Chill Yo Islam Yo

A while ago when I first started this blog, I wrote a post about why growing the Beard for a brother and wearing the Hijab for a sister is beneficial.

I provided some proof and like every post, I was faced with criticism. To me it is what it is, if something is clear in the Qur’an and Sunnah then we should follow it. Haters? uhh well they are always going to come.

However on the other end of the spectrum, we have a problem with many Muslims today, who have a weird way of spreading Islam and encouraging people to follow the Sunnah and the commandments of Allah (swt).

To me it’s so backwards, I often see brothers with this failed method of giving daw’ah. What I’ve come to notice is some brothers and sisters only focus on appearance when it comes to Islam. So if they don’t see a brother with a beard or a sister wearing Hijab, all of a sudden that person is eliminated from their interpretation of “believers”.

Now what begins to happen is people become arrogant because all of a sudden they feel like they are too religious to give attention to a particular person or spend time with them.

Not only do they look at you like your an alien, but all of a sudden your not being invited to Islamic events or offered to pray salat in congregation just because you don’t look “religious”.

The other day we were getting ready to pray Salat, and the brothers were looking around to see who leads. One brother grabbed me and “said you lead you have a beard”. Since when did that become the criteria for leading the salat? Chill yo.

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Salam,

You might not care but I do, I love how Dwight Howard first gave thanks to God after today’s game and then said you gotta do what you can in any situation and God does the rest. That reminds me of when Mufti Abdul Rehman Ibn Yusuf was speaking to us about tying our camels and putting trust in Allah swt. Meaning if you ever get worried about a test, or risks in life, he said just “Do your best and Allah swt does the rest”, that’s my new motto. I don’t know what Dwight’s Aqeedah is, haha, but he can become Muslim, sure why not?

May Allah (swt) guide the Non Muslims to Islam, Ameen! Including you Dwight Howard/Superman, being as big as Dwight is a blessing, he reminds of a couple of African American brothers or AK’s that come to the Mosque that are giants, Inshallah we can be giants in our ranks on the day of judgment. Chill I need a super-eman rush.

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Salaam,

They say a “diamond is a girls best friend”. Some people glorify them; others horrify them. One thing I realized is that if you want to get married my brothers you’re most probably going to have to buy your wifey a blinged out rock, just make sure its not a blood diamond. So start saving up from now..Ha!

I’m not going to lie, we all love holding extravagant captivating glamorous diamonds that are beautiful to gaze upon but does it really make us happy? I don’t think so. True happiness comes in the hereafter and it certainly doesn’t come in material gains. It comes in the remembrance of Allah. Although there is nothing wrong with ballin(for those who don’t what ballin means, in New York when you someone is ballin you are referring to their riches), hey ain’t nothing wrong with ballin, the more money you got, the more money you can give for zakat .

But what I’m basically trying to say is when you marry your wife, i don’t think she will really care about the diamonds at the end of the day; rather she will perish it because you gave it to her as a gift to protect that halal marriage. Don’t forget to do the nikkah. Money doesn’t buy happiness, any rich person will tell you that. At the end of the day its the blessings of Allah (God Almighty) that makes you happy. The fact that you are Muslim, you got a family,you got health, you got the four seasons, you have the sun, and freewill, well it never stops because Allah says in the Holy Quran we could never count his blessings. They go on and on and on and on…….

One thing I noticed is that a lot of people are quick to judge people by their weddings. On one extreme, you have people who say “oh that brother threw a dunya wedding”. Then you have others who criticize others because their wedding wasn’t as extravagant. We have to be fair; we shouldn’t make fun of people who throw simple weddings, because a simple wedding is a wedding recommended by our beloved Prophet Muhammad, in one hadith our beloved Prophet said

“The marriage which is most greatly blessed is the one which is the lightest in burden [expense]. However, if people are well catered for, without extravagance and show, there is no problem with that either.” (Reported by Bayhaqi)

So make it easy on yourselves, here is another hadith which describes one of the weddings of our beloved Prophet. Anas (RA) describes one of the walimahs hosted by the Prophet (SAW):

“The Prophet stayed for three days at a place between Khaibar and Medina, and there he consummated his marriage with Safiyya bint Huyay (RA). I invited the Muslims to a banquet which included neither meat nor bread. The Prophet (SAW) ordered for the leather dining sheets to be spread, and then dates, dried yogurt and butter were provided over it, and that was the Walima (banquet) of the Prophet (SAW).” (Reported by Bukhari)

So simplicity guaranteed, buy your wife a sterling silver ring, haha, na it’s all good. Just do whatever you feel is most comfortable for yourself as a Muslim. You got the recommendations in the Sunnah above–So do you. I didn’t think i would be writing this much, i was just wondering today randomly about weddings diamond rings and how much it really matters to the Muslim wifey.

Alright I’m out…wasalaam. Oh yea i wanted to mention a hadith which says poor people will enter heaven 40 years before the rich people. Wondering why? less accountability. Remember you will be judged on everything you had in this life.

“But waste not by excess: for Allah loves not the wasters.” (Quran, 6:141)

Salam,

I’ve been coming across certain Muslim brothers who feel like they have done so much haram(forbidden acts) in their life that they can never change and its too late. Wake Up!! Thats the worst way to think, shatan (the devil) is just trying to play you. Remember your still alive, as long as the rooh (soul) has not reached the throat then make moves and repent.

People get caught up with their emotions and put themselves down. We have to remember Allah (God Almighty) can save us at anytime from the hellfire, we have to do everything in our power to make a niyyah and be sincere to changing and rectifying our inner selves.

Just press this onto your heart….”You do your best and Allah will do the rest” as Mufti Abdul Rehman Ibn Yusuf told me.

Today a friend of mine asked me if a Muslim brother or sister has fornicated before marriage then do they have to marry a non virgin? Good question, i started doing my research and eventually ended up on sunnipath.com to hear my man Sheikh Faraz Rabbani’s answer.

As i was looking i found that a sister had already asked this question, basically she asked does a virgin have to marry a virgin and fornicator to a fornicator. She also said ” isn’t it true that once you have sincerely repented from the sin from the bottom of your heart, do not go back to committing it that it is as if you had never committed the sin and are as good as a pious person if not above them?

The shiekh responded- Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,

I pray that this finds you well, and in the best of health and spirits. May Allah grant you all good and success in this life and the next.

The concerns you mention are true, because as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “The one who repents from sin is like the one who never sinned.” Legally–as answers in the SunniPath QA (http://qa.sunnipath.com) explain–someone not known by people as a non-virgin is considered a virgin, and all the rulings apply to them.

And Allah alone gives success.

So don’t get it twisted. We must make an effort to change and turn to repentance anytime we do something haram, this is just one example.

Shiekh Hamza Yusuf Hanson Al- Maliki mentioned that as long as we are alive we have the ability to make our own life but even more deeply edit our movie. What he meant by this was that just like in Hollywood they make movies and they are able to edit and cut out whatever is not needed, similarly we should think about our life movie that will be shown to us on the day of judgment and while we are alive we are writing our movie script and the best way to edit it - is to repent!

We make dua Allah guides us all and forgives us for our shortcomings in this life and accept our repentance. Ameen!

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