Umar Quotes

We were the most humiliated people on earth and God gave us honour through Islam. If we ever seek honour through anything else, God will humiliate us again.

No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future

I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.

«Since when you have taken people for slaves and they were born free»

He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.

Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.

No amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by Allaah’s decree. If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from it you cannot flee.

Best way then is to be waiting for them to bring Halt and the others out of that prison,” he said, almost to himself. “There’s only one reason I can think of that they might do that,” Umar said. “That’s if they are going to execute them.” Will lookd at him for several seconds before speaking. “Well, that’s a big comfort.

Duniya main Larkiyon sey ziadah koi ahmaq nahi hota.. khush fahmi ka aghaaz aur ikhtatam hum par hi hota hai. Sari umar hum mohabbat ki baysaakhiyoN ka intezaar karti rahti hain...Takay Zindagi ki race shuroo karsakain.. Humain mard kay baray main yeh khush fehmi hoti hai kah woh aaiga.. Koi hum sey hamdardi karay tou humain khush fehmi honay lagti hai ... Koi humari taareef karay tou woh humain apni mutthi main Qaid nazar aanay lagta hai... Koi humaray saath waqt guzarat tou humaray hosh o hawas apnay thikanay par nahi rahtay.. hum main MATURITY tab aati hai jab humain REJECT kia jaata hai.

Sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future.

No amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.

No amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God's decree. If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you it cannot flee.

متى استعبدتم الناس وقد ولدتهم أمهاتهم أحرارا When did you start enslaving people, when their mothers gave birth to them free?

Jika ada seribu orang yang membela kebenaran, aku berada diantaranya. Jika ada seratus orang yang membela kebenaran, aku berada diantaranya. Jika ada sepuluh orang pembela kebenaran, aku tetap ada di barisan itu. Dan jika hanya ada satu orang yang tetap membela kebenaran, maka akulah orangnya.” - Umar bin khattab ra

He who called her so called her by her true name, for she is the full moon of full moons, afore God!

Priyayi utama itu, Sastro, tidak hanya akan gagah dalam kemenangan, tetapi juga dalam kekalahan.

Imama: Accha mai ek arab likh deti to kya krte Salar: To ek arab bhi de deta Imama: Kahan se dete? Fraud krte? Salar: Kyu krta? Kama kar deta İmama: Sari umar kamate hi rehte fir ? Salar: Accha hota sari umar tumhara karzdar rehta.

Whosoever shows you your faults is your friend. Those that pay you lip service in praise are your executioners.

penyesalan tidak akan mengubah masa lalu, dan keraguan tidak akan mengubah masa depan. live present! ^^

The Leader of the faithful `Umar bin Al-Khattab said, "Never think ill of the word that comes out of your believing brother's mouth, as long as you can find a good excuse for it.

Ibn Mas'ud said, "When 'Umar died nine-tenth of all knowledge vanished with him." The people were shocked and said, "How can this be when among us now are still many of the great companions?" Ibn Mas'ud replied,"I am not speaking of the knowledge of fiqh and the science of judgements, I'm speaking about the knowledge of Allah." This struggle of isolation, hunger, sleeplessness, weeping, fear and endless service to men was for this end. The journey is only for knowledge of Allah and the whole of it lies in detachment from everything that passes away. First from what is displeasing to Allah, then from one's self-illusion and desires, and then from all men and all otherness until there is only isolation and extreme nearness to Allah.

And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war, it is to be regarded not as the enemy of the Jewish people, I learned, but as the common enemy of humanity and of civilisation, and has to be fought against very tenaciously for that reason, most especially in its current, most virulent form of Islamic Jihad. Daniel Pearl's revolting murderer was educated at the London School of Economics. Our Christmas bomber over Detroit was from a neighboring London college, the chair of the Islamic Students' Society. Many pogroms against Jewish people are being reported from all over Europe today as I'm talking, and we can only expect this to get worse, and we must make sure our own defenses are not neglected. Our task is to call this filthy thing, this plague, this—this pest, by its right name; to make unceasing resistance to it, knowing all the time that it's probably ultimately ineradicable, and bearing in mind that its hatred towards us is a compliment, and resolving (some of the time, at any rate) to do a bit more to deserve it. Thank you.

The Prophet told us that patience is all good and full of goodness, and said that, “There is no gift better than patience.” ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab said, “The best days of our lives were ours by virtue of patience.

Given all the hardship I’ve experienced, it would be easy to think that the world is full of bad people, but I prefer to think that most people are good. It’s just that the good people make less noise.

Quoth the Raven," said a glitching voice from the phone. "Nevermore," said the man. "Then the game has started

I tried not to lose hope and remembered a popular mantra from my country: “Forward ever, backward never.

Seorang lelaki biasa yang tidak sebijak Abu Bakar, tidak sekuat 'Umar, tidak sekaya Usman, tidak secerdas 'Ali. Hanya pemuda dhaif yang menyongsong kebangkitan. -Rasyiduddin

In Sahih Muslim, it is recorded that `Umar bin Al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, said, "The Messenger of Allah said: (There is no one among you who performs Wudu' and does it well, or -- amply --, then he says: "I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger, '' but the eight gates of Paradise will be opened for him and he will enter through whichever one he wishes.)

Siapakah yang dapat menjelaskan dengan memuaskan apa yang menyebabkan kita tersenyum atau tertawa? Gerak bibir yang menyunggingkan senyum atau gerak otot yang menggerakkan bibir, bahkan juga mulut dan rahang kita yang membentuk tawa: apakah itu semua suatu fenomena fisik atau lebih daripada itu? ---"Kita dan Humor", Kompas, Mei 1996

… a generosity that is so great that all existence responds with generosity. If you are generous with your Soul, existence will be generous to you in return.

Saari umar yaaara tenu pyar mile.. Jo hove tere dil vich oh harr vaar mile... Vichar jandy ne kush lok miln to bad... Jo kdi na vichare evy da tenu yaar mile... Hun kry jagdeep ehi ardass tenu sub kush mile... bs kdi mery varga dhokybaz yaar na mile...

Pentru el, universul nu era mai mare decat circumferinta matasoasa a fustei ei; isi reprosa ca n-o iubeste, i se facea dor s-o vada iar; si se intorcea repede, urca scara cu inima batand. Emma, in camera ei, isi facea toaleta; el intra cu pasi usori, o saruta pe spate, iar ea scotea un tipat. Nu se putea opri sa-i atinga tot timpul pieptenele, inelele, salul; uneori ii saruta zgomotos obrajii sau o coplesea cu un sirag de sarutari marunte de-a lungul bratului gol, din varful degetelor pana la umar; ea-l respingea, pe jumatate zambitoare si plictisita, ca pe un copil care se tine scai. Inainte sa se marite crezuse ca simtea iubire; dar fericirea care ar fi trebuit sa rezulte din aceasta iubire nefacandu-si aparitia, insemna ca s-a inselat, gandea ea. Si Emma incerca sa afle ce se intelegea de fapt in viata prin cuvinte ca desfatare, patima si betie, care i se parusera atat de frumoase in carti.

If you don’t know something exists, you can’t want it.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose

Do not serve an old woman, even if she offered to feed you with semolina and almond bread.

Too much righteousness makes you a nonsense

Aku mencari guru yang mursyid tetapi yang kutemui ulama fasik. Mereka mengajar tentang kebenaran tetapi mereka melakukan hal yang sebaliknya. (Mazmur V)

Maka perkayakanlah aku dengan bahasa yang meyakinkan sehingga dengan bahasa itu aku dapat mengajak kaumku untuk sujud kepada-Mu. (Mazmur XXXIV)

4.242: Narrated Ibn `Umar: The Prophet said, "If the people knew what I know about traveling alone, then nobody would travel alone at night.

Teri Khwaiishoo ko madde nazar rkhte hue, Humne khud ko Umar kedd ki sazaa sunna di....

Rapid expansion coupled with social stability is proof of Umar's incredible capabilities as a leader

Kaum awam daripada umat ini, bahkan penganut semua agama samawi pasti mengetahui dengan jelas bahawa Allah tidak disembah dengan cara mengutuk seorang kafir, meski orang yang paling kafir sekalipun, bahkan tidak disembah dengan cara mengutuk iblis terkutuk yang telah diusir dari rahmat Allah, dalam bentuk wirid khusus untuk mendekatkan diri kepada Allah, sebagaimana yang dilakukan oleh kaum Syiah Rafidhah ketika melaknati Abu Bakar dan Umar.

„God is beautiful and He loves beauty. When you are true in your relationship with God, you take on that beauty in you. You become virtuous, just and balanced. Everything you do is graceful and beautiful. Every thought you think, every word you say and every action you take. Anything you weave, make, carve or cook with your hands, it all becomes beautiful.

No amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God's decree. If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you it cannot flee.

Unde exista senzatia ca nu exista rasplata, zise Hodge , apare un dezechilibru intre puteri. E un dezechilibru usor de exploatat , dar asta nu e o cale inteleapta. Unde exista dragose , este de asemenea la fel de adesea si ura. Pot exista umar la umar.

Jail's are a spooky place," remarked Bill, trying to match the pace of detective Adam. "Oh that is nothing in front of the ultimate fear" replied detective Adam. "Ultimate fear?" "Funny thing that, the ultimate fear is also the ultimate relief." "Which is?" "Death

Wymarzone, ukochane głosy tych, co umarli, albo tych, co dla nas tak są straceni, jak umarli. Czasem do nas przemawiają w snach czasem je w zadumaniu słyszy umysł. A z ich brzmieniem powraca na chwilę dźwięki najpierwszej naszego życia poezji, jak muzyka, która nocą, gdzieś w dali, dogasa.

The Israelis have not been the worst conquerors of Jerusalem: they have not slaughtered their predecessors, as the Crusaders did, nor have they permanently excluded them, as the Byzantines banned the Jews from the city. On the other hand, they have not reached the same high standards as Caliph Umar. As we reflect on the current unhappy situation, it becomes a sad irony that on two occasions in the past, it was an islamic conquest of Jerusalem that made it possible for Jews to return to their holy city. Umar and Saladin both invited Jews to settle in Jerusalem when they replaced Christian rulers there.

Böyle durumlarda herkes, güçlü bir alışkanlığa, bir tutkuya sığınır: ayyaş içer, edebiyatçı yazar, yontucu taşı yontar, acısını dindirmek için her biri, en kuvvetli içgüdüsünden medet umar ve gerçek sanatçı, kendi bağlarından şaheserler yaratır. ama ben, ki zevksiz ve biçare biriyim, ben ne yapabilirim?

Ya Rasulullaah, apa yang menghalangi tuan? Demi Allah, aku tidak meninggalkan satu majelis pun dimana aku pernah duduk di sana dalam keadaan kafir, kecuali aku datangi untuk kemudian aku tunjukkan di sana ke-Islam-anku tanpa rasa khawatir dan takut. Bisakah kita tidak menyembah Allah secara sembunyi-sembunyi lagi...?" -Umar bin Khattab ra

From Ibn Umar who said: A man burped/belched in front the Prophet -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam and the Prophet -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam said: ‘Stop your belching in front of us since indeed many of those people who have filled their appetites in the Dunyaa will be those who will be hungry for along time on the Day of Judgement.’ No. 343

Bagaimana mata ini dapat tertutup rapat dan tenteram sedangkan ia tak tahu di mana kelak ia akan kembali di antara dua tempat

Waspadalah terhadap waktu luang, karena ia lebih banyak membuka pintu maksiat daripada syukur.

O brother of Thaqif, you have put the worm on the wood.

One of the saddest things I learned on my journey is that in this life, no one gives you anything for free.

Paradoxism is not just another linguistic term or a literature device, but perhaps it is the definition of our post-postmodernism and metamodernism.

It's better to talk about a dead hero than a living zero

Always be a positive, if you make a decision, believe that that is your decision so try to do as much as possible instead of relying on other, God will help you soon.

Soldiers die not in hatred but in love.

Man is the only creation that can survive no matter how the condition is

Hapuskan segala berhala yang ada yang kelihatan di dalam rumahmu atau yang tersembunyi dalam dirimu. (Mazmur VI)

sementara tali kematian yang membelitku berada di tangan-Mu (Mazmur XX)

I certainly did wrong to put this book together...

Kadang-kadang sekali dua kali kita masih akan berpapasan dengan kawan-kawan lama di perempatan jalan kehidupan, tetapi selanjutnya kita akan berjalan dengan kesibukan kita sendiri.

Makam, meskipun hanya tempat jasad kita, mestilah kita usahakan yang baik, tidak rusak dan kotor, lagi pula orang yang mau menziarahi makam tersebut tidak akan kesulitan menemuinya.

They were Muslims, man, but not your uncles. They need a deen that's not your uncle's deen. Iman, think about it like that, iman! It's supposed to be all about having no fear of death, right? And we got that part down, we've done that and we have plenty of Muslims who aren't afraid to die. Mash'Allah--but now Muslims are afraid to fuckin' live! They fear life, yakee, more than they fear shaytans or shirk or fitna or bid'a or kafr or qiyamah or the torments in the grave, they fear Life... You got all these poor kids who think they're inferior because they don't get their two Fajr in, their four Zuhr, four Asr... they don't have beards, they don't wear hejab, maybe they went to their fuckin' high school proms and the only masjid around was regular horsehit-horseshit-takbir-masjid and they had to pretend like they were doing everything right...well I say fuck that and this whole house says fuck that--even Umar, you think Umar can go in a regular masjid with all his stupid tattoos and dumb straghtedge bands? Even Umar, bro, as much as he tries to Wahabbi-hard-ass his way around here, he's still one of us. He's still fuckin' taqwacore.

4.36: Narrated Ibn `Umar: Once `Umar gave a horse in charity to be used in holy fighting. It had been given to him by Allah's Apostle . `Umar gave it to another man to ride. Then `Umar was informed that the man put the horse for sale, so he asked Allah's Apostle whether he could buy it. Allah's Apostle replied, "You should not buy it, for you should not take back what you have given in charity.

Seorang laki-laki dengan tergesa-gesa datang kepada Amirul Mukminin, Umar bin Khattab ra, ia berkata: "Wahai Amirul Mukminin, aku melihat si fulan dan fulanah saling berpelukan di belakang pohon kurma." Umar langsung mencengkram kerah bajunya, mengambil tongkatnya dan memukul laki-laki itu dengan tongkat tersebut satu kali.. "Mengapa engkau tidak menutupinya dan engkau berharap dia akan bertaubat?", tegas Umar bin Khattab ra. " Sesungguhnya Rasulullaah SAW pernah bersabda, 'Barangsiapa yang menutupi aib seseorang di dunia, niscaya Allah akan menutupi aibnya di dunia dan akhirat.'" Di lain waktu Umar bin Khattab ra, berkata: "Beginilah seharusnya kalian berbuat, jika kalian melihat saudara kalian tergelincir langkahnya maka tutupilah dan tolonglah serta berdo'alah kepada kepada Allah agar Dia berkenan mengampuni dosanya. Dan janganlah kalian menjadi pembantu setan untuk mencelakakannya.

[...] be unaffected by naysayers. Let not your desire or determination be wavered by the censure of cynics, the criticism of pessimists, the undermining of those that belittle, the jeering of the mockers, or the doubts of the skeptics.

During the era of the rightly-guided Khaleefahs, the Muslim Nation was built on the principle of justice. This is mainly why Muslims were so prosperous during those times. Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) wrote, “Verily, Allah helps a just country, even if its people are disbelievers; and He does not help a wrongdoing, oppressive country, even if its people are Muslims. It is through justice that men become upright, and it is through justice that wealth becomes abundant [among a people].

Um...are you busy tonight?" "Why?" His voice dropped to a seductive base, accent thickening. "You want to break a Fuck Club rule?" "No! I just have to do this thing and I don't want to do it by myself." "Sounds like breaking a rule to me," he purred.

The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk rising from a sea of kufis, Amazing Ayyub still with no shirt, girls scattered throughout – some in hejab, some not and Rabeya in punk-patched burqa doing her thing. But in its randomness it was gorgeous, reflecting an Islam I felt could not happen anywhere else ... If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones: Jehangir and Rabeya and Fasiq and Dawud and Ayyub and even Umar.

There is a difference between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge comes from books and wisdom from thinking. No doubt, knowledge might give you the power to speak, but wisdom helps you to know when one should not speak. They are two parallel things with different destinations.

Darker the hell, darker the life...darker the death, darker the fear..." the painter's left-hand fingers where drenched in black color, which he kept on scrolling on white paper until he made a... "Raven...darkest like hell and life...raven darkest like fear and death...raven...nevermore

A doua zi și în zilele următoare, se așeza în același loc, interpretând amator, dar destul de bine, rolul singuraticului excentric: la ora obișnuită, în locul obișnuit. Sosirea fetei, răsuflarea ei, picioarele ei, părul ei, tot ce făcea, fie că se scărpina pe gamba cu degetele ce lăsau dâre albe, fie că arunca în sus o mingiuță neagră ori se freca de el cu un umar gol când se așeza pe bancă - toate astea (în timp ce el părea adâncit într-o conversație plăcuta) stârneau în el o senzație insuportabilă de comuniune cu ea, sangvină, dermică, multivasculară, ca și cum bisectoarea monstruoasă care pompa toate sucurile din adâncurile lui se extindea în ea ca o linie punctată pulsândă, ca și cum fata asta creștea din el, ca și cum, cu fiecare mișcare nepăsătoare, ea se trăgea brusc și își scutura rădăcinile vitale înfipte în măruntaiele ființei lui, astfel încât când iși schimba brusc poziția sau pleca în grabă, el simțea o zdruncinătura, o smucitură barbară, o pierdere momentană a echilibrului: ca și cum te-ai trezi deodată târât pe spate prin praf, dând cu capul de pămant, tras cu putere spre locul unde vei fi spânzurat de măruntaie. Și în tot timpul ăsta stătea și asculta calm, zâmbind, dând din cap...

But the importance of language in Islam went far beyond the production of a telling slogan. Eloquence, the sheer power of the word, as dictated by God and declaimed to all who would listen, played the first role in winning converts for Islam, leaving hearers no explanation for the beauty of Muhammad's words but divine inspiration. The classic example is 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, a contemporary of Muhammad and acknowledged authority on oral poetry, determined to oppose, perhaps even to assasinate, him. Exposed directly to the prophet's words, he could only cry out: 'How fine and noble this speech!' And he was converted.

be please with him) then said to ‘Abdur-Rahmaan (May Allah be please with him), “I take a strong oath from you that you will sell these items and then distribute the proceeds of that sale before nightfall.” Sunan Al-Baihaqi: 6/357. Muslims Compete for Calling Athaan Towards the end of the battle, a strange incident occurred

Ya Rabb, I was thinking my position later Hereafter. Could I side with the prince of the women Khadija al-Kubra who struggle with the treasure and his life? Hafsah bint Umar or defended by God when will the divorced because shawwamah (diligent fasting-ed) and qawwamahnyaI (diligent tahajud)? Or with Aisha who has memorized hadith early 3500, I was .... 500 Ehm not yet ... or at Umm Sulaym who shabiroh (patient) or with Asma who take care of him and denounced his son vehicles at rest from jihad ... or with whom huh. Ya Allah, please give them the strength to pursue amaliah worthy ... so I can meet them even conversed with them in your garden Firdaus

Madenlerde ne güzellik ne çekicilik vardır. Toprağın bağlarına gizlemiş bu servetler sanki insanların açgözlülüklerini eyleme geçirmemek için gözlerinden kaçırılmıştır, insanların orada, daha kolay erişilir ve daha gerçek olup, kötülüğe kapıldıkçazevk almamaya başladığı servetleri tamamlamak üzere, yedek diye duruyorlar. İnsan işte o zaman, derdine umar bulmak için sanayiyi, bu zorluklarla dolu işi yardıma çağırırlar; toprağın kendiliğinden verdiği gerçek nimetlerin yerine, var sanılan nimetleri arar. Görmeye artık layık olmadıkları güneşten ve günden kaçarlar, kendilerini diri diri gömerkler; haklıdırlar, çünkü, gün aydınlığında yaşamaya layık değildirler artık.

God is beautiful and He loves beauty. When you are true in your relationship with God, you take on that beauty in you. You become virtuous, just and balanced. Everything you do is graceful and beautiful. Every thought you think, every word you say and every action you take. Anything you weave, make, carve or cook with your hands, it all becomes beautiful.

Terkadang kelompok yang anti madzhab menggugat kita dengan pendapat sang pendiri madzhab atau para ulama dalam madzhab yang kita ikuti, seakan-akan mereka lebih konsisten dari kita dalam bermadzhab. Kaum Wahhabi ketika menggugat kita agar meninggalkan tahlilan dan selamatan tujuh hari selalu beralasan dengan pendapat al-Imam as-Syafi'i yang mengatakan bahawa hadiah pahala bacaan al-Qur'an tidak akan sampai kepada mayit, atau pendapat kitab I'anah al-Thalibin yang melarang acara selamatan tahlilan selama tujuh hari. Padahal selain al-Imam as-Syafi'i menyatakan sampai. Kita kadang menjadi bingung menyikapi mereka. Terkadang mereka menggugat kita karena bermadzhab, yang mereka anggap telah meninggalkan al-Qur'an dan Sunnah. Dan terkadang mereka menggugat kita dengan pendapat imam madzhab dan apra ulama madzhab. Padahal mereka sering menyuarakan anti madzhab. Pada dasarnya kelompok anti madzhab itu bermadzhab. Hanay saja madzhab mereka berbeda dengan madzhab mayoritas kaum Muslimin. Ketika mereka menyuarakan anti tawassul, maka sebenarnya mereka mengikut pendapat Ibn Taimiyah dan Ibn Abdil Wahhab al-Najdi. Sedangkan kaum Muslimin yang bertawassul, mengikuti Rasulullah SAW, para sahabat, seluruh ulama salaf dan ahli hadits. Ketika mereka menyuarakan shalat tarawih 11 raka'at, maka sebenarnya mereka mengikut pendapat Nashiruddin al-Albani, seorang tukang jam yang beralih profesi menjadi muhaddits tanpa bimbingan seorang guru, dengan belajar secara otodidak di perpustakaan. Sedangkan kaum Muslimin yang tarawih 23 raka'at, mengikuti Sayidina Umar, para sahabat dan seluruh ulama salaf yang saleh yang tidak diragukan keilmuannya. Ketika mereka menyuarakan anti madzhab, maka sebenarnya mereka mengikut Rasyid Ridha, Muhammad Abduh dan Ibn Abdil Wahhab. Sedangkan kaum Muslimin yang bermadzhab, mengikuti ulama salaf dan seluruh ahli hadits. Demikian pula ketika mereka menyuarakan anti bid'ah hasanah, makas ebenarnya mereka mengikuti madzhab Rasyid Ridha dan Ibn Abdil Wahhab al-Najid. Sedangkan kaum Muslimin yang berpendapat adanya bid'ah hasanah, mengikuti Rasulullah SAW, Khulafaur Rasyidin, para sahabat, ulama salaf dan hali hadits.

Once, I went on holiday with a girlfriend, and it was really hard because I didn’t know what I was supposed to do with myself. Why were we wasting time like that? I need food, I need clothes, but I don’t need vacation. I didn’t understand that I had the right to take time off work, and to be honest, I still don’t totally get the point of doing nothing on purpose.

Begitulah kehidupan, kawan yang suatu waktu dulu begitu rapat, begitu mesra pada waktu lain menjadi begitu jauh dan malahan tak pernah bertemu. Dalam waktu sama terbentuk pula kawan-kawan yang baru oleh pelbagai sebab - sama ada kerana profesion yang sama ataupun kerana bekerja di pejabat yang sama atau tinggal pada satu kawasan kejiranan yang sama. Sementara itu keluarga terdekat, seperti misalnya sepupu dan seumpamanya, oleh sebab tidak tinggal berdekatan menjadi jauh dan semakin jauh. Anak-anak masing-masing tidak pernah lagi kenal-mengenal antara satu sama lain - masing-masing sibuk dengan tugas dan tanggungjawab masing-masing. Kalau berjumpa pun hanya sesekali apabila ada kenduri-kendara ataupun apabila ada sesuatu kematian dalam keluarga.

While fasting, people refrain from fulfilling their basic desires for food, drink and sexual relations. This shows them that their mission in this religion is to control their desires and not allow their desires to control them and to overcome their desires and not be overcome by them. By doing so they take the path of self-rectification and do not fall into that which corrupts them.

There was no question of ‘Umar’s keeping his Islam secret. He wished to tell everyone, in particular those who were most hostile to the Prophet. In after years he used to say “When I entered Islam that night, I thought to myself: Which of the people in Mecca is the most violent in enmity against God’s Messenger, that I may go to him and tell him I have become a Muslim? My answer was: Abu Jahl. So the next morning I went and knocked at his door, and Abu Jahl came out and said: “The best of welcomes to my sister’s son! What hath brought thee here?” I answered: “I came to tell thee that I believe in God and in His Messenger Muhammad; and I testify to the truth of that which he hath brought.” “God curse thee!” he said, “and may His curse be on the tidings thou hast brought!” Then he slammed the door in my face.

Umar's solution, imposing the hijab/curtain that hides women instead of changing attitudes and forcing "those in whose heart is a disease" to act differently, was going to overshadow Islam's dimension as a civilization, as a body of thought on the individual and his/her role in society. This body of thought made dar al-Islam (the land of Islam) at the outset a pioneering experiment in terms of individual freedom and democracy. But the hijab fell over Medina and cut short that brief burst of freedom. Paradoxically, 15 centuries later it was colonial power that would force the Muslim states to reopen the question of the rights of the individual and of women. All debates on democracy get tied up in the woman question and that piece of cloth that opponents of human rights today claim to be the very essence of Muslim identity.

Umar said: “One day when we were sitting with the Messenger of God there came unto us a man whose clothes were of exceeding whiteness and whose hair was of exceeding blackness, nor were there any signs of travel upon him, although none of us knew him. He sat down knee unto knee opposite the Prophet, upon whose thighs he placed the palms of his hands, saying: “O Muhammad, tell me what is the surrender (islam)’. The Messenger of God answered him saying: ‘The surrender is to testify that there is no god but God and that Muhammad is God’s Messenger, to perform the prayer, bestow the alms, fast Ramadan and make, if thou canst, the pilgrimage to the Holy House.’ He said: ‘Thou hast spoken truly,’ and we were amazed that having questioned him he should corroborate him. Then he said: ‘Tell me what is faith (iman).’ He answered: ‘To believe in God and His Angels and His Books and His Messengers and the Last Day, and to believe that no good or evil cometh but by His Providence.’ ‘Thou hast spoken truly,’ he said, and then: ‘Tell me what is excellence (ihsan).’ He answered: ‘To worship God as if thou sawest Him, for if thou seest Him not, yet seeth He thee.’ ‘Thou hast spoken truly,’ he said, and then: ‘Tell me of the Hour.’ He answered: ‘The questioned thereof knoweth no better than the questioner.’ He said: ‘Then tell me of its signs.’ He answered: ‘That the slave-girl shall give birth to her mistress; and that those who were but barefoot naked needy herdsmen shall build buildings ever higher and higher.’ Then the stranger went away, and I stayed a while after he had gone; and the Prophet said to me: ‘O ‘Umar, knowest thou the questioner, who he was?’ I said: ‘God and His Messenger know best.’ He said: ‘It was Gabriel. He came unto you to teach you your religion.

الباب التاسع في أسماء فروج النساء : اعلم يرحمك الله إن لفروج النساء أسماء كثيرة فمنها: الكس، التبنة، الطبون، الحر، الفرج، أبو طرطور، الشق، الزرزور، العص، الغلمون، الثقيل، الدكاك، السكوتي، القنفود، أبو خشيم، النفاخ، الحسن، الطلاب، البشيع، الفشفاش، المقعور، أبو بلعوم، العريض، الواسع، أبو جبة، المودي، الهزاز، الغربال، أبو عنكرة، أبو شفرين، المقابل، الملقي، المسبول، المغيب، المعبن، العضاض، المغمور، المصفح، الناوي، الصبار، وغير ذلك. فأما الفرج سمي بذلك الاسم لانحلاله وسيل يطلق على المرأة والرجال قال الله تعالى (والحافظين فروجهم والحافظات) والفرج هو الشق.

One day ‘Umar rebuked his wife for something and she sharply answered him back: and when he expostulated with her she replied that the wives of the Prophet were in the habit of answering him back so why should she not do the same. “And there is one of them,” she added, meaning their daughter, “who speaketh unto him her mind unabashed from morn till night.” Greatly troubled by this, ‘Umar went to Hafsah, who did not deny that what her mother had said was true. “Thou hast neither the grace of ‘A’ishah nor the beauty of Zaynab,” he said, hoping to shake her self-confidence; and when these words seemed to have no effect, he added: “Art thou so sure that if thou angerest the Prophet, God will not destroy thee in His anger?” Then he went to his cousin Umm Salamah and said: “Is it true that ye speak your minds unto God’s Messenger and answer him without respect?” “By all that is wonderful,” said Umm Salamah, “what call hast thou to come between God’s Messenger and his wives? Yea, by God, we speak unto him our minds, and if he suffer us to do so that is his affair, and if he forbid us he will find us more obedient unto him than we are unto thee.

Umar came one morning to the house of the Messenger, and as he approached he heard the sound of women’s voices raised to a pitch which he considered unseemly in the prophetic presence. The women were moreover of Quraysh, that is, of the Emigrants, which confirmed his opinion that they were learning bad ways from the women of Medina who for generations had been less restrained and more self-assertive than the women of Mecca. The Prophet hated to refuse a request, as well they knew, and they were now asking him with some insistence to give them various garments which had come to him as part of his fifth in the spoils of war. There was a curtain spread across part of the room, and when ‘Umar’s voice was heard asking permission to enter there was a sudden total silence and the women hid themselves behind the curtain with such speed that he entered to find the Prophet speechless with laughter. “May God fill thy life with laughter, O Messenger of God,” he said. “Wondrous it was,” said the Prophet, “how these women who were with me even now - how speedily upon hearing thy voice they were gone behind that curtain!” “It is rather thy right, not mine, that they should stand in awe of thee, not of me,” said ‘Umar. Then, addressing the women, he said “O enemies of yourselves, fear ye me, and fear ye not God’s Messenger?” “It is even so,” they said, “for thou art rougher and harsher than God’s Messenger.” “That is true, O son of Khattab,” said the Prophet. Then he added: “By Him in whose hand is my soul, if Satan found that thou wert travelling upon a certain path, he would choose to go himself by any other path but thine.

„The Prophet had a universal soul. He had an oceanic soul. One that embraced all other Souls and our masters in our tradition talk about that. They talk about the magnanimity of the Prophet. The great souledness of our Prophet. That meant that he had the ability to relate to every single human being: as they are, where they are, to feel and suffer with them if they had harm and to feel joy with them if they had good and to be intent on their well-being in all things that they did. This is an incredible capacity. And as we grow spiritually this must be one of the gauges by which growth is measured. You are able to embrace people as a whole, not just your own group, not just your own family, not just your own country, but to embrace all people. And not just the good ones but also the bad ones as well. The more that we grow spiritually, the greater this quality becomes. That‘s why the community that embodies that becomes a mercy to the worlds like the Prophet himself. Then that community is a mercy for everyone around it. For the trees, for the animals, for all the people no matter who they are. For the homeless, for the down-and-out, for the people that have nothing. This is the way the community got to be. It‘s got to be a community with open arms, a community that is here to serve and to love. That‘s the way the Prophet was, isn‘t it? The Prophet who is the greatest thing that God created in creation, the greatest of all the human beings, of all the Jin, greater than all the angels. Greater than anything that God created. And we believe also that he is the first thing that God created, the light of our Prophet. “ (From the lecture „Community and Continuity“)

Sayyida Nafisah*, eine noble Frau und Gelehrtin, sagte folgendes, nachdem sie das Totengebet für Imam al-Shafi'i betete: "Möge Allah barmherzig mit Muhammad bin Idris al-Shafi'i sein! In der Tat, er pflegte es seine Gebtswaschung zu perfektionieren." Die Perfektion bzw. das Perfektionieren (oder die "Vortrefflichkeit", oder "etwas schön machen" etc.), zu Arabisch "Ihsan"**, in seinen Anbetungen und Taten zu erstreben, ist eines der Eigenschaften, zu denen uns diese großartige Religion, der Islam, aufruft. Es ist die Eigenschaft derjenigen, die den geraden Pfad gehen: den Weg des noblen Propheten ﷺ. Sayyida Nafisah deutet mit ihrer Aussage auf dieses Perfektionieren hin. Imam al-Shafi'i pefektionierte seine Gebetswaschung und wer seine Gebetswaschung perfektioniert, der perfektioniert demzufolge sein Gebet. Und wer auch immer diese beiden Dinge perfektioniert, der perfektioniert seine gesamte Religion und all seine Taten in seinem Leben. D. h., wenn ein Gläubiger bestimmte Taten nicht perfektioniert, dann wird jener die Perfektion in seinen anderen Taten verfehlen. Jemand der sich nicht darum bemüht seine Gebetswaschung zu perfektionieren, der wird auch unachtsam gegenüber das Streben nach Perfektion innnerhalb seines Gebets sein. So wird jener ebenso das Perfektionieren im Verrichten seiner Zakat, seines Fastens, seiner Pilgerfahrt etc. nicht beachten. Möge Allah Sayyida Nafisah und Imam al-Shafi'i barmherzig behandeln und mit ihnen zufrieden sein. * Sie verstarb in Ägypten im Jahre 208 (823). ** Der Prophet sagte, dass Ihsan folgendes ist, nämlich Allah anzubeten, als würde man Ihn sehen, doch während man Ihn nicht sieht, soll man wissen, dass Er einen doch sieht. (Ü. von Muslim)

The prayer, if learned and practiced correctly, can be an infinite source of strength and relief for you as well in your life.

Einige Leute gedenken Allah beim Essen, während andere beim Beten an das Essen denken. Beide essen und beten, sind aber so weit entfernt voneinander, wie es die Himmel von der Erde sind. Some people remember Allah when they are eating while some people think about food when they are praying. Both eat and pray, but they are as far apart from each other as the heavens are from the earth.

Now normally,” the man said, cradling his weapon in one arm while scratching the blond beard covering the lower half of his face with his free hand, “me and Mad Dog”—he dipped his chin toward the soldier holding Umar hostage—“and the rest of the boys wouldn’t hesitate to just go ahead and let you eat a bullet.” And, as if on cue, four more soldiers emerged from the undergrowth, quiet as ghosts. “But as it happens, there are some folks back in the States who are just itchin’ to ask you a few questions.

Orang yg paling aku cintai adalah org yg mau menunjukkan kekuranganku.

The Months of the Year Presenting Themselves to al-Ghawth al-A’zam Hazrat Sheikh Abul Qaasim (r.a) states that once Sheikh Abu Bakr, Sheikh Abul Khair, Sheikh Ibn Mahfooz, Sheikh Abu Hafs Umar, Sheikh Abul Aas Ahmad Imkaani, Sheikh Abdul Wahab (r.a) and himself (r.a) were all in the presence of the great al-Ghawth al-A’zam (r.a) It was a Friday, the 30th of Jamadi-ul-Aakhir 560 AH. During this time, Sheikh Qaasim (r.a) states that a young handsome youth came into the blessed court of the great Saint. He sat with great respect, and then said: “O Friend of Allah! May there be Salaams upon you. I am the month of Rajab, and I have come to give you glad tiding that this is a good month for the people. They should thus do many good deeds in this month.” Sheikh Qaasim (r.a) states that on another occasion, a youth again came to the Darbaar of al-Ghawth al-A’zam (r.a) and with great respect said, “I am the month of Shabaan. I have not brought any glad tidings, but have come to inform you that in this month the people of Arabia will be in difficulty. There will be wars fought in Khorasan and there will be sickness in Iraq through which many people will die.” Sheikh Qaasim (r.a) states that after a few days, news reached Baghdad of these happenings in Arabia and Khorasan and he states that during that time a disease spread in Iraq killing scores of people.

Life appear's across the limits.

[...] dar asa cum sint momente cind o simpla mina pusa pe umar aproape ca ne face sa izbucnim in lacrimi, la fel se poate intimpla ca bucuria dezinteresata a unui ciine sa ne impace pentru o clipa cu durerile, deceptiile si necazurile pe care lumea ni le-a provocat.

Umar, despite his strong character and impressive personality, had lost control of himself for a short while, his emotions seizing him so strongly that it brought out a heretofore unsuspected fragility, causing him to react like a child refusing the ruling of God, of reality, of life. By contrast, Abu Bakr, who was normally so sensitive, who wept so abundantly and so intensely when he read the Quran, had received the news of the Prophet’s death with deep sorrow but also with extraordinary calm and unsuspected inner strength. At that particular moment, the two men’s roles were inverted, thus showing that through his departure the Prophet offered us a final teaching: in the bright depths of spirituality, sensitivity can produce a degree of strength of being that nothing can disturb. Conversely, the strongest personality, if it forgets itself for a moment, can become vulnerable and fragile. The