Fellow Muslims! We are the ummah of Qur’ân and Sunnah, the ummah of divine guidance. We are the ummah of the right path but we did not stay on this path.

Brethren in faith! All hardships and tribulations that afflict the Muslims are just like whips that drive them back to ?mân and Tawhîd. They remind them of Allâh the Almighty; they encourage them to turn back to Him in repentance and to fear the Day of Judgement. Allâh says:
“See they not that they are tried once or twice every year (with different kinds of calamities, disease, famine)? Yet, they turn not in repentance, nor do they learn a lesson (from it).” (At-Tawbah 9:126)

Materialism has prevailed over the hearts of many people, and as a result they see nothing except in the light of materials. It is when man keeps away from the light of ?mân and his relationship with Allâh becomes weak that his soul lives in spiritual isolation and his heart becomes hardened. He then lives a disturbed and fearful life. All this is a result of his abandonment of the real source of life and his forgetfulness of Allâh. He forgets that it is Allâh Who created the soul and Who knows the means by which it lives. The life is not that of the body but of the soul. Allâh says,

“Is he who was dead (without Faith by ignorance and disbelief) and We gave him life (by knowledge and Faith) and set for him a light (of Belief) whereby he can walk amongst men - like him who is in the darkness (of disbelief, polytheism and hypocrisy) from which he can never come out?” (Al-An‘âm 6:122)

Hence, belief in Allâh is the source of security and peace. And the hearts that are devoid of ?mân are always far from Allâh and are full of fright and confusion. read more

BISMILLAH ALLATHEE LAA ILAAHA ILLAA HUWA AR RAHMAAN AR RAHEEM ALLAHUMMA ATH HIB ANNY AL HAMM WAL HUZN. In the Name of Allah, The Being besides Whom none is worthy of worship, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful. O Allah! Remove me of all worries and sorrow.

BENEFIT: After Salaah Rasulullah SAW would pass his right hand over his blessed head and read this Dua.

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BUTTERNUT SOUP
Ingredients
2 Cups cubed butternut peeled - 1 cup water - 1 cup cubed chicken fillets - 1 tblsp butter - 1 green chilli sliced - 2 cloves garlic chopped - ½ tsp cumin seeds - ¼ tsp ground white pepper - 2 tsps aromat - ¼ cup pasta (noodles, stars, rice) - 11/2 liters boiling water - 1 x 125ml fresh cream - Chopped spring onions for garnish.

Method
Cook butternut with water till soft, puree with half cup water and set aside.
Braise green chilli garlic and cumin seeds in butter. Add chicken pepper and aromat and cook until chicken is tender.
Add pasta butternut and boiling water. Bring to the boil and simmer until pasta is done.
Stir in cream and heat through.
Garnish with spring onions.

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn’t “Buick” rhyme with “quick”?