Please To Share With Family and Friends Asif Yousaf Sohail Butt Yasir Dar Junaid AbzDeecee Hussain Safina Khan Sadaf Butt Raqeeb Musa Tanveer Akhtar Meditations on Yazdan in Preparation for Ramadan Ramadan being for Muslim peoples what Next sales being for Asian womens. All preparations for Next sales – mental planning of which aisle to attacking first, asking obese relatives for sizes, building up strengths in biceps to snatching things from other womens, confirming refund conditions etc – needing to be done before doors opening in morning. Similarly, Ramadan preparations - spiritual & material, physical & metaphysical - must being done before Ramadan commencing. Material preparation comprising time scheduling & revising rules & regulations of fasting. (This including asking questions like ‘does my fast break if I wear nail varnish?’ & ‘why does my fast break if I go into a steam room?’) Spiritual preparations including reading about virtues of Ramadan to reminding self of importance of this month so we can fully exploiting it. There being very many works in Arabic to reading like works of Ibn Asakir, Ibn Shahin and Abdul Ghani Al-Maqdisi. In Urdu there being Khandelwi’s Fazaail-e-Ramadan. (Better to refrain from reading English translation of latter during Ramadan unless you wanting to break own fast) In English there being translations of Nawawi’s Riyadh us Saliheen which also containing very nice section on Ramadan. 1. Please to including in daily timetable:Nafl prayers especially Tahajjud, Ishraaq, Duha and Quran recitation Dhikr including La ilaha ill-Allah, Istighfaar & Salutations upon Noble Prophet (Peace be upon Him). Study of Islam to include Ramadan & attitude of pious predecessors towards this very blessed month 2. Please to spending minimum of £1 in Sadaqah every day in last 10 days. (This meaning you spending at least £1 in Night of Power, In sha Allah) 3. Please to making plenty of supplications: for own spiritual & physical wellbeing; for worldly & Hereafter success; for forgiveness of sins; for divine guidance to leading practising life & to be given death in state of Imaan; for family; for Ummah including oppressed peoples in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Guantanamo and all other detained Muslims, Kashmir & Syria. Please to praying for all deceased peoples so maybe when you dying someone praying for you too. Also, there being strong need to making duas for rishtas and for more Twitter followers and Facebook likes. 4. If brothers not fasting for any medical reasons then please to refrain from eating in public. If you doing this then we can only assuming you too being on menses. 5. Fasting not being compulsory on childrens before maturity. If they able to keeping without difficulties then this being fine but if they not & despite parents encouraging otherwise they expressing desire to fast then please to letting them keep ‘half fast’ and allowing them to eating Suhoor and then breaking fast at lunchtime. 6. Please to ensuring you doing the very nice brushing of teeths before Fajr beginning times AND using (non-sharaabi) mouthwashes [or the miswaak], In sha Allah, this making it possible to having conversation with you throughout day. 7. Ramadan being ideal time to breaking bad habits. In this month Nafs being starved very nicely so it being like wrestler in sleeper hold or BNP after failed confidence vote & so it be willing to making compromises. Please to exploiting opportunity to breaking habits like smoking, drinking, using Google Incognito etc. 8. Purpose of Ramadan being to forcing Nafs into subjugation. This being achieved throughout day but if you eating like Prophet Sulaiman’s whale at Iftar then this very much defeating purpose of Ramadan. Please to referring to Ghazzali’s Inner Dimensions on Fasting. 9. Many a Ramadan being broken – metaphysically if not physically – due to medias & social medias. Please to cutting down consumption of both to absolute minimums. 10. Young childrens should not being taken to mosque. If they having to be taken to mosque then please for parent to standing beside them. Father standing in front row like he being Caliph of Muslim world whilst son doing MMA in back row not being appropriate & usually incurring divine wrath through slap of Haji Saheb. 11. It being duty of Imam(s) to reading at good pace to ensuring peoples’ comfort whilst being mindful of Tajweed rules & national speed limits. There being no need for 3 hour speeches after Tarawih prayer. We knowing you recently downloading Tafsir Qurtubi but please to being mindful of peoples who having to work in morning. 12. Please to spending moments after Tarawih briefly resting & then engaging in worships till Suhoor. (Playing FIFA not being worships according to most jurists) 13. Jokes about dates going out of fashion in 268 BC. Please to refrain. 14. When month of Ramadan coming then pious predecessors used to boycotting all peoples and immersing selves fully in Quran recitation. For examples:· Imam Aswad completing Quran every two days in Ramadan· Imam Bukhari finishing one Quran daily in Ramadan· Imam Shafi’i completing sixty recitations of Quran in Ramadan Please to taking heed & spending as much time as possible in Quran recitation. (Note: Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali stating in Lataaif Al-Ma’arif that Hadith in prohibition of reciting Quran in less than three days referring to person who making this own custom & habit. However, in virtuous times – like Ramadan – and virtuous places - like Masjid Al-Haraam – it being encouraged that peoples reading Quran excessively to taking benefits of divine opportunity). 15. Please to refrain from ancient debates about: moon-sighting; Tarawih: 8 or 20?; permissibility of calling Ramadan ‘holy’; 15 or 18 degrees; whether it being Fardh to reading Tasbeeh-e-Traavee or not and other very beneficial, crucial & indispensable debates which we being questioned about in grave. Spending these moments in remembrance of Allah being wiser choice, In sha Allah. 16. Please to carrying tasbeeh at all times to reminding you this being month of remembrance. (If you being of opinion that tasbeeh being reprehensible innovation then you can using any app which being proven through authentic narrations) (the one using the tasbeeh - should not believe it is a sunnah, it is not from the symbols of Islam, just used for help with counting - The Sunnah is to glorify (and remember) your Lord using your right hand) 17. Please to sharing with rest of community the samosas, pakoras, biryanis, kormas & karahi & other very tasty foods. (Please to also sharing with non-Muslim peoples as well to reminding them what they missing out on if BNP coming into power) This increasing love, tolerance and cholesterol in community. 18. If possible please to organising Iftar for feeding homeless peoples. 19. Please to encouraging fellow Muslims & giving them moral support to exerting selves in Ramadan. Telling peoples “what’s the point of wearing Hijab/sporting beard for one month only?” not being Prophetic manner of encouragement. Please to refrain. 20. Please to refrain from posting on Facebook in last ten days “Hazrat [insert Sufi Pir] had a dream confirming that last night was the Night of Power.” Your Hazrat not being Prophet of Allah. Please to refrain. 21. Please to considering I’tikaaf in last ten days. Not only does this bringing very nice kormas, desserts & midnight feasts but also the very great rewards. 22. Please to refrain from saying ‘Aftari’. It being ‘Iftari’. 23. Please to making special dua for Qalandar at time of Aftari. - Qalandar Tabrizi
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:05:48 +0000
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