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Women (part 4)
peaceman
07/23/03 at 14:56:52

In the name of Allah The Merciful the Compassionate

 Alsalam Alaikum wa Rahmatu Allahi wa BarakatuHu,
 May peace be upon you and Allah's Compassion and His blessings,

  {"Allah will help His messengers and the believers
    in this world's life, and on the day when witnesses
    will stand. The day when excuses will not be accepted
    from the wrong doers, and they will have the curse
    and a home of misery."}  

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Women (lecture by Maulana Ehsan part 4)

for the audio: http://www.tabligh.com/ihsanw3.rm

All Praises to Allah and peace on the honorable Messenger
(May Allah's peace and blessings be upon him.)

  Those periods that are empty should be filled with the
rememberance of Allah (The Glorified and High). The saying
of the messenger of Allah (May Allah's peace and blessings
be upon him) , is that there should be no time that is void
of the rememberance of Allah. The tongue should be moist
with the rememberance of Allah. In every home there should
be the gatherings of teaching daily. As long as the teachings
of Allah are occuring, the mercy of Allah will be present there.
The peace and tranquility will be there.
 
  Allah will remember those that are participating in the
gathering in a better gathering. The greatest thing is that
the angels of mercy will surround the gathering, and pile up
from the earth to the heavens. That much time that the
children will be sitting in the gathering, they will be
in the company of the angels. Therefore they will become
pious and obedient and of courteous manners like the
angels. If the children are always in the environment
of the shaitan, and if they are going to school and are
in the environment of the shaitan; if they are outside in
the locality in the environment of the shaitan.

  We know what is inside of our homes. Then when all the
time the children are in the environment of the shaitan,
what will the children become if not like the shaitan?
Therefore it is of great importance that we have the
gatherings of teaching in the home. How long should
the gathering be? Two hours; One and a Half hours; One
hour; at least half an hour. Fifteen to twenty minutes
should be spent from reading the book Fazail Amal.
Five to ten minutes should be spent going over the
points of Dawah. Today the son should say the points.
Tommorow the daughter should go over the points. The
next day the mother should say the points. The next
day the father should go over the points. If the
grandmother is at home, she should also go over the
points. Why? So that every person in the home could
be a caller to Allah. Every person in the home should
have a concern in their heart that the resposibility
of conveying the message to all of humanity is on me.
     
  For the children, it is not enough to teach them,
but also to show them (by example). When the child sees
the father lying down, taken his kufi (Islamic cap) off,
and taken his shirt off. When the time for the gathering
of teaching came, he put on his kufi and his shirt. He
performed Wudu and came to the gathering in the condition
of closeness to Allah. After the child sees this for a few
days, he will also start sitting in this condition of
closeness to Allah. In five to ten minutes, going over the
names of the points, would be imprinted on the child.
If going over a point, the number of verses of the Quran, and
the number of Hadiths, one could spend hours going over each
one, and it would still not be complete.

  Teach about the Great Power of Allah. Teach about
how Allah Created all things. Teach about how Allah helped
all His prophets. The children should hear the story of the
prophets. The children should hear the story of the
Sahabah (the companions of prophet Muhammed, may Allah's
peace and blessings be upon him). Khalid (May Allah be
pleased with him), was like this, he did this and that,
when this happened, he did this and that. Hadhrat Bilal
(May Allah be pleased with him) made these sacrifices,
and he became a Muazzin (caller to prayer). Instead of the
stories that are circulating these days, the stories of
the Sahabah should be told to the children. You must talk
to your wives about these stories so that they could
convey them to their children.

  The regular gatherings of teaching will generate
a desire to follow the religion. In the environment of
teaching faith, the faith will get strong and be strong
in our hearts. The faith would allow the woman to find out
what are the commandments of Allah, and what are the traditions
of the the messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings
be upon him). Then the women and the children will ask their
husbands and fathers to go to the scholars and the imams  
and ask about how many orders of Allah, and traditions
of the messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings
be upon him) are applied in our homes. If the work
of increasing the faith in the homes is occuring, it will
increase the capabilities to accept the commandements
of Allah The Glorified and The Highest.

    Many times in the gatherings for the women, the
brothers may give a little advise about wearing a scarf for
the women. The brothers may not have made efforts to increase
his faith, but give the orders about wearing a scarf. This
way is not the right way. First, a person must make the
effort to increase the faith in the home, and then when
strong faith comes, then they will find out what are the
commandments of Allah The Glorified and High, which they
will fulfill, and they will realize that the success comes
from following those orders, and the failure results from
going away from those orders.
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