How she was guided!
April 30th, 2007
How she was guided!
The narrator tells her story saying:
“My story started 3 years ago, in that period i was busy with fashion, style and the outer appearance and i was completly away from Allaah. I used to pray 1 obligatory prayer and scip 20, i was worse than beeing heedless. All i was interested in was the TV world and the superficial life. Allaah gave me beauty to take care of as a blessing from Him, but i used it to show off with it and i wanted to become a model on tv, but something unexpected happened.
One day i was hanging clothes on a rope in the balcony from the 4th floor, suddenly i lost balance and fell down from the 4th floor and everyone had lost hope in me returning back to life, but Allaahs mercy is beyong everything. I had broken bones from my back, arms and legs and other places and a shake in my brain, But alhamdulillaahi Rabbil ‘alameen. My recovery journey started and i went through some pains that i can not describe, and I stayed in my bed without moving for 6 months. My mother and relatives would pray to Allaah for my recovery and that i would be able to stand up once more. Most of the time i was away or asleep because of the medicin. And when Allaah gave me shifaa’ i started to think about what if i had died with empty scrolls? How would i meet Allaah, what ave i prepared for Judgement day? Nothing!
From there i got to know the right path and i started wearing hijaab and got closer to Allaah with eveything i had, and i knw that if i would continue to thank Him for His blessings that cannot be counted, and that He love me and made me go through this so that i could wake up from what i was in, and that He didnt take my life while i was heedless. So sisters believe me, how wonderful is the worship of Allaah alone!
And i ask Allaah to forgive us and let us enter His gardens, for He is capable of all things.”
The affects of backbiting
April 30th, 2007
Note:this story is not a really tawbah story from jaahiliyyah to emaan..but a repentance from sins..something we all need inshaAllah u’ll benefit from it
The affects of backbiting
Noora was a righteous and practicing girl. She knew about the prohibition of backbiting and to talk about the honour of muslims in a negative way, that it was one of the major sins and she knew the punishment prepared for those who commit this sin.
Once she went to visit some relatives and she sat in gathering with some women and young girls. The conversations were many until shaitan made them talk about Fulaanah, eating her flesh by backbiting her, dishonouring her and making fun of her.
Noora wanted to forbid the evil they were comitting and make them stop the evil talk about this muslimah but shaitan and her nafs stopped her from doing it with the excuse of “shyness and embarrasment” in front of those in the gathering, not wanting to make them feel uncomfortable!!
And here the caller of imaan in her heart told her to leave the gathering of backbiting and go into another room! But she didnt do it beacuse she was shy and embarrast in front of the women and didnt want them to call her strange names!
When she returned to her house she prayed but didnt feel the sweetness of prayer that she was used to feel. She opened the Qur’aan and read from it without feeling the sweetness of Qur’aan! She stood up to pray at night to seek her Lord but without feeling the sweetness of night prayers!!
She turned to herself, putting herself to account and was searching for the reason to this sudden change she felt in her heart. Allaah made her realize that it was because she was sitting in the gathering of backbiting even though she didnt participate in it. She turned to Allaah, seeking Him and repenting for that sin. Still she felt inside that she should punish her nafs so that it wouldnt think about returning to that sin again! She made an oath to Allaah that she would fast a whole week as a kaffaara for her sins and as a lesson to her nafs!
She fasted the whole week and she felt the hunger and thirst and she was tired. Everytime she would feel the pain of hunger and thirst she would tell her nafs: patience on hunger and thirst is better than patience in the fire of hell!
From that day Noora would not sit in a gathering of backbiting, slandering, sins or evil. She would either forbid the evil or leave the gathering!
We Ask Allaah to keep us firm on the straight path and protect us from backbiting and slandering. And may Allaah make us of those who forbid the evil and stay away from its people. Ameen
[From "Nisaa' Rabbahunnal-Qur'aan"]
How she repented
April 30th, 2007
How she repented
A young girl narrates her story saying:” I grew up in an islamic home among righteous parents who was worshipping Allaah and seeking His pleasure. My parents did what they could to give me an islamic upbringing. When i reached the age of puberty i chose the wrong way and i ran after the prohibited desires. My misguidance increased after i got married to a man who also was off the straight path. I didnt ask about his Deen and in front of me he was showing good characters, and I only realized how he was after marriage. He would give me music tapes that i wasnt used to listen to before! And he made me take off my hijaab and made me fall into a lot of major sins.
As days passed by after i lived with that husband who was one of the main reasons for my further misguidance, i left salah completly and i forgot about worshipping my Lord. I comitted so many sins in search for what they claim is happiness! I didnt find the happiness i was looking for in all those sins, but i only found misery . I would always feel worried and constricted, and it would take contol over me when i was alone and it filled my heart. I would always be angry, nervous, concerned and would always feel disturbed from the inside. I didnt taste the sweetness of marriage with that husband for one moment. He was busy with his new adventures with different women. He left me to suffer alone from the pains of misguidance and the fall into the darkness of ignorance. I tried to commit suicide more than once to be free from this dark and borring life, but every time i didnt have succes.
One day i found a tape with different suwar from the Qur’an by the qaari’ Ahmad al-Ajamy. I listened to it while he wasreciting the verses from the Book of Allaah with his beautiful voice and i ws affected a lot by those verses and burst out crying. I began to Call unto Allaah and and seek Him in the fajr hours asking Him to open the way of guidance for me, beutify iman in my heart and to make me hate fusooq and sins. Allaah accepted my duaa and i traded the path of guidance and walked on the straight path. I began to pray my salaah on time and i started to wear the islamic hijaab and i kept away from sins. I left that husband even though i had so much love for him, and he who leave something for the sake of Allaah, will be blessed with something better.”
[The book " al-'a'idoon ila Allaah"]
What a small deed can do! [How he repented from selling videos]
April 30th, 2007
What a small deed can do!
[How he repented from selling videos]
A young man from Jordan came to Saudi Arabia to search for a job. He found that and found something else that he wasnt thinking about- he found the sweetness of imaan! He narrated his own story saying:“Im a young man from Jordan and i came to Saudi Arabia to seach for work. At that time i wasnt a real muslim, i was only a muslim because i had muslim parents as it is with many muslims in our time.
At the begininning i worked at a restaurant and the owner wanted me to work in another shop he owns were he sell videos. And what do you know about these videos and what they contain from fisq! One night a young man entered the shop with a bright face and of good character, signs of goodness and islaam was seen on him. How weird, what does he want? I was thinking to myself.
The young man shook my hand and greeted me warmly. He had a big smile that would capture the heart and remove the obstacles and break the fences that usually stop the good from reaching those whose in dire need of it. He advised me wisely and warned me against working in such a place and about the harm it brings the community and its people, and he told me that Allaah would held me accountable for this on Judgement day. When he finished he gave me a tape by Shaykh Tameem al-Adnaani about the karamaat of the mujahideen.
I used to live alone and would feel very lonely, i had enough of listening to music and watching movies so it pushed me to listen to the tape that talks about the karamaat of the mujahideen. After i finished listening to it i felt fear and regret and i realized the reality of my state, and how ive been heedless towards Allaah and i realized my shortcomings towards my Creator [Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala]. I burst out crying, i cried like a little child because of the regret. The shaykh who was among those who vowed thie life to fight for the sake of Allaah. He talked about the karamaat of the mujahideen and about their courage, those who stands on top of mountains and lift the banner of `Laa Ilaaha IllaLaah´, they have sold their life cheap for the cause of Allaah. I compared them to those who spread spread filth and fasad and live their life like animals, their only worry is to please their desires. Worse than that is that i didnt pray a single rak’ah to Allaah for 12 years that ive wasted from my life.
That night i was born again and i became a different person that have no connections to the old person. The first thing that came to my mind was quitting my job in that shop and to search for aa new job that would please Allaah ‘azza wa jall. But do i save myself and leave people in their heedless life and dalaal? So i thought about working in that shop for a year , but not like the other years. In that year i would advise all the customers about the danger of these movies and tell them about Allaahs hukm regarding these movies, by that i was hoping for Allaahs forgiveness. A few days later the month of ramadan arrived. It was the first time i felt the sweetness of this month and i read the Qur’aan.
Next to the shop i was working in, was a shop of islamic audios and when the year was over i started working in that shop, and what a difference between these two shops. We advised the owner of the video shop and he gave it up for the sake of Allaah. And i’ll mention that i saw the prophet [saws] in a dream and that increased my imaan. And i also saw a dream about Shaykh Abdullah Azzam rahimahullaah, and his death had a huge effect on me and made me cry. I had dreams about other mashayikh aswel and it all increased my imaan and made me firm.
In the end i ask Allaah to keep me and you all firm on this deen, and i ask Allaah to make what ive said a lesson for everyone. Blessed is he who learns from the mistakes of the others.”