* How to Perform Eid Prayer

The Eid Prayer has two rak'ah to perform in the normal way, with the
only addition of six takbirs, three of them in the beginning of the
first rak'ah, and three ofthem just before ruku' inthe second rak'ah.
The detailed way of performing the 'Eid prayer is as follows:
The Imam will begin the prayer without Adhan orIqamah. He will begin
the prayer by reciting takbir of Tahrimah (Allahu Akbar). You should
raise your hands up to the ears, and reciting the takbir, you give a
little pause duringwhich you should recite Thana' (Subhanak
Allahumma.......)· After the completion of Thana'the Imam will recite
takbir (Allahu Akbar) three times, and after reciting each Takbir
(Allahu Akbar) in a low voice, you should bring your hands down and
leave them earthwards. But, after the third takbir, you should set
them at the level of your navel as you do in the normal prayer.
After these three takbirs the Imam will recite the Holy Qur'an, which
you should listen quietly. Therest of the rak'ah will be performed in
the normalway.
After rising for the second rak'ah, the Imam will begin the
recitationsfrom the Qur'an during which you should remain calm and
quiet. When the Imam finishes his recitation, he will recite three
takbirs once again, but this time it will be before bowing down for
ruku'. At each takbir you should raise your hands up to the ears, and
after saying"Allahu Akbar' bring them down and leave them earthwards.
After these three takbirs have been called and completed, the Imam
will say another takbir for bowing down into the ruku' position. At
this takbir you need not raise your hands. You just bow down for your
ruku' saying, 'Allahu Akbar'. The rest of the Salah will be performed
in its usual way.

God increases his blessings on those who are grateful

Every person is in need of God at every instant of life. From the air
one breathes to the food he eats, from the ability to use one's hands
to the faculty of speech, from being sheltered to beingin a joyful
spirit, one lives completely in need of what God creates and grants
him. Still, a vast majority of people do not perceive their weaknesses
and that they are in need of God. They suppose that thingsdevelop
spontaneously or that they acquire everything by their own efforts.
This is an important error, as well as a serious ingratitude towards
God. Ironically, people who render theirthanks to a person for even an
insignificant gift, spend all their lives ignoring the countless
blessings that God gives them all through their lives. However, so
great are the blessings granted to a person that one could never count
them. God relates this fact in a verse as follows:
If you tried to number God's blessings, you could never count them.
God is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Surat an-Nahl: 18)
Despite this fact, most people fail to give thanks for any of the
blessings they have. The reason for this is related in the Qur'an:
Satan, who pledged to misguide people from God's way, said that his
ultimate aim is to make people be ungrateful to God. Satan's defiant
statements to God emphasize the importance of giving thanks to God:
'Then I will come at them, from in front of them behind them,
fromtheir right and from their left. You will not find most of them
thankful.' He (God) said, 'Get out of it, reviled anddriven out. As
for those of them (mankind) who follow you, I, will fill up Hell with
every one of you.' (Surat al-A'raf: 17-18)
Believers, on the other hand, aware of their weaknesses and in
humility before God, render their thanks to Him for every blessing
granted. Wealth and possessions are not the only blessings for which
believers render their thanks to God. Knowing that God is the Owner
and Possessor of everything, believers express their inner
gratefulness for good health, beauty, knowledge, wisdom, love of faith
and hatred from disbelief, understanding, insight, foresight and for
power.They are thankful for being rightly guided andfor being in the
company of believers.
A beautiful landscape, easy handling of their affairs, fulfillment of
their wishes, tidings of great joy, respectful conduct or any other
blessings make believersimmediately turn to God,express their
gratefulness to Him and reflect on His mercy and compassion.
In return for good morals displayed, a reward awaits believers.This is
another of the secrets revealed in the Qur'an; God increases
Hisblessings on those who are grateful. For example, God grants even
more health and power to those who render their thanks to God for the
good health and strength they have. God bestows even more knowledge
and propertyto those who are grateful for their knowledge or wealth.
This is because they are sincere people who are contented with what
God gives and are pleased with the blessings and who take God as their
friend. God relates this secret in the Qur'an as follows:
And when your Lord announced: "If you are grateful, I will certainly
give you increase, but if you are ungrateful, My punishment is
severe."' (Surah Ibrahim: 7)
Being grateful is also a sign of one's closeness toand love of God.
People who give thanks have the insight and capability to perceive the
beauties and blessings that God creates. God's Messenger, peace be
upon him, also referred to this when he said:
When God gives you property, the bliss of God's blessing and offering
must be reflected on you.
On the other hand, a disbelieving or ungrateful person will only see
the imperfections and faults even in the most beautiful environment,
and thus will be unhappy and discontented. Indeed, as a divine purpose
in God's creation, such people, always come across with seemingly
unfavorable events and unpleasant scenes. On the other hand, God
displays more of His bounties and blessings to those who have a
sincere and insightful outlook.
That God increases His blessings to those who are grateful is one of
thesecrets of the Qur'an. However, one needs to keep in mind that
sincerity is a prerequisite for being grateful. No doubt, one'sway of
showing his gratitude without turning sincerely to God and feeling the
inner peace of God's infinite mercy and compassion, which is solely
intended to impress people, would be sheer insincerity. God knows what
hearts harbor, and will bear witness to this insincerity. Those who
have insincere inner intentions may conceal itfrom other people, but
not from God. Such people may render their thanks with affected
manners when there is no affliction, but at times of hardship, it is
possible that they may readily lapse into ungratefulness.
It should be also noted that true believers remain grateful to God
even under harshest conditions. Someone looking from outside may see
the diminishing of some blessings believers enjoy. However, believers,
whoare able to perceive the good aspect of every event and situation,
see goodness in this too. For example, God states that He will test
people with fear, hunger and loss of wealth or life. In such a
situation, believers rejoice and feel grateful,hoping that God will
reward them with the gifts of paradise in return for the steadfastness
they displayed in this test.
They know that God does not impose on anyone more than he can bear.
The steadfastness and submission of such awareness lead them to
patience and gratitude. Therefore, it is an obvious attribute of
believers to show unwavering dedication and submission and God
promises to expand His blessings on His grateful servants both in the
life of this world and in the Hereafter.

The original of the matter created in the brain: You must first read this to see the artistry of Allah!

A mighty waterfall tumbling down from on high, the boundless oceans
and the glorious, stunning mountains are all matchless works of
Allah. The stars, clouds, birds and fish are all His miracles. Most
people are in no doubt that a green forest that blossoms once
again, grows and flourishes in the spring is one of the beautiful
and glorious works of Allah.
Some people, however, regard skyscrapers, airplanes, laboratories
and computers rather differently. The fact that these are made and
built by human beings deceives them. They imagine that technology,
civilization, scientific and technical progress are independent of
Allah (Allah forbid) and forget that the human beings who are
instrumental in their coming into existence are also created by
Him. They fail to think that Allah, Who has made clouds the cause
of rain and the Sun the cause of light, has also made man the cause
of technology and civilization. They make the error of thinking
that human beings have a power independent of Allah (Allah forbid)
and that human beings invented the Internet, that human beings
cause planes to fly, that human beings invented the tea spoon or
biro, that human beings build space craft and that human beings
discovered the forces responsible for keeping planes aloft. They
imagine that plasma TVs, CD players, carpets, lampshades, cars and
the products of advanced technology all appeared as the result of
human intelligence and ability.
They make a terrible error in not regarding these as the artistry of
Allah, and forget that He created them out of His mercy.
The fact is, however, that all these things, just like the seas,
trees, flowers, fruits, the Sun and the boundless mountains, are
all works of Allah. Allah in His mercy makes human beings the cause
of all these things listed above. Allah has given human beings the
intelligence and ability for this. Our Lord inspired them to
discover these things. But it is certain that Allah has the power to
have created them with no direct cause.
And everything we see is in fact CREATED "SPECIALLY FOR US" AND
"INDEPENDENT OF NATURAL CAUSES" as Allah's sublime artistry.
In order to understand this, we need to know that the matter we see
and touch is an image created in our brains, that it is specially
created for us, specially and moment by moment, and that we can
never have direct experience of the originals on the outside.

The claim that 'the first cell formed in muddy water' is fraudulent

According to Darwin's theory of evolution, there is an imaginary
"first cell" which came into being from the chance combination of
inanimate substances. And according to Darwinism, everything began
with this "first cell." It is this imaginary "first cell" that,
according to Darwinism, is the origin of all life, butterflies, birds,
lions, eagles, whales, rabbits, deer and finally human beings who
produce technologies, found civilizations, train professors, travel
into space and study the cells they possess in the laboratory.
According to Darwinism, the origin of this imaginary first cell is;
some muddy water, time and chance! According to the religionof
Darwinism , these three magical (!) and intelligent (!) forces somehow
came togetherand produced a "CELL" that not even Nobel Prize-winning
scientists can manufacture in laboratories equipped with 21st-century
technology, the details of which human beings have researched for more
than half a centuryin order to understand, and that possesses highly
complex and perfect mechanisms, organelles and an irreducible
complexity! Moreover, these three glorious (!) forces combined to give
rise to all the glorious life we currently see on Earth. The religion
of Darwinism seeks to convince people of this nonsense.
But this claim is a horrendous fraud and lie.
The fantasy of the first cell that came into beingin muddy water,
which was proposed by Darwin, matched the level of science and
technology in the day of Darwin. Bearing in mind that Darwin thought
the cell was a simple blob of liquid, this childish tale is something
that might very well be expected from the knowledge andscientific
understanding of the time. Furthermore, since people did not know what
the cell was like, it was easy for them to be deceived with this lie.
But the findings of the science of genetics have once again revealed
thatDarwinism is a gigantic lie. In the light of currentknowledge and
data, just one of the countless proteins in the cell is enough to
refute the theory of evolution. Proteins are structures with a sublime
complexity, which cannot possibly come into being by chance. They
cannot even be manufactured using 21st-century technology in a
conscious and controlledlaboratory environment.To claim that such a
structure formed by chance in muddy water is laughable and irrational
in the face of science. The American academic philosopher ofscience
Stephen C. Meyerdescribes the impossibility of a single protein
forming by chance in these words:
Consider the probabilistic hurdles that must be overcome to construct
even one short protein molecule of about 100 amino acids in length.
First, all amino acids must form achemical bond known asa peptide bond
so as to join with other amino acids in the protein chain. Yet in
nature many other types of chemical bonds are possible between amino
acids.The probability of building a chain of 100 amino acids in which
all linkages involve peptide bonds is roughly 1 chance in 1030.
Second, in nature every amino acid has a distinctmirror image of
itself, one left-handed version or L-form and one right-handed version
or D-form. These mirror-image forms are called optical isomers.
Functioning proteins tolerate only left-handed amino acids,yet the
right-handed and left-handed isomers occur in nature with roughly
equal frequency. Taking this into consideration compounds the
improbability of attaining a biologically functioning protein.The
probability of attaining at random only L-amino acids in a
hypothetical peptide chain 100 aminoacids long is (1/2)100or again
roughly 1 chance in 1030.
Third and most important of all, functioning proteins must have amino
acids that link up in a specific sequential arrangement,just like the
letters in a meaningful sentence. Because there are 20 biologically
occurring amino acids, the probability of getting a specific amino
acid at a given site is 1/20. Even if we assume that some sites along
the chain willtolerate several amino acids (using the variances
determined bybiochemist Robert Sauer of MIT),we find that the
probability of achieving a functional sequence ofamino acids in
several functioning proteins at random is still "vanishingly small,"
roughly 1 chance in 1065—an astronomically large number—for a protein
only one hundred amino acids in length. (Actually the probability is
even lowerbecause there are many nonproteinous amino acids in nature
that we have not accounted for in this calculation.)
If one also factors in the probability of attaining proper bonding and
optical isomers, the probability of constructing a rather short,
functional protein at random becomes so small as to be effectively
zero (no more than 1 chance in 10125), even given our
multi-billion-year-old universe.Consider further that equally severe
probabilistic difficulties attend the random assembly of functional
DNA. Moreover, a minimally complex cell requires not 1, but at least
100 complex proteins (and many other biomolecular components such as
DNA and RNA) all functioning in close coordination. For this reason,
quantitative assessmentsof cellular complexity have simply reinforced
an opinion that has prevailed since the mid-1960s within
origin-of-life biology:chance is not an adequate explanation for the
origin of biological complexity and specificity.1
Even if we were to assume the impossible, that all these complex
structures did form by chance, Darwinists still have to explain the
formation of a million pages-worth of information in such a glorious
molecule as DNA. On this subject, as on every other regarding the cell
and the origin of life, Darwinists have no account to offer. According
to distorted Darwinist logic, the extraordinary information in a cell
thatemerged by chance in muddy water must also have come into being
bychance through various external agents. There is no doubt that such
a formation is impossible. The information in DNA is glorious
information, created together with that DNA.
The Darwinist claim that the cell formed by chance in muddy water is
an outdated belief left over from the time of Darwin, who thought the
cell was simply some blob. However, no doubtthat 19th-century
superstition no longer applies today, when science and technology are
so much more advanced. There are countless complex structures in the
body that all require explanation, yet Darwinism is unable to account
for the formation of even a single protein. But Darwinists behave as
if they were unaware of those impossibilities. Evolutionist
publications still describe this impossible emergence from muddy
water, just like the tales in a child's book of fairy stories. Theaim
is to deceive the mass of people with this account, which is
unscientific, illogical andincapable of proof. According to the
adherents of this false religion, the more people who believe in this
fairy tale, the more people will fall under the spell of Darwinism.
But people no longer believe in these fake tales of Darwinists.
Everything in creation exhibits the Sublime Might and Power of our
Almighty Lord, the Creator of the universe and everything within it.In
the Qur'an, Almighty Allah describes the sublime creation of the cell
and man:
We created man from the purest kind of clay; then made him a drop ina
secure receptacle; thenformed the drop into a clot and formed the clot
into a lump and formed the lump into bones andclothed the bones in
flesh; and then brought him into being as another creature. Blessed be
Allah, the Bestof Creators! (Surat al-Muminun, 12-14)
No matter how facile an account of the glory of life on Earth those
seeking explanations outside the Qur'an may offer, it is clear that
what has been created isvery great and majestic. And the theory of
evolution has no means of survival in the face of this sublime
creation. Almighty Allah describes the greatness of the works He has
created in another verse:
The creation of the heavens and earth is far greater than the creation
of mankind. But most of mankind do not know it. (Surah Ghafir, 57)
1 "Word Games: DNA, Design, and Intelligence" by StephenC. Meyer,
inSigns of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design,ed. William
A. Dembski, James M. Kushiner, Brazos Press, 2001, pp.
109-110[emphasis added]