The word Allah

Why Muslims prefer to use the word Allah instead of the English word God or for that matter any other words used in any other language?

Allah is an Arabic word. It is derived from the word ilah or Elah. Which means "A thing (can be anything or anyone) or deity worthy of worship". In English it can be the word god. The plural of ilah is Aliyah. The feminine is ilahah.

In English there is a definite article called "The", in Arabic also there is a definite article called "Al". If you prefix a noun with Al it becomes definite. For example "Kitab" (Book) is a noun in Arabic. And if you prefix it with "Al" it becomes "Al-Kitab" which means "The book". It actually means a particular book.

Same way if you prefix Al to the word "ilah" of Arabic it becomes "Al-ilah". The letters of Arabic Alif, Laam, Hamza, Laam, Alif and Hai which make "Al-ilah". When the letter Hamza comes after the letter Laam the voice of Hamza is dropped. Resulting in "Al-lah". Then the two Laams geminate, making it sound "Allah".

So the word Allah in Arabic is nothing but, "The God". And the WORD Allah has no gender. There is no feminine word for Allah. There is no plural for the WORD Allah. As mentioned earlier, the word ilah is masculine and has feminine as well as plural word. But the word Allah is neither masculine nor feminine and has no plural. There can be neither prefix nor postfix to the word Allah. It is because of the grammar of Arabic.

Like if you add father to the word God, it becomes "God father". But you cannot add "Abi" (father) to the word Allah. It becomes meaningless even if you try to add, the whole grammar is lost.

Allah is a word used to refer God not just by Muslims. Even the Jews and Christian who speak Arabic use this word. Allah was the word used by people even before the Prophet Muhammad came.

So just in case you don’t know, Allah is not a Muslim God. The Muslims who refer Allah is not just the God of them. He is the God of everyone. He is the God of you and me. The One Who created the Heavens and the Earth.

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Better teach Humanity than going Green

Today as I was leaving from home to office in my Blue Pulsar bike. As usual I was cruising down the road. My heart always cries when I cross this main road where the construction of Bangalore Metro Rail is going on at the expense of thousands of green trees. After crossing this road there is one more road to cross which isn’t the main road but is normally busy because of the construction of the Metro Rail. I always slow down at this point and then proceed.

Today as I was slowing down I saw few people gathering on the other side of the road. I stopped for a while and wondered why the crowd? Then I saw a yellow Karizma bike lying on the road and just next to it as if touching the bike was the New Activa. I realized there was some sort of accident. Then I saw a person lifting a lady who was in her 20s, who was wearing a dark pink T-Shirt and a blue Jeans. The scene was as if she was dead. Her head was down, her hands had no strength. The person who was lifting could not lift her completely. Her legs were touching the ground but were not firm. Suddenly someone told to bring water.

I thought for a while should I go or wait and see what happens. I parked my bike and went there, where this entire scene was going on. At this time water was brought and was given to her. I do not know whether she drank it or not. The guy was still holding her in his both hands. The first thing I did was to check if she was breathing. And ya she was breathing and there was hope. An Auto Rickshaw was called and ready to take her to hospital. The guy was helpless, he could not lift her and nobody was even trying to help him. Then I went and caught the other hand of the girl and her leg and we both tried to lift her and take her in the Auto. Again it was difficult for both of us to put her into the Auto. I told the guy to get inside the Auto (Thinking that he might be related to her), he went inside but left hold of her, now I had to lift her alone into the Auto.
All were giving different instructions, but nobody even bothered to help. At last we could put her into the Auto. I don’t know who the guy was but he went with her to the hospital. The way his expressions were telling I think he was just another passerby. Might be he was having better humanity than me.

Then I made myself relaxed and was about to leave, I saw people gathering there again by the roadside. I was curious to see what the matter is. There I saw 2 elderly couples sitting on the pedestrian. They were having few bruises on their skin. By the discussions I came to know that the young couples hit this elderly couples. The elderly couples were coming from the cross road and these couples were coming from the other road. One Auto Rickshaw stopped making way for the elderly couples to go. The young couples who were speeding in the Karizma bike overtook this Auto from the left side not knowing that the elderly couple is coming on the Activa and hit them. Might be they were in a hurry.

From this incident I was wondering if people really have humanity in them or not. Nobody was ready to even give a hand to help. All were having strong hands and they are making no use of it to help anyone? The whole world is crying about GREEN GREEN. Instead of crying Green Green why can't they teach the whole world about Humanity? If Humanity is there people will be concerned about Green and how to save other humans or animals and how to save this planet! If there is no Humanity there is nothing you can do.

No Humanity? No Green!!!

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Vande Matharam and Islam

As usual after lunch I go to my afternoon prayers to a nearby mosque. But yesterday I was bit late in having my lunch and hence was late for the afternoon prayers. I reached the mosque only to see that the gates were locked. I was wondering where to go for the prayers. Then suddenly my mind said me that there is a small hall in the top floor of the nearby Mall named Forum. So I went there and had my prayers.
While I was returning I was gazing into the various show rooms in the Mall. Thought of going into Landmark just to see some books. I straight away went to the "Religion" section and started to flip a book on Islam. Within few seconds a person came near me and started telling-
"You seem to be a religious person and I feel you have some sound knowledge of Islam"
I kept mute. Then he continued asking-
"Is reciting Vande Matharam against the tenets of Islam?"
I again kept mute thinking that I saw this question somewhere. Later I realized it was a poll question asked by the Times of India newspaper. By seeing my question-marked-face he stated to behave as if he did a big mistake by asking me that question. He made a guilty face and was about to leave from that place. I interrupted him by telling-
"I am not a mufti or a person who has a sound knowledge of Islam to give Fatwas. But with the limited knowledge I have about Islam I will try to answer your question with a small Hadeeth of prophet Muhammed"
I asked him- "Do you know what Hadeeth is?" to this he replied in affirmative. So I dint had to explain him what a Hadeeth is? (To know what Hadeeth is you can check this link)
So I continued with the Hadeeth saying-
"Once the companions of Prophet Muhammed asked Prophet Muhammed that 'suppose if we happen to pass by some unknown place and suppose if the people of that place make us captive and keep their swords on our neck and tell us to say so and so is our Lord which is other than Allah what should we do?' to this Prophet replied 'to save your life you can say whatever they ask you to say'. For this again the companions asked Prophet 'if they ask us to bow in front of their deity?' to this the Prophet replied 'No, one cannot bow in front of anything or anyone except Allah - the Almighty'"
This is the end of the Hadeeth. I told him -  "Hope you understood the answer to your question from this Hadeeth?" His face was giving me answers that he was doubtful. So I continued -
"Look, Vande Matharam means to 'Bow to Mother', so if someone threatens a Muslim with life and asks him to say Vande Matharam, he can say so. As I am saying it in front of you, without the intention of doing it. But if one has his free will to say or not to say then he should not say such sentence whose actions are against the tenets of Islam. And if someone says a Muslim to Bow in front of the Mother India he should not do so even if he gets killed."
After listening carefully, he thanked me saying - "Thanks for the wonderful explanation, now I know why actually you people stick to your principals. Thanks once again"
To this I told - "Your welcome brother. This isn’t the end. Since India is a Democratic country, we have our individual rights to say it or not. Nobody can force anyone in this country to SAY a particular sentence. Whether he is a Muslim or a Hindu or a Christian or even if he does not believe in God. And since India is also a Secular country these kinds of sentences cannot be issued as a Law to say in public. And one cannot say that a person is an Indian only if he recites so and so words in front of everyone. So making an issue out of nothing is also not good for anyone. Not even for our Mother India."
For this he smiled and we shook our hands we introduced ourselves and departed.

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What is Islam

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Online Qur'an- Amazing Features

What an amazing site. It is an electronic Quran complete with meanings & with sound. You can access any chapter & any Sura from the drop down menus & also hear the recitation of the Suras' with the translation. Click on the "Play" button for sound (>)

http://www.quranexplorer.com/quran/

This is an ideal way to teach your children the Quran. Today they have no time or mind to sit down and learn the quran, Give them some thing electronic, they will be interested. 
May Allah also bless all those who kept forwarding this link and made it available for us. And please share it with others.

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"Caution: There is Another anti-Islamic Site" - by Khalid Baig

"Caution: There is Another anti-Islamic Site"
Why issuing an alert letter is precisely the wrong thing to do
"The most anti-Islamic site will die if it faces a frozen counter. That would happen if you just leave it alone. But if you are out there telling everyone about it and asking them to do the same, you are in effect volunteering as their publicity department."
By Khalid Baig, 7 December 2001

The alert letters keep coming. Beware here is the latest anti-Islamic site. Then a URL so you can verify that it is indeed as described. Then a passionate request to tell all the Muslims in the world about it.

Sincere. Misguided. Counter-productive.

Little do the senders realize that they are actually helping the very sites they are trying to fight.

The failure is in realizing that the Internet is a very different medium and the rules that applied to the previous media do not always apply here. If there is a bad magazine or book out there, you can tell others about it. We can be sure that nobody will rush to the closest bookseller to buy it. The warning may be useful, if there was a chance that some people could have bought the book out of ignorance.

In the click-click world of the Internet, the first thing most people will do is to click on the URL, thereby increasing the hit counts and boasting the morale of the site owners. Second, it will help it with search engine placement, as some of them will use the increased curiosity traffic as a sign of popularity. You just helped create the monster you wanted to fight!

It is common sense. If you don't want people to visit a site, just don't tell them about it.

It is very easy to setup a page on the Internet. It is very difficult to draw traffic to it. The most anti-Islamic site will die if it faces a frozen counter. That would happen if you just leave it alone. But if you are out there telling everyone about it and asking them to do the same, you are in effect volunteering as their publicity department. That is exactly what they need.

If there is a well-established site (like CNN) it makes sense to launch a protest campaign. But for most of the sites the prudent course is just the opposite. Leave it alone. Let it die of neglect. A natural death. The greater the lack of attention, the faster will be the death of this would be monster.

So the next time you receive an alert letter about an anti-Islamic site, just delete it. If you respond to the sender, do not include the original text of his alert email, because even that may help some search engine ranking.

There were dozens of anti-Islamic sites that sprang up recently but died soon after because, luckily, our enthusiasts had not noticed them and had not publicized them through their alert letters. The ones that receive the alert letter mention will, unfortunately, survive and may thrive.

On the Internet, the best use of your energies is to promote the good Islamic sites. Let the good drive out the evil.

Now, may we request that you send this article to all your friends?

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The Click-Click World

I got this mail stating that "The following sites are anti-Islamic so dont trust the contents of those sites. And please inform others not to do so and forward this to all". It wasn’t for the first time. I got such mails many times. I replied not to send such mails, but I repeatedly get such forwards. I dont know how to respond to such people.
What happens is, out of curiosity one happens to see such sites and look into the content to judge if it is really an anti-so-snd-so site. They dont know that indirectly they are contributing in spreading these sites (if at all they are anti-so-and-so) and making them popular.
Firstly, these sites get popular by sending to many people or users. Many people get to know about these sites. Secondly they dont know that each Click to that site gets counted and since the hit-count gets increased the site gets popular in the internet world. As the site gets popular by the increased hit-count it gets into the search sites. And if a person who happens to find about a particular thing, for example - about Islam, he may land up getting wrong information.
So it is better these kind of sites (if they are really anti-so-and-so) should be ignored and let them die their natural death.

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Hasbi Rabbi (Allah-hu Allah) Lyrics and Translation

O Allah the almighty
Allah-hu Allah
Protect me and guide me
Allah-hu Allah
To Your Love and Mercy
Allah-hu Allah
Ya Allah dont deprive me
Allah-hu Allah
From beholding Your Beauty
Allah-hu Allah
O My Lord accept this plea
Allah-hu Allah

Hasbi Rabbi Jallallah
Allah-hu Allah
Ma Fi Qalbi Ghayrullah
Allah-hu Allah

(My Lord Is Enough For Me, Glory Be To Allah
there Is Nothing In My Heart Except Allah)

Affeder Gunahi
Allah-hu Allah
Alemin Padisahi
Allah-hu Allah
Yureklerin Penahi
Allah-hu Allah
(He Is The Forgiver Of All Sins
He Is The King Of The Universe
He Is The Refuge Of All Hearts)

Isit Allah Derdimi, Bu Ahlarimi
Rahmeyle, Bagisla Gunahlarimi
Hayreyle Hem Aksam Hem Sabahlarimi

(O Allah Hear My Sorrows And My Sighs
have Mercy And Pardon My Sins
bless My Night And Days)

Wo Tanha Kaun Hai
Allah-hu Allah
Badshah Wo Kaun Hai
Allah-hu Allah
Meherban Wo Kaun Hai
Allah-hu Allah

(Who Is The Only One?
Who Is The King?
Who Is The Merciful?)

Kya Unchi Shaan Hai
Allah-hu Allah
Uskey Sab Nishaan Hai
Allah-hu Allah
Sab Dilon Ki Jaan Hai
Allah-hu Allah

(What a great Beauty He has?
Everything is His Sign
He's The Love Of Every Heart)

Ya Rabbal 'Alamin
Allah-hu Allah
Salli 'ala Tahal Amin
Allah-hu Allah
Fi Kulli Waqtin Wa Hin
Allah-hu Allah

(O Lord Of The Worlds
Send Peace And Blessings on Ta-Ha (Prophet Muhammed) The Trustworthy
In Every Time And At Every Instant)

Imla? Qalbi Bil Yaqin
Allah-hu Allah
Thabbitni 'ala Hadhad Din
Allah-hu Allah
Waghfir Li Wal Muslimin
Allah-hu Allah

(Fill My Heart With Conviction
Make Me Steadfast On This Religion
And Forgive Me And All The Believers)

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