Toilet Etiquette..in Islam

It's a shame really on how we have not taken care of our toilet within our Masjid. Of all places we have left out and ignored or take lightly the cleanliness of our Masjids' toilet. This could give a wrong perception of Islam whenever a non-muslim happen to use them. We need to tackle this.

"The Pursuit of Cleanliness" by Baba Ali 

Du'a before entering toilet



Du'a after leaving the toilet




The Islamic faith has particular rules regarding personal hygiene when going to the toilet. This code is known as Qadaahul Haajah (Qoda Hajat) and is extremely prescriptive. 


Let's relate to what our brother Baba Ali has said to our Masjids toilet in Brunei. Let's put that in a test shall we? Below are some of the images of some of the toilets in our Masjid.

Thanks for the brother who had sent me this image. I'm not going to say much about this image or from which masjid it's taken from. I'll just leave it as it is.

Went to the toilet at one of the masjid in mmm somewhere during Jummah prayer. The funny thing about this toilet is that you were not allowed to wear any shoes or slippers and yet the floor was not clean. Not at all! So what i did i just used my shoes because i do care more about cleanliness than the already dirty toilet. I wish i could raise a fund raiser somehow to have this fixed. I mean look at the toilet at the hotels in our country! are you saying that those hotels are much more important than the masjid??

Are you saying we have all the money but we ain't got the money to fix our local masjids' toilet?? help me out here!! i think i really should raise a fund raiser. What say you? But before that I need you're support by taking pictures of your local masjid. See whether it's happening at your masjid or not.

Send them to hambaallah@me.com

Jazakallah khairan

to be continued..


- what are the rules set by our Prophet Rasulullah (S.A.W) whenever we're in the toilet

Our Local Masjid

Assalamu'alaykum. I think maybe you all could contribute some pictures of your Masjid you normally go to, or any Masjid Insya Allah i will post it up here. (refer to the right pane of this blog). 

My next topic would be "In Pursuit of Cleanliness". Have you ever visited to our toilet of our local Masjid recently?? You know what i'm talking about. We claim ourselves as Muslimc, but look at the toilet of our local Masjid? interesting huh. So before i post it up why don't you send me pictures of your local Masjid's toilet. I will try to take some pictures myself. See if this is truly the case for all the masjid within Brunie. This will be interesting. Insya Allah our effort here not to condemn our Masjid but rather to improve the situation. 

email me at hambaallah@me.com

OTHER STORIES: Cat Stevens fans await their hero's return

The following are some of the edited version of Yusuf's interview with CNN:

CNN: Can you tell us about the musical?

Yusuf: It's not quite a mirror of my life. I've taken the liberty of extending it into a fable-like, spiritual story about a boy, who like many boys -- like me -- had a dream of wanting to find something he didn't have. In this world that we've created, it's permanent night time, there's only a moon and there's no days. This boy has dreamed of finding a world where there's sunshine, light and heat. It's kind of like paradise. I've integrated that kind of story in with my songs. A lot of songs are about seeking that place ... an intangible place, which usually are about finding, not the outer world, but the inner world.

CNN: Why did you abandon your pop career in the 1970s?

Yusuf: I tried any times to get out of it. I was hit by a bout of tuberculosis which took me away from the music world that I'd just entered and then things got bigger and more successful. I tried to find out where I really wanted to go at certain points in my life: I studied different spiritual paths; I was a vegetarian and I studied meditation. At certain points I tried to get out of the machine but I didn't really know where I wanted to go. But when I got finally to learn a few things about Islam, to me it was a missing piece of the puzzle. A lot of people overlook it. Perhaps they're looking at the wrong kind of picture of Islam, but they don't see what I see, which is an amazing conversion of what I believed as a Christian, what I read in the Bible, and what I understood about Transcendental Meditation. It all came together in a religion which wasn't really a religion as such, more a spiritual path -- so that made a big impact on me.

For further readings click on the link below:

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/13/yusuf.cat.stevens/index.html

Identity Crisis

Alhamdulillah, based on request from our brother 'Concern' luckily i have found one lecture from Shaykh Anwar Al-Awlaki regarding identity crisis. He stated that globally we muslim are suffering from a serious identity crisis.





Also I remembered a lecture by Ustaz Dato Ismail Kamus where he had also briefly touch on this matter from his lecture "Antara Sunnah & Bid'ah part 1". He mentioned that our youth know more about a singer than he knows about our Nabi. Think about this for a moment.





Below are the lineage of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) as mentioned by Ustaz Dato Ismail Kamus.

- Muhammad bin 

- Abdullah bin

- Abdul Mutallib bin

- Hashim bin

- Abi Manaf bin

- Qusai bin

- Kilab bin

- Murra bin

- Ka'b bin

- Lo'i bin

- Ghalib bin 

- Fahr bin

- Malik bin

- An-Nadr bin 

- Kinana bin

- Khuzaiman

- Mudrikah bin

- Elias bin

- Nizar bin

- Ma Ad bin

- Adnan

I have also found our Prophet's lineage as a result from Google Image. This is more detail of Rasulullah's lineage which start from our Prophet Adam alaihissalam. 

Click link below for a larger picture of the lineage
http://files.tmp.muxlim.com/photo/86213_4815_66791_0_1_800.jpg

Word of the Day: "Takwa"

Takwa iaitu mengikuti segala perintah Allah dan menjauhi segala larangan-Nya.

Malay translation - "Kitab (Al-Quran) ini tidak ada keraguan padanya;petunjuk bagi mereka yang bertakwa."


English translation - "This is the Book; in it is guidance sure, without doubt, to those who fear Allah."


Source: Al-Baqarah (The Cow/Sapi Betina)- Ayat ke 2


Audio
http://globalquran.com/images/audio.gif

Shaykh Anwar Al-Awlaki - What happen to our soul once we died?

Do you know what will happen to your soul once you die? Most of us know about the questioning of the two two angels, Munkar dan Nankir. But what happen just before that. Shaykh Anwar Al-Awlaki had briefly explained this just after our soul leaves our body.

Shaykh Anwar Al-Awlaki is one of the prominent American-Yemeni scholars in Islam in the United States. He was born in Yemen but then migrated to the US and now he is one of them Imam at one of the many mosque in the US (i think Imam of the one of the Masjid in California). I have listened to most of his audio lecture titles compared to other scholars due to his clear and easy-to-understand english.

This lecture i have extracted from his lecture with the title "The Importance of Death". It's a 2 hour + lecture but insya Allah i will try to extract the important bits off and share with you in the near future.

If you want to know more about him and you want to downlaod his many lectures (for free!!) please visit:
http://www.hoor-al-ayn.com/lectures/anwar-al-awlaki/

iPhone - Islamic Applications

Assalamu'alaykum warahmatullah hiwabarkatuh,

iPhone
Most of you have heard of the iPhone before and some of you probably have the chance to own it by now. I have been an iPhone user since 2007 and Alhamdulillah it has made my life easier in so many ways. Especially from Islamic perspective.

Anyway as promised here are some of the many Islamic application that you could download. Some of them are free and some of them are not but most of them are free. Hopefully by sharing this application it would somehow strengthen our Imaan. Technology plays an important role too nowadays..even the Internet or blogging to be specific, we weren't be talking about Islam this easily. So let's make full use of the technology today to get us closer to Allah. Alhamdulillah hirobbil 'alamin (Segala puji pujian bagi Allah Tuhan semesta alam)

Of course there are lot's more in the App Store but so far these are my favorite. FYI there are 100,000 applications available for download. Imagine that! Insya Allah we'll go through with you what does each application can do.

illaliqo

When is the last time you cry for Allah or His Nabi?

Updated on 06/11/2009 - 8am

Bisimillah hirrahmanirrahim, Assalamu'alaykum wrt to all readers,

This topic is very interesting to me but before we discuss it further let's just have a look at some of the many hadiths related to this topic.

Daripada Ibnu Abbas r.anhuma katanya, aku telah mendengar Rasulullah Shallallahu ‘Alaihi Wasallam bersabda;“Dua (jenis) mata yang tidak akan disentuh oleh api neraka: Mata yang menangis akibat ketakutan kepada Allah dan mata yang tidak tidur berjaga di jalan Allah.” (At-Tirmizi). Dalam satu hadith yang lain: “Wajah yang dibasahi oleh air mata kerana takutkan Allah s.w.t.., walau bagaimana sedikit pun air mata itu, terselamat dari api neraka.”Bukan sahaja wajah yang terselamat, tetapi seluruh badannya dan orang itu ialah ahli syurga. Airmata memberi syafaat kepada tuannya di hari kiamat dengan izin Allah.

Menangislah kerana Allah. Pelepah tamar dan buraq pun menangis. Pelepah tamar menangis kerana Nabi tidak lagi menggunakan sebagai mimbar masjid, akhirnya dimasukkan ke dalam syurga. Bura’ menangis kerana takut nabi tak pilih dia jadi tunggangan.

Pelepah tamar menangis

Jabir RA meriwayatkan seperti disebutkan dalam hadith Bukhari, “Nabi SAW selalu bersandar pada sebatang pohon tamar, ketika menyampaikan khutbah Jumat, Sayyidina Abu Bakar mencadangkan agar dibina mimbar yang baru. Nabi SAW bersetuju dan sebuah mimbar yang terdiri dari 3 anak tangga dibangun.

Ketika Nabi SAW duduk di atas mimbar yang baru untuk berkhutbah, para Sahabat mendengar pelepah tamar itu menangis seperti anak kecil. Nabi SAW mendekati pelepah kurma yang sedang menangis ini dan bertanya kenapa ia menangis. Pelepah tamar tersebut mengatakania menangis kerana ia tidak digunakan lagi untuk mengingat Allah SWT.Rasulullah saw kemudian menyuruh agar dikafankan pelepah tamar dan mengatakan bahawa ia akan dibangkitkan di dalam syurga. Inilah satu-satunya pokok tamar di syurga yang berasal dari dunia.

Buraq menangis

Semasa peristiwa Israk Mikraj, Allah swt menyuruh Malaikat Jibrail memilih seekor Buraq untuk dijadikan tunggangan Baginda naik ke langit. Kemudian Jibrail A.S. pun pergi dan dia melihat 40,000 buraq sedang bersenang-lenang di Jannatu Adnin (taman Syurga) dan di wajah masing-masing terdapat nama Muhammad. Jibril bertanya kepada Allah, buraq manakah yang harus dipilih kerana semuanya elok, maka Allah menyuruhnya memilih Buraq yang menangis.

Di antara 40,000 buraq itu, Jibrail A.S. terpandang pada seekor buraq yang sedang menangis bercucuran air matanya. Jibrail A.S. menghampiri buraq itu lalu bertanya, “Mengapa engkau menangis, ya buraq? “Berkata buraq, “Ya Jibrail, sesungguhnya aku telah mendengar nama Muhammad sejak 40 tahun, maka pemilik nama itu telah tertanam dalam hatiku dan aku sesudah itu menjadi rindu kepadanya dan aku tidak mahu makan dan minum lagi. Aku laksana dibakar oleh api kerinduan.”Berkata Jibrail A.S., “Aku akan menyampaikan engkau kepada orang yang engkau rindukan itu.” Kemudian Jibrail A.S. memakaikan pelana dan kekang kepada buraq itu dan membawanya kepada Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. Buraq yang diceritakan inilah yang membawa Rasulullah S.A.W dalam perjalanan Israk dan Mikraj.

Para Nabi dan umatnya juga menangis

Nabi Adam adalah nabi yang paling banyak menangis, beratus-ratus tahun lamanya setelah dikeluarkan dari syurga. Nabi Yaakob juga menangis selama 80 tahun setelah kehilangan anaknya, Nabi Yusuf. Selain itu, umat Nabi Muhammad juga menangi seperti para wali iaitu Hassan Al-Basri dan Ali Zainal Abidin, anak kepada Sayyidina Hussin.

source: http://nasbunnuraini.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/menangis-kerana-allah/

Alhamdulillah hirobbil alamin (Segala puji pujian bagi Allah Tuhan semesta alah),

Let us recall back what we have cried for all these years. It's funny how we have cried so much for our love ones (family, girlfriend, boyfriend, worthless things) yes we cried so hard on these wordly things! It's a fact and you can't deny that. I'm speaking here not to remind you only but to remind myself also. I've been there..zaman Jahiliyah. Not just the old days during our Prophet days but until now we are still living in Jahiliyah without us realising it. Astaghfirullah.

TV

Let's take the TV for example. TV could be a good thing (some scholars says it's Haram even to have a TV) and mostly could be a bad thing. Movies for example, some people likes to watch movies, well in fact most of us love movies, especially those Korean/Chinese movie fanatics. *cough* well i myself WAS one of them. (i don't want to be a hypocrite). It happened to me when i was a lot younger back when i was a teenager that was in 2004 when the korean movie called "A moment to remember". Man! that movie made me cry so hard sampai sidak sidak wah. But hey..those were the days I was a bit ignorant.

Listening to music

Now that I understand the real value of my tears Alhamdulillah crying for Allah Subhanahu wata'ala was i wouldn't say easy but doable. Started a few months ago when i first performed Umrah. Alhamdulillah. Listening to songs also could be very emotional specifically love songs. What you can do, you try to switch your mindset instead of thinking of your Gapren or Boypren, think of Allah. Remember this, whatever you do you always need to think of Him. 24/7! Of course listening to music as some scholars said it's Haram but i'm yet to investigate. But of course their argument was quite solid as one scholar said, music could prevent you from remembering Allah and by this way it could be haram. But for my case whenever i hear music, i relate it to Allah. You try listening to D'Masiv - Merindukan mu. You think of Allah! i'm telling you..you will cry your ass off.

Sujud

But again...there are many ways to cry for Allah especially in our last Sujud Prayer. Masha Allah some of our Imam Besar like Imam Muslim with his riwayah:

"Kedudukan hamba yang paling dekat dengan Tuhannya adalah ketika ia dalam keadaan sujud, maka perbanyaklah doa." (HR Muslim)

When you do your Du'a during this sujud make sure you do not move your mouth, yakni, berDu'a dalam hati. This is the time when you can cry like a baby..bila lagi tani kan menangis (menangis as in rasa takwa, rasa takut, rasa keAgunganNya, rasa tawaduk, rasa syukur dan sebagainya) Insya Allah with pure heart and intention..you will cry.

Rasulullah SAW bersabda: "Rabb (Tuhan) kita turun disetiap malam ke langit yang terendah, yaitu saat sepertiga malam terakhir, maka Dia berfirman: Siapa yang berdoa kepadaKu maka Aku kabulkan, siapa yang meminta kepadaKu maka Aku berikan kepadanya, dan siapa yang meminta ampun kepadaKu maka Aku ampunkan untuknya." (HR Al Bukhari)

Dari Amr bin Ibnu Abasah mendengar Nabi SAW bersabda: "tempat yang paling mendekatkan seorang hamba dengan Tuhannya adala saat ia dalam sujudnya dan jika ia bangun melaksanakan sholat pada sepertiga malam yang akhir. Karena itu, jika kamu mampu menjadi orang yang berzikir kepada Allah pada saat itu maka jadilah." (HR At Tirmidzi dan Ahmad)
 
Taubat

As i mentioned earlier, there are many ways and many reason for us to cry for Allah. Especially when you do your taubat. Some scholar say "One drop of your tears (tears for Allah) could put out the hellfire (Neraka Jahannam" MASHA ALLAH!!

Alhamdulillah

Memotong Kuki Cara Rasulullah (S.A.W) - is it really?

I have to apologise to all because i have just found out there were lots of website out there saying different opinion on this referenced to different sources or Hadith. And by that I had to change to topic to a questionnaire. One colleague of mine argued about that saying that Imam Ghazali mentioned that was never been recorded and its not Sahih.

Some even recall the saying of our late Allahyarham Dr Saidun where he had once said that this is not true.

Here's one comment from our brother Ammatullah. Jazakallahu khair.

Assalamualaikum

looking at this picture, if I may, can I gently ask where did you get this? and do you know the 'dalil'?

because, so far, I have found no hadith for cutting nails.. and I really want to know.

Syukran wa jazakallahu khairan.

-Ammatullah

To answer your question Ammatullah, i've got it from one website that i was not sure of of its authenticity. 

http://ahmadzaki.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/potong-kuku-cara-islam-sunnah/

It's funny from this website, the blogger even admitted that there's no hadith that is sahih about this topic. I was being ignorant Astaghfirullah! here's a little snapshot from the website.

I have to admit at first i was so sure that this is what Rasulullah used to do and also by recalling back those years when i was in the religious school, they actually post this picture on the notice board. Astaghfirullah. May Allah Forgive Me if i was being ignorant all this time. 

But then again as i have mentioned earlier, this is debatable as i have found quite a number of website which contradicts with each other. I'll leave it to you to investigate. Let us discuss.

Who is Mahram?

Thanks to Amatullah for giving some good comment from our previous topic "Bi'da dalam perkahwinan orang Melayu". He mentioned that Fatwa Mufti Kerajaan (1994-5) book had discussed about this and he had quoted word by word from the book. Very interesting indeed. Please see the comment from this topic.

http://worriedbruneianmuslim.blogspot.com/2009/10/bidah-dalam-perkahwinan-orang-melayu.html#comments

Amatullah had inspired ana to post another subject related to the previous topic. As ana have highlighted from the comment section with regards to privately holding a majlis bersanding where non-mahram are not allowed.

To continue discuss this matter, ana sure most of you know that does mahram means and some people don't. Honestly ana myself are one of the "some people". Ana not so sure who actually are those mahram people other than your immediate family such as brother, sister, uncle, aunties. I guess this is when wikipedia comes in handy. Before ana even discussed about the definition of Mahram, let's have a quick comparison between the word "Mahram" and "Muhrim"shall we?

Found one indonesian blog (Rahmat blog) which has briefly define these two words:

http://blog.re.or.id/siapa-saja-mahram-itu.htm

"Muhrim dalam bahasa Arab adalah muhrimun mim di-dhammah yg makna adalah orang yg berihram dalam pelaksanaan ibadah haji sebelum tahallul. Sedangkan Mahram bahasa Arab adalah mahramun mim di-fathah. Mahram ini berasal dari kalangan wanita yaitu orang2 yg haram dinikahi oleh seorang lelaki selama"

to be continued..

OTHER STORIES: Bibles seized as Malaysia minorities fear fundamentalism

Subhanallah. What is happening here? Bible using the word "Allah" as a replacement to the word "God". Even though Allah means God in Arabic but the word is exclusive to Islam. This is one of the ways for the Kuffar trying to lure and confuse our Muslim brother in Malaysia between Islam and Christianty and therefore trying to pull them to christianity. May Allah guide them.

For full article from CNN please follow the link below:

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/29/malaysia.bibles.seized/index.html

Bid'ah dalam perkahwinan orang melayu

Assalamu'alaykum.

I'm not going to say much on this topic because i well let Dato Ustaz Ismail Kamus quickly brief you through all the Bid'ah activities that has been going on for centuries, especially in our country. You will find this lecture hard to believe but knowing that Dato Ismail Kamus is one of the leading one of the most well known malay Ustaz that we look up to and listen to, i'm sure whatever finding he has found as a result of his lecture, are all coming from Katib-kitab yang sahih and valid belaka.



Another video relating to Marriage in Islam. Baba Ali!



Questions that you want to post to your potential wive

Celebrating Birthdays is HARAM

Assalamu'alaykum borthers and sisters,

Keifel hal? (How are you?) I hope all of you are in good health under the care of Allah Azzawajal. If you're not in good health then Salamtak (get well soon). This time i want to share with you about a topic known to many and celebrated by many, that is birthdays. I don't have elaborate much further as the subject speaks itself.

I have come acrossed a lecture by our Lebanon-Australian brother who have given a lecture on a topic called Forbidden Lecture. Masya Allah i wish i can share it with you and make you realise how far we have been deviated from the straight path, without us knowing Astaghfirullah. But for this particular topic on "Birthdays" i have managed to extract the part where he talks about birthdays. So without wasting any much of your time i have uploaded it to youtube. Enjoy and May Allah guide you Insya Allah. Ittaqillah (Fear of Allah).

Car loan - what happen if you die? Who is going to pay?

Have you actually check you car insurance coverage lately? or probably never. I strictly recommend you to revisit your insurance with your car insurer (bank). Alhamdulillah i just found out about this. Just ask your self this..what happen if you die? (NOT but car accident but other causes) what will happen to the loan that you currently having with the bank for the first time you bought your car? do you think the bank will just let it go and pity you? the answer is NO! that is the reason why they have the Next of Keen field in the form the first time you applied your car insurance. I guess.


However some car insurer, like IDBB Takaful sendirian berhad they do cover and pay the remaining loan for your car if you are destined to die before you finish paying your monthly car loan. Shaykh Khalid Yasin had once said, "everyday you wake up, you are not closer to your goals, to your objective in life in Dunya (dunia), but you are close to death. Everyday you are closer to death. Even babies, orphan dies. Let alone us who have lived here for 20-60 years. From the womb to the tomb!"


Alhamdulillah both of my car got covered by IDBB Takaful.


WHAT ABOUT YOURS? Please check. May Allah guide all of us. "Ihdinassirotal mustaqim" Amin.


"To Allah (Almighty God) we belong, and to Him is our return." (Holy Qur'an 2:156)




Imam Ali (pbuh) says: "If man will see how speedily his death is coming toward him he will abhor ambitions and will give up admiring the world."



Below i have taken the information from Mufti's book (Monetary Issue published in 2000). Here's what it says hukm of car insurance in Islam.


Series: 29/1991


Question: Life and Car Insurance


Can we buy insurance, for example, life insurance and car insurance, managed by non-believers (kafir) or by Muslims and what is the hukm (ruling) on it?


The justification: In order to comply with the traffic laws and to provide aid and assistance to the family of the deceased who may be poor or facing difficulties with regards to the future of their children.


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It is acceptable to buy car insurance so as to comply with the laws of the country because to do so is considered an exigency.
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Life Insurance - is it Haram?

At the moment i'm reading a book by our Mufti Kerajaan specifically on the life insurance area. From my reading so far I can conclude that it's haram. But let me just finish it first.

You can check out at Mufti's homepage at the link below:

http://www.brunet.bn/gov/mufti/terbitan/t_isu.htm

Ok done! Here i will post you the exact content from the book wrt to life insurance from Mufti's perspective. I leave it to you to judge.

Reference: Monetary Issue 

Year of published: 2000

Published by: State Mufti's Office

ISBN: 99917-33-22-1

Starting page: 493

Series 17/1973

Question 1: The Hukm on Life Insurance

What is the hukm (tuling) in Islam with regards to life insurance?

According to those well-informed on matters of life insurance"

The insurance company repays to the insurance policy holder all payments he has made to the company plus an amount exceeding these payments.

(This happens) when the insurance policy holder lives to pay all payments due from the beginning to the end (until the policy matures).

Undoubtedly, the payment made by the company to the insurance policy holder, apart from being repayment of the payments made from the beginning to the end, is riba (usury) or interest.

The insurance company has used part of the money paid by the insurance policy holders to give loans to others by charging interests and making profits. Insurance policy holders are therefore helping insurance companies to carry our riba.

Due to the above two reasons, insurance is not accepted in Islam. Wallah hu'alam.

Series 40/1975

Question 2: Involvement In Life Insurance

What is the hukm (ruling), from the point of view of shara', on any kind of insurance, including a Muslim who is involved in life insurance matters. 

The insurance available today is a western method of transaction, implicit within it are gambling and usury. Therefore, those who are involved in insurance groups are either partaking in riba or receiving wealth from gambling.

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If the insurance policy holder lives to an age agreed upon between him and the insurance company (until the policy matures), and he has paid all premiums that were due, the insurance company will then repay all premiums paid by him, plus a certain amount based on a certain rate, together with the premiums. This must surely be riba and interest. Should the insurance policy holder die before the agreed date, (before the policy matures), the compaby will pay to the heirs an amount similar to that agreed upon even though he has not paid any premium yet. According to hukm, this is gambling.

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Furthermore, the company invests the premiums, or part of it, in riba practices such as issuing loans with interest or riba. The person paying the premiums is therefore helping the company to carry out riba or charge interests and riba. Interests are transgressions and are great sins, and Allah has threatened war against the perpetrators of riba. 

According to the Hanafi school, entering into a contract involving riba or gambling, and similar activities, is prohibited in Islam and is clearly haram (unlawful) but if it is in a kafir (non-believers') country, and the payments are also received in the kafir state, then it is permissable and possible, should there be a willingness amongst the Muslims (those allowed to enter the kafir state) and the kafir, but it is haram and it is not permissable to enter into a fasid (immoral) contract, a gambling and riba contract, and other similar contracts, among Muslis and the kafir, and to receive the payments whilst both are residing in a Muslim state. This is because a Muslim country is where Islamic hukm is practised. That is what we understand from what was said by Sheikh Fuqaha' Mesti Al-'Allamah Ash-Sheikh Muhammad Bakhit, Mufti of Egypt, who dies in the year 1345 Hijrah Rahimahullah Ta'ala.

To buy a life insurance policy on a whim and fancy while expecting profits and benefits from it is wrong and batil (invalid) and a sin because life insurance and assuring the life of a person cannot be done by a company or a doctor or an economist. Only Allah Ta'ala knows the life span of a person and no other being has knowledge of it. Everybody knows this.

The company is actually trying to get business and profits by means of gambling, guessing and speculating and therefore their effort is batil and wrong from the point of view of Islam. It is the devouring of the wealth of others through riba (usury) and gambling.

Life insurance is a contract which is fasid (void), it cannot be included in dhaman (guaranty) or kafalah (bail) contracts and to practise a contract which is fasid is a great sin, as stated by Al-Imam Ibnu Hajar and other iama; while halal wealth is blessed.

So what do you think? I have withdrawn all my life insurance and investment policy from this life insurance company in Brunei (don't want to mention the name of the company).

But the funny thing is, i have heard from some people, even the insurance company agent himself told me that Life Insurance company such as AIA, was actually approved by the State Mufti Office and they do regular visits on these companies now and then to see their way of transactions. Wallahu 'alam. Not sure to believe it or not. 

Another thing he mentioned that Brunei Life Insurance company such as AIA is not Takaful certified, not like AIA in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Here's a link wrt to AIA Malaysia get international takaful operator licence:

http://islamicfinanceupdates.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/aia-first-to-get-international-takaful-operator-licence-in-malaysia/

This is all so confusing for me. Takaful operator licence????

I mean aren't all life insurance all are Haram?? as mentioned in the Mufit's book??

What about the Islamic bank such life insurance?? like in TAIB or BIBD? i heard it's compliant with the syariah (islamic ruling)

Anyway i have given you all the best insight of our life insurance in Brunei. Whether we're gaining or loosing for not joining it, i'll leave it to you to judge. I have raised every known issue that i can think of on the table. Insya Allah will pray Solat Istikharah to let Allah decide and bring guidance to our daily life transactions. (Who knows best).

Jazakallah

The many ways to ask for Allah's forgiveness

I would like to share with you only some of the many ways for Allah to forgive your sins, whether in past or in the future. Of course, we're as a human being cannot escape from doing sins, those that we are aware of, and of course those that we're not aware of. But will our 5 daily prayers would be enough to forgive all of our sins? Will Allah forgive for all the sins that we have done, whether it's a major sins or minor sins. We do not know. It all depends on our SINCERITY masa kitani berdu'a. Even our daily prayers itself, some of it are in the form of Du'a. If not Du'a is puji pujian bagi Allah. 

In Solat/Salah/Sembahyang

Let's take for example, 6th verse of Surah Al-Fatihah - "ihdinassirotal mustaqim" - "Tunjukkanlah kami ke jalan yang lurus (benar). Another one is bacaan semasa duduk antara dua sujud - "rabbigh firli warhamni" = "Ya Tuhanku! Ampunkanlah dosaku dan rahmatkan aku". These are Du'a, and by knowing the meaning we should be able to feel Khusyuk and really feel that we need His forgiveness. 

In Dzikir - before you sleep

There are many Dzikir that you can recite on a daily basis. For example, before we sleep we can recite "Astaghfirullah halladzim alladzi la ilaha illa huwalhayyul qayyum wa atubu ilai ih" - siapa yang membaca sebelum tidur, nescaya Allah akan menghapuskan dosanya, walau banyaknya seperti buih-buih di laut. MASHA ALLAH!! Guys just take a moment and remember this dzikir because it's just too easy! You say Allah is Ar-Rahman (Maha Pemurah), now tell me how pemurah Allah Subhana Wata'ala atu! It's just beyond our imagination!  This is one quick reminder for you and for myself betapa Pemurahnya Allah atu. We Dzikir is actually part of our wirid if you don't realise it! so you should know it by now.

In Dzikir - before Asar prayer and after Asar prayer

Alhamdulillah who wants to know a secret which you can practice that would clear your sins the past 7 days or your next 7 days? An Ustaz told me a treasure in the form of information. He said to me by reciting these Dzikir 70 times, Allah will forgive your sins the last 7 days and also your future 7 days (from the day you recite the Dzikir) insya Allah.


 Sins from past 7 days will be forgiven insya Allah by reciting:
Astaghfirullah hal adzim (70 times) - Before Asar prayer


Sins for the next 7 days will be forgiven insya Allah by reciting:
KhasbunAllah wani'mal wakhil (70 times) - After Asar prayer


For now thats all i can remember for ways that would clear our sins, the practical way.  In the mean time i need your input on this to put more stuff so that you can share with me and others and i will post it up here. Barang ani barang bepahala - ingat Sabda Rasulullah (S.A.W)? 


"Sebarkanlah ajaranku walau satu ayat pun"

"Nescaya Allah memperbaiki bagimu amalan-amalanmu dan mengampuni bagimu dosa-dosamu. Dan barangsiapa mentaati Allah dan Rasul-Nya, maka sesungguhnya ia telah mendapat kemenangan yang besar." (Surah Al- Ahzab:71)

to be continued..

Raudah - Satu satunya kebun syurga di dunia

ImHalal the new Google yo!

For the first time now, there is an Islamic search engine which aims at providing a general purpose search that is free of "haram" content, i.e. offensive contents (ehem ehem) that contradicts with Islamic laws and beliefs. The search engine is wisely called ImHalal.com, and i bet we will see widely increased interest in such a service from conservative people, and parents who wants to keep their kids off the harmful web contents. 


There's an article from Times Online which has an interesting article about ImHalal. It says "a new search engine designed to help Muslims navigate the web without running into potential "sinful" material. So guys you better be careful better take a note on this yea. 


The service was developed by the Dutch company AZS Media Group. Hehe. You hear that? A Dutch company! I bet they're muslims. Currently ImHalal functions in 15 different languages, and the developers expect it to really take off in the Middle East.


ImHalal works like any other search engine, you type in a keyword and hit enter, except, here if you enter a potentially risky word you will get a message telling you the level of risk you will be exposed to if you run the search. Results deemed to level 3 out of 3 will not run at all. 


To reach it's HALAL goal, the site seems to be using two method. One is by filtering out "Haram" sites and contents, and this can be seen clearly from the image search, which is still in Beta. When searching for various keywords or celebrity names for example, results from ImHalal.com are much more decent in this regard than Google and Yahoo in their strict mode. 


Happy "safe" searching guys! literally for guys! haha but yea this is serious! Internet could be one place where most of the syaitan are now usually hang out especially in this modern world! Allahuma ajirnie minnannar (Jauhkan kami dari Neraka jahannam)

The meaning of "Keluar" for Tabligh

Para Sahabah "Keluar" di jalan Allah

Sebanyak 150 jemaah telah dihantar dari Madinah dalam masa 10 tahun tersebut. Baginda s.a.w. sendiri telah menyertai 25 daripada jemaah-jemaah tersebut. Sebahagian jemaah tersebut terdiri daripada 10,000 orang, ada yang 1,000 orang, 500 orang, 300 orang, 15 orang, 7 orang dan sebagainya. Jemaah-jemaah ini ada yang keluar untuk 3 bulan, 2 bulan, 15 hari, 3 hari dan sebagainya. 125 jemaah lagi sebahagiannya terdiri daripada 1000 orang, 600 orang, 500 orang dan sebagainya dengan masa 6 bulan, 4 bulan dan sebagainya.


Sekiranya kita menghitung dengan teliti maka akan didapati purata masa yang diberikan oleh setiap sahabat untuk keluar ke jalan Allah dalam masa setahun ialah antara 6 hingga 7 bulan.






Sahabat keluar 5 tahun



Pada tahun 627M satu rombongan sahabat-sahabat Nabi S.A.W yang diketuai oleh Wahab bin Abi Qabahah dikatakan telah mengunjungi Riau dan menetap selama 5 tahun di sana (sebelum pulang ke Madinah)


(dipetik dari kitab 'Wali Songo dengan perkembangan Islam di Nusantara', )




Sahabat keluar 6 bulan
Bara’ Radiyallahu 'anhu meriwayatkan bahawa Rasulullah Sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam telah mengutus Khalid ibne-Walid Radiyallahu 'anhu kepada penduduk Yamen untuk mengajak mereka masuk Islam. Bara berkata: Aku juga termasuk dalam jamaah itu. Kami tinggal di sana selama 6 bulan. Khalid radiyalaahu anhu selalu mengajak mereka untuk masuk Islam, tetapi mereka menolak ajakannya.


Kemudian Rasulullah Sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam mengutus 'Ali ibne-Abi Talib Radiyallahu 'anhu ke sana dan memerintahkan kepada Khalid r.a. untuk kembali dengan seluruh jamaah kecuali salah seorang dari jamaah Khalid r.a. yang mahu menemani Ali r.a, maka ia boleh ikut serta dengan Ali r.a. Bara r.a berkata: Akulah yang menemani Ali r.a. selama di sana. Ketika kami betul-betul dekat dengan penduduk Yaman, maka mereka keluar dan dan dating kehadapan kami. Lalu Ali r.a. mengatur shaf mereka untuk mengerjakan solah dan Ali yang menjadi imam dalam solah kami.
Selesai solah, Ali r.a membacakan isi surat Rasulullah Sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam kepada mereka. Setelah mendengar isi surat Rasulullah sallalaahu alayhi wasalam itu maka seluruh Bani Hamdan masuk Islam. Kemudian Ali r.a. menulis surat kepada Rasulullah Sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam yang isinya memberitahukan tentang ke-Islaman mereka kepada baginda. Setelah isi surat tersebut dibacakan kepada Rasulullah Sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam, maka baginda langsung sujud syukur kepada Allah Swt. Setelah mengangkat kepala, baginda berdoa: Keselamatan bagi Bani Hamadan. Keselamatan bagi Bani Hamadan. (Bukhari, Baihaqi, Bidayah-wan-Nihayah)


(Dipetik dari kitab Muntakhab Ahadith, bab Dakwah dan Tabligh,)


Keluar 4 bulan
Ibn Juraij berkata: “Ada seseorang yang menceritakan kepada saya bahawa pada suatu malam ketika Umar radiyalaahu anhu sedang berkeliling (ghast) di sekitar lorong-lorong kota Madinah, tiba-tiba beliau mendengar seorang wanita sedang melantunkan sya’ir:
”Betapa panjang malam ini dan betapa gelap di sekelilingnya, Daku tidak boleh tidur kerana tiada yang tersayang yang boleh ku ajak bercumbu Andai bukan kerana takut berdosa kepada Allah yang tiada sesuatu pun dapat menyamaiNya Sudah pasti ranjang ini di goyang oleh yang lainnya."


Ketika Umar r.a. mendengar sya’irnya itu, maka dia bertanya kepada wanita tersebut, “Apa yang terjadi padamu?” Wanita itu menjawab, “Saya sangat merindukan suami saya yang telah meninggalkan saya selama beberapa bulan.” Umar r.a. betanya, “Apakah kamu bermaksud melakukan hal yang buruk?” Wanita itu menjawab, “Saya berlindung kepada Allah.” Umar r.a. berkata, “Kuasailah dirimu! Sekarang saya akan mengutus orang untuk memanggil suami mu.”
Setelah itu Umar r.a. bertanya kepada anak perempuannya Hafsah r.anha, “Aku akan bertanya padamu mengenai sesuatu masalah yang membingungkan aku, mudah-mudahan kamu boleh memberi jalan keluar untukku. Berapa lama seorang wanita mampu menahan kerinduan ketika berpisah dari suaminya?” Mendengar pertanyaan itu, Hafsah r.anha menundukkan kepala merena merasa malu. Umar r.a. berkata, “ Sesungguhnya Allah tidak pernah merasa malu dalam hal kebaikan.” Hafsah menjawab sambil berisyarat dengan jari tangannya, “Tiga sampai empat bulan.” Kemudian Umar r.a. menulis surat kepada setiap amir (pimpinan) pasukan tentera Islam supaya tidak menahan anggota pasukannya lebih dari 4 bulan.”


(Riwayat Abdur Razzaq dalam kitab Al-Kanz Jilidl VIII, m/s.308).
Ibnu 'Umar (Radiallahu'Anhu) mengatakan bahawa pada suatu malam Umar r.a. keluar (untuk melihat ehwal orangramai), tiba-tiba beliau mendengar seorang wanita sedang bersya’ir:


"Betapa panjang malam ini dan betapa gelap di sekelilingnya Aku tidak boleh tidur kerana tida yang tersayang yang boleh kuajak bercumbu."
Kemudian Umar r.a. bertanya kepada Hafsah r.anha, berapa lama wanita dapat bertahan tidak bertemu dengan suaminya?” Hafsah r.anha menjawab, “Enam atau empat bulan.” Maka Umar r.a. berkata, “Untuk selanjutnya saya tidak akan menahan tentera lebih dari masa itu.”


(Hr. Baihaqi dalam kitabnya jilid IX m/s 29)


[seperti yang dipetik dari kitab Hayatus Sahabah, bab Al-Jihad]






Keluar 40 hari



"Seorang lelaki telah datang kepada Saiyidina Umar ibnu Khattab r.a. maka Saiyidina Umar r.a. pun bertanya: Di manakah engkau berada? Dijawabnya: Saya berada di Ribat. Saiyidina Umar r.a. bertanya lagi: Berapa hari engkau berada di Ribat itu? Jawabnya tiga puluh hari. Maka berkata Saiyidina Umar r.a.: Mengapa kamu tidak cukupkan empat puluh hari?


(Kanzul Ummal, Juzuk 2 muka surat 288, dipetik dari kitab 'Risalah ad Dakwah)




Keluar 3 hari


Daripada Ibnu Umar r.a. berkata: Nabi SAW telah memanggil Abdul Rahman bin Auf r.a. lalu bersabda: Siap sedialah kamu, maka sesungguhnya aku akan menghantar engkau bersama satu jama'ah maka menyebut ia akan hadis dan katanya: Maka keluarlah Abdul Rahman hingga berjumpa dengan para sahabatnya, maka berjalanlah mereka sehingga sampai ke suatu tempat pertama bernama Daumatul Jandal, maka manakala ia masuk ke kampung itu ia mendakwah orang-orang kampung itu kepada Islam selama tiga hari. Manakala sampai hari yang ketiga dapat Islamlah Asbagh bin Amru al Kalbi r.a. dan adalah ia dahulunya beragama Nasrani dan ia ketua di kampung itu.


(Hadith riwayat Darul Qutni, dipetik dari kitab 'Risalah ad Dakwah)


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