Protected Pearls

The pen was the first creatures in order to write down the Predestinations before its existences; however, Adam was the last creatures, due to several reasons.

Firstly;  to prepare the land for its inhabitants (who is Adam and the other creatures).

Secondly; Adam’s creation was the purpose behind the creation of the rest of the creatures; the Heavens, the Earth, the sun, the Moon, the Land and the Sea.

The prophet - peace and blessing upon him - said :

“No one will enter jannah (heaven) for his deeds ('بعمله') ! ”.

People said : “even you, messenger of Allah ?”

“Even me !” , he said, “unless Allah wraps me with His mercy”.

So, how to concord between this hadeeth and the other texts indicating that a person will enter Jannah for his actions ?

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“And whoever is blinded from remembrance of the Most Merciful - We appoint for him a devil”

When the morning and the evening enter upon Allah’s servant while Allah Is his only concern, that he only asks for Allah’s satisfaction and keens on worshiping Him, Then Allah-Glory be to Him- will carry for him all of his needs and troubles, and then Allah will make his heart busy only with His love, his tongue only for His remembrance ...

ISLAM AND TECHNOLOGY

Modern technology and Islam are sometimes seen as two opposites. Being Islamic is wrongly thought to mean that we can’t drive good cars, live in nice houses and use computers. What does Islam have to do with In-vitro fertilisation, the dynamics of nuclear technology, cloning and Star Trek style military technology?

Islam is not a religion like that of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and the like, who don’t have any solutions for the v...

It was narrated that one of the sufi sheikhs (Those who tends to live a really simple life) came to his followers, who were fourty men and they haven't eat food for three days, and he said to them : "O my people, Allah have permitted for men to look for livelihood; He Almighty said : "..فامشوا في مناكبها وكلوا من رزق...

Part.1 : My path to Christianity and the road to becoming an Evangelist

I thought I was born Christian. I was raised in a very religious family during a time of great hardship. WW2 had not yet started and the USA was still suffering the effects of the great depression, My family and community was devoutly Roman Catholic and predominatly Lithuanian/Polish.To add to the hardship my father was drafted into the Army shortly after the USA became involved in the war. That w...

(And) It was narrated that a drought inflicted the Children of Israel at the time of Moses peace be upon him, so the people gathered to him and said : "O Kalimullah (who talked with Allah), pray for us thy Lord to water us with rain".

So he stood with them and they went out to the desert, and they were seventy thousand or more.

So Moses peace upon him said : "My God, irrigate us with your rain and spread your mercy upon us, and have mercy on us for the sake of the infa...

When the prophet started sending his messengers to the kings of other countries at that time he sent Duhayyiah Al Kalbi (may Allah be pleased with him) to the Heraclius of the Roman in order to invite him to Islam. At that time Abu Sufyan (May Allah be pleased with him) was not a Muslim yet and he was one of the most people who hated the prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him). He happened to be in Rome that time accompanying a caravan fromQuraish. The following event happened there:

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Imam Ahmed Ibn Hanbal (May Allah have mercy on him) once in travel needed to sleep over in a masjid for a night, but when he was about to enter the masjid, the guard (not knowing who he was) denied him entrance. Ahmad's pleas to persuade the caretaker to let him in went to waste. Frustrated by the guard's bull-headedness, Imam Ahmed decided to spend the night in the masjid yard, but when he sat down, the guard got infuriated and started dragging him away from the masjid undeterred by his vict...

Aboo Ja’far at-Tastaree said:I went to Aboo Zur’ah (ar-Raazee) whilst he was on his death bed and with him was Aboo Haatim and Muhammad bin Muslim and al-Mundhir bin Shaathaan along with a group of scholars. And they mentioned the hadith of Talqeen (making the dying person utter the Shahaadah) and the Prophets statement:

“Make your dead (dying) pronounce laa ilaaha illaAllaah”

But they became shy around Aboo Zur...