Allama Muhammad Iqbal Message to Youngster

No doubt Iqbal was a great man and a great mufaqir... May Allah help me understanding Allama Iqbal and spreading his message to the nation.

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Kabhi ay naujawan Muslim tadabbur(تدبّر) bhi kia tune?

Wo kia gardun(گردوں) tha, tu jis ka he ik tuta hua tara?

Tujhe us Qaum ne pala he aghosh(آغوش) e mohabbat me

Kuchal dala tha jisne paun me Taj e sar e dara(سرِدارا)

Gadayee mey b wo Allah walay itnay ghyoor
K munam ko gada k dar say bakhish ka na tha yara
Gharaz may kiya kahoon tujse k wo sehra nasheen kiya thay

Jahangir-o-jahandaro jahanbano jahan-aara

Agar chahon tou naksha khainch kar alfaz mein rakh doon

Magar tere takhayul say fazutar hai wo nazara

Tjhy Abaa(آباء) se apne koi nisbat ho nhi sakti

K tu Guftar, wo Kirdar, tu Sabit(ثابت), wo Syyara(سیّارہ)

Ganwadi(گنوادی) hm ne jo Aslaf(اسلاف) se meeras(میراث) pai thi

Suraiyya(ثریّا) se zameen par Asman ne hm ko de mara

Hukumat ka to kia rona k wo ik Arzi(عارضی) shay thi

Nahe duniya k Aieen e Muslim(آئینِ مسلّم) se koi chara.

Magar wo ilm k moti(موتی), kitaben apne aaba(آباء) ki

Jo dekhen in ko europe me to dil hota he seepara(سیپارا).

Prison or Penthouse?

I will keep this very short and simple but it sure isn’t sweet.

Prison, physical confinement, deprived of personal freedoms. This isn’t no ordinary prison, each one of the inmates here gets the special treatment of solitary confinement. A cell size of 2 foot across, 6 foot long....no windows, no light just dull, dark, damp black. No books to read, no one to talk to. No T.V, no mp3 players, no cellphones.... no nothing....just empty silence...sit in the dark long enough and the mind starts playing tricks on you. Ever jumped into the pool at night in the dark? You see things in the dark, you start hearing things in the silence. You don’t know what you are served because you can’t see what you’re eating.. but it feels as if it’s moving! When you know you’re guilty and you regret your crime, then all that time is going to make each and every second of the sentence seem like eternity....

Penthouse, apartment on one of the highest floors of an apartment or condominium. Great view, lots of light...fresh air! Large living spaces and top-of-the line amenities... terrace, fireplace, more square footage, over-sized windows, jacuzzi ..... a luxurious lifestyle. Eat when you like, what you like and how you like it! Do as you please and be as you please !

Both are graves, one is the person who forgot his ALLAH, forgot his salat, and forgot his duties as a Muslim, the other one didn’t. So next time you need to choose between namaz and something else.... remember prison or penthouse?

Example of life

I was sitting in the waiting room of a Railway Station when I saw a 4 year old child screaming and fighting with his father to buy him an ice cream. The father diverted his attention and gave him a bunch of toffees. The doctor had prohibited ice cream because of the child’s illness, so the father could not fulfil his beloved child’s wish. He loved his child more than anyone and he knew that ice cream could affect his child’s health. They had come to the city to visit a Paediatrics specialist and were now on their way home.

The father tried to give his child medicine but the son was crying and not willing to take it as he did not like the taste. The father told him that if he did not take the medicine, he will not be able to have ice cream. Unwillingly the child took the medicine with tightly closed eyes. In the meantime the train arrived and they set off to their home.

After witnessing this incident I realised how great the love of Allah Almighty is. It is said that Allah has distributed one percent of the love among His creatures, which includes the love of Messengers and Prophets for their Ummah, Parent’s love for their children, love of spouse for each other etc; and has kept ninty nine percent with Himself. It is also stated in Hadith that if a kafir (non muslim) came to know about Allah’s love for him he would not be able to bear it and his heart would break into pieces. That is why it is not necessary that every wishes is fulfilled in this world. when we request and supplicate to Allah, Allah knows the after effects of our wishes and desires, He accordingly fulfils or delays them.

Hadhrat Abu Hurairah (Radhi Allaho anho) narrated that Rasulullah (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) has said, "Almighty Allah says, 'I treat my slave (man) according to his expectations from Me, and I am with him when he remembers Me, If he remembers Me in his heart, I remember him in My heart; if he remembers Me in a gathering, I remember him in a better and nobler gathering (i.e. of angels). If he comes closer to Me by one span, I go towards him a cubit's length, if he comes towards Me by a cubit's length, I go towards him an arm's length, and if he walks towards Me, I run unto him."

In the above incident, the waiting room is the world we live in, for an unknown period since we do not know when the angel of death arrives, like a train, to take us to our destiny.

Medicine is the advice that given by our elders and friends which does not taste well but, surely, contains the heeling effect (refreshes Imaan).

Ice cream and cold drinks are the things/acts that are forbidden. They seem very tasteful and pleasent but have adverse effects on our health (Imaan). These things will surely be allowed in Jannah in the most pure form.

Bunch of toffees are the things/acts allowed in this world which may apparently look small (shaitan shows the rewards as small as he can, so that we ignore the good deeds saying it is not so important or it is ordinary) but do not harm the health (Imaan).

It is my request to the readers to repent to Allah and ask for forgiveness of Him. He loves granting forgiveness.

A Place to Remember

Chances are by the time ur readin this article ur sitting in ur home. Your home is on planet Earth. Earth is a rocky planet i.e. that the solid parts of this planet are made up of rocks. Now imagine a place where there are no rocks, no trees, no buildings no humans. A place not made up of rock but rather fire. Everywhere you look you see endless plumes of fire. Fire so intense and extreme that anything that approaches it melts. This fire has been burning for billions upon billions of years, and usually the older the fire the hotter it gets (given it still has fuel to burn). And this place has plenty of fuel! Its ginormous! So huge that it can engulf millions of Earths, googillions of humans. Googillion, by the way, is a really really really really really big number. This place is so huge if u throw someone in this endless sea of fire it takes them eternity to reach the very bottom (if there actually is a bottom). And the temperature! ohh the temperature! well as a human once u cross 100°C (the boiling point of water, 70-80% of the human body is water) adding more degrees becomes pointless because you’re already dead! this place has temperatures not in hundreds but thousands.... the deeper u go the hotter it gets. Now imagine that you have to live on this godforsaken fireball for all eternity! Would you want to go and live there? Or would you do everything within you human power to avoid such a fate?

Well if at any time you thought that the place I just described was the hell fire then sorry but I was only talking about the Sun. Yeah that round thing you see in the sky everyday! Hell is much hotter than this.... much much hotter. How hot? well the temperatures in Quasars can reach upto billions of degrees and hell is still hotter than those... so.... The other problem with this scenario is eternity. If a human was to fall on the surface of the sun they would be dead long before they reach anywhere close to it...but not so in the case of hell fire. You never die in hell but you do melt! and every time you melt your given a new skin to feel the pain all over again. And this will go on and on and on and on and on and on.....(you get the picture).

ALLAH didn’t really have to create hellfire, the sun would have sufficed! but HE did and is I said earlier hell is much hotter than the sun! maybe HE just put that ball of fire there so that we can use it to imagine how terrible a place hellfire truly is !

I want (rather need) you to remember that there is a special place in hell specifically reserved for “baynamazi”. And obviously if we are talking about baynamazis then it means muslims who have forgotten their namaz and not the kafireen. Pl don’t lie to yourself by saying everything is going to be fine for me in the hereafter even if I don’t offer my farz namaz, all will be forgiven ... etc ... if you don’t offer your prayers you have more than 50% chance of ending up in hell. (I’m not going to go into the details cuz that will increase the length of this article and then people would ignore it...cuz who has the time!) ... so the question is, are you willing to take that chance? the chance of ending up in hell? If there was a 50% chance that the house your sitting in right now can blow up any minute...will you remain where you are? or would you rather get up and run?

So next time you feel like saying “kapray nai saaf”, “dil nai karta”, “Raat aisee guzri kay namaz nai parh saktay”, “agli parh lain gay”, “kazaa kar lain gay” etc. just stare at the summer sun at midday for a min or two...its 149.6 million kilometres away from you and much cooler than hell fire and still its unbearable ! boiling water at around 100°C and surely undrinkable !

To improve your chances of avoiding this all you have to do is start offering farz namaz from right now .... before it’s too late.

Namaz parhoo iss say pehlay kay tumaree namaz parhi jai... JazakALLAH for reading.

Virtues of Zikr 3

Rasulullah (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) once said to his companions, "Shall I tell you of something that is the best of all deeds, constitutes the best act of piety in the eyes of your Lord, will elevate your status in the Hereafter, and carries more virtue than the spending of gold and silver in the service of Allah or taking part in jihaad and slaying or being slain in the path of Allah."
The Companions begged to be informed of such an act. The Prophet (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) replied, "It is the zikr of Almighty Allah."
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