I was Born Today

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I was Born Today

I seek refuge in Allah from Satan the outcast

Praise be to Allah, we thank Him, we seek His aid and we ask for His forgiveness. We seek the protection of Allah from our bad souls and deeds. Whom Allah guides, no one can astray and whom He astray, no one can guide. I testify that there is No god but ALLAH, and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Oh Allah, have mercy on Muhammad and those related to Muhammad just that Thou had on Ibrahim and those related to Ibrahim; surly Thou art the Praiseworthy, the Great. Oh Allah, bestow your blessing on Muhammad and those related to Muhammad as Thou had bestowed it on Ibrahim and those related to Ibrahim; surly Thou art the Praiseworthy, the Great.

Thus, I ask Allah, the Exalted to make this gathering a blessed one and protect our apart after it and doesn't make anyone of us or around us miserable or deprived. Oh Allah, have mercy and forgiveness about what You know and guide us and be generous, Praise to the Pride and Generous.

He said: "I don't have a name, I was born today".

This was the last word said by Mr. Harbi .... Do you know his story?

He said: "I am a father of five kids, I used to work as a truck driver and as the truck drivers are used to, one would come and tell another to take something and claim that it will make him drive well and stay up all night." All of you all know this trend.

A bad gang surrounded him and urged him to take some narcotic and don't be afraid of doing so, and they claimed that such a narcotic would make him more active and vital.

He said: "That was the beginning. I stayed on drugs for twenty years. It ruined my life. I used to beat my wife in front of my kids. I turned into a man without a soul and without any feelings whatsoever. My wife did her best to help me to quit drugs but it was not possible."

Then, he sat crying when he remembered this situation and said: " I can never forget that day when I was sitting with visiting neighbors and my son came in and told me that I forgot to take drugs this day and he got me a piece of drug and gave it to me"

In this moment, I sat with myself for a little bit and felt the humiliation of the sin ..... After the guests left, a daughter and a son of mine came in and told me: "for how long will you keep on living in this mess, Dad? I was so much moved by their words but this had been the case for twenty years and it would be very difficult for me to change.

I started to try..... I got to know good people who kept on telling me not to give up and who encouraged me to go for pilgrimage with them that year. And it happened....

He was narrating that while he was standing on the Mercy Mountain on Arafah day , he felt that he went through a detoxification process that all the poisons in his body and heart were gone. He felt he was purified.

That's why he said:

Oh by Allah, I am now a new person. I really feel that I was born today, on the day of Arafah

Source: Born on the Day of Arafah, written by Sheikh Hany Hilmy

To be Continued ... Release from Hellfire

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Release from Hellfire

We need to be reborn today, on this day, the day in the year with the largest number of people getting freed, the Day of Arafah.

Why not? Why can't the logo for the day of Arafah for this year be"I am newly born"?

All of us, the one who is religious, the one who took some steps in the road to Allah, the one who is still at the beginning and the one who is still hesitant "thinking about it", we all need to be newly born.

The Prophet, May Peace Be Upon Him, said: "The faith would wear out in your heart like the dress do wear out". Narrated by The Tabarani and corrected by Albani.

Wear out here means like torn into pieces and could not to be used again.

This heart got tired and sick from the many trials that were not successful.

So, we need a new heart, a new life, we need to open our eyes to feel the meanings, as we were at the beginning when we decided to repent or as whom truly you want to be, the committed person who loves Allah and whose heart is getting closer to Allah. Yes, I am newly born.

I swear by the name of Allah, who there is no god but HIM, all the conditions are prepared for you and there is nothing easier than this. You shouldn't lose this opportunity.

This time of twelve hours fasting is equivalent to twenty four months and it leads to forgiveness of two years.

Twelve hours of fasting fast them right, make a promise to Allah to become a new person, not only to fast these hours and then forget about it. No, this is not the meaning. The meaning is that you try with yourself and do your best and you don't find the will nor you find the helping reasons but ALL the reasons are available. Look how precious this opportunity is!

The Hadith narrated by Muslim according to Aisha, May Allah bless her, that the Prophet Peace Be Upon Him said: "There is no day in which Allah will release people from the hellfire more than the day of Arafat".

By the name of Allah, this is not exclusive for the people who are standing on Arafat but it is general. And He comes nearer; who? God of Pride the all Mighty.

He is so very close to you on that day then, He brags his slave among His angles and say: Pay attention to these key words, Allah says "What do these people want?" What do you want? What did you want? What is your intention and goal? The key would be sincerity. The key will be truthfulness. The key will be a truthful intention only for the sake of Allah.

Narrated by Imam Ahmad and classified as Sahih (correct) by Al Albani and according to Ibn Omar that the prophet peace be upon him said: "Allah Almighty brags his angels during the evening of the people of Arafat and says look to my slaves who came messy and dusty". The second key word is kicking out from your heart your worldly life. If this goes out of your heart and if you gathered all what bothers you in one which is the hereafter, Allah will resolve all what bothers you, everything going through your mind and will shorten the distance between you and Allah .

What is going through your mind? Home problems? Exams? Marriage? Work? Money? How are you getting a home? What are you going to do ?or how you are going to run your home and raise your children? Allah will suffice ..yes suffice him all what is going through his mind and his problems. Only get it out.... They came to me messy and dusty.....they are not bothered by their appearance, and not any other thing....I came to you my Lord so accept me as I am.

The reward is so huge. It is the release from the hellfire. In the day of Arafat the supplications are answered and the pitfalls are corrected.This is a day which Allah honored and raised over all other days. This is a day in which Allah completed the religion and fulfilled the blessings.This is a day in which Allah forgives all the sins and releases necks from hellfire, We ask Allah the Almighty to release our necks from the hellfire.

Do you want to be released? Your heart should burn for the repentance. Your heart should be torn into pieces hoping that Allah would forgive, pardon and send His mercy upon you in that great day.

Here are the following virtues of this day and I put a duty for each virtue..

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The First Virtue of the Day of Arafah

The First Virtue: The day where Allah perfected His religion and completed His favors upon us


It was Agreed upon on behalf of Omar Ibn Al Khattab, May Allah blesse him that a Jewish man said: Oh prince of believer, there is a verse in your book if it descended on the Jews; we would have considered it as a celebration. He said: which verse? The Jewish said: "This day have I perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion."Al-Maeda:3. Omar said: We knew that day as well as the place where it descended on the prophet peace upon him, The day was Friday in Arafa." Narrated by At-Termethei on behalf of Ibn Abbas.

He meant to tell him that if this Ayah descended on them, they would have a big celebration and feast.

And it is our Eid, as narrated in the Hadith, that Arafat day is Eid. The Eid doesn't start on the day of slaughtering followed by the days of Tashriq. On the contrary, the day of Arafat is one of the Eid's days.

Narrated by Abu Dawud and Annesaei and classified as sahih (correct) by Al Albani that the prophet peace be upon him said: "The day of , days of Attashriq and the day of Slaughtering, are our Eid.. people of Islam.. and these are days remarkable for eating and drinking". Said by Sunnah people except Ibn Majah modified by Abu Dawud (241/9) and At-Termedhi (773) and Annesaei (252/5) and Ahmad (605/28).

The Assignment:

Since Eid was where Allah perfected our religion and blessings, we should have two worships: Gratitude and happiness.

We should be happy by God's mercy and kindness and be happy that we reached that day. Witness that this big day is the day of freedom from hellfire in your life.

If you reach it, then this is one of the best blessings. When you are happy, your heart will feel the love of the Most Merciful. You are happy because of His mercy and kindness.

You will feel that the blessings are descending as well as that you don't deserve them. When you thank your lord "Oh Allah, praise be to You", you will feel the happiness in your heart. Praise be to Allah, Praise be to Allah. These are the words that you will be saying and nothing else. If you want to say something else, you will say Praise be to Allah for the blessing of Islam and suffice as a blessing. You will say Praise be to Allah for enabling us to say there is no God but Allah. Praise be to Allah who had no son and no partner in His possession and Allah who is the Greatest.

Say ‘Allah is the Greatest' and I will tell why we need to say that?

The day of Arafah is a great day. We should glorify Allah in it. It has great blessings that we need to thank Allah for. If you instill these meanings in your heart, your heart will be purified from the inside out and will be completely clean. Once the love of the Most Merciful is inside your heart, it will be fully occupied.

So, your practical assignment is to dedicate a time in your day to praise, thank, glorify Allah the all Mighty and especially make lots of supplication at that day.

Enumerating praise on Allah is one of the reasons for supplication to be raised and accepted by Him. I cannot enumerate Your praise. Oh Allah, I don't know what to say. I see myself as a sinner and criminal. I am the one who disobeyed Allah's commands. I am the one whom You ordered and I disobeyed. Here I am blessed from the day of my creation till the end. Your bounties never stopped despite my sins. Oh Lord, Praisebe all to You and to You all return.

Your heart will be filled by saying these words and Allah would love it from you because it is called the flattering worship. This means that you don't know how to express your praise to Allah so you flatter Him. He loves it from you. This is the relation between the lovers. Try and then you will find the meaning of the Most Merciful love.

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The Second Virtue of the Day of Arafah

The Second Virtue: It is the day where Allah made a covenant with Adam's breed

As narrated by Imam Ahmad Ibn Abbas May Allah bless them, that the prophet peace be upon him said: "Allah took the covenant from Adam's back, peace be upon him, in Numan - which means Arafat- and extracted out of his body all his breed. He spread them in His hands like dust. Then He said: " When thy Lord drew forth from the Children of Adam - from their loins - their descendants, and made them testify concerning themselves, (saying): "Am I not your Lord (who cherishes and sustains you)?"- They said: "Yea! We do testify!" (This), lest ye should say on the Day of Judgment: "Of this we were never mindful* Or lest ye should say: "Our fathers before us may have taken false gods, but we are (their) descendants after them: wilt Thou then destroy us because of the deeds of men who were futile?"Al Araf:172, 173. Narrated by Ahmad and classified as correct by Al Albani. {Narrated by Annesaei too and Ibn Jarir and Ibn Hatim and Al Hakim in Al Mustadrak and said Sahih}.

This is the story. This is the nature of all human beings. Does anyone of us remember how we were in the dust world and we each said yes. This is the nature that the prophet peace be upon him said: "Every new born is born on nature which is the Unitarian nature, his fathers made him Jewish or Christian or MAJOOSI".

At the beginning, you were born pure. Your heart was filled with TAWHEED (worshiping Allah only). Your heart has the meaning of ‘there is no God but Allah'. All the creatures were born the same then pollution takes place because of the upbringing.

We were all born Muslims and Allah all Mighty blessed us with two merits nature and environment.

The Assignment:

Shouldn't we thank Allah for embracing us with Islam?

Unfortunately this word "I love Islam" is only said by tongues and doesn't have a place in the heart as it should.

Do you really feel the greatness of Islam? And that without it you are lost?

If you really feel it then you will realize the greatness of that day when Allah gave you the right nature to guide you to the truth and to the right path.

Doesn't He deserve to be praised and thanked a lot?

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The rest of the articles about the day of Arafa can be found here
http://www.manhag.net/mam/languages/...glish-section/

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jazakallah

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Jazakallah khair. :)

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... :'(

Daymn, why so emotional.