Words to live by...

1. Give Allah what's right -- not what's left.

2. Man's way leads to a hopeless end -- Allah's way leads to an endless hope.

3. A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing. 4. He who kneels before Allah can stand before anyone.

5. In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma -- but never let him be the period.

6. Don't put a question mark where Allah puts a period.

7. Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to the mosque for a face-lift.

8. When praying, don't give Allah instructions -- just report for duty.

9. Don't wait for six strong men to take you to the mosque.

10. We don't change Allah's message -- His message changes you.

11. The mosque is prayer-conditioned.

12. When Allah ordains, He sustains.

13. WARNING: Exposure to the Allah may prevent burning.

14. Plan ahead -- It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

15. Most people want to serve Allah, but only in an advisory position.

16. Suffering from truth decay? Brush up on your Koran.

17. Exercise daily -- walk with Allah.

18. Never give the devil a ride -- he will always want to drive.

19. Nothing else ruins the truth like stretching it.

20. Compassion is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.

21. He who angers you controls you.

22. Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

23. Give Satan an inch & he'll be a ruler.

24. Be ye fishers of men -- you catch them & He'll clean them.

25. Allah doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

26. Read the Koran -- It will scare the hell out of you. "Those who believe (in the Oneness of God - Monotheism), and whose hearts find rest in the rememberance of Allah. Verily, in the rememberance of Allah do hearts find rest." (Quran Ar-Ra'd 13:28)

Sub-h'aanallaahi wal h'amdu lillaahi wa laa ilaaha illallaahu akbar

Imam Jafar Sadiq (a.s) says that the Messenger of Allah (saw) turned towards his companions and said, "Pick up the sheild of Allah." The companions asked, "There is no enemy; why should we pick up the shield?" The Holt Prophet (saw) said, "Pick it up for combating the Hell and recite Sub-h'aanallaahi wal h'amdu lillaahi wa laa ilaaha illallaahu akbar."

Imam Jafar Sadiq (a.s) says that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, "Recite Sub-h'aanallaahi wal h'amdu lillaahi wa laa ilaaha illallaahu akbar often because this statement will come to you surrounded by angels and will be included among your good deeds."

Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s) says, "One who says Sub-h'aanallaah Allah will plant a tree for him in Paradise. One who says Alh'amdulillaah then too a tree will be planted for him in Paradise. Similarly, one who says laa ilaaha illallaah then also Allah will plant a tree for him in Paradise. Allah will also plant a tree for one who recites Allah akbar. A man of quraish said, "O Messenger of Allah (saw) then there would be many trees in the Paradise for us?" "Yes but br careful that you do not send fire or they all would get burnt up. That is why the Almighty Allah said: 'O you who believe! Obey Allah and obey the Apostle and do not make your deeds of no effect.'"

Imam Jafar Sadiq (a.s) says that one day the Messenger of Allah (saw) asked his companions,  "Do you know that if your clothes and utensils are gathered in one place and kept one above another they reach the sky?" They replied, "No!" The Holy Prophet (saw) said, "Should I tell you about a thing whose roots are in the earth and branches above the sky?" Everyone replied,
Indeed we want to know it." The Holy Prophet (saw) said, "One who recites  Sub-h'aanallaahi wal h'amdu lillaahi wa laa ilaaha illallaahu akbar (the roots of this statement are in the earth and its branches are above the sky) thirty times after each obligatory prayers the above statement will safeguard him from being crushed under a wall, drowning, falling in well, falling prey to wild animals, death due to accidents and from dangerous things falling from skies. This statement will remain as permanent good deeds for him."

Friday and Friday Nights Importance

The children of Hazrat Yaqoob ( a.s.) [Jacob] asked their father to request Allah to forgive them.  Hazrat Yaqoob (a.s.) said;   " I will ask for your forgiveness from, my Lord"  (Yunus, verse 98)
Interpreting this verse, Imam Sadeq (a.s.) has said:  " Hazrat Yaqoob (a.s.) delayed asking forgiveness until dawn of Friday night." 
(It indicates the importance of asking forgiveness during Shabe Juma)

There are two hours on Friday when Duas are answered: one is when Friday leader has completed the sermon and the worshippers are prepared for Friday prayer. 
The other is the last moments of Friday that is:  "When half face of the sun is hidden."

Imam Baqer (a.s.) has said:" On Friday one must keep a time from the beginning of moon until an hour, for the Holy Prophet of Islam (SAW) has said during this hour no servant requests anything from Allah unless his request is granted ."
Reference : Oddatul Daee (The Asset of the Supplicant), Hadees 70,71,72.

For more duas & Ziyarat refer: www.duas.org

Treat People with Moral Conduct

Holy Prophet (saww) said: "You can not treat (please all the) people by means of your wealth; hence you should treat them by means of your moral conduct".

 

Moral conduct is a mood arousing good behavior with others by showing cheerful face, nice wording, and kind manners. When he was asked about the limit of moral conduct, Imam As-Sadiq (a) answered: “It is to be modest, to speak honorably, and to meet your brother cheerfully.”

 

One of the expectations that every judicious individual exerts efforts for achieving is to have an attractive personality. It is surely a noble aim that cannot be attained by everyone except the virtuous and those who are characterized by knowledge, ability, liberality, courage, and the like good traits. All virtues, however, cannot be true matters of admiration unless they are connected to moral conduct. On that account, moral conduct is the core and pivot of virtues. The Ahl ul-Bayt (a) used a variety of instructive methods in favor of glorifying the moral conduct so remarkably:

 

The Prophet (s) said: “The best of you are the most well-mannered and generous ones who go on intimate terms with people and people go on intimate terms with them, and whose places of residence are frequently trodden on by guests.”

 

“He who has a good nature will have the reward of those who observe fasting in days and keep awake praying at nights.”

 

Imam al-Baqir (a) said: “The most perfect believers, in the sight of faith, are the most well-mannered.”

 

Imam as-Sadiq (a) said: “After the fulfillment of the obligatory religious duties, the most favorable thing that a servant offers to Allah is to extend the moral conducts over people.”

 

“Allah gives a servant for his moral conduct the same reward that He gives to the Mujahid.”

 

“The moral conduct dissolves sins in the same way as the sun dissolves snow.”

 

“Piety and moral conduct construct the countries and prolong the ages.”

 

“If you want to be respected, you should be lenient, and if you want to be disrespected, you may be severe.”

 

God did not send any messenger to people before He had adorned him with moral conduct, which is, then, the symbol of the prophets’ virtues and the title of their personalities.

 

The Prophet Mohammed (s) was the ideal example of moral conduct, as well as the other high moral standards. By means of his ideal moralities, he could seize the hearts, and deserved, worthily, the praise of God: “Most surely, you conform yourself to sublime morality. (68:4)”

 

Imam Ali (a), describing the moralities of the holy Prophet (s), said: “He was the most generous, the bravest, the most truthful and the most faithful, and in terms of temper, the most lenient and in terms of association, the most honorable. Any one seeing him for the first time is filled with awe, and any one associating with him loves him. I have never seen his like before and after him.”

 

As a picture of the Prophet’s moral conduct, it is sufficient to refer to his story with people of Koreish who allied each other against him and showed him various sorts of bitterness that obliged him to flee his hometown. When God gave him victory against them, they were quite sure he would revenge himself upon them.

 

He said nothing to them but, ‘What do you think I am going to do with you?’

 

‘Only the good, for you are a noble brother and the son of a noble brother,’ answered they.

 

He said: ‘I will repeat the same wording of my brother Joseph the prophet: "Today, you are not condemned". Go, you are released.’

ALI or QURAN k beech mey kya RISHTA hai?

:Quran milkyat hai
:ALI malik hai.
:Quran meras hai
:ALI waris hai.
:Quran kalam hai
:ALI imam hai.
:Quran nabi k dil pe utra
:ALI nabi ka dill hai.
:Quran aitbar hai
:ALI Hyder-e-karrar hai.
:Quran kainat hai
:ALI sardar-e-kainat hai.
:Quran me sura-e-momeen hai
:ALI amirul momineen hai.
:Quran mohtaj-e-jibrael hai
:ALI ustad-e-jibrael hai.
:Quran parhna tilawat hai
:ALI ALI karna ebadt hai.

Benefits of Ayat Kursi

1. Recite while leaving your House and 70,000 angels will protect you from all sides.

2. Recite on entering your home, and poverty won't enter your home.

3. Recite after Wudu, and it raises your rank 70 times in front of Allah.

4. Recite before sleeping and 1 angel will protect you the whole night.

5. Recite after Fard Namad and the only thing that is separating you from paradise is death.

If you pass this on Its Sadqa-e-Jaria.(Meaning you keep on getting rewarded for it, every time someone acts upon it even when you have died, up until the day of judgement)

Dua

Allah said to Musa (a.s):
"Aye moosa mujhse us zuban se dua maango jisse tuney gunah nahi kiye ho"
Musa (a.s) replied:"Aye ALLAH main wo zuban kahan se laun
Allah ne jawab diya "Tum apne liye dua dusro se karwao kyun ki unki zuban se tum ne koi gunah nhi kiya!

A position of great glory

By Mohammad Ehsan Rangiha

 

Tahajjud comes from the root word hujod which literally means ‘sleep’. However when it is constructed in a different form, tahajjud means to put away sleep and to stay up. Allah (swt) instructs the Holy Prophet (pbuh) to stay up part of the night to establish the night prayer (1).
Nafila has been taken from the word nafl which means extra, and this verse refers to the extra prayers that Allah (swt) asks the Prophet to establish during the night. Many commentators have explained this to mean that the night prayer was obligatory upon the Prophet (pbuh). Others believe the night prayer was initially obligatory upon the Prophet (pbuh) based on the verses in chapter 79 (Surat al-Muzzammil); the above verse (Quran 17:79) abrogated this by declaring the night prayer was recommended on the messenger and not incumbent.
At the end of the verse Allah (swt) says maybe your Lord will raise you to maqam mahmud as a result of the night prayer. Mahmud is extracted from the word hamd and means the station of glory and praise which is the highest position the servant can reach. Other traditions refer to it to mean the station of great intercession as the Holy Prophet is the greatest intercessor in the hereafter (2). This shows the greatness and the high position of the night prayer.  The prophet (pbuh) says:

“Two units of prayer in the middle of night is more beloved to me than the world and whatsoever it may contain”

“When the servant of Allah turns to his Lord in the middle of the dark night, and whispers to Him, Allah establishes His light in his heart . . . then He tells the angels: O my angels, look at my servant. He has turned to Me in the middle of the dark night while the false ones are playing, and the heedless ones are sleeping; bear witness that I have forgiven him. “

Many might think it is hard to wake up in the night to communicate and pray to Allah (swt) and search for a solution of how to overcome this difficulty. If we understand the greatness, kindness and absoluteness of Allah (swt) and comprehend the reality of worship which results in tasting the sweetness of communicating to our Master, the difficulty and challenges involved will be insignificant compared to the sweetness of worship and obedience. It has been narrated from the Imam (as):

“My God, who can have tasted the sweetness of Thy love, then wanted another in place of thee? Who can have become intimate with Thy nearness, then sought removal from thee?”

We spend long hours speaking to our friends, spouses and parents, but when it comes to the One who has gifted us with all these people and blessings many of us fall short and don’t even spend a portion of this time communicating and supplicating to Him (swt). We have to start knowing ourselves and discover the treasure which is hidden within us so it can be a means by which we can know Allah (swt), and to taste the sweetness of worshiping him by which we can reach perfection and fulfil the goal and purpose of our creation.
The night is the best time for this as everyone has gone to sleep and the true servant and lover of Allah (swt) makes the most of this golden opportunity to purify himself, discover his purpose of creation and communicate with Allah (swt). It would be a lie for us to say we love Allah (swt) and bear to sleep the whole night. What type of lover sleeps the whole night when he or she can be talking to their Beloved?
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References
(1) Tafseer Nemoone
(2) Tafseer al -Mizan

Practical Tips for Daily Life from Qur'an and Ahlul Bayt

  Imam Ali [a]: ‘If you were to acquire knowledge from its source, and drink water at its freshest, and amass good at its origin, and adopt a path at its clearest point, and adopt the path of truth at its most proper, the paths would open themselves to you indeed and the signs would become manifest to you.’ [al-Kafi, v. 8, p. 32, no. 5]