Note: Avoid Unnecessarily Chatting With Non-Mahram Males

💐 In The Name Of Allah The Most Gracious The Most Merciful

💌 As I quickly scroll through my inbox trying to decide which messages need to be answered first, I find out that a guy whom I've known through our parents back in Saudi Arabia sent a salaam which had me wondering, "Should I respond to his greeting and continue our conversation? What if our dialogue isn't that important and it leads to some sort of fitna? Alhamdulillah I'm contentedly married and he's married with kids too. Maybe there's nothing wrong with a casual chit-chat if we see each other like brothers and sisters? Nah that whole friendzoning and 'I see you like a brother' thing aren't applicable in Islam since non-mahrams of different genders can't be "just friends". So I left his message on seen mode, just as I've chosen not to answer the dozens of salaams and misspellings from other guys many of whom may be searching for soulmates in the wrong place.

I pray that he and the others will understand the importance of lowering their gaze, minding their business, networking with male students of knowledge if they have questions about Islam, focusing on improving the love they have for their own women or asking Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'aala for loyal, supportive and pious Muslim wives in the future.

Alhamdulillah it's better to be an unintentional heartbreaker whom Allah the Most Loving still loves than to be someone who doesn't take their Deen seriously and shows inability to keep desires under control. 

Friendly conversations among unrelated men and women may seem harmless at the beginning, but situations can gradually get out of hand when the conniving shaytan comes in between them.

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📖 Abu Qatadah RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "Verily, you will never leave anything for the sake of Allah the Almighty but that Allah will replace it with something better."

Source: Musnad Ahmed 22565

Grade: Sahih (Authentic) according to Al-Albani

📖 Jabir Ibn Abdullah RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "Whoever has faith in Allah and the Last Day, let him not be alone with an unrelated woman without her guardian (mahram). Verily, the third of them is shaytan."

Source: Musnad Ahmed 14241

Grade: Sahih (Authentic) according to Al-Albani

https://www.abukhadeejah.com/free-mixing-between-the-sexes-in-islam-a-detailed-discussion/

Poem: The Obligation To Worship Allah And Taking One's Prayers Seriously

💐 In The Name Of Allah The Most Gracious The Most Merciful

💌 Strange how many feel a void, a sense of emptiness 

In their hearts, often go through existential crisis, 

Or doubt themselves when they're accused of being useless, 

While they, due to pride, ignorance or forgetfulness, 

Can't fulfill the purpose of why we were created.

~•~

Allah the Almighty made us so He is worshipped, 

Designed our bodies not to dance but for His service, 

Gave us orders to avoid what He prohibited, 

And sent divine messages through His signs and Prophets 

Who did their best to spread the truth, lead and admonish.

~•~

To exist just to enjoy makes one's life meaningless.

Simply eating, drinking and behaving like wild beasts 

That do what they can to survive in the wilderness 

Can later cause one to feel bored, empty or depressed,

When the heart isn't filled with faith and prayer's solace.

~•~

Glad tidings of Allah's Love to faithful believers 

Who, when callers call "Come to prayer, come to success," 

Pause worldly tasks to fulfill our life's actual purpose.

Regardless of frequent stress, tiredness, or busyness, 

Praying on time keeps them feeling whole and accomplished.

~•~

One sign you're a true Muslim is when you get upset 

That you'd have to pray Fajr late as you overslept, 

Then once you've prayed and have Salat Ad-Duha added, 

Hoping for Allah's Mercy, your heart can calmly rest. 

Praying to Allah is important to pass His tests.

~•~

📖 Abu Huraira RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "The first action for which a servant of Allah will be held accountable on the Day of Resurrection will be his prayers. If they are in order, he will have prospered and succeeded. If they are lacking, he will have failed and lost. If there is something defective in his obligatory prayers, then Allah the Almighty will say: 'See if My servant has any voluntary (Sunnah) prayers that can complete what is insufficient in his obligatory prayers.' The rest of his deeds will be judged the same way." 

Source: Sunan At-Tirmidhī 413 

Grade: Sahih (Authentic) according to Al-Albani

📖 Jabir RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "Verily, between a man and idolatry (shirk/polytheism) and disbelief (kufr) is abandoning the prayer."

Source: Sahih Muslim 82

Grade: Sahih (Auhentic) according to Muslim

📖 Malik Ibn Al-Huwayrith RadhiAllahu 'anhu narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "Pray as you have seen me praying. When the time of prayer arrives, let one of you announce the call to prayer for you and then let the older of you lead the prayer."

Source: Sahih Al-Bukhari 5662

Sahih Muslim 674

Grade: Muttafaqun Alayhi (Authenticity agreed upon) according to Al-Bukhari and Muslim

https://abdurrahman.org/salah/