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follow the guidance of his companions in general but we are not certain that this supplication was really said by umar and ibn mas ud and that it was received with no opposition on part of the other companions we are also not certain of the authenticity of what ibn umar and ibn mas ud were reported to have said about the significance of this supplication namely to any servant who offered this supplication allah granted what he wanted ibn abi shaybah and ibn abi ad dunyah anyway whatever supplication one offers it should not contradict the beliefs and rulings we are ordered to abide by there are two points in this supplication discussed by scholars in detail the first is regarding one s asking almighty allah to remove one s bad fortunes from the preserved tablet a record that contains almighty allah s established knowledge about his creation explaining this part of the supplication scholars said that what is written in the preserved tablet is what almighty allah has destined for his servants this includes what is conditional on a certain supplication a servant offers or an act he accomplishes and includes also what is not conditional i e the decided upon destinies hence supplications and good deeds benefit one as far as the conditional destinies are concerned while their effectiveness with regard to the unconditional destinies is manifested only in lessening the burden one may bear in this respect as said in the supplication o allah i do not ask you to change what you have already destined for me but i beseech you to lessen its burden on me it was also reported that the prophet peace and blessings be upon him said supplications have positive effects on what has already taken place and what has not yet the companions asked the prophet peace and blessings be upon him for what should we work now for that which has already been destined or that which is yet to come he peace and blessings be upon him replied for that which has already been destined the companions said why should we work then he peace and blessings be upon him said carry on doing good deeds for everybody will find it easy to do such deeds as will lead him to his destined place for which he has been created in another version of this hadith the companions asked the prophet peace and blessings be upon him shall we not depend upon what has been written for us and give up deeds he peace and blessings be upon him said he who is destined to be among the happy in the hereafter will find it easy to do the deeds characteristic of such people while he who is destined to be among the miserable ones will find it easy to do the deeds characteristic of such people so carry on doing good deeds for everybody will find it easy to do such deeds as will lead him to his destined place for which he has been created then he peace and blessings be upon him recited almighty allah s words as for him who giveth and is dutiful toward allah and believeth in goodness surely we will ease his way unto the state of ease but as for him who hoardeth and deemeth himself independent and disbelieveth in goodness surely we will ease his way unto adversity his riches will not save him when he perisheth al layl 92 5 10 however according to al alusi and al fakhr ar razi some scholars did not approve of this explanation of the possibility of removing something from the preserved tablet they say that this may be done in the records that angels write concerning people s deeds not in the preserved tablet the second point discussed by scholars with regard to this supplication is concerning saying that the 15th night of sha ban is the night on which every wise command is decided and made clear quoting this from a qur anic verse this is not right according to ikrimah he who says so cannot be right at any rate for the verse referred to here states clearly that the qur an was revealed in this night it is established that the qur an was revealed in the night of qadr and this night is in the month of ramadan not sha ban there is also a da if hadith to the effect that the time of death prescribed for one may be postponed from sha ban to another sha ban to the extent that one might marry and have a child while his name had been among the dead in the preserved tablet al mawahib al laduaniyyah vol 2 p 260 though this hadith is da if some scholars tried to reconcile between its meaning and the other religious texts that seem to contradict it saying that what takes place in sha ban is copying what is in the preserved tablet into the records that angels write and therein may occur the change but i believe that there is no need for one to resort to such controversial supplications as there are many other supplications from the qur an and the authentic hadiths that one may offer sincerely in one s prayers http www islamonline net servlet satellite pagename islamonline english ask_scholar fatwae fatwae cid 1119503549106 posted by bb_aisha at 4 31 am no comments labels 15 shabaan la ilaha illallah muhammadur rasulullah why am i muslim i first pondered over this question at the age of fifteen before that i rattled off the basic i m muslim because i believe in a christian friend and i were speaking about religion when she threw this at me you re muslim because your parents are muslim i disagreed with her but reflected deeply when i got home why was i a muslim was i just following blindly without knowing why i believed as i did why did i believe islam was the perfect religion the true way of life growing up i thought it was almost heretical to ask questions this was due to conditioning by my teachers and elders yet it s only when we know the wisdom behind the reasoning that we can understand and truly submit to the teachings of islam in totality to ask is to grow in knowledge there was never a doubt in my mind about my deen i just needed to affirm my choice to be muslim which i did i m not going to expand on my journey of introspection and understanding here though two weeks ago i attended a da wah course which had a huge impact on me i ve mentioned in a previous post if i were ever to fall for a non muslim guy i d walk away because it would be arrogant of me to ask him to convert and also i wouldn t want a guy converting because of me but because he truly wants to be muslim now i ask myself how is this being arrogant do i not believe that islam is sublime in its perfection surah an nisaa verse 16 125 says invite to the way of your lord with wisdom and fair preaching and argue with them in a way that is better truly your lord kows best who has gone astray from his path and he is the best aware of those who are guided what is the purpose of life as a muslim it is to worship allah and it is every muslim s duty to call people to islam yet many feel they do not possess the skills to give da wah and that they are not strong enough in iman however all one needs is belief in the five pillars of islam and the 6 pillars of iman allah gives hidaayat guidance but there are two kinds hidaayat ul irshaad to direct someone to the truth this is the duty of muslims hidaayat ul tawfiq when allah opens a person s heart to islam we can do da wah in so many ways be it directly or non directly when people ask us questions about islam let s not be afraid to invite them to accept islam i think of my friends who ve converted and their stories and how some say they probably wouldn t have come to islam if not for muslims who invited them one of the american ladies at halaqah once told us of an old woman who lived next to a young muslim couple for a good few years one day she angrily banged at their door and when the husband opened she asked why didn t you tell me you re muslim he was flustered being post 9 11 and replied well i didn t think it was important the old woman told him why did you not want to share the truth with me i only found out about islam today but today i am muslim there are so many stories to relate but this one plays on my mind another story is the one the teacher of the course told he was giving da wah at a march in washington by handing out pamphlets i passed by a big built man wearing a sleeveless black shirt with black leather trousers tattoos running from his neck to the breadth of his arms wearing white contact lenses and i thought he won t be interested in islam a few minutes later my friend called me he had just given da wah to that man who immediately took shahaadah the man told us this morning i woke up wanting to search for the truth subhanallah when giving da wah to muslims or non muslims it s important not to use fear to admonish the people it is related in bukhari make things easy and do not make things difficult give the good news and do not turn people away unfortunately we are consantly preached to and from childhood taught to fear allah rather than to love allah don t do that you ll get ghunaa sin make tawba tawba and we d tap one cheek then the other with our forefinger as we said tawba tawba astaghfirullah how about we teach children not to commit wrong out of love for allah i think mj mentioned this after the ilm concert last year where dawud wharnsby performed and spoke so refreshingly on reforming muslim youth so what if he has an earring or she doesn t wear hijab or their hair is purple don t frown at them when they come to the masjid be glad they re there speak nicely to them and they ll respect you and will practice the deen baba ali has a great video haraam why do some people insist on making everything haraam thus turning people away from the practice of islam the best da wah i ever received was from my portuguese convert friend sonia we returned home from alexandria just before 11pm it had been a long day as we left cairo at 7am i was tired thought i d pray qadhaa of esha the next day sonia said smilingly but beebs it will only take a few minutes to make wudhu about ten minutes to pray salaah we ll pray together in jama ah you ll feel so much better why put it off i complied and alhamdulillah have never felt lazy to pray salaah after that or intentionally made salaah qadhaa with the exception of fajr as per post below which isn t intentional so from dawud wharnsby s nasheed colours of islam your paint will be qur an your brush will be iman so fill the world with colour every colour of islam posted by bb_aisha at 4 28 am no comments labels being muslim daughter of holocaust survivor on gaza the wonderful sara roy on the gaza bloodbath israel s victories in gaza come at a steep price january 02 2009 edition csmonitor com by sara roy the jewish ethical tradition means embracing palestinians too cambridge mass i hear the voices of my friends in gaza as clearly as if we were still on the phone their agony echoes inside me they weep and moan over the death of their children some little girls like mine taken their bodies burned and destroyed so senselessly one palestinian friend asked me why did israel attack when the children were leaving school and the women were in the markets there are reports that some parents cannot find their dead children and are desperately roaming overflowing hospitals as jews celebrated the last night of hanukkah the jewish festival of lights commemorating our resurgence as a people i asked myself how am i to celebrate my jewishness while palestinians are being killed the religious scholar marc ellis challenges us further by asking whether the jewish covenant with god is present or absent in the face of jewish oppression of palestinians is the jewish ethical tradition still available to us is the promise of holiness so central to our existence now beyond our ability to reclaim the lucky ones in gaza are locked in their homes living lives that have long been suspended hungry thirsty and without light but their children are alive since nov 4 when israel effectively broke the truce with hamas by attacking gaza on a scale then unprecedented a fact now buried with gaza s dead the violence has escalated as hamas responded by sending hundreds of rockets into israel to kill israeli civilians it is reported that israel s strategy is to hit hamas military targets but explain that difference to my palestinian friends who must bury their children on nov 5 israel sealed all crossing points into gaza vastly reducing and at times denying food supplies medicines fuel cooking gas and parts for water and sanitation systems a colleague of mine in jerusalem said this siege is in a league of its own the israelis have not done something like this before during november an average of 4 6 trucks of food per day entered gaza from israel compared with an average of 123 trucks per day in october spare parts for the repair and maintenance of water related equipment have been denied entry for over a year the world health organization just reported that half of gaza s ambulances are now out of order according to the associated press the three day death toll rose to at least 370 by tuesday morning with some 1 400 wounded the un said at least 62 of the dead were civilians a palestinian health official said that at least 22 children under age 16 were killed and more than 235 children have been wounded in nearly 25 years of involvement with gaza and palestinians i have not had to confront the horrific image of burned children until today yet for palestinians it is more than an image it is a reality and because of that i fear something profound has changed that will not easily be undone for how in the context of gaza today does one speak of reconciliation as a path to liberation of sympathy as a source of understanding where does one find or even begin to create a common field of human undertaking to borrow from the late acclaimed palestinian scholar edward said so essential to coexistence it is one thing to take an individual s land his home his livelihood to denigrate his claims or ignore his emotions it is another to destroy his child what happens to a society where renewal is denied and all possibility has ended and what will happen to jews as a people whether we live in israel or not why have we been unable to accept the fundamental humanity of palestinians and include them within our moral boundaries rather we reject any human connection with the people we are oppressing ultimately our goal is to tribalize pain narrowing the scope of human suffering to ourselves alone our rejection of the other will undo us we must incorporate palestinians and other arab peoples into the jewish understanding of history because they are a part of that history we must question our own narrative and the one we have given others rather than continue to cherish beliefs and sentiments that betray the jewish ethical tradition jewish intellectuals oppose racism repression and injustice almost everywhere in the world and yet it is still unacceptable indeed for some it s an act of heresy to oppose it when israel is the oppressor this double standard must end israel s victories are pyrrhic and reveal the limits 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