Dought & clear, - Committed Adultery and Uncertain Who Child Should beAttributed to

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I ask Allah for forgiveness and I repent to him, for I have committed the worst and greatest of major sins, namely zina (adultery) when I was married. I got pregnant with a daughter who is now 6 years old, and is named after my husband. I cannot tell my husband of the awful thing that I did, because I am afraid for my family and my son from him. I have repented to Allah sincerely, and I have put on hijab and I pray regularly. I have asked for forgiveness and pardon from Allah for this crime that I committed. Will Allah forgive me? What should I do in order to make my repentance complete? I hope that you can advise me. Should I tell my husband so that Allah will forgive me?
Praise be to Allah.
We ask Allah to forgive you and pardon you, for zina is a major sin and a serious crime, especially on the part of one whom Allah has blessed with marriage, but she was ungrateful for the blessing of Allah, betrayed her husband, transgressed his honour and contaminated his bed. Hence the punishment for this married woman is to be stoned to death, as a punishment from Allah, and Allah is Almighty and Most Wise.
But by His Mercy, He shows kindness to His slaves, gives them respite and invites them to repent, and He accepts repentance and gives reward for it. How merciful, great and kind He is, may He be glorified and exalted.
Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“And those who invoke not any other ilah (god) along with Allah, nor kill such persons as Allah has forbidden, except for just cause, nor commit illegal sexual intercourse ___and whoever does this shall receive the punishment.
The torment will be doubled to him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein in disgrace;
Except those who repent and believe (in Islamic Monotheism), and do righteous deeds; for those, Allah will change their sins into good deeds, and Allah is Oft‑Forgiving, Most Merciful.”
[al-Furqan 25:68-70]
So continue repenting and turning to Him, beseeching Allah to accept it from you, and Allah accepts the repentance of those who repent.
One of the signs that Allah has accepted repentance is that He conceals His slave and does not expose him, and He extends his life span so that he will draw close to Him and make his peace with Him. We praise Allah for having helped you to pray regularly and wear hijab, and to obey Him and repent. We hope that Allah, the Most Generous and Most Merciful, has forgiven you, and we ask Him to do that.
If Allah has concealed you, then do not break the concealment that He has bestowed upon you, and do not tell your husband or anyone else anything about what happened. Your repentance is regret and righteousness and doing good deeds.
As for the child, he is to be named after your husband, and that is not cancelled out unless he rejects the child by means of li’an (an Islamic procedure in which a man denies a child being his), because the basic principle is that the child belongs to the marital bed, as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said.
The scholars of the Standing Committee were asked: There is a married woman who committed zina when she was still married. She got pregnant as a result and gave birth to a child, either male or female. With whom should that child stay? Should he stay with her husband based on the hadeeth “The child is for the (owner of the) bed and the fornicator gets nothing” or not? If he stays with his mother’s husband, should he adopt him and regard him as one of his own children with regard to all rights, or will he just be under his care only? But if he is attributed to the adulterer, should he regard him as one of his real children or keep him with him even though he is still illegitimate?
They replied: If a married woman commits zina and becomes pregnant, then the child belongs to the (owner of the) bed (i.e. the husband), because of the saheeh hadeeth (authentic report). If the owner of the bed wants to deny the child by engaging in li’an then he may do that before the shar’i (Islamic) judge, and in that case the child does not belong to anyone according to the consensus of the Muslims. But adoption is not permissible and the adopted child does not truly become the child of the one who adopted him. And Allah is the source of strength.
And Allah knows best.







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For children, - Encouragement Stories: Encouraging Lesson from a Frog Tale

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A group of frogs were hopping contentedly through the woods, going about their froggy business, when two of them fell into a deep pit. All of the other frogs gathered around the pit to see what could be done to help their companions. When they saw how deep the pit was, the rest of the dismayed group agreed that it was hopeless and told the two frogs in the pit that they should prepare themselves for their fate, because they were as good as dead.
Unwilling to accept this terrible fate, the two frogs began to jump with all of their might.
Some of the frogs shouted into the pit that it was hopeless and that the two frogs would not be in that situation if they had been more careful, more obedient to the froggy rules, and more responsible. The other frogs continued sorrowfully shouting that they should save their energy and give up, since they were already as good as dead.
The two frogs continued jumping as hard as they could and after several hours of desperate effort were quite weary.
Finally, one of the frogs took heed to the calls of his fellows. Spent and disheartened, he quietly resolved himself to his fate, lay down at the bottom of the pit and died as the others looked on in helpless grief. The other frog continued to jump with every ounce of energy he had, although his body was wracked with pain and he was completely exhausted.
His companions began a new, yelling for him to accept his fate, stop the pain and just die. The weary frog jumped harder and harder and - wonder of wonders! Finally leapt so high that he sprang from the pit. Amazed, the other frogs celebrated his miraculous freedom and then gathering around him asked, "Why did you continue jumping when we told you it was impossible?" Reading their lips, the astonished frog explained to them that he was deaf and that when he saw their gestures and shouting, he thought they were cheering him on. What he had perceived as encouragement inspiredhim to try harder and to succeed against all odds.
This simple Frog story contains a powerful lesson. Your encouraging or positive words can lift someone up and help him or her make it through the day. Your destructive or negative words can cause deep wounds; they may be the weapons that destroy someone's desire to continue trying - or even their life. Your destructive, careless word can diminish someone in the eyes of others, destroy their influence and have a lasting impact on the way others respond to them.
Allah (SWT) says in the Holy Qur'an: "Have We not made for him two eyes, And a tongue and two lips?" (Surat Al-Balad, 90:8-9).
It is narrated that the Holy Prophet Mohammad (saw)has said: "Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than (that caused by) the strike of the blade of a sword."
Be careful of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your path because a word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
The power of words:
Words can be weapons. Words can wound, humiliate and inflict pain far greater than physical violence. Words can be used to inflame passions, to arouse anger, to declare war and to destroy. But just as potent as they are as weapons, Words can also heal wounds and make peace. They can be soothing to those in grief, they can offer hope to those in despair. Indeed, well-chosen words have a power and a beauty that can project well beyond one lifetime. Think of the great works of literature that still enrich our lives today, centuries after they were written.
It is sometimes hard to understand that an encouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak words that tend to rob another of the spirit to continue in difficult times. Special is the individual who will take the time to encourage another. It has been narrated that the Holy Prophet Mohammad (saw) was asked: "O Messenger of Allah, which of the Muslims is best?" and he relied, "He who the Muslims are safe from his tongue and his hand."








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General Articles, - Some of the processes that take place within the body in a matter of seconds

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Various extraordinarily complex and flawless processes take place at the most amazing speeds in every square millimeter of the body in just a few seconds.
These processes continue uninterrupted every second, with every breath we take, even as we sleep, until the end of our lives.
These events that take place, through our Lord’s sublime might, do so uninterruptedly EVERY SECOND IN EVERY ONE of the 100 trillion cells in the bodies of ALL THE 7 billion people currently living on Earth.
PROTEIN
• Except for reproductive and blood cells, all the cells in the body manufacture some 2000 proteins every second. This process takes place in EACH ONE of the 100 TRILLION CELLS OF ALL THE 7 billion people on Earth.
• The 100 trillion cells in every adult human body form protein chains by flawlessly organizing some 150,000,000,000,000,000, 000 (150 quintillion) amino acids.
• A ribosome can add 20 amino acids per second to a protein chain. Protein synthesis takes place in an uninterrupted manner every second in every cell of the 7 billion people on Earth.
• An average 50 million cells form in the body every second, while another 50 million die. Two million of these are blood cells.
• Enough DNA to fill a library consisting of 100 volumes, containing a million pages and 3 billion letters, is copied as every cell divides. This wondrous process of division takes place with the same perfection in the cells of everyone in the world.
THE BRAIN
• 10 16 processes take place in the brain every second.
• A single nerve cell can carry more than 200,000 pieces of information at the same time every second.
• There are around 10 billion nerve cells in the brain, communications between which is established by 100 trillion connections.
• Every brain cell transmits 300 currents a second. And every nerve cell discharges its responsibility in 1 millisecond (one thousandth of a second).
• The brain processes 750 million signals, from inside and outside the body, every second.
• Four billion pieces of information are exchanged between the two halves of the brain every second.
• All these processes TAKE PLACE EVERY SECOND IN EVERY ONE OF THE 10 BILLION NERVE CELLS IN THE BRAINS OF ALL THE 7 BILLION PEOPLE ON EARTH.
• The human eye is able to send 10 million bits of information per second. Everyone in the world possesses this extraordinary capacity.
ATP
• In lifting a glass, the muscle expends some 10 20 energy molecules (ATP). They also manufacture even more than this.
• 10 million energy molecules (ATP) are constantly manufactured every second in every one of the 100 trillion cells of 7 billion people in the world.
• The white blood cells in the veins subject 10 billion cells to a health check in 2 seconds. That health check is carried out in everyone who has ever lived or is living now.
• The heart circulates all the blood in the body in 60 seconds. It does this all the time, in all the 7 billion people alive today.
• Five hundred different chemical processes are carried out in a single liver cell every second. Every liver cell IN ALL THE 7 BILLION PEOPLE ON EARTH knows these 500 different tasks and carried them all out flawlessly.
• Whenever food enters the body, microscopic hairs on the cells in the small intestine reject those parts of the food that are not useful. The hairs in question do this in a perfectly organized manner in everyone on Earth every second.
BREATHING
• In order to breathe, planning is carried out in a region the size of a lentil in the brain stem, every second:
- A first group of cells gives the command for air to be taken in.
- A second group of cells determines the speed and course of respiration by halting the activity of the first group with a signal.
- A third group of cells goes into action when we need to breathe at a high rate and accelerates respiration by sending a signal to the abdomen muscles.
• Every time we breathe more than 300 million sacs in the lungs take air in by opening and closing. These cells and sacs perform the same function, without exception, every 3 seconds in all 7 BILLION HUMAN BEINGS.
• Thousands of hormones in the body send reports to specific cells in a single second. Each hormone makes decisions, communicates with the cells, produces the secretions the body needs, determines the right level and timing of this, and arranges how long these secretions should last. Millions of hormones in the bodies of all the 7 billion people on Earth carry out the same processes in milliseconds.
• Some 100 billion processes will have taken place in your eyes in the time it takes to read this sentence. These take place in a little as a tenth of a second, and are carried out in the eye cells of everyone in the world.
• Harmful bacteria traveling from the intestines to the liver are digested and neutralized by special cells in less than 0.01 (one one hundredth) of a second. These are at work in all 7 billion people in the world.
• There are 10 billion capillary vessels in the human body. The erythrocytes that travel along these vessels carry oxygen to the cells. An erythrocyte only remains in a capillary vessel for between 1 and 3 seconds, and then heads for the heart. During that time it gives oxygen to the tissues and takes away carbon dioxide. This distribution process takes place within this flawless system in all the 7 billion people in the world.
As you read these words, billions of cells in your brain are working to understand what you read, and controlling the actions of your muscles and how you breathe. The brain is aware of the protein production in your cells, the transportation of oxygen to the cells by erythrocytes, the images that enter your eye, sounds that reach your ear, what is happening in your stomach and liver, the watch strapped to your arm and everything. It responds to and regulates all of these every second. This magnificent system in the body has worked flawlessly and immaculately in everyone who has ever lived, and is still working so today. There is no doubt that the Creator of this magnificent system in the body is our Almighty Lord Allah and that Almighty Allah has knowledge and control of this system at every stage and every moment. Our Lord says in one verse that:
I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed satan
The keys of the Unseen are in His possession. No one knows them but Him. He knows everything in the land and sea. No leaf falls without His knowing it. There is no seed in the darkness of the earth, and nothing moist or dry which is not in a Clear Book. (Surat al-An’am, 59)






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