Shaykh Yassir Fazaga on KROQ (rock radio station)

"Ask a Muslim" on the "Kevin and Bean Show" on KROQ

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Shaykh Yassir is breakin' it down. He is the Imam of the Mission Viejo masjid in "The OC" ... my community in so-cal before I moved to the bay area.

Hafiz Aslam told us this story too

I'm at the second mufti mudassir lecture in the Ramadan 2007 series:

 

"Zindagi Ki Buniyad - Allah Ka Khauf Aur Allah Se Ummeed"

 

http://www.bayaans.org/Ramadan2007/allah_ka_khauf_aur_ummeed.mp3 

 

which I get from:

http://www.bayaans.org/ramadan2007.html 

 

I'm referring to the story about the woman who built some water pipelines or something to alleviate the difficulties of hajj for the hujjaj. She passed away later on. So she and others figured that she must be going to Jannah for that. One person saw her in a dream (yes this is possible, we believe in the karamah of a awliya according to aqeedah tahawiyya, i'll let you read up on the details of it)... well anyway, in that dream this woman told the dreamer that when she presented this deed to Allah, it wasn't accepted cuz the money used was from government money anyway. But she entered Jannah anyway because one day she was eating, and the adhan started from a local Masjid, and she fell in a deep state of awe at the greatness of Allah, and she stopped eating and fixed her scarf to cover all of her hair (it was slipping off). .... and that was the action, although small, but packed with sincerity by which Allah entered her into Jannah.

 

And for the record, Hafiz Aslam heard this story from Shaykh Zulfiqaar Ahmed Naqshbandi at an ijtima in Sacramento around 2.5-3.5 years or so ago. And also for the record, I don't know where Mufti Mudassir heard/read it.

 

But its def worth listening to Mufti Mudassir tell the story directly.

Mufti Mudassir Owais is amazing

http://www.bayaans.org/Ramadan2007/akhirat_qayamat_tazkirah.mp3 

 

Just listen to it.

 

I was listening to Ustadh Muhammad Alshareef's Usul al Fiqh series that i got from ISNA, done with that, now moving on to Mufti Mudassir's Ramadan 2007 lectures. It's all in urdu:

 

http://www.bayaans.org/ramadan2007.html 

 

 

Tafsir on Surah Fatihah by Imam Suhaib Webb

in MP3 format

http://www.savefile.com/files/1131838

http://www.savefile.com/files/1131833

http://www.savefile.com/files/1131846

... I had gotten this from UC Berkeley's MSA's (Cal MSA) website a few years ago, its no longer there AFAIK.

Sister Aminah (a hijabi) on the Tyra Banks Show

Yeah! represent the deen sister, mashAllah, may Allah reward her immensely. Ameen.

The Beard

I just came back from my trip to Dallas, TX... We had gone there for Eid. After tarawih all the uncles would establish a little mehfil situation in the parking lot. They'd mainly tell cultural uncle jokes and stuff. But this one uncle, who was a very interesting character, would tell people about Islam. So any way Ateeq Uncle (which was his name) said:

"The beard is in Islam, Islam isn't in the beard"

... he said it in urdu, but that's a good translation, but it flows a little nicer in urdu.

It's true, my buddy mustafa umar ( www.mustafaumar.com ) once made an observation that the ummah seems to be very concerned with the beard, but the biggest sunnah is tahajjud -- but you don't see people focusing on it as much.

... but yeah, i liked his quote.

... and i don't mean to de-emphasize the beard.

Ahmadinejad meeting with Jewish leaders

Othodox Jews are awesome, they're the Jews that actually follow their religious teachings, may Allah guide them to the straight path inshAllah. We also had an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi come to UCI to speak against Zionism, and man, he took it to the zionists.

http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/differencejudzion.html

http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/

Seeing the world through craigslist

Ok, maybe i have too much time on my hands, but one very interesting thing to do is to go to craigslist.org and pick another country, click on cars+trucks under the "for sale" section, and see all the pictures. You actually get to see some real live images of non-hollywood-tainted people just living their normal lives.
 
its interesting. It's interesting enough to see the kinds of cars they drive, but its even more interesting to see the people in the background.
 
For example, here's bangalore, india (the tech capitol of india):
 
http://bangalore.craigslist.org/search/car?query=&minAsk=min&maxAsk=max&addTwo=&hasPic=1  
 
... you can probably do the same thing for different countries and different websites.

 

Chinese toy manufacturing plants

http://www.mazm.com/2007/09/19/38.toys-manufacture-in-china-25-pics.html 

 

 

One thing to keep in mind is that the chinese gov't doesn't usually allow american reporters to take pictures, so my speculation is that these are pics of a particularly good plant.