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The Secrets of an Accepted Dua

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(+FREE dua diary) By   Guest Writer  -   February 18, 2017   by Rayeesa Tabassum (in collaboration with Team AYEINA) الدعاء هو العبادة‏   The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Du’a (supplication) is worship.” [ Abu Dawud ] Dua – a beautiful word for “supplication” in Arabic. Its root words are  د ع و   (  Dal-Ayn-Waw  ) which means to seek, desire, ask, demand, call upon, invoke, ascribe, cry out, call out to, pray, supplicate etc. It is a powerful weapon of the believer. If his/her dua gets accepted, there’s khair in it. If it doesn’t get accepted, it could either be a source of source of salvation in the hereafter or a way to ward off evil from you. In short, dua can result in the following: 1)  Allah will answer immediately. 2) Allah will postpone it for a better time and we’ll be rewarded for the patience in shaa Allah. 3) It will be rejected because Allah knows what’s bes...

A History of Wahhabism and the Hijacking of the Muslim faith

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POSTED BY:  INSPIRE TO CHANGE WORLD   DECEMBER 16, 2015 “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act” – George Orwell Our century so far has been overshadowed by a plague which roots, western powers have proclaimed, can be found in Islam and its practice. And though politicians have been careful not to publicly brand all Muslims terrorists, the narrative has nevertheless been one of suspicion and assumption. The words terror and Islam have been juxtaposed too many times in the media for anyone to believe that it was not by “design.”  There has been a war of words against both Islam and Muslims. Its aim is rather simple and only too predictable since it falls within an equation of greed and cynicism. By ridiculing Islam and dehumanizing its followers, western powers have essentially laid the ground for intervention – positioning their armies within a narrative of moral salvation and liberation when their aims are everything but. Iraq serves a...