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I would like to mention the page numbers are wrong from what I've done I'm not on 45 I'm either ahead or just a little behind I had misclicked prior and it won't let me use a lesser number so in stuck going up so I'm trying to read multiple pages to catch up. But like it's also a blessing in disguise where it's like, it seems like I have to read more to make it make sense, but then like the more I read, the more I know.

Ooh, Itban bin Malik had weak eyesight, so when it rained and the water flowed in the valley, he wouldn't be able to make it to the mosque, so he requested the Nabi to come to his house and pray. The Prophet replies, "Allah willing." And one thing we know about our beloved Nabi is he wasn't a liar, so if I'm going to english analysis nerd out. Him saying In'Sha'Allah shows that he himself as the man he was wanted to 1000 percent gladly go to this man's house to lead a prayer and did not complain once about the rain nor the flowing valley waters.

What I'm getting at his actions were made with such sincerity and something a scholar I've been listening to -Abdel Rahman had said is if you perform and action with the sincerity and the pure purpose on pleasing Allah then that is an action Allah himself will reward. SubhanAllah

Anyway, carrying on with the blind man, when the prophet had arrived, he asked for permission to enter he didn't use any type of status of entitlement. Truly the best of us.

"Allah has forbidden the fire for those who say, 'None has the right to be worshipped, but Allah' for Allah's sake only"

Alhamdulillah

I was talking to a shia brother earlier, and we were talking about the Shahada and how we had different Shahadas. Not strikingly different ones, but there's includes the addition of Imaam Ali. And oh boy, what a spiral of a conversation that was.

It wasn't an argument per say I would surely just seeking the knowledge of another's beliefs. A wise person once said, Go learn it, and if it's wrong, you have proof, and if it's right, well now you know you were wrong (I'm acc just yapping at this point)

Anyways, so then we eventually got to a point where he said Imaam Ali was someone who helped all of the messengers during their times, and I was just stumped like huh because this was surely the first time I had everrrr heard of this (4 Rs for dramatic effect). And then he said the rank of which Imaam Ali would sit is above that of all the other messengers and that we should ask him for help. But the main thing that got to me was that (it pushed me the wrong way) he said Imaam Ali was some kind of middle man we had to go to before asking Allah for help. Now, at this point, I was genuinely questioning, bro, because it's just scary to think he's spreading this knowledge. Now I'm no scholar so I can't really be all up on his beliefs but I asked him who did Ali pray to and ask for help, he said Allah, BUT WHEN I ASKED who did the Nabi ask for help he said Imaam Ali. I acc started tweaking.

I'm going to save all the yaps and just say, I tried to explain that Allah was Rahman and Rahim. The powerful and the merciful and to say that anyone would need anyone but the creator would surely be wrong. He said he would find me his hadiths and show me them next week

Moving on.

Narrated Aisha: Um Habiba and Um Salama mentioned about a church they had seen in Ethiopia in which there were pictures. They told the Prophet about it on which he said, "If any religious man dies amongst those people People they would build
a place of worship at his grave and make these pictures in it. They will be the worst ceature in the sight of Allah on the Day of Resurrection."

This remind me of a story I once learnt from Mufti Menk. ummm, let me find it 2 secs

5 pious men

Their names were Wadd, Suwa’, Yaghuth, Ya’uq, and Nasr. They were righteous leaders who lived between the times of Prophet Adam and Prophet Nuh.

When they passed away, Iblis (the devil) decided to make an entrance and convince the people to build statues of remembrance to help remind the people they should pray and be good whenever they saw them. At first, it was all good and well. But as soon as the generations began to pass on and knowledge was lost, Iblis made another entrance. He began to manipulate the facts and plant seeds into the minds of the newer generations that their forefathers would pray to these statues for rain and blessings. This was the first establishment of Shirk.

I butchered this story so hard. I'm retell it some day in the future.

Im going to stop here because I need to be up early. However, I do have a week off of work for ramadaan, so I'll see if I can have an adamant of time to waffle more

What do you actually mean we are already like 10 percent through ramadaan