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Join the MCA Mailing List and Stay Connected HADITH PRAYER TIMINGS Effective 07/11 MCA NOOR Fajr 4:50 5:00 Dhuhr 1:30 1:30 Asr 5:15 6:30 Maghrib Sunset Sunset Isha 10:10 10:10 Juma 1 12:15 12:15 Newsletter Juma 2 1:30 1:30 Published Weekly by the Muslim Community Association of San Francisco Bay Area 19 Dhul-Qida, 1441 AH Friday, July 10, 2020 AL-QURAN O you who have believed, do not violate the rites of Allah or [the sanctity of] the sacred month or [neglect the marking of] the sacrificial animals and garlanding [them] or [violate the safety of] those coming to the Sacred House seeking bounty from their Lord and [His] approval. But when you come out of ihram, then [you may] hunt. And do not let the hatred of a people for having obstructed you from al-Masjid al-Haram lead you to transgress. And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression. And fear Allah ; indeed, Allah is severe in penalty. Al-Maidah, 5:2 Join the MCA Mailing List and Stay Connected HADITH Abu Huraira reported: Allah’s Apostle (PBUH) found an old man walking between his two sons supported by them, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (PBUH) said: What is the matter with him? He (the narrator) said: Allah’s Messenger, they are his sons and there is upon him the (fulfilment) of the vow, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (PBUH) said: Ride, old man, for Allah is not in need of you and your vow. 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For your membership status and renewal/registration, please visit the MCA website https://www.mcabayarea.org/about-us/mca-membership. For membership related questions and concerns, please contact MCA General Secretary at [email protected] 2 Islamic stories 15. Al-Qahhar The Other Doors Our 4 year old son has some fairly serious health problems, so we The Dominant, The One who has the are “frequent fliers” at the local children’s hospital. Two weeks ago, our son was there for several days having surgery. perfect Power and is not unable over anything. As stressful as that was for us, my visits to that hospital almost always leave me feeling grateful. Why? Because of “the other doors.” As I walk the corridors of that hospital, I pass doors leading to many different departments. I pass the department where surgeons reconstruct children’s faces. I pass the department where specialists treat children who have been tragically burned. I pass the department where children with cancer spend their childhoods battling a disease that terrifies most adults. Every day, people walk through those doors. I keep walking. Occasionally, I walk through a ward, past the room of a dying child. I look in at the child, unconscious amid a mass of tubes and machines. I see the family, staring blankly into space, grieving for what is to come. I keep walking. On the fourth floor, I pass the “catacombs” where parents with “And to Allah belong the best names, so children in ICU watch their days and nights stretch into weeks and invoke Him by them.” [Quran 7:180] months, hoping against hope for good news. I keep walking. It’s late one evening, and I walk to the waiting room. Only one family remains, and their doctor arrives from surgery. He begins to tell them about the patient’s injuries....a shotgun blast, self-inflicted .... massive facial damage.... a dozen more operations to come....a lifetime of disfigurement...a lifetime of asking “why?” I sit, half- listening, considering the doors, this family will face in the years ahead. I stood up. I walk back to the preschool ward, to the one door I seek. Behind this door, our son is slowly recovering from surgery. And in a strange way, I am grateful for the “situation” that we live with. Because there are a hundred other doors in this place that are far worse. And we could just as easily be in one of those rooms. As you pray for strength to open the doors you face, be sure to thank Allah Ta’ala for the doors he has spared you. 3 Series on Companions of the Prophet (PBUH) Fatima bint Muhammad Fatimah (ra) was the fifth child of Muhammad and support, explained to Fatimah (ra) what her against them. They didn’t say a single word to (saw) and Khadijah (ra). She was born at a time father had to do. From this time on, she became her. when her noble father had begun to spend more closely attached to him and felt a deep long periods in the solitude of mountains and abiding love for him. Often she would be The Noble Prophet (saw) raised his head on around Makkah, meditating and reflecting on at his side walking through the narrow streets completion of the prostration and went on to the great mysteries of creation. and alleys of Makkah, visiting the Ka’bah complete the Salat. He then said: “O Lord, may or attending secret gatherings of the early you punish the Quraysh!” and repeated this This was the time, before the Bi’thah, when her Muslims who had accepted Islam. imprecation three times. Then he continued: eldest sister Zaynab (ra) was married to her cousin, al-’As ibn ar-Rabi’ah. Then followed the One day, when she was not yet ten, she “May You punish ‘Utbah, ‘Uqbah, Abu Jahl and marriage of her two other sisters, Ruqayyah and accompanied her father to the Masjid al- Shaybah.” (These whom he named all perished Umm Kulthum (ra), to the sons of Abu Lahab, a Haram. He stood in the place known as al-Hijr many years later at the Battle of Badr.) paternal uncle of the Prophet (saw). Both Abu facing the Ka’bah and began to pray. Fatimah On another occasion, Fatimah (ra) was with Lahab and his wife Umm Jamil turned out to be (ra) stood at his side. A group of Quraysh, by the Prophet (saw) as he made tawaf around flaming enemies of the Prophet (saw) the Ka’bah. A Quraysh from the very beginning of his public mob gathered around him. mission. They seized him and tried The little Fatimah (ra) thus saw her to strangle him with his sisters leave home one after the other own clothes. Fatimah (ra) to live with their husbands. She was screamed and shouted for too young to understand the meaning help. Abu Bakr (ra) rushed to of marriage and the reasons why her the scene and managed to sisters had to leave home. She loved free the Prophet (saw). While them dearly and was sad and lonely he was doing so, he pleaded: when they left. It is said that a certain “Would you kill a man who silence and painful sadness came says, ‘My Lord is God?’” over her then. Far from giving up, the mob Of course, even after the marriage turned on Abu Bakr (ra) and of her sisters, she was not alone in began beating him until the house of her parents. Barakah blood flowed from his head (ra), the maid-servant of Aminah (ra), no means well-disposed to the Prophet (saw) and face. Such scenes of the Prophet’s mother, who had been with the vicious opposition and harassment against her Prophet (saw) since his birth, Zayd ibn Harithah, gathered about him. They included Abu Jahl ibn Hisham, the Prophet’s uncle, ‘Uqbah ibn Abi father and the early Muslims were witnessed and ‘Ali (ra), the young son of Abu Talib (ra) by the young Fatimah (ra). She did not meekly were all part of Muhammad’s household at Mu’ayt, Umayyah ibn Khalaf, and Shaybah and Utbah, sons of ar-Rabi’ah. Menacingly, the group stand aside but joined in the struggle in this time. And of course there was her loving defense of her father and his noble mission. She mother, the lady Khadijah (ra). went up to the Prophet (saw) and Abu Jahl, the ringleader, asked: was still a young girl and instead of the cheerful In her mother and in Barakah, Fatimah (ra) found romping, the gaiety and liveliness which a great deal of solace and comfort. In ‘Ali (ra), “Which of you can bring the entrails of a children of her age are and should normally be who was about four years older than she, she slaughtered animal and throw it on Muhammad accustomed to, Fatimah (ra) had to witness and found a “brother” and a friend who somehow (saw)?” participate in such ordeals.
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