Parents have the responsibility to teach their children about Islam and help them understand they are ultimately slaves of Allah SWT and they will be rewarded for their good deeds and punished for their bad deeds.
Children should be taught to live their lives according to the Sunnah and the Quran.
Raise your children to be good Muslims!
10 Causes That Remove Punishment For A Sin
Imam Ibn Taymiyyah
Majmoo` al-Fatawa 1:45, 7:487
Shaykh ul Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy on him, said:
“The punishment for a sin committed by a believer is removed in ten ways
1. He repents to Allah (taubah), so Allah accepts his repentance, for the one who repents from sin is like the one who has no sin.
2. He seeks forgiveness from Allah (istighfar), so Allah forgives him.
3. He does good deeds that erase his sin for good deeds erase bad ones.
4. His believing brethren pray for him or seek forgiveness for his sins during his life or death.
5. Or they [ask Allah] to bestow on him as gift from the reward for their deeds, with which Allah benefits him.
6. His Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam, intercedes for him.
7. Allah tests him with trials in this world which expiate his sin.
8. Allah tests him in al-Barzakh (the intermediate life in the grave, between the death and the Day of Judgment) which expiates his sin.
9. Allah tests him in the various stages of the Day of Judgment which expiates his sins.
10. Or the Most Merciful of those who have mercy has mercy on him.
Whoever, then, is missed by these ten cannot blame anyone but himself.”
Only if you sincerely repent on your sins and vow not to do it again. Allah SWT is the Most Merciful and Forgiving.
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They are all haram.
TV makes a lot of people stay on the sofa and spend all day sitting and staring at the box. Many people who watch TV can tell you they religiously watch episodes of their favourite reality TV show or soap. It is a waste of time unless you watch something that is beneficial in terms of education or in Islam.
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Music, again is a another source where people will sit all day listening to their favourite artist, put on their headphones and just think that the Music will help their problems go away. Music is a distraction and it leads to a lot of haraam. The lyrics in the Music are usually provocative and so are the videos especially the way the Singers are dressed.
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Smoking is a deadly habit, we all know very clearly from the label on the Cigarette Box which clearly says ‘Smoking Kills’. It is not permissible for a Muslim to self harm in any way, whether you take an overdose on pills or slowly smoke yourself to death. Both are self inflicted harm and can lead to death.
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Woe to those Who Believe and Read the Quran but do not Act Upon It
Ata’ reported; ‘Ubaid Ibn Umair and I visited A’ishah radiaAllahu ‘anha, then Ibn Umair asked her: “Tell us about the most remarkable thing you have seen from the Prophet (salallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam).”
A’ishah wept and said, “He (salallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) woke up one night and said to me, “O Ai’shah, let me worship my Lord alone.” She said, “I swear by Allah that I love your company and I love what pleases you.” He (salallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) then made ablution and started performing Salaah. He (salallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) kept weeping until his lap became wet, and kept weeping until the floor became wet. Bilal radiAllahu ‘anhu then came to inform him about the Fajr Salaah and found him still weeping; he radiAllahu ‘anhu said to him: “O Messenger of Allah, you are weeping when Allah has forgiven all your past and future sins.” He (salallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “Then may I not become the most grateful servant of Allah; tonight these verses were revealed to me, so woe to those who read them without reflecting upon them: “VERILY! IN THE CREATION OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND THE ALTERNATION OF THE NIGHT AND THE DAY THERE ARE INDEED SIGNS FOR MEN OF UNDERSTANDING.” [Surah Al-Imran v.190]
[The hadith is transmitted by Ibn Hibban and in Albanis ‘Silsilah as-Sahihah’ 68 with a Good Isnaad.]
The Guard who found Islam
By Dan Ephron - NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Mar 30, 2009
Army specialist Terry Holdbrooks had been a guard at Guantanamo for about six months the night he had his life-altering conversation with detainee 590, a Moroccan also known as “the General.” This was early 2004, about halfway through Holdbrooks’s stint at Guantanamo with the 463rd Military Police Company. Until then, he’d spent most of his day shifts just doing his duty. He’d escort prisoners to interrogations or walk up and down the cellblock making sure they weren’t passing notes. But the midnight shifts were slow. “The only thing you really had to do was mop the center floor,” he says. So Holdbrooks began spending part of the night sitting cross-legged on the ground, talking to detainees through the metal mesh of their cell doors.
He developed a strong relationship with the General, whose real name is Ahmed Errachidi. Their late-night conversations led Holdbrooks to be more skeptical about the prison, he says, and made him think harder about his own life. Soon, Holdbrooks was ordering books on Arabic and Islam. During an evening talk with Errachidi in early 2004, the conversation turned to the shahada, the one-line statement of faith that marks the single requirement for converting to Islam (“There is no God but God and Muhammad is his prophet”). Holdbrooks pushed a pen and an index card through the mesh, and asked Errachidi to write out the shahada in English and transliterated Arabic. He then uttered the words aloud and, there on the floor of Guantanamo’s Camp Delta, became a Muslim.
Islamic Thinking: Fasting on the Day of 'Arafah
The ninth day of Dhul-Hijjah (the 12th and final month of the Islamic calendar) is the day of ‘Arafah. It is the day when pilgrims stand on the plain of ‘Arafah to pray. On this day, Muslims all over the world who do not witness the annual hajj should spend the day in fasting, in…
