Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Graphic arts

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم: لا يؤمن أحدكم حتى يكون هواه تبعا لما جئت به

The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: None of you believe until his desires follow what I brought.

I made this poster for fun (or to suck up to my hadith teacher). Although my photoshop skills (actually I used open source Gimp for this) are a bit lacking, I was still pretty impressed with the way it turned out. I want to make a bunch of posters for the ahaadith we are memorizing with each poster representing the concept that is discussed in the hadith.

For this poster, I thought the hole in the wall fit appropriately because the Prophet (saw) is mentioned a deficiency, or hole, in our imaan.

Additionally, the place looks dirty and rundown which seems to suit the hadith which mentions a person whose desires are not aligned with the shariah. If this is the case, the person will be following his nafs and will most likely be involved in heinous and improper actions.

This reminds me of something that Mufti Kamaluddin (db) mentioned in one of his talks. He said we should make the makroohaat of shariah into the makroohaat of tarbiyyah. Thus, whatever is haraam in the deen should be haraam and disgusting to us, and whatever is makrooh (disliked by Allah and His messenger) should be makrooh (disliked) to us as well. We should actually feel a repulsion from anything that is disliked in the deen, and we should love whatever is beloved in the deen.

May Allah (swt) allow us all to follow His beloved Nabi (saw), give up our own desires for what he brought, and enter us in to the Jannah that Allah (swt) has prepared for His servants.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Just like the moon paled in comparison with beauty of the Messenger of Allah's (sallahu alayhi wa sallam) mubarak face, the events and celebrations of this life pale when compared to the amazing victory of the believers on the Day of Judgement.

Please make dua that I can be among those people on that Day.

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And those who are careful of (their duty to) their Lord shall be conveyed to the garden in companies; until when they come to it, and its doors shall be opened, and the keepers of it shall say to them: Peace be on you, you shall be happy; therefore enter it to abide.

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And they shall say: (All) praise is due to Allah, Who has made good to us His promise, and He has made us inherit the land; we may abide in the garden where we please; so goodly is the reward of the workers.

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And you shall see the angels going round about the throne glorifying the praise of their Lord; and judgment shall be given between them with justice, and it shall be said: All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.

Also: http://www.inter-islam.org/hadeeth/stmenu.htm

A Piece of a Classic

Assuredly those who fear their Lord in secret, while they are absent from people’s eyes, being
obedient to Him in secret, such that openly [before people] it is all the more likely [that they fear
their Lord] — there will be for them forgiveness and a great reward, namely, Paradise.

067.012 from Tafsir Jalalayn