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I know it’s Haram to imitate females but the reason i want to get my ears pierced is not beacuse I want to imitate females. So really it can’t be haram can it?

Praise be to Allaah.

Earrings and bracelets are forms of adornment for women, and Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him) reported that “The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) cursed men who make themselves look like women and women who make themselves look like men.” (Reported by al-Bukhaari, 5435).

Abu Hurayrah said: “The Messenger of Allaah cursed men who wear women’s clothes and women who wear men’s clothes.” (Reported by Abu Dawood in al-Sunan, Kitaab al-Libaas, Baab fi libaas al-nisaa’). On this basis, it is not permitted for men to wear earrings or nose-rings.

The claim that this is permissible because the people of Quraysh used to do that needs to be proven, in the first place, and where is the proof?

Secondly, even if they used to do this in the Jaahiliyaah (Time of Ignorance before Islam), Islam came and forbade men to wear the adornment of women or to make themselves look like them, as is clear from the ahadeeth quoted above. What matters is the ruling of Islam, not what Quraysh or other tribes may have done.

Thirdly, the kinds of female adornment known among Quraysh and others includes earrings, bracelets, anklets and bangles worn on the upper arm. The point is that these are known as forms of women’s adornment since ancient times.

Fourthly, Islam has given men sufficient scope to adorn themselves by allowing them to wear silver rings, as Ibn ‘Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him and his father) reported that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) wore a ring made of silver, and the people did likewise. (Reported by al-Bukhaari, 5417). Islam also allows men to wear gold and silver when necessary to replace a lost tooth or nose, and so on.

Finally, we would say that any Muslim man who wears jewellery is making himself look like the kuffaar, because this is known to be their style of adornment; the latest fashion among them is to wear earrings and the like in their ears, noses, lips, cheeks and other parts of the body (so-called “body-piercing”). The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever imitates a people is one of them.” (Reported by Abu Dawood, al-Sunan, Kitaab al-libaas, Bab libaas al-shuhrah).

Whoever does this should repent to Allaah and not engage in the futile defence of falsehood. He should be distinct in both his personality and his dress from the kuffaar, as Islam has commanded us to be. Allaah is the One Who guides to the Straight Path.

Islam Q&A
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid

As it stands now, it is against the law for a non-Muslim to enter the cities of Mecca and Medina. Are there any Muslims out there who think this should be changed?

its too hot and i wouldnt want to go there

does this water cure people from their sickness ?
doctors has nothing to do with that

the spring from where Zamzam water is coming is being said that is the place from where ismail hit the ground and the water came out.
in the old chinese medicine is said that water and nothing else can clean the body of the any disease.
this is a water rich in some minerals and some researchers said it may contains high level of arsenic and may be poisonous at some extend.
my wonder is that they find that spring in the desert.and you know how is arabian desert.

Tematagi Island in French Polynesia is near the exact opposite side of the planet (antipodes) from Mecca. What direction would a Muslim face during prayers?

Logically, straight down is the shortest route, but horizontally either direction would be about the same.

If they were on a boat they could be at a spot where any horizontal direction would be the exact same distance.

They would face West/Northwest

At 3:25am the moon will do tawaf around the khana kaba. This is only comes around every "1 million"years.And at this time whatever wish /prayer you make will true.And this time light of moon will go blue. i don`t know if it`s right

It takes the Moon 27.322 days to go around the Earth once. Because of this motion, the Moon appears to move about 13° against the stars each day, or about one-half degree per hour.

So the moon does the Tawaf of kaba every month…. what is with this new thing ????

Huhhh PEOPLE….

Asalamualeikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuho

May Allah swt watch over you and guide you all. Ameen

Dear brothers and sisters,

Surah At Tin while being a short Surah hides within it an amizing amount of Wisdom for those who seek to learn and truly examine its meaning. It not only references Prophet Muhammad saaws by referencing where he was from in Mecca. But also includes Two of the Mightiest prophets that Came before him as well.

1. By the Fig and the Olive,

Here Allah swt swears by two symbolic items – the Fig and the Olive.
The strongest opinion is that this refers to Jesus or Prophet Isa pbuh.

In the Gospel of Matthe in the bible the Mount of Olives a site in Jerusalem is a place in which Isa pbuh is referenced to being one also finds the fig in the same chapter. “As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. ‘Tell us,’ they said, ‘when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age? . . . Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.” (Matthew 24:3-32, Online NIV)

There is another passage in Matthew in which Isa pbuh curses a fig tree that bears no fruit (Matthew 21:18).

2. And the Mount of Sinai,

The reference here is much clearer than in the last ayah.
This is an allusion to prophet Musa pbuh.
It was on Mount Sinai that Prophet Musa pbuh received the Taurat from Allah swt, along with the 10 commandments. The five books of the Torah served as the basis for the first five books of what Jews and Christians call The Old Testament. The main message of the Old Testament tells people to worship one God and to avoid major sins like adultery and murder. These principles are the common heritage of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. As Prophet Musa pbuh lay many foundations for what was to come with prophet Isa pbuh and Prophet Muhammad saaws.

3. And this City of Security

Since this surah was revealed in Mecca, the City that Allah is referring to is Mecca. Prophet Muhammad saaws called Mecca home and it was also the city where Prophet Ibrahim pbuh and Ismail pbuh settled their families and built the Kaaba. Because Mecca was a center for Hajj and pilgramidge it was known as a safe haven for anyone who visited.

So just in the opening of At Tin Alone we find the remembrance of Prophet Jesus pbuh Musa pbuh and the confirmation of Prophet Muhammad saaws. The fact that Prophet Muhammad saaws appears last in this great line of prophets is absolutely important as it is showing the degree in which Prophet hood has passed down to the final prophet with the final message for mankind.

There is no doubt that the rest of At Tin contains an equally important message.

This beautiful Surah like the entire Quran is beneficial to us all. Much more so when we stop to examin its true and deepest meaning.

Hope this helps! Salaams The Details are not complete but I wanted to Highlight the Succession of Prophet hood as it is alluded to in At Tin. Inshallah khair I sall continue on with further details later. Jazakallah khair
Wa alaikum salam wa rahamatullahi wa baraktuh.

JazakAllah for sharing; italian palestinian one

I posted this before but i’ll share again for those who haven’t seen..
it’s lovely mashallah

Tauheed- Laillaha illalha muhammadu rasoul Allah from the bottom of the heart…….

salat-25 mins from 24 hours

Fasting-30 days from 365 days

zakat- less then 5% from all our wealth

Hajj- Once in a life time………..

"He [Allah] has not laid upon you in religion any hardship."(22.78)

then why do people run away from islam and only long for worldy life…….make a pause think what are we doing…..? Are We really going on the rigth path and what have we gained from it??

do our family, friends n other people respect us for this…..?? and when any hardship comes upon us, We turn to Allah (swt) who is Merciful and when we happy we dont even Remember Him, Have you ever think how many days it has been gone and we dont even remembered Him…..

We dont even remembered the One who created Us and put in us life without Him we have never been here in this world………..

Just imagine…..The angel of Death is behind you and this is the last moment of your life, What will you do?? Ofcourse u’ll ask Allah to Forgive you…but there will be no use because the time of repentence will end..u’ll ask Allah to give you time so that you Can pray and do what he said….but there will be no use……..

Here you are in your grave…. Questioning About salat (prayer) will start….

What will be Your answer???

No???

"I have Created not the jinn and mankind except that they should worship Me". (51:56)

The Prophet (p.b.u.h) said: "between a person and disbelief is the discarding of prayer"

Iman Nawawi said while explaing this hadith: The prayer is like a barrier between kufr(disbelief) and Islam, so whoever does not perform prayer he will enter in kufr (he will be a disbeliever).

Do you want to be a disbeliever?? Wake up…Theres no time

Say: Allahumamagh-firli warhamni wahdini….

O’Allah forgive me and have mercy on me and guide me…

BECAUSE

The Quran says: "Whomsoever Allah guides none can lead astray and whomsoever he leads astray none can guide"

So ask Allah (swt) to forgive you and Guide you…

Inshallah Allah will forgive us all, truly Allah is All-forgiving and All-merciful

We seek Help from Allah and depend upon him. There is neither nor power except with Allah, The All-mighty. O Allah, send prayers and salutions and blessing on Muhammad, His family and his companions (p.b.u.t.a). And All praise is to Allah, the lord of all that exits.

Remember there is no excuse for salat.

If you REALLY think that loada will make the slightest difference to me or my life, dream on.

What would happen to the Islamic faith of a giant earthquake or some natural disaster destroyed Mecca? I’m not saying I want to this happen, but I’m curious as to what it would lead to. Since it is one of the pillars of their faith to make a Pilgrimage to Mecca in their lifetime, what would Muslims do if they could no longer go there because it didn’t exist anymore? Part of the reason I ask is that although 2012 will not be the end of the world, we are expected to get a lot of earthquakes. Many geologists all agree about that.

I have not heard of any geologists saying that 2012 will have any more seismic activity than usual, just religious doom-sayers.

abe zumzum, the water spring near kabah, the house of Allah made by Abraham(pbuh), is full of water from 7000 years, even wen whole world is extractng water from it. the entire city of mecca and Madina live on the water of that sprinf and it is there from 7000 years and will continue to give water like this till the end of world, AND THIS IS IN A LAND WHERE THERE IS ALMOST NO RAIN.

so will you still deny about Allah or can u take the challange to reduce its water if it is not a miracle

Allah is not going to come in front of humans that here i am, worship me, bcz it will ruin the whole concept of belief in God, as it requires believe in the unseen, faith based on signs of Allah, and this is a sign.

and it has been proved in parallel universe concept of M theory of particle physics that we cant see parallel universes by any means, so it is scientific that a unseen world does exist, read about M theory.

And can u give a single reason that y the water level doesnt get reducd no matter how much powerfull pump one may use, no matter the entire world starts livng on its water bt it will nvr reduce

the question is not from where does the water comes, the questn is no matter wat u do bt it never get redcd nor will it,

saudis with there most powrfull pumps which are running from years, are extrctng water frm it and not even a single drop is reducd

even if one fills an enite ocean with it, Inshallah it will nevr reduce, Its not mine, Its Allah’s promise
to Leviathan:- are u Christian or an atheist, if u r a Christian then u doubting Prphet Abraham and Prophet Ismail, i dnt knw whther ur bible still contains the story of structuring of kabah or not, bt let me tell u that, most of the stories of bible which u contribute to isaac are actually stories of ismail in islam, including the story in which abraham agreed to sacrifice isaac as per God’s order
To Melnazar, improve ur knowledge of islam, kabah was built first by Adam but was rebuilted by Abraham(pbuh), it got repaired thereafter, AND ABEZAMZAM WAS GIVEN AS A GIFT TO ISMAIL AND HIS MOTHER ON THE PRAYER OF ABRAHAM, WHEN HE LEFT THEM IN Mecca. it was 7000 years ago
TO THE BRAIN:- u think u r better knower of water resources than me, do not i knw there are undrgrnd water resources, but no single well can fulfill the needs of all water requirmnt of two metros and of millions of devotees who come there each day, go and take any amount of water u want from there, and supply it to anywhere u want, u will never find any reduction in it. the saudis supply it to there cities, u can supply it to yours
Chritsians do not tell me wat Abraham(pbuh) did wat he didnt, he was our prophet, he was the father of all prophets after him, i know about him better than you, if ur priest would hv not contaMinated Bible, u would hv know that he built kabah, and the Hajj we perform is His traditions which we follow, and the holy stone" makame ibrahimi" in near kabah is his footsteps, first read about islam and then argue me in some other forum
it can never dry up cant u see that, it may happen that if water is extracted at very high rate thenfor a small period of time its level get reduced by small amount, but it replenishes itself quickly even if water is extracted at the same rate.

And those who say that its challange can never be tested, dont u see that people are continuously extracting water from it from the times of Abraham, and they are coming from all over the world in millions, each day.

Go and read the history of makkah first and history of hajj pilgrimage first. Hajj was perfomed even before Prophet muhammad, however its form was different, but drinking of Abe zamzam and taking it back to there homes was tradition that was followed continuously since the time of abraham
to melnazar, who said kabah was not filled with statues, we all know that, it was due to ignorance of banu quraish and banu tamim, the descendant of ismail that they forgot almost all of the teachngs of ismail and abraham and started paganism, this was the time wen last prophet came to replenish islam.

And this is no new, it happened with every prophet, with Moses also. during the time of Moses, bani Israeilis forgot almost all the teachngs of Yakub(Jacob), opposed Moses at many occasions, they started worshpng cow’s statue in his absence, they even denied Jesus as promised massiah. the same happen during the time of last Prophet. His tribe used to follow paganism that time and filled space around kabah with statues.

You are gonna get flamed for this brother and so am I, but yes, allah is magnificent. =)

Sweden has a population of around 9 million. The United States has a population of 330 million. Isn’t it MUCH easier to subsidize 9 million people than it is to subsidize 330 million?

Not to mention there are exorbitant taxes payed to subsidize just 9 million people. Why don’t liberals understand that the cost will be incurred somewhere?

Exactly. Some of them are actually thanking you for disproving the heath care viability lol, even after seeing the numbers, they still don’t get it, unbelievable isn’t it?