11283, RE: What makes someone a muslim?
Posted by abduhu, Mon Oct-08-01 05:11 PM
what makes a person a muslim is:
1. testifying that there is nothing worthy of worship, except The One God, or Allah in arabic. and testifying that muhammad (saws) is the messanger and servant of Allah.
2. praying 5 times a day
3. pay the obligatory charity-zakaat
4. fasting the month of ramadan (coming soon)
5. making the pilgrimage to mecca, when finacially and physically able.
may Allah guide us all.
Words to ponder over............
5.44. It was We who revealed the Torah (to Moses): therein was guidance and light. By its standard have been judged the Jews, by the prophets who bowed (as in Islám) to Allah's will, by the rabbis and the doctors of law: for to them was entrusted the protection of Allah's book, and they were witnesses thereto: therefore fear not men, but fear Me, and sell not My signs for a miserable price. If any do fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, they are unbelievers.
5.81. If only they had believed in Allah, in the Prophet, and in what hath been revealed to him, never would they have taken them for friends and protectors, but most of them are rebellious wrong-doers.
the biography of Prophet Muhammad (saws):
http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Books/SM_tsn/
The following is paraphrased from today's (10/08/2001) interview with Rumsfeld via sattelite hookup on CBS news this morning:
Gumbel: Can you assess the damages from last nights bombing raids in Kabul?
Rumsfeld: Its too early for any clear assessment
Gumbel: There are reports from the Taliban that there were collateral damages in the forms of Women, children, and elderly, can you confirm or deny these reports
Rumsfeld: There were no civilian casualties, these were all military targets
Gumbel: I thought you said it was too early for any assessment of the raids
Rumsfeld (now squirming in seat): Uhhhhh...ummmmmm.....welllll...i am 'reasonably' sure what I just said was correct
courtesy of abbstrack
subhaanakallahumma (Glory be to you, Oh Allah), wabihamdika (and I praise You). ashhadu anla ilaha illa anta (I bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped except You). astaghfiruka (I seek Your forgiveness), wa atuubu ilaika (and I turn to You in Repentance).
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