a letter that a mujahid wrote to his wife

dedicated to my princess,

you never once complained when you knew that we would have nothing
you were content on having only what little that you need where others would have left or moaned

you never once left out a sigh
you understood that was written was what we would eat
i never once complained about what was put in front of me as i knew it was your hands that brought it to me
when i had nothing, i had you
you put your trust in your Rabb and in turn you followed me

never did i have to wonder about you as my secrets, my honor and my deen were safe with you
we both know what hardships you faced just by being with me,
but not a word did u speak
you were strong and in turn made me strong like a vanguard for this ummah
you concealed yourself where others would rush to please their desires
you were the essence of taqwa

life was easy with you and it came so naturally
you were the extension of me and i would never need to finish my words as who knew me better than you?
you knew your place which was by my side
it is the little things that make the person and you would easily have kept me going for a lifetime

the way you would look at me with fire in your eyes showed me that i was the only one for you
you stole my heart and hide it away
i loved your jealousy and i loved to tease u with the thought of others just so i could know how dear i was to you
what chance did shaytan have when you would ensure that fajr was the easiest of the salahs

i loved that you would foresake me in an instant to fast a voluntary fast
i love that the haq was dearer to you than my life and those of  our jewels
watchin you makes me laugh as i wonder if my heart will ever want another as i see you feed my child, as you lift her out of the bath, as you wipe her little nose and the face she pulls

you will never find a diamond in the hands of another in the same way our diamond deserves to be carried in your hands
we could have it all my love but who sells paradise for an hour of passing pleasure? not us
in you umm------------ the loyalties of my babies are

they will love what we love
they will love Allah the most glorified , most high
they will love those who they have never met but will long to meet
they will love them better than us
they will love the prophets and the best companions
tehy will love to honor one statement

laa ilahailallaah muhammadun rasulullah

others will fall under the weight of it but not them
their hearts will beat it, their words testify to it and their hands carry it
dont think i left you
dont think that in this world anythin is dearer to me than the minute that i walk home knowing what waits for me behind closed doors

i went to find a better place for us
i went to fulfill the best of deals
i saw it written that if you give your life, eternity would be ours
i saw it written somewhere that this was all a test and i have no doubt that the one who promises us and whose word is the truth must love me very much as He gave me you and you were the hardest thing to give up

they say the mind cannot comprehend what awaits us, that sadness will be forgotten and they say that the eye has yet to see and the ear has yet to hear the beauties that await us in our new home
they say rivers of honey my love they say rivers of milk and wine
they say pearls and gold thrones, they say musk and cool breezes
it is not fitting that i go to see this land afar to take you and our children?

i fear that the gates of opportunity will close behind me my love
i fear others will hear and rush there and i will have nothing to offer to you
i know you will send our sons to look for their father
tell them they will find me in every battle, in every fight where the black flag is flown
tell them that the pain will be a pinch and then they will see what i see, they will see the beautiful birds that come to meet them
tell them the angels will call them by the best of names and most of all that Allah the one the eternal will be pleased with them

i told you once that only two things will have me
you and death
my life was with you but now i must marry again.
i must marry what was promised to me the moment i was born ,
i must marry my fate and in turn i must marry death

after death will come reckoning and if i stand with the best of creation , with the permission of Allah Lord of the heavens and the earth i will beg for u..
none was worthy enough to stand next to me in this life so why is that i should desire another in the next

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MUHAMMAD SAW

MUHAMMAD, No. 1
The 100, a Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
by Michael H. Hart

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels. Of humble origins, Muhammad founded and promulgated one of the world's great religions, and became an immensely effective political leader. Today, thirteen centuries after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive. The majority of the persons in this book had the advantage of being born and raised in centers of civilization, highly cultured or politically pivotal nations. Muhammad, however, was born in the year 570, in the city of Mecca, in southern Arabia, at that time a backward area of the world, far from the centers of trade, art, and learning. Orphaned at age six, he was reared in modest surroundings. Islamic tradition tells us that he was illiterate. His economic position improved when, at age twenty-five, he married a wealthy widow. Nevertheless, as he approached forty, there was little outward indication that he was a remarkable person. Most Arabs at that time were pagans, who believed in many gods. There were, however, in Mecca, a small number of Jews and Christians; it was from them no doubt that Muhammad first learned of a single, omnipotent God who ruled the entire universe. When he was forty years old, Muhammad became convinced that this one true God (Allah) was speaking to him, and had chosen him to spread the true faith. For three years, Muhammad preached only to close friends and associates. Then, about 613, he began preaching in public. As he slowly gained converts, the Meccan authorities came to consider him a dangerous nuisance. In 622, fearing for his safety, Muhammad fled to Medina (a city some 200 miles north of Mecca), where he had been offered a position of considerable political power. This flight, called the Hegira, was the turning point of the Prophet's life. In Mecca, he had had few followers. In Medina, he had many more, and he soon acquired an influence that made him a virtual dictator. During the next few years, while Muhammad's following grew rapidly, a series of battles were fought between Medina and Mecca. This was ended in 630 with Muhammad's triumphant return to Mecca as conqueror. The remaining two and one-half years of his life witnessed the rapid conversion of the Arab tribes to the new religion.

When Muhammad died, in 632, he was the effective ruler of all of southern Arabia. The Bedouin tribesmen of Arabia had a reputation as fierce warriors. But their number was small; and plagued by disunity and internecine warfare, they had been no match for the larger armies of the kingdoms in the settled agricultural areas to the north. However, unified by Muhammad for the first time in history, and inspired by their fervent belief in the one true God, these small Arab armies now embarked upon one of the most astonishing series of conquests in human history. To the northeast of Arabia lay the large Neo-Persian Empire of the Sassanids; to the northwest lay the Byzantine, or Eastern Roman Empire, centered in Constantinople. Numerically, the Arabs were no match for their opponents. On the field of battle, though, the inspired Arabs rapidly conquered all of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine. By 642, Egypt had been wrested from the Byzantine Empire, while the Persian armies had been crushed at the key battles of Qadisiya in 637, and Nehavend in 642. But even these enormous conquests, which were made under the leadership of Muhammad's close friends and immediate successors, Ali, Abu Bakr and 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, did not mark the end of the Arab advance. By 711, the Arab armies had swept completely across North Africa to the Atlantic Ocean There they turned north and, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, overwhelmed the Visigothic kingdom in Spain.

For a while, it must have seemed that the Moslems would overwhelm all of Christian Europe. However, in 732, at the famous Battle of Tours, a Moslem army, which had advanced into the center of France, was at last defeated by the Franks. Nevertheless, in a scant century of fighting, these Bedouin tribesmen, inspired by the word of the Prophet, had carved out an empire stretching from the borders of India to the Atlantic Ocean-the largest empire that the world had yet seen. And everywhere that the armies conquered, large-scale conversion to the new faith eventually followed. Now, not all of these conquests proved permanent. The Persians, though they have remained faithful to the religion of the Prophet, have since regained their independence from the Arabs. And in Spain, more than seven centuries of warfare, finally resulted in the Christians reconquering the entire peninsula. However, Mesopotamia and Egypt, the two cradles of ancient civilization, have remained Moslem, as has the entire coast of North Africa. The new religion, of course, continued to spread, in the intervening centuries, far beyond the borders of the original Moslem conquests. Currently it has tens of millions of adherents in Africa and Central Asia and even more in Pakistan and northern India, and in Indonesia. In Indonesia, the new faith has been a unifying factor. In the Indian subcontinent, however, the conflict between Moslems and Hindus is still a major obstacle to unity.

How, then, is one to assess the overall impact of Muhammad on human history? Like all religions, Islam exerts an enormous influence upon the lives of its followers. It is for this reason that the founders of the world's great religions all figure prominently in this book. Since there are roughly twice as many Christians as Moslems in the world, it may initially seem strange that Muhammad has been ranked higher than Jesus. There are two principal reasons for that decision. First, Muhammad played a far more important role in the development of Islam than Jesus did in the development of Christianity. Although Jesus was responsible for the main ethical and moral precepts of Christianity (insofar as these differed from Judaism), St. Paul was the main developer of Christian theology, its principal proselytizer, and the author of a large portion of the New Testament. Muhammad, however, was responsible for both the theology of Islam and its main ethical and moral principles. In addition, he played the key role in proselytizing the new faith, and in establishing the religious practices of Islam. Moreover, he is the author of the Moslem holy scriptures, the Koran, a collection of certain of Muhammad's insights that he believed had been directly revealed to him by Allah. Most of these utterances were copied more or less faithfully during Muhammad's lifetime and were collected together in authoritative form not long after his death. The Koran therefore, closely represents Muhammad's ideas and teachings and to a considerable extent his exact words. No such detailed compilation of the teachings of Christ has survived. Since the Koran is at least as important to Moslems as the Bible is to Christians, the influence of Muhammad through the medium of the Koran has been enormous. It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity.

On the purely religious level, then, it seems likely that Muhammad has been as influential in human history as Jesus. Furthermore, Muhammad (unlike Jesus) was a secular as well as a religious leader. In fact, as the driving force behind the Arab conquests, he may well rank as the most influential political leader of all time. Of many important historical events, one might say that they were inevitable and would have occurred even without the particular political leader who guided them. For example, the South American colonies would probably have won their independence from Spain even if Simon Bolivar had never lived. But this cannot be said of the Arab conquests. Nothing similar had occurred before Muhammad, and there is no reason to believe that the conquests would have been achieved without him. The only comparable conquests in human history are those of the Mongols in the thirteenth century, which were primarily due to the influence of Genghis Khan. These conquests, however, though more extensive than those of the Arabs, did not prove permanent, and today the only areas occupied by the Mongols are those that they held prior to the time of Genghis Khan. It is far different with the conquests of the Arabs. From Iraq to Morocco, there extends a whole chain of Moslem nations united not merely by their faith in Islam, but also by their Arabic language, history, and culture.

The centrality of the Koran in the Moslem religion and the fact that it is written in Arabic have probably prevented the Arab language from breaking up into mutually unintelligible dialects, which might otherwise have occurred in the intervening thirteen centuries. Differences and divisions between these Arab states exist, of course, and they are considerable, but the partial disunity should not blind us to the important elements of unity that have continued to exist. For instance, neither Iran nor Indonesia, both oil-producing states and both Islamic in religion joined in the oil embargo of the winter of 1973-74. It is no coincidence that all of the Arab states, and only the Arab states, participated in the embargo. We see, then, that the Arab conquests of the seventh century have continued to play an important role in human history, down to the present day. It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history.

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There is no word as beautiful as ALLAH
There is no example as beautiful as RASULULLAH
There is no lesson as beautiful as ISLAM
There is no song as melodious as ADZAN
There is no charity as meaningful as ZAKAT
There is no encyclopedia as perfect as AL QURAN
There is no exercise as perfect as SHOLAH
There is no diet as perfect as FASTING
There is no journey as perfect as HAJJ