Asma’ Bint Yazid Al-Anshariyah

An orator, a Scholar of Hadith and Mujahidah

She was famous as Khathibatun Nisa (orator woman). She was also known as a scholar in hadith and mujahidah. Her full name is Asma’ Bint Yazid Bin Sakan Bin Rafi’ Bin Imra’ulQais Bin Zaid Bin Abd. Ashab.

She was a courageous woman. In Yarmuk war, many Muslimah took contribution in this war as Ibn Katsir said in his book al-Bidayah wan Nihayah, “They fight in the great war and the women went along with them in the rear with bravely”.

In this great war, Asma’ Bint Yazid participated with other women in the rear of mujahidin, she prepared weaponry, gave drinks to mujahidin and treated wounded warrior and encouraged warriors to keep up battling martially. She also killed nine roman warriors. She gained injuries in her back and Allah wanted her to live for long time. She was still alive for 17 years after that Great War.

Besides that, she was also known had strong personality and didn’t bashful to ask something related to shariah, even she asked to Rasulullah Pbuh. Asma’ asked the Prophet how to take a bath after finishing from menses. The prophet told her to do and said, “Purify yourself with a piece of cloth scented with musk.” Then she asked, “How shall I purify myself with it?” He said, “Subhanallah ! Purify yourself (with it).” Aisha then pulled her and said, “Rub the place soiled with blood with it.”

She wasn’t shy to ask about the truth while Rasulullah pbuh felt shy and turned his face. Her curiosity in detail things helped other Muslimah to get more knowledge.

One day, when Rasulullah pbuh was with his companions, he surprised when Asma’ asked him, “We the women are housebound and have restrictiveness in action (do not take participation in battle), supporting and serve family. Do we have similar merits as the men get?”.

Rasululullah pbuh, turned over his body to sahabat and said, “Have you ever heard a question from woman about religion better than she does?” The Companion replied that they never heard the brilliant question before.

Then Rasulullah shalallahu ‘alayhisalam said, “Please come back and tell to other women who stand at your back; good deeds of one of you to her husband, her effort to get husband’s willingness and her obedience, that’s all can be equal to all men’s good deeds”. Asma’ went to other women with gleamed face because of her pride to get what women dreams as submission of the follower of Allah’s Apostle.

Asma’ came to Allah’s Apostle in the first of Hijra year, and made oath to obey him. May Allah shower her with Rahman and Rahiim. Ameen…

Causes Of Increase In Iman And Our Shortcomings by Shaykh `Aa’id Abdullah al-Qarnee

Causes of Increase in Iman

1. Praying to your Lord, Glorified and Exalted, in secret, supplicating a lot to Him, hoping in His     reward, and engaging in much remembrance of Him.
2. Contemplating His Book, for nothing helps the recovery of the heart except the Book of Allah Mighty and Sublime. There are many youth who busy themselves even with sciences of the Shari`ah at the expense of reciting the Qur’an until their hearts eventually harden. So if this happens with acts of obedience, what about one who occupies his heart with sins?
3. Regularly performing your obligatory prayers in congregation, for Allah guaranteed the one who guards his obligatory prayers in congregation that he will neither abandon him, nor humiliate him, and that He will guard him in this world and the next.
4. Regularly performing as-sunan ar-rawatib (acts of Sunnah that were stressed and regularly performed by the Prophet sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam), and doing plenty of them, for whenever you prostrate to Allah with a prostration, He raises your level.
5. Accompanying and loving the righteous. "The person is with one he loves. [Al-Bukhari] "Do not befriend except a believer, and let no one eat your food except a taqiyy (a pious, God-fearing person)." [Hasan, related by Ahmad, At-Tayalisi, Abu Dawud, At-Tirmidhi and others]
6. Knowing that Allah al-Wahid al-Ahad watches over us, and knowing that He is with you: "Does He who created not know, while He is the Subtle, the Acquainted?" [al-Mulk (67):14] Knowing also that He knows what you hide and what you make apparent: "Have you not considered that Allah knows what is in the heavens and what is on the earth? There is no private conversation of three but that He is the fourth of them, nor are there five but that He is the sixth of them - and no less than that and no more except that He is with them [in knowledge] wherever they are. Then He will inform them of what they did, on the Day of Resurrection. Indeed Allah is, of all things, Knowing." [Al-Mujadilah (58):7]

    How to Increase Our Imaan?

1. Taking oneself to account as the Salaf used to do; they used take themselves to account in detail prior to sleep: What did we put forth from good so that we thank Allah? What did we do from evil so that we repent to Allah?
2. Seeking guidance and advice from the people of knowledge and callers to Allah. 
3. Visiting graves, for it is a means of remembrance of the hereafter, and it guides a slave to the Straight Path. 
4. Reading biographies of the Salaf. Exemplary biographies are those lived by the Sahaba, at-Tabi`een and imams, such as Ahmad, ash-Shai`i, Malik, ath-Thawri, al-Awza`i and many others.
5. Praying upon Allah in secret and supplicating to Him in the last third of the night.

Palestine, How Are You...?

Ours souls are for you

Our bloods are for you

For you all our souls and bloods

O my beloved Al Aqsa

We will struggle

For the sake and noble of Islam

Yaa Rabbi, let us struggle in Your Palestine

Yaa Allah, take us into Your Syuhada

O, you Palestinian kids

Keep throwing the stone until the apartheid’s heads broken

Keep throwing until the last one left

My body, my heart, my soul, and my prayer are your stones

Bones may break, body may destroy

But our spirit will never die!

Palestine will be free, sooner or later

You may not be aware

That we also feel your pain

You are always be in our heart, in our prayer

Ask, then you will be granted

Ask, then you will be granted

I always ask Him, everything I want

Sometimes my request is granted, sometimes not

He doesn’t give what I want, but He gives what I need

Sometimes, I beg Him many times, but He doesn’t grant yet

My request is not granted because I ask impossible things

Then He replace with the better one

He gives everything I need, not everything I want

He makes me feel comfort, when I whimper to be granted

He gives me patience, while I can’t stop persuading, asking and begging

I ask, and then He gives

I give, then He replace by tenfold

I bear begging, He folds every wishes

But I never realized

Always forget to say thank

Forget to say Alhamdulillah…

8 Goodness’s Have No Meaning

Ali bin Abi Thalib ra. Said; there are 8 goodness’s that have no meaning

1.     There’s no goodness in ‘salat’ with no followed by devoutly

2.    Shaum (fasting) with no self-preservation to every part of his body from unuseful action

3.    Recite Qur’an with no ‘tadabbur’ (contemplation-understanding)

4.    There’s no goodness owned knowledge without followed by ‘wara’

5.    There’s no goodness in wealth without followed by merciful (sadaqah, zakat)

6.    There’s no goodness in brotherhood without taking care each other

7.    There’s no goodness in tentative enjoyment

8.    There’s no goodness in dua (prayer) with no sincerely

(to advise me myself)