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Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim

Assalamu Alaikum,

Inshallah every month I write 2 newsletters for my brothers and sisters of Islam. They are just simple reminders to myself as well as everyone else, I am no perfect person, I make mistakes too, so we should remind ourselves about what is right and what is wrong.

What I have written here are all from past newsletters that I have created since February 2007.

This information blog is only used for learning purposes,
You can share with whom you like, that way it can get across
to many inshallah, All praises is due to Allah for giving me this opportunity to write to my fellow brothers and sisters of
Islam, and trying to point out things that we may of forgotten about.

Your Brother In Islam

Islamic Information Blog Issue 4

Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim

April 2007/Rabi-ul-Akhir 1428

Assalamu Alaikum brothers and sisters

This issue isn't meant to scare you but it's the truth and we shouldn't take this likely, please do forgive me if I have scared you in this issue, before I start, this issue is about praying and how important it is to pray. I care about everyone, and I want everyone to learn how important it is to pray, as well as follow the 5 pillars of Islam, in the next issues I will go over them all inshallah, but I wanted to do this one. This is also a reminder to myself, I'm not going to say I've never missed a prayer before, because I have, I'm sure there has been many Imams, Sheikhs etc that have missed at least one prayer in their time, because no one is perfect.

Are you doing what is right and forbidding what is wrong? Are you simply waiting for Allah to send a sign to you that you have X amount of time left so you can do everything right before you go to Him? Well let me say this now, there is no clock for us to see, we can die anytime from now, we are meant to follow the Quran and the teachings of the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) all the time, not when we like. Are you praying to Allah? Have you prayed every prayer that is needed to be done? Fajr, Duhr, Asr, Maghrib & Ishaa, have you done them today and everyday? Pray to Allah before its too late! This is no joke, death is coming closer and closer to us second by second, not only day by day, by second by second, that's scary considering the fact that we know that every human will meet his Lord, but when? That is the question on every human's mind and the only one to know when your turn is, that is Allah. We have no excuse to not pray 5 times a day.

Allah doesn't need us to pray to Him, He doesn't need anything from us, but we need everything
from Allah, we have to pray to Allah for being grateful to Him, we should be humble that He gave us life.




The above video is about praying before you are prayed upon, at anytime, anywhere this could
happen. For the ones who are Muslims and not practicing, why are you not praying? Hasn't there been signs from the Qur'an that we should pray? And for the ones who are not Muslims and reading this, look into this more.

Brothers and sisters of Islam, and to those who follow different religions, Do not waste time on things that are not important in your life, Obey Allah and His prophets, do the good deeds that will help you in the next life to go to paradise, repent to Allah, ask Him to forgive your sins, Allah will forgive you has He is the most Merciful and most Forgiving. Humans make mistakes but it takes real people to repent to their Lord, it takes real people to bow down to the one who created them.

The Prophet (pbuh) once said: "Prayer is the pillar of religion."(Narrated by Al-Baihaqi)

Allah (swt) says: (What led you into the Hell-fire?" They will say: "We were not of those who prayed.)(Qur'an 74:43).

Allah (swt) also says: (Successful indeed are the Believers, those who humble themselves in
their prayers)(Qur'an 23:2),

Allah (swt) also says: (I created not the jinns and mankind except to worship me) (Qur'an 51:56)

I will say this though, Allah gave us the choice to do what we feel is right, at the end of the day, whatever choice you pick, you are the only one that will be blamed for that choice. When the time comes to meeting your Lord, what will your excuse be to Allah for not praying?

I would like to share another video by Ahmed Bukhatir called "Last Breath" part of the video shows clips of a football player that passed away while he was still playing football, it was live on TV at the time, if this cant give you a reason to pray, I don't know what will, you can die at anytime, not just being in bed or somewhere safe with your family and friends, anywhere.



Like at the start I do ask for forgiveness if I do scare you, because I shouldn't scare anyone.

Did you know??

Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) reported that Allah, the Almighty says:

'When my slave says in his prayer: "All praise is for Allah, the lord of the worlds"
I say: "My slave has praised me"
When he says: "The Merciful, the Compassionate, Master of the Day of Judgement,"
I say: "My slave has glorified me."
When he says: "You alone we worship and your aid we seek,"
I say: "This is between me and my slave."
When he says: "Show us the straight path,"
I say: "This is for my slave, and I give my slave what he wants."

I've been listening a lot to Sheikh Yusuf Estes and I have learnt a lot from him, the way he explains different topics whether its prayer, the prophets, Allah etc after you listen to this brother, it makes everything so understandable, I would like to share a few videos from this brother inshallah,

This video is just under 3 minutes long and its about prayer, just a simple answer to a question he was asked.





This video is over an hour long, and Mashallah it's a wonderful video by Sheikh Yusuf Estes about Jesus (pbuh) in Islam.




To end this I have one question to ask you all including myself, The final prophet and messenger of Allah, Muhammad (pbuh) prayed 5 times a day, for those who don't pray…what makes you better than our Prophet? What makes you a Muslim if you are not following what Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) did?

Wa Salaam

Islamic Information Blog Issue 3

Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim

April 2007/Rabi-ul-Awwal 1428

Assalamu Alaikum brothers and sisters of Islam.

Has today is another month I decided to do another newsletter, or information email. Many of you are new to this and might wonder what is this email about, well I wanted to email my brothers and sisters that I knew or that had passed their email address to me to read what I had to talk about, this is my 3rd email and inshallah I hope to do more. I do theses emails to help myself as well as help others remember things about Islam. We can all call ourselves Muslims by name, but calling ourselves Muslims and practicing from the Quran and the teachings of the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) makes you a Muslim.

A few days ago I saw an old friend from school, I was wearing my thobe at the time and the look on this persons face was upsetting let alone the words that was used, they said are you a Muslim? I said yes, then they said things that really made me think is this what the non-Muslims think nowadays?

The questions were what have they done to you?
Did they force you to be a Muslim?
Why are you wear that?

Its upsetting that the friend didnt want to talk to me anymore afterwards, not that it bothered me because I hadnt talked to this person in a long time, but it was the questions they came out with which upset me. But I stood strong like a Muslim should and explained to them that Islam isnt just a religion, its a way of life. No one forced me to become a Muslim, or even forced me to learn about Islam. (May Allah be pleased with the brothers and sisters that took the time to help me learn Islam more ameen) I feel more confident now then I did before, I feel more happier that I found the truth about life and Im seeing the truth about how the world is changing, how violent behavior, pain etc is becoming a normal way of life for the non-Muslim, and its true, look around the world, read the news, what do we read nowadays? Teenagers killing people for no reason, maybe money etc, using knifes, guns etc for what reason? What does this gain for them? Life isnt about who is better then the other, who as the biggest repetition etc, thats not that life is about.

At that time they said they had to go, so I stopped, I hope that person will look at what I said more, because it is a sign of Day of Judgement. (Bloodshed will increase) There are more signs of Judgement here before our eyes like
(Earthquakes will increase)
(Wine (intoxicants, alcohol) will be drunk in great quantities)
(Time will pass more quickly)

as well as another is increasing nowadays
(The slave-woman will give birth to her master or mistress) when I say about the slave will give birth to the master, look at it this way, The way many teenagers are treating their mothers with disrespect, making them do things and the mother saying sorry to them! Now I dunno about you, but that looks like a sign but of course Allah knows best. But for us, we need to increase our Iman, because theses signs are coming quicker, Look to Allah more because our days could come soon.

As we were on the subject of how people are treating their mothers with disrespect, there is a video on how we should all love and respect our mothers, the ways that how they have brought us up in this world and always done what they could to make sure you were safe, happy etc, A sister made this video and Mashallah its a beautiful video, and a wonderful meaningful




There is another video I would like to share by Ahmed Bukhatir, the song is called Forgive Me this video makes us think how grateful we should be, that many of us have two eyes where others maybe blind, we should be more grateful to Allah, but if you think about it, many of those who have two eyes moan more then those who are blind!



I would like to share with you something that when I read I found very beautiful and very true.
Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said:
If you want Allah to love you, be afraid of Him and guard yourself again sin.
If you want people to love you, be benevolent to them,
If you want Allah to increase your wealth, then give alms tax.
If you want Allah to make your body healthy, pay charity more frequently.
If you want Allah to prolong your life, then have regard for your kinship.

And if you want Allah to raise you with me, then do prolong your prostration before Allah, the One, the Dominator

I know this isnt organized, but if you know me, I like to say as much as I can, inshallah I will learn to organize this for the next time I write which will be the new Islamic month

There is a site called Hidayah Online, for those who love to listen to Quran recitations

http://hidayahonline.org/?page=audio

At the moment there are about 16 or 17 people to choose from, do have a listen to them all, and you can download them as well to mp3 format and save onto your computer to listen again and again or even add to your mp3/ipod etc and listen to them when you are out inshallah.

May we look to Allah and seek help and protection when we are need of help, May Allah strength our hearts and bring us closer to him, May Allah keep us, our families and the Muslim brothers and sisters on the straight path, May Allah show light to the families of the reverts and that they can become Muslims as well. May Allah guide us on the true Islam and not culture, May Allah give us strength to overcome anything and everything in this life, May Allah increase our faith. Ameen.

Wa Alaikum Assalam.

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