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سورة يس

And a sign for them is the dead earth. We have brought it to life and brought forth from it grain, and from it they eat.

And We placed therein gardens of palm trees and grapevines and caused to burst forth therefrom some springs -

That they may eat of His fruit. And their hands have not produced it, so will they not be grateful?

[33-35]

[Eastern Sierra mountains

by Jeremiah Probodanu ]

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being Muslim at a time like this is a blessing, because having emaan and tawakkul is a means of protection from the hysteria and panic that so many seem to be engulfed in. We should make du’aa for Allaah to guide us and keep us guided, that we always remember that not a single thing happens except by the decree of Allaah. That we remember death is written for each and every one of us, and it will not come even a second sooner or later than it is meant to. That we remember good health and sickness are both by the decree of Allaah and are trials for us and means of purification and forgiveness and reward. May Allaah grant us sabr. You do your part, but you understand that your life and health and death, are all in the hands of Allaah.

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March 1, 2020 // Quarantine Day 19

Flowers seen on a quick outing in the neighborhood so I could hold onto my sanity. I miss being able to walk by people and have small talk. Now, we give cold glances and fear filled smiles from across the street to each other.

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Last Ramadan... it was Surah Hujuraat which was the last surah I led in Qayaam Layl. I never thought Allah would not give me a chance to lead taraweeh this year 😢

Ya Rabb

اللهم آمين

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If you want to see change... you will have to believe that you are part of it... and start with changing yourself...

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In Refrence of the Quoted Aayah... Ibn Uthaimin RA says that Ibraheem AS feared of Shirk on himself although he was the Best Friend of Allah.

“(وَاجْنُبْنِي وَبَنِيَّ أَن نَّعْبُدَ الْأَصْنَامَ) قال ابن عثيمين رحمه الله فإبراهيم عليه السلام يخاف الشرك على نفسه وهو خليل الرحمن وإمام الحنفاء”

— القول المفيد 1/112

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This is so true. When I went through the phase.. I feel my brain has changed so much and I’ve lost my IQ. I’m not sure if this is permanent or I’ll get back and stand up and rise. Currently I’m trying.

Psychological trauma and depression, not only they change the chemistry of the brain and body, they also alter the thoughts, constants, beliefs and basic perceptions of the human being about himself and those around him, affects his relations with himself, his family and his Lord. It's a vicious cycle no one is safe from.

May Allaah descend His mercy on those who were once happy then went numb and those who used to light up people's lives then got their lights burned out.

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Surah Fatir, Verse 45:

وَلَوْ يُؤَاخِذُ اللَّهُ النَّاسَ بِمَا كَسَبُوا مَا تَرَكَ عَلَىٰ ظَهْرِهَا مِن دَابَّةٍ وَلَٰكِن يُؤَخِّرُهُمْ إِلَىٰ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى فَإِذَا جَاءَ أَجَلُهُمْ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ بِعِبَادِهِ بَصِيرًا

And were Allah to punish men for what they earn, He would not leave on the back of it any creature, but He respites them till an appointed term; so when their doom shall come, then surely Allah is Seeing with respect to His servants.

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#الْلَّهُمَّ إنَّا نَسْألُكَ فِي هَذِا #اليوم يُسْراً لَيْسَ بَعْدَهُ عُسْرٌ وَ رِزْقاً لَيْسَ بَعْدَهُ فَقْرٌ وَ أمْناً لَيْسَ بَعْدَهُ خَوْفٌ.📿🕋

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https://www.instagram.com/itdbri/

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The spire fell, it is the end.

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Signs of bad parenting via curejoy

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THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The First Word

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Second Station of the 13th Word.Part1

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Second Station of the 13th Word.Part2

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Second Station of the 13th Word.Part3

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: An Advice, a Lesson and a Reminder Given to Youngmen.Part1

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Explanation of the Second Station of the 13th Word.Part1

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Explanation of the Second Station of the 13th Word.Part2

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Explanation of the Second Station of the 13th Word.Part3

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Explanation of the Second Station of the 13th Word.Part4

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Explanation of the Second Station of the 13th Word.Part5

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Sixth Topic From The Fruits of Belief

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Explanation of the Second Station of the 13th.Part 1

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Explanation of the Second Station of the 13th.Part 2

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Explanation of the Second Station of the 13th.Part 3

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Point on the Air

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Second Station of the 17th Word.Part1

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Second Station of the 17th Word.Part2

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Second Station of the 17th Word.Part3

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Second Station of the 17th Word.Part4

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Second Station of the 17th Word.Part5

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Second Station of the 17th Word.Part6

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Second Station of the 17th Word.Part7

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Second Station of the 17th Word.Part8

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Second Position Of The 14th Flash.Part1

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Second Position Of The 14th Flash.Part2

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Twenty-Third Word.Part1

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Twenty-Third Word.Part2

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Twenty-Third Word.Part3

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Twenty-Third Word.Part4

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Twenty-Third Word.Part5

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Twenty-Third Word.Part6

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Twenty-Third Word.Part7

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Twenty-Third Word.Part8

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Twenty-Third Word.Part9

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Twenty-Third Word.Part10

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Twenty-Third Word.Part11

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Twenty-Third Word.Part12

THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Twenty-Third Word.Part13

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Someone once said to me “shame sucks!” And they are right.

Shame is a feeling that can stop you from doing the thing you really want to do. It’s heavy, it’s isolating, and it sucks the life, and often iman, right out of you.

Shame can make simple issues in a marriage turn ugly really fast.

Shame can be triggered for a number of reasons.

*Being reminded of your lower financial status

*Looking in the mirror and not liking the angles you see

*Having someone stop by and see your messy house

*Your kid having a major meltdown in the masjid

*Forgetting which raka'a you are on in prayer

*Someone finding out your on medication for anxiety

*Losing your temper and saying something in anger

*Being triggered and reminded of pain in the past

*Not knowing how to admit you need some support

*Seeing someone else look successful and feeling like your life is amounting to anything important.

When in a cycle of shame you are just beating yourself up.

Stop.

Shame is a feeling that comes when you are judging yourself.

You can’t guide or help someone who you are judging and the same is true for yourself.

You can’t guide yourself with the tools, ideas, or techniques you know best if you are judging yourself.

Feel the yucky feelings. Accept that stuff hurts. Accept the things you can change and let go of what’s not in your control.

Then decide what you want to do about it. Decide how you want to feel about it.

Take it to Allah.

Because with Him, you can never go wrong.

Shame sucks, but you *can* give it space to breathe, dissipate, and heal.

Megan Wyatt

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THE GUIDE FOR THE YOUTH: The Sixth Topic From The Fruits of Belief

In Kastamonu a group of high-school students came to me, saying: “Tell us about our Creator, our teachers do not speak of Allah.” And I said to them: “All the sciences you study continuously speak of Allah and make known the Creator, each with its own particular tongue. Do not listen to your teachers; listen to them.”

For example, a well-equipped pharmacy with life-giving potions and cures in every jar weighed out in precise and wondrous measures doubtlessly shows an extremely skilful, practised, and wise pharmacist. In the same way, to the extent that it is bigger and more perfect and better equipped than the pharmacy in the market-place, the pharmacy of the globe of the earth with its living potions and medicaments in the jars which are the four hundred thousand species of plants and animals shows and makes known to eyes that are blind even - by means of the measure or scale of the science of medicine that you study - the All-Wise One of Glory, Who is the Pharmacist of the mighty pharmacy of the earth.

To take another example, a wondrous factory which weaves thousands of sorts of cloth from a simple material doubtless makes known a manufacturer and skilful mechanical engineer. In the same way, to whatever extent it is larger and more perfect than the human factory, this travelling Dominical machine known as the globe of the earth with its hundreds of thousands of heads in each of which are hundreds of thousands of factories shows and makes known - by means of the measure or scale of the science of engineering which you study - its Manufacturer and Owner.

And, for example, a depot, store, or shop in which has been brought together and stored up in regular and orderly fashion a thousand and one varieties of provisions undoubtedly makes known a wondrous owner, proprietor, and overseer of provisions and foodstuffs.

In just the same way, to whatever degree it is vaster and more perfect than such a store or factory, this foodstore of the Most Merciful One known as the globe of the earth, this Divine ship, this Dominical depot and shop holding goods, equipment, and conserved food, which in one year travels regularly an orbit of twenty-four thousand years, and carrying groups of beings requiring different foods and passing through the seasons on its journey and filling the spring with thousands of different provisions like a huge waggon, brings them to the wretched animate creatures whose sustenance has been exhausted in winter, - by means of the measure or scale of the science of economics which you study - this depot of the earth makes known and makes loved its Manager, Organizer, and Owner.

And, for example, let us imagine an army which consists of four hundred thousand nations and each nation requires different provisions, uses different weapons, wears different uniforms, undergoes different drill, and is discharged from its duties differently. If this army and camp has a miracle-working commander who on his own provides all those different nations with all their different provisions, weapons, uniforms, and equipment without forgetting or confusing any of them, then surely the army and camp show the commander and make him loved appreciatively. In just the same way, the spring camp of the face of the earth in which every spring a newly recruited.

Divine army of the four hundred thousand species of plants and animals are given their varying uniforms, rations, weapons, training, and demobilizations in utterly perfect and regular fashion by a single Commander-in-Chief Who forgets or confuses not one of them - to whatever extent the spring camp of the face of the earth is vaster and more perfect than that human army, - by means of the measure or scale of the military science that you study - it makes known to the attentive and sensible, its Ruler, Lord, Administrator, and Most Holy Commander, causing wonderment and acclaim, and makes Him loved and praised and glorified.

Another example: Millions of electric lights that move and travel through a wondrous city, their fuel and power source never being exhausted, self-evidently make known a wonder-working craftsman and extraordinarily talented electrician who manages the electricity, makes the moving lamps, sets up the power source, and brings the fuel; they cause others to congratulate and applaud him, and to love him. In just the same way, although some of the lamps of the stars in the roof of the palace of the world in the city of the universe - if they are considered in the way that astronomy says - are a thousand times larger than the earth and move seventy times faster than a cannon ball, they do not spoil their order, nor collide with one another, nor become extinguished, nor is their fuel exhausted.

According to astronomy, which you study, for our sun to continue burning, which is a million times larger than the earth and a million times older and is a lamp and stove in a guest-house of the Most Merciful One, as much oil as the seas of the earth and as much coal as its mountains or as much logs and wood as ten earths are necessary for it not to be extinguished. And however much greater and more perfect than this example are the electric lamps of the palace of the world in the majestic city of the universe, which point with their fingers of light to an infinite power and sovereignty which illuminates the sun and other lofty stars like it without oil, wood, or coal, not allowing them to be extinguished or to collide with one another, though travelling together at speed, to that degree - by means of the measure of the science of electricity which you either study or will study - they testify to and make known the Monarch, Illuminator, Director, and Maker of the mighty exhibition of the universe; they make Him loved, glorified, and worshipped.

And, for example, a book in every line of which a whole book is finely written, and in every word of which a Sura of the Qur’an is inscribed with a fine pen, which is most meaningful and all of whose matters corroborate one another, a wondrous collection showing its writer and author to be extraordinarily skilful and capable, undoubtedly shows its writer and author together with all his perfections and arts are clearly as daylight, and makes him known. It makes him appreciated with phrases like, What wonders Allah has willed! and, Blessed be Allah! And just the same is the mighty Book of the Universe; we see with our eyes a pen at work which writes on the face of the earth, which is a single of its pages, and on the spring, which is a single folio, the three hundred thousand plant and animal species, which are like three hundred thousand different books, all together, one within the other, without fault or error, without mixing them up or confusing them, perfectly and with complete order, and sometimes writes an ode in a word like a tree, and the complete index of a book in a point like a seed. However much vaster and more perfect and meaningful than the book in the example mentioned above is this compendium of the universe and mighty embodied Qur’an of the world, which is infinitely full of meaning and in every word of which are numerous instances of wisdom, to that degree - in accordance with the extensive measure and far-seeing vision of the natural science that you study and the sciences of reading and writing that you have practised at school - it makes known the Inscriber and Author of the Book of the Universe together with His infinite perfections.

Proclaiming Allah is Most Great!, it makes Him known. Uttering words like Glory be to Allah!, it describes Him. Uttering praises like All praise be to Allah!, it makes Him loved.

Thus, hundreds of other sciences like these make known the Glorious Creator of the universe together with His Names, each through its broad measure or scale, its particular mirror, its far-seeing eyes, and searching gaze; they make known His attributes and perfections.

“It is in order to give instruction in this matter, which is a brilliant and magnificent proof of Divine Unity, that the Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition teaches us about our Creator most often with the verses,

Lord of the Heavens and the Earth, and, Creator of the Heavens and Earth.” I said this to the schoolboys, and they accepted it completely, affirming it by saying: “Endless thanks be to Al-lah, for we have received an absolutely true and sacred lesson. May Allah be pleased with you!” And I said:

Man is a living machine who is grieved with thousands of different sorrows and receives pleasure in thousands of different ways, and despite his utter impotence has innumerable enemies, physical and spiritual, and despite his infinite poverty, has countless needs, external and  inner, and is a wretched creature continuously receiving the blows of death and separation. And yet, through belief and worship, he suddenly becomes connected to a Monarch so Glorious that he finds a point of support against all his enemies and a source of help for all his needs, and like everyone takes pride at the honour and rank of the lord to whom he is attached, you can compare for yourselves how pleased and grateful and thankful and full of pride man becomes at being connected through belief to an infinitely Powerful and Compassionate Monarch, at entering His service through worship, and transforming for himself the announcement of the execution of the appointed hour into papers releasing him from duty.And I repeat to the calamity-stricken prisoners what I said to the schoolboys:“One who recognizes Him and obeys Him is fortunate even if he is in prison. While one who forgets Him is wretched and a prisoner even if he lives in a palace."Even, one wronged but fortunate man said to the wretched tyrants who were executing him: "I am not being executed but being demobilized and going to happiness. But I see that you are being condemned to eternal execution and so am taking complete revengse on you.” And saying: “There is no god but Allah!”, he happily yielded up his spirit.