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Assalamualaikum.

Cool links:

$11/month subscription for free lectures - http://bayyinah.tv/

99 names of Allah - https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=8D42BF4FFA7C3781&id=8D42BF4FFA7C3781%215742

English translated Quran - http://www.kaskas.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Quran-Abdel-Haleem-Translation-1.pdf

Nouman Ali Khan

Alif Lam Mim - This is the writing itself

There is no room for doubt (Step 1. intellectual relationship with the Quran)

Doubt gets removed when you see a miracle, sometimes not for the eyes, but for the ears (not for every ear)

Purpose of miracles is to remove doubt

But for the next generation, the doubt occurs again because the next generation didn’t see it from their own eyes. Cos to them, it’s just a story

Now, the only way you can see the Quran as a miracle is when you come looking for it.

If you study Quran in a shallow way, you will find contradictions

But if you ponder and really read into it, there are no contradictions

It’s a guidance, counsel, advice (to those who are lost)

A hadiah (gift)

I am constantly seeking guidance (like a body needs water) (Step 2. Emotional relationship with the Quran)

Fill the thirst of your heart every few hours – solat

Quran has the power to guide you, and it is already actively guiding you.

Al mutaqim – people who are protecting yourself and carefully taking a step at a time (like a horse without his battle shoes)à NOUN

Verbs are temporary

Nouns are permanent (timeless)

Look for role models in the past

Al ghaib – those who believe in the unseen

Accept there is a reality that you cannot see, including the appreciation of the invisible. Also eg, feeling bad when you gossip, etc. conscience is heightened (Allah is always watching) eg, when you see others who have more worldly possessions than you, remember the unseen (your reward with Allah swt.)

Eg, going through physical pain, sickness (those who are patient will be rewarded)

Eg. Being alone in this world (Allah is always with me)

There are angels whose only jobs are to protect us

We have always been your protecting friends in this world and the next -angels say to those who are dying

Allah alone owns dignity – He is the one who grants dignity

Backbiting is a big deal – be careful what you blurt out with your mouth

2:10

1^st disease of the heart – ghaib (doubt)

Syaitan has access to your chest, NOT your heart. Our job is to sense that syaitan is knocking on our hearts, don’t open the door. If you open the door enough times, you let him move in. what used to be beautiful becomes ugly and whatever was ugly becomes beautiful (sins)

Master does not owe His slave anything (Allah swt does not owe us anything)

Primary bond between them is love

Do not associate anything else to Allah swt. i.e. do not love anything more or together with your love with Allah, including material obsessions like music, food, money, etc

Whatever has been placed on the earth has been made FOR you, subdued to you

·       meteors don’t attack the earth, even though the solar system is actually in constant chaos

·       natural disasters can occur on us ANYTIME

·       Allah humbled the earth and the universe, he kept it calm FOR us

Your ruh needs nur, your physical body needs material needs

Before Adam was created, we were ALL (non-believers too!) souls with Allah, we died, then we were placed in physical bodies in the wombs of our mothers

-traits of Allah are influenced on us (we are a little bit like Allah’s 99 names)

He made the world supportive for us to strengthen us to be obedient and grateful to Him

Bilal Khan

Prohibited:

string and wind instruments

haram content

liking musicians – they are doing haram things (drinking, drugs, other sins)

Pictorial representations of human beings (image making) – idolatry started through the making of images (to the next generation who were not communicated how the images were used permissibly during the previous generation)

People worshipped idols in the shape of people or animals (so other things like plants, planets and landscapes are still safe)

Permissible:

Percussion instruments (drums)

Singing the Al-Quran

Doas I know and to memorize

		have yet to memorize
1	Surah Al-Fatiha (The Opening)	بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيم الْحَمْدُ للّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ الرَّحْمـنِ الرَّحِيمِ مَالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ اهدِنَــــا الصِّرَاطَ المُستَقِيمَ صِرَاطَ الَّذِينَ أَنعَمتَ عَلَيهِمْ غَيرِ المَغضُوبِ عَلَيهِمْ وَلاَ الضَّالِّينَ	1. In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.  2. All the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists).  3. The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.  4. The Only Owner (and the Only Ruling Judge) of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)  5. You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help (for each and everything).  6. Guide us to the Straight Way 7. The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger, nor of those who went astray.
87	Surah Al-A'laa  (The Most High)	بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ 1. سَبِّحِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ ٱلْأَعْلَى 2. ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ 3. وَٱلَّذِى قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ 4. وَٱلَّذِىٓ أَخْرَجَ ٱلْمَرْعَىٰ 5. فَجَعَلَهُۥ غُثَآءً أَحْوَىٰ 6. سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰٓ 7. إِلَّا مَا شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ يَعْلَمُ ٱلْجَهْرَ وَمَا يَخْفَىٰ 8. وَنُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ 9. فَذَكِّرْ إِن نَّفَعَتِ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ	1. Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High, 2. Who creates, then makes complete, 3. And Who makes [things] according to a measure, then guides [them to their goal], 4. And Who brings forth herbage, 5. Then makes it dried up, dust-colored. 6. We will make you recite so you shall not forget, 7. Except what Allah pleases, surely He knows the manifest, and what is hidden. 8. And We will make your way smooth to a state of ease. 9. Therefore do remind, surely reminding does profit.
		10. سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰ 11. وَيَتَجَنَّبُهَا ٱلْأَشْقَى 12. ٱلَّذِى يَصْلَى ٱلنَّارَ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ 13. ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ 14. قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ 15. وَذَكَرَ ٱسْمَ رَبِّهِۦ فَصَلَّىٰ 16. بَلْ تُؤْثِرُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا 17. وَٱلْءَاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ 18. إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَفِى ٱلصُّحُفِ ٱلْأُولَىٰ 19. صُحُفِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ	10. He who fears will mind, 11. And the most unfortunate one will avoid it, 12. Who shall enter the great fire; 13. Then therein he shall neither live nor die. 14. He indeed shall be successful who purifies himself, 15. And magnifies the name of his Lord and prays. 16. Nay! you prefer the life of this world, 17. While the hereafter is better and more lasting. 18. Most surely this is in the earlier scriptures, 19. The scriptures of Ibrahim and Musa.
109	Surah Al-Kaafiroon (The Disbelievers)	1. قُلْ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ 2. لَآ أَعْبُدُ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ 3. وَلَآ أَنتُمْ عَٰبِدُونَ مَآ أَعْبُدُ 4. وَلَآ أَنَا۠ عَابِدٌ مَّا عَبَدتُّمْ 5. وَلَآ أَنتُمْ عَٰبِدُونَ مَآ أَعْبُدُ 6. لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِىَ دِينِ	1. Say (O Muhammad () to these Mushrikun and Kafirun): "O Al-Kafirun (disbelievers in Allah, in His Oneness, in His Angels, in His Books, in His Messengers, in the Day of Resurrection, and in Al-Qadar, etc.)! 2. "I worship not that which you worship, 3. "Nor will you worship that which I worship. 4. "And I shall not worship that which you are worshipping. 5. "Nor will you worship that which I worship. 6. "To you be your religion, and to me my religion (Islamic Monotheism)."
112	Surah Al-Ikhlaas (The Purity)	1.  قُلْ هُوَ ٱللَّهُ أَحَدٌ 2. ٱللَّهُ ٱلصَّمَدُ 3. لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ 4. وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُۥ كُفُوًا أَحَدٌۢ	1. Say (O Muhammad ()): "He is Allah, (the) One. 2. "Allah-us-Samad (The Self-Sufficient Master, Whom all creatures need, He neither eats nor drinks). 3. "He begets not, nor was He begotten; 4. "And there is none co-equal or comparable unto Him."
113	Surah Al-Falaq (The Daybreak)	بِسمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحمٰنِ الرَّحيمِ 1: قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ ٱلْفَلَقِ 2: مِن شَرِّ مَا خَلَقَ 3: وَمِن شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ 4: وَمِن شَرِّ ٱلنَّفَّٰثَٰتِ فِى ٱلْعُقَدِ 5: وَمِن شَرِّ حَاسِدٍ إِذَا حَسَدَ	Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of the Dawn From the mischief of created things; From the mischief of Darkness as it overspreads; From the mischief of those who practise secret arts; And from the mischief of the envious one as he practises envy.
114	Surah An-Naas (Mankind)	بِسمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحمٰنِ الرَّحيمِ قُل أَعوذُ بِرَبِّ النّاسِ مَلِكِ النّاسِ إِلٰهِ النّاسِ مِن شَرِّ الوَسواسِ الخَنّاسِ الَّذى يُوَسوِسُ فى صُدورِ النّاسِ مِنَ الجِنَّةِ وَالنّاسِ	1. Say: "I seek refuge with (Allah) the Lord of mankind, 2. "The King of mankind, 3. "The Ilah (God) of mankind, 4. "From the evil of the whisperer (devil who whispers evil in the hearts of men) who withdraws (from his whispering in one's heart after one remembers Allah) , 5. "Who whispers in the breasts of mankind, 6. "Of jinns and men."
	AYATUL KURSI	اللَّهُ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ لاَ تَأْخُذُهُ سِنَةٌ وَلاَ نَوْمٌ لَهُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الأَرْضِ مَنْ ذَا الَّذِي يَشْفَعُ عِنْدَهُ إِلاَّ بِإِذْنِهِ يَعْلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ وَلاَ يُحِيطُونَ بِشَيْءٍ مِنْ عِلْمِهِ إِلاَّ بِمَا شَاءَ وَسِعَ كُرْسِيُّهُ السَّمَاو ;َاتِ وَالأَرْضَ وَلاَ يَئُودُهُ حِفْظُهُمَا وَهُوَ الْعَلِيُّ الْعَظِيمُ	Allah! There is no god but He - the Living, The Self-subsisting, Eternal. No slumber can seize Him Nor Sleep. His are all things In the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede In His presence except As he permitteth? He knoweth What (appeareth to His creatures As) Before or After or Behind them. Nor shall they compass Aught of his knowledge Except as He willeth. His throne doth extend Over the heavens And on earth, and He feeleth No fatigue in guarding And preserving them, For He is the Most High. The Supreme (in glory).
	Doa before sleep	للَّهُمَّ بِاسْمِكَ أَحْيَا وَأَمُوتُ ‏	O Allah, with Your name I die and live
	Doa upon waking up	الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَحْيَانَا بَعْدَ مَا أَمَاتَنَا وَإِلَيْهِ النُّشُورُ	All praise to Allah, who gave us life after having given us death and to him is our final return.
	Doa before eating	اللّهُمَّ بَارِكْ لَنَا فِيمَا رَزَقْتَنَا ، وَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِ ، بِسْمِ اللَّهِ	O Allah! Bless (the food) You provided us and save us from the punishment of the Hellfire. In the Name of Allah.
	Doa after eating	الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَطْعَمَنِي هَذَا الطَّعَامَ وَرَزَقَنِيهِ مِنْ غَيْرِ حَوْلٍ مِنِّي وَلَا قُوَّةٍ	All Praise belongs to Allah who fed us with this food and provided it for me without might nor power on my part

Islam -> Iman -> Ihsan

Assalamualaikum :)


"You can apply the best of your mind where your heart is."
- Nouman Ali Khan


I have been listening to Bayyinah Podcasts (http://podcast.bayyinah.com/category/002-surah-al-baqarah/page/26/) and here are some things I'd like to share.

That definition (of ihsan) comes from the Hadith of Gabriel in which Muhammad states, "[Ihsan is] to worship God as though you see Him, and if you cannot see Him, then indeed He sees you". (Al-Bukhari and Al-Muslim).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihsan

The Six Articles of Faith

Faith (iman) is generally outlined using the six articles of faith:

1. Belief in Allah, The Only God
2. Belief in the Angels
3. Belief in Holy Books (Quran)
4. Belief in the Prophets
5. Belief in the Day of Judgement
6. Belief in God's predestination

From Surah Al-Baqarah:

1. Faith in the Messenger Nabi Muhammad s.a.w.

2. Believe in Allah

3. Believe in the Last Day and the Afterlife (akhirat)

4. Doing good deeds (act righteously)

Alhamdulillah. Have a wonderful day. :)

Giving zakat

Assalamualaikum :)

So i had a revelation when i was thinking about the prayer dua one recites during tahiyat awal and akhir. It's the first line "attahiyatul bubarakkatus salawatutaybadulillah" which means "All compliments, physical prayer and monetory worship is for Allah"

I have been praying for my heart to be filled with more sincerity when it comes to me doing good deeds, insyaAllah. Cos sometimes when im approached or pass by a beggar, i reject them cos i dont feel that some of them deserve it. But i realise im looking at the whole thing misguidedly. "All monetary worship is for Allah." Like Khai told me, "If u beri dpt pahala. If u tak beri u never get anything."

Alhamdulillah for this significant change of my perspective. I feel blessed by Allah's love, affection and mercy. He has provided for me and gifted me with lots of rezki. 

May peace be with you.

Beautiful Duas

Not muslim-friendly workplace

Assalamualikum semua :)

I woke up today feeling blessed because in the middle of the night, I awoke for no reason. After some debating with myself in my head, I decided to go with the side of me which was nagging at me to pray sunat. I went back to sleep and not long after, it was time for me to start the day and pray Subuh. 

I love my job. The only two things that aren't favourable are

1. I always miss Zuhr prayer 

2. Food served are mostly non-halal

I work at a Korean company, you see. So they're not Muslim friendly per se. When i started working here, i wasn't wearing a hijab yet. But after half a year, i started wearing it. At first i was nervous and afraid of what might happen (which was why i took so long to start wearing hijab in the first place). But after learning and reading more from the Quran and syarahans, i felt guilty not wearing it. Alhamdulillah, Allah had given me hidayah to be stronger in my faith.

So far it's been pretty good. I dont feel any tension with anyone, theyre still as nice to me as they were before and the clients are also not showing any outward sign of displeasure or animosity. Syukur Alhamdulillah.

That's it for today. Have a good one! Salam :)