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REVIVAL OF RELIGIOUS LEARNINGS IMAM GHAZZALI'S IHYA ULUM-ID-DIN THE BOOK OF WORSHIP CONTENTS CHAPTER X Actions after division of Times Merits of Night Prayer CHAPTER X DIVISION OF TIMES FOR ACTIONS God has made the world subservient to men not to live in its elevated places but to gather provision there from sufficient for their permanent abode, sufficient for rewards of their souls, so that they may save themselves from deceits and deceptions of the world. All men are traveling in this world. Their first abode is cradle and last abode is grave and their real abode is Paradise or Hell The term of life is noting but the distance of journey. Its every year is a station, every month is a furlong, every day Is a mile, every breath is a step. Its religious action is a wealth and its time is the root of its wealth. Its temptations and greed are tumbling block in its path, its profit is vision of God in the abode of peace and its loss is to be distant from Him a...
TEACHINGS OF HAFIZ I ARISE, oh Cup-bearer, rise! and bring To lips that are thirsting the bowl they praise, For it seemed that love was an easy thing, But my feet have fallen on difficult ways. I have prayed the wind o'er my heart to fling The fragrance of musk in her hair that sleeps In the night of her hair-yet no fragrance stays The tears of my heart's blood my sad heart weeps. Hear the Tavern-keeper who counsels you: "With wine, with red wine your prayer carpet dye!" There was never a traveller like him but knew The ways of the road and the hostelry. Where shall I rest, when the still night through, Beyond thy gateway, oh Heart of my heart, The bells of the camels lament and cry: "Bind up thy burden again and depart!" The waves run high, night is clouded with fears, And eddying whirlpools clash and roar; How shall my drowning voice strike their ears Whose light-freighted vessels have reached the shore? I sought mine own; the unsparing years Have broug...
IDRIES SHAH WAS born in 1924 into the respected Afghan family, the Sadaat of Paghman. Among his many accomplishments, he is credited with making a wide body of scholarship on Eastern traditional teachings available in the Western world. Shah’s twenty nine (29) books, translated into more than 15 languages, which sell in their millions, are considered to be some of the most important literature to be published during the twentieth (20th) century. One extraordinary aspect of Shah’s work is the wide spectrum of readers his books attract: they are read and studied by psychologists and novelists, physicists, engineers/naval architects (including myself) and by social workers, by actors, lawyers and housewives. 1 The Book of the Book 2 The Boy Without A Name 3 Caravan of Dreams - I bought the book on July 17, 1976 whilst studying in the UK, bought at Loughborough, UK. 4 The Clever Boy and The Terrible, Dangerous Animal 5 The Commanding Self 6 Darkest England 7 The Dermis Probe 8 The Elephan...
Egomu perlu disembelih HARI ini kita berada pada 10 Zulhijjah. Selain Hari Raya Aidiladha, hari ini juga merupakan hari pertama bagi kaum muslimin melakukan ibadah korban dan akan berakhir pada hari tasyrik yang terakhir iaitu pada 13 Zulhijjah. Selama tiga hari ini kita disunatkan untuk menyembelih haiwan ternak sebagai korban. Sama ada kambing, lembu ataupun unta. Dagingnya lalu dibahagi-bahagikan kepada fakir miskin yang memerlukan. Sebahagiannya boleh dijadikan hadiah kepada rakan handai dan boleh juga dimakan untuk santapan keluarga. Penyembelihan haiwan korban ini sebenarnya simbolik bagi kepatuhan seorang mukmin kepada tuhannya. Allah tidak menilai kesempurnaan ibadah ini dengan daging dan darah haiwan tersebut, akan tetapi memandang kepada kualiti takwa yang terdapat di dalam hati pelaku ibadah ini. Allah berfirman: Daging dan darah haiwan itu tidak akan mencapai Allah, akan tetapi ketakwaan yang berasal daripadamu. (al-Haj: 37) Ibadah korban mengingatkan kita kepada kepa...
Amalkan membaca surah al-Waqiah selepas solat Asar atau lepas solat Maghrib. Rasulullah SAW berpesan bacalah surah al-Waqiah agar kita tidak ditimpa fakir. Kalau boleh bukan surah al-Waqiah sahaja,tapi semua surah kita baca. 1 huruf dapat 10 kebaikan, kalau baca dalam solat, 1 huruf dapat 1000 kebaikan. Kalau baca bulan puasa (atau masa puasa sunat) lagilah tak terhitung. Wallahu a'lam.
‘O our Lord! I have made some of my offspring to dwell in an uncultivable valley by Your Sacred House (the Ka‘bah at Makkah); in order, O our Lord, that they may perform As-Salât (Iqâmat-as-Salât). So fill some hearts among men with love towards them, and (O Allâh) provide them with fruits, so that they may give thanks.’ (Glorious Quran, V.14:37).
Merit of the Congregational Prayer: Hadrat Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that Allah's Messenger (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) said: Prayer of a man in his house is one (1) prayer, and his prayer in the mosque of the tribes is prayer by 25 times, and his prayer in the congregational mosque is prayer by 500 times, and his prayer in the farthest mosque Masjid Aqsa (of Jerusalem) is prayer by 50,000 times and his prayer in my mosque is prayer by 50,000 times and his prayer in the sacred mosque (of Ka'ba) is prayer by 100,000 times. (Ibn Majah).