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Our salat is our prayer and sort of our call to our Lord five times daily throughout the day. After the obligatory prayer it is a good thing to pray to your Lord. One should ask our Allah for everything, be it any thing in our life. Allah is our Sustainer and takes care of our needs. One should always also pray for everyone else as the whole Muslim Ummah as well because when ones prayer for ones muslims are answered as an angel at our shoulders say and you shall have likewise. Praying for ones absent muslims reduces the grudges one can have.
After tasbhih ones should praise Allah subhanwuatalah. After that recite drud sharif. And after that prayer for yourself and at the end for your the Ummah. Drud sharif at the end. Our Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) used to pray in sujood as well. That is a very nice way of the prayer InshaAllah being fulfilled.
Another thing is that if your prayer isn`t answered either it’s not made to happen because something better is waiting for you or else it could be that your rizk, clothes or your food is haraam. In that case your prayers aren`t going to be answered.
One should also never stop to supplicate. Because than one is in one way complaining to Allah and then He will think that we are being ungrateful. And He doesn`t like that. Allah likes long prayers and that we ask for everything and that we are consistent in praying.
A few years back I remember I was all into Bollywood or songs and all that it contains. Though in a period of time I started to think over what I was doing. I thought a lot about whether this would give me any sawabh and if it is morally correct to listen to songies that contains somewhat fahashia. So I changed. Suddenly one day when I woke up I went to the computer with my Ipod and deleted all the songies and let all the Naats to be there. From that day on I only listen to naats and some songs that have nice and decent lyrics. That was a change in me that started for more than a year ago.
Nowadays Im reading a lot about Islam to get more knowledge so that I can know how to behave in certain circumstances from hadees sharif and lots of other islamic books. It has given me guidelines in how to behave and different types of manners that I before didn`t even know were Islamic. I`ve been lucky and had amazing help in getting me on the right track, so I want to share it, so that more people can benefit from it. Even though we all have our mistakes I can recall a lot of hadees and correct myself that In that circumstance I shouldn`t have done that or in that circumstance I should have done that. This is going to help me in my struggle to become a better human being and inshaAllah a Mominah one day.
What I want to share with you people is that if we listen to songies that have a bad ingredient and watch tv-serials that tells us more about un-islamic things than that would have a very bad effect on our spirit, our spirituality and us being a muslim. My mum always tells me that if you start repenting early in your life for your past mistakes than most of your life will be nice and rest of your life will become more prosperous, but if you start repenting when you are in your seventy`s than for one you wouldn`t be able to pray properly, for your life has passed by in negligence. It`s time for us to wake up and realize what is important in life. Which is to strive to become a better human being and a better Muslim/Muslimah to one day be invited to Jannah, InshaAllah. Ameen summa ameen.
Before I went more frequently to the Mosque than what I do nowadays. There are a few reasons for that. For the first I think that it`s the Masjid`s people responsibility to take care of the new people who come and encourage them to come on different days they celebrate. Though what I`ve experiences is that some people treat you really bad when you are there and tries to tumko neecha dikhana. I went to a program at the sunni mosque and there all the people were talking so loudly that I couldn`t hear the program. There was no respect to the people having a program. Instead of the Masjid being a place where one comes closer to ones spirituality people use it for different things. Some rishtey are made through those places, don`t want to talk how, but I`ve heard about som aunties that work for it and the people who are there talk more about their private things instead of listening to the speech of the Maulvi or the naat-reader. So I`m quite fed up and don`t have enough encouragement to go back on another program. What can I do to change this? I`m voicing my opinion so the people at least are aware over the circumstances.
Why do we go to the Mosque/Masjid? To come closer to Allah and his Prophet (pbuh) I hope and not for other selfish reasons. What I`ve experience make me not want to go back. I remember when I was on Umrah in Saudi Arabia. Now that was a different experience. I felt I come so much closer to Allah. The salat were recited so slowly that one could think of the interpretion that one knew while they were reciting it. Simply wonderful. Nowadays because of the pressure from the other muslims the namaz or especially the taraweeh is read so fast that one has difficulties following it. I felt that the people who came to Makkah sharif or Madeena sharif they came to pray not talk. I saw people praying all over the place and it really increased my imaan. Listening to the azan and praying with all the other, I felt unity and that we all are alike in front of our Lord. Even the higher class and the middle class and the poor were on the same row. I remember there was a woman there that hadn`t that clean clothes though when she prayed prayer after the salat she was so close to Allah that I got really amazed. Though no-one was giving her their seat to sit, she found a place in-between me and the ones beside me, and I could feel like she is like a person who is more closer to Allah than a lot of people at that place. A very nice experience. I would love more of these experiences in the mosques`in Oslo Norway. Just a request 
I really adore Pir Alaudin Siddiqui Sahib and like to watch Noor tv whenever i get time for it. I often watch his dars and it is MashAllah very enlightening. I remember today he was speaking about the fact that if every Muslim or Muslimah live their life according to Islam then inshaAllah also their prayers will be answered. And of course the other way around. Noor tv has many times written a hadees their ke ek muslim dosrein muslim ke liye dua karein to woh tab hi kabool hogi agar woh banda /bandi namaz partha hon ya parthi hon. Why am i writing about this today, yes because some people claim to say that one shouldnt go to our elders to make prayers for us. I don`t agree with that. What Pir Sahib used to say is that if you are a true muslim and follow the guidelines for Islam than your prayers will be answered. We know that if you have an income which is not halal or you eat something that is not halal than your prayers won`t be answered. So people come to Pirs as their followers and ask them to pray for them. Why not? First of all if someone prayers aren`t answered they could be praying for something that isn`t going to happen or maybe they have something un-halal in them. So of course, go to your Pirs and ask them to pray for you. Because these people are so enlightened and are true muslims indeed. Every person is near to Allah but some person prayer pehle kabool hoti hain. That we know, so their is nothing wrong in asking them to pray for you.
Another thing some people go to these Allah ke dost and make prayer directly to them, that is wrong. Only Allah can answer your prayer, noone else has the Power to do so. Lekin, in Allah ke doston ka vasila zaroor liya ja saktha hain ke unke tawassul se hamari prayer kabol ho jaye. Asking directly from anything else than Allah is shirk and such a major sin in Islam that Allah will never forgive it on judgement day.
Sometimes when a few people have a circle of people around them, they prefer some over other. And the people they prefer, they spend more and more time with. The people who are left behind for some reasons, can sometimes be one of those leg-pullers. Yes the ones we have talked about so many times. The people whom if they don`t succeed themselves, will not let any other person succeed either.
It is really sad to know that as a muslim one can`t have that big of a heart that one can see others succesful. Living in Norway we don`t lack anything. The most of us have a home people whom care about us around us. We don`t go around hungry because we can`t afford to by dinner. Most of us have enough money to live a healthy life. As long as we have all our necessities, than we shouldn`t become jealous over other people`s achievements. On the other hand we should be glad for them. Like som people do, they say thumbs up to those whom made it, “way to go”. Like even if you have everything, you look for what you don`t have. When one truly starts to grow inside of ourselves and pray for others like you want everyone to have the best, than your iman is at its best condition. If one keeps memorizing all the faults of others and don`t see your own faults, than that’s a vicious circle one needs to get out of. Because as we all are humans, everyone can make a mistake on time or the other.
What we all need to do a bit more is to not look at what other people have achieved for any reason. We need to be thankful for that we have everything we need, and Alhamdolillah and inshaAllah, also in the future as well.
For those so-called leg-pullers whom can`t see any other than themselves succeed. They really need to let go of their grudge and try to be happy for others, because as far as I can see. If they aren`t happy for others, they will really be unhappy in every situation that comes up. Being happy for others is the best present one can give oneself. And that is what completes our imaan. That is why we pray for each other in the first place. We don`t pray to come first, we pray that everyone else will be at least just as succesful as yourselves, if not even more, because we care for the whole of Muslim Ummah.
Alhamdolillah, we humans are blessed with so much. And even if everyone have their own big and small issues, most of us are very blessed, and it is all thanks to Allah subhanataalah:) Alhamdolillah sum Alhamdolillah.. I was listening to dars-e-masnavi the other day when Pir Sahib was talking about the people whom spend their time praying. A lot of praying. He come up with an example and it touches us all in some way or the other. It is so important that we all stay as humble as we can at all times, me included of course.
Pir Sahib was talking about a person whom prayed a lot in his lifetime when he was brought up to the heaven he was questioned, the man was sent to Jannat because he had prayed all his lifetime. When that man started to walk, Astagfirullah he was walking very slowly and akharr ke chal raha tha. When the angels stopped him. At the same time another person whom hadn`t prayed at all in his life, or not followed any of the commandments of his Lord, was also questioned. That person was destined to be put in hell. When that man with no good deeds / achein amal heard that he ran to the hell, when the angels stopped him. And he was questioned why are you running towards hell, then he said, because in my lifetime I haven`t heard to any of Allah`s commands, so I thought this is my last chance, lets at least listen to this one so that maybe he can forgive me. When Allah Subhanataalah listened to this he ordered the one whom was so proud of himself and walked so slowly to go to hell because of his proudyness, and the one that ran, to go to heaven because he repented, and listened to His Lords commands. When the person whom had prayed all his lifetime heard this, he asked that I have prayed all my lifetime, can`t I at least get my reward for that, doesn`t that count at all? Than Allah Subhanataalah, weighed his good deeds. This man`s good deeds and all his prayers and every good thing he had done, didn`t weigh more than his one eye.
Lets think about this for a moment. We humans are so blessed that even if we want to give back to our Creator it is simply impossible that we can do such a thing. Than how much in debt are we, and will we always be, to our Creator? I would say yeah 100%. That is why it is so important to be as humble as we can and pray as lot as we can to show sincere gratitude for what we have been blessed with. Alhamdolillah, because it is a lot:) No one knows what will happen in the end, we can only pray and ask for Allahs forgiveness. Because there is not one person out here whom haven`t ever done a bad deed. Lets pray that Allah guides us to only collect good deeds, and keeps us away from shaitans misguiding that can lead us towards our doom. May Allah Subhanataalah always keep us on the right path. Ameen summa ameen.
