Pray your Prayers on time

He remembered his grandmother's warning about praying on time:

'My son, you shouldn't leave prayer to this late time'.

His grandmother's age was 70 but, whenever she heard the Azhan, she got up like an arrow and performed Salat. He however could never win over his ego to get up and pray. Whatever he did, his Salat was always the last to be offered and he prayed it quickly to get it in on time.

Thinking of this, he got up and realized that there were only 15 minutes left before Salat-ul Isha. He quickly made Wudhu and performed Salat-ul Maghrib. While making Tasbih, he again remembered his grandmother and was embarrassed by how he had prayed.

His grandmother prayed with such tranquillity and peace.

He began making Doa and went down to make Sajdah and stayed like that for a while. He had been at work all day and was tired, very tired. He awoke abruptly to the sound of noise and shouting.

He was sweating profusely. He looked around. It was very crowded. Every direction he looked in was filled with people.

Some stood frozen looking around, some were running left and right and some were on their knees with their heads in their hands just waiting.

Pure fear and apprehension filled him as he realized where he was. His heart was about to burst.

It was the Day of Judgment.

When he was alive, he had heard many things about the questioning on the Day of Judgment, but that seemed so long ago. Could this be something his mind made up? No, the wait and the fear were so great that he could not have imagined this.

The interrogation was still going on.

He began moving frantically from people to people to ask if his name had been called. No one could answer him. All of a sudden his name was called and the crowd split into two and made a passageway for him.

Two angels grabbed his arms and led him forward. He walked with unknowing eyes through the crowd. The angels brought him to the center and left him there.

His head was bent down and his whole life was passing in front of his eyes like a movie. He opened his eyes but saw only another world. The people were all helping others. He saw his father running from one lecture to the other, spending his wealth in the way of Islam. His mother invited guests to their house and one table was being set while the other was being cleared.

He pleaded his case, 'I too was always on this path. I helped others. I spread the word of Allah. I performed my Salat. I fasted in the month of Ramadhan.'

'Whatever Allah ordered us to do, I did.'

'Whatever he ordered us not to do, I did not.'

He began to cry and think about how much he loved Allah. He knew that whatever he had done in life would be less than what Allah deserved and his only protector was Allah He was sweating like never before and was shaking all over. His eyes were fixed on the scale, waiting for the final decision. At last, the decision was made.

The two angels with sheets of paper in their hands, turned to the crowd.

His legs felt like they were going to collapse. He closed his eyes as they began
To read the names of those people who were to enter Jahannam.

His name was read first.

He fell on his knees and yelled that this couldn't be, 'How could I go to Jahannam? I served others all my life, I spread the word of Allah to others.'
His eyes had become blurry and he was shaking with sweat.

The two angels took him by the arms.

As his feet dragged, they went through the crowd and advanced toward the blazing flames of Jahannam. He was yelling and wondered if there was any person who was going to help him. He was yelling of all the good deeds he had done, how he had helped his father, his fasts, prayers, the Noble Qur'an that he read, he was asking if none of them would help him.

The Jahannam angels continued to drag him.

They had gotten closer to the Hellfire.

He looked back and these were his last pleas. Had not Rasulullah [SAW] said, 'How clean would a person be who bathes in a river five times a day, so too does the Salah performed five times cleanse someone of their sins?'

He began yelling, 'My prayers? My prayers? My prayers?'

The two angels did not stop, and they came to the edge of the abyss of Jahannam.

The flames of the fire were burning his face.

He looked back one last time, but his eyes were dry of hope and he had nothing left in him. One of the angels pushed him in.

He found himself in the air and falling towards the flames.

He had just fallen five or six feet when a hand grabbed him by the arm and pulled him back.

He lifted his head and saw an old man with a long white beard.

He wiped some dust off himself and asked him, 'Who are you?'

The old man replied, 'I am your prayers.'

'Why are you so late?! I was almost in the Fire! You rescued me at the last minute before I fell in.'

The old man smiled and shook his head, 'You always performed me at the last minute, did you forget?'

At that instant, he blinked and lifted his head from Sajdah. He was in a sweat. He listened to the voices coming from outside.

He heard the Adhan for Salat-ul Isha.

He got up quickly and went to perform Wudhu.

Maybe, you can help someone open their eyes.

And who knows?

Maybe, this is a good deed that can help you during The Day of Judgment. (INSHA-ALLAH)

Have Faith In Allah

The only survivor of a ship wreck was washed up

on a small, un-inhabited island. He prayed feverishly

for Allah to save him, & every day he scanned
the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.

Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut

out of driftwood of ship to protect him from the elements,

& to store his few possessions.

But then one day, after scavenging for food, he arrived

home & find his little hut in flames, the smoke rolling up

to the sky. The worst had happened; everything was lost.

He was stunned with grief & anger. "ohhh……… allah, how

Could you do this to me……!" he cried a lot whole night &

with shivering went to sleep below the open sky.

Early the next day, however, he was awakened by the

sound of a ship that was approaching the island.

It had come to rescue him.

"How did you know I was here?" asked the weary man

of his rescuers.
"We saw your smoke signal," they replied.

Moral of the story :
It is easy to get discouraged when things are going bad.

But we shouldn't lose heart, because Allah is at work in

our lives, even in the midst of pain & suffering…………

Remember, next time when your little hut is burning

to the ground----it just may be a smoke signal…..,

that summons the grace of Allah…...

The most important thing in any prayer is not –

what we say to Allah….....,but what Allah replies to us.

We are about to pray & then hurry up to go away..

Without giving Allah, chance to answer our queries…….

So don’t loose Hope.....Have Faith in Allah.....

& Be Positive always, Just try & work hard,

you will definitely succeed in making……

ur dreams come true one day

Two Rivers

Above shown Photos are of the two rivers flowing in southern part near Cape Town , South Africa.

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These rivers flow together and there nature came to know in the starting of 20th century where as ALLAH (SWT)mentioned the nature of these two rivers in Holy Quran around 1400years Back.

These two river flow together and finally settle down in the Ocean,taste of one river is extremely sweet whereas the taste of another river is extremely opposite (that is bitter) but they never mix.There is nothing in between these rivers which stops them from mixing together but its is the will & order of ALLAH (SWT)

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Give a copy of quraan to someone and each time they read from it, you will gain hasanaat

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Donate a wheel chair to a hospital and time a sick person uses it, you will gain hasanaat

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Plant a tree. Each time any person or an animal sits under its shade or eats from the tree, you will gain hasanaat

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MAKKAH'S WATER OF BENISON - ZamZam

In 1971, an Egyptian doctor wrote to the European Press, a letter
saying that aab-i-Zumzum was not fit for drinking purposes. I
immediately thought that this was just a form of prejudice against
the Muslims and that since his statement was based on the
assumption, that since the Khaan-i-Ka'aba was a shallow place (below
sea level) and located in the centre of the city of Makkah, all the
waste water of the city collecting through the drains fell into well
holding the water.

Fortunately, the news came to Shah Faisal's ears who got extremely
angry and decided to disprove the Egyptian doctor's provocative
statement. He immediately ordered the Ministry of Agriculture and
Water Resources to investigate and send samples of aab-i-Zumzum to
European laboratories for testing the pot-ability of the water. The
ministry then instructed the Jeddah Power and Desalination Plants to
carry out this task. It was here that I was employed as a de-salting
engineer (chemical engineer to produce drinking water from sea
water). I was chosen to carry out this assignment.

At this stage, I remember that I had no idea what the well holding
the water looked like.

I went to Makkah and reported to the authorities at the Khaan-i-
Ka'aba explaining my purpose of visit. They deputed a man to give me
whatever help was required. When we reached the well, it was hard
for me to believe that a pool of water, more like a small pond,
about 18 by 14 feet, was the well that supplied millions of gallons
of water every year to hajjis ever since it came into existence at
the time of Hazrat Ibrahim, many, many centuries ago. I started my
investigations and took the dimensions of the well. I asked the man
to show me the depth of the well.

First he took a shower and descended into the water. Then he
straightened his body. I saw that the water level came up to just
above his shoulders. His height was around five feet, eight
inches.He then started moving from one corner to the other in the
well (standing all the while since he was not allowed to dip his
head into the water) in search of any inlet or pipeline inside the
well to see from where the water came in. However, the man reported
that he could not find any inlet or pipeline inside the well.

I thought of another idea. The water could be withdrawn rapidly with
the help of a big transfer pump which was installed at the well for
the aab-i-Zumzum storage tanks. In this way, the water level would
drop enabling us to locate the point of entry of the water.
Surprisingly, nothing was observed during the pumping period, but I
knew that this was the only method by which you could find the
entrance of the water to the well. So I decided to repeat the
process. But this time I instructed the man to stand still at one
place and carefully observe any unusual thing happening inside the
well.

After a while, he suddenly raised his hands and
shouted,"Alhamdolli llah! I have found it. The sand is dancing
beneath my feet as the water oozes out of the bed of the well." Then
he moved around the well during the pumping period and noticed the
same phenomenon everywhere in the well.

Actually the flow of water into the well through the bed was equal
at every point, thus keeping the level of the water steady.

After I finished my observations I took the samples of the water for
European laboratories to test. Before I left the Khaan-i-Ka'aba, I
asked the authorities about the other wells around Makkah. I was
told that these wells were mostly dry. When I reached my office in
Jeddah I reported my findings to my boss who listened with great
interest but made a very irrational comment that the Zumzum well
could be internally connected to the Red Sea.How was it possible
when Makkah is about 75 kilometres away from the sea and the wells
located before the city usually remain dry? The results of the water
samples tested by the European laboratories and the one we analysed
in our own laboratory were found to be almost identical.

The difference between aab-i-Zumzum and other water (city water) was
in the quantity of calcium and magnesium salts. The content of these
was slightly higher in aab-i-Zumzum. This may be why this water
refreshes tired hajjis, but more significantly, the water contains
fluorides that have an effective germicidal action. Moreover, the
remarks of the European laboratories showed that the water was fit
for drinking. Hence the statement made by the Egyptian doctor was
proved false.

When this was reported to Shah Faisal he was extremely pleased and
ordered the contradiction of the report in the European Press. In a
way, it was a blessing that this study was undertaken to show the
chemical composition of the water. In fact, the more you explore,
the more wonders surface and you find yourself believing implicitly
in the miracles of this water that God bestowed as a gift on the
faithfuls coming from far and wide to the desert land for pilgrimage.

Let me sum up some of the features of aab-i-Zumzum.

* This well has never dried up. On the contrary it has always
fulfilled the demand for water.

* It has always maintained the same salt composition and taste ever
since it came into existence.

* Its potability has always been universally recognised as pilgrims
from all over the world visit Khaan-i-Ka'aba every year for hajj and
umrah, but have never complained about it. Instead, they have always
enjoyed the water that refreshes them.

* Water tastes different at different places.

* Aab-i-Zumzum' s appeal has always been universal.

* This water has never been chemically treated or chlorinated as is
the case with water pumped into the cities.

* Biological growth and vegetation usually takes place in most
wells. This makes the water unpalatable owing to the growth of algae
causing taste and odour problems. But in the case of the aab-i-
Zumzum well there wasn't any sign of biological growth.

* Centuries ago, Bibi Hajra searched desperately for water in the
hills of Sufwa and Murwa to give to her newly-born son Hazrat
Ismail. As she ran from one place to another in search of water, her
child rubbed his feet against the sand. A pool of water surfaced,
and by the grace of God, shaped itself into a well which came to be
called aab-i-Zumzum.