All perfect praise be to Allaah, the Lord of the worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad , is His Slave and Messenger.

Good deeds are a means for being admitted into Paradise, even a condition for that goal. Allaah The Almighty Says (what means): {And that is Paradise which you are made to inherit for what you used to do.}[Quran 43:72]

However, good deeds, no matter how great they are, will not admit a person into Paradise unless they are coupled with the mercy and favor of Allaah. If there is just treatment but not favor from Allaah The Almighty, man will never enter Paradise.

The mercy of Allaah The Almighty is most important here. Therefore, anyone who experiences it will have his good deeds accepted and sins forgiven, whereas anyone who forfeits the mercy of Allaah and receives close reckoning will perish.

Based on this, we can understand the following verse and Hadeeth in combination: Allaah The Almighty Says (what means): {And that is Paradise which you are made to inherit for what you used to do.}[Quran 43: 72] It was narrated that the Prophet , said that none will enter Paradise by virtue of his own deeds, even the Prophet , himself, who will be admitted by the mercy of Allaah. [Al-Bukhaari and Muslim]

Reconciling the above verse and Hadeeth, Shaykh Haafith Al-Hakami said that the verse indicates that good deeds are a means for entering Paradise, but the Hadeeth confirms that work is not the equivalent price for this. This is because fasting, praying at night and abstaining from all sins throughout one’s entire life could never equal or be the same as the smallest part of any outward or inward favor of Allaah, let alone the price for entering Paradise

There is a nice interpretation of this concept by some scholars who say that man does not do good deeds except by the mercy of Allaah, who guides the person to do them. Therefore, if man is admitted into Paradise, he will enter it by the mercy of Allaah.

Narrated Aisha (ra): The Messenger of Allah (sa) said, “Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most beloved deed to Allah is the most regular and constant even though it were little.”

A Brother's & Sisters Like You

I’m so thankful I have a brother
like you to count on.
I know you’ll always be there
with open arms if I need a hug,
and an open mind if I need someone
to understand.
I’m so glad that I can
be myself around you.
You know my qualities and my faults.
and you love me just the same.

I’m so proud to have a brother like you...
not just for what you have accomplished,
but for who you are.
I’m so lucky to have you to talk
and laugh with ...
to reminisce and make
new memories with.
I can’t tell you
how much it means
to have a brother like you.
You’re one of the most important
people in my life.

Thanks for being ...
... a brother like you.

I love you all

Love My Brothers & Sisters

Some Islamic Quotes from Saheeh Ahaadeeth:

Dhikr of Allah Ta’ala is the thing to improve akhlaq, do sincere dhikr of Allah Ta’ala and such a light will enter your heart that people will say what good akhlaq this person has.

May Allah grant us beautiful akhlaq, ameen.

And Allaah Knows best.

MAY GO DBLESS YOU AND FOREVER

JazakAllah Khairan

Why our Supplications are not answered.

Ibrahim bin Adham, may Allah have mercy upon him, was a third century scholar, a teacher and companion of Sufyaan Ath-Thawree, and he was asked about the saying of Allah, the Most high:

“And your Lord says: Call on me and I will answer your prayer” [Al Qur’an 41:60]

“You know Allah, Yet you do not obey him,
You recite the Qur’an, Yet you do not act according to it,
You know the Shaitaan, Yet you have agreed with him,
You proclaim to love the Messenger of Allah,
Yet you abandon His Sunnah,
You proclaim your love for Paradise, Yet you do not act to gain it,
You proclaim your fear of the fire,
Yet you do not prevent yourselves from sins,
You say ‘Indeed death is true’, Yet you do not prepare for it,
You busy yourselves with finding faults with others,
Yet you do not look at your own faults,
You eat that which Allah has provided for you,
Yet you do not thank him,
You bury your dead, Yet you do not take a lesson from it.”

[Sahih Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 76, # 471]

عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ سَدِّدُوا وَقَارِبُوا، وَاعْلَمُوا أَنْ لَنْ يُدْخِلَ أَحَدَكُمْ عَمَلُهُ الْجَنَّةَ، وَأَنَّ أَحَبَّ الأَعْمَالِ أَدْوَمُهَا إِلَى اللَّهِ، وَإِنْ قَلَّ

So again the prophet Muhammad clarifies this issue and makes it clear that our good deeds will not make us enter paradise, hence a Muslim's salvation does not lie in his good works or good deeds, and hence the Christians have been attacking a STRAW MAN the whole time, and have been basically arguing against a doctrine that does not even exist for the Muslims!