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On the authority of Mu’adh bin Jabal (radhiyAllahu ‘anhu) who said: I said, “ O Messenger of Allah, tell me of a deed which will take me into Paradise and will keep me away from the Hell-fire.” He said: “You have asked me about a great matter, yet it is, indeed, an easy matter for him to whom Allah Almighty makes it easy. (It is ) that you worship Allah without associating anything with Him, that you perform the prayers, that you pay the zakat, that you fast during Ramadhan, and that you make the pilgrimage to the House.”   Then he said: “Shall I not guide you to the gates of goodness?  Fasting is a shield; charity extinguishes sin as water extinguishes fire; and a man’s prayer in the middle of the night.” Then he recited: “Who forsake their beds to cry unto their Lord in fear and hope, and spend of that We have bestowed on them. No soul knoweth what is kept hid for them of joy, as a reward for what they used to do”. [Al-Sajdah, 32:16-17]   Then he said: “Shall I not ...

Also on the authority of `Umar (radi Allaahu ‘anhu), who said: “One day while we were sitting with the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) there appeared before us a man whose clothes were exceedingly white and whose hair was exceedingly black; no signs of journey were to be seen on him and none of us knew him. He walked up and sat down in front of the Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam), with his knees touching against the Prophet’s (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) and placing the palms of his hands on his thighs he said: “O Muhammad, tell me about Islaam.”The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: “Islaam is to testify that there is no deity worthy of worship but Allaah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allaah, to perform prayers, to give zakaah, to fast in Ramadaan, and to make the pilgrimage to the House if you are able to do so.”He said: “You have spoken rightly”; and we were amazed at him asking him and saying that he had spoken  rightly.H...

{O you who believe, do not let your wealth or children divert you away from the remembrance of Allah, And whoever does that are indeed the losers} Surah Al-Munafiqoon, 63:9] Getting a job and working hard so that you are able to become independent and support your family is undoubtedly a very noble and praiseworthy action, and should be appreciated. When it comes after completing a hard-earned education, or after a long period of unemployment, it is even more cherished. What we must definitely realise however, is that this is in fact a test for us; hence we must strive and be careful not to make this opportunity a reason for our demise! As a Muslim who works full-time, you will surely be faced with many challenges which must be dealt with correctly and appropriately. Alhamdulillah I think a lot of these challenges have been discussed extensively in the past so I will not dwell into them. However, a challenge which I feel has been much neglected to the extent that many of us do n...

“Have you seen Abdullah? He hasn’t been attending the classes anymore.” “No he got married, remember?” The above conversation has been unfortunately heard by many of us before and we still hear it. Just replace Abdullah with another name every time. After writing an article on continuing studying Islamic knowledge after starting full-time work, I felt it was really important to do the same for the other main reason which causes people to stop their quest for Islamic knowledge. It is of course, marriage. Marriage is a very noble action that has been mentioned in the Qur’an and Sunnah numerous times, and I’m pretty sure everyone knows these verses and ahadith already! It is enough of a virtuous action that the prophet (sallaAllah ‘alayhi wasallam) said it is equivalent to half of the religion [Reported by Al-Haakim]. However, many of us fall behind after marriage in a way that is destructive to our religion, forgetting that the continuation of the hadith above is “so he should fear ...

Early electronic computers such as Colossus made use of punched tape, a long strip of paper on which data was represented by a series of holes, a technology now obsolete. [15]  Electronic data storage, which is used in modern computers, dates from World War II, when a form of delay line memory was developed to remove the clutter from radar signals, the first practical application of which was the mercury delay line. [16]  The first random-access digital storage device was the Williams tube, based on a standard cathode ray tube, [17]  but the information stored in it and delay line memory was volatile in that it had to be continuously refreshed, and thus was lost once power was removed. The earliest form of non-volatile computer storage was the magnetic drum, invented in 1932 [18]  and used in the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer. [19] ...

Information technology  ( IT ) is the application of computers to store, study, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data, [1] or information, often in the context of a business or other enterprise. [2]  IT is considered a subset of information and communications technology (ICT). In 2012, Zuppo proposed an ICT hierarchy where each hierarchy level "contain some degree of commonality in that they are related to technologies that facilitate the transfer of information and various types of electronically mediated communications." [3] The term is commonly used as a synonym for computers and computer networks, but it also encompasses other information distribution technologies such as television and telephones. Several industries are associated with information technology, including computer hardware, software, electronics, semiconductors, Internet, telecoms equipment, and e-commerc...