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Haj is the fifth pillar of Islam a visit to makkah to see the house of Allah once in a life time for those who can
Hajj: Reaching Toward Allah
Hajj occurs during the month of Zul-Hijjah'. The land of Makkah (Mecca) is tranquil and peaceful. Instead of fear, hatred, and war, the desert is characterized by security and peace. An atmosphere for worship where people are free to face Almighty God.
Do you not hear Allah's command:
And call upon the people for Hajj. They will come to you on their bare feet or riding any weak camel and they come to you from every far desert. (Quran 22:27)
You! who has been created from Mud, search for the spirit of Allah! Accept his invitation; leave your home in order to "see" Him. He is waiting for You!
Human existence is frivolous unless one's aim is to approach the spirit of Allah. Separate yourself from all those needs and greeds which distract you from Allah. Join the eternal human migration of Hajj. "See" Almighty Allah!
Before departing to perform Hajj, all of your debts should be paid.
Your hates and angers toward relatives or friends must disappear. A will must
be drawn. All of these gestures are an exercise in the preparation for death
(which will overtake everyone some day). These acts guarantee your personal
and financial clearance. The last moments of farewell and the future of man
are symbolized
The Decimal and Islamic Mathematics
Muslim mathematicians were the first people to write numbers the way we do,
and, although we are the heirs of the Greeks in geometry, part of our legacy
from the Muslim world is our arithmetic. This is true even if it was Hindu
mathematicians in India, probably a few centuries before the rise of Islamic
civilization, who began using a numeration system with these two characteristics:
The numbers from one to nine are represented by nine digits, all easily made
by one or two strokes.
The right-most digit of a numeral counts the number of units, and a unit in
any place is ten of that to its right. Thus the digit in the second place
counts the number of tens, that in the third place the number of hundreds
(which is ten tens), and so on. A special mark, the zero, is used to indicate
that a given place is empty.
These two properties describe our present system of writing whole numbers,
and we may summarize the above by saying the Hindus were the first people
to use a cipherized, decimal, positional system, "Cipherized" means
that the first nine numbers are represented by nine ciphers, or digits, instead
of accumulating strokes as the Egyptians and Babylonians did, and "decimal"
means that it is base 10. However, the Hindus did not extend this system to
represent parts of the unit by decimal fractions, and since it was the Muslims
who first did so, they were the first people to represent numbers as we do.
Quite properly, therefore, we call the system "Hindu-Arabic".
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‘ No human being has ever filled a container worse than his
own stomach. The son of Adam needs no more than a few morsels of food to keep
up his strength, doing so he should consider that a third of his stomach is
for food, a third for drink and a third for breathing’
Ibn Maja
Some beautiful hadith
Three important and beneficial things
1) Hazrat Muhammad s.a.w.(PBUH) says that
"If a person recite " Ayatal Kursi" after every Farz
Namaz then there will be nothing between him and Heaven except Death."
2) There is a Hadith that says
"La Haula Wala Quuata illa billahil aliyul azeem"
is such a great medicine that it cures every disease and the most
minor disease it cures is "Sorrow" (Gham).
3) Another Hadith says
"If a person recite surah ikhlaas ( Khul huwallahu ahad... ) 10 times in a day then Allah build a palace for him in the Heaven. (Subhaan Allah)"
and the last but not the least Allah says " spread the knowledge
whatever
u have ...Its duty of each n every musalman"
May Allah accepts our deeds...Ameen.
~*~*~*~TO ALLAH WE BELONG AND TO
HIM IS OUR RETURN~*~*~*~
"Two things have distracted me from worldly pleasures:
remembrance of death and thinking about standing before
Allah."
