Excellent tafseer of surah Yusuf

A gem from Mohammed al shareef

Allah swt will never put the secret to success in something haram

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Can Women have it all Career and family life ?

A Shaykh's view on the Issue: Abu Eesa Niamatullah


I also want to briefly mention something about women in the workplace: I am an
absolute extremist in this issue in that I don’t have any time for the opposing
arguments. Women should not be in the workplace whatsoever. Full stop. Yes we need
women doctors and dentists and all the rest of it but there’ll always be Muslim women
who’ll go ahead and do that anyway, whatever the scholars tell them so let
them go ahead. As for the rest of the practising Muslimat: after 17 years of
experience in the workplace, I simply cannot imagine how we will safeguard our
Islamic identity in the future and build strong Muslim communities in the West with
women wanting to go out and becoming employed in the hell that it is out there. I don’t feel the need to offer any explanation. That’s just the way it is. I’ve seen far too many families split up, childrens’ lives ruined and ones Islamic development curtailed for myself to ever support women being outside the family home more than they already are.

The irony of my statement is not lost upon me, especially if I tell you that from an
interaction point of view, it is much better to be a Muslim woman in the workplace
than a Muslim man. The male cannot look at the woman other than her face and hands
for some given need. The female on the other hand is allowed with the same given need
to look at everything below the knees and above the navel of the man as per the most
correct opinion of the scholars. So you tell me: how do you avoid looking at the hair of your female colleague compared to your Muslim sister working with men in their normal state? There is no comparison.

Yet despite this fact, the warnings of our scholars have been actualised and the
new generation of Muslims in the West are throwing away their future at a time
ironically when the UK’s leading family judges are looking desperately to cultures like ours to save the family breakdown which is all too common to the native citizens whohave been obsessed in getting women into the workplace.

Whether you agree with me or not my dear sisters, the success of building a Qur’anic
generation from our children is almost completely dependent on the mothers
educating themselves as much as humanly possible on the Qur’an and Sunnah before
marriage, and then utter devotion to them after marriage. Call me old-fashioned,
bigotted, extremist, backward and whatever else you want for now, as long as you also
call me “honest” in 20 years time when you realise the truth.
There is so much that I could talk about here but then it’d just turn into a very long andlegal discussion. I’ll be very honest and say that the Fuqaha’ have gone into enough detail with respect to the interaction between the non-related sexes that a fatwa can be found for most of the things you mention. But as the Salihin have always asserted, it should be taqwah instead of fatwah that governs our day-to-day lives. We ask Allāh jalla wa ‘ala to protect us all in these testing times, and give us the taqwah and tawfiq to practise this great favour of Islam in the very best way possible, Ameen

Humility of Shaykh Al-Albanie

Inspiration of the week: Allah swt guides whom he wills

Quran:

"Verily, you (O Muhammad) guide not whom you like, but Allah guides whom He wills. And He knows best those who are the guided."

(28:56)

As I was flicking through the latest edition of Emel magazine I found a subject not often spoke about in asian communities today but incredibly inspirational. It was a story of drug addiction, crime and gangs.

Khurram Azad started smoking cannabis when he was 15, moving on to heroin and then crack. He moved into drug dealing at one point earning £3000 pounds a day. Khurram says in the interview 'I was dealing 7 days a week, 24 hours a day'.

What followed was two prison sentences, a front page appearance in the Reading Post and a massive impact on his family. Even in prison Khurram had access to drugs and mobile phones. He reached a point where he 'didn't care anymore'.

One night after going to a nightclub I thought ' I am tired of doing the same stuff, it's not me'. Khurram stopped dealing drugs because he knew he would have a hard time not taking drugs if he was dealing too and he also realised he couldn't earn haram money anymore.

Most of Khurram's mates were millionaires but as he himself says If you do honest work Allah swt will help and guide you.

He know works for BASIAN (Black and Asian Service In Alcohol and Narcotics) as a volunteer speaking to the young people in gangs, and trying to prevent knife crime. He says the kids have a lot of talent but put there energy into making money for cars and building an image.

As Khurram says 'I have realised that you can't be good and bad. YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE'.

Why appearances matter :)

Allah has not put two hearts in a person’s body.
Surah al-Ahzab: 4

Islam is one package; what you see outside, is what you get
inside.

Taken from Embracing Islam: The Journey begins

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In Memory Of My Mother by Patrick Kavanagh

I do not think of you lying in the wet clay
Of a Monaghan graveyard;
I see you walking down a lane among the poplars
On your way to the station, or happily Going to second Mass on a summer Sunday–
You meet me and you say:
‘Don’t forget to see about the cattle–’
Among your earthiest words the angels stray.
And I think of you walking along a headland
Of green oats in June,
So full of repose, so rich with life–
And I see us meeting at the end of a town on a fair day by accident,
after the bargains are all made and we can walk
Together through the shops and stalls and markets
Free in the oriental streets of thought.
O you are not lying in the wet clay,
For it is harvest evening now and we
Are piling up the ricks against the moonlight
And you smile up at us — eternally.

Patrick Kavanagh

Your not Irish if your not having the craic

A Tablighi, a HT, a Sufi and a Salafi are chilling out enjoying a pizza together..

Suddenly the light bulb goes out and in the pitch black silence, someone says, ''OK guys, who's going to change the light bulb?''

The Tablighi speaks up first; 'Wait! My brothers, I think we should first elect an Amir and make mushwara!'

The HT says, 'No! Theres no light. We must first establish a khalifa state and the Caliph will decide how to rectify the situation.

'No, no. Your both wrong' interrupts the Sufi. 'The 4 of us can hold a dhikr gathering and the noor from the dhikr will light up the room!'

The 3 of them then turn towards the Salafi...'Akhis!', replies the salafi, 'Where's your evidence that we need to change the light bulb?'

About Me!

As salam alaykum everyone :),

Wow well this is my first attempt at blogging, inshaAllah my aim is share beneficial things that I come across with y'all. Well about me- I'm blushing already. As you can tell I'm an Irish revert to Islam. I've been Muslim for three years alhamdulilah and am married to a British Pakistani- we met on Single Muslim. com. Hmm I may write about my experience of finding a husband online in the future. Alhamdulilah for me it was a positive experience and I've been married for just over a year. In the summer we had the chance to go on Umrah which was the best time of my life. Even though I was slightly worried about the fact that it would be scorching hot in Saudi I can truly say it wasn't that big of a deal! I must add that I am so white you can practically see every vein.

We also went to Al-Aqsa Masjid as well as travelling to a few other Middle Eastern countries with a lonely planet guide. I urge everyone to make it your habit to make Dua for our brothers and sisters in Palestine and all of this Ummah inshaAllah. May Allah swt help our brothers and sisters in Palestine and grant them victory Ameen.

My hobbies include relaxing oh and relaxing lol

Until next time

Be Good :)

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