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Issue 7: Smile, its charity

Assalamu Alaikum all, Spring Break is over and a total of five weeks is left of OSUs first Spring Semester. The stress and efforts of this semester are beginning to close in and soon graduating seniors will be vacating their posts and moving on to bigger and greater things, inshallah. But for now, we are still together (clich, I know) and the MSA has a spew of incredible upcoming events, meetings and GBMs! A big event that the MSA will be doing for the first time is, Half Our Ummah: An examination of the role of Muslim women in contemporary society. The one-day seminar on March 31st will include a number of sessions covering topics ranging from Important Women in Islam to the role of women inside and outside the home. There will also be an entertainment session in the evening to conclude the seminar. The seminar is free of charge for everyone and there will also be free babysitting available.

Upcoming March Events Location: Davis Interfaith Room Film Festival 3/22 MSA-SSA presents: Islam versus Culture 3/29 Election Day 3/29 Half Our Ummah 3/31

-Mushtaq Dualeh | Iqra Newsletter Director

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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 a mistranslation 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 were not 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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Response to Issue 6s Partition of the Mosque

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 judged authentic by Sheikh Al-Albaanee in his book, Silsilat AlAhaadeeth 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." By: Meredith Spano

Sahih bukhari, hadith 399

A funeral procession once passed in front of the Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him) 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

Surat Ash-sharh Verses 5-6

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

Effects of the First Heart Corrupter - Ibn Al-Qayyim

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 effects that 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 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 its decisions, 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

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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 this world, 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:

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 of people 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 realities become manifest, and some of those who socialized will bite their hands in regret as the Almighty said:

Close friends
on that Day will be foes of each other except the God-fearing. (Soorah azZukhruf, 43: 67)

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

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

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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 and punished. 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 is easy 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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Treasurer

Q&A with Faraan Q: Favorite Food A: 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 East to improve my Arabic.

What do YOU have to say about Faraan?

Warm, cuddly south Asian, one of a kind furry bear

My name is Faraan and Im the MSA treasurer. Yea, thats about it.

The grumpiest teddy bear I ever saw.

Faraan is like an old couch, soft and cuddly on the outside, lumpy and uncomfortable on the inside

I wanna pinch his cheeks all day. He sucks at Connect Four. I only let him beat me. Ya know, to boost his self-esteem.

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Brotherhood

Q&A* with Moiz 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 would you 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 growing up? The Fresh Prince Q: Who is the funniest person you know? HarryStyles. Sike, nah, naalpunganochunga, yooooo.

What do YOU have to say about Moiz?

Moiz is cool. Hes a really nice person and if you need connections, he can hook you up. Moiz makes noise.

Such a positive character! Great person, mashAllah. Moizs curly hair is awesome. Hes the worst person to exist in the history of the world. Jk Hes a good person to work with and always has a positive attitude! His name is actually Syed Hasan. Moiz is a lieeeeeeeeeee.

*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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The Last Sermon

This sermon was delivered on the Ninth Day of Islamic month of Dhul-Hijjah Year 632 A.C (10 A.H.) in the Uranah valley of Mount Arafat 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, which belongs 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.

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April will be the last Issue of Iqra

For the 2012-2013 school year, be sure to send in your submissions by Wednesday March 27th by 11:59pm to Iqra Director, Mushtaq, at dualeh.2@osu.edu! Let your voice be heard!

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