Iqra Newsletter - March Edition

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Assalamu Alaikum all,

Spring Break is over and a total of five weeks is leftof OSUs first Spring Semester. The stress andefforts of this semester are beginning to close in andsoon graduating seniors will be vacating their postsand moving on to bigger and greater things,inshallah. But for now, we are still together (clich, Iknow) and the MSA has a spew of incredibleupcoming events, meetings and GBMs!

A big event that the MSA will be doing for the firsttime is,Half Our Ummah: An examination of the role ofMuslim women in contemporary society. The one-dayseminar on March 31st will include a number ofsessions covering topics ranging from ImportantWomen in Islam to the role of women inside andoutside the home. There will also be anentertainment session in the evening to conclude theseminar. The seminar is free of charge for everyoneand there will also be free babysitting available.

Iqra Issue 7: Smile, its charity

-Mushtaq Dualeh | Iqra Newsletter Director

Ottoman Architecture

Upcoming March Events

Location: DavisInterfaith Room

Film Festival 3/22

MSA-SSA presents:

Islam versus Culture 3/29

Election Day 3/29

Half Our Ummah 3/31


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How was Eve created? Was she really

created from the rib of Adam?The claim that Eve was created from the rib of Adam is a Biblical claim.

According to the Holy Quran, Eve was not created from the rib of

Adam. Allah (SWT) clearly mentions in the Quran that Adam and Eve

were both created from one soul, and not that Eve was created from

Adams rib. This one soul refers to the general human soul from which

both Adam and Eve (male and female) were created. This expression is

repeated three times in the Quran. Unfortunately, some scholars

mistranslate it as Eve having been created from Adam, but this is amistranslation influenced by the Biblical version and some Israelite

narrations. The correct translation is below:

O mankind! Be careful of your duty to your Lord Who created you from

a single soul and from it created its mate (4:1)

As for the issue of how the children of Adam and Eve would have

reproduced, the most likely answer is the sons of Adam married the

daughters of Adam. Even though incest is impermissible and has always

been so, the definition of incest is marriage between relatives. However,

since Adams children were the only people alive at the time, they werenot relatives in the sense that they were not closer to each other in

comparison to other people on Earth, because there was no one else on

Earth. Therefore, the definition of incest cannot apply to that situation.

Answered by: Dr Ali Alsamail

Certified by: Sheikh Mansour Leghaei


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Effects of the First Heart Corrupter - Ibn Al-Qayyim

By: Meredith Spano

Response to Issue 6sPartition of the Mosque

And Behold, with everyhardship comes ease. Verily,with every hardship comesease.

A funeral procession once passed in front

of the Prophet Muhammed (peace be uponhim) and he stood up out of respect. When

he was told the person in the coffin was

Jewish and not Muslim, he said: Was it

not a living (soul)?

Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 2, Hadith 399

Sahih bukhari, hadith 399

Surat Ash-sharh Verses 5-6

My response to the Iqra article about partitions on the

masjid, and specifically that it's preferable in situations of

fitnah comes from this site:

http://www.themodernreligion.com/basic/charac/essays_p

artition_mosque.htm

"'Ibn 'Abbass said, 'A beautiful woman, from among the

most beautiful of women, used to pray behind the Prophet

(SAAW). Some of the people used to go to pray in the

front row to ensure they would not be able to see her.

Others would pray in the last row of the men, and they

would look from underneath their armpits to see her.'

Because of this act, in regard to her, Allah revealed:

'Verily, We know the eager among you to be in the front

and verily We know the eager to be behind.' (15:24).

Narrated by Ibn Majah, Abu Dawud, Attayalisy, Baihaqi,

Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Nasai and others. It was judgedauthentic by Sheikh Al-Albaanee in his book, Silsilat Al-

Ahaadeeth As-Saheehah #2472, where he quoted many

scholars who judged it to be authentic.

As you can see from this Hadeeth, there was a Fitnah, but

the answer was not a partition, rather it was the reminder

of Allah. What suffices for them suffices for us, and

Allah knows best."

hearing and sight, as well as the absence of

distractions and impediments from it.

These five (corrupters) extinguish its light, distort

its vision, muffle its hearing, if they do not deafen

it, dumfound it, and weaken its powers/strengths

altogether.

They weaken its health, slacken its drive, halt itsdecisions, and reverse it (sending it backwards).And

if one does not sense it, his heart is dead as

wounding a corpse does not inflict pain. They are

impediments that prevent it from achieving its

perfection, and prevent it from arriving to what it was

created for, and making its pleasure and happiness

ibtihaah and its enjoyment in arriving to it.

For there is no pleasure, sweetness, ibtihaaj, or

perfection except by knowing Allaah and loving

The Five Heart Corrupters are: Excessive

socializing, wishful thinking, attachment to

others besides Allaah, eating to ones fill, and

sleep. These five factors are the greatest

corrupters of the heart.

In this article I will mention the effects that are

common to all of them as well as those effectsthat are unique to each of them.

Know that the heart is on a journey to Allaah,

Most Great and Glorious, and to the world of the

Hereafter, and [that it is able to] discover the path

of truth as well as the faults of the soul and of

deeds.

Its path is traversed with its light, life, strength,

health, determination (azm), the soundness of its


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Him, peace in remembrance of Him, happiness

and ibtihaaj in being close to Him and desiring

to meet Him.[1]

This is (the hearts) early paradise. As there will be

no pleasure or success for it in the Hereafter,

except by being its neighbour in the abode of

pleasure in the early paradise. It has two

paradises. It will not enter the second of the two if

it did not enter the first.

I heard Shaykhul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah may

Allaah have mercy on him say:

Indeed there is a paradise in thisworld, whoever doesnt enter it will

not enter the paradise of the

Hereafter. .

Some of those known for their love of

Allaah (al-muhibboon) [were reported

to have] said:

The truly unfortunate people of this

world are those who leave the world

without tasting the sweetest thing it

contains.

When they were asked what it was,

they replied:

The love of Allaah, to feel comfortable in His

company, to desire to meet Him, turning

towards Him and turning away from everything

besides Him.

Or some words similar to that.[2]

Everyone who has a heart bears witness to this

and knows it as a result of having tasted it. And

these five matters cut [the person] off from this,

block the heart from it, impede its journey, cause

sicknesses and defects for which, if the sick

person does not realize it, [destruction] is feared.

The First Corrupter: Frequent Socializing

The effect of frequent socializing is that it fills the

heart with the smoke of anfaas of humans until it

becomes black, [3] causing it to be scattered, torn

apart, worried, upset, and weak.

It causes it to carry what it is unable to from munat

evil companions and waste what is beneficial for it,

by becoming too preoccupied with evil companions

and their matters to attend to what is beneficial.

(The heart instead is busy with) scattered thoughts

in the valleys of their requests and wishes. So what

remains of it for Allaah and the life to come?

How many adversities has mixing with people

brought and how many blessings has it

repelled? [How many] trials has it caused and

opportunities disabled, raziyyah caused to

fall in baliyyah. Is aafah the downfall ofpeople caused by other than people?

Did Aboo Taalib at the time of his death

have anything more harmful to himself than

evil companions? They remained with him

until they blocked him from the one

statement that would have guaranteed him

eternal pleasure.

This socializing based on love in this world,

the fulfilment of desires from others, will

change into enmity when the realitiesbecome manifest, and some of those who

socialized will bite their hands in regret as

the Almighty said:

On the Day when the sinner will bite his hands

saying: If only I had taken a way to the Messenger.

Woe to me, if only I hadnt taken so-and-so as a

close friend. He misguided me from the

Remembrance after it came to me. And Satan is

forever a deserter of humans in their time of need.

(Soorah al-Furqaan, 25: 27-9)

He also said:

Close friends on that Day will be foes of each other

except the God-fearing. (Soorah az-Zukhruf, 43:

67)

And He said:

Indeed what you have taken besides Allaah is only

idols. Love between you is only in this world, but on

Continued from Page 3

Close friendson that Daywill be foes ofeach otherexcept the

God-fearing.(Soorah az-

Zukhruf, 43:67)


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the Day of Resurrection you will disown each other

and curse each other and your abode will be the fire

and you will have no helpers. (Soorah al-Ankaboot,

29: 25)

That is the state of those who share goals, they love

each other as long they help each other to achieve

it.

But if the goal is cut off, it is followed by regret,

sadness and pain, and that love will change into

hatred, cursing, blame of one another, and the goals

change into unhappiness and punishment, as is

witnessed in this life in the states of those who

share in khizyah failure, if they are caught andpunished.

Each supporter of falsehood, friendly regarding it,

their mutual love must eventually change into hatred

and enmity.

The useful defining principle in the matter of

socializing is that one should mix with people in

[acts of] goodness like Jumuah, the Eeds, Hajj,

learning knowledge, Jihaad, giving advice; and

avoid them in [acts of] evil, as well as

unnecessary permissible things.

If necessity requires mixing with them in evil and

avoiding them is not possible,then beware, beware

of agreeing with them. And be patient with their

harm, for they must harm him if he does not have

power or a helper.

However, it is harm followed by honor and love for

him, respect and praise for him from them, the

believers, and from the Lord of the worlds.

Thus, patience with their harm is a better ending and

a more praiseworthy conclusion.

If necessity requires mixing with them in

unnecessary permissible things, he should strive to

transform the gathering into one of obedience to

Allaah if it is possible, he should encourage

himself and strengthen his heart, and not pay

attention to the satanic whisper of

discouragement which will prevent him from

that, that this is riyaa showing off, a love of

displaying ones knowledge and state, etc., he

should fight it and seek help from Almighty Allaah

and try to affect them as positively as he can.

If destiny prevents him from that, he should remove

his heart from among them the way a hair is

removed from dough.Among them he should be

present yet absent, close yet far and asleep yet

awake. He should look at them and not see

them, hear their words but not be conscious of

them, because he has removed his heart from

among them and ascended with it to the

uppermost hosts (al-malail-alaa) glorifying

[Allaah] around the throne along with the pure

celestial spirits.

How difficult this is and trying for the souls, [yet] it iseasy for whoever Allaah makes it easy. Between a

slave and [that state] is that he be truthful to Allaah

Blessed and High continually seeking refuge in

Him, and that he throw his soul on [Allaahs]

doorstep in humility and tareeh.

Nothing will help him to do that besides sincere

love, continual remembrance of Allaah with the

heart and tongue, and avoidance of the remaining

four corrupters to be mentioned.

He will achieve this except with righteous

preparation and strong material from Allaah Most

Great and Glorious and a truthful conviction, and

freedom from attachment to other than Allaah, Most

High. And Allaah Almighty knows best.

For the other four heart corrupters,

check out Purification of the Soul on

Islamhouse.com

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Q&A with Faraan

Faraan is like an old couch, softand cuddly on the outside, lumpyand uncomfortable on the inside

Warm, cuddly south Asian, one ofa kind furry bear

The grumpiest teddy bear Iever saw.

He sucks at Connect Four. I onlylet him beat me. Ya know, toboost his self-esteem.

What do YOU have to say about Faraan?

Treasurer

I wanna pinch his cheeks allday.

Q: Favorite FoodA: Rice

Q: Spare time?A: video games, watch tv shows, read.

Q: Phobias?

A: Women gaining too many "rights"

Q: Favorite Pokemon?A: Bulbasaur

Q: Favorite comedy growing up?A: Spongebob

Q: Travel?A: I want to go somewhere in the Middle Eastto improve my Arabic.

My name is

Faraan and

Im the MSA

treasurer. Yea,

thats about it.


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Q&A* with Moiz

Such a positive character! Great person,mashAllah.

Moizs curly hair is awesome.

Moiz is cool. Hes a really nice personand if you need connections, he can

hook you up.

Moiz makes noise.

Q: What's your favorite movie/book line?Something Bane said. -The Dark Knight Rises

Q: Your favorite book/movie?The Dark Night Rises

Q: Favorite Food?I love Chipotle. Its the bomb diggity.

Q: What do you do in your spare time?Playing Basketball. I like to shoot them hoops.

Q: If you were a super hero what powers wouldyou have?Flying.

Q: What is your most essential appliance?Phone. I need to be connected. All da time.

Q: Which is your favorite Pokmon?Charzard. He spits flames. Supa Hot Fire.

Q: If you could travel anywhere in the world,where would it be?Mexico

Q: What was your favorite comedy growingup?The Fresh Prince

Q: Who is the funniest person you know?HarryStyles. Sike, nah, naalpunganochunga,yooooo.

What do YOU have to say about Moiz?

Brotherhood

His name is actually Syed Hasan.Moiz is a lieeeeeeeeeee.

Hes the worst person to exist in thehistory of the world. Jk Hes a goodperson to work with and always has apositive attitude!

*Due to lack of information, the Iqra staff had to guess Moizs answers. We think we did pretty good job. Dont you?


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This sermon was delivered on the Ninth Day of Islamic month ofDhul-Hijjah Year 632 A.C (10 A.H.) in the Uranah valley of MountArafat in Mecca.After praising and thanking Allah the Prophet (saws) said:

O People, lend me an attentive ear, for I know not whether after this year I shall ever be amongst

you again. Therefore listen to what I am saying very carefully and take these words to those who

could not be present here today.

O People, just as you regard this month, this day, this city as Sacred, so regard the life and property of

every Muslim as a sacred trust. Return the goods entrusted to you to their rightful owners. Hurt no one

so that no one may hurt you. Remember that you will indeed meet your Lord, and that he will indeed

reckon your deeds. Allah has forbidden you to take usury (interest), therefore all interest obligations

shall henceforth be waived. Your capital is yours to keep. You will neither inflict nor suffer any inequity.Allah has judged that there shall be no interest and that all the interest due to Abbas ibn Abdal

Muttalib [the Prophet's uncle] be waived.

Every right arising out of homicide in pre-Islamic days is henceforth waived and the first such right that

i waive is that arising from the murder of Rabiah ibn al Harithibn.

O People, the unbelievers indulge in tampering with the calender in order to make permissible that

which Allah forbade, and to forbid that which Allah has made permissible. With Allah the months are

twelve in number. Four of them are holy, three of these are successive and one occurs singly between

the months of Jumada and Shaban.

Beware of Satan, for the safety of your religion. He has lost all hope of that he will be able to lead you

astray in big things, so beware of following him in small things.

O People, it is true that you have certain rights with regard to your women but they also have rights

over you. Remember that you have taken them as your wives only under Allahs trust and with His

permission. If they abide by your right, then to them belongs the right to be fed and clothed in

kindness. Do treat your women well and be kind to them for they are your partners and committed

helpers. And it is your right that they do not make friends with anyone of whom you do not approve,

as well as never to be unchaste. O People, listen to me in earnest, worship Allah, say your five daily

prayers, fast during the month of Ramadhan, and give your wealth in Zakat. Perform Hajj if you can

afford to.

All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any

superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority

over a white except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim

and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim, whichbelongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not therefore do injustice to

yourselves. Remember one day you will meet Allah and answer your deeds. So beware: do not stray

from the path of righteousness after I am gone.

O People, no prophet or apostle will come after me, and no new faith will be born. Reason well,

therefore, O People, and understand my words, which I convey to you. I leave behind me two things,

the Quran and my Sunnah and if you follow these you will never go astray.

All those who listen to me shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; and may the

last ones understand my words better than those who listen to me directly. Be my witness, O Allah,

that I have conveyed Your message to Your people.

The Last Sermon


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