Islam At A Glance

	ISLAM AND MUSLIMS
	Islam At A Glance   The declaration of faith, Prayers, Fasting, Zakat, Hajj And Jihaad
	What The Others (non-muslims) say about Quraan Paak (The Holy Book)
	What The Others (non-muslims) say about Islam as a way of life
	What The Others say about : Hazrat Muhammad (Sall Allaho Alehe Wassallam)
	Basics Of Islam:-
	Moral System in Islam  God-Consciousness ,Social Responsibilities, Parents and Neighbours
	Is there any Life After Death  ? Divine Revelation
	Prophet-hood In Islam   A Muslim Should believe In All The Holy Prophets send by Allah
	Concept Of God In Islam  Allah is more loving and kinder than a mother to her dear child
	Concept of Worship In Islam Decent work is considered in Islam a type of worship
	Human Rights in an Islamic State  The Security of Life and Property , Rulers Not Above the Law
	Importance of Good Social Conduct Teachings of Hazrat Muhammad (Sall Allaho Alehe Wassallam)
	Children Rights on Parents  Showing kindness to children especially daughters
	Parents Rights on Children  Pleasing the parents causes Allah's pleasure
	Rights of Other Relatives  Showing kindness to those who sever relations
	Mutual Rights of Husband & Wife  Marriage proves to be a source of joy and satisfaction to the couple
	Neighbors Rights Caring for the moral and religious status of neighbors
	Rights of the Weak and the Poor Treatment of slaves and servants, Show kindness to the orphans
	Islamic Brotherhood  A Muslim is like a Mirror unto a fellow Muslim
	Duties to All Others Created Beings Kindness to Animals
	Allah The most Beneficent and ever Merciful Most beautiful names belong to Allah
	The Last Sermon  Be my witness Oh Allah, that I have conveyed your message to your people

Human Rights in Islam - حقوق العباد - Haqooq ul Ibaad

Human Rights in Islam  - حقوق العباد - Haqooq ul Ibaad 

by SHAIKH SANAULLAH MADANI—PEACE TV (URDU)

MUSALMAANON KE HUQOOQ PART 1-2 - RIGHTS OF MUSLIM

MUSALMAANON KE HUQOOQ PART 2-2 - RIGHTS OF MUSLIM

GHAIR MUSLIMON KE HUQOOQ - RIGHTS OF NON-MUSLIMS

NABI(SAW) KE HUQOOQ - RIGHTS OF PROPHET(PBUH)

PADOSI KE HUQOOQ - RIGHTS OF NEIGHBOURS

RISHTEDAARON KE HUQOOQ - RIGHTS OF RELATIVES

MAA BAAP KE HUQOOQ - RIGHTS OF PARENTS

AULAAD KE HUQOOQ - RIGHTS OF CHILDREN

BIWI KE HUQOOQ  - RIGHTS OF WIFE

SHAUHAR KE HUQOOQ - RIGHTS OF HUSBAND

FITRAH - It is Natural to Believe in God - Dawah to atheist

FITRAH

It is Natural to Believe in God

For deists, there is no need to worship because our purpose in this world is unknown. We find our own purposes and whatever we do is okay as long as we do not harm others. The way to deal with this belief is to stress that the need to worship is a natural instinct in all human beings.

The Prophet (r) related that when Allaah created Aadam, He took a covenant from him in a place called Na‘maan on the day of ‘Arafah. (The 9th of the 12th lunar month known as Dhul-Hijjah.) Then He extracted from him all of his descendants who would be born until the end of the world, generation after generation, and spread them out in front of Him in order to take a covenant from them also. He spoke to them face to face saying: “Am I not your Lord?” and they all replied, “Yes, we testify to it.” Allaah then explained why He had all of mankind bear witness that He was their creator and only true God worthy of worship. He said, “That was in case you (mankind) should say on the Day of Resurrection, “Surely we were unaware of all this. We had no idea that You, Allaah, were our God. No one told us that we were supposed to worship You alone.” Allaah went on to explain that it was also in case some people would say: “It was our ancestors who made partners (with Allaah) and we are only their descendants; will You, then destroy us for what those liars did?"" [Soorah al-A‘raaf, (7):172-3. The hadeeth is from asaheeh (authentic) narration of Ibn ‘Abbaas collected by Ahmad. See al-Albaanee’s Silsilah al-Ahaadeeth as-Saheehah,(Kuwait: ad-Daar as-Salafeeyah and Amman: al-Maktabah al-Islaameeyah, 2nd ed., 1983) vol.4, p.158, no.1623.]

This was the Prophet’s (r) explanation of the Qur’anic verse in which Allaah said:

 “When your Lord drew forth from the loins of the children of Aadam their descendant and made them testify concerning themselves, (saying): ‘Am I not your Lord?’ they said, ‘Yes, we testify to it.’ (This) in case you say should say on the Day of Judgement, ‘We were unaware of this.” Or in case you should say, ‘It was our ancestors who made partners (with Allaah) and we are only their descendants. Will you then destroy us for what those liars did?’” Soorah al-A‘raaf, (7):172-3.

The verse and prophetic explanation confirm the fact that everyone is responsible for belief in God and on the Day of Judgement excuses will not be accepted. Every human being has the belief in God imprinted on his soul and Allaah shows every idolator, during the course of his life, signs that his idol is not God. Hence, every sane human being is required to believe in One God who is without partners.

Man’s Natural Disposition : the Fitrah

Since Allaah made all human beings wear to His Godhood when He created Aadam, this oath is printed on the human soul even before it enters the fetus in the fifth month of pregnancy. So when a child is born, it has with it a natural belief in Allaah. This natural belief is called in Arabic the fitrah. (Al-‘Aqeedah at-Tahaaweeyah, (8th ed., 1984), p.245.)

If the child were left alone, it would grow up aware of Allaah in His unity, but all children are affected by the pressures of their environment whether directly or indirectly. The Prophet (r) reported that Allaah said, I created My servants in the right religion but the devils made them go astray. (Sahih Muslim (English Trans.), vol.4, p.1488, no.6853.)

The Prophet (r) also said, Each child is born in a state of fitrah, but his parents make him a Jew or a Christian. It is like the way an animal gives birth to a normal offspring. Have you noticed any (young animal) born mutilated before you mutilate them? (Collected by Muslim, [Sahih Muslim(English Trans.), vol.4, p.1398, no.6423) and al-Bukhaaree (Sahih Al-Bukhari (Arabic-English), vol.8, pp.389-90, no.597)]

So just as the child’s body submits to the physical laws which Allaah has put in nature, its soul also submits naturally to the fact that Allaah is its Lord and Creator. However, its parents try to make it follow their own way and the child is not strong enough in the early stages of its life to resist or oppose its parents.

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to be continued....

Why The Prophet Married Lady Aishah? - Prophet Muhammad's Wives

Prophet Muhammad's Wives

Aisha bint Abi Bakr

Why The Prophet Married Lady Aishah?

Society’s norms of sexual relationships and family life are in a state of continual change. Living in the 21^st century, we find that these changes that used to be slow and gradual in the past are gaining more and more speed. We have already been into Future Shock and the Third Wave of dramatic and catastrophic changes in the way of thinking, in our attitudes and approaches to life and the world. (Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock [1970] and The Third Wave [1989] are path-breaking books that describe the effect of fast changes that overtake modern societies.)

In most of the so-called civilized countries, family values seem to have lost all worth for most people. In the post–World War II generation of the United States, 80 percent of children grew up in a family with both the parents. Now that number has dipped to 60 percent or more. Before declining slightly in recent years, divorce rates had soared more than 30 percent since 1970. Today nearly half of American marriages are projected to end in divorce or permanent separation. Nearly half of people between ages 25 and 40 at some point have lived with a member of the opposite sex outside of marriage.

Please notice that we take the American statistics for the following reasons: 

(1)Reliable statistics are available there;

(2) Most countries and peoples of the world imitate the Americans and are facing the same results;

(3) Most of the critics of Islam come from America and so they are expected to have first-hand experience of the situations described.

Ninety percent of women born between 1933 and 1942 were virgins when they married; now over half of all teenage girls in the United States have sexual intercourse with some man before age 17. More dramatically, the percentage of teen girls who said that having a child out of wedlock is a “worthwhile lifestyle” rose from 33 to 53 in the past two decades. And what about same-sex marriage? It is being accepted even by the conservatives and the clergymen as perfectly normal. Such findings lead many people to conclude that “the institution of marriage is in serious trouble.” (Michael A. Fletcher, “Study: Marriage Rate Is at Its Lowest Ever—Findings Are Proof of Changing Attitudes, Report’s Authors Say,” Washington Post; published Friday, July 2, 1999, in The San Jose Mercury News.)

To speak of the age of consent for women in the United States: A 20-year-old woman who marries in Nebraska breaks the law because there the age of consent is 21, while a woman in Alabama can legally marry at that age, as the age of consent there is only 18. A hundred years ago, under the common law in the United States, the age of consent was just 10 years. Ancient Jewish law permitted girls to be wives at a much younger age. In ancient India girls as young as five and six were married to much older men. Even now the practice continues among some Hindus.

The foregoing shows that the minimum age for girls to be married varies from culture to culture and from age to age. Against this background, there seems to be no point in holding a particular age as the right age of consent in the post-modern world. But people who want to impose one on a different culture or religion would make it a big issue. It is surprising how even the intellectuals show a tendency to judge others by their own culture-specific standards as though these should be accepted universally binding on the whole of mankind!

This is not to argue that today girls should be married off at nine or ten years, for no one can ignore that the times, the social conditions, and the cultural milieu have undergone immense changes. But the very same fact should help us to realize that in another age and in another cultural setting, marrying a girl at the age of nine was quite the norm and there could be nothing surprising about that.

The events of the Prophet’s life (as also is the case of the lives of other prophets of the past) should be interpreted in the light of the socio-historical conditions of the times. What people often miss is the absurdity of trying to assess an event of sixth century Arabia, as though it happened the other day in downtown Manhattan or Birmingham.

It is worth stating here that it was Abu Bakr, the father of Aishah, who gave her in marriage to Muhammad (peace be upon him), and that she remained a faithful and loving wife until death parted her from her husband. And of the wives of the Prophet, none was so mature and knowledgeable as Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her).

As for your other point, it is a well-acknowledged principle that a hadith should be interpreted against the background of the actual context that led the Prophet to say or do what he did. Furthermore, when applying the hadith to the present situation, we need to consider the changed circumstances. It is meaningless to expect the Prophet to have explained all in advance; rather, it is the duty of modern scholars to do this interpretation in the right way, so as to make the example of the Prophet relevant to the present times.

It is only natural that some of the things that the Prophet did or said may not correspond to a particular time or situation; but that does not make such examples insignificant or irrelevant. In the future, situations and conditions may arise that call for decisions or rulings based on those examples.

And Allah knows best.

Source: http://onislam.net