Category: Ramadan

Islam, Ramadan, Sheikh Omar Suleiman

Let The Angel Respond On Your Behalf And Beware Of The Devil’s Mailman AIYP Ep-8 | Shaykh Omar Suleiman

Your greatest test of humility and honor is going to come when you meet someone who has absolutely none of those things.

Husnul Khuluq,  of good character is how a person deals with someone with ….  bad character, the prohet (saw) was sitting with Abu Bakr radiallahu anhum and a man started to insult the prophet (saw) and insult Abu Bakr (ra). now the prophet (saw) was doing what he always did Which was responding with patience, the prophet (saw) did not entertain the insult in any way whatsoever And he definitely did not respond in like manner.

Abu bakr (ra) loved the prophet (saw) more than he loved himself is witnessing those insults and finally he can’t hold himself and he responds. As soon as he responds the prophet (saw) gets up and he leaves.

The prophet (saw) is sitting and Abu bakr (ra) comes to him and he says o messenger of Allah, is it something that I did and the prophet (Saw) said that when we were sitting there before we were responding Allah has sent an angel from the heaven said to us and then as soon as you started to respond the said to us and then as soon as you started to respond the angel left. Devil came and sat in its place.

That’s why the prophet (saw) said that strength is not in how you overcome. Another person, strength is actually in how you overcome yourself.

Mufti Menk, Ramadan

Why Does Allah Speak About Patience Before Prayer In Surah Al-Baqarah CITOCS-Ep5 | Mufti Menk

O you who believe, Seek assistance through patience and prayer, for indeed Allah is with those who bear patience.

I know that after the darkest hour, there is always Daybreak. The one who brought about that Daybreak will actually bring about the Daybreak in my crisis and as much as I am convinced that the sun is going to rise, I’m also convinced that my problem is going to end.

Put your head on the ground and call out to your maker. The closest you could ever be to your maker is when you are in prostration.

The closest that a slave could be to his maker is when his head is on the ground for his maker, crying to his maker. Oh my maker, help I need your help. Allah will respond- Ameen.

So you think of where you came from, where you are right now, where you are heading and that brings about a lot of comfort. Many of us cling to dear life. Although we know we have to leave it. So just embrace.

Thank Allah, do your best while you’re alive leave behind a very good Legacy, leave behind something good, do good for your own self and investment for the future.

Mufti Menk, Ramadan

How And When To Make Dua Learning From The Prophet Abraham (A.S) | Citocs-Ep4 | Mufti Menk

Dua /Supplication is definitely a way of achieving comfort in times of Crisis. We sometimes feel that Allah is not responding but he knows the future, so He doesn’t want to give it to us.

Do we have the correct relationship with Allah, did we pass the tests that Allah placed in our lives or did we seek the forgiveness of Allah before we called out to Him at least?

Don’t judge Allah by what He has given others, Allah Subhanahu wa’ta’ala, you should judge your own relationship with Him. If He has given you, it’s not a sign that He’s happy with you. He’s given the disbelievers and those who don’t recognize Him.

Allah is saying clearly that we should not be miserly when we are praying or supplicating to Allah, call out for everyone. When you ask Allah to bless someone who’s a disbeliever, the biggest blessing is the blessing of guidance and Faith

When we’re a supplicating to Allah make sure you’re on the right page, make sure you’re doing the right things. You cannot be a person who’s transgressing against Allah day and night and expect that when you call out to Allah he’s going to be excited about it without you having even developed your relationship with Allah.

You want the Comfort? well a way to get the comfort in the times of Crisis is actually by getting onto the right page in your relationship with Allah subhanahu wa’ta’ala. Then call out to Him and when you call out, don’t call out for yourself alone.

Remember your parents your children your family members your teachers, all the others in the broader family, your town your city and the whole world the Believers as well as the disbelievers wow.

Islam, Ramadan

The Two Qualities That The Most Merciful Wants To Be Repeated | CITOCS-Ep1 | Mufti Menk

When we start anything in the name of Allah automatically, we have a sense of comfort. Allah chooses to two of His qualities that He wanted to be repeated again and again,

Those whose tongues are moist in the remembrance of Allah, declaring His praised and His greatness. They will never go wrong.

You could have anything but if you are astray, you’ve lost. You could have anything but if you’ve earned the anger of Allah, you’ve lost what do we want? The mercy of Allah, never let shaitaan overtake you by making you think that you are too far from the mercy of Allah (swt)

Mufti Menk, Ramadan

Who Got A Leeway Of Fasting At Another Time After Ramadan With Mufti Menk’s Emotional Dua

Allah gives us comfort in that crisis by making it easy for us. People have been asking those on the front line, those in the front line who are serving at this particular time in our history. They are serving Humanity, saving lives, engaged in so much in order to serve communities.

if you are unable to fast Allah subhanahu wa’ta’ala says don’t worry, we intend ease for you just like when you are travelling and your prayer becomes shortened in some cases or you may join it in some cases, We are giving you a leeway when it comes to fasting You can make it up sometime after Ramadan.

If you’re healthy, you must fast, you should attempt to fast at by all means but You’re really unable and if you cannot, don’t worry, you can always do it later Allah knows.

Allah knows Your Condition.

Islam, Ramadan

Ramadan Preparation In Such Times And Why It Is Different From Past Ones | Mufti Menk

This will definitely be a unique Ramadan one to be remembered.

We do know that Allah is the most merciful, the most kind, the most generous, the most compassionate, the most forgiving the most beneficent, Allah is the Healer, he is the curer, he is the sustainer, He is the provider, he is the protector, he Is the curer, may Allah subhanahu wa’ta’ala grant us all cure.

Every time there is something that happens that brings us closer to Allah subhanahu wa’ta’ala. It is indeed a blessing of Allah. It is indeed a sign of the mercy of Allah and His love for us. May Allah subhanahu wa’ta’ala Love us.

We have to have hope, we have to instil hope, we have to believe in the mercy of Allah. It’s a unique Ramadan, Ramadan wherein we will be able to participate online more than ever before.

So start selecting what you’d like to do in the month of Ramadan, start setting your timetable, the lessons that you will engage in, the online correction of your recitation, the online learning expanding of your knowledge of the Quran the tafseer, the rulings the regulations that of the Sunnah, the Hadith of the Prophet (saw), the rules and regulations of your religion.

let’s not waste our time engaging in that which is futile and at times even destructive.

 

Islam, Mufti Menk, Ramadan, Sheikh Omar Suleiman

Dedicate Yourself With Simple Adhkar To Unlock Unlimited Barakah In This Ramadan | Shaykh Omar Suleiman And Mufti Menk

There are numerous narrations about simple people in society that had very simple duas that People might have mocked or found to be very rudimentary, but they were actually very special, right, and they spoke to the beauty of the hearts of those whose tongues would Express those simple forms of dua .

Islam is not an elitist religion. Islam is accessible to the Bedouin and it’s accessible to the king. It’s accessible to people across their socioeconomic status, because we all supplicate the same God, we all have the same mechanism for supplicating that one God.

No one has a shorter ladder to him, right? It’s just there, Allahumma  oh Allah! and once you say oh Allah then all of us are in the same plane when we say o Allah O My Lord, right, and just call upon him in that way.

The Easiest & Simplest Adhkar (Remembrance of Allah Allah subhanahu wa’ta’ala) :

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La illa illa allah-bearing witness that there’s only one God

Astaghfirullah- I seek forgiveness from him

Alhamdulillah-all praises and thanks are due to HIm

Allahu Akabar- He is greater than Than all else

SubhanAllah- how perfect is He

La Hawla Wala Quwwata Illa Billah-There is no power nor might except for that which is with Him

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سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ وَبِحَمْدِهِ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ الْعَظِيمِ

Transliteration: Subhaanal-laahi wa bihamdih Subhaanal-laahil-‘Adheem
Translation: Glorified is God and praised is He, Glorified is God the Most Greatest

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صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ “‏ لأَنْ أَقُولَ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ وَلاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَاللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ أَحَبُّ إِلَىَّ مِمَّا طَلَعَتْ عَلَيْهِ الشَّمْسُ ‏”

Abu Hurairah Radi Allahu Anhu se rivayat hai ki Rasool-Allah Sal-Allahu alaihi wasallam ne farmaya mujhe SubhanAllahi wa Alhamdulillahi wa la ilaha illallahu wallahu Akbar kahna un tamam cheezo se zyada pasand hai jin par aaftab (suraj) nikalta hai. Note : Ye wahi azkar hai jo Salat Al-tasbeeh mein padha jata hai
Sahih Muslim, Jild 6, 6847

Syed Ul Istighfar / the chief of seeking forgiveness

أَبُوءُ لَكَ بِنِعْمَتِكَ عَلَيَّ وَأَبُوءُ بِذَنْبِي

 abu’u laka bini`matika `alayya, wa abu’u bidhanbi(y).
 I admit to Your blessings upon me, and I admit to my misdeeds.

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– سبحان الله و بحمده – Subhaan-Allahi wa bihamdihi [Allaah is free from imperfection and all praise is due to Him]

– سبحان الله العظيم – Subhaan-Allahil-Azhim [Allaah is free from imperfection, The Greatest]

 

Ramadan, Sheikh Omar Suleiman

Praying Taraweeh/Qiyam In Masjid Or At Home Or Behind A Screen From The Hadiths of Prophet (ﷺ) | Shaykh Omar Suleiman

A lot of people don’t know about which is that the prophet (saw) had sent the people home for Taraweeh in a very interesting Hadith, two narrations in fact.

This Ramadan in particular while there are some Fatwahs that are coming out about praying Taraweeh behind a screen, the vast majority of scholars would not approve of such a thing and I would caution and very …in particular to say that when we are in a temporary time of need we should not do things that could alter our trajectory permanently.

 

Beauty of The Quran, Islam, Mufti Menk, Ramadan

Don’t Wait For Ramadan While People Are In Desperate Need Of Charity | Mufti Menk

Help others in their time of desperation

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When there is a desperate need for the Charities, do not delay that charity to the month of Ramadan, especially when the Month of Ramadan is a month away few weeks away. And the desperation is current; Allah will reward you for having given that charity as though it was given in the month of Ramadan.

 

o son of Adam o human being spend and it shall be spent on you, help others and you will be helped, be merciful upon others and the Lord will be merciful on you and so on.

Jinn & black magic, Mufti Menk, Mufti Menk Ramadan 2019, Ramadan

EP27 | Contentment from Revelation | Ramadan Series 2019 | Mufti Menk

To engage in magic is totally prohibited, to visit someone who is going to do the magic is actually losing your faith in Allah, is actually coming out of the fold of Islam, is disbelieving in whatever Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has brought. So, it is prohibited to cast a spell or to go to someone to cast a spell but these things do exist according to the Quran.

 

However, we protect ourselves from it by reading ayatul kursi thrice every morning and evening, by reading the last three surahes of the Quran every morning and evening, by seeking the protection in Allah from these evil things three times every morning and evening and perhaps after every prayer.

In surah Ash-Shu’ara where Allah makes mention of the poets towards the end, Allah speaks about the shayateen the devils and these devils who keep coming to people telling them something.

So a person says I have a jinn that comes to me and I know your future. They don’t know the future, they could know the past because with every person there is a Qareen, the Qareen is a devil that tries to deviate the person. He is a little shaitan, the prophet (saw) did not have one because he became a Muslim. That’s the hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. However, it’s very easy for someone to get another jinn to speak to this jinn that is with you and find out every single detail about your life from the beginning right to the point where you are at right now. Because this jinn has a memory that will definitely be stronger than ours.

Shall I inform you upon whom the devils descend? They descend upon every sinful liar. (26:221-222)

If you’re close to Allah it won’t affect you except perhaps that which Allah wills. When you read your al-Mu’awwidhat that the last three surahs of the Quran, the last two are called Al-Mu’awwidhatayn. If you read them Allah will protect you, Allah will grant you that protection. Be convinced; Allah is more powerful.

Another very very interesting factor is when you accuse people falsely of engaging in magic you are worse than them.

However, the stronger you are in your relationship with Allah the less it would affect you. in fact it would not affect you at all.

And rely upon the Exalted in Might, the Merciful, (26:217) Who sees you when you arise (26:218) When you lay your trust in Allah Subhanahu WA Ta’ala he definitely will protect you. He will guide you and he will grant your goodness. – Mufti Menk