Chill Yo Islam Yo

Salam,

I wanted to say i have been blogging for about 6 months now mashallah, and i appreciate whoever has been coming and participating on the Chill Islam Yo site. Alot of Websites have been adding me to their blogroll, shout out and love to all of you for your support. All the emails showing love from london to india to australia. Jazakullah Yo!

Inshallah Allah give you all success in this life and in the hereafter. I know some of you are tired of seeing the same design over and over again so i will change the design. Since the new year is coming, its only best if we start things off right, because as Muslims we start from the right doing things the right way except when you enter the bathroom with your left foot.

But inshallah i want to give it a extreme halal makeover, no plastic surgery involved, mad haram, but as you can see on the top right of my site i have put up a poll. No its not an election poll, its a poll which asks how do you feel about my website in all honesty. About 90 percent of the votes indicate mashallah they like my site but some are starting to shift and are saying i need a new design. So since this isn’t a dictatorship like Pakistan and im not musharraf, i want to help all of you as much as i can. Right now just check out my updated top articles page and let me know what you think!

I created this website to help every person on earth especially the Youth who are stuck in their ways. I like to do whatever i can by the will of Allah (God Almighty) to write in a different way and effectively deliver my messages and themes but most importantly drive the ideas home with “Real Halal Talk”.

So gotta walk the walk with real halal talk, but any hows back to the matter at hand, since my traffic has picked up a lot more than i expected. I am going to renew my hosting plan and inshallah i am working on a makeover and organizing my articles so you can benefit from them.

Let me know what else i should do and how you feel in detail about the site, especially constructive criticism, be honest, don’t lie like Pinocchio.

Jazakullah for your support, your brother from another mother….Saad Ahmad Rashad.

Wasalaam and remember “Chill Yo Islam Yo” ..The Movement

Salam Yo,

Thank God I finally got my permit, its good to know now i can give dawah on the road, whether it be having an I love Islam license plate or letting other cars get in front of me. Driving is mad fun especially in the beginning, once you put your hand on the wheels its like you can just drive wherever you want, you can go to the masjid if you have a car, now you have no excuse to miss fajr.

You can give people rides and get good deeds, haha alot of people told me “don’t get a car, because when you do you will always be giving people rides” and i noticed that myself because i always ask people for rides. Are they getting annoyed? God knows best but if they help me, Inshallah they will get rewarded for it. Do it for the sake of Allah

Anyhows anybody who drives knows you have to be defensive, especially in New York, where everyone is always in rush hour. I need an eman rush. Basically my point goes back to what Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson Al Maliki said ” Driving is an Ibadah(form of worship) you can kill hundreds of people on the freeway”. So always be alert and keep your eyes on the road, not at haram things, lower your gaze!

He also said ” a car is a weapon of mass destruction, and you don’t give weapons of mass destruction to idiots”.

Its all good, just jump in the car, read the dua(supplication) for traveling and drive with confidence and watch out for the road devils filled with rage.

Its interesting now a days cars have navigation systems, Sheikh Khalid Yasin said ” If men can make navigation systems to tell you how to guide you from point A to point B then you don’t think God can guide you from this life to heaven thats the real destination, and he did give you the guidance and that is the Holy Quran!

So Yo, keep it moving in this life as our beloved Prophet Muhammad said we are just travelers. We gotta maximize our resources to the highest capacity whether it be using a computer to gain true knowledge or the car to go to the masjid or any place which is HALALUJAH!

Wasalaam, Stay up, Inshallah make dua i can get my driving license…..and marriage license! haha.

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Salam,

As a Muslim American trying my best to be a productive member of society, abiding by the law and seeking God Almighty’s pleasure i find myself in the mist of constantly striving for success.

Success is measured different ways, but of course we all want to achieve success in the afterlife. Every time we think about the unconceivable amount of blessings God has bestowed upon us we should thank him. Its our obligation being showered by his mercy.

Trying to maximize your potential is essential for your success as a human being. We all have to tie our camel, by this i mean “we do our best and God will do the rest” as Mufti Abdul Rehman Ibn Yusuf would say. A lot of times we feel like we can’t achieve a goal but we should always be confident. Some interesting points to look at Shaykh al-Islam Shabbir Usmani said that if 4 matters are present, success is guaranteed:

1) one’s intention must be true;
2) one’s goal must be true;
3) the means one takes must be true; and
4) the way one takes the means must be true.

We know that actions are judged by intentions so do everything for the sake of God, ask yourself what skills you possess? what are your interests? what do you envision with your potentials? and of course make sincerity.

A lot of times we tend to forget God in our life, its good after we sneeze we say “Alhumduillah” meaning Praise be to God, remember God all the time.

So how do you measure success?

Everybody will have different perspectives on how they measure success but i think we all want to be happy, healthy, and halal…

Its about the afterlife, this life will come to an end, we (Muslims) are travelers in this world and indeed in paradise is eternal happiness, As the Quran says

” God promises those among you who believe and lead righteous life, that He will make them sovereigns on earth, as He did for those before them, and will establish for them the religion He has chosen for them, and will substitute peace and security for them in place of fear. All this because they worship Me alone, without setting up any idols besides Me. Those who disbelieve after this are the truly wicked” (24:55).

Grab the measuring tape! Of course this topic can go much deeper, this is just what i feel about it.

Jazakullah for you time, God willing we all benefit from each other and are successful in this life and in the hereafter..Ameen!

Our beloved Prophet Muhammad said “The intelligent one is the one who remembers death most often, and prepares for it. They leave this world in honor and with the blessings of the Hereafter. [Ibn Abi Dunya]

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Salam My Brothers and Sisters, Since most of you have been commenting on my old and new articles i decided to make a new list showing which articles are the best on my site, so inshallah check them out if you want. I appreciate your participation on the site, I plan on changing my whole design soon and setting up a store selling shirts. Until then stay tooned folks and enjoy the new list of articles!

Written By Saad Ahmad Rashad From Baghdad

1) Oink Oink! How Piggish have we become?

2) Don’t Poke Out Your Spiritual Eye!

3) Yo Brother That’s Not A Cigarette, That’s Cigaweed! Astugfurillah

4) Do You Love the Quran?

5) Why Music? When We have Nasheeds and Quran!

6) Grow The Beard, Wear The Hijab, Be Modest!

7) Anger Management..

8) Making Power Moves

9) Finding Moderation, Fighting our Animalistic Desires..

10) Becoming a Leader, Protecting Your Flock

11) Islamic Pick Up Lines? What the Haram?

12) Shaking Hands with the Opposite Gender

13) A Pound a Day will Keep Shatan Away

14) Nigger What?

15) Why are Muslims Earning Haram Income?

16) Beating Your Wife in Islam is Not Allowed, Get it Straight!

17) Let Your Wifey Work?

18) Better Recognize Animals Rights

19) Smoking Cigarettes and Hookah, is it the Same?

20) Material Slavery

Why are Muslims getting crunk? Its a good question that should be asked, but the point is obviously there is an absence of deen and understanding . All i gotta say is FEAR God Almighty (Allah)! I can understand when we slip on little things but if someone claims to be a Muslim then enjoys drinking alcohol which directly has been forbidden (haram) by Allah then come on whats happening?. Stop following lil john, follow the sunnah!

God Almighty says in the Quran “They ask you concerning alcohol and gambling. Say: “In them is a great sin, and some benefits for men, but the sin is far greater than the benefit.”Holy Qur’an 2:219. So chill out.

Whats interesting is that our Prophet Muhammad said “Among my ummah there will certainly be people who permit zinaa, silk, alcohol and musical instruments…”

From looking at this hadith, you can sort of say that is expected for some of the ummah to fall into these practices, now a person who is Muslim and is drinking obviously can’t use this hadith and say its ok for me to drink. This hadith reflects the reality of the signs of the day of judgment. The signs include such as the decline of knowledge, the spread of ignorance, drinking of wine or alcohol, competition in the construction of tall buildings, and many others.

The scholars have listed almost sixty signs, some of which will accompany the major signs, or will appear afterwards.

So back to the matter at hand, recently i came across an halal restaurant that had a coors light advertisement, i guess people do anything to make money in this country now. The same happen when i walked into a deli that was selling lotto and beer, when i asked the brother why he was selling it he said “Alhumduillah, this is America, we do business for everyone”, i was going to tell him ” good luck on the day of judgment”.

It all comes down to immediate pleasure, enjoyment, lack of taqwa and is a direct reflection of the state the individual is in. People drink to escape reality, this is what they do to numb their soul but obviously it all comes to an end. Mashallah thats why we have to hold onto our deen, my man Shaykh Hamza Yusuf mentioned that doctors will tell people that alcohol is good for their heart, never mind their kidneys and liver. Then he continued and said something mad real, he said if you look at what alcohol does to society it basically leaves two groups, those who drink moderately and the other group which are addicted.

Alcohol is responsible for over 100,000 deaths in the United States each year, the Shaykh said this is why Islam is so great because it prohibits something to save that small percentage. Yes you have people that drink it moderately but those who drink it like water, look at how many hit and run accident there are and deaths, this is one of the benefits why Islam prohibits it. Think about it.

I also have to say, all these Desi party’s that Hindus do with Muslims are one of the reasons why our ummah is slipping, they create this conformity with culture to our south asian brothers and sisters and boom look what happens. Astugfurillah Ak, gotta be on point and have strong willpower. Napolean from the Outlaws who reverted to Islam Mashallah said ” when i came back from hajj, i had this beautiful feeling i never felt before in my life, Alcohol never gave me this feeling, it must have been that zam zam water”. Haha, real talk by brother Napoleon.

Oh yea even if your not muslim you should stop drinking for your own benefit as a human being, Inshallah we should make dua for all those who are drinking stop (muslim and non muslim) and Allah give them hidayat (Guidance) and save them from the Hellfire. Ameen! leave a comment, pass the knowledge inshallah, and next time someone offers you Alcohol or calls you to a place where everybody will get crunk, drunk. Stay as a real true servant of Allah (SWT) and be like “Chill Yo Islam Yo”
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