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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
Very Quick Summer:
Abu Bakr (Allah is pleased with him) dies
Umar (Allah is pleased with him) becomes Khalifah
At the requests of Al Muthna bin Haritha Umar (Allah is pleased with him) sends aid
The battles in Iraq continue
The Muslimeen lose for the first time in the Battle of the Bridge
Al Qadisyyah
After Al Qadisyyah a number of battles happens
The Army reaches Al Mada’in which was the capital of Persia at that time, and fell into our hands …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
The wars of Ar-Riddah end
Al Muthna bin Haritha carries out Raids on the Persia, later on sending requests to the Khalifah
Al Muthna bin Haritha sends a letter to the Khalifah seeking aid
The Khalifah sends a letter to Khalid Ibnu Walid, the Sword of Allah
Khalid Ibnu Walid sends letters out to the leaders to gather Muslims
Abu Bakr sends two armies
Khalid Ibnu Walid enters Iraq with his army from the south, the number of men around 18,000 …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
The Arabic Language is extremely important, Allah has chosen it to reveal the Quran because of it’s extreme clarity and encompassing of meanings (and more) of which no other language has. Allah says:
بِلِسَانٍ عَرَبِيٍّ مُبِينٍ
In a clear Arabic language.
سورة الشعراء
Ahmad Bin Faris said in his book(PDF Page 19)
فلما خَصَّ جل ثناؤه اللسانَ العربيَّ بالبيانِ، عُلِمَ أن سائر اللغات قاصرةٌ عنه، وواقعة دونه
And so When Allah specialized the Arabic Language with Bayan, then it is known that every other language is limited from it and inferior …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
In the previous blog-post, I mentioned the few places in the Quran in which Iraq was mentioned or referred to. In this blog-post, I shall be mentioning what the Prophet ﷺ has said in regards to Iraq,making sure that my sources are Authentic.
The Prophet has said About Iraq:
Iraq is the land of earthquakes and trials and tribulations, and from it the side of Shaytaan’s head will comes out. Source
There will be a time when the non-Arab world will block of the people of Iraq, and the people of Iraq will go through such a hard time that they would not be able to send out their money and food at the same time. Source …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
Iraq is mentioned (or referred to) in the Quran in a few places, I will be mentioning in this blog-post three places in which it was mentioned or referred to in the Quran that I know of. I will be listing them in order of the time the events mentioned in the Ayat happened, I will then give a link to the tafseer of the Ayah for further information on the meaning of it and the different views that scholars may have on it.
Ibraheem and Loot (ابراهيم و لوط) …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
This blog-post is the last on the subject of Palestine in our series, in the previous blog-posts we spoke about Palestine and Bani Isra’eel, as well as Palestine during the time of the Khulafa’. We also talked about Palestine and falling into the hands of our enemies in the past (The Crusaders and Mongols), along with some of the great heroes who came and purified our lands from the impurity of our enemies.
It is part of the laws that Allah has set in place, that the war between truth and falsehood would continue …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
The Mongols/Tatar represented the peak of the tribulations that this Ummah has gone through. The Mongols first appeared at the beginnings of the Seventh century after Hijrah, and at that time there were two main world powers. The first was this Ummah, but our state at that time was very weak and divided. The second was the Crusaders, and even if at that time they were in a even sorrier state then we were, they were still a power that could not be ignored. …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
In the previous blog-post, it was mentioned by the author some background to the land of Shaam before the Futuhaat, then the becoming of Palestine one of the lands of Islam, and the covenant of Umar (May Allah be pleased with him). This blog-post intends to speak briefly about the crusades and this holy land, but before we go into that I would like to give a brief summary of the history of this land after it’s conquest. …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
Background of Ash-Sham in the 634 CE
We begin with a review of the political situation of Ash-Sham just before the Muslims conquered it during the year 634 CE. The region was contested by the two biggest superpowers of the time: Byzantine Rome and the Sassanid Persians. The Byzantine-Sassanian war — which had only recently ended in 628 — was a brutal war, leaving both empires weakened and depleted. It was a pyrrhic victory for the Byzantines, with not much to show for their spoils. …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
The Beginning
This story, as is known, starts with the Prophet Ibraheem/Abraham (Peace and blessings be upon him) who had two sons. The first was Isma’eel/Ishmael (Peace be upon him), and the second was given to him and his wife at old age, his name was Ishaaq/Isaac (Peace be upon him) who himself had a son who was Ya’qoob (Peace be upon him).
Ya’qoob (Peace be upon him) who was also known as Israel had twelve sons among the was the Prophet of Allah Yusuf (Peace be upon). Yusuf, who is also known as the Pro …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي أَسْرَىٰ بِعَبْدِهِ لَيْلًا مِّنَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْأَقْصَى الَّذِي بَارَكْنَا حَوْلَهُ
Exalted is He who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al- Aqsa, whose surroundings We have blessed
The Blessed and Holy land of Palestine, a very ancient land, has a rich history of humanity. A history thousands if not millions of years before the birth of The Last Prophet of this world ﷺ. A history years before Bani Isra’eel/The Jews set foot on this holy land. …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan all make up what is known as Bilad Ash-Shaam (بلاد الشام). There are many verses in the Quran which mention this great land. This is he land which Ibraheem and Loot (لوط) (peace be upon them both) made hijra to:
وَنَجَّيْنَاهُ وَلُوطًا إِلَى الْأَرْضِ الَّتِي بَارَكْنَا فِيهَا لِلْعَالَمِينَ
And We delivered him and Lot to the land which We had blessed for the worlds
(Surat Al-’Anbyā’) Ayah 71سورة الأنبياء …
A while ago, I was asked to prepare a retrospective on the site, to commemorate yet another year of existence. I figured, hey, what better way to celebrate our 560th day anniversary (which just happens to coincide with the end of the Gregorian calendar year, what a coincidence).
Of course, you can’t let that 560 fool you; that’s just when we entered beta, merely one of the many steps we’ve actually taken to get this site where it is. Rather than deal with only the last year, I feel a true retrospective would need to go back much further than that else I’d be doing a disservice to everyone. …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
We live in a period of time where GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) / GM food is a widespread thing in this world. We won’t even know whether food we ate for lunch contained a GMO or not. When it comes to Islamic ruling on these GMOs there are different point of view between ulamas, thus it falls in our hands to chose the best to our knowledge, may Allah guide us.
Most people don’t understand what GMOs are, according to Wikipedia …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
The purpose of vaccines is to help improve immunity towards an illness/disease, vaccination introduces a weakened pathogen so that when the immune system encounters the disease that was vaccinated from, it would recognize it and destroy the microorganisms. Basically, vaccines are intended to protect from an illness/disease, and that alone is ok. An example would be what was narrated by Bukari, that the Prophet (Peace and blessings be upon him) said: …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
Eidul Adha (عيد الأضحى) is the second celebration after Eid Al Fitr (عيد الفطر). It starts on the tenth day of the twelfth month of the Hijri calendar. The best act of this Eid, is the sacrifice. The time of Udheyyah (الأضحية) is from after the Eid salat until the end of the days of Tashreeq (أيام التشريق).
Anyone who is able to sacrifice should. The sacrifice is done on four legged animals: camels, cows, sheep, or goat. It would not be valid if one sacrifices a chicken or a duck. Allah says (Surat Al Hajj Ayah 28): …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In The Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
I joined Stack Overflow a bit over two years ago when I had some questions about some code that I was writing for the internship that I was involved in at the time. This was my very first introduction to StackExchange. At the time (and really, even now), I was certainly no expert in programming. I had just finished the second year of my undergraduate education and I was working with some technology that I had never used before. I had heard of Stack Overflow before, and even used it on occasion when Google brought me to a useful question/answer, but it was my first time participating. …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In The Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
Islam Stackexchange is a site, where it’s community members contribute to build it. And there are a number of ways that people can help building Islam Stackexchange, and that is by:
Asking great questions and giving great high quality answers
Up-voting the good quality questions and answers, and down-voting the bad
Promoting the site
Contributing on the meta site
The most important way mentioned above, and the most important step one can make to help build Islam.SE, is by contributing and getting active on the meta. Curr …
بسم اله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
Da’wah, is short for الدعوة إلى الله or “Inviting to the Way of Allah”. Da’wah is Fardh Ayn “فرض عين” meaning it is obligatory on all Muslims, male or female, according to the knowledge they possess. So if a Muslim only knows suratul Ikhlas for example, then he/she should give Da’wah with that. It is very important to give Da’wah according to the knowledge one possesses, hence it is equally important to increase the knowledge one possesses about ones own religion/Way of Life. …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful
السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته
It is asked by some people when Ramadan comes, how to make the most out of it. Each person who asks this question, may be expecting different answers. I simply would start by defining in simplest terms what Ramadan is. It is basically, a celebration of our status as a nation.
Numerous times, when Ramadan begins, there are some who try to become righteous like, they do all of the daily Prayers, they do Taraweeh, stop smoking and other things. And when it ends they simply return to how they were before Ramadan started, for it would seem they benefited not from the month. …
بسم الله الرحن الرحيم
In the name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful
االسلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته
Alhamdulillah, we have gotten our blog set up. Once a month, a post will be published on this blog, each post may vary on subject. This blog deals with a wide range of topics, some posts maybe on the site itself, while others maybe on Da’wah and Islamic history, and other topics. If by reading a post from this blog, a question comes to mind, then we invite you to ask it here.
Any member of the community can contribute. If you have a suggestion for a post here, comment on the meta site. …