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understandislam:

On the authority of Abu Dharr (radhy Allahu anhu), that the Prophet (sallAllahu alayhi wasallam) said:

“Whoever says ten times immediately after finishing the Fajr (Dawn) Payer, before moving from his place or talking to anyone:

“laa ilaaha illallaahu wahdahu laa shareeka lahu, lahul mulku wa lahul hamdu yuhyee wa yumeetu wa huwa alaa kulli shay’in qadeer”
[none has the right to be worshipped except Allaah alone having no partner, sovereignty is His and all praise is for Him and He brings life and He causes death and He has full power over everything]

.. ten good deeds will be recorded for him, ten sins will be eliminated from him, he will be upgraded ten degrees (in reward), he will be safeguarded from all kinds of harm all that day, he will be guarded against shaytan and no sin can overtake him on that day (and nullify his good deeds) except associating others in worship with Allaah. (At Tirmidhi no.3484 [5/515])

At-Tirmidhi commented on this hadeeth saying, “This is a hasan, saheeh hadeeth (i.e a good and authentic hadeeth).”

Likewise it is an act of Sunnah to say dhikr ten times straight after Magrib salah too, according to a hadith related by Imaam Ahmad Hanbal (rahimahullah) on the authority of Umm Salamah (radhy Allahu anha), hadith number 26430. Also stated in Sahih Ibn Hibban no. 2023.

Source: A Summary of Islamic Jurisprudence – Dr. Salih al-Fawzaan, Volume 1, Chapter 10

The sound of rain hitting the window while I pray is just….asdajdskfasalfkl. 

Every dua I wanted to mention while it was raining today…

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thetruthaboutislam:

The Prophet, peace and blessing be upon him, praised the status of the knowledge and its teachers. Ibn Majah related that the Prophet said:
“O Abu Dharr, if you go and learn one verse of the Qur’aan it will be more rewardable for you than praying 100 rak^ahs of the optional prayers, and if you go and learn a chapter of knowledge, it is more rewardable for you than praying 1000 rak^ahs of the optional prayers”

casual-conversation:

Prophet (sal Allahu `alayhi wa sallam – peace be upon him). He said in one hadith, “…If there were a river at the door of one of you in which he takes a bath five times a day, would any soiling remain on him?” They replied, “No soiling would [be] left on him.” He (s) said, ” That is the five (daily) prayers. Allah obliterates all sins as a result of performing them.” [Bukhari]

http://www.suhaibwebb.com/islam-studies/the-description-of-allahs-blessings/

1. The times I can’t pray: time for maghrib….family prays maghrib in jamat…SAMIAAA… SAMIAAA COME DOWNSTAIRS….SAMIIIAAA….WE’RE STARTING…HURRRYY…SAAMIIIIAAA…SAMIIAA????????

….me upstairs…sitting on the bed…um….”Allahu Akbar”…phew.

2. “ALRIGHT, LETS ORDER PIZZA!!!!” (*everyone around me cheers in equal harmony, jumps with joy, yells out all the toppings*)… (me in my head: should i say it? no…its okay if i don’t eat, i don’t wanna burden anyone…but it’ll be awkward if i don’t eat…oh my god, what do i doooo”

“Pizza makes me stomach hurt…”
“uh what?”
“I don’t know…its probably the cheese, or the grease…don’t know”
“you’re so weird, what do you wanna eat??”
“just the bread is fine…thanks…ya…umm…ya”

*shouldn’t have said anything* 

ugh.

Abu Huraira RadiyAllahu `anhu narrates that once Muhammad asked his companions, ‘Do you think that dirt can remain on a person bathing five times a day in a brook running in front of his door?’ ‘No’, replied the compan­ions, ‘No dirt can remain on his body.’ Muhammad remarked: ‘So, exactly similar is the effect of salat offered five times a day. With the grace of Allah, it washes away all the sins’.(Bukhari, Muslim)

In Al-Muwatta, Imam Malik ibn Anas says: “It reached me that the Prophet said: ‘(Try to) keep to the straight path although you won’t be able to do so completely; and know that the best of your deeds is salah, and only a (true) believer preserves his wudhu.’”

Abu Zar RadiyAllahu `anhu narrates that once Muhammad came out of his house. It was autumn and the leaves were falling off the trees. He caught a branch of a tree and its leaves began to drop in large number. At this he remarked, ‘O, Abu Zar! when a Muslim offers his salat to please Allah, his sins are shed away from him just as these leaves are falling off this tree.’(Ahmad)

Abu Huraira narrated: Muhammad said, “The angels keep on asking Allah’s forgiveness for anyone of you, as long as he is at his Mu,salla (praying place) and he does not pass wind (Hadath). They say, ‘O Allah! Forgive him, O Allah! be Merciful to him.” (Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 8, Hadith #436)

Umm Farwah narrates that Muhammad asked which is the best of the good deeds. He said, “To offer Salat at the beginning of its prescribed time.” From Abu Dawood

Abu Hurairah narrates that Muhammad said, “The first row of salat amongst the men is most rewarding and the last is the least; whereas the last rows of salat amongst the women are most rewarding and the first the least.” from Muslim

Uthman bin Affan narrates that Muhammad said, “He who performed wudhu for salat and performed it properly and then went on foot to offer the obligatory salat and offered it along with the people or in congregation or in the masjid, Allah would forgive his sins.” from Muslim

Man has taken many journeys throughout time. But there is one journey that nobody has ever taken.

Nobody—except one.

On a vehicle no man has ever ridden, through a path no soul has ever seen. To a place no creation has ever before set foot. It was the journey of one man to meet the Divine. It was the journey of Muhammad ﷺ, prophet of God, to the highest heaven.

It was al Israa wal Miraaj (the magnificent journey).

On that journey Allah took his beloved prophet ﷺ to the seventh heaven—a place not even angel Gibreel could enter. In the Prophet’s mission on earth, every instruction, every commandment was sent down through angel Gibreel. But, there was one commandment that was not. There was one commandment so important, that rather than sending angel Gibreel down with it, Allah brought the Prophet ﷺ up to Himself.

That commandment was salah (prayer). When the Prophet ﷺ was first given the command to pray, it was to be fifty times in a day. After asking Allah to make it easier, the commandment was eventually reduced to five times a day, with the reward of the fifty.

Reflecting upon this incident scholars have explained that the process of going from fifty to five was a deliberate one, intended to teach us the true place salah should hold in our lives. Imagine for a moment actually praying fifty times a day. Would we be able to do anything else but pray? No. And that’s the point. What greater way than that to illustrate our life’s true purpose? As if to say, salah is our real life; all the rest that we fill our day with…just motions.

And yet, we live as if it’s exactly the opposite. Salah is something we squeeze into our day, when we find time—if that. Our ‘lives’ don’t revolve around salah. Salah revolves around our ‘lives.’ If we’re in class,salah is an afterthought. If we’re at the mall, the Macy’s sale is more urgent. Something is seriously wrong when we put aside the very purpose of our existence in order to watch a basketball game.

And that is for those who even pray at all. There are those who have not only put aside their life’s purpose, they have abandoned it completely. What we often don’t realize about the abandonment ofsalah is this: No scholar has ever held the opinion that committing zina (fornication) makes you a disbeliever. No scholar has ever held the opinion that stealing, drinking or taking drugs makes you a disbeliever. No scholar has even claimed that murder makes you a non-Muslim. But, about salah, some scholars have said he who abandons it, is no longer Muslim. This is said based on ahadith such as this one: “The covenant between us and them is prayer, so if anyone abandons it, he has become a disbeliever.” [Ahmad]

Imagine an act so egregious that the Prophet ﷺ would speak about it is such a way. Consider for a moment what satan did wrong. He didn’t refuse to believe in Allah. He refused to make one sajdah. Just one. Imagine all the sajdahs we refuse to make.

Consider the seriousness of such a refusal. And yet, think how lightly we take the matter of salah. Salahis the first thing we will be asked about on the Day of Judgment, and yet it is the last thing that is on our mind. The Prophet ﷺ said: “The first thing which will be judged among a man’s deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is in good order then he will succeed and prosper but if it is defective then he will fail and will be a loser.” [Tirmidhi]

On that Day, the people of paradise will ask those who have entered Hell-fire, why they have entered it. And the Qur’an tells us exactly what their first response will be: ”What led you into Hell Fire? They will say: ‘We were not of those who prayed.’” (Qur’an, 74:42-43)

How many of us will be among those who say “we were not of those who prayed, or we were not of those who prayed on time, or we were not of those who made prayer any priority in our lives?” Why is it that if we’re in class or at work or fast asleep at the time of fajr and we need to use the restroom, we make time for that? In fact, the question almost sounds absurd. We don’t even consider it an option not to. And even if we were taking the most important exam of our lives, when we need to go, we will go. Why? Because the potentially mortifying consequences of not going, makes it a non-option.

There are many people who say they don’t have time to pray at work or school, or while they’re out. But how many have ever said they don’t have time to go to the bathroom, so while out, at work or school have opted instead to just wear Depends? How many of us just don’t feel like waking up at Fajr time if we need to use the bathroom, and choose instead to wet our bed? The truth is we’ll get out of bed, or leave class, or stop work, to use the bathroom, but not to pray.

It sounds comical, but the truth is we put the needs of our body above the needs of our soul. We feed our bodies, because if we didn’t, we’d die. But so many of us starve our souls, forgetting that if we are not praying our soul is dead. And ironically, the body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is eternal.

http://www.yasminmogahed.com/category/islamic-matters/prophet-muhammad/