Islam Is Great

Beautiful Message written in arabic language
      لكن
تذكر  ان  ما تصنعه  الْيوم  لنفسك  ستكسبه في  الغد  سالبا  او  موجبا
لكن  تذكر  أيضا  ان  الحياة  عبر 
قال تعالى
فَاعْتَبِرُوا يَا أُولِي الْأَبْصَارِ
وايضاً قال
فَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ يَا أُولِي الْأَلْبَابِ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا

A rich man looked through his window and saw a poor man picking something from his dustbin ... He said, Thank GOD I'm not poor;

نظر أحد الأغنياء من خلال نافِذتِه فرأى فقيراً يلتقط شيئاً ما من سلَّة القُمامَة فَحَمَد الله وشَكَرَهُ أنه ليس فقيراً؛

The poor man looked around and saw a naked man misbehaving on the street ... He said, Thank GOD I'm not mad;

نظر الرجل المسكين حوله وشاهد رجُلاً عارياً يُسِيء السلوك في الشارع وقال الحَمْدُ لله أني لسْتُ بِمَجْنُون؛

The mad man looked ahead and saw an ambulance carrying a patient ... He said, Thank GOD am not sick;

نظر الرجل المجنون إلى الأمام ورأى سيارة إسعاف تَقِلُ مَرِيضًا وقال الحمد لله أَنِي لسْتُ مَرِيضًا؛

Then a sick person in hospital saw a trolley taking a dead body to the mortuary ... He said, Thank GOD I'm not dead;

ومِن ثُم رأى مَرِيضٌ في المُستشْفَى عربةً تَنْقِل جثةً إلى المشرحة فَحَمَد الله وشَكَرَهُ أنه لا يزال حيٌ يُرْزَق؛

Only a dead person cannot thank God;

المَوتَى هُمْ وَحْدَهُم الذين لا يَستطِيعوُن الكلام وشُكْر الله؛

Why don't you thank GOD today for all your blessings and for the gift of life ... for another beautiful day;

فبما أنك لازلت حياً تُرْزَق فلماذا لا تبادر بِشُكْر المَوْلَى عَزَّ وجَلْ على مَنِّهِ وكَرَمهِ وفَضْلِهِ وعلى هبة الحياة ومَنْحِك يوم آخَر جَمِيل؛

What is LIFE?
To understand life better, you have to go to 3 locations:

ماهي الحياة؟
لكي تفهم معنى الحياة،   بصورةٍ أفضل، عليك بالتوجه إلى ٣ أماكن:

1. Hospital
2. Prison
3. Cemetery

١. المستشفى
٢. السجن
*٣. المقبرة

At the Hospital, you will understand that nothing is more beautiful than HEALTH.

في المستشفى سَتُدْرِك أن  لا شيئ يضاهي نِعْمَة الصِحَة والعافِيَة

 In the Prison, you'll see that FREEDOM is the most precious thing

وفي السجن سَتَعْلَم  أن الحرية لا تُقَدَر بِثَمَن

 At the Cemetery, you will realize that life is worth nothing. The ground that we walk today will be our roof tomorrow.

في المَقبَرَة، سَتُدْرِك أن الحياة لا تُساوِي شيئاً وأن الأرض التي نمْشِى عليها اليوم وستكون السقف الذِي نلتَحِف به غدا؛

Sad Truth* :  We all come with Nothing and we will go with Nothing ... Let us, therefore, remain humble and be thankful & grateful to God at all times for everything.

Could you please share this with someone else, and let them know that God loves them
______
96% of people won't share it, but if you are 1 of 4% share this truth to your friends.

Beautifully written by a Chinese revert sister. (It is written to the killer). 

(I) Appreciate that you made the effort to find out the timing of our noon prayer.

Appreciate that you learnt more about our religion to know that Fridays are the days the men go to the Mosques for their congregational prayers.

But I guess there were some things you, rather unfortunately, didn’t get to learn. 

Perhaps you didn’t know that what you did made them Martyrs. 

And how you have single-handedly raised the statuses of our brothers and sisters in the eyes of their beloved Creator with your actions. And how, through your actions, they will be raised as the most righteous and pious of Muslims. 

Perhaps you didn’t know that doing what you did, at the time and place you chose, it actually meant that the last words that escaped their lips were probably words of remembrance and praise of Allah. Which is a noble end many Muslims could only dream of. 

And perhaps you didn’t know, but what you did would almost guarantee them paradise. 

Appreciate that you showed the world how Muslims welcome, with open arms, even people like yourself into our Mosques, which is our second home. 

Appreciate you for showing that our mosques have no locks or gates, and are unguarded because everyone and anyone is welcome to be with us.

Appreciate you for allowing the world to see the powerful image of a man you injured, lying on back on the stretcher with his index finger raised high, as a declaration of his faith and complete trust in Allah. 

Appreciate how you brought the Churches and communities together to stand with us Muslims. 

Appreciate that you made countless New Zealanders come out of their homes to visit the mosques nearest to them with flowers with beautiful messages of peace and love.

You have broken many many hearts and you have made the world weep. You have left a huge void. 

But what you also have done have brought us closer together. And it has strengthened our faith and resolve.

In the coming weeks, more people will turn up in the Mosques, a place you hate so much, fortified by the strength in their faith, and inspired by their fallen brothers and sisters.

In the coming weeks, more non Muslims will turn up at the gates of mosques with fresh flowers and beautifully handwritten notes. They may not have known where the mosques in their area was. But now, they do. All because of you.

You may have achieved your aim of intended destruction, but I guess you failed to incite hatred, fear and despair in all of us. 

And while I understand that it may have been your objective, I hate to say that after all of that elaborate planning, and the perverse and wretched efforts on your part, you still failed to drive a divide among the the Muslims and non-Muslims in the world.

For that, I can’t say that I’m sorry.
(A Radiant Muslim)

-Story of Ewliyah Nalıncı Mimi Dede from Istanbul

Sultan Murad, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire would often anonymously go into the midst of the people and see their state. One evening, he felt an uneasiness in himself and the urge to go out. He called for his head of security and and out they went. They came to a busy vicinity,and found a man lying on the ground. The Sultan prodded him but he was dead and the people were going about their own business. Nobody seemed to care about the dead man lying on the ground.

The Sultan called upon the people. they didn't recognize him and asked him what he wanted. He said, "Why is this man lying dead on the ground and why does no one seem to care?
Where is his family? "They replied, "He is so and so, the drunkard and fornicator!"

The Sultan said, "Is he not from the Ummah of Muhammad SAW? Now help me carry him to his house" The people carried the dead man with the Sultan to his house and once they reached, they all left. The Sultan and his assistant remained.
When the man's wife saw his dead body, she began weeping. She said to his dead body, "Allah have mercy on you! O friend of Allah! I bear witness that you are from the pious ones.

"The Sultan was bewildered. He said, "How is he from the pious ones when the people say such and such things about him. So much so that no one even cared he was dead?"

She replied, "I was expecting that. My husband would go to the tavern every night and buy as much wine as he could. He would then bring it home and pour it all down the drain. He would then say, "I saved the Muslims a little today." He would then go to a prostitute, give her some money to bring her to our house and recite Quran to the woman till the morning. And he would say, "Today I saved a young woman and the youth of the believers from vice."

The people would see him buy wine and they would see him go to the prostitutes and they would consequently talk about him. One day I said to him, "When you die, there will be no one to bathe you, there will be no one to pray over you and there will be no one to bury you!"

He laughed and replied, "Don't fear, the Sultan of the believers, along with the pious ones shall pray over my body. "The Sultan began crying. He said, "By Allah! He has said the truth, for I am Sultan Murad. Tomorrow we shall bathe him, pray over him and bury him." And it so happened that the Sultan, the scholars, the pious people and the masses prayed over him.

We judge people by what we see and what we hear from others. Only if we were to see what was concealed in their hearts, a secret between them and their Allah.

"O you who believe, abstain from many of the suspicions. Some suspicions are sins. And do not be curious (to find out faults of others), and do not backbite one another. Does one of you like that he eats the flesh of his dead brother? You would abhor it. And fear Allah. Surely Allah is Most-Relenting, Very-Merciful." (Quran 49:12)

Special thanks to Sami A. Aziz

A study conducted by Prof. Hussain Askari of George Washington University entitled *“How Islamic are the Islamic Countries"* showed that most of the countries that apply *Islamic Principles* in their daily lives are not ones that are traditionally Muslim.

New Zealand ranked 1st,
Luxembourg 2nd,
Ireland 3rd,
Iceland 4th,
Finland 5th,
Denmark 6th
Canada 7th.
Malaysia 38th,
Kuwait 48th,
Bahrain 64th

and the surprise??
*Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ranked 131st*.

The study, published in the *Global Economy Journal* might be shocking to most of us but when we look around us and see the reality of the situation, we find that the results of the study are accurate and true.

As Muslims we seem to care only about performing religious Obligations/Rituals/Sunnah (prayer, fasting, niqab, beards, etc), reading the Qur’an and the Hadiths, but we don't practice what we espouse. We listen to religious lessons and sermons more than the other people on the face of the earth, but we are still not the best of Nations. In the last 60 years, we have listened to 3,000 Friday sermons.

A Chinese merchant once said: “Muslim merchants come to me and ask me to put fake international labels and brands on their goods. When I invite them to eat, they refuse because the food is not Halal. So it is Halal for them to sell fake goods?”

A Japanese Muslim said: “I traveled to the West and saw Islam in practice applied in the daily life of non-Muslims. I traveled to the East, I saw Islam but did not see any Muslims. I thank Allah I knew Islam before I knew how Muslims act.”

Religion should not be reduced to Prayer and Fasting. It is a way of life and it is about how we treat others.

Performing a religious obligation is up to you and it is something between you and Allah. However, good ethics is something between you and other people. In other words, if we do not put Islamic ethics into action and practice, corruption will become rampant and disgrace will be our future.

We should not judge a person based on how he performs religious obligations for he might be a hypocrite.

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: “Verily, the bankrupt of my nation are those who come on the Day of Resurrection with prayers, fasting and charity, but also with insults, slander, consuming wealth, shedding and beating others.”

I believe *Islam* (external aspect of faith) is incomplete without *Imaan* (internal aspect of faith) and *Ihsaan* (social aspect of faith). Ponder, understand and realize this.

Lord Bernard Shaw is said to have said:

*Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers.

A brother moved to Makkah many years ago. He was a high flying manager of major departmental stores in U.K., Malaysia and China.
He had been brought in by Bin Dawood stores as a regional manager for the Makkah region. He was from England.

After living and working in Saudi for some time, he later narrated how he found it so strange, unique and uplifting in how business was done in Saudi.

Here were the examples he gave:

1. In Makkah, next to a major *Bin Dawood superstore* a rival new company were entering the kingdom and decided to open a mega store right next to Bin Dawood, within metres.
The brother was perturbed/disturbed, "Why can't they open just somewhere else."
The owners of Bin Dawood frowned on his outlook. They ordered him to send his workers to the other store being setup and offer them tea and food and any help they needed to setup!
The brother was left astounded/shock. The Bin Dawood management simply replied, "Our rizq is fixed, they cannot take even one Riyal from what has been decreed upon us. So why not gain ‘ajr’ and help them."

2. The owner of *AlFakieh poultry* in Saudi, he has a famous mosque in MAKKAH (Masjid Faqih). He is very rich ماشاء الله تبارك الله and religious. He found out that his major rival AlWatania was floundering/struggling with huge debts of a million plus riyals. So he one day sent a cheque to the owner of AlWatania and said, "Pay off your debt, and pay me back, whenever you can." He had the opportunity to become the sole major distributor of chicken but instead he decided to help his main rival.
ماشاء الله تبارك الله

I personally feel we have been affected growing up in the west with the capitalistic and consumer mindset, that is in every part of our lives.
It removes *Tawakkul* and the *muhabbah/love of brotherhood from our hearts.*
Just some advice. Don't worry about others, if we do our work with *Ihsan* and *If Allah gives us tawfeeq* then we will never have our success limited by others.

*BECOME A WELL WISHER.*

[Source: Forwarded from Shaykh Abdul Raheem Makkah Al Mukarramah.]