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'Ali at-Tamimi: "The Zeal to Guide Vs. the Zeal to Judge"

From the lecture by 'Ali at-Tamimi, titled  'Intellection Confusion of the Muslim Youth' : "The fourth cause which leads to intellectual confusion amongst the youth is the lack of zeal to order, to guide the people. In other words, instead of being zealous for the guidance of people, often, the youth were zealous for judging the people, zealous for passing out judgements: 'Well, he's astray, and he's on the guidance, and he's, well, he's OK, but he's not quite there, and this one is 10%, and this one, OK, he's 13.2%,' and so forth, and so on. This is not the way of Allah's Prophet. This is not the way of the Prophet's Companions. Rather, they used to seek to guide the people, and Allah Said to the Prophet, in order to console him: { "...So, do not ruin yourself out of sadness for them..." } [ Fatir ; 8] See, the Prophet would be so sad when the people wouldn't accept the message, it used to affect him physically

Two Essentials

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Al-Baqarah (The Cow) - Chapter 2: Verse 153 (partial) " O you who Believe, seek strength in Patience ( Sabr ) and Prayer ( Salah ). God is with those who are patient. " Background Having established a permanent and universal  Qiblah  for Islam, and having outlined the general features of the 'balanced' Muslim community, the Quran gives Muslims specific instructions to endure adversity with fortitude and to observe Prayer. Two most essential requisites for the Muslim  Ummah  to be able to withstand the hardships and trials are: 1) Patience:  Patience is required on the personal level for observing one's religious duties, for resisting temptation, misfortune, poverty, oppression, and injustice, and for carrying out one's responsibilities towards the establishment of the Islamic way of life in society. 2) Prayer:  To avoid the state of despair, God links patience with Prayer, as an inexhaustible source of strength and energy. The two combine to infuse the heart

Description of Holy Prophet Muhammad [Sallallahu Alayihi Wassallam]

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He who sees my hilye (description) after me, it is as if he had actually seen me, and he who sees it out of love and desire for me, God will forbid the fire of Hell to touch him. He will be safe from the trials of the grave, and he will not be sent forth naked on the day of resurrection.  - Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alayihi Wassallam. (ref. Tirmidhi). Transmitted from Ali, may God be pleased with him, who, when asked  to describe  the Prophet, Sallallahu Alayihi Wassallam, would say: He was not too tall nor too short. He was medium sized. His hair was not short and curly, nor was it lank, but in between. His face was not narrow, nor was it fully round, but there was a roundness to it. His skin was white. His eyes were black. He had long eyelashes. He was big-boned and had wide shoulders. ... When he looked at someone, he looked at them in full face. Between his shoulders was the seal of prophecy, the sign that he was the last of the prophets. He was the most generous-hearted of

Sura Qiyamah (Judgment Day) Mishary Rashed Alafasy

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Heart Trembling

Islamic Months By Shaykh Mufti Taqi Usmani

<a href="http://www.archive.org/download/JulyAugust-2010/IslamicMonthsBySheikhMuftiTaqiUsmani.pdf" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-616" title="Islamic Months By Sheikh Mufti Taqi Usmani" src="http://islamicbookslibrary.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/islamic-months-by-sheikh-mufti-taqi-usmani.jpg?w=333&amp;h=508" alt="" width="333" height="508"></a> DETAILS, MERITS AND IMPORTANCE OF ALL THE ISLAMIC MONTHS. By Sheikh Mufti Taqi Usmani