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Prophet Muhammad’s miracle of the wedding dinner

When the Prophet peace be upon him

consummated his marriage to Zaynab bint Jahsh (may Allah be pleased with her) Anas bin Malik’s mother Umm Sulaim made them ‘Hais’ (a mixture of pure Madinah dates) only enough for the Prophet and his wife. When the prophet received the dish from Anas bin Malik, He told him to invite so many companions that the narration mentioned about 300 companions were invited that day. He fed all of his guests until they were full. Once they were done the Prophet told Anas bin Malik to take the dish away. As he took the dish away he couldn’t tell whether the dish was the same when he delivered it or increased in its capacity.

“The Messenger of Allah got married and consummated the marriage with his wife.” He said: “My mother Umm Sulaim made some Hais, and I brought it to the Messenger of Allah and said: ‘My mother sends you greetings of Salam, and says to you: ‘This is a little from us.” He said: ‘Put it down.’ Then he said: ‘Go and call so-and-so, and so-and-so, and whoever you meet,’ and he named some men. So I called those whom he named and those whom I met.” I said to Anas: “How many were they?” He said: “About three hundred. Then the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Let them sit around the dish of food in groups of ten, one after the other, and let each person eat from what is closest to him.’ They ate until they were full, then one group went out and another group came in. He said to me: ‘O Anas, clear it away.’ So I cleared it away, and I do not know whether there was more when I cleared it away, or when I put it down.”

[ Sunan an-Nasa’i]



ما اسم الإله؟ منصور في حوار مع سيدة مسيحية الجزء الأول
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-tgmT-m7ao


ما اسم الإله؟ منصور في حوار مع سيدة مسيحية الجزء الثاني

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmvxk3RFNlE
 
Monks With Guns: Discovering Buddhist Violence
he publication of Buddhist Warfare, a book I co-edited with Mark Juergensmeyer, is a bittersweet experience as it marks the culmination of a journey that began with an exploration of the peaceful aspects of Buddhism only to end up chronicling portions of its dark side. This journey, which consumed much of the last six years of my life, began in 2003 when my wife and I spent a little over a year in Thailand. It was then that I began to research Buddhist social activism which was going to be the topic of my dissertation.

Buddhists do not fight without belief, and the hideous massacres that they are carrying out against defenseless Muslims in East Asia stem from their belief that no one else who has attained the degree of enlightenment and is less than an ant, and the killer does not form a mental image of the murdered (as Their students teach us who promote the Law of Attraction and the Power of Being), because it does not even exist, so there is nothing wrong with killing it to preserve the balance of the universe.

Consider the principle of Buddhist clerics in killing opponents! They claim that killing those who do not believe their beliefs is a kind of mercy killing in order to purify themselves in Hell and transfer their souls to the realm of truth, for it is in fact not considered murder. It is no different from wiping out a terminally ill beast. This is a dangerous excuse that they hide behind in order to harvest human lives, especially Muslims, as they did and do in Thailand and Burma.

There is another principle by which Buddhist monks justify killing their opponents, which is the belief of Buddhism that existence is just an illusion, and that truth is only perceived by attaining nirvana (i.e., annihilation in God). Accordingly; For everyone who does not believe in Buddhism and is not enlightened by its light, then killing him in this life is not a real killing. Because it is an accident in the realm of illusion. These victims, who were slaughtered by monks, are referred to in Buddhist theology as “icchantika”, meaning: veiled from the light
In the book "Sostitamati Baribricha" - which is described as the guide to "how to kill with the sword of wisdom" - the enlightened "Manjushri" of the Buddha shows that the slain is only a name and an idea, and if the killer is able to clear his mind of these thoughts and names during the killing, then this is not considered murder Rather, there is no killing, nor a murderer on the face of the truth, because “there is no sword, karma, or punishment,” but rather it is a matter of imagination .



Since my initial realization in 2004, I began to look critically at my earlier perspective on Buddhism—one that shielded an extensive and historical dimension to Buddhist traditions: violence. Armed Buddhist monks in Thailand are not an exception to the rule; they are contemporary examples of a long historical precedence. For centuries monks have been at the helm, or armed in the ranks, of wars. How could this be the case? But more importantly, why did I (and many others) hold the belief that Buddhism=Peace)?

Buddhist Propaganda

It was then that I realized that I was a consumer of a very successful form of propaganda. Since the early 1900s, Buddhist monastic intellectuals such as Walpola Rahula, D. T. Suzuki, and Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, have labored to raise Western awareness of their cultures and traditions. In doing so, they presented specific aspects of their Buddhist traditions while leaving out others. These Buddhist monks were not alone in this portrayal of Buddhism. As Donald S. Lopez Jr. and others have poignantly shown, academics quickly followed suit, so that by the 1960s U.S popular culture no longer depicted Buddhist traditions as primitive, but as mystical.

Yet these mystical depictions did not remove the two-dimensional nature of Western understanding. And while it contributed to the history of Buddhism, this presentation of an otherworldly Buddhism ultimately robbed Buddhists of their humanity.

Thupten Tsering, the co-director of “Windhorse,” encapsulates the effects of two-dimensional portrayal in a 1999 interview with the New York Times. “They see Tibetans as cute, sweet, warmhearted. I tell people, when you cut me, I bleed just like you.”

In an effort to combat this view and to humanize Buddhists, then, Mark Juergensmeyer and I put together a collection of critical essays that illustrate the violent history of Buddhism across Mongolia, Tibet, Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and India.

Our intention is not to argue that Buddhists are angry, violent people—but rather that Buddhists are people, and thus share the same human spectrum of emotions, which includes the penchant for violence.



Why a Former Buddhist then Christian accepted Islam? TheDeen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvCU-4TE-ecShow

الجزء 1 سيدة الكنيسة مندهشة للتعلم عن المرأة في الإسلام
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FVCFQOxbkk

الجزء 2 سيدة الكنيسة مندهشة للتعلم عن المرأة في الإسلام
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z37oAJ84G3o
 
Prophet Muhammad’s Quran is the biggest miracle
Although the miracles listed above are extraordinary, none stack up to the greatest miracle of the Prophet ﷺ, The Holy Quran. No Muslim can disagree that the final revelation from the final Messenger is the undisputed greatest of his miracles. The miracle of the Holy Quran can be proven from multiple perspectives from its historical precision, its linguistic perfection to the many prophecies it accurately foretold. It is a book that was revealed to mankind through the Prophet ﷺ that will remain unchanged until the end of time.


Above all, the Quran presents a challenge to mankind to produce the likeness of it. A challenge that has lasted over 14 centuries uncontested. That is why the Holy Quran is the greatest miracle of the Prophet
Say, “If mankind and the jinn gathered in order to produce the like of this Qur’an, they could not produce the like of it, even if they were to each other assistants.” ما اسم الإله؟ منصور في حوار مع سيدة مسيحية الجزء الأخير

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7KYtDbcN-M
سنتزوج عيسى! هاشم في حوار مع قس مسيحي الجزء الأول

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX5UkLUaTvY
 
{Glory be to Him Who made His servant to go on a night from the Sacred Mosque to the remote mosque of which We have blessed the precincts, so that We may show to him some of Our signs; surely He is the Hearing, the Seeing.} (Al-Israa' 17:1)


There is no doubt that Al-Isra (the night journey) followed by Al-Miraj (the heavenly ascension) was one of the miracles in the life of our Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). According to the most accepted view, it happened on the 27th of Rajab, the seventh month of the Hijri calendar, in the tenth year of Muhammad's prophethood.

It is reported in Hadith literature, that the Messenger of Allah was carried from the Sacred Mosque in Makkah to the "Farthest Mosque" (Al-Masjid al-Aqsa) in Jerusalem on a creature called Al-Buraq in the company of the archangel Gabriel (peace be upon him). There he led a congregational prayer of the prophets of God.


Then Gabriel took him to the heavens where he met the prophets Adam, John, Jesus, Idris, Aaron and Moses (peace be on them all). In the seventh heaven, he met Abraham (peace be on him).

He was then brought to the Divine Presence. The details of this encounter are beautifully detailed in the beginning of surat An-Najm (52).


Prayer: God-given Gift


During this time, Allah ordered for his nation fifty daily Prayers. But on the Prophet's return, he was told by Prophet Moses (peace be on him) that his followers could not perform fifty Prayers. Thus, he went back and eventually it was reduced to five daily Prayers. After this, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) returned to Makkah on the same night itself.


Therefore, Muslims should be thankful to Allah for this gift. They should take care of it and never neglect it. It is the thing that allows the Muslim to communicate with the creator five times as day.

Time and Space Are Not Bound for Allah


One major lesson of that miraculous event, was that space and time which are bound by laws of nature for humans, are not so bound for Allah. On that night prophet Muhammad bridged time and space and this world, traveling to the heavens by Allah's will.

I believe that for those who study philosophy the abstract as well as the symbolic implications of the event might be very stimulating indeed. The gap between the reality of this life and that of the life to come simply diminished. This is illustrated by the Prophet's encounter with other prophets who were long since dead as far as we normally think of it but who, in reality, live as beings in a different form somewhere else.

The implications of the night journey cannot be overstated. The miraculous nature of the Prophet's journey established his divine-stated legitimacy as the seal of all prophets. Allah brought him to Him to show us his true worth in the sight of Allah.

All religious traditions share the concept of miracles, that is, something that defies logic, nature, or the established constitution and course of things.


We will limit our discussion to legitimate miracles from Allah, which are by definition the only true miracles. When the forces of disbelief are strong, typically the prophetic miracles that oppose them are stronger.

Prophet Moses was given several miracles, which included his staff that turned into a massive snake and culminated in his parting of the Red Sea, as a divine response to the extreme infidelity of Pharaoh.

Similarly, Prophet Jesus was given even the power to raise the dead, in order to establish his legitimacy before the Jews who would ultimately condemn him to death for blasphemy. Nevertheless, his miracles were undeniable by their nature, and it was only the obstinacy and arrogance of the people to whom he was sent that enabled them to deny him.

Muhammad's night journey was obviously not easy for the pagan Makkans to believe. Nevertheless, the Prophet proved it logically by describing the approaching caravans that he overtook on his miraculous return.


Thus, this particular prophetic miracle not only established the Prophet's eminence for Muslims as discussed above, but it also helped to prove his prophethood to the non-believers of his time.

Celebrating the Event


As far as the Muslims are concerned, there is no particular celebration, fast or prayer to commemorate Al-Isra and Al-Miraj. But in some places, the Muslims themselves have started to have commemorative functions, where the story of the night journey is told in poetry or lectures.


While the Prophet himself did not establish these practices, there are scholars who maintain that gatherings meant to remind the Muslims of the importance of Al-Miraj in the history of Islam, or to remind us of the importance of love for the Prophet and the significance of the city of Jerusalem, are permissible.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p97c4D2fTqw
ISRA MI'RAJ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mylm0P9srLw
Isra and Miraj (Night Journey) - Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
 
Varan mountains- except that they were a place where the sons of Ishmael lived. “God was with the boy and dwelt in the wilderness, and he used to cultivate an archer with a bow, and he dwelt in the desert of Varan, (Genesis 21: 18-21), then the Old Testament mentioned that Ishmael's sons dwelt from Havilah (Yemen) to Shur, which is opposite Egypt (Genesis 25).

Therefore, the Jesuit (Catholic) translation of the Bible He declares, to a surprise that has shocked Christians, that the grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him was
'Ismail


: "Ismail's descendants are the Arabs of the desert, and their life is a life of travel and independence. This is what reminds us of the pre-Islamic era and its poetry" (Margins, p. 91 - sixth edition )!


And with that, the case is solved, and a witness from his family witnessed it!
Banu Ismail are the Arabs who lived in Mecca
Of their descendants the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.
So tell us, O people of the Book, where are the Varan mountains?!

Yes, these are the mountains of the region in which Ismail, peace be upon him, and his descendants, as the Catholic translation tells us, grew up and brought up. It is the mountain range that exists on the borders of the Red Sea, which extends to include Mecca on one side and Medina on the other side, and so the light shines a third time with the coming of Muhammad. , may peace be on him

In Isaiah 13/21 the scholars of the Bible enchant us with this title (a revelation from the Arab side) of these passages: “A district of the Arab countries, in the woods of the Arab countries, you caravans of the Dadaen. Bring water to meet the thirsty. O inhabitants of the land of Taima, fill the fugitive with his bread. Before the swords they fled before the sword and the bow drawn "... and they are alive in the Arab countries and in its desert! And is there anything else in the Arabian Peninsula than the 'Islam and other than Muhammad and his message ?!


As for the rest of the text, it is a precise description of the situation of the Messenger and his companion, the friend Abu Bakr, as they fled Mecca, while the swords of the Quraysh surrounded the house of the Prophet. , peace and blessings be upon him, in order to destroy him after Abu Talib died, and they set aside a thousand camels for the one who brought the Prophet Muhammad after his escape and Tayma, meaning Medina!

It is for the Arabs and the people of Tayma (Medina) to provide the fugitive with his bread and water after the people of Mecca have driven him out, and we have a right to ask, why the Jews -
they were the first to wait for the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, at the gates of Taima, I mean Medina? !


ما الذي يجعل الإسلام مختلفا عن الديانات الاخرى ؟ - شمسي ركن المتحدثين

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lgKS3pkhCI



هاشم يرد على افتراءات المبشرين المسيحيين

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GPTE0YPfsk


لماذا أنتم ضد يسوع؟ _ هاشم في حوار مع زوجين مسيحيين

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kkasgCt4y8
 
Bien que la Bible soit interpolée à 99%,
Pour être juste, il y a très peu de versets authentiques dans la Bible qui ne contredisent pas les paroles des prophètes et le Coran.
Parce que le Coran
l'emporte sur les livres précédents pour corriger la contrefaçon qu'ils contiennent







More than one of the scholars of history and biography have stated that Daniyal was one of the Israelite Prophets. He lived at the time of Nebuchadnezzar who destroyed Bayt al-Maqdis (the Temple in Jerusalem), killed many of the Children of Israel, and burned the Torah.

They said that he foretold the coming of our Prophet Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him). Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said:

Daniyal (peace be upon him) mentioned Muhammad the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) by name, and said: “Arrows will be departing from bows and arrows will be stained with blood at your command, O Muhammad.”

This is a clear, unambiguous statement.

Then Shaykh al-Islam mentioned two cases in which Daniyal foretold the coming of the Messiah and of our Prophet Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be upon them both), then he said:

This is a prophecy in which Daniyal foretold the coming of the Messiah and the coming of Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), in which there is a detailed description of Muhammad and his ummah, which would take too long to quote here. The Muslims read it when they conquered Iraq, as was mentioned by the scholars, including Abu’l-‘Aaliyah.

End quote from al-Jawaab as-Saheeh (5/275-281)

https://islamqa.info/en/answers/233815/who-was-the-prophet-daniyal-peace-be-upon-him

Q I have been a Christian for a long time without finding the answer to many Christian questions. Now, many Christians trouble me using the prophecies of Daniel and the last book of their Bible, the Apocalypse. What does Islam say about the prophecies of Daniel and the Book of Revelations in the Bible? Jazakum Allah khayran.

[h=2]Answer[/h]

Dr. Nabil Haroun

15 October, 2016






Salam (Peace) Dear Joe,
Thank you for your question and for contacting Ask About Islam.
It seems your Christian friends are troubling you. Why do you have to trouble yourself with the prophecies of the book of Daniel or the Apocalypse? First, think for yourself and ask your Christian friends: is the Bible really the word of God? How can they prove such claim?


The Bible speaks for itself and says: “I am a compilation of human literary works written by human authors, documenting the history, views, epistles, and other literary works of the Israelites (the Old Testament) and Christians (the New Testament).”
Both groups were written and adopted, centuries after the departure of Prophets Moses and Jesus (peace be upon them), respectively. Neither the churches nor the Christian scholars can deny this simple fact, but they apologetically claim that the writers of the Bible were “inspired” by God to write what they wrote, otherwise, they could not have written.



Can they prove that? Why would this not apply to any similarly prominent human works such as Homer’s Odyssey, Karl Marx’s Kapital, Francis Fukuyama’s End of History and the Last Man?
Books of the Old Testament represent selections of the literary heritage of the Israelites that were written, copied, translated, modified, and gradually added as either canonical or apocryphal material, during several centuries after the departure of Moses (peace be upon him). Revisions and corrections to the Bible are still going on today independently by the divergent Christian denominations.
As for the New Testament, it was the Church, through its ecumenical council at Nicea in the year 325 CE, that first selectively adopted some of these human works from among hundreds of others, to be the first “holy” version.



The original Injeel (Gospel) of God inspired to the Prophet Jesus (peace be upon him) was practically lost, hidden or ignored, although a few references to that Injeel appear in the Bible. See Mark 1:14-15, Romans 1:1 and 9, and 1 Corinthians 9:12. The chosen works were selected to reflect and support changes introduced into the originally pure monotheistic message of Jesus. Such changes were started by Paul and others:

  • Claiming Jesus to be the Lord: “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:11).
  • Claiming that he is the son of God: “And straightway he [Paul] preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God” (Acts 9: 20).
  • Claiming that he is part of a triune God—a concept borrowed from pagan and Hellenic beliefs: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one” (1 John 5:8).
Such claims directly contradict what Jesus himself said and emphasized, according to the same Bible:
“And Jesus said unto him, ‘Why callest thou me good? None is good, save one, that is, God’” (Luke 18:19).

“And Jesus saith unto him, ‘The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head’” (Matthews 8:20).
“And Jesus answered him, ‘The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord’” (Mark 12:29).
These are a few of the major examples of the contradictions and mistakes of the Bible, both Old and New Testaments. Such contradictions are naturally expected for any such collection of human works that reflect the personal viewpoints, motives, and inclinations of those who wrote, edited, and selected them to be holy.


Scores of these contradictions and mistakes—intentional or otherwise— cannot escape the eyes and mind of a common reader, much less a scholar. Compare, for example, the divergent narrations of the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John for any of the following:


  • Jesus’s genealogy (through Joseph the Carpenter!)
  • Where was Jesus in his first thirty years?
  • The Last Supper and arrest of Jesus
  • Trial of Jesus
  • The story of the crucifixion
  • The burial
  • The resurrection
  • The end of Judas
You can find more in the suggested links at the bottom of this answer and probably much more if you have the time and patience to critically read, compare, and evaluate the lengthy collection of the Bible books.
As such, how can a sound mind believe or rely on any story, anecdote, prophecy, or statement in the Bible? Why should you trouble yourself with the prophecies in Daniel and the Apocalypse?


If you are referring to the prophecy of Daniel:
“Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all.
Thou art this head of gold. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.


And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.” (Daniel 2:37-43)


Why should any interpreter forcibly twist the meaning of such simple words to fit to his own wish or pre-conceived ideas?
The Apocalypse was written by the widely disputed “John”, who also wrote the fourth Gospel and his two epistles. It is well known that this Gospel, in contrast to the other three Gospels, was intentionally written to support the claims of Jesus’s deity, the Trinity, etc. So, should the Apocalypse be viewed?
Instead of troubling yourself with whatever the Bible or its interpreters claim, ask your Christian friends to read this answer and to visit this section (Ask about Islam) on the Internet. It is fruitless to go on arguing secondary issues with others (e.g. prophecies in the Bible) if we do not agree on the main issue: Could the Bible, written by known and unknown human authors, be claimed to be the word of God?
In the Quran, Allah says what means:
{So woe to [the ones] who write the Book with their hands; thereafter they say, “This is from [the providence of] Allah,” that they may trade it for a little price; So, woe to them for what their hands have written, and woe to them for what they have earned} (Al-Baqarah 2:79).​
Allah also says what means
{And the Jews will never be satisfied with you, neither will the Christians till you [closely] follow their creed. Say, “Surely the guidance of Allah is the guidance”} (Al-Baqarah 2:120).​
Finally He says also what means:
{Say, “O People of the Book, come to a level word between us and you, that we worship none except Allah, and that we do not associate anything with Him, and that some of us do not take to themselves others as lords, apart from Allah.” So, in case they turn away, then say, “Bear witness that we are Muslims”} (Aal `Imran 3:64).​
Thank you again for your question and please keep in touch.
Salam.

https://aboutislam.net/counseling/a...bout-the-prophecies-of-daniel-and-apocalypse/
 
someone told me
Westerners think of Thai Bhuddist monks as celibates but celibates they are not.

not only monks have a penchant for violence but penchant for sex.

I have been told by insiders the sickening practice where peasants bring their virgin daughter into the Bhuddist temple and place her on the table and a queue of young monks stream in and out of the room.
Bhuddism is far more evil than the pious and peaceful facade they would show us

The Indian authorities have arrested a Buddhist monk accused of sexually assaulting 15 boys in a meditation center he runs in the predominantly Buddhist city of Bodgaya, according to a security source.

A police official told AFP that there were "serious accusations" against the monk, Banti Shangbria Sugoi, who was arrested Wednesday, and who received in his center boys from poor families, aged between six and twelve.

"The boys say they were beaten, sexually assaulted, and locked up without water or food when they refused," added the official, who requested anonymity.


The city of Bodhgaya is located in the state of Bihar in northeastern India, and it houses the Mahabudi Temple, one of the four holy sites for Buddhists, and annually tens of thousands visit it.

This case comes weeks after the discovery of a sexual scandal involving a prominent Buddhist monk in China who was sexually assaulting nuns.


لماذا تقرؤون القرآن كالغناء" رجل يسأل الأخ منصور عن القرآن و اللغة العربية | ركن الخطباء مترجم
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebqRh782DT0

الداعية شمسي يرد على شبهة قتل يهود بني قريظة في حوار مع مسيحي محترم | ركن الخطباء مترجم

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqYU5IaAS48


فتاة تسأل منصور عن المساواة في الإسلام

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYRinvIzRHE
 
I advise you to study Islam and I hope God will guide you to the truth
Watch here
[h=1]القرآن يذهل العالم ويكشف 10 أسرار تاريخية عن الفراعنة ومصر القديمة لم تُكتشف إلا حديثاً[/h]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylm0RMIeIKc&feature=emb_title

[h=1]كيف عرف النبي ذلك؟! - حدث تاريخي مفصل يذكره القرآن بدقة ويفشل الكتاب المقدس في ذكره[/h]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HHGe0sonR4&t=135s
 
qibla change in islam


There are more than 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, and each time they pray, they turn their faces in one direction, towards Mecca. The Islamic term for this direction is qibla. When a Muslim prepares to pray, no matter where he is, he turns towards the qibla, the direction of the Kaba. The Kaba is a small cube shaped building in the courtyard of the mosque known as Masjid Al Haram, in the city of Mecca, in the country of Saudi Arabia.


“For every nation there is a direction to which they face (in their prayers). So hasten towards all that is good. Wheresoever you may be, God will bring you together (on the Day of Resurrection). Truly, God is Able to do all things. And from wheresoever you start forth (for prayers), turn your face in the direction of Al-Masjid-al-Haram (at Mecca), that is indeed the truth from your Lord. And God is not unaware of what you do.” (Quran 2:148-149)

Muslims do not worship the Kaba, or its contents, it is simply a focal point. Muslims worship One God, the Most Merciful, and the Most Wise. God decreed that when Muslims pray they all face one direction. It is a sign of unity that encapsulates the unity embedded in the religion of Islam.

The Arabic word for prayer is salah and it demotes a connection between the believer and God; when all believers face the same direction it adds an extra dimension to the connection. The prayer connects the believers to God and the qibla connects the believers to one another. It has been said that if one could observe all the Muslims at prayer we would be able to see lines of worshippers bowing and prostrating like the petals of a flower opening and closing in unison.

The qibla was not always oriented towards Mecca. The first Muslims prayed towards the al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Around sixteen months after Prophet Muhammad and his followers migrated from Mecca to the city of Medina, the qibla was changed to the Kaba. According to accounts by Prophet Muhammad's companions, the change happened very suddenly. During the noon prayer, Prophet Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, received a revelation from God instructing him to, "Turn your face towards the Masjid al Haram".


“Thus, we have made you real believers in Islamic Monotheism, true followers of Prophet Muhammad and his legal ways, a just nation, witnesses over mankind and the Messenger a witness over you. And We made the Qibla (prayer direction towards Jerusalem) which you used to face, only to test those who followed the Messenger from those who would turn on their heels (i.e. disobey the Messenger). Indeed, it was great (heavy) except for those whom God guided. And God would never make your prayers to be lost (i.e. your prayers offered towards Jerusalem). Truly, God is full of kindness, the Most Merciful towards humankind.”

“Verily! We have seen the turning of your (Muhammad) face towards the heaven. Surely, We shall turn you to a Qibla (prayer direction) that shall please you, so turn your face in the direction of Al-Masjid- al-Haram (at Mecca). And wheresoever you people are, turn your faces (in prayer) in that direction...” (Quran 2:143-144)

Changing the direction of prayer establishes Mecca as the fixed central point for worship. It establishes a common sense or purpose.

Throughout the centuries, mathematicians and astronomers have established correct ways to determine the qibla (direction) from any point on the earth’s surface. There are two precise moments each year when the sun is directly above the Kaba, thus the direction of shadows in any sunlit place will point away from the qibla. There are also two moments per year when the sun is directly over the exact opposite position of the Kaba, thus pointing towards the qibla.


It is important the Muslims make every effort to face the right direction when praying; however, slight deviations do not invalidate a person’s prayer. Prophet Muhammad said, “What is between the east and the west is qibla”.[1] Nowadays it is easy to locate the qibla. It is a simple matter to look at a map and draw a line between your location and the city of Mecca. Compasses and computer programs that locate the qibla are readily available and most mosques throughout the world have a niche in the wall to indicate the qibla.


Islam is a religion of unity. Muslims are united by their belief in One God. They are one brotherhood united in the language and ritual of prayer and united by the direction of their worship. The qibla is not only about degrees of latitude or longitude it is about unity. It is about humankind united in the worship of the One God, Creator, and Sustainer of the universe

شجرة تين تفضح معتقد المسيحيين بإلوهية عيسى - حوار حمزة مع مسيحية

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGECr7ghYNc











Change Of Qibla From Jerusalem To Kaaba By Nouman Ali


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It is the sword of the intellect. The sword that conquers the hearts and minds of people. The Quran says in Sura Nahl, chapter 16, verse 125:
“Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good instruction, and argue with them in a way that is best. Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has strayed from His way, and He is most knowing of who is [rightly] guided. "[Noble Quran 16: 125]

. Increase in world religions from 1934 to 1984
An article in the Reader's Digest Almanac, Book of the Year 1986, revealed statistics of the increase in the world's major religions for half a century (1934 to 1984). This article also appeared in the magazine La Vérité Pleine. Leading the way was Islam, which grew 235%, while Christianity grew by only 47%. One wonders what war has taken place in this century that would have converted millions of people to Islam?

. Islam is the fastest growing religion in America and Europe
The fastest growing religion in America today is Islam. The fastest growing religion in Europe is Islam. What sword forces Western peoples to accept Islam in such large numbers?

Dr Joseph Adam Pearson
Dr Joseph Adam Pearson rightly says: "People who fear that nuclear weapons will one day fall into Arab hands, do not realize that the Islamic bomb has already been dropped, it fell on the day of the birth of Muhammad (peace be upon him

سنتزوج عيسى! هاشم في حوار مع قس مسيحي الجزء الثاني

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlCZhuipoWA

سنتزوج عيسى! هاشم في حوار مع قس مسيحي الجزء الأخير

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTz1XKQ-wZ0
 
How about in Asia, is it also a fast growing religion? Tbh, I respect your religion or other religions, its just that we have different beliefs.
Speaking of beliefs, what is your stand on the day of judgement?
 
Asia is known for the diversity of its culture. Islam is the largest religion in Asia with approx. It has 1.1 billion followers.
Islam is currently the largest religion in Asia (25%), followed by Hinduism. The total number of Muslims in Asia in 2010 was about one billion people (25% of the total population). Asia is home to the largest number of Muslims.



All perfect praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allaah exalt his mention ) is His slave and Messenger.

Allah's Messenger Muhammad, peace be up on him , said that if one of them dies, his soul will return to him in the grave.




The believer says: God is my master, Islam is my religion and Muhammad is a prophet. As for the unbeliever or hypocrite, he says when asked: Ha ha! I do not know. I heard people say things


Explain the state of the soul after death and before burial. If only for a believer, the angels would tell him the good news of forgiveness and the approval of God.

As for the spirit of the unbeliever, the angels announce to him his entry into Hell, and the displeasure he provokes with God.



Salam alaykom wa rahmatullâh,I have a question pertaining to Judgement Day. I have read that judgement day will be easy for the believers and hard for the disbelievers and that it will only last like the time between zuhr and asr for the believers. But then I have also read that muslims will be running to different prophets asking for their intercession when the distress becomes too great for the people and they have stood for too long, suffering in the heat and terror and distress. How do the scholars combine these events? BaaraakAllâhu feekum.
Answer

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allaah exalt his mention ) is His slave and Messenger.

The Quran indicated in several verses that the Day of Resurrection will be difficult for the disbelievers and easy for the believers, as in the Saying the Allah Says (which means): {And it will be upon the disbelievers a difficult Day.} [Quran 25:26]

The verse indicates that the Day of Judgement will be easy for the believers, as in the Saying of Allah (which means): {And when the trumpet is blown. That Day will be a difficult day. For the disbelievers - not easy.} [Quran 74:8-10]

Mulla Al-Qaari said in Mirqaat Al-Mafaateeh: "It means that it will be easy for the believers; either in quantity or quality; or both in quantity and quality." [End of quote]

This easiness for the believers does not contradict what is mentioned in some Ahadeeth that the people will hurry on the Day of Resurrection to the Prophets to ask them to intercede with Allah for them to save them from the grief and distress which they experience. This is because even though they share the same situation with all the people in that great position and the length of this period, yet their distress will slowly be relieved and they will continue to experience easiness upon easiness until they settle in Paradise – we ask Allah to make us among the people of Paradise.

Al-Qurtubi may Allaah have mercy upon him said in his book At-Tathkirah:

"With regard to the believers, their difficulties will be relieved and they will experience ease after ease. The length period of standing (for reckoning) will be solved by speeding up their reckoning and by making the balance (of good deeds) heavier, and by making it easy for them to pass the Siraat (the bridge over Hellfire) and by being overshadowed by their good deeds. However, none of these difficulties will be relieved for the disbelievers. Whenever not of these difficulties end they move to a difficulty that is even worse than the previous one, until they end up in Hellfire, which will be their eternal abode." [End of quote]

Among the easiness upon the believers is that Allah will inspire them to ask for intercession in order to come out of their situation.

The Hadeeth reported by Muslim about the believers asking the Prophets for intercession reads: "The believers will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection, and they will be concerned about it [intercession], or will be inspired to seek it."

It means that Allah will inspire them to ask for intercession; Allah enables them to this effect and makes it easy for them.

As regards the Hadeeth in which the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allaah exalt his mention ) said: "I swear by Him in Whose Hands my soul is, verily the matter will be made easy for the believer until it becomes easier for him than praying an obligatory prayer in the worldly life."; then the scholars differed in opinion about the chain of narration of this Hadeeth; some classified it as Dha’eef (inauthentic), whereas some others classified it as Hassan (sound).

For instance, Al-Albaani and Shu’ayb Al-Arna’oot classified it as Dha’eef, whereas Al-Asqalaani classified it as Hassan.

If we presume that this Hadeeth is confirmed, then if the period of distress and anguish is shortened, then it becomes easy on the person compared to the situation of another person whose case is prolonged.

Some interpreters of the Hadeeth stated that this easiness differs from one believer to the other. For example, it will be easier for the one whose faith is complete than the one whose faith is lesser than him, although easiness and relief includes all the believers as we have already stated.

https://www.islamweb.net/en/fatwa/395428/judgement-day-will-be-easy-for-believers

see more

https://sierraleoneislamicweb.com/2...not-hear-of-islam-on-the-day-of-resurrection/

https://www.islamweb.net/en/fatawa/355/events-on-the-day-of-resurrection


Will there be punishment in grave before Judgement Day ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2tDOMWqVok
 
أعطيت أيفون 12 برو ماكس لكل شخص مسلم وافق يفسد صيامه في رمضان لكن#الصدمة عربي فطر#تجربة_اجتماعية
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnUbq5NlICA

ها شم والملحدة الإسبانية في حوار ممتع وبناء | ركن المتحدثين | Speakers Corner


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6aJRKOvK70

حاخام يهوديان يقبلان النبي محمد رسول الله ! || ركن المتحدثين || Speakers Corner


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqs8-RQk69E
 
The Messenger of Allah possesses many manifest miracles and signs demonstrating [his veracity], reaching thousands and they are well known.
From amongst them was the Qur'an, the manifest and clear miracle and brilliant proof, falsehood cannot approach it from before it or behind it. It is a revelation from One Who is All-Wise and Praiseworthy. It incapacitated the most eloquent of people in the most eloquent of times to produce a single chapter than would be comparable to it, even if the whole of creation were to gather for that purpose. Allah, the Exalted, says:
"Say: if the whole of mankind and the jinn gathered in order to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could not produce the like of it, even if they assisted each other." [Al-Qur'an 17:88]
It challenged them to this despite their large numbers, their eloquence and their severe enmity, and it challenges them to this day.
As for the other miracles, it is not possible to enumerate them all due to their huge number and renewing and increasing nature. I will mention some examples:
The splitting of the moon, water flowing from between his fingers, increasing the quantity of food and water, the glorification of the food, the palm tree yearning for him, stones greeting him, the talking of the poisoned leg [of roasted sheep], trees walking towards him, two trees that were far apart coming together and then parting again, the barren [and therefore dry] sheep giving milk, his returning the eye of Qatadah ibn an-Nu'man to its place with his hand after it had slipped out, his splitting lightly into the eye of 'Ali when it had become inflamed and its being cured almost immediately, his wiping the leg of 'Abdullah ibn 'Atiq whereupon he was immediately cured.


His informing of the places of death of the polytheists on the Day of Badr saying, "this is the place of such-and-such a person." His informing of his killing Ubayy ibn Khalaf, that a group of his nation would traverse an ocean and 'Umm Haram would be amongst them and this occurred. That all was drawn together for him of the ends of the earth and displayed to him would be opened for his nation, that the treasures of Chosroes would be spend by his nation in the Way of Allah, the Mighty and Magnificent. That he feared for his nation that they would be tempted by the wealth and allurement of this world and that the treasures of the Persians and Romans would be ours and that Suraqah ibn Malik would wear the trousers of Chosroes.


أسئلة وأجوبة حول موضوع الليبرالية | منصور وهاشم ومحمد حجاب وذاكر حسين

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shxeE50VLX0


فتاة غير مسلمة من الحركة النسوية ترفض إكمال الحوار مع محمد حجاب لأنه لم يرد مصافحتها

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6da6blAXhY


أثبت لي أن عيسى هو المسيح الذي سيأتي في آخر الزمان! عدنان رشيد في حوار مع زائر
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5C8HdUJ6Lo
 
The Messenger of Allah possesses many manifest miracles and signs demonstrating [his veracity], reaching thousands and they are well known.


He informed us that Hasan ibn 'Ali would reconcile between two large warring parties of Muslims, that Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas would live such that nations would benefit by him and others would be harmed. That an-Najashi had died on this particular day while he was in Ethiopia and that al-Aswad al-Ansi had been killed on this particular day while he was in Yemen.

That the Muslims would fight the Turks who were described as having small eyes, wide faces and small, chiselled noses and that Yemen, Syria and Iraq would be conquered by the Muslims.

He informed us that the Muslims would comprise three armies, an army in Syria, an army in Yemen and an army in Iraq. That they would conquer Egypt, a land whose [unit of land measurement] was the Qirat, they they should deal with their people well for they have protection [being Copts] and ties of kinship [through Hajar]. That Aways al-Qarni would come to you from the auxiliaries of Yemen, he would be affected with leprosy and it would be healed except for the space of a dirham, and he indeed arrived during the rule of 'Umar.

He informed us that a group of his nation would always be upon the truth and that mankind would become many in number and that the 'Ansar would diminish in number and that the 'Ansar would not be given their due [with regards distribution of wealth and leadership]. That mankind would keep on asking questions until they would say, "Allah created the creation ..." [Referring to the hadith, "the people will continue asking until they say, 'this is Allah who created everything ... but who created Allah?' " Reported by al-Bukhari [no.7296] and Muslim [no.136]]

He informed us that Ruwayfi' ibn Thabit would live a long life, that 'Ammar ibn Yasir would be killed by the transgressing group, that this nation shall divide into sects and that they would fight each other.
He informed us that a fire would emanate from the land of Hijaz and the likes of this. All of this occurred exactly as he, sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam, said it would.

غايتنا في الحياة! محمد حجاب في حوار مع ملحد

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvFm0t8EDu4

زواج رسول الله وعائشة! حوار بين عدنان رشيد وامرأة مسيحية

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYJN-xt6BIs
لماذا لم يضحي الآب بنفسه عوض المسيح؟ منصور في حوار مع فتيات مسيحيات الجزء الأول
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsXSvQIjtX4

لماذا لم يضحي الآب بنفسه عوض المسيح؟ منصور في حوار مع فتيات مسيحيات الجزء الأخير
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuq_JO1831E
 
The Messenger of Allah possesses many manifest miracles and signs demonstrating [his veracity], reaching thousands and they are well known.

He said to Thabit bin Qays,

"You will live being praised ... and you will die as a martyr."
and he lived being praised and was martyred at al-Yamamah. He said about 'Uthman,
"He would afflicted by a severe trial." [The meaning of severe trial is his being imprisoned in his house and his being killed by transgressors.]
He said about a person amongst the Muslims who had just fought a severe fight that,
"He would be from amongst the denizens of the Fire."
and later he committed suicide. Wabisah ibn Ma'bad came to him in order to ask him about righteousness and sin upon which he asked,
"Have you come to ask about righteousness and sin?"

He said to 'Ali, az-Zubayr and al-Miqdad,
"Go to the garden of Khakh for indeed there is Dha'inah{qluetip title=[1]}This is the woman with whom Hasib al-Balta'ah radiallahu 'anhu sent a letter to the people of Makkah in order to inform them of the plans of the Messenger of Allah sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam to fight them. It was concerning this that the first verses of Surah Mumtahinah were revealed. The garden of Khakh is a place falling between Makkah and Madinah. Refer to al-Bukhari [no.3983] and Muslim [no.2494] and Tafsir ibn Kathir [4/344].{/qluetip} who has a book with her."
They found her there but she initially denied having the book and then took it our from within her braids.


He said to Abu Hurayrah, when Satan had stolen some dates, "indeed he shall return ... " and he did.


He said to his wives, "The most prolific of you in giving charity will be the quickest of you to join me," and it was so. [Zaynab bint Jahsh radiallahu 'anha was the most prolific of them in giving charity and was the first to die. Refer to Muslim [no.2452].]

He said to 'Abdullah bin Sallam, "You will remain upon Islam until you die."


He supplicated for 'Anas that his wealth and sons increase and that he should live a long life and it was so. He lived for more than one hundred years and not one of the 'Ansar was richer than he and one hundred and twenty of his children had been buried before the arrival of al-Hajjaj [to Basrah]. This is detailed further in Sahih al-Bukhari [no.1982] and others.


He sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam supplicated that Islam be strengthened through 'Umar ibn al-Khattab or Abu Jahl, and Allah strengthened it through 'Umar radiallahu 'anhu. He supplicated against Suraqah ibn Malik and the feet of his horse sank into the earth and he was thrown off, he called out asking for safe conduct and was granted it, then he asked the Prophet to make a supplication for him.


He supplicated that Allah remove feeling the bitter cold and heat from 'Ali and so never did he feel cold or hot. He supplicated for Hudhayfah, the night that he sent him to spy on the Confederates, that he not feel the cold and he did not until he had returned. He supplicated for Ibn 'Abbas that Allah grant him understanding of the religion and it was so. He supplicated against 'Utaybah ibn Abi Lahab that Allah cause a dog from amongst His dogs to overcome him and he was killed by a lion at az-Zarqa'.


He sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam supplicated for the descent of rain when they asked him to at the time of drought, there was not a single cloud in the sky, then when he had supplicated, the clouds gathered like mountains and it rained until the next Friday. It rained so much they they had to come back and ask him to supplicated and stop the rain, so he supplicated and the rain stopped and they out into the glaring sun.
He supplicated for Abu Talhah and his wife, 'Umm Sulaym, that he bless them in the night they had spent together and she became pregnant and gave birth to 'Abdullah. He had nine children and all of them were scholars.


He sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam supplicated for the mother of Abu Hurayrah radiallahu 'anhu that she be guided and Abu Hurayrah left to find her performing the ritual bath because she had accepted Islam. He supplicated for 'Umm Qays bint Muhsin, the sister of 'Ukkashah, that she live a long life and we do not know of another woman who lived as long as she did. This was reported by an-Nasa'i in the chapter concerning washing the deceased.

On the Day of Hunaun he threw a handful of dirt at the disbelievers and said, "May the faces be disfigured," and Allah, the Exalted, vanquished them, filling their eyes with dirt. He once went out to one hundred of the Quraysh who were waiting to do something horrible to him and he put dirt on their head and went on his way without their seeing him.

أنا لست موجوداً! منصور في حوار مع ملحد
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juvv40t49VI

الكريسماس عيد وثني! هاشم في حوار مع مسيحية الجزء الأول
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6KDAnLdwY4
الكريسماع عيد وثني! هاشم في حوار مع مسيحية الجزء الثاني
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdnQIyRI8Z4

الكريسماع عيد وثني! هاشم في حوار مع مسيحية الجزء الأخير
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2UuapaxTwY
 
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