The Rope of Allah(SWT)

Assalamulaikum folks!

       Today’s topic is about The Rope of Allah azawajjal, faith in Islam. Moving to India was a challenge for me. Nothing seemed to go right. Everything seemed to be out of place. I thought moving to India would be a cultural expierence and it was, it just wasn’t Indian culture. It seemed as if I landed in a Third World America. Every one seemed to emulating the west. This was fine, but what bothered me is tha they emulated the wrong aspects of the west. It was extremism to the evil light of the west. School, well, I thought school was going to be like a school in the Bollywood movies. I was afraid of the beating I might get daily, I thought no one knew english fluently, and I thought no one knew about the west. That was my ‘extreme’ way of thinking. I came there and saw a completely different school as how I had imagined it to be. People knew english better than me! That’s not the schocking part though. What schocled me was the fact that the school I thought was the other extreme of what I had imagined it to be. The kids had all the bad qualities of the west; drinking, gossiping, smoking, smoking pot in the bathrooms, buying condoms and porn,  everything. Astakfarullah you say? Well brother, let me tell you the bitter truth, half of these kids are Muslim. I then completely lost hope, even worse, I lost faith. Faith in everything. Faith in a better Ummah, freinds, and sometimes even in Allah (SWT). My hands were slipping off the Rope of Allah azawajjal. Then I realized that , I can’t do that. It’s not just just that it’s wrong. It’s completely HARAM!!! So I grabbed the Rope and made intense du’a. I went out and started a youth group. This was the craziest and misunderstood idea ever. Why? Because I started. I was a nobody. This was not even a legitamate group. No kid accepted it. No parent accepted. I made more du’a. I then found a group of five devoted kids who were at my doorstep. Allhamdullilah the mission was almost accomplished. Coencidently, Peace Exhibition was going on the following week. I had bumped into Zakir Ahmed (Chairman of Peace) and later Zakir Naik, both by accident, and I just brought the subject and they agreed to support us on our mission. Allhamdullilah after alot of du’a, everthing came to place. The kids coming to my doorstep, Peace coming up without me knowling, bumping into the Chairman of Peace and a Muslim Icon, coencidence? No. This is all because of Iman, a lot of du’a to Allah azawajjal. Allah (SWT) put things in place and gave it to us on a platter. Honestly, I barely did anything. Wallahi, it was all givin to us by Allah (SWT).  So always make du’a and hold on to the Rope Of Allah azawajjal.

Shabba Khair

The Glue Of Islam

Bismillah A’salaat tu w’salaam Ala Rasool Sayeedinah Muhammad Wa Ala Aali Muhammad Kamasalayta Ala Ibrahim Wa Ala Aali Ibarahim, Innaka Hameed un Majeed, Amma Ba’d  

Assalamualaikum ya’ll!!!

I wanna make this post short and sweet inshaAllah.

THE ISSUE

We all have issues with one another.  All of us disagree to one and other, right? That’s cool, the Prophet (S) incouraged a diversed ummah and Allah (SWT) encourages us to ask questions. But what happens when this diversity seperates us? We split up and for different sects of the religion and different groups and go to a seperate masjid and so forth. Some of refuse to pray behind some people who follow a different madhab that they follow!!! Imagine yourself as a madhab, say Hanafi. If Imam Shafi’ [may Allah bless him iA] came to your masjid, would you refise to pray behind him? Heck no you won’t. You’ll be running to the front row to pray right behind him, right? So why do this to an ordenary Muslim? One thing that I saw a lot of in India and a little in the States is that Muslims refer to there fellow Muslims according to what madhab they follow. This is called ‘labeling’. This little word or action seperates us from one an other. So try not to label your fellow brother or sister inshaAllah. So we all have differences, but as long a we stay in the fold of Islam, we are there is no major difference between us. The fold of Islam is the five pillars, Qur’an and the Sunnah, and our concept of Allah ( this is the surah Al- Ikhlas test, if the concept of Allah agrees to all the verses in surah Al- Ikhlaas, it’s fine.). If thse things are the same, then we are all Muslims and that’s our only label. If we only call ourselves Muslims and nothing else then inshaAllah, nothing can seperate us. These little differences like where we put our hands when we pray, the measurements of our beards, or if we play chess or eat zabiha or not shouldn’t bother us ss long as we are in the circle of Iman, we are fine.

WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT?

 This is so important because we need each other to spread the light of Islam. All of need to hold hands as Muslims. If one Muslim is not practicing, don’t bash on him, that’s only gonna push himaway from Islam, hold is hand, and invite him. Hold your non muslims brothers hand when you have campaigns for HIV, Global Warming, etc. Show them your a Muslim and you are also invlolve yourself with this world. If they do something crazy like campaign for gay rights, then tell them, im sorry bro, that’s a tiny bit too extreme for me. Hold your brother’s hand and forget about our labels. Wehave one label, and it’s ‘MUSLIM’. Show the world that we are not evil and negative. Show them the light of Allah (SWT). Sh. Yasir Qadhi once enmphasised on a point of our lazyness. We can’t blame people and sit around do nothing. We can’t wait for a Khalid bin Waleed to come or a Salahuddin Ayoub to come. We have to do whatever we can. For example. if all of us were sitting in ISNA convention hall together and the lights turned off and it’s pitch black, what do we do? We can’t find the switch,so we panic and start blaming each other. But one person out of these thousands of people turns his cell phone on for a light, but its just a small light. Then, another person lights a lighter, then one man lights a match, and everybody start turning on small lights, what happens? The whole room turns bright again. We all have to do small things to make our light shine inshAllah. We have to looke at everything with a posotive light. Critisism, failure, getting kicked off your basketball team, look at these things with a very posotive light. Smile at everyone, muslim or non muslim. You never know who’s day you might make brighter. Make your mark everywhere and do good and let people know your a muslim, not by carryng a flag and destroying stuff, but by dressing, walking, talking, and acting qupon the guidance of the Qur’an and the Sunnah.

Insha Allah, I make du’a for myself, the ummah, and the rest of the world to hold each other hands and tie the knot of brotherhod. Ameen

Shabba Khair