Astaghafirullah

Salam :)


BismillahHirrahmanNirrahim


Pray everyday for Allah SWT to give us guidance,


And I thought I am a hypocrite. Sins after sins I commit. Major or minor. BUT still ALLAH SWT let me live for another day. Meaning another chance to repent. To make proper tawbah! MASYAALLAH!


And here I'm sitting down, thinking I don't deserve  His forgiveness or to even ask His forgiveness cause I think I'm a hypocrite and a sinner BUT still ALLAH SWT let me wake up from my sleep. Allah SWT is giving me another chance to live - to repent - to make proper TAWBAH! Ya ALLAH!


And I thought I could never be a good slave to Allah SWT. But today in my heart - I asked myself - Why? Allah SWT still wake me up from my sleep. Giving me another day to live. After the sins I have done. Why?


I think and think and think...


It's because Allah SWT loves me. That's what I believe with firm conviction in my heart. Amin. Giving me chance to repent and to make proper Tawbah.


This is a story I heard from a talk:


Allah SWT loves His slave 70 times more than a mother's love to her son or daughter.


There was this man, who is madly in love with a woman. The woman said to him, "If you really love me,bring your mother's heart to me."


He ran home to find his mother. Once he found her, he stabbed her chest. Ripped it opened and took her heart.He ran back to find his love. Along the way, he tripped and fell. The heart slipped out from his hands.


Then the heart cried out -" O my beloved son, are you hurt."


He killed his beloved mother, that loves him unconditionally. He felt extremely guilty.


He took the knife and tried to stab his own heart. Then the heart cried out again: "O my son, please don't stab my heart twice."


The moral of this story is the love of our mother to us is unconditional. But Allah SWT love us 70 times more than a mother's love to her son or daughter.


We can be very disobedient children most of the times. And Allah SWT is As-Sabr - The patient.


Pray to Allah SWT for guidance


Salam

Reminder to self

Assalamu'alaikum Warahmatullah Hiwabarakatuh :)


BismillahHirrahmanNirrahim :)


Last night Ustaz Raminey gave a talk about "Jalan-jalan menuju ke Syurga" (The path to paradise)


Syurga(Paradise) and neraka(Hell) already exist. We believe that with firm conviction in our heart. So think. The way we live what path are we going to. Think...

To summarize the important part of the talk last night:


One way to the path of paradise is by menuntut ilmu. Seeking knowledge.


Engineering, Syariah, Chemistry, Tauhid, etc,etc semua tu ilmu Allah SWT. Semasa belajar, liatlah kebesaran Allah SWT, and bila di timpa kesusahan- doa kepada Allah SWT minta bantuan. Fully depend on Him. 2 in 1 benefit. InsyaAllah boleh excel in what we are doing as well as dapat reward from Allah SWT. AMIN!:)


The real knowledge brings us closer to Allah SWT. Bukannya menjauhkan or memisahkan tani from our Creator. Think...



The second way is bersihkan hati. (Clean your heart, polish your heart)


Al-kisah seorang sahabat Rasulullah SAW. Abu Umamah Ibn Jabar - Rasulullah SAW tell his companions that Abu Umamah is one of the people of paradise (Penghuni syurga) -Orangnya Abu Umamah ni very simple saja, very humble. 


Abdullah Ammar another companion of Prophet SAW- He was very curious why Abu Umamah is one of the people of paradise. What so special about him? or what amalan that is extra special he did?


In the end Abu Ummah told Abdullah that hati nya inda pernah rasa dengki and iri hati and rasa dendam, etc etc(All of the penyakit-penyakit hati ia nada).


Before ia tidur pun ia bersihkan hatinya dari semua penyakit-penyakit hati tersebut ( benci, iri hati, riak, etc)


So yeah those are two ways out of many more ways jalan tuk ke syurga.


Think...

I haven't been a good slave to Allah SWT 

I love this ayat: Surah Ad-Dhuha ayat 3:

3. Your Lord (O Muhammad ()) has neither forsaken you nor hated you.

(Tuhanmu tidak meninggalkn engkau (Muhammad) dan tidak pula membencimu)

Ayat 3 surah Ad-Dhuha really comforts me :)

Its so easy to rememeber and needing You during the hard times than the easy times. Ya Allah please forgive me.

Think

Anger and hatred won't do us any good.

How did Rasulullah SAW succeed in spreading the love, spreading Islam :) How did he excel in this world and the hereafter? You think there's an amount of anger and hatred in his heart?

How did he excel in this world and the hereafter? How did the sahabah excel in this world and the hereafter?

Think

We have akal, think.

How do we excel in this world and the hereafter??

Think!

SELFISH!

How selfish am I? HOW SELFISH AM I!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd6SklTzn1A

Anger and hatred in this heart won't solve any problem. Rasulullah SAW no amount of anger and hatred in his heart.

How that?

I have a friend both of us are eager to seek knowledge however she I must say is a fast learner compared to me. Because I can see her eagerness to read the quran more, to attend lectures, quranic circles and any events related to do with the remembrance of Allah SWT. She memorised more long surah than me. MasyaAllah, I envy her. I wish I have the desire to seek knowledge like she does. We've been friends for many years now, what I can say about her is she is very patient. I never seen her angry. If we fight, she's the one who always try to make things work out first. Down to earth and she doesn't backbite or slander - She strive to Husnuzhan. So because of that it easier for knowledge to enter her soft heart. Easy for her to accept knowledge.

ALHAMDULILLAH, I met her. When I look at her she reminds me to Sabr, to be patient for the sake of ALLAH SWT ALAHMDULILLAH.


So must Strive to keep a healthy and clean heart. InsyaAllah.

How to clean the heart?

To clean a cup with coffee stain in it is by rinsing it with water.

How to clean the heart?

To clean our heart is by constant remembrance of Allah SWT.

-Prayers (Obligatory and recommended),

-Du'aa or supplication,

-the Quran,

-Attending events for example religious talk, quranic circle, etc.

-Reading books, articles, etc or watching tubeislam, etc. 

-Listening to lectures anything that remind us about our Almighty creator.

Try not to limit the time and places for the remembrance of Allah SWT. 

For example when we go travelling, we see the beautiful places with beautiful scenery, it should remind us that Allah SWT created it. 

We see the vast blue sky, the mountains, the clouds, the ocean, MasyaALLAH! These are all Allah SWT creation. 

No flaws at all!

(http://www.naturewallpapers4u.com/2009/03/god-made-scenery-wallpaper.html)

 

When we seek knowledge for example biology, we learn about the digestive system, nervous system, respiratory and circulatory systems and musculoskeletal system. Every system has its own function. Who control all of this system? Allah SWT. MasyaAllah,Allah SWT created a perfect system for the human body. All working at the same time!

The real knowledge is the knowledge that brings you closer to Allah SWT. It doesn't matter if it's knowledge about the dunya or knowledge about the akhirat.

So yeah let's STRIVE for the healthy heart ya ukhti and akhi! InsyaALLAH with Allah SWT - The Most gracious, The Most Merciful, with His guidance shown by the Prophet Muhammad SAW insyaALLAH we can do this!

STRIVE! for a healthy heart! :D

Assalamu'alaikum Warahmatullah Hiwabaraktuh everyone =)

BismillahHirrahmanNirrahim - In the name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful
I got the article below from this website, 

http://www.turntoislam.com

There are LOADS more articles in this website on various topics ranging from stories about the Prophet's Companions to articles about self development, repentance, prayer, etc. 

The topic for today's sharing is:

Which of type of heart do you have?

The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu 'Alayhi wa sallam informed us in a very famous tradition, commonly quoted with reference to halal and haram, about the importance of the heart. He said :

"There is in the body a clump of flesh - if it becomes good, the whole body becomes good and if it becomes bad, the whole body becomes bad. And indeed it is the heart."

[The hadith in full :- Bukhary, Volume 1, Book 2, Number 49: Narrated An-Nu'man bin Bashir: I heard Allah's Apostle saying, 'Both legal and illegal things are evident but in between them there are doubtful (suspicious) things and most of the people have no knowledge about them. So whoever saves himself from these suspicious things saves his religion and his honor. And whoever indulges in these suspicious things is like a shepherd who grazes (his animals) near the Hima (private pasture) of someone else and at any moment he is liable to get in it. (O people!) Beware! Every king has a Hima and the Hima of Allah on the earth is His illegal (forbidden) things. Beware! There is a piece of flesh in the body if it becomes good (reformed) the whole body becomes good but if it gets spoilt the whole body gets spoilt and that is the heart.]

There are three types of heart: 

1) The healthy heart, 
2) The dead heart, and 
3) The sick heart.

* (1)The Healthy Heart *

On the Day of Resurrection, only those who come to Allah with a healthy heart will be saved. Allah says:

"The day on which neither wealth nor sons will be of any use, except for whoever brings to Allah a sound heart. (26:88-89)"

In defining the healthy heart, the following has been said:

"It is a heart cleansed from any passion that challenges what Allah commands, or disputes what He forbids.

It is free from any impulses which contradict His good. As a result, it is safeguarded against the worship of anything other than Him, and seeks the judgement of no other except that of His Messenger .

Its services are exclusively reserved for Allah, willingly and lovingly, with total reliance, relating all matters to Him, in fear, hope and sincere dedication. 

When it loves, its love is in the way of Allah. If it detests, it detests in the lght of what He detests. 

When it gives, it gives for Allah. If it witoholds, it withholds for Allah. 

Nevertheless, all this will not suffice for its salvation until it is free from following, or taking as its guide, anyone other than His Messenger ." 

A servant with a healthy heart must dedicate it to its journey's end and not base his actions and speech on those of any other person except Allah's Messenger .

He must not give precedence to any other faith or words or deeds over those of Allah and His Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Allah says:

"Oh you who believe, do not put yourselves above Allah and His Messenger, but fear Allah, for Allah is Hearing, Knowing. (49:1)" 

* (2)The Dead Heart *

It does not know its Lord and does not worship Him as He commands, in the way which He likes, and with which He is pleased. 

It clings instead to its lusts and desires, even if these are likely to incur Allah's displeasure and wrath.

It worships things other than Allah, and its loves and its hatreds, and its giving and its withholding, arise from its whims, which are of paramount importance to it and preferred above the pleasure of Allah.

Its whims are its imam. Its lust is its guide. Its ignorance is its leader. Its crude impulses are its impetus. It is immersed in its concern with worldly objectives. It is drunk with its own fancies and its love for hasty, fleeting pleasures.

It is called to Allah and the akhira from a distance but it does not respond to advice, and instead it follows any scheming, cunning shaytan. 

Life angers and pleases it, and passion makes it deaf and blind (*1) to anything except what is evil. 

(*1) It has been related on the authority of Abu'd-Darda' that the Messenger of Allah said, "Your love for something that makes you blind and deaf." Abu Daw'ud, al-Adab, 14/38; Ahmad, al-Musnad, 5/194. The hadith is classified as hasan. To associate and keep company with the owner of such a heart is to tempt illness: living with him is like taking poison, and befriending him means utter destruction.

* (3)The Sick Heart *

This is a heart with life in it, as well as illness. The former sustains it at one moment, the latter at another, and it follows whichever one of the two manages to dominate it.


It has love for Allah, faith in Him, sincerity towards Him, and reliance upon Him, and these are what give it life. 


It also has a craving for lust and pleasure, and prefers them and strives to experience them. 

It is full of self-admiration, which can lead to its own destruction. 

It listens to two callers: one calling it to Allah and His Prophet and the akhira; and the other calling it to the fleeting pleasures of this world. 

It responds to whichever one of the two happens to have most influence over it at the time. 


In conclusion,

The first heart is alive, submitted to Allah, humble, sensitive and aware; 

The second is brittle and dead; 

The third wavers between either its safety or its ruin.
 

Original author: Ibn Al-Qayim

Edited by me.