HADITH OF THE PROPHET (pbuh):



إِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الَّذِينَ إِذَا ذُكِرَ اللَّهُ وَجِلَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَإِذَا تُلِيَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتُهُ زَادَتْهُمْ إِيمَانًا وَعَلَىٰ رَبِّهِمْ يَتَوَكَّلُونَ

For, Believers are those who, when Allah is mentioned, feel a tremor in their hearts, and when they hear His signs rehearsed, find their faith strengthened, and put their trust in their Lord;

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|SUBJECTS OF FUTURE ISSUES |

December 2014 Issue The Goodly-Salihaat الصالحات.in the Quran

March 2015 Issue: The Quran about Piety-Taqwa التقوى

June 2015 Issue: The Quran about Be Pious-Ittaqu إتقوا

September 2015 Issue: The Quran about The Pious-al-Muttaqeen الْمُتَّقِينَ

December 2015 Issue The Quran about The Truthful  الصادقين

March 2016 Issue The Quran about The Angels الملائكة 

June 2016 Issue The Quran about Tauba (Repentance) التوبه

September 2016 Issue The Quran about the Hypocrites (Munafiqoon)  المنافقين

December 2016 Issue The Quran about Ahlul Kitab (People of the Book) اهل الكتاب

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|COMMENTARY ABOUT |

|ONE OF THE 99 SUBLIME ATTRIBUTES OF ALLAH |

|One sublime attribute of Allah (swt) appears in this issue of the Affiliation, and will continue to do so until all 99 are fully described. |

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|ألمتكبِّر |

|AL-MUTAKABBIR |

|Allah is truly the Greatest, who shows His greatness in everything, on all occasions. The manifestation of greatness belongs only to Allah. The |

|creation, whose being or not being depends on the will and the single order of Allah, does not have the right to assume this name. |

|Of all the creation, the first one who became arrogant and claimed greatness was the accursed Devil. Then there are those who have followed the |

|Devil, who think that the power, intelligence, knowledge, position, fame, and fortune that Allah has lent to them momentarily, are theirs, so |

|that they become proud. |

|If man thought of his beginning and his end (which are very close to each other), he would remember that his "before" was a drop of sperm |

|transplanted from his father's urinary tract to his mother. His end will be to become a limp, cold corpse that cannot be borne even by the ones |

|who loved him and that he will be thrown into a hole in the ground. |

|Where are the Pharaohs, the Nimrods, Napoleons and people like Hitler? |

|Al-Mutakabbir is an honor fit only for Allah. The created creature cannot assume this attribute. Allah al-Mutakabbir is the adversary of the |

|proud man. Allah will humiliate him, making him the lowest of the low. Just as the rain that comes from the skies does not gather on the tops of|

|high mountains, Allah's blessings and compassion gather in lowly places. |

|The ones who wish to feel the divine attribute of al-Mutakabbir will find it only when they work hard to try to achieve the highest level of |

|their potential, while never boasting of or even revealing their greatness. |

|'Abd al-Mutakabbir is he who has shown his smallness to the greatness of Allah. His egotism and pride are effaced and replaced by the greatness |

|of Allah reflected in him. He is safe from being belittled and bows to none other than the Truth. |

|DU’AA OF THE PROPHET (pbuh): |

|(Character at its best is by piety, contentment, patience, gratitude to Allah, |

|forbearance, self-consciousness, generosity, courage, goodwill, honesty, |

|truthfulness, and keeping the trust. |

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|Sayings of Imam Al-Ridha, the 8th Imam |

|("Knowledge is a great treasure and the key to it is questioning." |

|(He who does not examine himself everyday is not one of us." |

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AFFILIATION NEWS

By Allah's Grace, this issue of the Bulletin will reach a total of 10,052 Muhtadoon (converts to Al-Islam); this is the total number since the project started in February 1985. During the last three months 89 Muhtadoon have enrolled in the project

Because of the cost and the great demands, the organization cannot fill the needs of each and every request, and in some cases suggest that new Muhtadoon seek help from other Islamic organizations.

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Study of the Life of Muhammad Considered as a Preacher of Islam.

AFTER HIJRAH

A History of the Propagation of the Muslim Faith

T.W. Arnold Ma. C.I.F

Professor Of Arabic, University Of London, University College. Written in 1896, revised in 1913

The idea of a common religion under one common head bound the different tribes together into one political organism which developed its peculiar characteristics with surprising rapidity.

Now only one great idea could have produced this result, viz. the principle of national life in heathen Arabia.

The clan-system was thus for the first time, if not entirely crushed—(that would have been impossible)—yet made subordinate to the feeling of religious unity.

The great work succeeded, and when Muhammad died there prevailed over by far the greater part of Arabia a peace of God such as the Arab tribes, with their love of plunder and revenge, had never known;

It was the religion of Islam that had brought about this reconciliation."

Even in the case of death, the claims of relationship were set aside and the bond-brother inherited all the property of his deceased companion. But after the battle of Badr, when such an artificial bond was no longer needed to unite his followers, it was abolished; such an arrangement was only necessary so long as the number of the Muslims was still small and the corporate life of Islam a novelty; moreover Muhammad had lived in Medina for a very short space of time before the rapid increase in the number of his adherents made so communistic a social system almost impracticable.

It was only to be expected that the growth of an independent political body composed of refugees from Mecca, located in a hostile city, should eventually lead to an outbreak of hostilities;

and, as is well known, every biography of Muhammad is largely taken up with the account of a long series of petty encounters and bloody battles between his followers and the Quraish of Mecca, ending in his triumphal entry into that city in A.D. 630, and of his hostile relations with numerous other tribes, up to the time of his death, A.D. 633.

But it is false to suppose that Muhammad in Medina laid aside his role of preacher and missionary of Islam, or that when he had a large army at his command, he ceased to invite unbelievers to accept the faith.

Ibn Sa'd gives a number of letters written by the Prophet from Medina to chiefs and other members of different Arabian tribes, in addition to those addressed to potentates living beyond the limits of Arabia, inviting them to embrace Islam;

And in the following pages will be found instances of his having sent missionaries to preach the faith to the unconverted members of their tribes, whose very ill-success in some cases is a sign of the genuinely missionary character of their efforts and the absence of an appeal to force.

A typical example of such an unsuccessful mission is that sent to preach Islam to the Banu 'Amir b. Sa'sa'ah in the year A.H. 4. The chief of this tribe, Abu Bara 'Amir, visited Muhammad in Medina, listened to his teaching, but declined to become a convert; he seemed, however, to be favorably disposed towards the new faith and asked the Prophet to send some of his followers to Najd to preach to the people of that country.

The Prophet sent a party of forty Muslims, most of them young men of Medina, who were skilled in reciting the Quran, and had been accustomed to meet together at night for study and prayer. But in spite of the safe conduct given them by Abu Bara Amir, they were treacherously murdered and three only of the party escaped with their lives.

The successes of the Muslim arms, however, attracted every day members of various tribes, particularly those in the vicinity of Medina, to swell the ranks of the followers of the Prophet;

And: the courteous treatment which the deputations of these various clans experienced from the Prophet, his ready attention to their grievances, the wisdom with which he composed their disputes, and the politic assignments of territory by which he rewarded an early declaration in favor of Islam, made his name to be popular and spread his fame as a great and generous prince throughout the Peninsula."

It not infrequently happened that one member of a tribe would come to the Prophet in Medina and return home as a missionary of Islam to convert his brethren; we have the following account of such a conversion in the year 5 (A.H.).

The Banu Sa'd b. Bakr sent one of their number, by name Dhimam b. Tha'labah as their envoy to the Prophet. He came and made his camel kneel down at the gate of the mosque and tied up its foreleg. Then he went into the mosque, where the Prophet was sitting with his companions. He went up close to them and said:

"Which among you is the son of Abd al-Mut'talib? "

"I am," replied the Prophet.

"Art thou Muhammad?" "Yes," was the answer.

"Then, if thou wilt not take it amiss, I would fain ask thee some weighty questions." "Nay, ask what thou wilt," answered the Prophet,

"I adjure thee by Allah, thy God and the God of those who were before thee and of those who are to come after thee, hath Allah sent thee as a prophet unto us?" Muhammad answered, "Yea, by Allah."

Tha'labah continued, "I adjure thee by Allah, thy God and the God of those who were before thee and of those who are to

come after thee, hath He commanded thee to bid us worship

Him alone, and to associate naught else with Him and to abandon these idols that our fathers worshipped?" Muhammad answered, "Yea, by Allah." Then Tha'labah questioned the Prophet concerning all the ordinances of Islam, one after another, prayer and fasting, pilgrimage, etc., solemnly adjuring him as before.

At the end Tha'labah said, "Then I bear witness that there is no God save Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah, and I will observe these ordinances and shun what thou hast forbidden, adding nothing thereto, and taking nothing away."

Then Tha'labah turned away and loosened his camel and returned unto his own people, and when he had gathered them together, the first words he spoke unto them were: "Vile things are Lat and 'Uzza." They cried out, "Hold! Dhimam b Tha'labah, take heed of leprosy or madness!"

"Fie on you!" Tha'labah replied. "By Allah! they can neither work you weal nor woe, for Allah has sent a Prophet and revealed to him a book, whereby he delivers you from your evil plight; I bear witness that there is no God save Allah alone and that Muhammad is His servant and His Prophet; and I have brought you tidings of what he enjoins and what he forbids."

The story goes on that ere nightfall there was not a man or woman in the camp who had not accepted Islam.

To be Continued

The Quran about the word: Taqwa -Piety التقوى -Works الخير

➢ The word Taqwa -Piety التقوى - appears in about 15 Ayahs of the Quran. It appears CAPITALIZED AND BOLD in the translation.

➢ These references have variable flavors of meaning and connotations

➢ Looking at the entire theme gives a better understanding of what the message entails.

سورة البقرة - سورة 2 - آية 197

|الْحَجُّ أَشْهُرٌ مَعْلُومَاتٌ ۚ فَمَنْ فَرَضَ فِيهِنَّ الْحَجَّ فَلَا رَفَثَ وَلَا فُسُوقَ وَلَا جِدَالَ فِي الْحَجِّ ۗ وَمَا تَفْعَلُوا مِنْ خَيْرٍ يَعْلَمْهُ اللَّهُ ۗ وَتَزَوَّدُوا فَإِنَّ خَيْرَ الزَّادِ التَّقْوَىٰ ۚ وَاتَّقُونِ يَا أُولِي |

|الْأَلْبَابِ |

|The pilgrimage is performed in the well-known months; so whoever determines the performance of the pilgrimage therein, |

|there shall be no intercourse nor fornication nor quarrelling amongst one another; and whatever good you do, Allah knows it; |

|So make provision for yourselves (Hereafter); for the best provision is to ward off evil (PIETY). Therefore heed you Me, O men of understanding. |

سورة البقرة - سورة 2 - آية 237

|وَإِنْ طَلَّقْتُمُوهُنَّ مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ تَمَسُّوهُنَّ وَقَدْ فَرَضْتُمْ لَهُنَّ فَرِيضَةً فَنِصْفُ مَا فَرَضْتُمْ إِلَّا أَنْ يَعْفُونَ أَوْ يَعْفُوَ الَّذِي بِيَدِهِ عُقْدَةُ النِّكَاحِ ۚ وَأَنْ تَعْفُوا أَقْرَبُ لِلتَّقْوَىٰ ۚ وَلَا تَنْسَوُا الْفَضْلَ |

|بَيْنَكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرٌ | ................
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