A Tour in My Mind

It dates back to the day i was born, in the very first moments of my life, when my father held me in his arms when i was just a few minutes old & he recited those words in my ears . Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar  a phrase that i kept on hearing over & over again throughout my life once The Call for Prayer is made,............ till some day ...........on the time of the Dawn prayer the voice of the a muezzin   ( the one who calls for prayer ) broke the silence of the night ...........  Muezzin Calling from the Top of a Minaret the Faithful to Prayer Artist: Jean-Leon Gerome 1879 I thought  about the words .......Allahu Akbar! ........... Literally meaning God is greater :) Allahu Akbar الله أكبر is an Arabic phrase, called Takbir in Arabic, meaning "God is greater" or "God is [the] greatest".  In Arabic " Akbar" means greater, a constant reminder of a very evident truth yet it's crucial & should be repeated over & ov...

There are great examples for us the ladies to follow among those ones are :  Fatimah : the daughter of prophet Muhammad (pbuh),  and there is another great Fatimah the sister of Umar Ibn Al Khattab :) About 200 years later came a lady named Fatimah Al-Fihri The founder of the oldest  university in the world. Fatimah Al-Fihri was a Muslim woman chiefly known as the founder of the world's 1st academic degree-granting institution of higher education, which is still in operation today as the university of Qarawiyyin in Fes , Morocco. The university of Qarawiyyin in Fes , Morocco.       Rest in peace ma'am <3 :) Fatimah Al-Fihri The first believer in  Islam was a woman, kahdijah , the first Martyr in Islam was a woman Sumayya .     The ones the prophet loved the most were women, Aisha (his wife ) & Fatimah ( his daughter) .   There is " Rofaida ", who was the first female d...

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قصيدة للخليفة علي بن أبي طالب رضي الله عنه     النفس تبكى على الدنيا وقد علمت ** آن السلامة فيها, ترك ما فيها لا دار للمرء بعد الموت يسكنها ** إلا التي كان قبل الموت يبنيها فان بناها بخير طاب مسكنه ** وان بناها بشر, خاب بانيها أين الملوك التى كانت مسلطنه ** حتى سقاها بكأس الموت ساقيها أموالنا: لذوى الميراث نجمعها ** ودورنا: لخراب الدهر نبنيها كم من مدائن في الآفاق قد بليت ** أمست خرابا, وافنى الموت أهليها   *** * *** لكل نفس وان كانت على وجل ** من المنية أمال تقويها المرء يبسطها والدهر يقضيها ** والنفس تنشرها والموت يطويها إن المكارم أخلاق مطهره ** الدنيا أولها, والعقل ثانيها والعلم ثالثها, والحلم رابعها ** والجود خامسها, والفهم ساديها والبر سابعها والشكر ثامنها ** والصبر تاسعها ,واللين باقيها النفس تعلم أنى لا أصادقها ** ولست ارشد إلا حين أعصيها   *** * *** لاتركنن إلى الدنيا وما فيها ** فالموت لاشك يفنينا ويفنيها , اعمل لدار, غدا رضوان خازنها ** والجار احمد والرحمن ناشيها قصورها ذهب والمسك طينتها ** والزعفران حشيش نابت في...

         " انثروا القمح على رؤوس الجبال ، لكي لايقال جاع طير في بلاد المسلمين "                             الخليفة  العادل عمر بن عبد العزيز     لطالما سمعت هذه المقولة  لطالما ذكرتني بمدى الفقر و العوز  الذي يعاني منه الكبير و الصغير  و تمر الأيام و أسمع عن المجاعات الواحدة تلو الأخرى و  تمر السنين تليها السنين و الوضع يتحول من سئ الى أسوأ  ترى لو كان عمر بن عبد العزيز بيننا الآن ماذا كان كان سيقول لحكام العرب و المسلمين ؟!  ماذا كان سيقول لنا نحن المسرفون في الترف و الزينة بينما اخواننا في الاسلام و في العروبة و في الإنسانية يموتون جوعاً ماذا نقول لرب العزة اذا سألنا عن الصومال ؟! ماذا سنقول له اذا سألنا عن اخواننا في ميانمار؟! ماذا سنقول له إذا سألنا عن إخواننا في سوريا؟! ماذا سنقول له  إذا سألنا عن اخواننا الفلسطينيين الذين يموتون جوعا في م...

As the number of the Prophet's followers increased so the enemies of the Muslims grew more and more angry. The series of persecutions started late in the fourth year of Prophethood, slowly at first, but steadily accelerated and worsened day by day and month by month until the situation got so extremely grave and no longer tolerable.  At last some of the Muslims decided to go to another country in order to live in peace. It was only five years since the Archangel Gabriel had first come to the Prophet (pbuh) and two years since the Prophet (pbuh) had spoken out in public. The Muslims asked the Prophet (pbuh) to allow them to leave Mecca. He agreed, saying 'It would be better for you to go to Abyssinia. The king there is a just man and it is a friendly country. Stay there until Allah makes it possible for you to return. The Muslims prepared for the journey. They decided to wait until night so that they could leave without being seen. In The month of Rajab of the fif...

At the beginning of the fourth year of the Call, and for a period of some months, the polytheists decided to organize a full-scale opposition campaign. They called for a general meeting and elected a committee of twenty-five men of Quraish notables with Abu Lahab, the Prophet’s uncle, as a chairman. Following some lengthy deliberations, they reached a decisive decision to take measures deemed to stop the tidal wave of Islam through different channels. They were determined to spare no effort, in combatting the new faith. They decided to malign Muhammad (pbuh)  and put the new converts to different sorts of torture using all available resources. It was easy to put the resolutions relating to the new converts who were deemed weak into effect. As for the Prophet , it was not easy to malign him because he had such gravity, magnanimity and matchless perfection of character that deterred even his enemies from committing any act of folly against him. He had, as well, Abu Talib, ...

His message ignored by most of the people and his uncles, the Prophet (pbuh) continued to meet his friends secretly in a house near the hill of Safa. There they prayed together and he taught them about the religion of Islam. But even though they kept to themselves, they were sometimes abused by those who would not believe. From one such incident, however, an unexpected conversion to Islam took place. One day, when the Prophet (pbuh) was returning home, speaking with his followers, he met Abu Jahl, a leader of Quraysh, who hated the Prophet (pbuh) and his teachings. Abu Jahl started to insult him and to speak spitefully of Islam, but the Prophet (pbuh) made no reply and went on his way.     The Ka'ba    Later,the youngest son of Abdul Muttalib, Hamzah, one of the Prophet's uncles, who was a strong and brave warrior of whom people were quite afraid, heard how his nephew had been insulted. Filled with rage, he ran straight to the Ka'bah where A...

For three weary long years, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) labored very quietly to deliver his people from the worship of idols. Polytheism was deeply rooted among the people. It offered attractions, which the new faith in its purity did not possess. The Quraish had personal material interests in the old worship, and their prestige was dependent upon its maintenance. Muhammad (pbuh) had to contend with the idolatrous worship of its followers and to oppose the ruling oligarchy, which governed its destinies. After three years of constant but quiet struggle, only thirty followers were secured. An important change now occurred in the relations of the Prophet with the citizens of Mecca. The troubles Begin : Three years passed & one day Gabriel came to Muhammad (pbuh) & ordered him to start preaching openly to everyone. So the Prophet (pbuh) told the people of Mecca that he had something very important to tell them. He arranged a gathering & He stood on a hillside in Mec...

The first vision was followed by a considerable period, during which Muhammad suffered much mental depression. The Prophet (pbuh) was so upset and unhappy, thinking that Allah had left him, or that he might have angered Allah in some way so that Allah no longer thought him worthy of His message. However, the Archangel Gabriel came back to him and brought this surah, or chapter, of the Quran:  In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful " By the forenoon (after sun-rise); And by the night when it is still (or darkens); Your Lord (O Muhammad) has neither forsaken you nor hated you. And indeed the Hereafter is better for you than the present (life of this world). And verily, your Lord will give you (all i.e. good) so that you shall be well-pleased.   Did He not find you (O Muhammad) an orphan and gave you a refuge?   And He found you unaware (of the Qur'an, its legal laws, and Prophethood, etc.) and guided you? And He found you poor, and made you ric...

Muhammad (pbuh) believed that there was only one Allah (One God) of the sun, the moon, the earth, the sky, and of all living things, and that all people should worship only Him. Renowned compilers of authentic traditions of Islam agree on the following account of the first revelations received by the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) . Muhammad (pbuh) would often leave the crowded city and go to the cave in Mount Hira'. He liked to be alone there, away from all thoughts of the world and daily life, eating and drinking little. The cave of Mount Hira   Muhammad would seclude himself in the cave of Mount Hira and worship there for days and nights. He would, whenever he wished, return to his family at Mecca and then go back again, taking wihim the necessities of life. Thus he continued to return to Khadijah from time to time. In his fortieth year, Muhammad (pbuh) left Mecca to spend Ramadan, the traditional month of retreat, in the cave. one day in the revelation...