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Islamic Center of Olympia Motto : To be The best Muslim Community on the West Coast !
Objectives
To learn to cleanse ourselves To learn the pillars of Tauba Nasooha To enable ourselves to be eligible candidates for Jannah To bring spirituality into our daily life To get peace and security in both worlds To make this masjid the center of all activities
Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that is more purifying for them. Surely Allah is aware of what they do. (24:30)
"Verily in the body there is a piece of flesh. If it is sound, the body is all sound. If it is corrupt, the body is all corrupt. Verily, it is the heart , Verily, it is the heart , Verily, it is the heart !
It is reported in al-Musnad, on the authority of Anas, that the Prophet *saaws* said: "The faith of a servant is not put right until his heart is put right, and his heart is not put right until his tongue is put right."
What is Tauba ?
Yaa ayyohal ladeena aamanoo toobu iallaahe taubatan nasooha O you who believe! Turn to Allah a sincere turning. Surah Tahreem 66:8
Knowledge that is not acted on The deed that has neither sincerity nor is based on following the righteous examples of others Money that is hoarded, as the owner neither enjoys it during this life nor obtains any reward for it in the Hereafter The heart that is empty of love and longing for Allah, and of seeking closeness to Him A body that does not obey and serve Allah
However the greater of these matters are wasting the heart and wasting time. Wasting the heart is done by preferring this worldly life over the Hereafter, and wasting time is done by having incessant hope. Destruction occurs by following one's desires and having incessant hope, while all goodness is found in following the right path and preparing oneself to meet Allah.
How strange it is that when a servant of Allah has a [worldly] problem, he seeks help of Allah, but he never asks Allah to cure his heart before it dies of ignorance, neglect, fulfilling one's desires and being involved in innovations. Indeed, when the heart dies, he will never feel the significance or impact of his sins.
1. The first is to seek refuge with Allah from shaytan, and to reject the thought which occurs. 2. The second is to remember Allah with the heart and the tongue. 3. The third is to reflect on the proofs of the people of the sunna. These are not mentioned by the philosophers or the Khawarij / Mu`tazalites. 4. The fourth is to question one who knows the sunna.
It is the believers who are successful: those who are humble in their prayer; those who turn away from prattle; those who are active in paying zakt; those who guard their private parts except from their wives or what their right hands own, in that case not being blameworthy; but any desiring anything more than that, they are the over steppers of the limits. (23:1-7)
Say to the believing men that they should lower their eyes and guard their private parts. That is purer for them. Allh is aware of what they do. Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and guard their private parts and not disclose their adornments, except for that which ordinarily appears, and should draw their head-coverings across their breasts. They must not disclose their adornments except to their husbands or their fathers or their husbands fathers, or their sons or their husbands sons or other women or what their right hands own or their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who still have no consciousness of womens private parts. Nor should they stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn to Allh, o believers, every one of you, so that perhaps you will have success. (24:30-31)
O wives of the Prophet! If any of you commit a clear act of indecency she will get double the punishment. That is an easy matter for Allh. But each of you who is obedient to Allh and His Messenger and acts rightly will be given her wage twice over and We have prepared generous provision for her. O wives of the Prophet! You are not like other women provided you are godfearing. Do not be soft in your speech in case someone with sickness in his heart becomes desirous. Speak correct and courteous words. Remain in your houses and do not display your beauty as it was displayed formerly in the Days of Ignorance. Establish the prayer and pay the zakt. Obey Allh and His Messenger. Allh desires to remove all impurities from you, o People of the House, and to purify you completely. (33:30-33)
The Prophet, may Allh bless him and grant him peace, said, O Al, do not follow one glance with a second one. The first is all right but not the second. The Prophet, may Allh bless him and grant him peace, also said, The glance is a poisoned arrow from the quiver of Ibls. If anyone restrains his glance from looking at the beauties of women, Allh will transmit to his heart the sweetness of worship until the Day of Rising. He further said, Lower your eyes and protect your private parts. Ahmad ibn Hanbal related this in the hadth which starts: Guarantee me six things from yourselves. He said as well, Beware of sitting at the roadside. They said, Messenger of Allh, we have to sit there. He said, If you must do it, then give the roadway its due. They said, What is its due? He said, To lower the eyes, refrain from causing injury, and return greetings.
Ibn Abbs, may Allh be pleased with him, said that the Messenger of Allh, may Allh bless him and grant him peace, said, None of you should be alone with a woman unless there is a close relative of hers present (dhu mahram).
It is related from Ab Ummah, may Allh be pleased with him, that the Messenger of Allh, may Allh bless him and grant him peace, said, Beware of being alone with women. By the One who has my soul in His hand, a man is never alone with a woman without Shaytn coming between them. It is better for a man to press up against a pig covered with filth than for his shoulder to press against the shoulder of a woman not lawful for him.
For this reason Islm forbids a woman to put on perfume and scent when leaving her house in case men smell her perfume. The Prophet, may Allh bless him and grant him peace, said, Every eye fornicates. When a woman puts on scent and walks past a gathering, she is like so-and-so, meaning a fornicator.
O Dd! We made you a khalf in the earth. So judge between people with truth and do not pursue whims and desires and let them lead you astray from Allhs way. Those who go astray from Allhs way will receive harsh punishment for their forgetting the Day of Reckoning. (38:26)
He who feared the Station of his Lord will have two Gardens. (55:46)
And who could be further astray than someone who follows his own whims and desires without any guidance from Allh? Allh does not guide the wrongdoers. (28:50)
Anyone who disobeys Allh and His Messenger and goes beyond His limits, We will admit him into a Fire, remaining in it timelessly, forever. He will have a humiliating punishment. (4:14) Do not go near to fornication. It is an indecent act, an evil way. (17:32) Those who do not call on another god together with Allh and do not kill any person Allh has made inviolate except with a right and do not fornicate. Anyone who does that will receive an evil punishment. (25:68) Your Lord has made it unlawful for you to approach indecency outward or inward. (6:151)
"Know that the life of this world is only play and amusement, pomp and mutual boasting among you, and rivalry in respect of wealth and children, as the likeness of vegetation after rain, thereof the growth is pleasing to the tiller; afterwards it dries up and you see it turning yellow; then it becomes straw. But in the Hereafter (there is) a severe torment (for the believers, evildoers), and (there is) Forgiveness of Allah and (His) Good Pleasure (for the believers, gooddoers), whereas the life of this world is only a deceiving enjoyment." (Al-Hadid 57:20)
Barkat of Istighfaar
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the fear of becoming arrogant and egotistical due to the abundance of bounties; the fear of being distracted from Allah by other creation; the fear of being led to an evil ending through excessive bounties; the fear of being punished early (i.e. in this world); the fear of being disgraced at the time of death; the fear of being beguiled by the glitter of this world; the fear of Allah revealing one's secret in one's state of oblivion; the fear of being stamped with a bad death at the time of death; the fear of the pangs of death;
the fear of the questions of Munkar and Nakeer in the grave; the fear of the punishment of the grave; the fear of the horrors of the horizon (at the time of resurrection); the fear of the awe during the presentation in front of Allah; the fear and the shame of being naked (at the time of resurrection);
the fear of being questioned about every little thing in life; the fear of the bridge (over Hell) and its sharpness; the fear of the fire, its chains and its torment; the fear of being deprived of Paradise, the Eternal and everlasting kingdom and abode and the fear of being deprived of seeing Allah's tremendous visage.