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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."} -------------------- 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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