Give me some Hope

Bismihi Ta’ala

I’m sure everyone is sick of hearing about COVID-19.  I know that everyone has been inundated with messages and advices and sanitizer recipes. I know that at this moment in time, when families are keeping apart, the markets are crashing and businesses are suffering, many people are feeling a little hopeless. I know that it’s easy to fall into panic as this virus takes control and makes us think that there is nothing beyond what we are seeing right now.

I once heard that Musa (AS) told his people that within the Kingdom of our Creator, there’s a creature in just one of His stables that can swallow this entire universe in just one morsel.

In one morsel.

That this entire universe with all the riches and minerals and priceless gems that we pay tribute and value so much can and will be destroyed at some point, and just in a mere moment. I don’t even think we can ever comprehend how great Allah really is. How powerful He is. How small this is for Him to conquer. That this world and it’s entirety is nothing for Him. That should be wish, He can eradicate us completely, and should He will, He can alleviate every challenge that we have come to face. Nothing is too big for Him. Nothing is beyond Allah’s power. He is all knowing and all seeing and able to do more than our minds can even fathom.

So let’s think about this. If we just process, for a minute. Let’s put this into perspective just for a moment and understand that all this took was one germ. One micro-organism. One microbial specimen that man cannot even see with his naked eye… and the entire world is in havoc. Cities are under lockdown. Shopping malls are closed. Schools are shut. Places of prayer have even been compromised. Allah knows how much further this will go, but what we need to do is process.

Process that Allah is the maker. The Breaker. The Controller. Nothing is out of His control. Nothing comes into existence without him. Nothing can continue to exist without Him. Nothing existed before Him. Nothing but Him will exist after this world will cease…

The entire world, creation and it’s contents is in His hands.

So please. If you’re feeling hopeless … don’t. If you’re feeling overwhelmed… don’t. If you’re feeling panicked… don’t.

If you’re feeling exhausted with the pains of the word, find a corner in your home to seek the comfort of your Lord. Turn to Him.

If you haven’t opened the Quran in a long time- pick it up, hold it to your heart, and hug it. Pray to Allah.
If you aren’t ready to start reading, then just hold on and allow your heart to seek comfort from the Divine Words of the Most Merciful. Keep doing that until you start to open His Book.

Remember Who is in control. Praise Him. Thank Him. When the bad news reaches us, say Alhumdulillah. When the good reaches us, say Alhumdulillah. Alhumdulillah in every condition. In every state, in every frame of mind.

There are people everywhere facing the virus without the basic necessities that we take for granted. Take out some Sadaqah. Give it out to people who need it more than us.

Make istighfaar and seek His repentance. For every sin or err on our part, ask Allah to grant us forgiveness and alleviate us from these trying times.

Remember the oppressed nations all over the world. Call out to Him with a sincerity for them that we may have lacked when we simply didn’t know.

Fast if you can. Use this as an opportunity to turn to your Lord. For a believer, in any situation, there is never despair.

Lastly, but definitely not least, wake up for Tahajjud. Cry to Him. Pray with fervent devotion. We never know whose repentance Allah will accept. Like the lady in the time of the Prophet (SAW) who asked Allah for forgivenesses after her act of immorality, that it was said that her repentance was so much to forgive her entire community… We never know what sincere Taubah we can make, that Allah can change our entire situation when we wake up tomorrow.

“And whosoever is conscious of Allah, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty). And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine. And whoever puts his trust in Allah, then He will suffice him. Verily, Allah will accomplish His purpose. Indeed Allah has sent a measure for all things.”

The Qur’an: 65/(2-3)

This is a time to process our emotions through our relationship with Allah. With the absurd and controversial closing of Masaajid, the quarantining at home, the sudden unexpected rates of death and disease and the impact on that on our economies and daily lives an entire globe – isn’t it time to turn back to Him? The fact that you still have time to do so and are considering it- that’s a sign He has already turned to you. It’s a sign that He is always available to fulfill our needs ….

So turn back to Allah and give yourself some hope.

 

Lots of Durood on this beautiful Jumuah InshaAllah 

The Veil

This is one of the most beautiful Nasheed I’ve heard and it just warms my heart. ❤️

Just wanted to share…

They say, “Oh, poor girl, you’re so beautiful you know
It’s a shame that you cover up your beauty so.”

She just smiles and graciously responds reassuringly,
“This beauty that I have is just one simple part of me.
This body that I have, no stranger has the right to see.
These long clothes, this shawl I wear, ensure my modesty.
Faith is more essential than fashion, wouldn’t you agree?”

This hijab,
This mark of piety,
Is an act of faith, a symbol,
For all the world to see.
A simple cloth, to protect her dignity.
So lift the veil from your heart to see the heart of purity.

They tell her, “Girl, don’t you know this is the West and you are free?
You don’t need to be oppressed, ashamed of your femininity.”

She just shakes her head and she speaks so assuredly,

“See the bill-boards and the magazines that line the check-out isles,
with their phony painted faces and their air-brushed smiles?

Well their sheer clothes and low cut gowns… they are really not for me.
You call it freedom, I call it anarchy.”

This hijab,
This mark of piety,
Is an act of faith, a symbol,
For all the world to see.
A simple cloth, to protect her dignity.
So lift the veil from your heart to see the heart of purity…
Lift the veil from your heart and seek the heart of purity.

 

What are you studying next year?

Bismihi Ta’ala 

Sometimes, over the years, somewhere along the way… our focus and our aspirations change. We forget things we learnt before and get influenced by people around us. May Allah guide one and all and grant us the Yaqeen of this young girl.

Please note that I love the message of this article but I did not write it. I think what’s important is the Yaqeen here that is so amazing and I wanted to share. A woman can do anything as long as it is within the boundaries of Shariah.

WHAT ARE YOU STUDYING NEXT YEAR….?
The year is 2016 and I am in Matric. After twelve long years… finally!
I am the oldest in the school, the Head Girl Prefect, and all eyes are on me this year, expecting 7A’s!

It does not matter who, when or where it is. ‘Eid Day, funerals, doctor’s surgery, and even the teller at Checkers, everyone wants to know one thing – “What are you studying next year?”
Everyone has their own ideas of what they feel you should do, but the theme is more or less the same, “Marriage can wait beti”, “Times have changed,
you have to study now”, “You’re so clever, how can you not study?” and “Study teaching through UNISA (correspondence studying in South Africa).
it’s a perfect job for a Muslim girl”.
Young, old, black and white. Everyone pushes you to study something, to “make something of yourself” and to “work hard because it will definitely pay off”.
The “crowning point” of the year was when a Moulana of the school walked into our class during a free period. He came to ask us….. what we planned to study!

Surprise! Surprise! To us girls, he gave “special advice”. We should all study something like teaching through UNISA. Why? Because what IF one day, in the future, my husband dies in a car accident and I am left with two children to support? Of all careers, teaching would be most suitable to us as, Muslimahs and so we should all study to become teachers.

Alhamdulillah, I related this incident to my eldest sister who told me something which needs to be told to every Muslimah. She told me about the hadeeth qudsi wherein Allah Ta‘ala says,
“I am as my servant expects of me.” She explained to me that if I expect Allah Ta‘ala to give me a life where I have to depend on people and degrees and where my future husband is going to die in hypothetical accidents then that is what Allah Ta‘ala will give me. However, if I have good thoughts of Allah Ta‘ala and remember how Allah Ta‘ala has cared for me my entire life, then why would Allah Ta‘ala stop providing for me at some later stage?
Moving forward, that same year, my other sister got divorced. Later that very same year, during the
Trial Examination Period, my eldest brother was made shaheed (blessed with martyrdom) in a car accident, leaving a young wife and two children under the age of seven.
How ironic!
Both my sister and now widowed sister in law NEVER finished school and had no “degree to back them up”, no “work experience to gloss their CVs”, but… Alhamdulillah, they both had Islam, Imaan and Tawakkul (trust in Allah Ta‘ala)
Today, my sister is happily re-married, and my widowed sister-in-law is successfully running a business from HOME. Alhamdulillah, they are neither starving nor destitute.

After trying one semester with UNISA, I left and decided not to study. However, till now, which is three years later, I am still being asked why and when I am going to start studying. A Muslim doctor even told me that she is going to keep checking on me until I enrol because apparently “brains like mine simply cannot go to waste”.
Alhamdulillah, I DO have a brain, and with regular Ta’leem, Madrasah, the Kitaab “Modern Challenges facing Muslim Women” and most importantly – Uswatul Muslimah articles, I have used my brain and deduced that it is undoubtedly Allah Ta‘ala who provides, Allah Ta‘ala who creates and Allah Ta‘ala who sustains. Thus it is only logical to follow the law of the Creator and Sustainer of the universe.
It is Allah Ta‘ala’s law that MEN are the breadwinners and WOMEN are the keepers of the HOME.
Our Deen is perfect and it is us who make it difficult upon ourselves. We have lost the plot and are trying to be something we are not created to be. Men have their duties and women have their own duties. We can never be the same. Can a man ever give birth?!

There are surgeons out there begging and people who never finished school that are billionaires. It is only Allah Ta‘ala who gives, Allah Ta‘ala who takes and Allah Ta‘ala who makes no mistakes!
Once, a man was left paralysed in a wheelchair. The doctors told him that he will never walk again. Every day, this man would talk to Allah Ta‘ala and say, “O Allah! You gave me the use of my legs the first time, so do it again”, and then he would try to get up from his wheelchair, but to no avail. He did this for around six months, and then one day, when he tried to stand up, he did not fall but he could actually walk!

No doctor, no physiotherapist and no chiropractor did it!
Who did it???
Only Allah Ta‘ala. This happened right here, in South Africa
(Taken from the book “Miracles”)
This Ummah does not depend on degrees, this Ummah does not depend on wealth, this Ummah does not need huge Masaajid, and this Ummah does not need Radios. What this Ummah needs is IMAAN and YAQEEN in the promise of Allah Ta‘ala!
To conclude my message to every Muslimah out there – you do not have to study at any secular institution. You do not have to earn your own money. You do not have to leave your home to earn a living. You do not have to support yourself or families.
Islam has given us rights beyond human intellect. We simply have to remove the blinders from our eyes.
Read the kitaab
“Modern Challenges facing Muslim Women” by Moulana Afzal Ismail, if you need further convincing.

( Uswatul Muslimah)

 

Ulama finally awake to Durban Masonic Cult

More Information that may be useful in protecting ourselves, InshaAllah

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Almost six years ago I had written two articles against the Satanism spreading in Durban which a supposedly Islamic publication had advertised for.

https://kindi313.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/alert-zuhur-jewish-masonic-infiltration-of-islam-12/

https://kindi313.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/alert-zuhur-jewish-masonic-infiltration-of-islam-22/

I wrote to the various jamiats in South Africa and others. No response.

Five years later a Durban scholar phoned me, he is on his way to a meeting with people leaving Islam for this cult, what should he say! The cult is spreading!

I’m supposed to be clued up to answer in minutes what they had ignored in their backyard for five years. Really!

Now six years later Durban ulama have finally published a warning which I reproduce below. I am not overly impressed with the timing, but may Allah reward them.

سليمان الكندي

@sulayman_kindi

From:Jamiatul Ulama KZN <newsletter@jamiat.org.za>
Sent:15 July 2019 05:31

A Satanist Cult disguised as Deen

Based on several cases which some Ulama in Durban and surrounding…

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ALERT! Zuhur: Jewish-Masonic infiltration of Islām (1/2)

Jamiat KZN has recently published an article with regard to this. Please, sisters, this cult is aimed at women, encouraging them to ‘surrender’ and embrace this new world order that had been invented by those wanting to kill Islam. Allah save us.., 💔

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I had taken the stance that it is better to be wrong than to join the fray of public vilification of the differing opinions. However, the ideas of this book, promoted by ostensible Muslims, are a nefarious assault upon the beliefs of the unwary. Indeed this book negates our basic beliefs in Allāh, the Qurān and Rasūlullāh صلى الله عليه و سلم . I am forced to write against it, without the courtesies of Islāmic dialogue. The simple reason is that should I acknowledge deviant Jewish belief as valid Aqīdah, I have negated my own Imān.

I read a book review of, Zuhur: Book of Enlightenment in the September 2013 edition of Islam Today, a publication from Durban, South Africa. I wrote to the editor, and not receiving a response, telephoned the contact person at the end of the review, “Saleha.” Her response and defence of deviant belief was…

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An Incident from Me’raaj

Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem

A short incident that initiated some reflection. May Allah guide us all.

It happened that whilst Nabi SAW was on his celestial voyage, he came across an old woman who called out to him. Upon seeing this, Jibra’eel AS advised him not to respond and proceed without taking heed of her. As he proceeded, yet again, there  was an old man that he came across who also called out to him. Hadhrat Jibra’eel AS again advised Nabi SAW not to respond to him. As he proceeded further, he then came across a group of people who greeted him this:

‘Assalamu Alayka ya Awwal, Assalaamu Alayka Ya Aakhir, Assalaamu Alayka Ya Haashir’

Jibra’eel AS then asked Nabi SAW to respond to their Salaam.

He then explained : “The old woman you caught sight of at the roadside is actually the Dunya (world). The remaining life of this world is limited to the remaining lifespan of this woman. The old man you noticed was actually Shaytaan. Both of them aspire to incline you towards them. The group that greeted you with Salaam comprised of Hadhrat Ibraaheem AS, Hadhrat Musa AS and Hadhrat Isa AS. 

SubhaanAllah. There is a great lesson for us in this, and if we think about this, we actually realise that these old people are actually calling out to us too, every day.  The only difference is that we are deceived by them and instead of seeing them for the truth which they are, we see them as alluring and attractive distractions, that can very easily mislead us from the path we are aiming to take. It was our Prophet SAW who was awarded the great bounty of going on this journey to the seven heavens and was also shown the truth of their nature.

From Baitul Muqaddas, the Adhaan was called out for Salaah. Comprehend. It was the one call on this earth for which every single Prophet of Allah had gathered for, to take part in the congregation which even the angels were honoured to be a part of.

Can we imagine that Adhaan? And can we even  comprehend the anticipation, as every Nabi of Allah waited to see who it was that will lead them in prayer?

It was Jibra’eel AS that took hold of Nabi SAW by the hand, and led him forward to this great honour. This was our Nabi SAW. This was the last Prophet, of our Ummah. It was He SAw who was then chosen to lead all the Ambiyaa in Salaah as Imaam, and it is said that on this momentous occasion, even the angels descended from the skies to also partake of this great Ibaadah.

But that’s not all. Even as we think of the splendour of this event, can we really understand why it was that Allah had chose our Nabi SAW to be the leader of the Ambiyaa on that night? From Adam AS to Isa AS…. Can we comprehend why, out of all the great Prophets Alayhis Salaam, it was my Nabi that was chosen to be at the forefront?

Why?

Because Allah Ta’ala wanted to show us WHO this Nabi was. He wanted to make the entire world know, as well as the Ambiyaa of every other nation, aware that this Nabi (SAW), was the epitome of character, and the best of best creation. He wanted to make him the Imaam, so that his words and actions can be followed not just for the duration of that Salaah that took place Baitul Muqaddas, but by nations that would come after him for centuries thereafter. He wanted to elevate him to such a degree, and give him the gift that no other Nabi was privileged with, to meet His Glory, so that there would be no doubt in anyone’s mind that this is the true and final Nabi.

Nabi SAW, after the other Ambiyaa Alayhis -Salaam had glorified Allah, then attributed to Him such praise and glory such that Ibraheem AS rose and addressed the other Ambiyaa, saying :

“Due to these virtues and merits, Muhammad has surpassed you.” 

Let us not forget the most important lesson of Me’raaj, which is the gift of Salaah. May we read each and evert Salaah as if it is our last. May Allah strengthen our Imaan, and grace us with the ability to make our Nabi SAW our true Imaam, through every aspect of our lives. Aameen.

About the New Zealand attacks..

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Bismillah

Al-Nu’man ibn Basheer reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “The Muslims are like a singleman. If the eye is afflicted, then the whole body is afflicted. If the head is afflicted, then the whole body is afflicted.”Source: Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2586

I’m sorry. I was really supposed to get a post together this weekend, but for a reason known to many, I could just not find the heart to do so.

So many words are going through my mind, but yet I cannot seem to find the inspiration to pen them down. If this post does not seem to meet expectation, please excuse the writer behind its shortfalls, who is clearly at a loss for words.

Let me be honest. I don’t read the news. I don’t look at the papers. I don’t even have a news application on my phone…

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A Whole New Chapter

A beginning of a new piece… hoping for a change up from the usual romance focused blogs InshaAllah … may it be beneficial 🌸

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Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem

Khawlah: My story. Well, where it all started. 

In life, we often experience things, and yet never see the connections between them.

Yes, loss is hard. It’s heartbreaking. An obstacle can shatter our hopes. A difficulty breaks our spirits. But these experiences have many reasons…. and lots of wisdom in them.

They humble us. They shake us up. Sometimes, they even rock our world.

But, most of all, they remind us of how small we are, and how Great our Lord is. How little control we truly have. And in that way, they awaken us from the slumber of our deceptions, our heedlessness, our wandering, and bring us back to the path. Often, they strip away the veil of comfort from our eyes, and remind us of what we are. Where we should be going. Where we are all going to be headed.

As it lingered, the scent of…

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Modesty & Intimacy.

Food for thought … Allah make us among those who have Hayaa

Quest of Justice

Bismillihir Rahmanir Raheem

The word “modesty” comes from the Latin root modestus which means “keeping within measure”. 

There has never been a nation who has given more value to hayaa than Muslims. The destruction of people of the past who ruled empires, often arose from two things, love of wealth and indulgence in it and erosion of modesty and the consequences thereof. Bear this in mind as we reach the end of this article.

Today we live in a world that attacks our modesty,from every angle. We can’t leave our home without an assault on our eyes from billboards to magazine covers to immodest dressing to filthy songs blasted in shops. We can’t open a newspaper to catch up with current affairs without some perverse story printed within. You can sit in a hospital with a half dying patient and some kid switches on his TV that is playing an…

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