“When Allah gives us something — and he gives us all kinds of amazing things all the time — isn’t it time to ask: What are we giving back to Allah?” (Dr. Pasha)
“To the children of the good people who have decided to work for Allah, here is something I want to say to them: Work hard to move your own lives and this work forward.
Do not use this work as a means of personal advancement in life in any form or fashion.
Do not use any part or aspect of this work as a business or an element in a career path.
And also, try to adhere to the teachings of Allah’s Deen to the extent you can and to the best of your ability.
And try not to play games with Allah’s Deen at any time and in any form or fashion. For, you have no chance of winning.
Your parents are good people. They gave you the best they could.
And they worked very hard to put you on Allah’s path.
But Allah has put your life and your destiny in your own hands. And not in your parents’ hands.
That means you will have to make your own choices. And you will have to make your own decisions.
And I hope and pray you make the right ones.
Allah bless you.” (Dr. Pasha)
“To love and to hate is part of human nature.
As a result, all of us love and hate something or someone. And we do that in one form or another and at one point of our life or another.
Those who are driven entirely by their own base needs and emotions, they love and hate for narrow personal and selfish reasons.
But those that are blessed and favored by God, they love and hate for broader and more enlightened reasons.
They love and hate for the sake of God.
That means they use their basic human emotions of love and hate as an instrument of loving God and serving all of humanity and all of God’s creation.
As a result, they love all – and hate none. For, love is their dominant emotion.
But when they see God’s laws being disrespected, and when they see God’s most basic commandments being violated, and when they see all kinds of atrocities and injustices being perpetrated on their fellow human beings, or on God’s broader creation in any form or fashion, they often tend to react not only in sorrow and pain, but also in anger and with indignation.
But theirs is a righteous wrath.
And it is not unlike God’s own wrath and indignation when he beholds humans violating his laws and commandments on earth: knowingly, willfully and persistently.
And when he sees human beings commit all kinds of blatant wrongs and oppressions against one another – something the Qur’an repeatedly refers to as Zulm, a term that sadly is not a part of English vocabulary.
So, the wrath of these good people against Zulm, in that context, is a reflection on earth of divine displeasure in Heaven.
And those who do not feel this righteous wrath and indignation, at any time and with regard to any issue, are often the ones whose hearts have gone dead.
They are people who have not allowed themselves to rise above the lowest level of human existence.
In fact, they are like animals, if not worse, as the Qur’an puts it.
They proceed from the narrowest focus and motives of personal greed, ambition and selfishness.
But what the good people in their state of righteous wrath and divinely inspired indignation do not do is take the law of the land – any law of any land – in their own hands as it were.
Nor do they use their righteous rage to perpetrate any atrocity or terrible deed of their own (Zulm) on the guilty.
But instead they set about systematically working to wipe out all injustices from the face of the earth.
And they do so by embarking upon a totally focused mission of inviting humanity to God and to his Book, the Qur’an, and to his prophet, Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam.
And they do that using the best and the finest possible means and methods of human communication and outreach ever devised.
Such blessed individuals are God’s reflection on earth. They are God’s elect.
And they are God’s chosen and favored people in every age and place. ” (Dr. Pasha)
“Islam says Muslims must be clean. But how clean is clean?
It is fair to say that Islam wrote the last word on cleanliness. Bathe and wash your dead thoroughly, says Islam, before you bury them.
Muslims refer to this last bath as Ghusl Janaazah: Burial Bath.
The entire Muslim community is held responsible for making sure that no Muslim dead, male or female, is buried without Ghusl Janaazah.
Islam refers to the entire concept of cleanliness as Tahaarat.
You can consider it the overall and the big state of physical cleanliness.
And most certainly cleanliness is also one of Islam’s very first teachings.
Before all else, Muslims must perform Salaat or prayers five times a day. And every time they do that, they must be in a state of physical purity or cleanliness.
Islam calls it Wudu.
And you can consider Wudu the smaller and more compact state of personal and physical cleanliness – mini-Tahaarah as it were.
That is what Allah says in the Qur’an about how to touch, hold or handle the Qur’an.
“No one that is not cleansed and purified shall touch the Qur’an!” the Qur’an declares.
Islamic culture generally holds this teaching to mean two things:
- A general state of overall physical purity – bodily purity – that is realized through intentional or purposeful and “ritual” bathing or what is called Ghusl in Islam.
- Maintaining intact a general condition of Wudu or “ritual” ablution or washing up.
So, one must have Ghusl, and one must have Wudu, before one can touch or handle the Qur’an.
That is the Islamic law. Islamic Shari’ah if you will.
And everyone knows that and everyone agrees with that.
That means one must be in a state of physical cleanliness while touching the Qur’an. No question about that.
But I ask myself another question: Is there, also, such a thing as a state of mental and spiritual purity or cleanliness that goes along with that required state of physical cleanliness?
For example, are we supposed to leave all “evil” thoughts and intentions behind when we approach the Qur’an?
Are we supposed to cleanse ourselves from all ideas about using the Qur’an, for example, for personal glory and benefit, and for political and social advantage?
And somehow using the Qur’an for the purpose of promoting self-interest? Using the Qur’an, for example, to promote one’s business or commercial goals?
Or to hurt, insult, attack or take advantage of someone?
So, must we then also, while handling the Qur’an, try to cleanse and purify our mind and our soul from all lower and baser level instincts and motives?
Is it, then, fair to say that as we approach the Qur’an, it is not our body and our clothes alone that must be clean, but it is also our mind and our soul that must be clean?
I am just asking a question. That is all I am doing.
Seems to me it is a question worth asking.” (Dr. Pasha)
A Thing Called Purity – Tahaarah [Quote – 286]
- Sep 19, 2011
- Tagged as: cleanliness tahaarah, purity, quran kuran koran coran, wudu
“Every Muslim worries about Wudu, or physical purity or Tahaarah, when they are about to touch or handle the Qur’an?
And they must.
But how many of us worry about our mental state of purity and cleanliness as we are about to touch or handle the Qur’an?
Does anyone think it is a question worth asking?
And then we complain the Qur’an does not open up to us or talk to us!” (Dr. Pasha)
“Here is a small secret about the world.
When an element of truth comes before people — Kalimatu Haqq as the Hadith calls it — some people leap to embrace it.
They are the ones whose hearts and minds have been opened by Allah’s mercy and blessings.
Some others, however, look at truth and ask: How can they fit it into their own agendas and scheme of things.
Those are the ones who, rather than submit themselves to truth, try to submit truth to their own needs, agendas, plans, goals, ambitions, purposes and situations.
These two groups of people are fairly evident to those who have eyes to see.
Wallahu Baseerum Bil’Ibaad — Allah is fully aware of what people are up to!” (Dr. Pasha)
Eid Greetings to All: But How Is This Eid Different? [Quote – 284]
- Aug 31, 2011
- Tagged as: Eid, ramadan fasting siyaam
“Eid Mubarak!
Kullu ‘Aam wa Antum Bikhair!
Bayraminiz Kutlu Olsun!
The last one being Turkish.
Of course! And why not? Eid Mubarak — to one and all! Indeed!
Muslim and non-Muslim alike! For, this is a common occasion ordained by God for all — fasting I mean. At least so says the Qur’an — Kamaa Kutiba ‘Alalladheena Min Qablikum: The way it was ordained for those before you.
When no one is watching or listening, I say to myself: That is right, yet another occasion — I will call it an “excuse” if you promise not to call me a Kaafir — for God Almighty to bless his people — all people — on earth.
But the question that keeps popping up in my head over and over is this: How are we — Muslim and non-Muslim — different today, after this Ramazaan and after this Eid, than we were before them?
And do you know what? Maybe, just maybe, asking that question alone will somehow help us to be better people today — more honest; more truthful; more just; more compassionate; more hardworking; more forgiving; and somehow less hateful, less prejudiced and less angry — after this Eid, than we were yesterday, before this Eid.
I am not going to say: “May Allah Make Us So, Aameen!” Even though I will and I do.
I am going to say instead: “Try and work on it on your own — and then see what Allah does.“
God Bless and Happy Eid, Everyone!” (Dr. Pasha)
Islam Gave the World Honesty and Integrity [Quote – 283]
- Aug 25, 2011
- Tagged as: Spread by the Sword?, truth haqq
“During the Seventh Century, when Islam made its last earthly appearance in Arabia, the world was a pretty dishonest place. Everyone lied to everyone and everyone pretty much deceived and stole from everyone.
Islam came and showed the world that Honesty Was the Best Policy. Not only in this world, but also in the next world — the world after death. And that this honesty and integrity should be practiced with everyone: friend and foe; Muslim and non-Muslim; man, woman and child.
A morally hungry and tired world then jumped to embrace Islam.
That is how Islam converted the world: by teaching it to be fair and honest with everyone.” (Dr. Pasha)
Islam Is about Health: Another Proof Islam Is from God [Quote – 282]
- Aug 24, 2011
- Tagged as: body, health
“People say all kinds of things about all kinds of things. But here is what Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, says about the human body and its needs: “Your body has rights and claims over you. So give your body its due!”
Now, think about it: Does this sound like the kind of mumbo-jumbo most people peddle in the name of “religion”? Or does it sound like really and truly it could have come only from a higher, divine source?
This is another proof that Islam and its teachings are not a human concoction, but a direct revelation from God Almighty to his blessed prophets and messengers, may God bless them all, and in particular to Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam!” (Dr. Pasha)
All Earth Is Home and All Humanity Is Family [Quote – 281]
- Aug 23, 2011
- Tagged as: brotherhood, Love and Tolerance
“Islam came to teach the world a simple truth: All earth is home and all humanity is family.
If the world understood this simple truth to any degree, and that includes today’s Muslims as well, what a different world this would be.
That, as they say, is Islam in a nutshell.” (Dr. Pasha)
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