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Praise and Thanks  for Allah ALHAMDULILLAH  30th janaury 2015,Bangalore,9:55pm Have you made your new year resolutions? If not, try the following. Each is potentially life changing. 1. Give thanks. Once a day take quiet time to feel gratitude for what you have, not impatience for what you don’t have. This alone will bring you halfway to happiness. We already have most of the ingredients of a happy life. It’s just that we tend to take these for granted and focus on unmet wants, unfulfilled desires. Giving thanks is better than shopping – and cheaper too. 2. Praise. Catch someone doing something right and say so. Most people, most of the time, are unappreciated. Being recognised, thanked and congratulated by someone else is one of the most empowering things that can happen to us. So don’t wait for someone to do it for you: do it for someone else. You will make their day, and that will help to make yours. 3. Spend time with your family. Make sure that there is at least...

“Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our G-d, the Lord is one.” These words are the supreme testimony of Jewish faith. Each word is worthy of careful study, but it is the first – the verb  Shema  – that deserves special attention. There was a profound difference between the two civilizations of antiquity that between them shaped the culture of the West: ancient Greece and ancient Israel. The Greeks were the supreme masters of the visual arts: art, sculpture, architecture and the theatre. Jews, as a matter of profound religious principle, were not. G-d, the sole object of worship, is invisible. He transcends nature. He created the universe and is therefore beyond the universe. He cannot be seen. He reveals Himself only in speech. Therefore the supreme religious act in Judaism is to listen . Ancient Greece was a culture of the eye; ancient Israel a culture of the ear. The Greeks worshipped what they saw; Israel worshipped what they heard. This is how Hans Kohn put it in his...

Monotheism is a protest against death-centred cultures. “It is not the dead who praise the Lord, nor those who go down into silence” (Psalm 114) “What profit is there in my death, if I go down into the pit? Can the dust acknowledge You? Can it proclaim your truth?” (Psalm 30). As we open a revealation and we say: “All of you who hold fast to the Lord your G-d are alive today”  The revealation is a tree of life. G-d is the G-d of life. A dead body represents the highest degree of loss of life, and a leprous limb is as if it were dead. It is the same with the loss of seed, because it had been endowed with living power, capable of engendering a human being. Its loss therefore forms a contrast to the living and breathing. By contrast, the Torah goes to great lengths to describe how many of the heroines of the Bible – among them Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Hannah and the Shunamite woman – were infertile and had children only through a miracle. Clearly the Torah intends a message here...

Posted on   August 24, 2014   by   Rabbi Manis Friedman A.  Morality is meant to save lives and bring peace. One does not die for ones morality – Self sacrifice should be reserved for religious issues. B.  Morality should make you stronger not weaker, it should work for you not against you. C.  The only excuse for war is self defense, the only purpose of war is peace. D.  Morality that is nice on the surface but ends in death is not morality at all. E.  We cannot control our enemies misbehavior, but we may not contribute to it. F.  Self defense is a moral obligation not a right. G.  Peace comes not for the love of peace but from the dread of war. H.  Self defense means: to do whatever it takes to insure the safety of your people. I.  The west fights every war with one hand tied behind their back, nice sentiment but not morally correct. The moral form of war is : A war fought to conclusion not to ...

The kitten mews and the mother cat runs and carries it away. Even so, the devotee cries and  the Lord  comes to his rescue. Prayer  is depending on God for help in distress. Prayer is giving an opportunity to God to comfort the devotee. Prayer lightens the heaviness of your heart by opening it to God. Prayer is expecting God to decide what is best for you when you are in a dilemma. Man learns to pray through despair. A mystic state Prayer is not asking, but a communion with God through single-minded devotion. Prayer is nearness to God. It is tuning of the mind with God. It is fixing the mind on God and meditating on Him. Prayer is surrendering oneself to God completely, and melting the mind and ego in silence, in God. Prayer represents a mystic state when the individual consciousness is absorbed in God. It is an uplifting of the soul to God, an act of love and adoration to Him. It is worship and glorification of God. It is thanksgiving to God for all His blessings. P...

what is the meaning of ji'had??Is it holywar???NO NO NO.....please carefully read this,some facts about the arabic word ji'had in english!!! Praise be to Allah.   In Arabic, the word jihad translates as a noun meaning "struggle". Jihad appears 41 times in the Quran and frequently in the idiomatic expression "striving in the way of God (al-jihad fi sabilAllah)". A person engaged in jihad is called a mujahid; the plural is mujahideen. Jihad is an important religious duty for Muslims. Jihad means to struggle to submit your will to Allah, it is a war of struggle you fight within yourself to defeat the forces of evil within yourself. It has nothing to do with terrorism, militants,murderers or whatsoever... are the ones who are falling at jihad but they are not following the Qur'an's instructions. In Arabic, the word jihad means striving and expending one’s energy.  The Prophet [pbuh] regarded kindness to parents as better than Jihad in the way of Allah. I...

Iblis, in Islam, the personal name of the Devil and counterpart of Satan in Judaism and Christianity. Shayṭān (شَيْطٰان)) are evil spirits in Islamic belief, inciting humans to sin by waswasaħ (وَسْوَسَة, “whispering”) to the heart (قَلْب qalb).By such, they always try to lead humans astray. Although demons are usually spoken of in abstract terms, and more often described by their evil influences only, they are depicted as ugly and grotesque creatures of hell-fire. The word Šayṭān (Arabic: شَيْطَان‎) originates from the Semitic root š-ṭ-n ("distant, astray") taking a theological connotation designating a creature distant from divine mercy. In pre-Islamic Arabia, this term was used to designate an evil spirit, but only used by poets who were in contact with Jews and Christians. With the emergence of Islam, the meaning of shayatin moved closer to the Christian concept of devils. The term shayatin appears in a similar way in the Book of Enoch, denoting the hosts of the devil. Ta...