The 10 days that can change your life.

The blessed last ten days have arrived !!
Roll up you sleeves and get ready for some serious worship.
It's amazing that our religion does not promote monasticism or "Tark e Duniya" . We are told emphatically to be active members of the society. Piety is measured by how kind, loving and involved you are towards your family and the society at large. But these last 10 days one has been commanded to exert oneself in worship, zikr, dua, Quran, Salah. Even to an extent you seclude your self from the dunya either in the masjid to draw near to your Lord..

Many a times it become a "Fiqhi" debate "can women do I'tikaf because of their responsibilities at home, it may become difficult for them to leave everything, lock the house and stay in the masjid. Even though from a "Fiqh" point of view I'tikaf is done in the masjid. It cannot be done at home.
But from a spiritual point of view, one can create the essense of "leaving the dunya and going into a spiritual seclusion" and drawing close to Allah by exerting ourselves in reciting the Quran, doing a lot of Dua and being in the perpetual state of Zikr throughout these 10 days.

Unfortunately, us women tend to waste most of the time on the phone with "he said she said talk" and then around Iftar time, somebody has to prepare a meal for the hungry beasts at home, the students are too busy in college and the working women place more importance on their work than drawing close to their Lord, who they are going to meet very soon.
This is how these blessed days go by.

Then of course we have the Eid tchot (bakery) shopping, and most of the time is spent roaming around in the car. What if Hatrick and Mughal Darbar are gonna be bankrupt before Eid and "mandhatchh pey aes if we don't have scores of frash cake and pestry to compliment the extensive waz syun we already ordered"

The Messenger (saw) said, "Whoever is deprived of its blessings has indeed been deprived of all good. And none is deprived of its good except he who is completely unfortunate (mehroom)"
(Reported by Ibn Majah)

So after this pep talk, it's time to get charged up and worship Allah swt the way we have never worshipped Him before.

P.s: Don't forget that the best deed is charity as it extinguishes the fire of hell..So keep your pockets open.

Who is the real celebrity??

"Do they think that We extend to them of wealth and children because We hasten for them good things?
Rather, they do not percieve."
(Surah Muminoon 55)

Basically every person Muslim or non Muslim considers wealth and family as being signs of success. Someone who is rich and has a nice loving family who are also financially established and socially respected will never be called "oh look at those losers! How rich and respected they are!" It's never that way.. People follow celebrities and high profile entrepreneurs because they seem to comply with the self made criteria of success in this material world.

On the other hand , the ones who have been given these material possessions also feel, that Allah must be pleased with us. We are good people, we are doing things right that's why we are so successful. This leads to arrogance and a complete disregard for the limits of Allah. The rich looking down upon the poor and meek with contempt gives way to a society in which the pursuit of money, property and status is the epitome of self satisfaction. Someone who may be poor from the outside but in the sight of God because of his good character will be respected. Such a person is of no value in such a materialistic society..everything is bling bling, looks, cars etc etc.

On this Allah swt is giving us a comprehensive rule to gauge actual success. Who is the one who is being blessed by Allah swt in this world?

* the one with the money and status, a prosperous family and a fruitful business....NO says Allah.

Then who??
The next few aayat answer
"No doubt those who are apprehensive from fear of their Lord
And they who believe in the signs of their Lord
And they who do not associate anything with their Lord
And they who give what they give while their hearts are fearful because they will be returning to their Lord

IT IS THOSE WHO HASTEN TO GOOD THINGS, AND THEY OUTSTRIP (others) IN THE RACE"
(23:57-61)

So that means if life was a marathon. People who are the most worthy of winning the race are true humble righteous believers. Money, career, children, family are not the necessary parameters of winning this race.
So in short one must never think Oh look at me I've got it all, maybe I'm too good and God is pleased with me that's why everything's working in my favour. Rather when one is utilising all of the blessings of Allah (money, status, family) in order to draw close to Him, that is the real success.
Allahu Aa'lim

What if this was my last Ramadaan????

Time to get into the Ramadaan Mode.Let this Ramadaan be a life changing experience for us.
Let us not come out of Ramadaan with all our bad habits still pretty much intact, our goals in life still attached to this quick passing world and our relationship with our Lord still the worst and most neglected of all relationships...

May Allah make this month a source for us entering into the Paradise which He Most High has created for us. Remember, the ordainment for fasting came after 15 years of RasoolAllah(saw) being given Prophethood.. It was in Medina, the time was the Historic Battle of Badr. The Muslims were the weakest and most vulnerable. And then comes the commandment to fast on hot long days. This was because fasting is not to tire the body by starving it, but to give the soul emmense power. And what is the human being other than a soul imprisoned in a cage of flesh and bones.

The Ummah is in the same condition as it was 1400 years ago. We are at our lowest point, with the entire world ganging up against us. We have a collective Badr to fight along with our personal Badrs in our Life.

So let us all try to make this Ramadaan a source of that spiritual strength which will sail us through this ocean of life. Like a drowning person cannot be helped unless he puts his hand out, similarly we need to put our hand out to Allah.."whoever has held on to the hand of Allah, has surely held a strong handhold" (Quran)


May Allah write us amongst His most beloved slaves!
May Allah make us amongst those who are the closest to Him on the Day of Judgement!
May Allah make us drink from the Fountain of Kauthar in the close company of our Messenger Muhammad (saw)!
Ameen.
Remember me in your duas :)

O Morsi what happened to your kursi ?

This is what happens when Muslims don't give importance to studying geopolitics and the political strategies of their enemies. A year ago Mubarak was ousted for reasons more political than religious. One has to very well understand, it is not possible for a population to gather together against the very leader they themselves democratically elected in such a short notice of time. There are very powerful foreign elements involved: US and most importantly ISRAEL..

Israel is hell bent on extendinding its borders according to the biblical model of the Holy Land (from River Nile to River Euphrates). This explains the massive supply of weapons from USA and its servants (Saudi and Qatar) to the Syrian rebels, as Bashar is one big obstacle in Israels path as he is in the Russian camp. Now since its been more than 2 years, but he is refusing to step down. What's the next available option. Lets put pressure from the other side. If Morsi steps down. And a new Israeli puppet come into power in Egypt . That is when Syria will succumb. Millions have already been killed in this bloodbath.

But Muslims need to get up and first get their facts right. The kingpin in all of this mess is Israel and her shoe shine boy US. They are in the back drop and they are making us fight other on sectarian grounds. And all of this because we have betrayed the Quran and the sunnah and our scholars have failed us fulfilling the prophesy of RasoolAllah (saw), " a time will come when the worst people under the sun would be the ulema".

Wake up everyone we don't have much time. If its Egypt today, it could be your country tomorrow. Turn to Surah Ambiya :95,96. These people who rule the world (Euro Judeo Christian alliance) is none other than Yajooj and Majooj. Another major sign of the Day of Judgement fulfilled.

2014- A dangerous year for Kashmir.

Srinagar, June 29: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Saturday said the possibility of Afghan fallout on Kashmir after NATO withdrawal in 2014 was linked to talks between Taliban and the US. He was quick to add that J&K government would closely monitor the situation in Afghanistan in the days ahead.
Addressing a three-day international conference–Cooperative Development, Peace and Security in Central Asia, Challenges and Prospects—at University of Kashmir here, the Chief Minister said in the days and months ahead J&K government would be looking very closely at the developments in Afghanistan.
“Many people are concerned about the future of move towards normalization in Afghanistan in the light of 2014 withdrawal of NATO and US forces. What impact that will have (on J&K) is compounded in the talks between Taliban and international community,” the Chief Minister said.
Omar said one hopes that international community learns not to use “other countries as a playground.” “Many powers are also monitoring the Afghanistan situation. Russia has a right to do that as well. At the same time, Chinese influence in the region is very obvious,” he said.
According to observers, there are apprehensions that Kashmir may witness Taliban spillover after the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan.
(This was an excerpt from Greater Kashmir)

From the point of view of various independant defense and political analyst, Kashmir does not have a danger for a Taliban spill out. Rather the Chief Minister is preparing us for some future false flag operations in Kashmir and some parts of India. In response to which, Israel will wink at India, prompting India to attack the nuclear facility in Pakistan. Thus, exerting pressure on Pakistan from the east. At the same time, a highly anticipated attack on Iran will pressurise Pakistan on the West.

And this narrative has been going on for quite some time now. There is a danger of the nuclear weapons of Pakistan falling into the hands of crazy lunatic terrorists.

One has to very well understand there is a stark difference between Afghan Taliban and Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan. The recent destruction of the social order is an outcome of TTP extremity. Also it should be noted that there is a very viable and legitimate link between TTP and Indian Intelligencia.

One may ask why all of this???

The answer is simple for those who love the Quran and the Ahadith of the Messenger (Saw)

Doesn't the Quran say that the Bani Israel were divinely expelled from the Holy Land?

Doesn't the Messenger say that the greatest trial the like of which mankind has never faced before is the False Messiah ? (Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim)

The Jews have ever since been waiting for the Messiah. But when the Messiah was sent to them, they tried to kill him after accusing him and his Mother Maryam(as).

Now doesn't the Measenger (saw) say "The Dajjal will be followed by 70000 Jews wearing Persian shawls?

Doesn't the Messenger (saw) say, "You will most certainly fight the Jews, until even the stones will say ' o Muslim, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him'" (Sahih Muslim)

For Dajjal to actually impersonate the Messiah (that is what the word Dajjal means-Impersonater or Deciever) , he has to liberate the Holy Land (already done in 1917), get the Bani Israel back (1948), then make Israel the ruling state in the world ,and bring back the Golden Age of Dawud and Sulaiman (as) (this is the mission of the Messiah in the Torah)

Now this is almost accomplished, but behind a veil. Israel indirectly controls the United States like a puppet master, sways the puppet around.

Israel is moving towards fulfilling its Biblical Prophesy, which has been its top most political goal since it was conceived. This prophesy being the expanse of the Holy Land from River Nile (Egypt) to River Euphrates (Iraq). Iraq is broken and on its knees. Egypt has just undergone a regime change yesterday, by a very mysteriously rapid revolution.

But the only obstacle in the path of Israel and its Chief Architect Dajjal is the nuclear program's of Iran and Pakistan.

May Allah have mercy on the Muslim Ummah! May Allah Most High give victory to us in this life and as well as the next ! Ameen.

"Indeed the party of Allah will be victorious" (Quran)

In the video below, Zaid Hamid discusses the event if 1987 and following years when India deployed the same strategy of putting pressure on Pakistan from the east, as it was involved in the afghan struggle against the soviets.

An Islamic Pakistan has the potential.

For a reason, the Prophet of Allah (saw) has spoken very positively about Khorasan. He (saw) prayed for blessings on Shaam, on Yemen , on Iraq and on Khorasan. he (saw) said, "from there an army will come that will liberate every city till they reach Jerusalem", "this army will make the restoration of the Khilafa easy for Imam Mahdi". So where is Khorasan. Famous scholar Dr Israr Ahmed has identified Khoran as being Afghanistan, north west Pakistan and some parts of Iran. Pakistan is the only muslim country that has state of the art missile technology and a massive nuclear program. Pakistan has played a very important and leading role in the affairs of the muslim world in the last century. And it can do the same now also. It just needs a good leadership and a group of pious muslims in the defense..why am i speaking about Pakistan, so much. But this area has the appropriate potential to challenge the oppressors who have harassed the muslim world since the Khilafa was broken in 1924. The muslim world usually turn towards the rich Arab nations like saudi and gulf for help when enemies attack. But RasoolAllah (saw) said " khorasan will liberate the muslim world" and from "Najd will appear the horns of the devil". Najd is present day Saudi Arabia. And it is important to note that Saudi Arabia played a very important role in dismanteling the Khilafa.

Muslim women on mars and Muslim men on Venus.

Walaikum asalam Anzila, how are you :)


You know, we have a perfect model for an Islamic society in the state of Medina which was designed by the Prophet(saw) himself. In the state of Medina, there were women and men who would work together, walk on the streets freely, fight on battle fields together. Even in the masjid there was no separate room for the women, not even a BARRIER. The women would just sit at the back of the room. And I have personally tried it as I was in a class full of boys. Sitting at the back, one can have their own space, no worrying about the wandering eyes of wierdos.

Even in glorious civilisations of Al Andulus, women and men would go to universities together (800 years before the advent of the European Universities of Oxford and Cambridge). Not only this, in Medina women would go to the masjid at fajr time and Esha time when it's dark. This should be enough for those who don't allow women to drive in Saudi. Walking in the dark hours is more dangerous than driving in day light.

Great scholars like Ibn hazam say" My first teachers of Fiqh were women". That is exactly why he wrote an absolute amazing encyclopaedia on marriage. Imam shafiee and Imam Malik had women teachers, who,these great imams,called instrumental in there education. This should be a sufficient answer to those who don't educate women in the prestigious Medina University. And I can go on and on.

If this was what the Messenger (saw) meant when he spoke about segregation, couldnt he(saw) anoint Taif or any other city as an exclusive women's city.

Such alienation of women in Saudi particularly has had very very detrimental consequences. Men and women have forgotten to treat each other as human beings. Muslim men have started treating women as this fitnah, that Allah has sent them. And women have started looking at men as oppressive tyrants, hence leaning towards the western pseudo model of fem liberation. Such alienation also results in the lack of understanding between genders, because there has been no respectable interaction. Hence marriages are a joke leading to exploitation of one or the other. The amount of money they have spent on making this city, I wish they would spend the same amount in the education and mental conditioning of Muslim youth, so that even if placed in a super crowded mall with Megan Fox's walking around they would lower their gaze and act decently. The Prophet (saw) was perfect model of modesty and decency, yet he never isolated women calling them evil beings (that was the ancient Christian and Hindu ideology of eve being an evil temptress).

Regarding what you said about the women feeling comfortable by taking off the abaya and working in normal clothes. Come on Anzila, Saudi Arabia is the most air conditioned country in the entire world. Again the model being Medina, where women,mind you, fought in Badr, uhud, khaiber. On top of their jilbab, they had steel armour.:) they weren't told, "go make a separate battalion". Or even the market place was not made segregated. Women walked freely even in the Jewish markets of Medina. Yes with their hijab, some with their niqab. They had no air conditioning and super light weight clothing material.

Why was this done, because men and women together in utmost modest and respectable manner make up the society. By such stringent measures they are destroying generations of young men and women, who don't know what's its like to live in a world together, and yet maintain modesty, chastity and Haya.
Men and women don't have to be caged separately, they have to be taught how to interact with each other in the most dignified manner.

The Wahhabi fanaticism in the Saudi belt can build these women only malls and cities, but what have they done about the ever escalating pornographic downloads in the Holy Land. When you keep men on mars and women on Venus. This is what happens, that young people turn to the Internet to get a glimpse of what it's like to be on the other side. The wahhabis are champions in calling everything and anything Bidaa, i think this big time Bidaa. If the saudis have so much money to spare there are thousand sof women who have La illah illa Allah in their hearts and they are being violated in Burma, bangladesh,Kashmir, how about sending some of that resource in the rehabillitation of the Ummah.

Our ultimate role model is the Messenger (saw) and the city he built on the foundations of Islam. He (saw) did not build walls between the genders, rather he conditioned the hearts to such amount of Haya that even a wrong gaze was considered a breach of human sanctity.
Men and women were not separated by physical walls but by spiritual walls, in which everyone was a slave of The Lord and hence deserving of utmost respect. Such people didnt have to be told, "wear a lose shirt" or "don't send her a friend request", they knew their limits really well. We need to bring back the Medinan Model of society not go back to the pagan Arab society, where women were nothing more than dirt.

Allahu Ta'ala Aalam.

Wassalaam :)

(This is a part of the discussion I had with my friend Anzila on the impact of women only cities in Saudi)