Importance of Making Dua

“O mankind, you are those in need of Allah, while Allah is the Free of need, the Praise worthy.”Quran (35: 15)

The above verse is a great description about Dua, whom to pray and why to pray? The verse states that, Human Beings are always in a need of number of things for, which they asked Allah Almighty, Who is free from all the worldly needs.

In ancient times, humans were least materialistic and more religious, but the advancements in technology has reversed the fact. Now people are relying more on technology than taking help of the divine power i.e. the Almighty Allah. Through you may ask people or technology around, to help you get things done, but one cannot simply defy the faith required to pray to Allah. If you do not pray to Him, and His favor does not turn your way, every other effort would go in vain. Mostly we see in tough times when we caught in some trouble, we first pick up our phone and started to request others to help us, rather moving directly towards Allah as He is The Only Power. He can help us without imposing any terms and conditions, in regard, and will never make us to feel bad in-front of others as humans do. Similarly, in good times we forget to thank Allah for whatever He grants us, comparatively we thank number of other people whom we consider a reason for our happiness. As stated before we are in need not Allah Almighty, we just need to make Him a call, He always ready to respond in return.  

The number of blessings, which Allah grants to us, are like stars means uncountable. It is His blessing that at this moment your heart is beating, you are blinking eyes while reading, the air is around you for breathing and so on. Just imagine if only one of these blessing taken away from you what will be your reaction. Have you ever thanked Him for all these blessings?

“And He gave you from all you asked of Him. And if you should count the favor of Allah, you could not enumerate them. Indeed, mankind is [generally] most unjust and ungrateful.” Surah Ibrahim (14:34) 

Dua is a powerful means of requesting Allah, as The Prophet Muhammad PBUH said in Trimithi, ‘Dua is worship’ and further specified that ‘The most excellent worship is Dua’.  Dua is such a beneficial and beautiful thing in the sense that, it always comes in our favor either they are granted or not. If our request is fulfilled we will get benefit through it in this universe and if they are not, their reward will be granted on the Day of Judgment. There is no doubt in it that every Muslim wants to be saved from Hell-fire and the wrath of their Lord, so make Dua, as Allah (SWT) says, 

“And your Lord says, "Call upon Me; I will respond to you." Indeed, those who disdain My worship will enter Hell [rendered] contemptible.” Surah Gafir (40:60)

 The Prophet Muhammad PBUH said, “If one does not ask Allah, He (Allah) will get angry with him.” (Tirmithi). There is never too late, if you realize your problem, just need to take some step towards a beautiful new journey. Let us start our journey through daily Islamic prayers. Muslim Dua Series is one the way to get knowledge about Duas. The detail about this beautiful application is as following; 

Muslim Dua Series

MDS is free to use, mobile application with numerous beautiful features. It is a collection of Duas regarding at-most 15 different categories, about daily tasks and some for special Islamic occasions. All verses gathered after a huge research and from authentic sources in the presence of Islamic Scholars. This application is beneficial for not only adults but for Kids as well because of its easy to use interface. All verses provide to you in Arabic along with roman transliteration. Translation of these verses is also provided in number of languages to make verses more understandable and convenient in memorization. You can also listen to these verses, which are recorded by expert recitals considering tajweed rules. Furthermore, you can also maintain a list of verses as per your preferences along with alarm feature to give you an ease of access and to recite these verses on time. Just use this application and explore what else this application is providing you. To download follow the links below.

Download Muslim Dua Series for Android | Download Muslim Dua Series for iTunes

Islamic Applications - One Way of Reaching Out the Authentic Info Online

Internet is a global village and a source of information regarding any topic you can think about. But, the authenticity about knowledge is always a question. Knowledge on religious topics is more controversial as you always don’t aware of the person writing on a particular topic with what believes or thoughts. Adults might not be trapped in such situations but child do. They start to follow what so ever they read on internet without concerning with parents.

The above few lines don’t mean everything on internet is false or ambiguous. There might be number of sources, which do have some good and authentic content, but we need to dig them out of a huge data. From number of resources, one can be different Islamic apps. The reasons because of what we consider Islamic apps authentic are as following; Application building is not an overnight task, a team of Software engineers gather and by following a software development model they reach to different result, which are published on stores after a huge proofing. Another reason can be the authenticity of the developer, means the organization who owns different applications. QuranReading.com is one of the founders of Islamic apps and they keep on improving their apps as per their user requirements.  So if you find some of their applications you can trust them a bit or you can check their app responses through reviews.

Now, this post will continue with an Islamic app named, 6 Kalma of Islam produced by the organization stated before. This application contains information about Islamic Kalmas along with the ease of use through interactive layout. All Kalmas are provided with sharp elucidations which helps the reader while reading Arabic script.

Download 6 Kalma of Islam for Android | Download 6 Kalma of Islam for iTunes

Let’s have a look at the features of this app, which will give an idea on why it is best for use:

Free to Use

The application, 6 Kalma of Islam is completely cost free app. All the features are provided along with no concession on app quality. The app set free as a small gift for little champs from the developers, who wants to get knowledge about 6 Kalmas and to learn them by heart.

Kalmas with Transliterations

Along with beautiful graphics used for Arabic verses, app also provides you an option of English transliterations. Many of us might feel not so convenient with Arabic reading; this feature will help them to read verses with flow.

Kalmas with Translations

Understanding of verses enhance and we remember them for longer when we know their meanings. 6 Kalma provides you an option to translate verses in two different languages English, and Urdu. A separate space is spare for this purpose to make meanings comprehensive.

Kalmas with Audio

Reading of Quranic verses in Arabic will grant us with some extra rewards. Keeping this fact in view application also provides you an option of listening to different Kalmas. The best think about this feature is you can swap between translation and transliteration while listening. It will set a save point and when you play it again will continue from that point rather staring again.

This application is available for both platforms android and iTunes. It is a great application for memorization point of view, which is obligatory for every Muslim. 

Islamic Duas and Rain – Great Blessings of Allah

Water is certainly one the most significant elements for the stability of life on earth. It is one of the elementary factors for the continuation of activities in a region. Water carries great importance for all creations including Human beings, animals and plants. The main source of water especially in deserts is Rain, where people waits longer and prays for its happening.  The Holy Quran contains various verses in regarding rain significance, where considerable information is given about the formation of rain, its quantity and effects.

“And He who sends down (from time to time) water from the sky in due measure, and We raise to life therewith a land that is dead. Even so will you be raised (from the dead).” (Surah Zukhruf, 11)

The verse above explains shortly about rains, that emphasis on due measure of water. This means Allah always send water from the sky when required and in enough amounts, which is sufficient for His creations needs. Duas are the best ways of thanking Allah for His great blessings upon us. There are number of sources to get knowledge about duas regarding rain one of them can be Muslim Dua Series. The details about application are given at the end of post.

Formation of Rain

The creation of rain took place in three different stages. First, the “raw material” of water rises up into the air known as method of evaporations. Then it continues with the formation of clouds and finally, conversion into rain drops occur. These are the stages also explained in Quran along with precise information about rain formation.

“It is Allah, who sends the winds, and they stir the clouds and spread them in the sky however He wills, and He makes them fragments so you see the rain emerge from within them. And when He causes it to fall upon whom He wills of His servants, immediately they rejoice.” (Surah Ar-Rum – 48)

Now, let us have a look at three stages mentioned in the verse above;

Evaporation Method: "It is Allah, Who sends the winds...”

As we know wind speed helps a lot in method of evaporations. More the wind power the more water will be evaporated. Number of air bubbles produced by the foaming in the rivers and oceans, rupture continuously and causes water particles to repel towards the sky. These particles are enriching with salt, which carried away by winds and move upwards in the atmosphere. These particles are known as aerosols that gather vapors around and form clouds.

Formation of Clouds: " …and they stir the clouds and spread them in the sky however He wills, and He makes them fragments… "

The clouds form by water vapors that are condensing around the salt crystals and dust particles in the air. As amount of water drops are very small, this causes them to spread over the sky in the form of clouds.

Falling of Rain Drops: “…so you see the rain emerge from within them”

Water particles containing salt crystals and dust particles become thicker and form rain drops. This process makes these drops heavier than air, and departs them from the clouds causes’ rain on the earth.

Duas for Rain

To see the true need of rain, just look at the old man lives in a desert and have no water for their camels. He rush here and there in search of water, which all vain due to lack of water resources. The only way of getting water is rain now, he request Allah as;

“O Allah, provide water for Your slaves and Your cattle, spread out Your mercy and resurrect Your dead land.” (Abu Dawud No# 1176 )

When it rains, it become the most happening day for that old man, when he has enough water for his animals but also he can store it for other few days without paying any penny. When rain occur we should say this dua

“O Allah, (bring) beneficial rain clouds.”

This verse also indicating about beneficial clouds means the clouds, which become the reason of construction rather than destructions in the form of storms. Means rain is not beneficial only for people living in deserts but also for other areas. As stated earlier water is the source of life and many of our forests are depending on rains for their existence, which prevents earth soil from cuttings.

Resistance between clouds cause thunder and make most of us scare with their voice. Islam emphasis on making dua and dua for thunder is

“Glory is to Him, Whom thunder and angels glorify due to fear of Him.”

This is in human beings, when we need something we do request a lot and try to make the person happy. Similarly, we did with our Lord. We do make number of duas and when they granted we forget to thank for what He bless us. We should also say duas as a regard when rain over’s and we enjoy it a lot. Dua after rain is

 

“We have been given rain by the grace and mercy of Allah”

May Allah always grant us with beneficial clouds and make environment neat and clean. Let continue with Muslim Dua Series an app we discussed before

Muslim Dua Series

Muslim dua series is an app containing number of Islamic duas regarding daily tasks as well some special occasions of Muslims. It is free to use without compromising on app quality. It provides you an easy to use layout along with sharp illustrations’, which is to make this application better from others in handling. You can download it for either you are using android phone or an iPhone. Links are as following

Download Muslim Dua Series for Android | Download Muslim DuaSeries for iTunes

Use this app and explore number of great features provided for your help. Here are some screen shots of this application to give you an overview about app

Importance of Congregational Prayers

As we all know Prayer is the second pillar of Islam. It has greater religious values for Muslims not only in life but also after death. Allah and His Prophet Muhammad PBUH put great emphasis on offering prayers, either individual prayers or congregation Prayers. As prophet Muhammad PBUH said, the whole earth is a mosque for you, so pray wherever you are when time of prayer comes.

Now question is why reward for congregational prayers is 25 to 27 times more than individual prayers, when there is no restriction in our religion for place. The answer is simple and clear. Allah loves when His creation put their efforts in doing something good or religious. 

Congregational Prayers

These are the prayers performed by a group of people behind Imam in mosques. He is someone who has proper knowledge about Quran, Hadiths and has good repute in society. All the people stand behind Imam in parallel rows facing Qibla. Prayer in congregation is considered to have more social and spiritual benefits then praying individual. As Islam is the name of brother-hood, and these prayers gave us a chance to meet different people. During such meetings we come to know different problems of other and can join hands to help them.  These prayers are also symbol of Unity and power against non-Muslims, this is the reason because of which Muslims recommended to offer daily prayers in their near mosques but for Juma prayers gather at central mosques at same place. The biggest congregation represented at the time of Hajj. When there become no different either by wealth or belongings.

Etiquettes for Congregational Prayers

As every religious prayer does have some rules to follow similarly congregational prayers also have some rules to follow.

1. The very first thing is to be punctual for your prayers; means start preparation before 5 to 10 minutes. It will help you to reach mosque on time and you will find proper place behind Imam.
2.  Do not eat anything, which make you mouth smelly. Like it is recommended not to eat onion or garlic etc… but if you eat it must brush your teeth.
3. Take bath if required.
4.  Do carry well pressed beautiful, neat and clean clothes along with saying dua for changing clothes.
5.  Try to perform wuzu from home.
6.  When reached mosque say dua to enter in the mosque and try to switch off your cell phone or at-least put it on silent mood.
7.  If you are late and mosque is full then don’t try to hurt other in trying to reach in the front rows. As this is the worst thing you can do and this also is something not liked by our Prophet Muhammad PBUH.
8.  If you are on time and there is a time for Salah. Do meet other people present in the mosques and have some religious conversation.
9.  While congregation, take proper place and don’t create problems for others to perform their salah.
10. After Salah if you have time meet Imam and do discuss some of your religious issues. As He can guide you better in the light of Quran and Sunah.
11.   While leaving must say dua to leave mosque.

   This is a brief description about congregation prayers and their etiquettes. To get knowledge about duas regarding daily prayers, do visit different app store as they contains millions of great Islamic apps, waiting for someone to download them and get benefits. One of the great app is Muslim Dua Series, it contains duas related to at-most major events of a day. The best thing about this application is, it is free to use without compromising on quality. To Download this beautiful app links are as following.

      Android Link for Muslim Dua Series | IPoneLink for Muslim Dua Series
           

      

        

    Also recommended : Etiquette of Muslim Dressing

6 Kalmas of Islam – A Complete Message for Muslims

6 Kalmas of Islam, being preserved in many Islamic books and memorize by millions of Muslims across the world that has great significance in Islam. Kalma is an assembly of few words that is the recognition of a Muslim. Kalma is the basic principle that connects a person to Islamic spirit.

First Kalma – Kalma Tayyiba

The word Tayyiba means purity from evil spirits. By saying Kalma Tayyiba, a person nullifies all false gods and declares that Allah is The Only Lord, the creator of everything around us including Heaven, Hell and Prophet Muhammad PBUH is the messenger of Allah.  Kalma is not only declaration but it is also the acceptance of fact that Allah is the one without any companion; He has neither parents nor children. La-ilaha-ill-allah, Muhammad-ur-Rasulullah is also to believe on Allah with all His names, which depict His countless attributes.

Second Kalma – Kalma Shahdaat

The word Shahdaat means testimony or Witness, evidence of what we said in Kalma Tayyiba. In Kalma Tayyiba we accept the truth of Allah and then search for Him around us and start becoming a witness of His attributes. We see deep oceans and High Mountains and recall that Allah is Qadir means has all the powers. When we become in troubles and find no one to help us and call Allah and get some guidance then we call Allah with name Ar-Rashid means the righteous teacher.

Third Kalma – Kalma Tamjeed

The word Tamjeed means Glorification. After getting number of evidences around us we again repeat the fact that Allah is The Greatest with All Praise and there is no Might or Power except Allah. He gave life and also death and we cannot do anything against His will. Whatever is on earth and in the sky, He controls everything.

Fourth Kalma – Kalma Tauheed

The word Tauheed means unity. This Kalma is a unity of all previous believes, summarization of all attributes of Allah in a single sentence. In this short phrase we accept Allah with all His names. We also accept that there is no one worthy for worship and Praise except Allah. Furthermore we also accept that He is owner of life and death and He has to last forever with all His powers.

Fifth Kalma – Kalma Ishtaghfar

The word Ishtaghfar means forgiveness, penitence from all the sins which we commit either by will or unknowingly, secretly or openly. All we know that Allah loves His creations seven times more than a mother. This is to believe that, if you commit some sin and then if we ask for forgiveness, He will listen to us, as this is His attribute that He is forgiver.

Sixth- Kalma – Kalma Rud-e-Kufr

The word Rud-e-Kufr means rejecting the Disbelief. This is to accept that there is no protection except Allah, along with believing that He has no partner. Also ask for forgiveness, O’ Allah if ever I associate someone with you I seek your protection and forgive me for my action. I repented from it and I made myself free from all such associations. Also forgive me for all my falsehood, back-biting and all other bad deeds I have done knowingly or unknowingly. All the praise are for you and no one is worthy for worship accept you.

Conclusion

Through this post we reached to a conclusion that, all six Kalmas are interlinked and have same signification. If we recite one Kalma then we should recite other five as well. Importance of verses enhanced if we know their meaning. There are number of sources from where we can get enough knowledge. One of them can be a mobile app named 6 Kalma of Islam. This application is all about Kalmas and their meanings, which helps you a lot in knowing true essence of these verses. 

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Also Recommended : Kalma - The Faith Declarater 

Etiquettes of Muslim Dressing

All around the world, everyone does have charm for a new dress. As far as Muslims concern, we take clothing in two contexts, dressing for daily life and dressing for prayers. There is no special difference in both, if you have worn proper Islamic dress then there is no need to change for prayers. However, if you are in shorts or blazers kind of dressing then you should go for a decent one. The difference in two is presentation how you want to come in front of your Lord, Allah. If some dress is not suitable for public appearance then how it can be for your Lord.

Islam put great emphases on proper dressing. Modernism does not depend upon short dresses but in your Thoughts. You should wear whatever you like but considering Islamic codes of dress in minds. As explained by Allah in His divine book of knowledge Quran as;

“O children of Adam, We have bestowed upon you clothing to conceal your private parts and as adornment. But the clothing of righteousness - that is best. That is from the signs of Allah that perhaps they will remember.”

                                                                                                                       (Qur'an 7:26)

Dua for Dressing

Dressing is task, which we perform frequently then why should not ask Allah for His blessings in this regard. This is also in Islamic etiquettes of wearing dress, first recite dua, and then change your dress. There are number of sources from where you can get such duas.

"All praise belongs to Allah who adorned me with clothing by which I cover (hide) my private areas and by which I obtain beauty in my life.”

One of Quran reading mobile applications also provides you a list of duas. You can access this app by using links:

Download Muslim Dua Series for Android | Download Muslim Dua Series for iPhone

Point to Pounder while Dressing

These are points we all should consider for a proper Muslim dressing.

1. The clothes should conceal the body adequately.
2.  They should impart dignity and good looks.
3. They should not fail to satisfy the requirements of adequate concealment of the body.
4.  Nor should they be so ugly and clumsy that instead of enhancing beauty, they mar the wearer's appearance.

Definitely, clothes are great blessing of Allah and we should be thankful to Him for His noble blessing. Start it by saying some special words and continue with other verses as well. 

Kalma - The Faith Decelerator

As we all know, Muslims are the followers of The religion Islam. IMAN means Belief, which means one should have faith, that there is no god but Allah. He has no partner, no parents, and no children. This complete conviction enclosed in the foremost element of Islam, Kalma Tayyiba.

This magical verse is the words, whoever will recite them, with intension, will enter in the circle of religion Islam. This verse say, there is no God, but Allah and Prophet Muhammad PBUH is the messenger of Allah. These are the words, which anyone can pronounce fluently, but question is what changes Kalma?

Whenever someone deliver these word is suppose to enter in Islamic sphere. Before few moments, he was a Kafir and disbeliever of Allah existence, His Messengers, His Holy books. However, now after reciting these golden words he becomes a Muslim and has faith in all, what he disbeliefs. Before he was deserves Allah’s warmth and annoyance and now, he deserves Allah’s love and His blessings. As a Kafir He was going towards Hell, and as a Muslim his journey is towards Paradise, the place of true believers.

These raise another question, either only pronunciation is enough to make such differences. The answer is No! The effectiveness of words lies in understanding its meaning. If these words break through deep in their hearts and have, impact powerful, enough to change their thoughts, their morals and their actions then the purpose of recitation fulfilled. In other way, there is no difference between a person who recites and do not recites.

Quran Reading comes up a great application 6 kalmas of Islam, which contains all what you wants to know about kalmas. It provides all 6 kalmas along with its transliteration as well as translation. Use this application explore its numerous features.

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