5 Years of all-things-SunniPath

Insh`Allah, SunniPath is celebrating it`s fifth anniversary online this weekend.

A live session with a number of senior SunniPath members is scheduled for Sunday , 25/05/08 at 6pm GMT.

Please try and register for the session.

Link : http://www.sunnipath.com/Outreach/2008-Summer/0805135YearAnniversary.html

SeekersMedia : Two Online Courses with Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

In the Name of Allah, the Benevolent, the Merciful


SeekersMedia Presents :


Two download-based courses with Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

1. Mukhtar Dars: Mastering Fiqh (Worship)

2. Kharida Dars: Understanding Islamic Beliefs


For further details please visit http://seekersmedia.com/

This is a unique opportunity for those who want to learn and benefit from our beautiful teacher, Shaykh Faraz Rabbani. These are online courses and hence you can learn , revise and discuss things from the comfort of your home and at the time of your convinience.

May Allah SWT make it easy for us to seek knowledge and learn from the blessed scholars.

The beautiful ways of Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

In the last Live Session for Living Islam Shaykh Faraz narrated the following :

One of the duas that the Prophet [Allah bless him and give him peace] taught Sayidina Mu`adh ibn Jabal [may Allah be well pleased with him] was, "O Mu`adh by Allah I love you and I counsel you O Mu`adh do not leave saying after each prayer `O Allah assist me in remembering you and to be thankful to you and to worship you most beautifully' ".

[This summarizes the deen]

Sayyidna Mu`adh transmitted this to others in the same way saying that"O so-and-so I love you by Allah and I counsel you O so-and-so do not leave saying after each prayer `O Allah assist me in remembering you and to be thankful to you and to worship you most beautifully'."

And this hadith has come to us continuously in the same way, in each chain of transmission the narrator is telling those he is narrating it to specifically that "O so-and-so I love you by Allah I counsel you O so-and-so do not leave saying after each prayer `O Allah assist me in remembering you and to be thankful to you and to worship you most beautifully'."

Shaykh Faraz then named all those present in his class and said "Ya [naming all students individually], by Allah I love you and I counsel you not to leave saying after each prayer `O Allah assist me in remembering you and in being thankful to you and in worshipping you with excellence' ."

SubhanAllah this was so beautiful and as one recites the dua after the prayer one is somehow reminded of the teacher that taught one and also the manner in which he taught.

A recent SunniPath blog entry by Shaykh Ashraf said that Shaykh Faraz has left SunniPath. The news left quite a few students in tears. Shaykh Faraz was my first teacher at SunniPath and he pratically taught me most of whatever little I know of Islam. From correcting one`s wudu and teaching one prayer , to almost every aspect of fiqh that one can think of he was always there to guide and help us. His live sessions were always special. When one was burdened with the fiqhi details he would bring in some wit into the class room and help us all relax.

His caring ,sensitive and focussed approach helped a lot of us. Most importantly he taught so many of us to say 'I don`t know' when faced with a question one isn`t sure of.We will surely miss him at SunniPath....I hope there is a way he can still come back and do some classes there.

The canadians are so lucky to have him there.

Know Your Enemy

Imam Ahmad b, Sahl, May God have Mercy on him, mentioned, “Your enemies are four: The World, whose weapon is the people, and whose prison is isolation; Satan, whose weapon is satiation, and whose prison is hunger; The undisciplined soul, whose weapon is sleep, and whose prison is night vigil; and vain inclinations, whose weapon is speech, and whose prison is silence.”

By Imam Zaid Shakir


Source : http://www.newislamicdirections.com/nid/notes/know_your_enemy/

Illness, food and drink

Hadith Qudsi 18:

On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Allah (mighty and sublime be He) will say on the Day of Resurrection: ‘O son of Adam, I fell ill and you visited Me not.’ He will say: ‘O Lord, and how should I visit You when You are the Lord of the worlds?’ He will say: ‘Did you not know that My servant So-and-so had fallen ill and you visited him not? Did you not know that had you visited him you would have found Me with him? O son of Adam, I asked you for food and you fed Me not.’ He will say: ‘O Lord, and how should I feed You when You are the Lord of the worlds?’ He will say: ‘Did you not know that My servant So-and-so asked you for food and you fed him not? Did you not know that had you fed him you would surely have found that (the reward for doing so) with Me? O son of Adam, I asked you to give Me to drink and you gave Me not to drink.’ He will say: ‘O Lord, how should I give You to drink when You are the Lord of the worlds?’ He will say: ‘My servant So-and-so asked you to give him to drink and you gave him not to drink. Had you given him to drink you would have surely found that with Me.’"


It was related by Muslim.


Source: http://www.sunnipath.com/library/Hadith/H0005P0000.aspx

Time

Hadith Qudsi 4:

On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Allah said: ‘Sons of Adam inveigh against [the vicissitudes of] Time, and I am Time, in My hand is the night and the day.’" (1)

(1) As the Almighty is the Ordainer of all things, to inveigh against misfortunes that are part of Time is tantamount to inveighing against Him.

Source: http://www.sunnipath.com/library/Hadith/H0005P0000.aspx