ISLAM SUFI

Days of my life pass by as dreams

And I can do nothing to stop this time

“O” Giver of life don’t let my life become a dream

Wake me up from this dream like life

And let me experience the reality which is You

For one moment of real life with You is better than a million years of dreams

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PROPHET MUHAMMAD IN PARSI SCRIPTURES

The Epistle of Sasan I in Dasatir contains the
prophecy about Prophet Muhammad. Sasan I was a reformer of the
Zoroastrian religion. It is believed that this Epistle is a part of the
teachings of Prophet Zoroaster, to which Sasan I added his
explanatory notes. Some scholars have suggested that the word ‘Dasatir’
means ten (das) parts (tir) while others contend that this word is
derived from Dasatur, meaning religious law. The Zoroastrians are also
known as ‘Magians’ and ‘Fire Worshipers.’

The Epistle of Sasan I describes future events at a time when
Zoroastrians will have forsaken their religious practices. The English
translation of the Epistle of Sasan I is presented below.

“When the Persians will do such deeds, a man from among the Arabs will be born whose followers shall overthrow and dissolve the kingdom and religion of the Persians.

And the arrogant people (Persians) will be subjugated.

Instead of the temple of fire and the house of idols they will see the House of Abraham without any idols as their Qibla.

“And they (Muslims) will be a mercy to the worlds.

And they will capture the places of temples of fire, Madain
(Ctesiphon), nearby lands, Tus and Balkh, and other eminent and sacred
places (of Zoroastrians).
And their leader (Prophet Muhammad) will be an eloquent man whose words and message will be clear and far-reaching.”

The word by word translation of the Epistle of Sasan I is given
below. The text of this Epistle is taken from Dasatir published by Mulla Pheroze
during the reign of Shah Nasiruddeen Kachar of Persia. Mulla Pheroze
lived in Bombay (India) and he was an eminent scholar of Pahlavi, Zend,
Persian, and Arabic languages. He consulted with several famous
Zoroastrians priests to authenticate his translation. The original text
is in Pahlavi.

There are many prophecies in Dasatir and in Zend Avesta, the other sacred book of the Zoroastrians. The word ‘Astvat-ereta’ in the prophecies means ‘the praised one’
which is Muhammad in Arabic. Some prophecies are found in Farvardin
Yasht XIII:17 and XXVIII:129, Zamyad Yasht: 95, and Atash Nyayish: 9.

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Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:(r)

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Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Abbas:( a close companion or disciple of Prophet Muhammad(s) )

Heraclius said, "Bring him (Abu Sufyan) close to me and make his
companions stand behind him." Abu Sufyan added, Heraclius told his
translator to tell my companions that he wanted to put some questions
to me regarding that man (The Prophet) and that if I told a lie they
(my companions) should contradict me." Abu Sufyan added, "By Allah!
Had I not been afraid of my companions labeling me a liar, I would not
have spoken the truth about the Prophet. The first question he asked
me about him was:

'What is his family status amongst you?'

I replied, 'He belongs to a good (noble) family amongst us.'

Heraclius further asked, 'Has anybody amongst you ever claimed the
same (i.e. to be a Prophet) before him?'

I replied, 'No.'

He said, 'Was anybody amongst his ancestors a king?'

I replied, 'No.'

Heraclius asked, 'Do the nobles or the poor follow him?'

I replied, 'It is the poor who follow him.'

He said, 'Are his followers increasing decreasing (day by day)?'

I replied, 'They are increasing.'

He then asked, 'Does anybody amongst those who embrace his religion
become displeased and renounce the religion afterwards?'

I replied, 'No.'

Heraclius said, 'Have you ever accused him of telling lies before his
claim (to be a Prophet)?'

I replied, 'No. '

Heraclius said, 'Does he break his promises?'

I replied, 'No. We are at truce with him but we do not know what he
will do in it.' I could not find opportunity to say anything against
him except that.

Heraclius asked, 'Have you ever had a war with him?'

I replied, 'Yes.'

Then he said, 'What was the outcome of the battles?'

I replied, 'Sometimes he was victorious and sometimes we.'

Heraclius said, 'What does he order you to do?'

I said, 'He tells us to worship Allah and Allah alone and not to
worship anything along with Him, and to renounce all that our
ancestors had said. He orders us to pray, to speak the truth, to be
chaste and to keep good relations with our Kith and kin.'

Heraclius asked the translator to convey to me the following, I asked
you about his family and your reply was that he belonged to a very
noble family. In fact all the Apostles come from noble families
amongst their respective peoples. I questioned you whether anybody
else amongst you claimed such a thing, your reply was in the negative.
If the answer had been in the affirmative, I would have thought that
this man was following the previous man's statement. Then I asked you
whether anyone of his ancestors was a king. Your reply was in the
negative, and if it had been in the affirmative, I would have thought
that this man wanted to take back his ancestral kingdom.

I further asked whether he was ever accused of telling lies before he
said what he said, and your reply was in the negative. So I wondered
how a person who does not tell a lie about others could ever tell a
lie about Allah. I, then asked you whether the rich people followed
him or the poor. You replied that it was the poor who followed him.
And in fact all the Apostle have been followed by this very class of
people. Then I asked you whether his followers were increasing or
decreasing. You replied that they were increasing, and in fact this is
the way of true faith, till it is complete in all respects. I further
asked you whether there was anybody, who, after embracing his
religion, became displeased and discarded his religion. Your reply was
in the negative, and in fact this is (the sign of) true faith, when
its delight enters the hearts and mixes with them completely. I asked
you whether he had ever betrayed. You replied in the negative and
likewise the Apostles never betray. Then I asked you what he ordered
you to do. You replied that he ordered you to worship Allah and Allah
alone and not to worship any thing along with Him and forbade you to
worship idols and ordered you to pray, to speak the truth and to be
chaste. If what you have said is true, he will very soon occupy this
place underneath my feet and I knew it (from the scriptures) that he
was going to appear but I did not know that he would be from you, and
if I could reach him definitely, I would go immediately to meet him
and if I were with him, I would certainly wash his feet.' Heraclius
then asked for the letter addressed by Allah's Apostle

which was delivered by Dihya to the Governor of Busra, who forwarded
it to Heraclius to read. The contents of the letter were as follows:
"In the name of Allah the Beneficent, the Merciful (This letter is)
from Muhammad the slave of Allah and His Apostle to Heraclius the
ruler of Byzantine. Peace be upon him, who follows the right path.
Furthermore I invite you to Islam, and if you become a Muslim you will
be safe, and Allah will double your reward, and if you reject this
invitation of Islam you will be committing a sin by misguiding your
Arisiyin (peasants). (And I recite to you Allah's Statement:)

'O people of the scripture! Come to a word common to you and us that
we worship none but Allah and that we associate nothing in worship
with Him, and that none of us shall take others as Lords beside Allah.
Then, if they turn away, say: Bear witness that we are Muslims (those
who have surrendered to Allah).' (3:64).

Abu Sufyan then added, "When Heraclius had finished his speech and had
read the letter, there was a great hue and cry in the Royal Court. So
we were turned out of the court. I told my companions that the
question of Ibn-Abi-Kabsha) (the Prophet Muhammad) has become so
prominent that even the King of Bani Al-Asfar (Byzantine) is afraid of
him. Then I started to become sure that he (the Prophet) would be the
conqueror in the near future till I embraced Islam (i.e. Allah guided
me to it)."

The sub narrator adds, "Ibn An-Natur was the Governor of llya'
(Jerusalem) and Heraclius was the head of the Christians of Sham. Ibn
An-Natur narrates that once while Heraclius was visiting ilya'
(Jerusalem), he got up in the morning with a sad mood. Some of his
priests asked him why he was in that mood? Heraclius was a foreteller
and an astrologer. He replied, 'At night when I looked at the stars, I
saw that the leader of those who practice circumcision had appeared
(become the conqueror). Who are they who practice circumcision?' The
people replied, 'Except the Jews nobody practices circumcision, so you
should not be afraid of them (Jews).

'Just Issue orders to kill every Jew present in the country.'

While they were discussing it, a messenger sent by the king of Ghassan
to convey the news of Allah's Apostle to Heraclius was brought in.
Having heard the news, he (Heraclius) ordered the people to go and see
whether the messenger of Ghassan was circumcised. The people, after
seeing him, told Heraclius that he was circumcised. Heraclius then
asked him about the Arabs. The messenger replied, 'Arabs also practice
circumcision.'

(After hearing that) Heraclius remarked that sovereignty of the 'Arabs
had appeared. Heraclius then wrote a letter to his friend in Rome who
was as good as Heraclius in knowledge. Heraclius then left for Homs.
(a town in Syrian and stayed there till he received the reply of his
letter from his friend who agreed with him in his opinion about the
emergence of the Prophet and the fact that he was a Prophet. On that
Heraclius invited all the heads of the Byzantines to assemble in his
palace at Homs. When they assembled, he ordered that all the doors of
his palace be closed. Then he came out and said, 'O Byzantines! If
success is your desire and if you seek right guidance and want your
empire to remain then give a pledge of allegiance to this Prophet
(i.e. embrace Islam).'

(On hearing the views of Heraclius) the people ran towards the gates
of the palace like onagers but found the doors closed. Heraclius
realized their hatred towards Islam and when he lost the hope of their
embracing Islam, he ordered that they should be brought back in
audience.

(When they returned) he said, 'What already said was just to test the
strength of your conviction and I have seen it.' The people prostrated
before him and became pleased with him, and this was the end of
Heraclius's story (in connection with his faith).

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My Lord I shall repent to You tomorrow

If tomorrow never comes ?

My Lord I shall make a sincere effort to know you tomorrow

If tomorrow never comes ?

My Lord I shall finish my all worldly responsibilities and
worship you tomorrow

If tomorrow never comes ?

My Lord I have planned it perfectly that I will turn towards
You tomorrow

If tomorrow never comes ?

What right has the one who has not even seen his or her today fully to speak of tomorrow?

Is he or she the Lord
of their own destiny ?

Who have made themselves male or female by their own choice ?

Who have decided how
many days is he or she is going to live?

If thou are the Lord
of your own destiny why are you going to die one day ?

Why don’t you prevent yourself from being sick in health sometimes
and die ultimately one day?

If you can’t do this , then wake up, for one day your
tomorrow will never come

And say my Lord I shall turn towards you today

Because if my tomorrow never comes ?

I don’t want to die as a rebel against You

Against whom you
shall seek a just punishment for rebellion

A punishment of blazing hell fire which none can bear

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Summary:
'Muslim women propagating Islam'

It is an obligation on every Muslim to propagate Islam and invite
non-Muslims to accept it. This, like education, is not a right or a privilege
but it is a duty and responsibility for both men and women. Examples of Muslim
women from early Islamic history who performed this laudable duty include:

Urwa bt Abdul Muttalib, who publicly supported the Prophet (SAWS) during the
early part of his mission when the pagans were at their most antagonistic
towards Islam.
Umm Saleem, (mother of the famous Anas): After the death of
her husband, a rich and noble pagan, Abu Talha, proposed marriage to her. She
acknowledged that his was a good offer, but nevertheless rejected it saying, "I
am a believer and you are an unbeliever". Furthermore, she criticized his
idolatry and when he tried to tempt her by telling her of all the gold and
silver he had, she said, "I have no need for your gold and silver, but if you
turn to the truth, become a believer, a Muslim. I will marry you and your belief
will be my mahr (marriage gift). I do not want any other marital gift from you".
Later, Abu Talha did become a Muslim and married her.
Umm Shariq, who
secretly visited the homes of pagan women and invited them to Islam even though
she knew that Muslim were being persecuted for their faith.

'Scholarship and learning'
Many Muslim women achieved
prominence in scholarship and learning during the time of the Prophet, and after
him, but the most prominent, of these were:
Aisha (RA), the wife of the
Prophet, who was one of the most important sources of prophetic traditions. An
eminent Islamic scholar, Abu Musa Ashari is quoted as saying, "Whenever we
(scholars) had any complex problem pertaining to Islamic law, we used to go to
Aisha and always found that she had some knowledge of it". Aisha often gave
Fatwas, decisions, on problems or disputes which required solution.

Asma bt Yazid, a Medinan lady who made bay'a to the Prophet when he came to
Medina. She was able to acquire so much knowledge that it became her
'profession' to educate, and many scholars of the following generation derived
their knowledge from her tuition.

Social action - charitable deeds'
Since women are by
nature compassionate, kind, sell-sacrificing and ready to show concern, social
welfare is an area in which women can and did excel. From the earliest period of
Islam when the practice of Muslims matched most closely the teachings of the
faith, one finds many examples of unmatched generosity and willingness to
sacrifice. For instance, after the death of the Prophet (SAWS), Abdullah bin
Zubayr, a relative to Aisha (RA) brought her (Aisha) a gift of 100,000 dirhams.
She immediately distributed the entire amount to the needy; it so happened that
she was fasting on that day. When she went home to break her fast at sunset, she
found she had no food; she had not for one moment thought about herself when she
distributed the 100,000 dirhams.
Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet (SAWS)
was so beloved by her father that she was known as 'her father's daughter'; in
spite of this, when she and her husband Ali (RA) went to the Prophet to request
that he gives them a servant to help them at home, (they were very poor and had
to do all the grinding of grain and carrying of water by themselves - to the
point that Fatima had blistered hands and Ali had an injured back), the Prophet
refused saying, "I cannot provide you with this when there are so many Muslims
whose stomachs are aching from hunger". Compare this answer with the altitude of
modern-day rulers who squander public money on their family and relatives.
Fatima and Ali (RA) did not complain about the Prophet's decision, but gladly
accepted an alternative from him: he taught them special supplications to say at
different times of the day. Spiritual elevation and the opportunity for
increased worship of Allah was accepted by them as being better than simply
having an easier and more comfortable lifestyle.
Umm Shifa, was appointed by
Umar, the second Caliph, to stay in the market place and protect consumers from
being cheated by stall holders. Her opinion was highly valued by Umar (RA).

The involvement of Muslim women in the war effort'

Women played an important supporting role in all the defensive battles
that the Muslims had to fight alongside the Prophet (SAWS) to safeguard early
Islam. They accompanied the men into the war zone and then provided food, drink,
nursing services and other logistic help. The evidence for this comes in the
form of sayings recorded in the authentic collections of hadith in which various
women, particularly Rabia bt Ma�ud, Umm Atiya, Aisha, Um Ayman, Umaya bt Qais
Ghafaria, Umm Saleem, Nusayba bt Kab, Umm Taher, Hamna bt Jahsh, Safiya bt Abdul
Muttalib, etc. relate how they accompanied the Prophet (SAWS) into various
battles in a supporting role. For instance, Umaya bt Qais Ghafaria relates that
she pledged allegiance to the Prophet when she was a teenager and asked if he
would allow her and other women to accompany him to the forthcoming battle, he
said. "Come with the blessings of Allah".
And these women were merely the
leaders of countless others whose names are not known, but who participated with
them (RA).

'Occasions when the women actually participated in the
battle'
Umm Saleem: during the battle of Huneyn, when the Muslims were
under fierce attack, Umm Saleem tied a dagger to her waist and told her husband,
Abu Talha, that she would kill any pagan who came too close. Neither the Prophet
(SAWS), or her husband objected to this.
Nusayba bt Kab, protected the
Prophet (SAWS) heroically when his life was in danger during the battle of Uhud.
She put herself between the pagans and the Prophet and took up a sword to defend
him with the other few Muslim men who were doing so.
Asma bt Yazid killed
nine Roman soldiers with a tent pole after the position of the Muslims became
critical during the battle of Yarmuk - she had gone out simply with the
intention of playing a supporting role.
Safiya bt Abdul Muttalib also killed
an enemy soldier with a tent pole during the battle of Khandaq.

'Women defending Islam today'
Danger and oppression
do not know any specific time or place: although it is true the need to defend
Islam permitted the early Muslim women to fight in its cause, it is incorrect to
say that no such circumstances arise now. One has only to look at Muslim men and
women struggling against persecution in Afghanistan, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, etc.
However, whilst it is obligatory for men to participate in battle to
defend Islam, for women this is not so; but they should not be prohibited from
joining the battle if need be. Essentially, Islam does not want a mother to
leave her infant at home in order to participate in battle, but, those who are
free should not be stopped from doing so; women, may not, however, be
conscripted.

REFERENCES/NOTES:
In answer to question 4: The
extent to which women did participate in the war effort can be seen from a
saying of Umm Atiya recorded in a collection of hadith. She says that she went
to seven battles with the Prophet (SAWS) - her role was to distribute supplies,
luggage, food, water, as well as nursing and medical services.
In answer to
question 5: It is reported that the Prophet (SAWS) said of Nusaybah bt Kab,
"Whether I turned to the right or the left, I saw Nusaybah bt Kab defending me".
It is also recorded that she sustained twelve wounds.
In answer to question
6: Some people use the following hadith of the Prophet to say that women should
be prohibited from participating in battle: when Umm Kabsha went to him and
asked him for permission to take part in a battle, he said, "I am afraid that if
I allow you, it will become established practice". To derive that lesson from
the hadith is incorrect because it has already been shown that the Prophet
permitted women to join their men folk in battle. On the other hand, the Prophet
is also quoted as saying to a woman, "Your jihad is the good pilgrimage" - (the
woman had complained that since it is not obligatory for women to do jihad by
fighting, so they will be unable to get the highest rewards of Allah).

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Becoming a slave of the One
Lord

You shall become free
of all

Becoming the slave to yourself

You shall become needy of all

Becoming the lover of the One Lord

You shall become the beloved of all

Becoming the lover of yourself

You shall become the hated of all

Becoming the seeker of the One Lord

You shall seek nothing else

Becoming a seeker of anything beside the Lord

You shall become an eternal seeker who shall seek a million things

And yet find nothing

Sufi786

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Death is my destiny

Life is my enemy

Death shall embrace me

Life shall betray me and leave me one day

Who shall the wise man trust

Life or death?

Sufi786

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Narrated 'Aisha:

The Prophet added, "The angel caught me (forcefully) and pressed me so
hard that I could not bear it any more. He then released me and again
asked me to read and I replied, 'I do not know how to read.

' Thereupon
he caught me again and pressed me a second time till I could not bear
it any more.

He then released me and again asked me to read but again
I replied, 'I do not know how to read (or what shall I read)?'
Thereupon he caught me for the third time and pressed me, and then
released me and said, 'Read in the name of your Lord, who has created
(all that exists) has created man from a clot. Read! And your Lord is
the Most Generous." (96.1, 96.2, 96.3) Then Allah's Apostle returned
with the Inspiration and with his heart beating severely.

Then he went
to Khadija bint Khuwailid( his wife) and said, "Cover me! Cover me!" They covered
him till his fear was over and after that he told her everything that
had happened and said, "I fear that something may happen to me."
Khadija replied, "Never! By Allah, Allah will never disgrace you. You
keep good relations with your Kith and kin, help the poor and the
destitute, serve your guests generously and assist the deserving
calamity-afflicted ones."

Khadija then accompanied him to her cousin Waraqa bin Naufal bin Asad
bin 'Abdul 'Uzza, who, during the PreIslamic Period became a Christian
and used to write the writing with Hebrew letters. He would write from
the Gospel in Hebrew as much as Allah wished him to write. He was an
old man and had lost his eyesight. Khadija said to Waraqa, "Listen to
the story of your nephew, O my cousin!" Waraqa asked, "O my nephew!
What have you seen?" Allah's Apostle described whatever he had seen.
Waraqa said, "This is the same one who keeps the secrets (angel
Gabriel) whom Allah had sent to Moses.

I wish I were young and could
live up to the time when your people would turn you out." Allah's
Apostle asked, "Will they drive me out?" Waraqa replied in the
affirmative and said, "Anyone (man) who came with something similar to
what you have brought was treated with hostility; and if I should
remain alive till the day when you will be turned out then I would
support you strongly.

" But after a few days Waraqa died and the Divine
Inspiration was also paused for a while.

of pause in revelation reporting the speech of the Prophet "While I
was walking, all of a sudden I heard a voice from the sky. I looked up
and saw the same angel who had visited me at the cave of Hira' sitting
on a chair between the sky and the earth.

I got afraid of him and came
back home and said, 'Wrap me (in blankets).' And then Allah revealed
the following Holy Verses (of Quran):

'O you (i.e. Muhammad)! wrapped up in garments!' Arise and warn (the
people against Allah's Punishment),... up to 'and desert the idols.'
(74.1-5) After this the revelation started coming strongly, frequently
and regularly."

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IT is a well-known saying of the Prophet that "He who knows himself,
knows God"; that is, by contemplation of his own being and attributes
man arrives at some knowledge of God. But since many who contemplate
themselves do not find God, it follows that there must be some special
way of doing so. As a matter of fact, there are two methods of arriving
at this knowledge, but one is so abstruse that it is not adapted to
ordinary intelligences, and therefore is better left unexplained. The
other method is as follows: When a man considers himself he knows that
there was a time when he was non-existent, as it is written in the
Koran: "Does it not occur to man that there was a time when he was
nothing?" Further, he know that he was made out of a drop of water in
which there was neither intellect, nor hearing, sight, head, hands,
feet, etc. From this it is obvious that, whatever degree of perfection
he may have arrived at, he did not make himself, nor can he now make a
single hair.

How much more helpless, then, was his condition when he was a mere
drop of water! Thus, as we have seen in the first chapter, he finds in
his own being reflected in miniature, so to speak, the power, wisdom
and love of the Creator. If all the sages of the world were assembled,
and their lives prolonged for an indefinite time, they could not effect
any improvement in the construction of a single part of the body.

For instance, in the adaptation of the front and side-teeth to the
mastication of food, and in the construction of the tongue, salivating
glands, and the throat for its deglutition, we find a contrivance which
cannot be improved upon. Similarly, whoever considers his hand, with
its five fingers of unequal lengths, four of them with three joints and
the thumb with only two, and the way in which it can be used for
grasping, or for carrying, or for smiting, will frankly acknowledge
that no amount of human wisdom could better it by altering the number
and arrangement of the fingers, or in any other way.

When a man further considers how his various wants of food, lodging, etc., are amply

supplied from the storehouse of creation, he becomes aware that
God's mercy is as great as His power and wisdom, as He has Himself
said, "My mercy is greater than My wrath," and according to the
Prophet's saying, "God is more tender to His servants than a mother to
her suckling-child." Thus from his own creation man comes to know God's
existence, from the wonders of his bodily frame God's power and wisdom,
and from the ample provision made for his various needs God's love. In
this way the knowledge of oneself becomes a key to the knowledge of God.

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Way to the happiness

Way to salvation

Way to joy

Way to eternity

Way to heaven

Is not found unless you are still alive

Alive to yourself and dead to your Lord

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Narrated Anas:

Allah's Apostle( Prophet Muhammad (s)) said, "Help your brother, whether he is an oppressor
or he is an oppressed one. People asked, "O Allah's Apostle! It is all
right to help him if he is oppressed, but how should we help him if he
is an oppressor?" The Prophet(s) said, "By preventing him from oppressing
others."

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