Please read my previous post before reading this.
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The Prophet Eesa (A.S.) was walking with his followers when on their way they passed a house where a wedding was to take place and celebrations were underway. He addressed his followers that when they would return the house would be filled with mourning as the bride would be dead.
But when they returned, the celebrations had not ceased.
The Prophet was extremely bewildered by this. He entered the house and found the bride in her room. He asked whether she had moved anywhere.
She replied that a beggar had come to the door but due to the celebrations nobody had heard him except her. Since no one had responded to his cries, she had gone and gotten him a flour bag and he went away happy.
After hearing this, Eesa (A.S.) quickly removed her pillow from the bed and beneath that, was a black snake!
Her good deed had saved her life, even when she was supposed to die.
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There are 124,000 prophets and all were given separate parts of ‘knowledge’. That is, they knew a lot but they didn’t know it ‘all’.
A popular example can be seen in the Quraan where Hazrat Musa (A.S.) learns a lot from Hazrat Khizr (A.S.)
The only prophet who was given the knowledge of “All To Happen” and the power to change that was our beloved Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.W.), the reason for the creation of this Universe.
In the case above, Hazrat Eesa (A.S.) knew that the bride would die but what he didn’t know was the fact that she would give food to the beggar and it would change her destiny i.e. Loh.
But who changes that destiny? Who has the power to alter the Loh? Who has the power to change the Universe, yet keep it in a perfect state?
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Sadqa (صدقہ) is the averter of calamities and that is why we hear ‘Sadqa Rad-de-Bala Hai’ (صدقہ ردِّ بلا ہے)!
The Universe is perfect. Allah made it so. It will achieve whatever it’s ultimate objective is. And it will follow the Loh.
By the Loh, if someone is to be killed by a snake, then it will happen. But Sadqa is something that can prevent that. Giving sadqa will avert any misfortunes coming one’s way but that would require changes in the Loh. And Allah is the only one who can do that. So the proof of Allah’s existence or that Allah is still alive is that he still interferes in the affairs of the Universe by editing the Loh and sadqa is the only thing that guarantees it. There are countless examples available through out our books.
Miracles and prayers can be said to change fate, but they don’t guarantee it. Sadqa does.
But is it also written in the Loh that the person will give sadqa?
That would mean the Loh is evolving. So what is the future of the Loh?
Only Allah knows, or Muhammad (S.A.W.W.).
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The Sadqa of Islam
اسلام کا صدقہ
In 61 AH, Islam was a relatively young religion, an infant, and it wouldn’t be absurd to say that it hadn’t even crawled on all fours till then. It was a new faith with shallow roots and was still taking over people’s hearts and lives. It was at that time that a tyrant came to power after his father’s death.
He made the claim that there was no Allah, no heaven nor hell and that Prophethood was just a drama by the Bani Hashim (A.S.). He claimed that no revelations had occurred, no angel had come and that Muhammad (S.A.W.W.) had deceived all. The infant Islam was in grave danger. ‘Allah’ was in danger!
After making these claims, he decided to drive the nail into the coffin and force the heir of Muhammad (S.A.W.W.) to swear allegiance to him as the rightful ruler and accept his claims. A “hand or head” offer was extended to that heir.
The heir rejected to provide his hand in allegiance and set forth on a journey with his entire family to Makkah. The tyrant dispatched his men to try and kill the heir during Hajj.
The heir came to know of this and changed his Hajj to an Umrah. Then he left the city of Makkah in order to preserve it’s Holiness and to prevent bloodshed within the boundaries of the Haram. His final destination became the desert land that Muhammad (S.A.W.W.) had promised would be the grounds of his slaughter.
There he stopped and set up camp. Forces of the tyrant started to arrive soon after. They forced the heir to move his camp away from the water and blocked it.
Children in the heir’s camp started crying and begging for water. Even the six-month old had nothing to drink.
Three days later, all men were cut to pieces, including many children and even the six-month old was butchered from ear to ear by a three-pronged arrow. The heir sacrificed every thing and everyone for the sake of truth, then offered himself. He fought valiantly and reduced the tyrants massive army to countable numbers. When it was the time of Asr, he put his sword back in it’s sheath, was pierced by arrows from every direction and then bowed to Allah. His head was cut off in the state of Sajdah. The remaining man, women and children were captured and subjected to the most inhuman tortures possible.
All martyrs gave their lives to prove that Muhammad (S.A.W.W.) was right, there had been revelations, there are heaven and hell and that it was worth dying for. They showed the world the difference between right and wrong.
They offered their lives as Sadqa over Islam and Islam’s fate changed!
The heir saved the religion of Allah. Now Islam has grown into a 1400 year old, mature religion with roots deep into people’s lives. It is the fastest growing religion of all. Allah is still alive in the minds of Muslims everywhere.
And so is Husain…
انسان کو بیدار تو ہو لینے دو
ہر قوم پکارے گی ہمارے ہیں حسین
اسلام کے دامن میں بس اس کے سوا کیا ہے
اِک ضربِ یداللّہی ، اِک سجدہءِ شبّیری
شاعر: علامہ محمد اقبال
Yadullah is the title of Hazrat Ali (A.S.) meaning the hand of Allah while Shabbir is the title of Imam Husain (A.S.).
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SAWJ’s Note: This is a post written on the go, without any planning. If you disagree, try to be polite!
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People Who Almost Got The Answer: Adnan, Saadat.
People Who Wasted My Time In Trying To Prove The Question Wrong: Absar, Brickwall. 
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everyone has the sort of question that you had in the previous post. that doesnt make u a kafir. Believing in all that would…but questioning something and then trying to answer it is simply ‘critical thinking’ completely allowed in Islam.
The post is a long one, so ill read it insha Allah a lil later, so will come back to it
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Interesting
now where is my gift?
i am sure you must have got enough traffic on previous post.
Indeed. 78 visitors yesterday to my blog.
129 Pageviews for the question post with 34 unique Pageviews. Lets see how the answer post does.
And man I didn’t promise no gift!
Indeed. 78 visitors yesterday to my blog.
eheh cool! though there are no such keywords like love,affair,breakups ,boyfriend,husband,girlfriend etc.
Sadqa (صدقہ) is the averter of calamities
true but as you know Sadqa is not the only factor. Prayers, specially prayers by mother and spouse are very special for Allah. this is why when Moses(AS) visited Allah at mount sinai after HIs(AS) mother’s death and tripped, God reminded Him that His mother was no more(means no duas) hence he should be careful now.
Indeed. But prayers are sometimes rejected as well and therefore not as effective as Sadqa. I did count them in above.
Prayers are never rejected. Allah never says NO to whatever we ask, it’s just He gives at right time; same thing or better.
it’s just like a 2 years old kid asks his dad to give chocolate but father doesn’t fulfill his wish and save the money somewhere so that when he grows up, he can utilize that money for chocolate at right time. We can’t say Dad rejected the wish. He just put it in pending thats it. This is how Allah treats us too.
Atleast this is my belief and has helped me to get over difficult crisis of life.
Your belief is good. However if the child asks permission to jump off a roof, will his dad allow?
Sometimes what we ask for may be harmful for us and Allah may not fulfill that wish or prayer.
Ofcourse, when the child grows up he might understand why his dad never allowed him!
child asks permission to jump off a roof, will his dad allow?
yes , at right time because then he would have ability to cope the pain. this is same as asking chocolates.
Oh come on!
No father will ever allow, unless it’s beneficial somehow but that too is a very rare case.
Are you tempting me to say something? : )
I sure want to say what I feel about your solution of the riddle. But then I shuold not make it a habit too to talk to people when I don’t have time to lead the discussion to fruition. It’s certainly distasteful for me to walk out after all that due to time constraints.
So I will let it slide and have you rejoice with the thought that you *win*.
Cheers
Do come back when you have the time bro.
As for above, it’s just a joke. Do take it lightly!
ehhe yeah Unless the father is jackie chan.
LOL!
Or Jet Lee…
By the way, we can’t blame fate/destiny for our own foolishness. Like if I am jumping off a roof then its not my “fate”. God did give me “Aqa”l to use it, I am not using it and blame God or fate then I am just being unfair with God, No?
Indeed. Loh only contains what we will do but it is all based on Allah’s knowledge of all our actions. It is not defined by Him forcefully.
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Ah, so it’s sadqa.
By the way, Islam “hadn’t even crawled on all fours” till 61 AH? By the time of Ali’s (r.a.) death, the Muslim empire was stretched as far as Balochistan and almost all of the northern coast of the African continent. I won’t call that infancy. True, the civil wars and conspiracies shrank that empire and made it weak, but Islam as a religion was out of its childhood, no?
@Imran: Okay man!
@Saadat: The physical boundaries were far apart but there were still internal problems. People were divided, Bani Umayyah (L.A.) were wreaking havoc and it wouldn’t have taken long for people to revert to their old practices unless someone ensured otherwise. The true believers were in small numbers compared to the people who were Muslims only by name.
You can note that Yazeed (L.A.) and Muawiyyah(L.A.) drank openly yet no one condemned them.
And even today, we have so called scholars trying to prove the wrongful right and the rightful wrong!
Muawiyyah(L.A.)
And here L.A== Lanatullah?
the wrongful right and the rightful wrong!
What appears right to you will appear left to me and vice versa. :>
Yes, Muawiyyah La’anatullah! All Bani Umayyah deserve it.
Do you believe Imam Husain (A.S.) to be wrong? And Yazeed (L.A.) to be right?
Do you believe Imam Husain (A.S.) to be wrong? And Yazeed (L.A.) to be right?
the topic is out of my scope and I can’t comment on it .
It’s high time you increased your scope, my friend, a lot will be revealed to you. Trust me on this!
Insaan ko bedaar to ho lenay do,
Har Qom pukaray gi hamaray hain Husain!
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal
I think I’ll add this above.
It’s high time you increased your scope, my friend, a lot will be revealed to you.
ehhe. Acha I will! Pakka Wada… Sahe?
I was so tied up in work and stuff … will go through both tonight
I did visit quite few times though
Asma, why your tongue is sooo red? paan khaya hay??
@Adnan: LOL!
@Asma: I’ll be waiting!
Ah, nice posts and thought provoking too.
As for prayers, I don’t remember the exact hadith, but for every prayer, one of three action happens:
1. You get what you ask for.
2. You don’t get what you ask for, but you get something else, or something bad that was going to happen to you, doesn’t happen.
3. You don’t get anything in this world, but your prayer is rewarded in after life.
Though, as the last one doesn’t change the fate in this world, so, I guess in the given scope you can say not all prayers are accepted.
BTW I don’t think I completely agree with “Islam ka Sadqa” part
If sadqa changes fate, then what you say means it was the fate of Islam (which Imam Husain changed) to vanish from earth in 61 AH?
first keyword stuffing in tags and now adsense ads wow! waisey your ad placement suck!
@Saad: The ad placement is automatic, by a plugin. Not my fault!
@Aqeeliz: There are various explanations for that. What I have presented is only one aspect of Karbala.
The events that led to Karbala were certainly going to lead to Islam’s demise. If you read history, you will learn why. There was an attack on the very ideology of Islam. If no one would have been there to defend it, Islam certainly would have died. But obviously, Imam Husain had other plans.
Rasoolullah (S.A.W.W.) came to this world to spread the message of Allah. That message needed to be protected and this duty fell on the shoulders of his son-in-law and grandsons. All three embraced martyrdom to fulfill this duty and protect Islam.
Now if you see the event of Karbala from the perspective that Imam Husain sacrificed himself and his family over Islam, it indeed appears to be Sadqa.
Welcome to my blog!
That is quite deep!
And I agree with sadaqa… it changes our fate. There is no doubt about it!
Welcome to my blog!
umm not ad position but ad selection you have put link ads between your content very bad!
And what’s wrong with that?
just put link ads near your navigation bar and put 468*60 ads at the end of your content
There’s a limit for ads. You can have 3 box ads and 3 link ads on any page. So I’ve kept my settings so as to have max ads!
I know… I only see 3 ads in total (2 link ads and one box) and believe me sidebar ads are useless the ads should be blended with the content
Scroll down and you’ll see the rest of the ads. I’ll customize these later man, don’t have time right now. GRE, remember?
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now this is a great post!
i call these miracles and a lot of the miracles happen literally every day wen we get help at time wen we are feeling completely helpless. ofcourse we are nothing compared to the great men you have talked about in the post but Allah (SWT) shows his signs to us in our everyday issues. As Allah (SWT) has said in the Qur’an, “Verily there are signs for those who believe”
“i call these miracles”
Now this is what leads to confusion in the English language!
Good good … the firs post was lame to pull up this thing :p
Apart from sadqa so many other things are involved too .. prayers one of the biggest companion, innit?
But nice post overall … post kay number pooray hain !
Thought the number of tags … 2 number cut gayay – for causing so much disruption to our eyes :p
LOL! Waise I’ve included prayers too above…
well need one or two more days for commenting, as doing some research on the topic………..dont want to leave a simple comment i think you will understand
No I don’t understand man. I’m gonna whoop your bloody a** red, why are you taking so much time?
