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- Creating an atmosphere of Faith in the Home
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- The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
- “The likeness of a house in which Allah is remembered and the house in
which Allah is not remembered is that of the living and the dead,
respectively.”
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- Through our hearts
- Our prayers
- Reading Quran
- Discussing Islamic Issues
- Reading Islamic books
- Listening to Islamic lecture
- Watching Islamic videos
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- Music
- Backbiting
- Slander
- Gossip
- Wine or Cigarettes
- Illegal sex
- Any haram things
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- What is meant is taking the home as a place of worship. Allah says
(interpretation of the meaning):
- “And We inspired Moosa and his brother (saying): ‘Take dwellings for
your people in Egypt, and make your dwellings as places for your
worship, and perform al-salaah, and give glad tidings to the
believers.’”
- [Yoonus 10:87].
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- They were commanded to take their dwellings as places of prayer [lit.
mosques].”
- Ibn Katheer said: “This – and Allah knows best – was because of the
intensity of the tribulation that they were facing from Pharaoh and his
people. They were commanded to pray much, as Allah says (interpretation
of the meaning):
- ‘O you who believe! Seek help with patience and prayer…’ [al-Baqarah
2:153],
- and as it was reported in the hadeeth that the Messenger of Allah (peace
and blessings of Allah be upon him), when he was distressed by
something, would pray.”
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- Importance of worshiping at home, especially at times when the Muslims
are in a position of weakness. In
this context we may think of the mihraab of Maryam, which was her place
of worship, as Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
- “… Every time Zakariya entered the mihraab to visit her, he found her
supplied with sustenance…”
- [Aal ‘Imraan 3:37]
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- We have the story of how a companion came to the Prophet(sa) and asked
him to pray in his home for him as a means of blessing his home:
- He did not sit down until he entered the house, then he said, ‘Where
would you like me to pray? I showed him a corner of the house, then the
Messenger of Allah (sa) stood up, said Takbeer, and we stood in a row
behind him, and he prayed two rak’ahs and gave the salaam at the end of
the prayer.” (Reported by al-Bukhaari)
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- ‘Aa’ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: “The Messenger of Allah
(peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) used to pray qiyaam at night,
and when he prayed witr he would say, ‘Get up and pray witr, O
‘Aa’ishah’” (Reported by Muslim, Muslim bi Sharh al-Nawawi, 6/23).
- The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “May Allah
have mercy on a man who gets up at night and prays, then he wakes up his
wife to pray, and if she refuses he throws water in her face.” (Reported
by Ahmad and Abu Dawood. Saheeh al-Jaami’, 3488).
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- O women! Give in charity, for I have seen that you form the majority of
the inhabitants of Hell.”
- (Reported by al-Bukhaari)
- One of the new ideas is to have a box at home for donations to the poor
and needy: whatever is put in the box belongs to them, because it is
their vessel in the Muslim home.
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- Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
- “When any one of you enters his home and mentions the Name of Allah when
he enters and when he eats, the Shaytaan says: ‘You have no place to
stay and nothing to eat here.’ If he enters and does not mention the
name of Allah when he enters, [the Shaytaan] says, ‘You have a place to
stay.’ If he does not mention the name of Allah when he eats, [the
Shaytaan says], ‘You have a place to stay and something to eat.’”
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- “If a man goes out of his house and says, ‘Bismillaah, tawakkaltu ‘ala
Allaah, laa hawla wa laa quwwata illaa Billaah (In the name of Allaah, I
put my trust in Allaah, there is no help and no strength except in
Allaah),’ it will be said to him,
- ‘This will take care of you, you are guided, you have what you need and
you are protected.’ The Shaytaan will stay away from him, and another
shaytaan will say to him, ‘What can you do with a man who is guided,
provided for and protected?’”
- (Reported by Abu Dawood
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- The Messenger of Allahh (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
“Do not make your houses into graves. The Shaytaan flees from a house in
which Soorat al-Baqarah is recited.” (Reported by Muslim, 1/539)
- The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
said: “Recite Soorat al-Baqarah in your houses, for the Shaytaan does
not enter a house in which Soorat al-Baqarah is recited.” (Reported by
al-Haakim in al-Mustadrak. 1/561; Saheeh al-Jaami’)
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Notes
