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بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم



بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم

مرحبا بكم

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Apr 26, 2012

أسماء الجنة ومعانيها

:: لأبن قيم الجوزية :: الاسم الأول : ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ الجنة : هو الاسم العام المتناول لتلك الدار وما اشتملت علية من أنواع النعيم واللذة والبهجة والسرور وقرة الأعين وأصل اشتقاق هذه اللفظة من الستر والتغطية ومنه الجنين لاستتاره في البطن والجان لاستتاره عن العيون والمجن لستره ووقايته الوجه والمجنون لاستتار عقله وتواريه عنه . الاسم الثاني : ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ دار السلام : وقد سماها الله بهذا الاسم في قوله تعالى ( لهم دار السلام عند ربهم ) وقوله ( والله يدعو إلى دار السلام ) فإنها دار السلامة من كل بلية وآفة ومكروه وهي دار الله واسمه سبحانه السلام الذي سلمها وسلم أهلها } وتحيتهم فيها سلام { . الاسم الثالث : ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ دار الخلد : وسميت بذلك لأن أهلها لا يظعنون عنها أبداً كما قال تعالى ( وما هم منها بمخرجين ) الاسم الرابع : ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ دار المقامة : قال تعالى ( وقالوا الحمد لله الذي أذهب عنا الحزن إن ربنا لغفور شكور* الذي أحلنا دار المقامة من فضله لا يمسنا فيها نصب ) أي أقاموا فيها أبداً لا يموتون ولا يتحولون منها أبداً . الاسم الخامس : ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ جنة المأوى : قال تعالى ( عندها جنة المأوى ) وقوله ( وأما من خاف مقام ربه ونهى النفس عن الهوى فإن الجنة هي المأوى ) والمأوى : من أوى يأوي إذا انضم إلى المكان وصار إليه واستقر . الاسم السادس : ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ جنات عدن : فقيل هي اسم لجنة من الجنان والصحيح أنه اسم لجملة الجنان وكلها جنات عدن قال تعالى ( جنات عدن التي وعد الرحمن عبادة بالغيب ) جنات عدن فإنه من الإقامة والدوام . الاسم السابع : ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ دار الحيوان : قال تعالى ( وإن الدار الآخرة لهي الحيوان ) والمراد الجنة عند أهل التفسير قالوا وإن الآخرة يعني الجنة لهي الحيوان لهي دار الحياة التي لا موت فيها . الاسم الثامن : ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ الفردوس : قال تعالى ( أولئك هم الوارثون الذين يرثون الفردوس هم فيها خالدون ) والفردوس اسم يقال على جميع الجنة ويقال أفضلها من غيره من الجنات وأصل الفردوس البستان . الاسم التاسع : ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ جنات النعيم : قال تعالى ( إن الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات لهم جنات النعيم ) وهذا اسم جامع لجميع الجنات لما تضمنه من الأنواع التي يتنعم بها من المأكول والمشروب والملبوس والصور والرائحة الطيبة والمنظر البهيج والمساكن الواسعة وغير ذلك من النعيم . الاسم العاشر : ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ المقام الأمين : قال تعالى ( إن المتقين في مقام أمين ) والمقام موضع الإقامة والأمين الآمن من كل سوء وآفة ومكروه وموت . الاسم الحادي عشر والثاني عشر : ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ مقعد صدق وقدم صدق : قال تعالى ( إن المتقين في جنات ونهر في مقعد صدق ) فسمى جنته مقعد صدق لحصول كل ما يراد من المقعد الحسن فيها .

Apr 21, 2012

'What must be said'

Why have I been silent, silent for so long? Our generals have gamed it out, Confident the west will survive. We people have not even been considered. What is this right to “preventive war”? A war that could erase the Iranian people. Dominated by it’s neighbor, pulsing with righteousness Smug in the fact that it is they, not Iran, Who have the Bomb. Gunter Grass To be continued ...

Apr 19, 2012

Maher Zain and Irfan Makki

'What must be said' a poem by Günter Grass

Why have I kept silent, held back so long,

on something openly practised in

war games, at the end of which those of us

who survive will at best be footnotes?


It's the alleged right to a first strike

that could destroy an Iranian people

subjugated by a loudmouth

and gathered in organized rallies,

because an atom bomb may be being

developed within his arc of power.

Yet why do I hesitate to name

that other land in which

for years – although kept secret –

a growing nuclear power has existed

beyond supervision or verification,

subject to no inspection of any kind?

This general silence on the facts,

before which my own silence has bowed,

seems to me a troubling, enforced lie,

leading to a likely punishment

the moment it's broken:

the verdict "Anti-semitism" falls easily.

But now that my own country,

brought in time after time

for questioning about its own crimes,

profound and beyond compare,

has delivered yet another submarine to Israel,

(in what is purely a business transaction,

though glibly declared an act of reparation)

whose speciality consists in its ability

to direct nuclear warheads toward

an area in which not a single atom bomb

has yet been proved to exist, its feared

existence proof enough, I'll say what must be said.

But why have I kept silent till now?

Because I thought my own origins,

tarnished by a stain that can never be removed,

meant I could not expect Israel, a land

to which I am, and always will be, attached,

to accept this open declaration of the truth.

Why only now, grown old,

and with what ink remains, do I say:

Israel's atomic power endangers

an already fragile world peace?

Because what must be said

may be too late tomorrow;

and because – burdened enough as Germans –

we may be providing material for a crime

that is foreseeable, so that our complicity

will not be expunged by any

of the usual excuses.

And granted: I've broken my silence

because I'm sick of the West's hypocrisy;

and I hope too that many may be freed

from their silence, may demand

that those responsible for the open danger

we face renounce the use of force,

may insist that the governments of

both Iran and Israel allow an international authority

free and open inspection of

the nuclear potential and capability of both.

No other course offers help

to Israelis and Palestinians alike,

to all those living side by side in enmity

in this region occupied by illusions,

and ultimately, to all of us.

Günter Grass



Was gesagt werden muss


Warum schweige ich, verschweige zu lange,
was offensichtlich ist und in Planspielen
geübt wurde, an deren Ende als Überlebende
wir allenfalls Fußnoten sind.

Es ist das behauptete Recht auf den Erstschlag,
der das von einem Maulhelden unterjochte
und zum organisierten Jubel gelenkte
iranische Volk auslöschen könnte,
weil in dessen Machtbereich der Bau
einer Atombombe vermutet wird.
Doch warum untersage ich mir,
jenes andere Land beim Namen zu nennen,
in dem seit Jahren - wenn auch geheimgehalten -
ein wachsend nukleares Potential verfügbar
aber außer Kontrolle, weil keiner Prüfung
zugänglich ist?
Das allgemeine Verschweigen dieses Tatbestandes,
dem sich mein Schweigen untergeordnet hat,
empfinde ich als belastende Lüge
und Zwang, der Strafe in Aussicht stellt,
sobald er mißachtet wird;
das Verdikt "Antisemitismus" ist geläufig.
Jetzt aber, weil aus meinem Land,
das von ureigenen Verbrechen,
die ohne Vergleich sind,
Mal um Mal eingeholt und zur Rede gestellt wird,
wiederum und rein geschäftsmäßig, wenn auch
mit flinker Lippe als Wiedergutmachung deklariert,
ein weiteres U-Boot nach Israel
geliefert werden soll, dessen Spezialität
darin besteht, allesvernichtende Sprengköpfe
dorthin lenken zu können, wo die Existenz
einer einzigen Atombombe unbewiesen ist,
doch als Befürchtung von Beweiskraft sein will,
sage ich, was gesagt werden muß.

Warum aber schwieg ich bislang?
Weil ich meinte, meine Herkunft,
die von nie zu tilgendem Makel behaftet ist,
verbiete, diese Tatsache als ausgesprochene Wahrheit
dem Land Israel, dem ich verbunden bin
und bleiben will, zuzumuten.

Warum sage ich jetzt erst,
gealtert und mit letzter Tinte:
Die Atommacht Israel gefährdet
den ohnehin brüchigen Weltfrieden?
Weil gesagt werden muß,
was schon morgen zu spät sein könnte;
auch weil wir - als Deutsche belastet genug -
Zulieferer eines Verbrechens werden könnten,
das voraussehbar ist, weshalb unsere Mitschuld
durch keine der üblichen Ausreden
zu tilgen wäre.

Und zugegeben: ich schweige nicht mehr,
weil ich der Heuchelei des Westens
überdrüssig bin; zudem ist zu hoffen,
es mögen sich viele vom Schweigen befreien,
den Verursacher der erkennbaren Gefahr
zum Verzicht auf Gewalt auffordern und
gleichfalls darauf bestehen,
daß eine unbehinderte und permanente Kontrolle
des israelischen atomaren Potentials
und der iranischen Atomanlagen
durch eine internationale Instanz
von den Regierungen beider Länder zugelassen wird.

Nur so ist allen, den Israelis und Palästinensern,
mehr noch, allen Menschen, die in dieser
vom Wahn okkupierten Region
dicht bei dicht verfeindet leben
und letztlich auch uns zu helfen.


Günter Grass

Here, again, is an article written by Grace Halsell. It is worth reading. "It shouldn't be published. It's anti-Israel." American Jews sympathetic to Israel dominate key positions in all areas of our government where decisions are made regarding the Middle East. This being the case, is there any hope of ever changing U.S. policy? President Bill Clinton as well as most members of Congress support Israel-and they know why. U.S. Jews sympathetic to Israel donate lavishly to their campaign coffers. The answer to achieving an even-handed Middle East policy might lie elsewhere-among those who support Israel but don't really know why. This group is the vast majority of Americans. They are well-meaning, fair-minded Christians who feel bonded to Israel-and Zionism-often from atavistic feelings, in some cases dating from childhood. I am one of those. I grew up listening to stories of a mystical, allegorical, spiritual Israel. This was before a modern political entity with the same name appeared on our maps. I attended Sunday School and watched an instructor draw down window- type shades to show maps of the Holy Land. I imbibed stories of a Good and Chosen people who fought against their Bad "unChosen" enemies. In my early 20s, I began traveling the world, earning my living as a writer. I came to the subject of the Middle East rather late in my career. I was sadly lacking in knowledge regarding the area. About all I knew was what I had learned in Sunday School. And typical of many U.S. Christians, I somehow considered a modern state created in 1948 as a homeland for Jews persecuted under the Nazis as a replica of the spiritual, mystical Israel I heard about as a child. When in 1979 I initially went to Jerusalem, I planned to write about the three great monotheistic religions and leave out politics. "Not write about politics?" scoffed one Palestinian, smoking a water pipe in the Old Walled City. "We eat politics, morning, noon and night!" As I would learn, the politics is about land, and the co-claimants to that land: the indigenous Palestinians who have lived there for 2,000 years and the Jews who started arriving in large numbers after the Second World War. By living among Israeli Jews as well as Palestinian Christians and Muslims, I saw, heard, smelled, experienced the police state tactics Israelis use against Palestinians. My research led to a book entitled Journey to Jerusalem. My journey not only was enlightening to me as regards Israel, but also I came to a deeper, and sadder, understanding of my own country. I say sadder understanding because I began to see that, in Middle East politics, we the people are not making the decisions, but rather that supporters of Israel are doing so. And typical of most Americans, I tended to think the U.S. media was "free" to print news impartially. "It shouldn't be published. It's anti-Israel." In the late 1970s, when I first went to Jerusalem, I was unaware that editors could and would classify "news" depending on who was doing what to whom. On my initial visit to Israel-Palestine, I had interviewed dozens of young Palestinian men. About one in four related stories of torture. Israeli police had come in the night, dragged them from their beds and placed hoods over their heads. Then in jails the Israelis had kept them in isolation, besieged them with loud, incessant noises, hung them upside down and had sadistically mutilated their genitals. I had not read such stories in the U.S. media. Wasn't it news? Obviously, I naively thought, U.S. editors simply didn't know it was happening. On a trip to Washington, DC, I hand-delivered a letter to Frank Mankiewicz, then head of the public radio station WETA. I explained I had taped interviews with Palestinians who had been brutally tortured. And I'd make them available to him. I got no reply. I made several phone calls. Eventually I was put through to a public relations person, a Ms. Cohen, who said my letter had been lost. I wrote again. In time I began to realize what I hadn't known: had it been Jews who were strung up and tortured, it would be news. But interviews with tortured Arabs were "lost" at WETA. The process of getting my book Journey to Jerusalem published also was a learning experience. Bill Griffin, who signed a contract with me on behalf of MacMillan Publishing Company, was a former Roman Catholic priest. He assured me that no one other than himself would edit the book. As I researched the book, making several trips to Israel and Palestine, I met frequently with Griffin, showing him sample chapters. "Terrific," he said of my material. The day the book was scheduled to be published, I went to visit MacMillan's. Checking in at a reception desk, I spotted Griffin across a room, cleaning out his desk. His secretary Margie came to greet me. In tears, she whispered for me to meet her in the ladies room. When we were alone, she confided, "He's been fired." She indicated it was because he had signed a contract for a book that was sympathetic to Palestinians. Griffin, she said, had no time to see me. Later, I met with another MacMillan official, William Curry. "I was told to take your manuscript to the Israeli Embassy, to let them read it for mistakes," he told me. "They were not pleased. They asked me, ‘You are not going to publish this book, are you?' I asked, ‘Were there mistakes?' ‘Not mistakes as such. But it shouldn't be published. It's anti-Israel.'" Somehow, despite obstacles to prevent it, the presses had started rolling. After its publication in 1980, I was invited to speak in a number of churches. Christians generally reacted with disbelief. Back then, there was little or no coverage of Israeli land confiscation, demolition of Palestinian homes, wan ton arrests and torture of Palestinian civilians. The Same Question Speaking of these injustices, I invariably heard the same question, "How come I didn't know this?" Or someone might ask, "But I haven't read about that in my newspaper." To these church audiences, I related my own learning experience, that of seeing hordes of U.S. correspondents covering a relatively tiny state. I pointed out that I had not seen so many reporters in world capitals such as Beijing, Moscow, London, Tokyo, Paris. Why, I asked, did a small state with a 1980 population of only four million warrant more reporters than China, with a billion people? I also linked this query with my findings that The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post-and most of our nation's print media-are owned and/or controlled by Jews supportive of Israel. It was for this reason, I deduced, that they sent so many reporters to cover Israel-and to do so largely from the Israeli point of view. My learning experiences also included coming to realize how easily I could lose a Jewish friend if I criticized the Jewish state. I could with impunity criticize France, England, Russia, even the United States. And any aspect of life in America. But not the Jewish state. I lost more Jewish friends than one after the publication of Journey to Jerusalem-all sad losses for me and one, perhaps, saddest of all. In the 1960s and 1970s, before going to the Middle East, I had written about the plight of blacks in a book entitled Soul Sister, and the plight of American Indians in a book entitled Bessie Yellowhair, and the problems endured by undocumented workers crossing from Mexico in The Illegals. These books had come to the attention of the "mother" of The New York Times, Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger. Her father had started the newspaper, then her husband ran it, and in the years that I knew her, her son was the publisher. She invited me to her fashionable apartment on Fifth Avenue for lunches and dinner parties. And, on many occasions, I was a weekend guest at her Greenwich, Conn. home. She was liberal-minded and praised my efforts to speak for the underdog, even going so far in one letter to say, "You are the most remarkable woman I ever knew." I had little concept that from being buoyed so high I could be dropped so suddenly when I discovered-from her point of view-the "wrong" underdog. As it happened, I was a weekend guest in her spacious Connecticut home when she read bound galleys of Journey to Jerusalem. As I was leaving, she handed the galleys back with a saddened look: "My dear, have you forgotten the Holocaust?" She felt that what happened in Nazi Germany to Jews several decades earlier should silence any criticism of the Jewish state. She could focus on a holocaust of Jews while negating a modern day holocaust of Palestinians. I realized, quite painfully, that our friendship was ending. Iphigene Sulzberger had not only invited me to her home to meet her famous friends but, also at her suggestion, The Times had requested articles. I wrote op-ed articles on various subjects including American blacks, American Indians as well as undocumented workers. Since Mrs. Sulzberger and other Jewish officials at the Times highly praised my efforts to help these groups of oppressed peoples, the dichotomy became apparent: most "liberal" U.S. Jews stand on the side of all poor and oppressed peoples save one-the Palestinians. How handily these liberal Jewish opinion-molders tend to diminish the Palestinians, to make them invisible, or to categorize them all as "terrorists." Interestingly, Iphigene Sulzberger had talked to me a great deal about her father, Adolph S. Ochs. She told me that he was not one of the early Zionists. He had not favored the creation of a Jewish state. Yet, increasingly, American Jews have fallen victim to Zionism, a nationalistic movement that passes for many as a religion. While the ethical instructions of all great religions-including the teachings of Moses, Muhammad and Christ-stress that all human beings are equal, militant Zionists take the position that the killing of a non-Jew does not count. Over five decades now, Zionists have killed Palestinians with impunity. And in the 1996 shelling of a U.N. base in Qana, Lebanon, the Israelis killed more than 100 civilians sheltered there. As an Israeli journalist, Arieh Shavit, explains of the massacre, "We believe with absolute certitude that right now, with the White House in our hands, the Senate in our hands and The New York Times in our hands, the lives of others do not count the same way as our own." Israelis today, explains the anti-Zionist Jew Israel Shahak, "are not basing their religion on the ethics of justice. They do not accept the Old Testament as it is written. Rather, religious Jews turn to the Talmud. For them, the Talmudic Jewish laws become ‘the Bible.' And the Talmud teaches that a Jew can kill a non-Jew with impunity." In the teachings of Christ, there was a break from such Talmudic teachings. He sought to heal the wounded, to comfort the downtrodden. The danger, of course, for U.S. Christians is that having made an icon of Israel, we fall into a trap of condoning whatever Israel does-even wanton murder-as orchestrated by God. Yet, I am not alone in suggesting that the churches in the United States represent the last major organized support for Palestinian rights. This imperative is due in part to our historic links to the Land of Christ and in part to the moral issues involved with having our tax dollars fund Israeli-government-approved violations of human rights. While Israel and its dedicated U.S. Jewish supporters know they have the president and most of Congress in their hands, they worry about grassroots America-the well-meaning Christians who care for justice. Thus far, most Christians were unaware of what it was they didn't know about Israel. They were indoctrinated by U.S. supporters of Israel in their own country and when they traveled to the Land of Christ most all did so under Israeli sponsorship. That being the case, it was unlikely a Christian ever met a Palestinian or learned what caused the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is gradually changing, however. And this change disturbs the Israelis. As an example, delegates attending a Christian Sabeel conference in Bethlehem earlier this year said they were harassed by Israeli security at the Tel Aviv airport. "They asked us," said one delegate, "‘Why did you use a Palestinian travel agency? Why didn't you use an Israeli agency?'" The interrogation was so extensive and hostile that Sabeel leaders called a special session to brief the delegates on how to handle the harassment. Obviously, said one delegate, "The Israelis have a policy to discourage us from visiting the Holy Land except under their sponsorship. They don't want Christians to start learning all they have never known about Israel." * Washington, DC-based writer Grace Halsell is the author of 14 books, including Journey to Jerusalem and Prophecy and Politics.




أركان الإيمان جاء ذكرها في القرآن الكريم،
مبيناً أن من لم يؤمن بها ويعمل بها فهو خارج من دين الإسلام،

قال عز وجل: {يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ آمِنُواْ بِاللّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَالْكِتَابِ الَّذِي نَزَّلَ عَلَى رَسُولِهِ وَالْكِتَابِ الَّذِيَ أَنزَلَ مِن قَبْلُ وَمَن يَكْفُرْ بِاللّهِ وَمَلاَئِكَتِهِ وَكُتُبِهِ وَرُسُلِهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الآخِرِ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ ضَلاَلاً بَعِيداً} النساء: 136

وقال عز وجل: {آمَنَ الرَّسُولُ بِمَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْهِ مِن رَّبِّهِ وَالْمُؤْمِنُونَ كُلٌّ آمَنَ بِاللّهِ وَمَلآئِكَتِهِ وَكُتُبِهِ وَرُسُلِهِ لاَ نُفَرِّقُ بَيْنَ أَحَدٍ مِّن رُّسُلِهِ وَقَالُواْ سَمِعْنَا وَأَطَعْنَا غُفْرَانَكَ رَبَّنَا وَإِلَيْكَ الْمَصِيرُ} البقرة: 285

وقال عز وجل: {لَّيْسَ الْبِرَّ أَن تُوَلُّواْ وُجُوهَكُمْ قِبَلَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ وَلَـكِنَّ الْبِرَّ مَنْ آمَنَ بِاللّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الآخِرِ وَالْمَلآئِكَةِ وَالْكِتَابِ وَالنَّبِيِّينَ} البقرة: 177


وهذه الأركان علمها جبريل لصحابة رسول الله صل الله عليه وسلم في حديث جبريل المشهور، الذي رواه عمر بن الخطاب رضي الله عنه، قال:

بينما نحن جلوس عند رسول الله صل الله عليه وسلم ذات يوم إذ طلع

علينا رجل شديد بياض الثياب، شديد سواد الشعر، لا يرى عليه أثر

السفر، ولا يعرفه منا أحد، حتى جلس إلى النبي صل الله عليه وسلم

فأسند ركبتيه إلى ركبتيه، ووضع كفيه على فخذيه،

وقال: يا محمد أخبرني عن الإسلام.

فقال رسول الله صل الله عليه وسلم: "الإسلام: أن تشهد أن لا إله إلا الله، وأن محمداً رسول الله، وتقيم الصلاة، وتؤتي الزكاة، وتصوم رمضان، وتحج البيت إن استطعت إليه سبيلاً"

قال: صدقت، قال: فعجبنا له يسأله ويصدقه،

قال: فأخبرني عن الإيمان؟

قال: "أن تؤمن بالله، وملائكته، وكتبه، ورسله، واليوم الآخر، وتؤمن بالقدر خيره وشره"،

قال: صدقت. قال: فأخبرني عن الإحسان؟

قال: "أن تعبد الله كأنك تراه، فإن لم تكن تراه فإنه يراك"،

قال: صدقت. قال: فأخبرني عن الساعة؟

قال: "ما المسئول عنها بأعلم من السائل"،

قال: فأخبرني عن أماراتها،

قال: "أن تلد الأمة ربتها، وأن ترى الحفاة العراة العالة رعاء الشاء يتطاولون في البنيان". ثم انطلق فلبث ملياً، ثم

قال: "يا عمر أتدري من السائل؟"

قلت: الله ورسوله أعلم، قال: "هذا جبريل أتاكم يعلمكم دينكم"

رواه مسلم.


وهذه الأركان والأصول اتفقت عليها الشرائع كلها ونزلت بها جميع الكتب، وهي:

1 الإيمان بالله
2 الإيمان بالملائكة
3 الإيمان بالكتب
4 الإيمان بالرسل
5 الإيمان باليوم الآخر
6 الإيمان بالقدر خيره وشره


طريق الهدي
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Apr 16, 2012

من أقوال عمر بن الخطـــاب رضي الله عنه


بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

من أقوال عمر بن الخطـــاب رضي الله عنه

كتب عمر إلى ابنه عبدالله – رضي الله عنهما – في غيبة غابها :
أمّا بعد :
فإن من اتقى الله وقاه ، ومن اتكل عليه كفاه ، ومن شكر له زاده ، ومن أقرضه جزاه .
فاجعل التقوى عمارة قلبك ، وجلاء بصرك .
فإنه لا عمل لمن لا نية له .
ولا خير لمن لا خشية له .
ولا جديد لمن لا خلق له .

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كان آخر دعاء عمر رضي الله عنه في خطبته :
اللهم لا تدعني في غمرة ، ولا تأخذني في غرة ، ولا تجعلني مع الغافلين .

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قال عمر رضي الله عنه :

بلينا بالضراء فصبرنا ، وبلينا بالسراء فلم نصبر .
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لا خير في قوم ليسوا بناصحين ، ولا خير في قوم لا يحبون الناصحين .
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كلّ يوم يقال : مات فلان وفلان ، ولا بد من يوم يقال فيه : مات عمر .

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من دخل على الملوك ، خرج وهو ساخط على الله .

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الأمور الثلاثة :
أمر استبان رشده فاتبعه .
وأمر استبان ضره فاجتنبه .
وأمر أشكل أمره عليك ، فرده إلى الله .

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الراحة عقلة ، وإياكم والسمنة فإنها عقلة .

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إن كان لك دين فإن لك حسباً .
وإن كان لك عقل ، فإن لك أصلاً .
وإن كان لك خلق ، فلك مروءة .
وإلا ، فأنت شر من الحمار .
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أخوف ما أخاف عليكم : شح مطاع ، وهوى متبع ، وإعجاب المرء بنفسه .

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إذا سمعت الكلمة تؤذيك ، فطأطئ لها حتى تتخطاك .

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لو ماتت شاة على شط الفرات ضائعة لظننت أن الله تعالى سائلي عنها يوم القيامة .

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لو نادى منادي من السماء : أيها الناس ، إنكم داخلون الجنة كلكم أجمعون إلا رجلاً واحد..
لخفت أن أكون هو .
ولو نادى مناد : أيها الناس ، إنكم داخلون النار إلا رجلاً واحداً ..
لرجوت أن أكون هو .
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لأعزلن خالد بن الوليد والمثنى – مثنى بني شيبان –
حتى يعلما أن الله إنما كان ينصر عباده ، وليس إياهما كان ينصر .

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إن لله عباداً ، يميتون الباطل بهجره ، ويحيون الحق بذكره ، رغبوا فرغبوا ..
ورهبوا فرهبوا ، خافوا فلا يأمنون ، أبصروا من اليقين ما لم يعاينوا فخلطوا بما لم يزايلوا ..
أخلصهم الخوف ، فكانوا يهجرون ما ينقطع عنهم ، لما يبقى لهم ..
الحياة عليهم نعمة ، والموت لهم كرامة .

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من كثر ضحكه قلت هيبته .
ومن مزح استخف به .
ومن أكثر من شيء عرف به .
ومن كثر كلامه كثر سقطه ، ومن كثر سقطه قل حياؤه ..
ومن قل حياؤه قل ورعه ، ومن قل ورعه مات قلبه .

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كنتم أذل الناس ، فأعزكم الله برسوله ، فمهما تطلبوا العز بغيره يذلكم الله .

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وجدنا خير عيشنا الصبر .

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جالسوا التوابين فإنهم أرق شيء أفئدة .

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لولا ثلاث لأحببت أن أكون قد لقيت الله .
لولا أن أسير في سبيل الله عز وجل .
ولولا أن أضع جبهتي لله .
أو أجالس أقواماً ينتقون أطايب الحديث ، كما ينتقون أطايب التمر .

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لو أن الصبر والشكر بعيران ، ما باليت أيهما أركب .

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لا تكلم فيما لا يعنيك ، واعرف عدوك ، وأحذر صديقك إلا الأمين..
ولا أمين إلا من يخشى الله ، ولا تمشي مع الفاجر ، فيعلمك من فجوره ..
ولا تطلعه على سرّك ، ولا تشاور في أمرك إلا اللذين يخشون الله عز وجل .

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أحب الناس إلي ، من رفع إلى عيوبي .

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أخوف ما أخاف على هذه الأمة ، من عالم باللسان ، جاهل بالقلب .

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خذوا حظكم من العزلة .
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إن الدين ليس بالطنطنة من آخر الليل ، ولكن الدين الورع .
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لا تنظروا إلى صيام أحد ولا صلاته ، ولكن انظروا إلى صدق حديثه إذا حدث ..
وأمانته إذا ائتمن ، وورعه إذا أشفى .
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تعلموا العلم ، وتعلموا للعلم السكينة والوقار والحلم ، وتواضعوا لمن تتعلمون منه ..
وليتواضع لكم من يتعلم منكم ، ولا تكونوا من جبابرة العلماء ، فلا يقوم علمكم بجهلكم .

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رأس التواضع : أن تبدأ بالسلام على من لقيته من المسلمين ..
وأن ترضى بالدون من المجلس ، وأن تكره أن تذكر بالبر والتقوى .
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إنا قوم أعزنا الله بالإسلام ، فلا نطلب العز في غيره .
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اخشوشنوا ، وإياكم وزي العجم : كسرى وقيصر .
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لا أبالي أصبحت غنياً أو فقيراً ، فإني لا أدري أيهما خير لي .
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إن من صلاح توبتك ، أن تعرف ذنبك .
وإن من صلاح عملك ، أن ترفض عجبك .
وإن من صلاح شكرك ، أن تعرف تقصيرك .
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إن الحكمة ليست عن كبر السن ، ولكن عطاء الله يعطيه من يشاء .
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أجرأ الناس ، من جاد على من لا يرجو ثوابه .
وأحلم الناس ، من عفا بعد القدرة .
وأبخل الناس ، الذي يبخل بالسلام .
وأعجز الناس الذي يعجز عن دعاء الله .
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كتب عمر رضي الله عنه إلى سعد بن أبي الوقاص رضي الله عنه :
يا سعد ، إن الله إذا أحب عبداً حببه إلى خلقه ، فاعتبر منزلتك من الله بمنزلتك من الناس..
واعلم أن ما لك عند الله مثل ما لله عندك .

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رأى عمر رضي الله عنه رجلاً يطأطئ رقبته ، فقال :
يا صاحب الرقبة ، ارفع رقبتك ، ليس الخشوع في الرقاب ، إنما الخشوع في القلوب .

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دخل عمر على ابنه عبدالله رضي الله عنهما ، وإذا عندهم لحم ، فقال :
ما هذا اللحم ؟
فقال : اشتهيته .
قال : أو كلما اشتهيت شيئاً أكلته ؟! كفى بالمرء سرفاً أن يأكل كلّ ما اشتهاه .

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كان عمر رضي الله عنه ، يقول لنفسه :
والله لتتقين الله يا ابن الخطاب ، أو ليعذبنك ، ثمّ لا يبالي بك . وكان يقول :
من اتقى الله لم يصنع كلّ ما تريده نفسه من الشهوات .

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سأل عمر رضي الله عنه رجلاً عن شيء ، فقال : الله أعلم .
فقال عمر : لقد شقينا إن كنا لا نعلم أن الله أعلم !! إذا سئل أحدكم عن شيء لا يعلمه ، فليقل : لا أدري .

Awesome arabic nasheed [Translation with Eng Subtitles]

Apr 11, 2012

War on Poetry


Israel has declared Nobel Prize-winning German author Gunter Grass "persona non grata" over a poem that deeply criticises the Jewish state and suggests it is as much a danger as Iran. In a poem called "What Must Be Said" published last Wednesday, Grass, 84, criticised what he described as Western hypocrisy over Israel's nuclear programme and labelled the country a threat to "already fragile world peace" over its belligerent stance on Iran. On Sunday, Israel's interior minister, Eli Yishai, announced that Grass would be barred from Israel for his attempt “to fan the flames of hate against the state of Israel and the Israeli people".

Below, then, is a link to Gunter Grass' poem 'What Must Be Said'

http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/what-must-be-said-about-gunter-grass-latest-poem-of-the-same-name/


(References for text: Agencies, Al Jazeera. Photo: Via Wikicommons)

Apr 10, 2012

Sami Yusuf 2011 Make Me Strong (HD) Subtitle Arabic with lyrics مترجمة ل...

Maher Zain - The Chosen One | ماهر زين - المختار







In a time of darkness and greed
It is your light that we need
You came to teach us how to live
Muhmmad, ya Rasoola Allah


You were so caring and kind
Your soul was full of light
You are the best of mankind
Muhammad, khairu khalqi Allah


Chorus:
Sallou 'ala Rasooli Allah
Habibil Mustafa
Peace be upon the Messenger
The Chosen One


From luxury you turned away
And all night you would pray
Truthful in every word you say
Muhammad, ya Rasoola Allah


Your face was brighter than the sun
Your beauty equalled by none
You are Allah's Chosen One
Muhammad, khayru khalqi Allah


Chorus


I'll try to follow your way
And do my best to live my life
As you taught me
I pray to be close to you
On that day, and see you smile
When you see me


Chorus  



Lyrics: Bara Kherigi
Melody & Arrangement: Maher Zain
© Awakening Records 2010

Maher Zain - Ya Nabi (Arabic Version) | ماهر زين - يا نبي سلام عليك

We Love You Muhammad


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLqroRrgW0c&feature=related

Amitié jusqua l'infini

Apr 9, 2012

Dear Readers,



The direction, the editorial team, translators, contributors and readers of the journal 'Contemporary Literary Horizon' celebrate the submission of its second anthology this April at the National Museum of Romanian Literature. An event that dignifies the parties involved and honors poetry and its makers. I am delighted and honored to be among the contributors of the anthology.

Congratulations!

http://contemporaryhorizon.blogspot.mx/2011/08/orizont-literar-contemporan-nr-4-24july.html

http://contemporaryhorizon.blogspot.mx/2012/04/multicultural-event-in.html

http://contemporaryhorizon.blogspot.mx/2012/03/contemporary-literary-horizon-no-1.html

http://contemporaryhorizon.blogspot.mx/2012/01/new-second-anthology-of-contemporary.html


http://contemporaryhorizon.blogspot.mx/2012/01/poetry-and-spiritualitypoesia-y.html


Apr 4, 2012

HORTUS CONCLUSUS

A man and a woman in their late twenties
bend their heads together, towards each other,
in this candid color picture.
What does she hold, tiny, between them
that holds their focused attention?
They are oblivious to the magnificent
walled Moorish medieval gardens
of the Alcazar rising around them.

“Paradise” was a Persian word
for “enclosed garden surrounding a fountain”
hidden in the midst of a vast desert.
Paradise, I now know, is the past
where they peer and smile at a shared secret
with, floating unknown above them, a rose glowing.

DONALD RIGGS