UMRAH IN CALGARY – ilmintensive

Insh’Allah there will be a Fiqh of the Holiday season presentation today in the South Musalla from 1-3 pm, the details of which are below. We also have some other activities such as the National Geographic screening of ‘ Inside Mecca and a Youth Ilm  program which entails a trip to Mount Norquay for some skiing or snow-tubing. You can read up on these programs in this email. Nonetheless, one particular event that I’m personally really looking forward to is the Saturday, January 5th 2013 UMRAH IN CALGARY program which will be conducted in the NW from 7:20 am-10:50 am. It’ll be a great way to start the 2013 year! Register your entire family including your kids today (by clicking on the link below) to ensure you receive your free Fortress of a Muslim Supplication textbook.  A complimentary breakfast will be served! Remember, you and your family  must catch the Fajr flight to receive the reward of Umrah!
On Saturday, Jan 5th at The Islamic Centre of NW Calgary
“The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: ‘Whoever prays the morning prayer in congregation then sits remembering Allah until the sun rises, then prays two units of prayer has the reward like that of Hajj and `Umrah, ‘Complete, complete, complete (in reward). (Tirmidhi)
Complimentary Fortress of a Muslim booklet for the first 200 participants to register and complimentary breakfast for all.
7:20 Call to prayer, Adhan
7:35 Fajr prayer
7:55-8:10 Explanation of certain prayers including greeting of the ablution, greeting of the Masjid, sunrise prayer, late morning prayer, prayer of the pious, prayer of repentance, prayer for need, prayer for travel, prayer for repentance and prayer for decision making
8:15-8:45 Morning supplications and study circles reviewing certain prayers.
8:45-9:15 Offering of various types of prayers individually
9:30-10:30 Breakfast-Cereal, fruit, pancakes, hash browns, coffee, tea and juice
10:35-10:50 Closing remarks

DEATH ON HER WEDDING NIGHT!!! [True Story]

“After performing Salat Al Maghrib, she put her make-up, wore her beautiful white dress preparing herself for her wedding party, Then she heard the Adhan of ‘Ishaa and she realized that she broke her Wudu she told her mother : “mother, I have to go to make wudu and pray ‘Ishaa”

Her mother was shocked : “Are you crazy?!! Guests are waiting for you, to see you! what about your make -up? It will be all washed away by water!!” then she added:

” I am your mother and I order you not to perform salah now! wallahi if you make wudu now, I will be angry at you”
Her daughter replied :”wallahi I won’t go out from here till I perform my salah! Mother you must know that “There is no obedience to any creature in disobedience to the Creator.”!!

Her mother said:”what would our guests say about you when you’ll show up in your wedding party without make-up?! You won’t be beautiful in their eyes! and They will make fun of you!”

The daughter asked with a smile :”Are you worried because I won’t be beautiful in the eyes of creations? What about my Creator?! I am worried because, if I miss my salah, I won’t be beautiful in His eyes”

She started to make wudu, and all her make-up was washed away, but she didn’t car
Then she began her salah and at the moment she bowed down to make sujud, she didn’t realize that it will be her last one!
Yes! She died while in sujud! What a great ending for a Muslimah who insisted on obeying her Lord! Many people who heard her story were so touched!!

She put Him and His obedience first in her priorities, so He granted her the best ending that any Muslim would have!
She wanted to be closer to Him, so He took her soul in the place where Muslim are the closest to Him! Subhana Allah!
She didn’t care if she would be beautiful in the eyes of creatures so she was beautiful in the eyes of Her Creator!

O Muslim sister, imagine if you are in her place! What will you do? What will you choose : pleasing creations or your Creator?

O dear sister! Do you guarantee that you will live for the next minutes? Hours? Months?!!
No one knows when their hour will come? Or when will they meet angels of death? So are you ready for that moment?

O non-hijabi sister! What do you choose : Pleasing yourself by not wearing Hijab or pleasing your Lord by wearing hijab?

Are you ready to meet Him without Hijab?

And what about you, sister who are “in relationship” or “open relationship”, are you ready to meet your Lord today? Tomorrow?! What do you choose pleasures of this Dunya or pleasures of akhirah?!

May Allah guide us all to what pleases Him and grant everyone who is reading these lines good ending, Ameen.

[told by Shaykh “Abdul Mohsen al Ahmad”, it happened in Abha (the capital of Asir province in Saudi Arabia)]

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BEAUTIFUL ISLAMIC ADVISES!!!

# Fear ALLAH.

# If u speak, speak truth.

# Do not go after the world even though it may run after you

# Act to gain reward from ALLAH and for the Hereafter.

# Do not give up bidding for good and forbidding from evil lest the wrongdoers get positions over you and ur prayers will not b granted.

# Be an enemy of the oppressors and helper of the oppressed.

# Keep ur affairs in order.

# Maintain good relations among yourselves.

# Keep Allah in view in the matter of prayer, because it is the pillar of your religion.

# Keep Allah in the matter of your neighbours. Because they were the subject of the Prophet’s advice. He went advising in their favor till his friends thought he allow them a inheritance.

# Keep Allah in view in the matter of QURAN. No one should excel u in acting upon it.

# Keep Allah in view in the matter of jihad with the help of ur property, life and tongue in the way of Allah.

# Avoid turning away from one another and severing mutual relations.

# U should strive for regard in kinship and spending for others.

# Keep Allah in the matter of orphans. So do not allow them to starve and they shouldn’t b ruined in your presence.

# Keep Allah in view in the matter of Allah’s house. Do not forsake it so long as u live, because if it is abandoned, you won’t be spared.

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Its Jummah….Did you read Surah Kahf yett?

Surah Al-Mu’minūn (The Believers)

(23:1) Most certainly those Believers have attained true success
(23:2) who perform their Salat with humility:
(23:3) who refrain from vain things:
(23:4) who spend their Zakat dues in appropriate ways:
(23:5) who guard their private parts scrupulously,
(23:6) except with regard to their wives and those women who are legally in their possession, for in that case they shall not be blame-worthy,
(23:7) but those, who go beyond this (in lust for sexual desires), shall be transgressors:
(23:8) who are true to their trusts and their promises:
(23:9) and who strictly guard their Prayers.
(23:10) These are the heirs
(23:11) who will inherit Paradise and dwell therein for ever.

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NFL players take leave, make journey to Mecca
At the peak of their NFL careers, Husain and Hamza Abdullah took a voluntary leave of absence from pro football for a leap of faith. While observing Ramadan, they visited 30 mosques in 30 days including the controversial mosque at Ground Zero. At the end of their cross country tour they made Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca. NBC’s Mary Carillo reports.

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Gaza’s Hifz Miracle

Gaza Boys Quraan

Ebrahim Moosa – Cii Broadcasting (07-08-12)

What would you do if you had the opportunity to enjoy a 3 month summer vacation annually? How would you spend your time – a foreign holiday, perhaps? Lots of partying and relaxing, certainly. Maybe some vacation work or volunteering?

For residents of the Gaza Strip in Palestine, the options are notably different. Crippled by an occupation lasting over 4 decades and a concurrent siege that has been in place since 2006, citizens of what is often referred to as the world’s largest open-air prison, find little room for manouver. Travel outside the territory is severely restricted and opportunities for wholesome recreation within the sliver are limited. Added to that, residents have to cope with one of the worst unemployment rates globally. Still, Gazans – in their characteristically resilient way – continue to find innovative and uplifting means to compensate for their lack of choices.

Since 2009, in the wake of Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza, Islamic organisations, complemented by the Strip’s Waqf Ministry, have devised an enterprising annual programme to draw youth closer to the Masaajid and guide them towards fruitful use of the summer vacation period. At the forefront of these initiatives is Dar al Quraan Was Sunnah, a distinguished Islamic institute headed by Dr. Abdul Rahman al Jamal, also a member of Gaza’s Legislative Council.

4 years ago it oversaw the first ever co-ordinated Hifz Memorisation programme at Gaza’s Masaajid during its’ summer vacation. The mission: Attempting to get youth between the ages of 8 and 25 to memorise the entire Quraan in those 12 weeks. What began as a pilot project catering only for high performing students quickly outgrew itself when it was discovered that the majority of students had actually memorised the entire Quraan within the short period and found the process to be less strenuous than originally perceived. Dr. Jamal said the results had surpassed his wildest expectations.

In its second year, the programme was expanded to accommodate 1000 youth, the majority of whom again managed to memorise the entire Quraan within the period. A year later, exhibiting unprecedented growth, Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh – himself a Haafiz – presided over the graduation ceremony which crowned over 10 000 Palestinian youth as Huffaaz or memorisers of the Quraan after the vacation.

The sheer number of graduates in such a brief period of time has had many marvelling at the secret formula for such record-breaking success. Mahmud Abu Shamala, an English teacher in Gaza and graduate of the programme told Cii it all boiled down to dedication and hard work. “I know it sounds very challenging for the people in South Africa and the West, but there is an Arab poet who said, ‘If you have a goal you’d like to achieve, you have to destoy every obstacle in order to achieve that.’ ” He outlined the rigorous 6-8 hour regimen of memorisation that participants undergo during the weeks of the programme.

“The day begins with Fajr Prayer,” he explained. “Thereafter participants come together in circles of Zikr, Salaah and Dua. Everyone in then placed individually. Each student is encouraged to memorise the Quraan page by page.” He said participants were required to recite the Quraan back to their superiors each time they had completed the memorisation of a new page. “Some memorise 5-10 pages daily, others can manage upto 50 pages for the day.”

After Zuhr prayers, lunch is served. Thereafter students undertake a revision of the entire days Quraan learning. A new day with the programme typically begins with recitation of whatever had been learnt beforehand, after which the permission is given to proceed further.

The duration for memorisation of the complete Quraan varies according to the abilities of students. Students, some as young as 10 years are known to have completed the Hifz in just 40 days. Abu Shamala paid tribute to one handicapped orphan who he said epitomised the determination some Gazan youth had to complete the memorisation. “I remember there was a child called Iyad, an orphan who was so dedicated that he arrived at the Masjid at 2am daily, 2 hours before the programme formally began. He literally used to open the Masjid.” Shamala said Iyad had consistently memorised 3-4 Juz daily, completing his Hifz in only 20 days.

Commenting on the annual uptake of the programme, Shamala said the organisers were very pleased. “Allah Ta’alah is trying to help us, because it’s growing and it’s moving. Every time there is progress.” However, the socio-economic situation in Gaza, resulting from the siege, continued to pose challenges for the organisers. “Wallahi sometimes they have no lunch, sometimes they have no tea, sometimes they have nothing. But Alhamdulillah, Allah is teaching us that not everything happen with money, but everything is by determination and Tawfeeq from Allah,” he said.

Palestinian girls learn the Quran at a summer camp in the Gaza Strip

The Ash Shafee Programme(named after the honour that a Hafidh will be afforded on the Day of Judgement) caters for both males and females. Shamala says the majority of mosques in Gaza have adopted the programme. He pointed out that, for the organisers, even complete Hifz was not taken as the culmination of the programme. “Qualifying as a Hafidh does not neccesary imply completion of the As Shafee programme. The organisers at Darul Quraan run a lot of additional courses for the memorisers of the Quraan – a course in Tajweed, a course in Hadith, a course in Arabic language, a course in computer skills. Most successful students are grafted into so-called Sanad schools where they spend two years in pursuit of a Sanad that links back to Muhammed SAW.”

Aside from the stated goals of keeping youth occupied during the lengthy summer vacation and assisting them to memorise the Quraan, the overall objectives of the project are much higher – a fact that has even secured Ash Shafee governmental support. Organisers cite the Divine Promise to protect the Quraan as the rationale for the active promotion of the project(“We Ourselves have revealed the Quraan and We are its Protectors” – Quraan 15:9). They reason that since Divine protection is guaranteed for the Quraan, safety would likewise be guaranteed for those who memorise the Quraan, and thus are endeavoring to increase the popularity of Hifz in the Strip for it to serve as a bulwark against Israeli aggression.

Shamala says Gazans attribute the phenomenal success of the programme only to Allah. “Here in Gaza, to be honest with you, we believe what makes us steadfast in conflict and prevents us from being vanquished is Allah, what makes us victorious in the war and siege is Allah, what is making us memorise the Quraan is Allah SWT.”

“All the people of Gaza believe, the government believes, that Allah is making the memorising of Quraan easy for us because Allah is preparing us for a very big thing.”

ebmoosa@ciibroadcasting.com

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