWAYS
,,I COULD NOT SEE MYSELF GETTING MARRIED TO SOMEONE WHO IS NOT FROM SHIEKH HAMZA'S DIRECTION DIRECTION---I.E. A PERSON WHO WANTS AND CHOSE TO SAY AND TESTIFY THAT THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH AND THAT MOH'D. IS HIS MESSENGER...NOT A PERSON WHO WAS BORN AS A MUSLIM AND JUST LIVED WITH IT.(I DON'T MEAN TO GENERALIZE HERE, BUT IT SEEMS THAT MUSLIMS TAKE ISLAAAAM FOR GRANTED)..I, FOR INSTANCE, THOUGHT, OR USED TO BELIEVE THAT HAPPINESS COMES FROM MEETING SOMEONE, WHO **I THINK** WOULD GRANT ME HAPPINESS, BUT IT TURNS OUT TO BE TOTALLYY FROM HIM,,ALLAH, THE LORD AND MASTER OF THE WORLDS....EVEN IN MARRIAGE WE THINK THAT OUR SPOUSE GIVES US HAPPINESS OR MERCY OR SATISFACTION ,,,BUT ALLAH SAYS, IN HIS HOLY BOOK, THE QURAN,THAT WHEN WE FELL IT FROM OUR SPOUSE, ITS FROM ALLAH THROUGH OUR SPOUSE,,IF U KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING...
EXCUSE ME IF I WAS A LITTLE BLUNT,,,BUT I FULLY RESPECT U AND THIS SHOWS HOW OPEN I COULD BE WITH SOMEONE THAT I RESPECT...
SALAMU ALAIKUM..