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Muharram 1428/22 January 2007
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UNDERSTANDING THE QUR’AN
SURAH ABAS CONTINUED…
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE BENEFICIENT THE MOST MERCIFUL

[19] then He made the way easy for him

COMMENTARY: (then He made the way easy for him...80:20) Allah through His wisdom creates man in his mother's womb, creation after creation, within three layers of darkness [i.e. the belly, the womb and the amniotic membrane]. It is kept in a safe place in the belly. The mother in whose belly all this is happening is totally unaware of any of the details of this process. Thereafter, when the baby becomes perfect with all its limbs and organs, Allah made it possible that a body weighing 3 to 4 kg comes out through an extremely narrow passage, and the mother does not suffer unduly. So blessed be He Who is the best Creator!

THE MESSAGE
The Month Of Muharram
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Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar is one of the four sacred months mentioned in the Glorious Quran: Lo! The number of the months with Allah is twelve months by Allah's Ordinance in the day that He created the heavens and the earth. Four of them are sacred: that is the right religion. So wrong not yourselves in them. (9.36)

The specification of these four sacred months is stated in a Hadeeth narrated by Aboo Bakrah (radhiyallahu anhu) that Rasoolullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: Verily time has completed its cycle and returned to its original stage as it was on the day Allah created the heavens and the earth. The year consists of twelve months, four of which are sacred. Three of them occur consecutively; Thul Qa'dah, Thul Hijjah and Muharram, (the fourth being) Rajab of Mudhar (named after the tribe of Mudhar as they used to respect this month) which occurs between Jamadiul Akhir and Sha'ban. (Bukhari)

From out of the four sacred months, Muharram has been blessed with certain specific virtues. The noble Prophet (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: The best of fasts besides the month of Ramadhan is the fasting of Allah's Month of Muharram and the best of salah besides the fardh (compulsory) salat is the tahajjud salat (performed after midnight before dawn).(Muslim)

In another Hadeeth, Ibne Abbas (radhiyallahu anhuma) reports that the Messenger of Allah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: He who fasts on the day of Arafah (9th Thul Hiijah), his fast will be a compensation for the sins of two years and the one that keeps a fast in the month of Muharrarm will receive the reward of thirty fasts for each fast. (Tabrani, At-targheeb Wat-tarheeb).

DUA (PRAYER)
TO BE READ AT THE MAYYIT
ALLAHUMMA IGHFIR WAR FA’ DARAJATAHU FIL MAHDEYEEN WAKHLUFHU FEE AQIBIHI FIL GHAUBIREEN WAGH FIR LANAA WALAHU YAA RABBAL AALEMEEN WAF SAH LAHU FEE QABRIHI WA NAWWIR LAHOO FEEH.

“O Allah! Forgive, raise his stage amongst the rightly guided ie the dwellers of Jannah, and him. O Lord of the worlds! Make spacious his Qabr and grant him light in it.”

BENEFIT: It comes in a Hadith that the person who is by the side of the Mayyit should close the eyes of the Mayyit and read this Dua for Him. The angels say Aameen to his Dua.

THE STORY
A Masjid goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to Masjid.

"I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 Lectures. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the Imams are wasting theirs by giving Lectures at all."

This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher.

"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this: They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to Masjid for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"

When you are DOWN to nothing... Allah is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank Allah for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!

RECIPE
NAAN
Ingredients
7 Cups Flour - 1 pkt Instant yeast - 7 tblsps Sugar - 2 eggs 21/2 cups warm water - 3 tblsps oil - ½ tblsp slt - 4 tblsps ghee - 1 tsp Sumf - 11/2 cups milk

Method
Beat together oil, sugar, eggs and ghee. Add water, milk and sumf. Add flour, salt and yeast, form a soft dough (if needed more milk may be added). Cover and allow to rise until double its size. Form into balls, put on greased oven trays allow to rise. Brush with egg. Sprinkle Tal or kas-kas. Bake on 180 until golden brown. Brush with melted butter. Enjoy.

COOKING TIP
Beat is defined as mixing vigorously with a cooking utensil such as a whisk, fork or mixer.

QUOTE
“Always there is a drop of madness in love, yet always there is a drop of reason in madness” (F. Nietzshe)

A THOUGHT
I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my spouse. I have tried to make marriage vows mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends and them to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today, because I would be a cardboard cut out. But I call them on the phone and I meet them for lunch. I would be rotten, at best mediocre, at my job if those other things were not true.

THE SMILE
"An older, white haired man walked into a jewellery store one Friday evening with his old wife at his side. He told the jeweller he was looking for a special ring for her. The jeweller looked through his stock and brought out a R5,000 ring and showed it to him. The old man said, "I don't think you understand, I want something very special."

At that statement, the jeweller went to his special stock and brought another ring over. "Here's a stunning ring at only R40,000," the jeweller said. The old man's wife's eyes sparkled and her whole body trembled with excitement.

The old man seeing this said, "We'll take it." The jeweller asked how payment would be made and the old man stated, by cheque.

"I know you need to make sure my cheque is good, so I'll write it now and you can call the bank Monday to verify the funds and I'll pick the ring up Monday afternoon," he said.

Monday morning, a very teed-off jeweller phoned the old man. "There's no money in that account." "I know", said the old man, "but can you imagine the weekend I had?

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