Youth Matters

Abu Eesa Niamatullah:

Innā lillāhi wa innā ilayhi rāji‘ūn.
“May Allah jalla wa ‘alā have mercy upon the Shaykh, illuminate his grave and grant him the best of Paradise, amīn. And so another giant is taken and another barrier between ourselves and the anger of our Lord has fallen. To Allah we complain alone of our weakness and sins.”

Recounting Memories of Ibn Jibreen – Navaid Aziz
“At that time I was playing with the baby, and I couldn’t help but to just put her down and contemplate the great loss the ummah had just faced.”

Sh. Salman al ‘awdah said about him: “Indeed the illustrious scholar Ibn Jibreen was from the greatest scholars of Saudi Arabia, and the most enthusiastic of them in giving da’wah, and from those that had the greatest of effects. He was extremely humble, truly sincere, and vast in knowledge. I never saw him get upset, nor ever try to put himself above others. He used to kiss the heads of his students, and would outright refuse to have anyone kiss his head…”

Shaykh Haytham al-Haddād [english] video talking about Sh. Ibn Jibreen

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi: “Truly with the death of the Shaykh we have lost the last of the great giants of our era…and Allah does not remove knowledge from the chests of men, but rather through the death of scholars.” Read the rest of this entry »

One of the bests posts I’ve seen on the subject, ma sha Allah.

from DEENDRIVEN.com

It seems like there are some people who are just thinking about taking off their hijab.  No one has created a step-by-step approach for it.  Here you go.

1) Stop thinking it’s a big deal. It’s  bad, but not that bad. There are people who drink, you know! Let this idea simmer.

2) Stop thinking about what others would say or think. You aren’t suppose to do good deeds for other people’s sake, it’s suppose to be for Allah.

3) *Critical step* Find and stick to friends who have already took off their hijab. They will give you their stories, why they did it and how it makes sense. Look how cool and trendy they are!  They’ll be the ones  who will provide you support after you take it off.
4) If you stopped wearing it, you are going to feel a little nervous.  You need to be armed with some replies.  Here are some commonly quoted reasons;

• “My husband/in-laws wanted me to, it’s part of being a good wife to listen to what they say”
• “You don’t understand, it’s tough to wear it at my workplace”
• “There is a difference of opinion”
• “There are girls who wear hijab and do bad things”
• If anyone tries to get to preachy, tell them they don’t know what’s in your heart and they can’t judge you.  It makes you feel real good.

5) Even after you take off your hijab, your heart will tell you to go back and you will doubt what you just did. Try to kill these feelings and thoughts.  It will be too embarassing to start wearing the hijab again.  Its like publically saying you made a mistake.  What will people say ?

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No matter how many lectures you attend…

No matter how many khutbas you listen to…

No matter how many advanced islamic sciences you study…

It comes down to one thing.

Question: You have talked about degeneration of Muslim society. Now how about regeneration of Muslim society — how can Tawhid help us regenerate Muslim society and bring our intellectual tradition alive?

Dr. Ja`far Sheikh Idris: As I said earlier I think the first thing we have to do is to invite people to Tawhid again. I think we also have to make it relevant to the ideologies that are prevailing in the world today. It seems to me that we Muslim intellectuals have a very big role to play. From my contacts with some Western intellectuals I think that it is only we, the Muslim intellectuals, who can invite people to religion again. Many other theologians who belong to other religions, many of them, I think they are very sincere people but the problem is that the religion, or the kind of concept of God that they have cannot be at all accepted by someone whose mind is shaped by science, or someone who demands, who looks for evidence, for reasoning. Man y people as a function of their religions, I mean they are very intellectual people, but it’s because of their religion they have to say that there is no contact between reason and religion, or that we have to keep science and religion apart. They say religion, but, in fact, they should have said Christianity or Judaism or Buddhism, or whatever, because we Muslims don’t think so, we do not agree with this separation of religion from science. We can argue even with the atheist, with the m materialist, because, again I discover, that the kind of God that they reject is not the . . .

Z.S.: The kind of God of Islam?

J.S.I.: The God whom we believe in.

Read the rest of the interview here

﴿وَاخْفِضْ لَهُمَا جَنَاحَ الذُّلِّ مِنَ الرَّحْمَةِ﴾

﴿وَقُل رَّبِّ ارْحَمْهُمَا كَمَا رَبَّيَانِى صَغِيرًا﴾

{“And lower unto them[Parents] the wing of submission and humility through mercy, and say: “My Lord! Bestow on them[Parents] Your Mercy as they did bring me up when I was small.”} 17:24

From Abu Eesa’s Blog

I marvel at the delicious irony of life sometimes.

I prepared a 30-hour series on the “Rights of the Parents” over the period of a whole year, with hundreds and hundreds of pages of commentary, with one key objective: to get all the Muslims to realise the value and importance of their Parents and then to seek Allah’s forgiveness for our inevitable shortcomings when that fact suddenly dawns.

Yet the video below will establish this fact in indescribable fashion and in only a few minutes. It just goes to show that all you need to convey this most fundamental message is sincerity, six minutes and a camera. May Allah reward all of those involved in producing and promoting this piece of work.

By the way, when you’ve stopped crying, recognise your guilt and now do something about it. May Allah give us all the tawfiq to do that which He commands us to.

From the Comments Section:

Question: I would love to be able to hug my mum but I think we would both feel so awkward about it.
How to overcome this?
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Beautiful words by one of the greatest men of this Ummah, Imaam Shaafi’ee (May Allaah have mercy on him). WATCH IN HD!

This is an exceptional, powerful khutbah. Less than 25 minutes.

http://nuischool.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=157&Itemid=109

from: Muslim Matters

وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا فَعَلُوا فَاحِشَةً أَوْ ظَلَمُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ ذَكَرُوا اللَّهَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُوا لِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَمَن يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَلَمْ يُصِرُّوا عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلُوا وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ

“…And those who, when they have committed Fahishah or wronged themselves with evil, remember Allah and ask forgiveness for their sins; – and none can forgive sins but Allah – And do not persist in what (wrong) they have done, while they know..”

Surat `Al ‘Imrān, 3:135

Anas bin Mālik رضي الله عنه said, “I was told that when this Ayah, was revealed, Iblīs cried.”
Tafsīr Al Qur’ān Al Karīm (Ibn Kathīr)

from Not Delaying Repentance: A Way to Overcome Devil’s Deception

[Watch in Full Screen and HD by clicking on the video]

Our Parents: Our Masters

Ibn ‘Abbas said [r]:“There is not a single believer who has two parents and wakes up while he is good to them except that Allah opens up for him two gates to Paradise, and if he makes one of them angry, Allah will not be Pleased with him until that parent becomes pleased with him again.” It was asked: “Even if that parent was oppressive and in the wrong?” It was replied: “Yes, even so. And he never wakes up while he is bad to them except that Allah opens up for him two gates to Hell.”
as-Samarqandi’s ‘Tambih al-Ghafilin’ (p. 84-91):

Kudos to Future Scholar Blogger for the video