Personal, - Giving Food

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Giving food in Surah Al-Insaan )No.76(:
This is a good gesture of Allaah's Mercy to Mention giving food in a Surah that is entitled "Al-Insaan". Allaah The Exalted Says )what means(:}And they give food in spite of love for it to the needy, the orphan, and the captive…{]76:8[
Ibn ‘Abbaas, may Allaah be pleased with him, and Mujaahid, may Allaah have mercy upon him, said, "This verse denotes that they feed the needy, the orphan and the captive despite the scarcity of food and their need and love for it."
What about you and your food?
How great a deed is feeding the hungry in our time!
Allaah The Exalted Says )what means(:}Or feeding on a day of severe hunger…{]90:14[
An-Nakha‘i, may Allaah have mercy upon him, commented on this verse saying, "They feed the hungry at times when food is not ample."
Mohammed ibn Al-Munkadir, may Allaah have mercy upon him, said, "Feeding hungry Muslims guarantees the forgiveness of sins."
He, may Allaah have mercy upon him, also said on another occasion: "Feeding the hungry and saying kind words to others usher you to Paradise."
Dear brother and sister, you may notice how our days - in some Muslim countries - have turned into days of severe hunger. Food has become scarce and meat has also become scarce as well as being too expensive for the poor.
What about you, dear readers? What about your food?
An explicit command:
Feeding people in general and a hungry person in particular has been explicitly mentioned in the command of the Messenger of Allaah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam. Abu Moosa Al-Ash‘ari, may Allaah be pleased with him, reported that the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said:"Feed the hungry, pay a visit to the sick and free ree the captives."]Saheeh[ A reported saying reads, "The best charity is to satisfy a hungry person." Alas, a Muslim may sit at an Iftaar table with delicious and tasty dishes while his neighbors break their fast with a few morsels of food, if they can be found!
The Righteous Predecessors, may Allaah have mercy upon them:
Our righteous predecessors, may Allaah have mercy upon them, were keen to feed people and favored this act of worship over many others, whether it was for a hungry poor person or feeding a righteous Muslim. Poverty is not an essential condition in this regard. The Messenger of Allaah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said:"O people! Spread the Islamic greetings amongst yourselves, feed the hungry, maintain kinship relations, observe prayer at night while people are asleep and you will peacefully enter the Paradise."]Saheeh[
Some of the righteous predecessors, may Allaah have mercy upon them, said, "It is better for me to invite ten of my friends and feed them delicious food that they like than freeing ten slaves from the children of Ismaa‘eel, may Allaah exalt his mention )i.e. Arabs(."
Abu As-Siwaar Al-‘Adawi, may Allaah have mercy upon him, said, "Some men from the ‘Uday tribe used to pray in this mosque and none of them would break his fast alone. If one found someone to eat with, he would eat. If he could not find someone to eat with, he would take his food and go to the mosque to share it with the people in the mosque."
Fruits of Feeding the Hungry:
The act of worship of feeding the hungry gives rise to many other acts of worship such as showing affection towards one's fellow Muslims whom he feeds and this can be a reason for him being granted Paradise. The Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said:"You shall not enter Paradise as long as you do not affirm belief )in all those things which are the articles of faith( and you will not believe as long as you do not love one another."]Muslim[
It also gives rise to )the act of worship( being in the company of righteous people and hoping for the rewards of Allaah The Almighty in offering them food as they gain strength to perform acts of worship.
Food baskets:
Some righteous predecessors, may Allaah have mercy upon them, used to send their friends a basket full of sugar or other such food.
Yunus ibn ‘Ubayd Yahdi, may Allaah have mercy upon them, said, "I gave a basket of sugar to Al-Hasan Al-Basri, may Allaah have mercy upon him, as a gift and I have not seen any sugar better than this one. He opened the basket and said to his companions, "Eat and enjoy."










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Dought & clear, - Repentance From Fornication and Status of Child

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There is another problem that has been worrying me for some time—namely, I committed fornication with a woman. How do I repent? Can I marry her in order to cover up the whole affair?
Another man says he committed fornication outside his country, and he knows that the woman conceived and delivered a child. Is this his child? And is it obligatory for him to bear the costs of the child’s upbringing?
Praise be to Allah
Questions of this sort are asked so often and by so many that it is time Muslims paid serious attention to their reformation in the light of the Quran and Sunnah (prophetic teachings), in order that such things do not occur in the first place. Special stress is to be placed on the lowering of the gaze, no bodily contact (including shaking hands) between men and women, wearing of the full hijab (women’s Islamic dress code), prohibition of meetings in secrecy in particular and of mixing of sexes in general, discouraging unwarranted travel to non-Muslim countries, and early marriages. As for the question about one who committed fornication, there can be two situations.
Either the man did it by force, that is, raped the woman. Such a man should pay her the amount of mahr (dower) in accordance with her social class, as compensation for what harm he caused her. As for himself, he should sincerely repent. And, if the matter has reached the authorities, then he should be punished according to the law of shari’ah (Islamic law). See Madarij. Or, he has had sex with a woman who consented to the act. There is nothing due from such a man except repentance. Neither the child is his, nor is the cost of upbringing born by him because it is an illegal child and must be attached to the mother and not the father.
The man’s marriage to the woman, for the sake of covering up the issue, is also not permissible. For Allah revealed in the Quran a verse whose meaning can be translated as: “An adulterer does not marry but an adulteress or mushrika (female polytheist). And an adulteress does not marry but an adulterer or mushrik (male polytheist).” (24:3)
It is also not permissible to marry a woman who is pregnant from an adulterous act, even if the man has fathered the baby in the womb, as it is also not permissible to marry a woman about whom it is not known if she is pregnant or not.
Nonetheless, if he repents, and she also repents, and she is not carrying a child, then it is permissible for him to marry her and begin a new life. If she is carrying a child, they must wait until she gives birth.
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Dought & clear, - He committed zina with a woman and wants to marryher, but her father refuses

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I have more of a problem, than a question to ask. I have had a Muslim girlfriend for 2 years, but recently split up. I know that she feels the same way as me, and that we want to marry. The problem is that her parents have warned her not to contact me. If I was to tell them that I took their daughters virginity, will this give me the right to her hand in marriage. I know that it was a sin to do this, but I wasa doing it before I converted to Islam. Now she says that she must obey her family, but i'm so desperate to be with her (for the right reasons) and take her as my wife. In the country where she is from, there are 'religous police' if we had intercourse in her country, then they'd make us marry, but we don it in the UK, does this matter? Please help me, i'm in total dispear at this situation. I will do anything to allow her to become my wife.
Praise be to Allaah.
You must hasten to repent to Allaah from this evil action and major sin, and to ask for forgiveness and do a lot of righteous deeds so that Allaah may forgive you. With regard to the girl with whom you committed zina, it is not permissible for you to marry her unless you both repent to Allaah, it is clear that she is not pregnant and her legal guardian consents to your marrying her. Otherwise, look for a chaste girl and remember how grave your sin was. May Allaah forgive us and you.










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