Breathe Islam

By Shaykh Ibrahim Memon Madani

1. Establishing Salah Develops Taqwa (Fear and Awareness of Allah)
“This is the Book in which there is no doubt, a guidance for those who have taqwa; who believe in the unseen, and who establish Salah, and spend out of what we have provided for them” (2: 2-3)

2. Salah Is the Sign of a Believer
“The believers, men and women, are protecting friends of one another; they enjoin good and forbid evil, and they establish Salah, and give Zakah, and obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah will have His Mercy on them, and surely, Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.” (9: 71)

3. Establishing Salah Leads to Allah’s Eternal Blessings
“So whatever you have been given is but (a passing) enjoyment for this worldly life, but that which is with Allah is better and more lasting for those who believe and put their trust in their Lord. And those who avoid the great sins and lewdness, and when they are angry, they forgive. And those who answer the Call of their Lord, and perform the Salah, and who conduct their affairs by mutual consultation, and who spend of what We have bestowed on them.” (42:36-38)

4. Those Who Pray Shall Have Nothing to Fear on the Day of Judgment
“Truly, those who believe and do righteous deeds, and perform Salah, and give Zakah, they will have their reward with their Lord. On them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.” (2:277)

5. Remain in Allah’s remembrance after prayer
“When have finished performing the Salah, remember Allah standing, sitting, and reclining, but when you are free from danger, perform the Salah. Surely, Salah is enjoined on the believers at
fixed times.” (4:103)

6. Command to Pray with Congregation
“And establish Salah and give Zakah, and bow down (in worship) along with those who bow down (in worship)” (2:43)

7. Special Command Regarding Punctuality of Prayer
“Guard strictly the Salah, especially the middle Salah. And stand before Allah with obedience.” (2:238)

8. Allah’s Help Comes Through Salah
“Seek help through patience and Salah; truly it is extremely difficult except for the humble true believers.” (2:45)

“Oh you who believe! Seek help through patience and Salah. Truly, Allah is with those who are patient.” (2:153)

9. Special Emphasis on Friday Prayer
“Oh you who believe! When the call is made for the Salah on Friday, come to the remembrance of Allah, and leave off business. That is better for you, if you only knew! And when the Salah has ended, you may disperse through the land, and seek the Bounty of Allah, and remember Allah much so that you may be successful.” (62:09-10)

10. Shaytaan Tries His Best in Finding Ways to Take You Away from Salah
“Shaytaan desires only to excite enmity and hatred between you with intoxicants and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allah, and from Salah. So will you then not abstain
(from these evils)?” (5:91)

11. Prayer Protects Against Evils
“Recite that which has been revealed to you of the Book, and perform Salah. Verily, Salah prevents from lewdness and evils. And indeed, the remembrance of Allah (by you) is greatest. And Allah knows what you do.” (29:45)

12. Friendship Should Be with Those Who Pray
“Indeed, your protecting friend (Wali) is none other than Allah, His Messenger, and the Believers who establish Salah, and give Zakat, and bow down (in prayer). (5: 55)

13. Allah’s Special Order to Women
“And stay in your houses, and do not display yourselves like that of the times of ignorance, and perform Salah, and give Zakah, and obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah wishes only to remove uncleanness from you, Oh people of the House, and to purify you with a thorough purification.” (33:33)

14. Hypocrites Are Lazy in Salah
“Verily, the hypocrites seek to deceive Allah, but it is He who deceives them; When they stand up for Salah, they stand with laziness, only to be seen by men; and they do not remember Allah but a little.” (4:142)

15. Laziness in Prayers Leads to Rejection of Sadaqa
“And nothing prevents their Sadaqa from being accepted from them, except that they disbelieve in Allah and in His Messenger, and that they do not come to Salah except in a lazy manner, and that they do not give Sadaqa except unwillingly.” (9:54)

16. Leaving Salah Leads to Shirk
“(And remain always) turning to Him (only), and be fearful and dutiful towards Him, and perform Salah and be not of those who commit Shirk.” (30: 31)

17. Previous Nations Were Corrupted when Salah Was Left
“Then, there came after them a generation who gave up Salah and followed lusts; so they will be thrown in Hell.” (19: 59)

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah,

Taken from Copy n Paste Fi’sabilillah

“Seekers of this world are very numerous. Seekers of the hereafter are comparatively few. Seekers of the Lord of Truth (Almighty and Glorious is He), who are honest about their wish for Him, are the fewest of the few.”
~Shaykh Abdul Qadir al’Jilani Rahmatullahi’alay

Duas requested,

Wassalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah

On the Day of Judgment :Allah will ask men if they fulfilled their obligations towards their families. They who fear Allah will do their best to direct the way his wife and children live by educating himself and his family to living according to the Sunnah of the Prophet(Sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) and the Holy Qur’an, the final word of Allah.

The Prophet(Sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) said, “The best of you is the best one to his family.” [Al-Tabarani]

To share food with her, to provide her with (decent) clothes as he provides himself, to refrain from smacking her,
and not ignoring her but in the house. [Ahmad]

One should not hate his believer wife. If he dislikes some of her attitudes, he would (surely) like others (attitudes).
[Muslim]

Woman was created from a bent rib and will not be made straight for you on one way (that you like). If you want to enjoy her,you enjoy her while she is still bent. If you want to straighten her up, you will break her. Breaking her is divorcing her. [Al-Bukhari & Muslim]

Do (volunteer) fasting (some days) and do not fast (in other days), pray at night (some nights) and sleep (in other nights). Your body has a right on you (to rest), your eye has a right on you (to sleep), and your wife has a right on you.
[Al-Bukhari & Muslim]

Fear Allah in (treating) women. [Muslim]

Be advised to treat women righteously. [Al-Bukhari & Muslim]

And live with them honorably. If you dislike them, it may be that you dislike a thing that Allah brings through it a great deal of good. [4:19]

The Prophet (Sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) said,”A Dinar (a currency) that you spend on your family, a Dinar that you spend on a poor person and a Dinar that you spend in the sake of Allah. The one that carries the most reward is the one that you spend on your family.” [Muslim]

The Prophet(Sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) said to Saaid ibn Abi Waqqas,”Know that no charity that you give whether small or large, for the sake of Allah, but you will be rewarded for it, even the bite (of food) that you put in your wife’s mouth.” [Bukhari & Muslim]

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Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah,

Just a quick post on how to pray salatul Tasbih. Many of us know that it is a prayer that we should pray at least once in our lifetimes, although we should make a regular habit of praying it as it is a prayer full of many virtues and benefits. This article is taken from www.muftisays.com and is a answer from the ulema on how to pray this most beneficial prayer. May Allah ta’ala reward the ulema for every person that benefits from reading and learning from this post.Ameen.

Salatul Tasbih is read as follows:

And Allah knows best

Hadhrat Shaykh Asif Hussain Farooqui

All Praise is for Allah, and peace and blessings of Allah be upon His beloved Messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

We are grateful to Allah subhana wa ta’ala for giving us the opportunity to sit in His remembrance. For truly it is a great favour indeed that despite all worldly distractions He has brought us to His House (mosque). Then sat us in His dhikr. And by sitting in His dhikr Allah subhana wa ta’ala helps us to get closer to Him and for every Muslim the true goal in life is to attain the pleasure of Allah subhana wa ta’ala.

Apart from that we all have a common interest, that we would all like to love Allah subhana wa ta’ala and we ourselves would like to be loved by our Lord Most High.

Now is it not strange that a person has a certain desire or goal in life but doesn’t make any effort to achieve it?

Surely it is a basic rule in this world that when a person has a particular interest or hobby, he does not waste any time. He spends most of his time in an activity that will help him achieve his goal. For example if a person wants to be good at a particular sport, he would play that sport very regularly and often spend a lot of money and time on trying to achieve his objective.

So truly if our objective in life is to be loved by Allah, and we also know that this can happen through doing His dhikr in abundance, then why is it that we not make ourselves busy in His remembrance?

The formula for achieving this is straightforward, Allah subhana wa ta’ala has stated in the Qur’an ‘Fadhkurooni adhkurkum’ (Remember Me and I will remember you). It is stated in a Hadeeth that Allah remembers His servant as soon as he remembers Allah.

Subhanallah, can you imagine the Lord Most High, The creator of the Heavens and the Earth remembering you? Indeed that is great thing. And this method for achieving our objective is so easy that it almost defies belief.

In a Hadeeth transmitted by Bukhari it is stated that Abu Hurayrah radhiallah anhu narrated that Allah’s Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said “Allah Almighty says, ‘I am towards My servant as he is towards Me. I am with him when he remembers Me. If he remembers Me alone, I remember him alone. If he remembers Me in a gathering, I remember him in a gathering better than it.’”

Hadhrat Shaykh Asif Hussain Farooqui

All Praise is for Allah, and peace and blessings of Allah be upon His beloved Messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

It is a great blessing from Allah subhana wa ta’ala that when a person does Allah’s dhikr he gets closer to Allah. We should be grateful for this privilege. It is such a great action to do the dhikr of Allah, because as soon a person begins to remember his Lord, he begins to get closer to Him. And there is evidence of this in the Qur’an where Allah says,

Remember me and I will remember you,
be grateful to Me, And reject not
(Surah Al-Baqarah verse152)

What more closeness can there be than that of Allah remembering His servant? This is indeed closeness, where a person remembers Allah and Allah remembers the person. To remember someone is a sign of closeness and love. And this is also the way of the world. For example a person would remember those he loves in many ways, he would keep in touch with those people he loves the most, either by letter or by phone. We only worry about those people about whom we care. When you are away from your friends and family, you tend to contact your parents, more so than people you have less care for.

Now Allah’s dhikr is such a link between the Creator and His creation that it makes it easy for a human being to get the attention of the Most High. And the more a person remembers Allah, the more it is that Allah remembers him.

It is stated in a Hadeeth in Bukhari narrated by Abu Hurayrah radhiallah anhu that Allah’s Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said: “Allah the Almighty says, If my servant draws near to Me a hand’s span, I draw near to him an arm’s length; and if he draws near to Me an arm’s length, I draw near to him a fathom’s length. And if he comes to Me walking I go to him at speed.”

Allah’s Mercy envelops the person who turns to Him. Allah subhana wa ta’ala raises the status of a person in accordance with the amount of dhikr, the purer the intention and steadfastness that he has.

As a person continues to remember Allah with sincerity, there eventually comes a time when he becomes a beloved of Allah. It is stated in Hadeeth that when a person becomes a beloved of Allah, then Allah becomes his ears, his tongue, his hands and feet. The meaning of the Hadeeth is that a person begins to live his life for Allah’s sake alone and his hands and so on are not used to commit sin. His sole purpose in life is to seek Allah’s pleasure. And all this starts from the time when a person begins to remember Allah and do Allah’s dhikr.

May Allah give us the tawfeeq (ability) to remember Him, and do His dhikr with sincerity and in abundance.

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah,

I pray that you are all i the best of health and imaan.Ameen.

It’s been a while since I have posted here, came across this article and thought I’d share it with you.

Without further a do here goes Inshallah….

“Our Lord! Grant that our spouses and our offspring be a comfort to our eyes, and give us the grace to lead those who are conscious of You” (Furqaan 74).

10. When you have done something wrong, be ready to admit it and ask for forgiveness: Nabi [sallallaahu alayhi wasallam] said, ‘All the sons of Aadam commit error, and the best of those who err are those who seek forgiveness.’ (Tirmidhi Hadith 2499)

Assalamu alikum

I hope ur all in the best of health and imaan.

Ok, so this is my first post on breathe islam (well, me being clumsy I just lost a whole post I typed up and nearly finished !,hope this one is betta). I’m hoping 2 contribute 2 this blog by posting now and then Inshallah…

Before I begin posting I’d like to explain what breathe islam means to me….

To me, breathing islam means more than just eating, drinking or sleeping it…breathe islam means living it. Islam is afterall a complete way of life. Its our structure and basis 2 everything that we do from the big things to the small things and to the simple things such as a simple breath. Ur probably thinking ‘what has this got 2 do with it ? read on and all wil b revealed….’

Breathing as we all know (I hope by now ) is a very important part of living. If our breathing ever ceased, our life would end…simple as that really.
In the same manner, to breathe islam means that if something so simple yet critical such as our precious islam were taken away from our hearts, then our hearts would be dead the moment it happened. To live ur heart needs oxygen, islam is the oxygen that the heart needs to keep life going but cannot live without…
The moment that oxygen (islam) stops flowing in ur heart, ur heart will slow down and b4 u know it u’ll b dead (if not physically u’ll definately b spiritually dead).

If we remember Islam as being the oxygen to keep the heart spiritually healthy, and we have breathed it all our lives, then when we do physically stop breathing, our islam will Inshallah be with us in the akhira too.

Imam Ghazali (RA) puts it beautifully in his Ihya:

‘Your time is your life, and your life is your capital; it is the basis of your transactions (with God), and the means to attain everlasting felicity, in the proximity of god the exalted.
Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, and when it pases away it never returns’

See how beautifully but simply one of the great scholars of islam puts it, subhanallah!
Whenever I read it, It really softens my heart…hopefully to let me breathe my islam a little bit more…

B4 I end this post I have a couple of things I’d like 2 say…

Firstly, Jazakallah khair 2 Br.Ahmed without whom this blog wudn’t have happened. I pray that u always remain as dedicated 2 the deen as u r, and I hope that Allah (swt) rewards u greatly 4 all that u do in blog world.Ameen.

Secondly, Br. Zain…Jazakallah khair 2u…I’m glad ur a part of this team. Inshallah with an asset like urself and the blessings that cum with u this blog will go far . Ur inspirational posts r always something 2 look 4ward 2, and I’m sure they will always b eagerly awaited. May Allah (swt) raise u in rank and may he make u one of his saliheen salves.Ameen.

Thirdly and finally, I pray that Allah (swt) accepts our humble efforts on this blog and on our respective blogs and that we may be the first to act on anything that we say. I pray that He ALLAH (swt) blesses us with the inclination 2 breathe islam every breath of our lives not to live, but to please him and to become his obedient slaves.Ameen. And I pray that this blog alog with the many other blogs out there benefitting pple r a path that ppl can use to Inshallah bcum closer to our rabb.Ameen.

I pray that all those who read this blog, and continue 2 support this blog may share the blessings and outcome of it. I pray that those pple ( uno who u r ) who are always there supporting us and encouraging us gain great blessings from Allah, bcuz without these special pple I would have left blog world a long time ago…

Time 4 me 2 go..

Over and out
Wassalam

Mujahidah an Nafs

Sorry Br.Ahmed this was long one!