halal and haram-

-teacher-

“If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad?

The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and souls. . . his forbearance in victory, his ambition, which was entirely devoted to one idea and in no manner striving for an empire; his endless prayers, his mystic conversations with God, his death and his triumph after death; all these attest not to an imposture but to a firm conviction which gave him the power to restore a dogma. This dogma was twofold, the unity of God and the immateriality of God; the former telling what God is, the latter telling what God is not; the one overthrowing false gods with the sword, the other starting an idea with words.”

“Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire; that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?”

Larmatine, the French scholar

(Lamartine, Histoire De La Turquie, Paris, 1854, Vol. II, pp. 276-277)

I was asking my friend about some pressing issue and how i can solve it.

So he answered me whilst we were in his car, he turned his head around, looked at me in the rear seat and gave his usual beautiful but this time slightly amusing piece of advice,

“you got to do what you got to do!”

so do what u got to do.

if i look at it closely he’s right you got to have some determination but…..

you got to do what you got to do!!!!!!

He replied,

“I wept because (in the times of ignorance /jahiliyah)  i remember burying my little daughter alive and whilst i was burying her, she took hold of my beard. I cried because this deeply saddened me.

I smiled because (in the times ignorance times) i once made a idol out of dates and i got hungry so i ate it!”

(note: not word for word)

‘  The guide someone to the truth is better than 5 Bentleys/Ferrari’s  ‘

~ From the Prophet of Allah narration, not word for word but more commentary

(well He aid something like ’5 red camels which were defintely similar/expensiffff!!)

the question arised what if you take a person away from truth?

Television can titillate, it cannot teach. It can bring images into our heart, not ideas into our mind. It appeals to the emotions, not the intellect.”,

writes Khalid Baig.

It desensitizes you to stuff, if you watch only 3-4 hours of television a day,
by the end of the month you have witnessed 75,000 acts of haraam
—-75,000 acts of zina, theft, lying, cheating, immodesty, etc….
and how many when you multiply that times 12???????

and imagine how much haraam you are allowing your kids watch in one year…
and even if you sit down and lecture them for an hour a day about Islam,
you will  counter those 75,000 acts of haram u let them watch a month

-reported by Khalid Yaseen-

Oh and what about the internet?…..

found some excellent articles on television and its evil or blessings.

http://truelife200vi.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/the-evil-of-television/

http://wordworkshop.blogspot.com/2008/01/this-pretty-much-sums-it-up.html

“The truest words spoken by a poet are the verses of Labid’:

“Is not all vain except God.”

- narrated by Abu Hurayra

Every thing, but Allah, is vain

And all happiness, unconditionally, will vanish

When a man is on a night joumey, he thinks that he has accomplished some deed

But man spends his life in hopes

…

If you do not trust your self, approve it

Perhaps the past would unclose it to you

When you do not find a father other than ‘Adah and Ma’iid,

The judge (God) will punish you

On the day when every body will be informed of his deeds

When the record of his life is opened before Allah’