"You werent there when the Prophet(SalAllahu Alehi Wasalaam) cried out during the battle of Uhud “Oh Allah! If this group is killed no one will be here to worship you ever again!” You werent THERE with Abu Bakr and Umar holding the Messenger of Allah as he cried out to his lord! You werent THERE when those Munafiqeen came and KILLED Uthmaan whilst he was reading Quran. You werent THERE with his wife while she tried to protect her husband and lost all her fingers! You werent THERE when Hussayn bin Ali stood up to try and protect Uthmaan and was stabbed by the same Munafiqoon who later claimed to be his “Shii’te”. You werent THERE when Umar bin Khattab was stabbed and still ordered the continuation of the prayer. You WERENT THERE to laugh with the Prophet, cry with him, hug him, kiss him, and fight FOR ALLAH beside him…and you werent THERE when the believers weeped over his dead body, while Abu Bakr stood up like a man reminding the Muslims WHO they worship. You werent there when Ali took out 28 of the Quraysh by himself! You werent THERE when the Munafiqeen slandered Aisha and she cried night and day. You were not ANY part of those Muslims who established this deen and fought for the right so we could openly say “I am of the Ummah of Muhammad!”…you werent there! So how DARE you come and try to bring your own opinions in this affair of our Prophet. How DARE you slander and belittle his inheritors, and how DARE you not know the BASICS of this deen but you run your mouth about how “Open minded” we need to be. Make no mistake you deem yourself an intellectual, when it is clearly nothing more than an innovator with big words."

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Iqra…Recite, Read

“The first words that were given to the Messenger of Allah were ‘Iqra’ – recite, read. What does that mean for us? Iqra. These words - ‘Iqra’ - what they mean to us, the Muslims, is that we are a nation that reads. An ummah that studies. An ummah that learns. These words had a powerful effect on an illiterate nation and it made them the scholars of the world. When the Quran was revealed the followers of the Messenger of Allah were mostly illiterate but these words inspired them to learn. And within a very short time the Muslim ummah was the most educated, the most scholarly nation on the face of the earth. And the number of scholars that this ummah had produced is unsurpassed.  When you look at the qualities of the scholars of this ummah you see their uniqueness and the fact that they do not have any resemblance in any other nation. Take for example the memory of Al Bukhari, his ability to memorise over a quarter of a million hadith. Or Ash Shafi’ee who said that, “When I open a book I have to cover one page because I would memorise everything and I do not want the information on the two pages to mix.”

It was the power of these words – ‘Iqra’ - that made this sudden change in the ummah.We are an ummah of knowledge. We are an ummah of scholarship. And unfortunately today we are lagging behind in our duties. This is an ummah that should be at the top in all fields of scholarship. And dear brothers and sisters, if we have lost the interest in learning at least let us fix the problem with the next generation. If you happen to be a person who is having difficulty encouraging yourself to learn and to study, do your best, but at least make sure that this problem does not become an inherited problem from you to your children. We want to make sure that the next generation is a generation that will love reading, love knowledge and love to study and learn.”

                                                  ~ taken from ‘The Life of the Prophet Muhammad’

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