THE MUSLIM HOME

                     بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم                
    In the Name of ALLAH the All-Compassionate, All-Merciful  


   Home is a blessing. Allah عز و جل says :
                      و الله جعل لكم من بيوتكم سكنا
   And Allah has made for you in your homes an abode.... (16 : 80)


      Why We must strive to make Islah (reform) 
                         of the home environment ?

  First : Protecting oneself and one's family from the fire of Hell, and
  keeping them safe from the burning punishment.

  O' you who believe, protect yourselves and your families from a fire
  (Hell) whose fuel is people and stones, over which are angels stern
  (and) severe, who disobey not (executing) the commands they receive
  from Allah, but do that which they are commanded.

  Second : The great responsibility borne by the head of the household
  on the Day of Reckoning.

  Rasoolullah صلى الله عليه وسلم said :
  ''Allah will ask every shepherd (person with responsibility) about his
  flock (those for whom he was responsible), whether he took care of
  them or neglected them. He will ask man about his household.

  Third : The home is a place to protect oneself, to keep away from
  evil and to keep one's own evil away from people. It is the refuge
  prescribed by Islam at times of fitnah (strife, tribulation).

  Rasoolullah صلى الله عليه وسلم  said :
  ''Blessed is the one who controls his tongue, whose house is sufficient
  for him, and who weeps over his mistakes.'' ( At-Tabarani)

  Rasoolullah صلى الله عليه وسلم  also said :
  ''The safety of a man at times of fitnah is in his staying home.''
  (Sahih al-Jami')

  A Muslim can see the benefit of this advice when he is residing in a
  foreign land where he is unable to change much of the evil around him.
  Then he will have a refuge which, when he enters it, will protect him
  from doing haraam things or looking at haraam things, and will protect
  his wife from immodest display and unveiling, and will protect his
  children from bad company.

  Fourth :  People usually spent most of their time at home, especially
  when it is very hot or very cold, holidays, after finishing work or school.
  So this time should be spent in worship and hahaal pursuits, otherwise
  it will be spent in sin.

  Fifth Paying attention to the home is the most important means of
  building a Muslim society. If these homes are sound, the society will
  be based on the laws of  Allah, standing firm in the face of enemies
  and filled with goodness that evil cannot penetrate. Then Muslim homes
  will produce exemplary da'iyahs (callers to Islam), seekers of knowledge
  and all other types of reformers.


  WHAT ARE THE MEANS OF REFORMING OUR HOMES?

  All the following advice revolves around these things:

  1)   Achieving our interests
  2)   Establishing the right and the good
  3)  And warding off evil (by removing that which can cause
       or bring it into our homes).   

  This is the first part of a series of  naseehas ( advices) about how we
  can improve the standed of our homes in accordence to the
  commandments of Allah Ta'ala taught to us by our beloved
  Nabi صلى الله عليه وسلم 

  I have taken these recommendations from the book,'' The Muslim Home
  40 Recommendations'' in the Light of the Qur'an and Sunnah by
  Muhammad Salih al Munajjid. May Allah reward the author for his
  beneficial work Ameen!
 
  Inshallah I hope to illustrate on the points taken with a few other
  additions.    

 

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