Entries from August 2006

August 30, 2006

Sha`baan and Miscellaneous Naseehah.

Bismillah ar-rahmaan ar-raheem,
Assalamu `alaykum wa rahmatallah,
The following is a nice article encapsulating the importance and merits of Sha`baan and fasting therein.  It’s authored from the pen of Mufti Taqi Usmaani:
Sha’ban is one of the meritorious months for which we find some particular instructions in the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam. It is [...]

August 28, 2006

Feeling So Low…

SubhanAllah…
I don’t know how I am suppose to explain this but yeah a couple of things have been bothering me and/or have been happening to me…
All these divisions and petty bickering amongst muslims is making me so confused and heartless.  I don’t even know what to think
And what’s more my emaan has hit [...]

August 23, 2006

Balancing the Act.

Beautified for men is the love of things they covet; women, children, much of gold and silver (wealth), branded beautiful horses, cattle and well-tilled land. This is the pleasure of the present world’s life; but Allah has the excellent return (
Paradise with flowing rivers, etc.) with Him.
Man is a creature of impulses, desires, and covetousness. [...]

August 20, 2006

Dasht-e-Tanhai

Yaad (Dashte Tanhai):
Dasht-e-tanhaee main ai jaan-e-jahaan larzaan hai
Teri aavaaz kay saaey, teray honton kay saraab
Dasht-e-tanhaee main dooree kay khas-o-khaak talay
Khil rahay hain teray pehloo kay saman or gulaab

Uth rahee hai kaheen qurbat say teri saaNs kee aanch
Apnee khushboo main sulagti hooee madham madham
Door ufaq paar chamaktee hooee qatra qatra
Gir rahee hai teri dildaar nazar kee [...]