Penalty for eating publicly in Ramadan
Dear Islamic brothers! Did you see? Allah (عَزَّوَجَلَّ) not only blessed a fire worshipper with faith for honouring Ramadan but also granted him the eternal blessings of Heaven. All those heedless brothers who don’t honour Ramadan at all despite being Muslims should learn some lesson from this parable. They do not fast, dare to smoke cigarettes and chew Pān (betel) in front of fasting Muslims and some are so shameless that they even eat and drink publicly.
Remember! The honourable scholars of Islam (رَحِمَهُمُ
الـلّٰـهُ تَعَالٰی) have stated, ‘If anyone eats or drinks
deliberately in public during the day in Ramadan without a Shar’ī exemption,
his punishment is that he will be killed (by the Islamic ruler).’
(Durr-e-Mukhtār ma’ Radd-ul-Muḥtār, pp. 392, vol. 3)
Are you not going to die?
Dear Islamic brothers! Please ponder! This is the
punishment in this world for those who do not fast (this punishment can only be imposed by an Islamic ruler) then how
horrific and severe the punishment of the hereafter will be!
O Muslims! Wake up from the sleep of heedlessness! How long will you make merry in this world? When would you realize the great loss of wasting the previous moments of your life in heedlessness? Are you not going to die?
Remember! A day will certainly come when you will be leaving this world.
Death will put an end to all of your luxuries and
pleasures. It will make you rest on soil in lieu of your comfortable and cosy
mattress. It will take you out of your beautifully decorated rooms full of
entertainment devices and lead you to your dark grave, and then, it will
be futile.
to regret. You have a chance now; repent sincerely of your sins and become
punctual in your Ṣalāh and fasts.
·
Karlay tawbah Rab kī
raḥmat hay baṛī
·
Qabr mayn warnaĥ sazā
hogī kaṛī
·
Repent as the mercy of
Allah is immense
·
Or
else punishment in grave will be intense
Dear Islamic brothers! In order to get rid of
sinful life, join the Madanī environment of Dawat-e-Islami, a global &
non-political movement for the propagation of the Quran and Sunnah (إِنْ شَاءَ اللّٰہ عَزَّوَجَلَّ). You will succeed in
the worldly life as well as in the afterlife. Here is a blessing of
Dawat-e-Islami.
Blessings of Sunnah-Inspiring speeches
The following is a summary of the statement a
Pakistani Islamic brother made under oath: From 1987 to 1990 I was affiliated
with a political movement. Due to escalating corruption and political unrest in
Pakistan, my family talked me into leaving the country, so I ended up
travelling to Oman. On November 3, 1990 I joined a garment factory in
Muscat.
In 1992 an Islamic brother of Dawat-e-Islami joined our factory as a labourer. As a result of his individual effort, I began to offer Ṣalāh (اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰہ عَزَّوَجَلَّ). The environment in the factory wasn’t good at all. In our department, there were about 8 or 9 cassette players, and songs used to be played all the time in several different languages including Urdu, Punjabi, Pashtu, Hindi, Bengali etc, with the volume always turned up. (اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰہ عَزَّوَجَلَّ), due to the blessings of the company of this devotee of Rasūl, I began to hate music, so we both decided to buy the cassettes of Sunnah-Inspiring speeches released by Maktaba-tul-Madinah and play them in the factory.
In the beginning we faced objections and criticism, but we didn’t give up
courage. (اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰہ عَزَّوَجَلَّ),
These Sunnah-Inspiring speeches had a strong positive
effect on me. The speeches that inspired me the most included, ‘The First Night
in Grave’, ‘Reality of the World’, ‘Unfortunate Groom’, ‘The Talking Grave’ and
‘Three Graves’
I developed a mindset of hating sins and
pondering over my Hereafter. The speeches also inspired a few others who began
to support us. The devotee of Rasūl, who created this Madanī transformation in
my heart, left his job and returned to Pakistan. We managed to get 90 more
cassettes of Sunnah-Inspiring speeches from Pakistan.
At first, there were only 50 or 60 men in
the factory who would offer Ṣalāh but as a result of listening to these
speeches this number increased to 250 (الحمد للہ عزوجل).
We contributed and bought an expensive 400 watt speaker that was installed to
the wall so that we could listen to the speeches easily. We made a schedule of
listening to the recitation of Quran from 7:00 to 8:00 in the morning, Na'ats
of our Beloved and Blessed Rasūl (صلَّى اللہ عليہ واله
وسلَّم) from 8:00 to 9:00 and then a Sunnah-Inspiring speech from 9:00
to 10:00.
Gradually, we collected 500 cassettes. Along
with me, five other Islamic brothers also joined Dawat-e-Islami (الحمد للہ عزوجل) we began Masjid Dars and gradually
started a Sunnah-Inspiring weekly Ijtimā' in our factory which would be
attended by more or less 250 Islamic brothers. Then we started a
Madrasa-tul-Madīnah (for adults). Islamic brothers (of the factory) began to
act upon Sunnah; several of them adopted the blessed Sunnah of growing a beard,
a symbol of devotion to our Beloved and Blessed Prophet (صلَّى اللہ عليہ واله وسلَّم) and 20 to 25 Islamic brothers began to
wear the blessed turban.
At first, our manager did use to object to
us for listening to the cassettes, but the sound of the speeches eventually
changed his frame of mind. (الحمد للہ عزوجل)
impressed and inspired by listening to the Sunnah-Inspiring speeches, he also
began to offer Ṣalāh and grew a fist-length beard.
The Islamic brother further said: I have returned to Pakistan where I am currently trying to spread Sunnah as a Nigrān (responsible person) of the Mushāwarat of a division in Karachi. As Sunnah-Inspiring cassettes released by Maktaba-tul-Madīnah caused an enormous change in my life I wish every Islamic brother and sister listen to at least one Sunnah-Inspiring speech or Madanī Muzākarah (i.e. question-answer session) daily, (إن شاءَ اللہ عزوجل) this will bring about huge blessings in the world as well as the Hereafter.
Dear Islamic brothers! Did you see the
blessings of the cassettes of Sunnah-Inspiring speeches released by
Maktaba-tul-Madīnah! This brother was very fortunate; there are many other
people who have been attending the weekly Ijtimā' for years yet they do not
seem to have changed their lives positively to a great extent. This might be
because they do not listen to the speeches attentively. How will someone be
able to gain the blessings of religious speeches by listening to them
inattentively, looking around or talking during the speech?
Listening to advice inattentively is a trait
of the unbelievers and therefore Muslims must avoid it. Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ says in verses 2 and 3 of Sūrah Anbiyā
(part 17):
When any new advice comes to them from their Creator, they do not listen to it but inattentively, their hearts are in heedlessness.
[Kanz-ul-Īmān (Translation of Quran)]
(Part 17, Anbiyā, verse 2)
So please make a habit of listening to
Sunnah-Inspiring speeches. إِن شَاءَ اللہ عَزَّوَجَلَّ
You will be surprised to see the blessings!
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