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Sunday, September 9, 2012

A Real Story

Several years ago an Imaam moved to London. He often took the bus
fromhis home to the downtown area. Some weeks after he arrived, he had
occasion to ride the same bus.
When he sat down, he discovered that the conductor had
accidentallygiven him twenty pence too much change. As he considered
what to do, he thought to himself, "I better give the twenty pence
back. It would be wrong to keep it."
Then he thought:
"Oh why don't I just forgetit.., it's only twenty pence.
Who would worry about this little amount? Anyway, the bus company
already gets too much fare; they will never miss it. I will just
accept it as a gift from Almighty Allah and keep quiet!"
When his stop came, the Imaam paused momentarily at the door, and then
he handed the twenty pence back to the conductor and said,
"Here, you gave me too much change."
The conductor smiled and said:
"Aren't you the new Imaam in this area? I have been thinking lately
about going to worship at your mosque. I just wanted to see what you
would do if Igave you too much change."
When the Imaam got down the bus, his knees became weak and soft. He
had to grab the nearest light pole. He held for support, and looked up
to the heavens and cried,
"Oh Allah, I almost sold Islam for twenty pence!"
REMEMBER!
We may never see the impact our actions have onpeople!!
Sometimes we are the only knowledge of Quran someone will read..,
or the only Islam a non-Muslim will see!
What we need to provide, Insha Allah is an example for others to see!
Let us be careful, be honest and humble everyday, because we never
know who is watching our actions and judging us as Muslims!! Wemight
be saying something and doing something contrary to what we say...Are
we really showing the world the real characteristics andspectacular
qualities of a true believer?
Let us atleast remember atall times -
Allah is watching us! And He is going to ask us if we delivered His
message or not!
To conclude...let us just picture a hypothetical scene:
""If we got arrested for being Muslims, would the police have enough
evidence to bring us in?!!""
THINK ABOUT IT!!!

2a] Why do defenders of creation who say the earth is 4.5 billion years old disturb Darwinists so much?

2a]
but thatchallenge has not been taken up by Darwinist circles, either.
The reason for this is that Darwinists themselves they have been
defeated in the face of Adnan Oktar, or rather in the face of our
Lord's sublime Creation. Darwinists no longer havea single false means
of defending this ruined and disgraced theory. Darwinists never of
coursedreamed that the 21st century would be one of such a defeat for
them, and now they are unwillingly watching this hug collapse take
place.
Our Almighty Lord says in one verse:
Glory be to the Lord of the heavens and the earth, the Lord of the
Throne, beyond what they describe. (Surat az-Zukhruf, 82)
Adnan Oktar's Views on the Subject from His Interviews
FROM MR. ADNAN OKTAR'S CRIMEAN NEWSPAPERS INTERVIEW (14 November 2008)
ADNAN OKTAR: This subject is of course one that Darwinists wanted
touse against Muslims, though one on which they were badly mistaken.
It is true that Christians and Muslims espouse this, but in the
Qur'an, Allah says that time is relative. In other words, Almighty
Allah says that one day for us isdifferent to a day for Allah. We
perceive His dayas an age. In other words, six ages. This may be 20
billion years in the sight of Allah, or 15 billion years, or anything
else, depending. In other words, Allah left it for us to investigate.
But He saysthere are specific years in His sight. But that we must
investigate and find the years He is referring to. But Christians and
Jewsgive a very specific date, the classic 6000 years we are familiar
with. And thathas played right into Darwinists' hands. Darwinists said
this has nothing to do with science at all, nor even belief, and that
these people were on entirely the wrong path. But then they found
themselves facing Harun Yahya. He said: "Come to your senses, 100
million fossils have been unearthed, 100million." They have never
changed, frogs are still frogs, cats are cats and dogs are dogs. They
are all the same. They are likephotocopies. There are nochanges. First
you have toaccount for that. How could 100 million fossils be
unchanged? But we heard not a sound.
Now, can you produce a single piece of evidence tostrengthen and
corroborate your claims? In order to encourage them I said I would
give areward of 10 trillion Turkish lira. You produce just one
transitional fossil,just one that corroboratesDarwin's claim. Again,
not a peep. Because they themselves know perfectly well that their is
a wretched and mendacious theory. But when they saw there was someone
they could not deceive, they panicked. Tens of thousands of them all
panicked. France, Germany and Denmark rose up. I will show you
statements from the foreign press in a while. There is an air of total
panic. They imagined there was no opposition and that they could do
what they liked. But then I stood up and they panicked ... They were
easily able to stand up to Christianity. They were easily able to ride
roughshod over Christian priests and the like. Because they really
could not have come up with powerful ideas. Their ideas were very
weak. If you say the Earth was created in six days, you have already
lost. Is 6000 years at all possible? Looked at in technical terms, is
6000 years the slightest bit possible? Living things have been turned
into stone. Can that happen in just 6000 years? They have been
petrified, turned into rock.But, thanks be to Allah, I have revealed
everything they kept hidden. For one thing, concealing fossils has
come to an end. Therehave been fossil exhibitions all over Istanbul
and all over Turkey. That stratagem is now over. They have beenheld in
America and elsewhere. It is so delightful to expose their deceptions,
to demolish their false pride. By Allah'sleave there can be no escape
for them from me now. I mean, I will hound them wherever they go.
FROM MR. ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TV KAYSERI, SAMSUN AKS TV AND
GAZIANTEP OLAY TV (11 November 2009)
ADNAN OKTAR: Jews, Christians and our Muslim brothers all gave up in
theface of Darwinism. They say the universe is just 6000 years old.
And that puts an end to it right there. Because there are petrified
fossils. These are obviously millions of years old, not 6000. The
moment you say 6000 years, you are defeated. They will chew you up and
spit you out. There were Creationists in America, but Darwinists were
easily able to rout them. Because the moment you talk about 6000
years, you have had it. They put a bit of stone before you. How can
that be 6000 years old? But they collapsed when I took a deep breath
and stood up against them like Battal Gazi. They werestunned.
:->

2] Why do defenders of creation who say the earth is 4.5 billion years old disturb Darwinists so much?

2]
Christian defenders of Creation have for years been claiming that the
Earth is 6000 years old. Darwinists, who imaginedthat this played
right into their hands, have recently been dealt a new body blow.
Adnan Oktar's (Harun Yahya) stating in his works that the data show
that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old and his showing, with
supporting evidence, that the life on it is the work of Almighty
Allah, was one of the heaviest blows dealt to Darwinism.
Conferences on evolution held recently by world famous Darwinist
professors have all been built on this huge defeat. For years,
Darwinists regarded the "6000-year-old Earth" claim as one they could
easily digest with the fossils dating back millions of years in their
possession. They claimed that the defendants of Creation were defeated
right from that point. This claim was heralded as one of the greatest
proofs confirming the truth of Darwinist fraud. Christian Creationists
who maintainthat the Earth is 6000 years old are defeated themoment
they make such a statement, no matter how powerful the evidence they
possess against Darwinism. Indeed, these claims have led to the
scientific facts they brought up against evolution not being evaluated
properly. Because the idea of "6000years" conflicts with the
scientific facts. It is because of this huge inconsistency that
certain Christian Creationists in Europe and America have always been
unsuccessful and passive.
Christian Creationists accept this statement as itis in the Gospel
while making no interpretation of it. But the fact is that, analyzed
on the basis of the proofs of Creation on Earth, the reference to an
Earth of 6000 years is used in a very different sense. Creation in six
days also appears in the Qur'an:
Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens andthe earth in six days
andthen settled Himself firmly on the Throne... (Surat Al-A'raf, 54)
He directs the whole affair from heaven to earth. Then it will again
ascend to Him on a Day whose length is a thousand years by the way you
measure. (Surat as-Sajda, 5)
Taking the reference to six days in the one verse together with the
idea that one day is a thousand year from the other verse, the result
is a reference to the Earth having a life of 6000 years. But what
needs to be considered here is not the literal meanings of these
expressions, but their deeper and figurative ones. Because the
reference that our Lord makes to Creation in six days actually stands
for "periods." Bearing in mind the relativity of timeand the speed at
which time has passed since the Big Bang to make a calculation, the
reference to 6 days in the verse in fact points to a period of
billions of years. Calculating every day of Creation in terms of Earth
time, the following picture emerges:
Looked at in terms of since time began, the 1st day (1st age) of
Creation lasted 24 hours. But this equals 8 billion years in terms of
how we perceivetime on Earth.
• The 2nd day of Creation(2nd age) lasted 24 hours.But this lasted
half as longas the previous day, according to our perception of time.
In other words, 4 billion years.
• The 3rd day (3 rd age) lasted half as long as the second. In other
words, 2 billion years.
• The 4th day (4 th age) lasted 1 billion years.
• The 5th day (5 th age) lasted 500 million years.
• And the 6th day (6th age) lasted 250 million years.
• Conclusion: The six days,or six ages, of Creation, added up together
in terms of Earth time, produce a total of 15.75 billion years. This
figure is in agreement with modern estimations which show that the age
of the universe is approximately 15 billion years .
(You can find a more detailed statement on thesubject here .)
Darwinists Are Unable toOppose Adnan Oktar
As we summarize here in brief, the Creation in six days that Allah
reveals in the Holy Books gives the age of the universe that we
already know scientifically. In the light of this, the intellectual
struggle against Darwinism waged with fossils dating back millions of
years has stunned Darwinists. Not a single Darwinist is at present
able to stand up and oppose Adnan Oktar, who has shown the whole world
scientific proof that Creation is an absolute reality. They are unable
to issue any statements against it, andare quite unable to defend the
illogical accounts they used to supply.
Adnan Oktar's invitations to face-to-face debates with world renowned
Darwinists have so far gone unanswered. Because all Darwinists are
very well aware that Adnan Oktar will beat them. Adnan Oktar has also
frequently reiterated his offer of giving a large reward to anyone
producing a single transitional fossil,
:->

Mullah Nasruddin

One day Nasruddin went to a banquet. As he was dressed rather
shabbily, no one let him in. So he ran home, put on his best robe and
fur coat and returned. Immediately, the host came over, greeted him
and ushered him to the head of an elaborate banquet table. When the
food was served, Nasruddin took some soup with spoon and pushed it to
the his fur coat and said, - Eat my fur coat, eat! It's obvious that
you're the real guest of honor today, not me!
One hot day, Nasruddin was taking it easy in the shade of a walnut
tree. After a time, he started eying speculatively, the huge pumpkins
growingon vines and the small walnuts growing on a majestic tree.
- Sometimes I just can't understand the ways of God! he mused. Just
fancy letting tinny walnuts grow on so majestic a tree and
hugepumpkins on the delicate vines!
Just then a walnut snapped off and fell smack on Mullah Nasruddin's
bald head. He got up at once and lifting up his hands and face to
heavens in supplication, said:
- Oh, my God! Forgive myquestioning your ways! You are all-wise. Where
would I have been now, if pumpkins grew on trees!
At a gathering where Mullah Nasruddin was present, people were
discussing the merits of youth and old age. They had all agreed that,
a man's strength decreases as years go by.Mullah Nasruddin dissented.
- I don't agree with you gentlemen, he said. In my old age I have the
same strength as I had inthe prime of my youth.
- How do you mean, Mullah Nasruddin? askedsomebody. Explain yourself.
- In my courtyard, explained Mullah Nasruddin, there is a massive
stone. In my youth I used to try and lift it. I never succeeded.
Neither can I lift it now.

1a] Are We Truly Believers?

1a]
Every sin we commit delays the arrival of Allah'sVictory . Every Salah
we delay extends the incarceration of a captive at Guantanamo Bay .
Everydrug we take allows another Quran to be flushed down the toilet.
Every hour we waste watching TV allows another Muslim to be kidnapped
and extradited into the hands of savage beasts. Every time we gazeat
something forbidden, we place an obstacle in the path of Allah's
Victory. A sin is not a 'private matter between me and Allah' but one
sin can make the difference between victory and defeat. Every sin we
commit is one more reason why Allah should not grant us relief,
safetyand victory.
Allah has made us a Promise in the aforementioned verse: "So do not
weaken and do notgrieve, for you will indeed be superior if you are
trulybelievers." He promises us relief, assistance, superiority and
victory on the condition that we are true believers. If we suffer
defeats today then it does not mean that Allah's Promise is false.
Instead, the question we must ask ourselves is: are we truly
believers?

1] Are We Truly Believers?

1]
"So do not weaken and do not grieve, for you will indeed be superior
if you are truly believers." [Al-Quran 3:139]
This verse was revealed to the Messenger (salallahu'alayhe was salam)
by Allah The Almighty from above the Seven Heavens, soon after the
Muslims suffered a defeat in the Battle of Uhud and returned to
Al-Madinah dejected and downtrodden. It was revealed as an
encouragement to the believers after a victory that was in their
grasp, was snatched away from them and turned into a defeat. And why
should the Companions not have felt devastated at this defeat?
Seventy of the best human beings on Earth at the time were killed and
countless otherswere injured. Even the Messenger himself was
seriously wounded until blood flowed from his faceand he said in great
anguish whilst wiping the blood from his noble cheeks: "Allah's Wrath
is Great upon the people who besmeared His Messenger's face with
blood."
However, this defeat was only a temporary setback so that the
believers could reflect upon the reasons for the defeat, described
insuccessive verses of Surah Ali-Imran. The mistakes and sins of a few
believers had deprived the whole army of victory.
When Umar bin Al-Khattab (radiallahu 'anh) despatched the army of Saad
bin Abi Waqqas (radiallahu 'anh) to the Battle of Al-Qadisiyyah, he
advised him:
"Fear your sins more than you fear the enemy as your sins are more
dangerous to you than your enemy. We Muslims are only victorious over
our enemy because their sins outnumber ours, not for any other reason.
If oursins were equal to those ofour enemy, then they would defeat us
due to their superior numbers and resources."
And so Saad proceeded to fight the Persians and, sticking to the
advice of his leader, he imprisoned the alcoholic Abu Mahjan
Ath-Thaqafi lest his presence in the army delays the victory. Until,
Abu Mahjan lamented in his shackles and composedverses of poetry that
touched the wife of Saad to temporarily release himso that he could
participate in the battle with his brothers. Abu Mahjan thus went out
riding the horse of Saad (as Saad was bedridden with fever) and
performedunmatched feats of valour before returning to his cellin the
evening and wearing his shackles back by himself. This continued for
three days until, when Saad found out about the heroics of Abu
Mahjan, he untied his shackles with the words: "By Allah! I will never
imprison you again for drinking alcohol!" Uponthis, Abu Mahjan
replied, "By Allah! I will never again touch alcohol after this day!"
The army was victorious and Saad appointed the ascetic Companion
Salman Al-Farsi (radiallahu 'anh) asthe new ruler of Persia , who
lived on a meagre salary of one dirham per day.
Victory and defeat, gains and losses, and successes and setbacks are
not decided by money, resources, numbers or skills. Rather,they are
decided by the balance of obedience and disobedience of Allah The
Exalted. The more we obey Allah, both individually and collectively,
the more wehasten His Victory. The more we disobey Allah, the more we
delay the arrival of His Victory. One Muslim's sins can delay the
victory for everyone.
It is very easy to blame Bush and Blair, the 'West', the 'kuffar' or
simply 'them' for all our woes andworries. But it is not so easy to
look in the mirror and point the finger at ourselves.
Look at us and our pathetic state. We have abandoned Salah or we delay
it or rush through it. We are too stingy to give Zakah, let alone
optional charity. We prefer to go onholiday than to go for the
obligatory Hajj. We drink alcohol, we use and supplydrugs (Muslims are
amongst the biggest suppliers of drugs in the world today), we cohabit
outside wedlock, we steal, we cheat. We eat haram, earn haram and sell
haram. We beat our wives and force our daughters into marriages then
use Islam to justify it. We are quick to spend on fashion and luxuries
but slow to spend on orphans and the needy. We fail to utter a single
word, let alone raisea finger, when we see our fellow Muslims
imprisoned, tortured, house-arrested, extradited or slain for fear of
being 'linked' to them. We waste our lives watching television and
playing computer games then complain that we don't have enough time
tobecome better Muslims. We are too addicted to music to find time to
listento or memorise the Quran. We are too busy in fun and games to
fulfil our responsibilities as vicegerents on Allah's Earth. And after
all this (and more), we have the audacity to wonder why Allah's
Victory has not yet arrived. With our paltry state, we should more
likely expect Allah's Wrath and Punishment rather than His Victory.
:->

“and then they would weep.”

'Ataa. said:
'Umar ibn 'Abdul-'Aziz usedto gather the fuqahaa every night and they
would all remember death, the Day of Judgment and the Hereafter and
then they would weep.
Siyar a'laam an-Nubalaa'

and Allah returned back her sight.

Sa'd bin Ibraheem said:"Zinneerah was a roman slave and became a
muslimah. The mushrikeentortured her until she lost her sight because
of the severe torture. The mushrikeen said ' al laat and 'uzzah took
her sight '". She said, "I disbelieve in al-laat wal 'uzzah" and Allah
returned back her sight.
In another narration: "Abu Bakr radiallahu 'anh freed Zinneerah from
slavery and she lost her sight when she was freed. Quraysh said: 'It's
only laatand 'uzzah that took her sight'. She said, 'By Allah they
have lied, al-laat wal 'uzzah neither harm or benefit', and Allah
returned back her sight"
['Al-'Isabah fee tamyeez as-Sahabah', by Ibn hajar al-'Asqalani]

Afraid?

Samarkand says that the person who does one good deed should be weary
of four things (imagine what a person who commits a sin should be
afraid of!) :
*. The fear of not being accepted because Allah says:
'Allah only accepts from those who fear.' [Maidah:27]
*. The fear of showing off, for Allah says:
'They have been instructed to worship Allah sincerely; religion isfor
him Alone.' [Bayinah: 5]
*. The fear of preserving the good deed because Allah says:
'Whoever brings a good deed shall have ten times its reward.' [An`am: 160]
*. The fear of being deserted in performing good deeds, for Allah says:
'And my guidance cannotcome except from Allah, in Him I trust and unto
Him I repent' [Hud: 88]

Angels Making Du’a’ For YOU!

The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said, "The supplication of
a Muslim for his brother in his absence will certainly be answered.
Everytime he makes a supplication for good for his brother, the angel
appointed for this particular task says: `Ameen! May it be for you,
too'." [Muslim].
One of the scholars wrote "In this hadith there is a point of benefit
to be obtained and that is: if your du'a' is responded to because your
brother is absent from you, then we hope that the angel's du'a'for you
will also be responded to because you are absent from the angel!"
Thus, I ask you to make du'a' for the forgiveness ofmy many sins,
[those that are great and those that are small, the first and the
last, and those that are apparent and those that are hidden] and know
thatin return the noble angels will make the same du'a' for you .

Prophet Yusuf meets his brothers

As Prophet Yusuf (alayhis salam) had predicted, seven years of famine
followed seven years of good harvest, but the storehouses of Egypt
were full because of Prophet Yusuf's skillful management. People
fromall over flocked to Egypt tobuy grain during the famine. Among
them wereProphet Yusuf's (alayhis salam) brothers.
Prophet Yusuf (alayhis salam) knew his brothers at once but they did
not recognize him. He gave them the grain which theyhad come to buy
but warned them that they would get no more unless they brought a
brother of theirs to him from their father. They agreed that they
would try to convincetheir father to let them take their younger
brotherwith them the next time they came. Then Prophet Yusuf (alayhis
salam) had his servants put their money which they had used to
purchase the grainback into the saddlebags of their camels so that
they would find it when they returned home and would be sure to return
for more grain when they saw how generously Prophet Yusuf (alayhis
salam) had treated them.
Ya'qub (alayhis salam), who still felt deeply the loss of his son
Prophet Yusuf (alayhis salam), was reluctant to let the brothers take
his other young son. He made them pledge in the name of Allah that
they would bring him back home unless they were made physically
powerless to do so. He also cautioned themto enter the city in Egypt
by different gates, perhapsso they wouldn't look like a gang of
troublemakers. However, he knew that their fate depended on Allah's
will and no precautions could go against what was willed by Allah.
When the brothers had returned to Prophet Yusuf (alayhis salam) for
more provisions, Prophet Yusuf (alayhis salam) lodged his younger
brother with himself, and revealed his identity to him. But he hadto
think of a way in which to keep his younger brother with him when the
others returned home. Allah inspired him with thefollowing plan.
When the brothers' camelshad been loaded with grain, Prophet Yusuf
(alayhis salam) had a cup placed in his younger brother's saddlebag.
Then a cry was raised that someone had stolen the king's cup. The
brothers denied that they had stolen anything. When asked what should
happenif it were to prove otherwise, they said that they would hand
over the person in whose possession the cup was found. A search of the
saddlebags revealed the cup in the younger brother's bag. Then the
bigbrothers said that it wasn'treally surprising, because the boy's
brother (i.e. Prophet Yusuf (alayhis salam)) had also been a thief.
But still Prophet Yusuf (alayhis salam) did not reveal his identity to
them. The brothers asked that one of them be allowed to stay in the
younger brother's place, sothat their father would notgrieve, but
Prophet Yusuf (alayhis salam) replied thatit would be unjust to keep
back anyone except him inwhose possession the cup had been.
The brothers returned to their father with the story of the theft, and
his eyes turned white with grief from suppressing his sorrow. He sent
them away to search for ProphetYusuf (alayhis salam) and his brother,
so they returned to Prophet Yusuf (alayhis salam) and asked for more
grain, although they had but little money left. Then Prophet Yusuf
(alayhis salam) revealed his identity to them and forgave them and
asked Allah's forgiveness for all the wrong they had done to him and
his brother. Then he gave them his shirt to place over his father's
face to recover his sight. He told them to go home and return to Egypt
with all of their families.
Prophet Yusuf reunited with his family
As their caravan was leaving Egypt, Ya'qub (alayhis salam), still at
home, smelled the perfume of Prophet Yusuf (alayhis salam), but his
household said he was getting senile. When the caravan arrived home
withthe shirt, Ya'qub's (alayhis salam) sight was restored. Then the
entire family moved to Egypt. Prophet Yusuf (alayhis salam) raised his
parents up on the throne to sit with him and they all bowed down in
obedience to him. In this way, Prophet Yusuf's (alayhis salam)
childhood vision of the eleven planets and the sun and the moon
prostrating themselves before him came true. This is how the
Israelites came to settle in Egypt and lived there for many
generations. The entire story of Prophet Yusuf (alayhis salam) can be
found in Surah 12 of the Qur'an.

7a] Prophet Yusuf 2

7a]
When the king was told of this interpretation, he asked that Yusuf
(Alayhis salam) be brought to him from the prison. But Yusuf (Alayhis
salam) would not leave until his name had been cleared. The king
summoned all the women and they told him that Yusuf (Alayhis salam)
had done nothing wrong. The wife of the chief who had pursued Yusuf
(Alayhis salam) confessed that it was she who had been at fault. When
Yusuf (Alayhis salam) was released, he was relieved that everyone now
knew that he had done nothing deceitful. And he was grateful to Allah
for forgiving any evil thoughtswhich he might have had.
The king called Yusuf (Alayhis salam) to him, and, after they had
spokentogether for some time, the king was so impressed that he wanted
to bestow on Yusuf (Alayhis salam) a position of trust . Yusuf
suggested that he be placed in charge of all the storehouses in the
land, for he felt confident of his ability to administer them wisely.
Thus Allah rewarded Yusuf. He had risen from servantand prisoner to a
very powerful position in the land of Egypt.
To be continued.

7] Prophet Yusuf 2

7]
The Egyptian who bought Yusuf (Alayhis salam) from the caravan gave
him a position of responsibility in his household. As Yusuf (Alayhis
salam) grew to full manhood he became extremely handsome and the wife
of his master fell hopelessly in love with him. One day, when she was
alone in a room with him, she approached him with sinful intentions.
As he attempted to flee from the room to avoid her advances, she
grabbed his shirt from behind and tore it.
At the door of the room they ran into the master ofthe household, who
demanded to know what was happening. The wife accused Yusuf of chasing
her and Yusuf denied it. One of the members of thehousehold suggested
a way to determine who was telling the truth. If Yusuf's (Alayhis
salam) shirt was torn in the front, then the wife had been resisting
Yusuf (Alayhis salam). But if the shirt were torn in the back, thenthe
wife had been pursuing Yusuf (Alayhis salam). Since the shirt had been
torn from behind, Yusuf (Alayhis salam) was shown to be telling the
truth.
The master told him to take no further notice of the matter, and he
reprimanded his wife for having done something wrong.
Despite the husband's attempt to hush up the whole affair, gossip was
soon spreading throughout the city that the wife had fallen in love
with her servant. When she heard the malicious talk, the wife invited
all the women of the town toa meal and gave each of them a knife to
use. She then called Yusuf (Alayhis salam) into the room. All the
women were so overcome by the sight of the handsome young man that
they cut their hands with the knives which theyheld. In this way the
mistress of the house showed them why she hadsought Yusuf (Alayhis
salam) and she vowed thatif he did not yield to her wishes she would
have him imprisoned.
Yusuf (Alayhis salam) was an upright young man, and with the help of
Allah he had been able to resist the advances of any woman. But he
realized the weakness of his human nature and he knew that if so many
women were pursuing him, he might very well yield to temptation. And
so he prayed to Allah that he would rather be imprisoned than accept
any of their invitations, but he needed Allah's help to turn away
their attentions. And Allah heardhis plea and turned their attentions
from him.
But the men of the city, although acknowledging Yusuf's (Alayhis
salam) innocence, feared the commotion which his presence caused, and
thus decided to have him imprisoned. There Yusuf (Alayhis salam)
remained for several years.
Two other young men entered the prison at about the same time as Yusuf
(Alayhis salam). While in prison each of thetwo men had a dream. One
dreamed that he was pressing grapes; the other that he was carrying
breadon his head from which the birds were eating. Eachwas puzzled
about the meaning of his dream, andasked Yusuf (Alayhis salam) if he
could interpretit.
Yusuf (Alayhis salam) promised to interpret their dreams before their
next meal was brought to them, but while he had their attention, he
took advantage of the opportunity to perform some dawa. He told them
about the supremacy of Allah and about belief in the Hereafter. He
told them about the futility of worshipping gods other than Allah. He
told them ofthe right religion about which many people do notknow.
Only after he had given hismessage about Islam did he interpret the
dreams. He said that the man who had dreamed that he was pressing
grapes would be released and would be serving wine to his master,while
the other man would be executed and the birds would eat from off his
head. It happened as Yusuf (Alayhis salam) had foretold, and Yusuf
(Alayhis salam) asked the man who was released to mention Yusuf
(Alayhis salam) to his master, in order that Yusuf (Alayhis salam)
might also be released. But the man forgot and Yusuf (Alayhis salam)
stayed in prison for a few more years.
The king of Egypt then hada dream, in which he saw seven fat cattle
being devoured by seven lean cattle. He also saw seven green ears of
corn and seven withered ears. None of the chiefs in his court could
interpret the dream for him. At this point the king's servant, who had
been Yusuf's (Alayhis salam) cell mate, remembered Yusuf's (Alayhis
salam) ability to interpret the meaning of dreams. So he went to see
Yusuf (Alayhis salam) to ask about the dream.
Yusuf (Alayhis salam) explained that for seven years the crops would
be good, and that much of what had been harvested would be stored
away. Theseven good years would be followed by seven hard years in
which most of what had been stored would be consumed. After that
seven-year period of poor harvests, things would improve again.
:->

Prophet Yusuf 1

He was the son of Ya'qub (Alayhis salam) and the grandson of Ishaaq
(Alayhis salam). He was thenext to youngest of twelvesons and a
favorite of his father.
One day he had a dream inwhich eleven planets, the sun, and the moon
were bowing down in front of him. When his father learned of this
vision, he interpreted it as meaning that Allah would prefer Yusuf
(Alayhis salam), would teach him the interpretation of dreams , and
would perfect His grace upon him. But Ya'qub warned Yusuf (Alayhis
salam) not to tell the dream to his brothers, because they would be
extremely jealous and might wish to do harm to him.
The older brothers were indeed jealous of Yusuf (Alayhis salam) and
his younger brother. They decided that, with Yusuf (Alayhis salam) out
of the picture, their father would look upon the rest of themwith more
favor. Some wanted to kill him and some favored abandoning him in some
distant land. One of the brothers suggested leaving him in apit so
that some caravan would pick him up and carry him away. That was the
plot upon which they eventually agreed.
Yusuf's brothers went to their father and asked if they could take
Yusuf (Alayhis salam) out in the pastures with them on thefollowing
day, so that he could play and enjoy himself. At first Ya'qub (Alayhis
salam) dissented, because he feared that Yusuf (Alayhis salam) would
be devoured by a wolf. But the brothers assured him that the wolf
would not have a chance against so many of them. Finally Ya'qub agreed
to let Yusuf go with them.
The following day, the brothers led Yusuf (Alayhissalam) away and left
him in the bottom of a deep pit. Allah revealed to Yusuf(Alayhis
salam) at that time that one day he would tell them of this deed, when
the brothers would not recognize him. After the brothers had left
Yusuf (Alayhis salam) in the pit, a caravan came along and a
water-drawer was sent to look for water at the bottom of the pit. He
was delighted to find instead a healthy young man. Yusuf (Alayhis
salam)was taken away in the caravan to be sold into slavery. The
traders attached very little value to him and sold him for a very
small amount of money.
Meanwhile the brothers stained Yusuf's (Alayhis salam) shirt with the
bloodof some animal and returned, weeping and wailing, to their
father, concocting a story about how a wolf had, after all, managed to
slip past themand devour Yusuf . Their father recognized that their
grief was not sincere, and he prayed to Allah to help him bear his own
grief over the loss of Yusuf(Alayhis salam).
To be continued.

Repentance (tawbah) when a sin involves the rights of another person

If the sin involves a rights of another person then what form should
repentance take?
The basis for the answer is the hadith of the Prophet (peace be upon
him) who said: "He upon whom his brother has a right, be it of the
nature of money or honor, let him compensate for it before he is made
to compensate for it on a day when there will be neither dinar nor
dirham to deal with. Instead, if hehas a good deed in his account it
will be taken away from him and given to the person he had wronged.
And if he has nogood deed in his account, sins of the other person
will be taken from him and added to his account"(Bukhari).
Accordingly, therepentant can escape the questioning only by
eithergiving back the people wronged their due or seeking their
forgiveness. If they forgive, he need not worry, but if they do not,
then he must return their dues.

Repentance (tawbah) from accepting bribes

A man used to accept bribes. Then Allah guided him to righteousness.
What shall he do with what he used to earn as bribes?
There can be two situations. Either the bribes he used to accept were
from thosethat had been wronged who had to offer bribe as a means of
obtaining what was their right, in which case the repentant should
return them their amounts or articles or whatever. For what he took
from them is considered as having been taken by force or through
deceit. Or, the bribe was taken from an unjust (zalim) man like
hehimself was before repenting. (That is, someone who achieved
orattained things via bribes which were not his right.) This amount is
not be returned to him. Instead the repentant should spend it in a
charitable way, such as on the poor and the destitute. Likewise, he
must repent the harm he caused to people by giving their right away to
others who had no right to them, but rather obtained them via the use
of bribes.

What to do with forbidden items after having repented

I have repented. But in my possession are some of the forbidden things
such as musical instruments, cassettes, films etc. Is it permissible
for me to sell them, particularly since they are worth a large amount?
Sale of such banned articles is not permissible in Islam. The Prophet
(peace be upon him) said: "When Allah forbids a thing then He forbids
its price (as well). " (i.e., its sale/purchase/trading.) [Abu Dawood,
and it is sahih] Also you know wellthat whomever you sell it to will
use it in a forbidden act; thus, it is not permissible for you tosell
it to him as Allah has prohibited this in commanding us: "laa
ta-'aawanu ala al-ithmi wal-'udwaan." (a translation of the meaning
being 'do not assist one another in sins and enmity')
And no matter how much you lose in worldly wealth, have faith that
what is in store with Allahis worthier and longer lasting. He will
compensate you with His grace, and His favor and His generosity.