Wisdom and randomness

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Soorah al-Kahf (The Cave).. Beautiful!

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It’s been a long time

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It’s been a while, but I’ve been busy trying to set up a Facebook ummah.

Try to use that Facebook Groups feature to make a group with brothers or sisters (let’s not give shaytan a chance to do more damage) and try to form a sort of pack with people who are aiming for Jannah . Inshallah it will strengthen your imam and increase your knowledge. 

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The story of Bahlul

Bahlul was a man who was on the opposite side we can say of worldly smartness, in other words, he was simple in his comprehension, in his intellect, in his understanding. It was hard for him to understand things.
A Khalifah by the name of Harun Rashid gave bahlul a stick, he said; this stick ya bahlul, belongs to the most foolish man on the face of this world. If you find any person more deserving of this stick than yourself pass it on to him. And bahlul being bahlul took the stick.
Several years later Harun Rashid the khalifah became extremely ill and no medical treatment seemed to work. Bahlul came to visit Harun to inquire about his health. The conversation took as follows.
Harun:
No treatment seems to work! I see my journey ahead of me at any second.
Bahlul:
Where are you going?
Harun:
I am going to the other world.
Bahlul:
To the other world? How long are you gonna go for? When will you come back?
Harun:
O Bahlul! No one ever comes back from the other world.
Bahlul:
Then you have must made special preparations for this great journey. This eternal journey. Have you sent troops, an army to await for your arrival? To prepare for your arrival once you get there?
Harun:
No one goes with you Bahlul. And no, I have not made preparations.
Bahlul:
Ya amir ul Mu’mineen, you used to send troops to make extensive preparations for a trip that will last one or two days! You would send troops thus they would make the most extensive preparations. And now you are going to a place where you will live forever, you will never come back it is eternal everlasting. And you have not made preparations for it?
HERE'S THE STICK! Now i have found the man who is more deserving of it.

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Before you talk about someone…

During the golden Abbasid period, one of the scholars in Baghdad, the capital of Muslim caliphate at that time, was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem. One day an acquaintance met the great scholar and said, “Do you know what I just heard about your friend?”
Scholar:
“Hold on a minute,” the scholar replied. “Before telling me anything I’d like you to pass a little test. It’s called the Triple Filter Test.”
Acquaintance:
“Triple filter?”
Scholar:
“That’s right,” the scholar continued. “Before you talk to me about my friend it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you’re going to say. That’s why I call it the triple filter test. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”
Acquaintance:
“No,” the man said, “actually I just heard about it and…”
Scholar:
“All right,” said the scholar. “So you don’t really know if it’s true or not. Now let’s try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?”
Acquaintance:
“No, on the contrary……”
Scholar:
“So,” the scholar continued, “you want to tell me something bad about him, but you’re not certain it’s true. You may still pass the test though, because there’s one filter left: the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?”
Acquaintance:
“No, not really.”
Scholar:
“Well,” concluded the scholar, “if what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?”
“O ye who believe! Let not some men among you laugh at others. It may be that the (latter) are better than the (former). Nor let some women laugh at others. It may be that the (latter are better than the (former). Nor defame nor be sarcastic to each other, nor call each other by (offensive) nicknames. Ill-seeming is a name connoting wickedness, (to be used of one) after he has believed. And those who do not desist are (indeed) doing wrong.” [Surah al-Hujurat 49.012]