Jokes :- Love for your partner what you love for yourself

To summarize the duties of brotherhood and sisterhood in Islam, we
should love for our brother and sister what we love for ourselves.
This is an incredible teaching that if implemented would go a long way
towards improving relations between us. This spirit of love is
especially important between husbands and wives, as we often treat
each other as abstract enemies as opposed to Muslims, first and
foremost.
- Imam Zaid Shakir
This is an excellent observation and insightful piece of advice. Many
of usare familiar with this hadith but have not thought of it in terms
of husband and wife.
When we want for our spouse what we want for ourselves, it takes our
marriage to a new level oflove. We begin to think about our partners
needs and wants, we pray for our partner just as we pray for
ourselves, we work for our partner's material and spiritual success as
much as our own.
We also forgive them for their mistakes just as we would hope to be
forgiven. We praise them for the good they do, thank them, hug them,
and when they need it we correct them in kindness. That's love, and
it's what agood marriage is made of.

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ISLAMIC ARTICLE ~ ~ Musa; Eloquence on a Different Level

Prophet Musa (`alayhisalam) is often described as being strong, tough
and a force against the harshness that surrounded him. See, he was
destined to go up against the barbaric Pharaoh, so Allah `azza wa jall
raised him in a way where he'd be fit to face the horrors and physical
calamities that were to occur to him in his time (surviving
persecution, the killing of his opponent, exile, coming back to the
Pharoah, leading Bani Israel from oppression etc).
But one interesting characteristic of Musa (`alayhisalam) is that he
was not eloquent nor did he possess fluency or ease of speech (which
is in contrast to the Prophet Muhammad (s) who was granted 'jawami'
al-kalim' , i.e. high eloquence).
Musa acknowledged this impediment and feared that Pharaoh would use it
against him.Remember, he was a Messenger delivering a message - and
naturally it would be that much more difficult to get across your
message if you cannot speak as well as your opponent. It only makes
the battle harder. Let's lookat Musa's acknowledgement of this:
He said in his supplication to Allahsubhanahu wa ta'ala:
وَأَخِي هَارُونُ هُوَ أَفْصَحُ مِنِّي لِسَانًا فَأَرْسِلْهُ مَعِيَ
رِدْءًا يُصَدِّقُنِي ۖ إِنِّي أَخَافُ أَن يُكَذِّبُونِ
"And my brother Aaron is more fluent than me in tongue, so send him
with me as support, verifying me . Indeed, I fear that they will deny
me ." [al-Qasas: 34]
He feared that the Message wouldbe denied on account of his speech
defect. And indeed, he was denied by Pharaoh and his elites. In fact,
Pharaoh used this as an insult against Musa and said:
أَمْ أَنَا خَيْرٌ مِّنْ هَٰذَا الَّذِي هُوَ مَهِينٌ وَلَا يَكَادُ يُبِينُ
"Or am I [not] better than this one who is insignificant and hardly
makes himself clear ?" [al-Zukhruf: 52]
So, why does this characteristic of Musa interest us?
Because subhan'Allah, perhaps this is why Allah `azza wa jall singled
him out and spoke to himdirectly . Pharaoh was arrogant and saw
himself above speaking to Musa because he 'couldn't make himself
clear', and so Allah honoured Musa by raising to up to Mount Sinai and
speaking to him directly – to show that despite the speech impediment,
he was worthy of conversing with his Lord .
وَرُسُلًا قَدْ قَصَصْنَاهُمْ عَلَيْكَ مِن قَبْلُ وَرُسُلًا لَّمْ
نَقْصُصْهُمْ عَلَيْكَ ۚ وَكَلَّمَ اللَّهُ مُوسَىٰ تَكْلِيمًا
"And [We sent] Messengers about whom We have related to you before and
Messengers about whom We have not related to you. And Allah spoke to
Moses with a direct speech ." [al-Nisa: 164]
Hence Musa is forever remembered as ' Kaleemullah' – the one who
conversed with Allah.
A lesson: Sometimes, people may disregard you and belittle you,
thinking that you are not worthy of something, but in some future turn
of events, Allah `azza wa jall will raise you and bring you out as
better. He will draw you closer to Him and give you from His Mercy,
and also make clear to the people what you are truly deserving of. Let
us humble ourselves and never look down on anyone, because not
everyone's reality is clear, and perhaps the ones we look down upon
are a million times better and more deserving than us in the Sight of
Allah `azza wa jall
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HISTORY :-How did Muhammad become a Messenger of God?

At the age of 40, while engaged in a meditative retreat, Muhammad
received his first revelationfrom God through the Archangel Gabriel.
This revelation, which continued for twenty-threeyears, is known as
the Qur'an.
Muhammad began to recite the words he heard from Gabriel and to preach
the truth which God had revealed to him. The people of Makkah were
steeped in their ways of ignorance and opposed Muhammad and his small
group of followers in everyway. These early Muslims suffered bitter
persecution.
In the year 622 CE, God gave the Muslim community the command to
emigrate. This event, thehijrah or migration, in which they left
Makkah for the city of Madinah, some 260 miles to the North, marks the
beginning of theMuslim calendar.
Madinah provided Muhammad and the Muslims the safe and nurturing haven
in which the Muslim community grew. After several years, the Prophet
and his followers returned to Makkah, where they forgave their enemies
and dedicated the Ka'bah to theworship of the One God. Before the
Prophet died at the age of 63, the greater part of Arabia was Muslim,
and within a century of his death, Islam had spread to Spain in the
west and as far east as China.

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ISLAMIC ARTICLE :- How did the spread of Islam affect the World?

The Muslim community expanded rapidly after the Prophet's death.
Within a few decades, the territory under Muslim rule had extended
onto three continents--Asia, Africa andEurope. Over the next few
centuries this Empire continued to expand and Islam gradually became
the chosen faith of the majority of its inhabitants. Among the reasons
for the rapid and peaceful spread of Islam was the simplicity of its
doctrine--Islam calls for faith in only One God worthy of worship.
Islam also repeatedly instructs human beings to use their powers of
intelligence and observation.
As Muslim civilization developed, it absorbed the heritage of ancient
civilizations like Egypt, Persia and Greece, whose learning was
preserved in the libraries and with the scholars of its cities. Some
Muslim scholars turned their attention to these centers of learning
and sought to acquaint themselves with the knowledge taught and
cultivated in them. They, therefore, set about with a concerted effort
to translate the philosophical and scientific works available to them,
not onlyfrom the Greek and Syriac languages (the languages of eastern
Christian scholars), but also from Pahlavi, the scholarly language of
pre-Islamic Persia, and even from Sanskrit, an ancient Indian
language.

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