The Qur’an : Ustadh Khuram Murad

The Qur'an opens its doors only to those who knock with a depth of yearning, sincerity of purpose and exclusiveness of attention that befit its importance and majesty. And only those are allowed to gather its treasures, while they walk through it, who are prepared to abandon themselves completely to its guidance and do their utmost to absorb it. 

It may therefore quite possibly happen that you read the Qur'an endlessly, turn its pages laboriously, recite its words beautifully, study it most scholarly, and still fail to make an encounter with it that enriches and transforms your whole person. For, all those who read the Qur'an do not profit from it as they should. Some remain unblessed some are even cursed. 

Many never turn to it, though the Book always lies near at hand, but many are turned away from its gates. Many read it often, but come back empty-handed; while many others who read it never really enter its world. Some do not find, but are lost . They fail to hear God even among His own words, instead they hear their own voices or those other than God's. Still others, though they hear God, fail to find inside themselves the will, the resolve and the courage to respond and live by His call. Some lose even what they had and, instead of collecting priceless gems, they return with back-breaking heaps of stones which will hurt them for ever and ever. 

What a tragic misfortune it would be if you came to the Qur'an and went away empty-handed - soul untouched, heart unmoved, life unchanged - 'they went out as they came in.' 

The Qur'an's blessings are limitless, but the measure of your taking from it depends entirely upon the capacity and the suitability of the receptacle you bring to it. So, at the very outset, make yourself more deeply aware of what the Qur'an means to you and what it demands of you; and make a solemn determination to recite the Qur'an in an appropriate manner, so that you may be counted among 'Those whom We have given the Book, they recite it as it ought to be recited; it is they who believe in it.' (2:121) 

-- Ustadh Khuram Murad (rahimahullah), "Way to the Qur'an" p. 21-22

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Islamic Study

Just taken some plan to make myself productive and precise as a Muslim. I've finished downloading contents of "Establishing the Prayer: Fiqh of Formal Prayer", "Usool of Tafseer", "Usool al Hadith","Fiqh of Marriage" from Islamic Online University.

I have realized that our Deen Islam can be established really by acquiring knowledge deeply and employing that perfectly in life in every moments. So, this will be the first approach. Next step is -- what I will learn and realize, I shall be writing them in simplest language for my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters to go through as reminder. 

I realize these days: what will go with us after death --  is the DEVOTION in our heart for Allah and to establish His Deen in our lives. And of course NOT THE RESULT. We can only try our fullest, the result is to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

Tariq Ramadan talking on Popular Uprisings of Islam in Center for American Progress

Tariq Ramadan talking on Popular Uprisings of Islam in Center for American Progress

The West's Long War Over the Middle East -- from Kashmir Watch

The West's Long War Over the Middle East

Date: 2 Nov 2011

The West's Long War Over the Middle East By Abid Mustafa --- "[We need an] Arab facade ruled and administered under British guidance and controlled by a native Mohammedan and, as far as possible, by an Arab staff.... There should be no actual incorporation of the conquered territory in the dominions of the conqueror, but the absorption may be veiled by such constitutional fictions as a protectorate, a sphere of influence, a buffer state and so on."— Lord Curzon

LOVE by Tariq Ramadan

"The love that transcends love is a love that liberates. It brings both fullness and a sense of contingency. We therefore have to teach our consciousness and our hearts to love in the absolute of the moment and in full awareness of time, to be there and to know that we will pass away"

spiritualities highlight the ambivalence and ambiguity of love; its different natures and its two faces. Love is an initiatory school in which we learn to make progress, to rise above ourselves and then to free ourselves, but it can also be a prison in which we are bound by more and more chains. We go under, get lost and eventually become totally dependent.

The most significant impediment for establishment of an Islamic state in the present age

The most significant impediment for establishment of an Islamic state in the present age has been created by the long presence of western colonial powers in our lands.


When they established their authority in our lands, they replaced our laws with their laws.
They introduced their education system in our lands annihilating ours.


They expelled people who were educated in our education system from government jobs and availed them only for people educated in their education system.


They also occupied our economic system by introducing their organizations and policies. So, western educated people monopolized our economies. Thus western colonial powers were able to create a generation among us who were void of the concept of our civilization, culture and idea.


They were actively cut off from Islam, history of Islam and Islamic tradition as well as from the emotion and intellect of Islam.


And this phenomena is a hindrance to revival of Islam"


~~  Imam Abul A'la Maududi (Rahimahullah)

Tariq Ramadan in MSA Convention 2010

A really impressive and amazing speech. Mesmerizing, thought-provoking

MSA  convention Part3

MSA  convention Part2

MSA  convention Part1

The Way To Islam by Dr Bilal Philips

Dr Bilal Philips interview. He is a wonderful scholar with deep understanding in many actions of Islam. Here I have learned the beautiful history of his life. I love his lectures. He is one of my mentors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtR-Z3c1720

The Obligations that Muslims Owe to the Quran -- by Dr Israr Ahmed

The Obligations that Muslims Owe to the Quran
 
-- by Dr Israr Ahmed 
from Institute Al Islam

What can my enemies do to me?

"What can my enemies do to me? I have in my breast both my heaven and my garden. If I travel they are with me, never leaving me. Imprisonment for me is a chance to be alone with my Lord. To be killed is martyrdom and to be exiled from my land is a spiritual journey"

-Ibn Taymiyyah Rahimahullah

Don't even scratch a person's dignity by Yusuf Estes

this is a small lecture by Yusuf Estes of 51 seconds.
but it wonderfully said the value of others' heart and dignity to a Muslim.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtouzWq0Qs4

A Husband-Wife Conversation : Did You Not Promise Me?

Several months passed after Sarah's wedding, the burden and responsibility of the home began to take a lot of time and attention.

Sarah did not realize that she had underestimated her performance. Sarah's concern to look beautiful in front of her husband has begun to decline, she was no longer, lingering sitting in front of the mirror.

Now she is aware of it, when Ahmad, her husband suddenly asked, "Did u not promise me to be the wife of the pious?"

Should Burqa Be Banned? Speech by Tariq Ramadan

An wonderful speech by Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University on "Should Burqa be Banned" against Mona Eltahawy who is trying so hard to make the burqa issue complicated.

I am a moderate Muslim

I don't pray 5 times a day
only jumuah is enough for me
I don't fast the full thirty
Five is how many I do


Yes I drink
But only in moderation
I don't get drunk or puke up in the loo
Yes I am a moderate Muslim

Lord Will Respond If We Call HIM

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