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[rudy-Diiriye]

i dunno any... sorry!! the nuns in the boarding school didnt share that with me.

[Khalaf]

Heres another story maybe "kiddo" story .....but good moral behind it.

 

 

 

A Tiger was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously

 

Hero - posing tigerbegged for his life, saying: “If you would only spare me, I would be sure to repay your kindness.” The Tiger laughed at the idea of a mouse ever being able to help the mighty tiger, and then he let the mouse go.

 

It happened shortly after this that the Tiger was caught by some hunters, who bound him by strong ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came and gnawed the rope with his teeth and set the mighty Tiger free, exclaiming:”You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, or expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor. Now I’m the one who saved your life.

 

And the moral of the fable is…

 

It’s possible that someday, someone in your life, although as tiny as a little mouse, might be the one to help you; so even if you are a mighty Tiger, treat little people kindly!

[Khalaf]

Formula for Happiness

 

Money has very little to do with it, otherwise all the rich would be blissfully happy and the poor totally miserable. Money can buy medicines but not health, acquaintances but not friends, servants but not faithfulness, food but not appetite.

 

Our beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW) has very aptly said that "Riches are not from an abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind."

 

With all the scientific and technological advancement, man is still living a life of continued misery and unhappiness. Everywhere we look we find turmoil and confusion, people don't know how to solve their problems,how to achieve true happiness. Most don't even know what their function is in this cycle of Creation.

 

If we want to achieve true happiness then we have to look towards our Creator and Source of happiness where He says in Surah Asr:

 

 

'By the token of time Man is in loss, except such as have faith and do righteous deeds and join together in the mutual teaching of truth and of patience and constancy.'

 

 

As long as we attach our happiness to material things it will always elude us. We reflect on the life story of the wealthy Christina Onassis who owned fleets of ships, lakes, real estates. For weeks her story dominated the papers as Christina was the only legal heiress of her father Aristotle Onassis besides her late father's wife Jaqueline Kennedy.

 

 

What an inheritance she gained! Someone inheriting such a huge fortune should certainly be the happiest person in the world. Was this true for Christina? She married an American but after a few months the marriage broke up. Thereafter she married a Greek but only for another few months.Then she decided to stay out of marriage searching for happiness, it did not materialize. A few years later she married again to a Russian communist. She divorced him after one year.Then a French industrialist.

 

 

When the marriage broke up she vowed never to marry again. - Four husbands from four different countries over a period of two years! At a party the press asked: 'How do you feel being the richest woman in the world?' She replied, 'Yes I'm the richest woman but I'm searching for happiness.'

 

 

Then we consider the man whom Allah Ta'ala gave an incurable disease. The doctors who gave up hope of his recovery, as a last resort, advised him to proceed to England for an emergency operation. The man asked for three days to organise his things and see to his family in case he died. Then he was sitting with his friend in his office which was next door to a butcher. While he gazed out of the window he saw a woman picking up awful pieces of meat and bone from the bin. He went down and asked her 'What are you doing?'

 

 

She said, 'Son, Allah has given me five daughters and they haven't tasted meat for a year. I'm just picking up these bits and pieces for them.

 

 

The man broke down into tears and went to the butcher and told him that the lady would collect meat from him every week, he should give her whatever she needs. She turned and said, 'But I only need one kilo'. He said, give her two kilos and paid one year in advance.

The woman could not believe all of this, she just burst into tears and raised her hands to Allah to make this man happy. When he went home he felt so much better, he felt he had so much energy. He met his daughter who was pious, she said, 'Father, you look so well, you're moving so well.

 

I see so much light in your face, where did this come from? He told her about the old woman. She cried and lifted her hands and made Du'ah to Allah to cure him from his heart disease because he had made the poor old woman and her daughters happy. Allah accepted this and when he went to England the doctors were stunned at his remarkable recovery and asked him which doctor had cured him. He cried and said, 'I only did business with Allah'.

Charity=gives health.

[Khalaf]

Salaamun, since its ramadan ill post good reminders stories inshallah others can as well.

 

The Battle With Two Wolves

 

This is a story, from an unknown source, tells us about: quote - “an old man who told his grandson one evening after prayers about a battle that was going on inside himself.He said, “My child, the battle is between two wolves, one of whom is so evil, full of anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, hypocrisy, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.

 

The other is so good, full of rememberance of Allah Ta’ala, faith, joy, peace, love and compassion, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, and truthfulness.”

 

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather,”Which wolf will win?”

The grandfather simply replied, “The one I feed.” - unquote.

 

What the grandfather said is certainly food for thought ~

 

Imam Ibn ul-Qayyim al Jawziyyah’s article entitled “The Ways of Satan in Leading Humans Astray” explains that one of the ways in which Satan leads human beings astray is by ‘feeding’ them with impressions of evil looking good. On this point, ibn ul-Qayyim wrote the following:

Quote: “From his strategem is that he always bewitches the mind until he can deceive the person. No one is safe from his bewitching except whomsoever Allah wills. He makes good looking to him what harms him the most, until he imagines that it is the most beneficial act for himself. And he makes him flee from the most beneficial act until he thinks it is something harmful to him. Certainly, there is no god but Allah.

 

How many humans have been tested by such sorcery? How many hearts have been kept from Islam, faith and goodness (by such sorcery)? And how many support and present falsehood in the best form and hate truth and present it in the worst form (because of his deception)?

And how much falseness is adorned and shown in a desirious manner to the alert? And how much falseness is spread among the wise?

Satan is the one who bewitches the mind until it follows different desires and various evil opinions. He makes them follow every path of misguidance. He leads them to actions, one after another, that cause their destruction. He makes appealing to them the worship of idols, the breaking of familial relationships, the killing of daughters, marrying one’s mother and so on.

And he promises them the victory of paradise with their infidelity, wickedness and acts of disobedience. He presents to them polytheism in the most honorable fashion. And he presents rejection of Allah’s attributes, of His transcendence and of His speech in the guise of anti-anthropomorphism of Allah. He presents abandoning ordering good and eradicating evil in the guise of having mercy for others, behaving with others in a good manner, and applying the verse, “O believers, you are in charge of your own souls” (al-Maidah 105). And he presents turning away from what has come from the Messenger in the guise of blindly following the Imams (taqleed) and the sufficiency of following one who is more knowledgeable. And he presents hypocrisy and compromising with respect to Allah’s religion in the guise of being flexible and mixing admirably with the people.” - unquote.

 

In another beneficial excerpt “Perfecting One’s Character from “The Magnificent Journey” Imam Ibn ul-Qayyim al Jawziyyah explains three conditions needed to acquire good manners/character, meaning proper nature, controlling one’s nafs and sound knowledge. He wrote:

Quote: “The Prophet sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam used to make a number of supplications related to good character.

“O Allah, guide me to good character, none guides to good character but You…” [Muslim]

“O Allah, I seek refuge in you from bad character, deeds and desires.” [at-Tirmidhee]

“O Allah, You perfectly created me, so perfect my character.” [Ahmad]

“O Allah, I seek refuge in you from disability and laziness; from cowardice and avarice; from decrepitude and harshness; from negligence and impoverishment, from lowness and humiliation. And I seek refuge in You from poverty and disbelief; from sinfulness, disunity and hypocrisy; from notability and riyaa’ (show off)…” (Ahmad, Maalik, Bazaar, Haithami and ibn `Abd al-Barr authenticated it).

Three Conditions to Acquire Excellent Manners

This is one example of the excellent manners with which Allah (ta`aala) has equipped his Messenger (sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam). He described him as,

“Verily, You (Muhammad) are on an exalted standard on character.” (68:4)

`Aa’ishah, radhiallaahu `anhu, described him as, “His character was just (a reflection of) the Qur’aan.” (Muslim, Aboo Daawood, Ahmad).

Such excellent character cannot be attained without three conditions:

1. The foundation must be good. If one has a rough and dry nature, it will be hard for him to submit to this (excellence of character) through knowledge, will, or practice. On the other hand, a mild and smooth nature will be ready and willing to receive the plowing and the seeds (to prepare it for character excellence).

2. The soul must be strong and capable of conquering calls of laziness, transgression, and desire. Those matters contradict perfection, and souls which cannot defeat them will always be defeated and conquered.

3. (One must possess) a discerning knowledge of the truth of matters, enabling one to put them in the rightful position, and to distinguish between flash and cancer - between glass and jewels. If these three qualities are present in a man, and Allah’s facilitation helps him, then he will be among those whom the best (husnaa) has been decreed and for whom Allah’s care has been secured” - unquote. (Published by QSS).

http://www.islaam.com/Article.asp?id=94

Now that you’ve finished reading the above advice,

which wolf would you feed?

[Khalaf]

The King and the Poor Man

 

There was a king who decided to take a tour of his country. As he passed by different places, everyone rushed to see him. However, while passing by a certain place, he noticed a poor old man who did not pay any attention to the king's arrival and remained engaged in his own activities. The king went up to this poor man and asked why he did not join the people to see him. The poor man replied, "Before you, there was another king who once passed by this place. Everyone gathered to see him as well. But, few days later he died and was buried in a place nearby. A poor man also died during that time and was buried near the king's grave. After some time, a strong flood passed through that area causing those graves to overturn. As a result, the bones of the poor man became mixed up with those of the king's. We could not differentiate between them any longer. After seeing this, it does not matter to me anymore as to who is a king and who is a beggar. In the end, our home is the same.”

 

Narrated by brother Ayyub from Toronto, Canada during one of his lectures.