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| From the book, "Khasais Al-T'abir Al-Quran wa Samatuhu Al-Balagha" by Dr. Abdul Matin Al-Mut'i Al-Azhari, and explained to me by Imam Suhaib while jogging (so if I get anything wrong, forgive me, but I was trying to be healthy):
The word ya, in Arabic, is used to call to someone. For example, if you were in a room and your friend, lets say his name is 'Azam' was in the next room: how would you call him? You would say, "Ya Azam!" However, if Azam was on the other side of a football field and you wanted to call him, how would you do it? You would say, "YA AZAM!" However, if our beloved friend Azam was sitting right next to you, extremely close to you, how would you call him? Of course, you would just turn to him and say, "Azam." THIS is the closeness that we share to Allah SWT! The scholars of Balagah say the ya used for calling of Allah SWT to His servants is hidden in its languge to illustrate the intense and extreme closeness Allah SWT shares with them. In fact, if you were to look at every single supplication made to Allah SWT in the Qur'an you would only find the word ya used twice! | | |
| A quote that I saw in an email, and has been stuck in my head:
"I was coming to a point where I was unsatisfied emotionally and spiritually. I had money in the bank and a $100,000 car, women left and right: everything that you think you want. And then just sitting there being like, "Why am I unhappy?" Finally that voice that talks to you – not the whisper [of Satan] – the voice said, "Well, basically you're unhappy because you're living foul and you're not trying to do anything about it."
Everlast, on his conversion to Islam | | |
| So Saad started this Blogger for us! I'm going to try to post regularly (so Saad can vicariously live through us, since hes stuck in SCHOOL)! I'm gonna post more soon, but here is something I learned today from chillin' with a Shaykh:
Imam Ghazali said that are 3 types of Quran readers: 1) Ones that look at the quran and text, 2) Ones that read it as if they hear it from the mouth, and then there are the 3) Ones that read it as if they are hearing the Angel Jibril reciting it from the messege of Allah SWT.
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Irfan | | |
| This is Irfan Shuttari and Azam Hashmi live from Egypt in our search for finding the perfect wife (wives). We'll keep you posted  | | |
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