Be Patient and Paradise will be Yours

Be Patient and Paradise will be yours



‘Sabr’ is an Arabic world derived from same root meaning, ‘ to detain’, ‘refrain’, and ‘stop’.

In the Shariah , patience means stop ourselves from what has been asked to stop in religion and doing what is expected of us. This is broadly said as “Steadfast” in Islam, its tenets and orders.



It has been narrated from Ata bin Abi Rabah ( RA) said: Ibn Abbas ( RA) said to me, “ Shall I show you a women of the people of paradise?” I said, “Yes”. He said, “This black lady came to the Prophet(PBUH) and said, ‘I get attacks of epilepsy and my body become uncovered ; please invoke Allah for me.’ The Prophet (PBUH) said to (he her):

‘If you wish, be patient and Paradise will be yours; and if you wish, I will invoke Allah to cure you.’





She said, ‘ I will remain patient ,” and added, ‘but I became uncovered, so please invoke Allah for me that I may not become uncovered.’ So he invoked Allah for her.” Al Bukharee



“ And be patient; verily , Allah loses not the rward of the good-doers.”

Surah Al Hud(11): 115



“But for him who feared standing before his lord, and restrained himself from impure evil desires and lust. Verily Paradise will be his abode.” { An Naziaat (79) 40-41}





Quran Surah Yusuf (12:23) Now the woman in whose house he was began to tempt him, and one day she closed the doors and said, "Come here." Joseph replied, "May Allah protect me from this! My Lord has given me a good abode: (and should I, then, misbehave like this?) Such workers of iniquity never fare well. "



Quran Surah Yusuf (12:33) Joseph said, "My Lord! I prefer imprisonment to that to which they invite me. If Thou dost not ward off their cunning devices from me, I may be caught in their snare, and become one of the ignorant. "



Today the greatest challenge is keeping patience, when evil desire and lust approaches. In today’s society, in the name of liberalism and advancement and …….when basic decency of dress is gone. Evil is available easily and promoted through media in the name of progress and development and advancement. …….. This road goes only to the fire ….. fire of Hell.



In this difficult time Patience of Prophet Yusuf is required, (Sabran Jameel) the Patience from keeping oneself away from lust and evil desires.

This is challenge of this time and very difficult challenge.



1513. Sahl bin Sa`d (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, "Whosoever gives me a guarantee to safeguard what is between his jaws and what is between his legs, I shall guarantee him Jannah.''[Al-Bukhari].



Commentary: What is between the jaws and what is between the legs refers to the tongue and the sexual organs, respectively. The Prophet (PBUH) has given the assurance of Jannah to every Muslim who protects these two parts of the body. Protection here means their use permitted by the Islamic Shari`ah. They should be guarded against every act that is prohibited by the Shari`ah.

Corporate Social Responsibility

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Education - India's Development Challenge

The Azim Premji Foundation Initiative in developing education and developing a economy based on knowledge will go long way in India's Development.
The Corporate Initiative is the way forward in developing this world and making it better place.

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Women in Islam

Prophet ( Peace be upon Him) and Importance of Family

Prophet (PBUH) said " The best of you is the one who is best to his family. And I am the best of you to my family." ( al- Tarmidhi and Ibn Majah, Sahih)

How Prophet ( PBUH) would deal with his family: Al Aswad bin Yazid said, " I asked ' Aishah- may Allah be pleased with her - how Allah's Messenger ( PBUH) would behave in his house. She Said, ' He would be serving his family, and when the time for prayer would come he would perform ablution and leave to pray."

Prophet ( PBUH) would advise people to treat their womenfalk with kindness and have regard for their emotions so that they may live with them in happyness. He advised fathers to be kind to their daughters. " Whoever looks after two girls until they have grown up, he and I will be on the day of Resurrection like this," said the Prophet ( PBUH) as he joined his fingurs together.
He also advised sons to look after their mothers. He wasasked "Who should I honour most? After Allah and Prophet"
The Prophet ( PBUH) replied, " Your mother, then your mother, then your mother, and then your father."
Prophet (PBUH) said on His last Hajj in front of hundred thousand pilgrims," You must treat your womenfalk well! You must traet your womenfolkwell!!" ( Muslim and al-Tirmidhi)

A women can be patient with her husband's poverty, unattractiveness, and busy schedule, but she can not be patient with his rude behaviour.

In Islam Mother's are honoured, daughteres are honoured and wives are honoured. Islams gives best to the women, the respect and honour she deserves.

Disease of Heart

Jealousy .......... The Disease of Heart

Protect your heart...

Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) said: “Truly in the body there is a morsel of flesh which, if it be whole, all the body is whole and which, if it be diseased, all of it is diseased. Truly it is the heart.” [Sahih Bukhari and Muslim]

On the authority of Abu 'Abdullah al-Nu'man bin Bashir, radiyallahu 'anhu, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu 'alayhi wasallam, say:

"Truly, what is lawful is evident, and what is unlawful is evident, and in between the two are matters which are doubtful which many people do not know. He who guards against doubtful things keeps his religion and honor blameless, and he who indulges in doubtful things indulges in fact in unlawful things, just as a shepherd who pastures his flock round a preserve will soon pasture them in it. Beware, every king has a preserve, and the things Allah has declared unlawful are His preserves. Beware; in the body there is a flesh; if it is sound, the whole body is sound, and if it is corrupt, the whole body is corrupt, and beholds, it is the heart." [Al-Bukhari & Muslim]

Avoid Jealousy

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said "Avoid jealousy, for it destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood."

--------- Riyadh-us-Salaheen, Hadith 1569

In the hadith the prophet (pbuh) said: “three people whose du’a (supplication) will not be answered: the one who eats haram (prohibited); the one who indulges in back-biting; and the one who has in his heart enmity or envy towards the Muslims.”

At-Tirmidhee narrated from al-Zubayr Ibn al-Awam that the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) said:

“There has come to you the disease of the nations before you, jealousy and hatred. This is the ‘shaver’ (destroyer); I do not say that it shaves hair, but that it shaves (destroys) faith…” [(Hasan) Jamee at-Tirmidhee (2434)]

In the hadith, Anas ibn Malik (may allah be pleased with him) reported: “while we were sitting with the prophet (pbuh), he informed us ‘that a man from paradise will approach you soon’. There then appeared a man from ansar whose beard was still dripping water from his wudhu (ablution), and he was holding his shoes in his left hand. The following day, the prophet (pbuh) told us the same thing, and again the same man appeared. The same incident happened on the third day. As the prophet (pbuh) left us, Abdullah ibn Omar (may allah be pleased with them) followed the man home and said to him ‘i have argued with my father and sworn that i will not return for three days. Can you accommodate me for these three days?’ the man agreed, and, later, Abdullah informed us that while he was with the man he did not witness anything out of the ordinary: in fact, he was almost unimpressed with his work. Abdullah further remarked that after the passing of the three days, he explained to the man the real reason why he was there, and reiterated the words of the prophet (pbuh). He then asked him about any special things that would have earned him such a status. The man replied: ‘nothing other than you have seen!’ as he was leaving, the man called him back and said: ‘it is what you have seen except i have never had in my heart any deception or envy towards any of the Muslims for any bounty that allah has bestowed upon them.’ Abdullah then said: ‘then that is what earned you this status.’”

Abu Hurairah (radhiAllahu anhu) narrated: Messenger of Allah (sallaAllahu alayhe wasallam) said, “Allah does not look at your figures, nor at your attire but He looks at your hearts [and deeds].” [Muslim]

O mankind! surely We have created you of a male and a female, and made you tribes and families that you may know each other; verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you; surely Allah is Knowing, Aware (al-Hujurat 49:13)

The most important thing: Always attend to your heart, constantly wash it until it is purified.

Meaning for jealousy and

The meaning of jealousy is that man desires that a blessing may be removed from his faithful brother though he knows that the said comfort is befitting him and hence the title.

Abu Hamzah Anas bin Malik, radiyallahu 'anhu, who was the servant of the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu 'alayhi wasallam, reported that the Prophet, sallallahu 'alayhi wasallam, said

"None of you truly believes (in Allah and in His religion) until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself" [Al-Bukhari & Muslim

Healthcare - Stillbirth - India's Development Challenge

India Development Challenge Health

The sorry state of maternal care in India has come to the media attention once again. A recent Lancet study noted that India has the highest number of stillbirths in the world, accounting for a little under a quarter of the global total.

Significantly, the study pointed out that around 45 per cent of these can be prevented by timely medical attention. The District Level Household Survey (DLHS) conducted in 2002-04 estimated that stillbirths occurred in 1.7 per cent of all pregnancies for currently married women in the age group of 15 to 44 years in the three years preceding the survey.

In the next round, DLHS-3 for 2007-08 estimated stillbirths at 1.3 per cent of all pregnancies. However, as the survey respondents were in the age group of 15 to 49 years, the estimates of the two rounds are not strictly comparable.

In six states – Bihar, Haryana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal – the share of stillbirths to total pregnancies exceeded 1.7 per cent. And in Delhi, Mizoram, Himachal Pradesh, Lakshadweep and Goa the share was 0.5 per cent or less.

Age, education and wealth showed correlation with the incidence of stillbirths — girls less than 20 years of age had the highest share of pregnancies resulting in stillbirths. However, there was a sharp drop in the share of stillbirths when the woman had 10 or more years of schooling, also the highest wealth segment had the lowest incidence of stillbirths. Clearly, access to timely health intervention improves with education and wealth.

With an increase in wealth and educational levels, the incidence of abortions increases, not just induced but also spontaneous abortions. The latter technically refers to miscarriages that naturally occur. At an aggregate level, spontaneous abortions account for 4.7 per cent of all pregnancies while induced abortions account for 1.8 per cent.

Though the DLHS report said, “The observed relatively higher level of spontaneous abortion could be due to reporting of induced abortions as spontaneous abortions.” This ambiguity makes interpreting of the results of the survey difficult. In Goa, Manipur, Delhi and Assam the share of induced abortions exceeds 3.5 per cent while Haryana, Delhi and Tamil Nadu stand out with the share of spontaneous abortions exceeding seven per cent of all pregnancies. If induced and spontaneous abortions are taken into account, Haryana, Delhi, Manipur and Tamil Nadu rank at the top. Haryana, therefore, has the dubious distinction of being the state with the least share of live births to all pregnancies.

It goes without saying that pregnancies that do not culminate in live births take a toll on the physical and psychological health of women. Also the limited access to safe health care from qualified health professionals creates more risks. According to the Family Welfare Statistics 2009 of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, abortions were responsible for eight per cent of maternal deaths between 2001 and 2003, the latest period for which data are available. Timely and reliable health intervention – whether it is for safe contraceptive methods or during pregnancy – is vital for reducing the burden on women’s health in India.

Indian States Development Scorecard is a weekly feature by Indicus Analytics that focuses on the progress in India and the states across various socio-economic parameters India has the world’s highest number of stillbirths, with mothers-to-be lacking timely and reliable medical attention