Make Quran So Important In Your Life Then any other thing in this world

Which is better -- reading Qur'aan or listening to one of the recieters on audiotapes?.

Praise be to Allaah.

Reading Qur'aan and listening to it are both righteous deeds for which the Muslim will be rewarded. 

The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) sometimes liked to listen to Qur'aan from other people. 

Al-Bukhaari (4582 and 5049) and Muslim (800) narrated from ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Mas’ood (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allaah (blessings and peace of Allah upon him) said to me: “Recite the Qur’aan to me.” I said: O Messenger of Allaah, should I recite to you when it was revealed to you? He said: “I like to hear it from someone else.” So I recited al-Nisa’, and when I reached the verse, “How (will it be) then, when We bring from each nation a witness and We bring you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) as a witness against these people?” [al-Nisa’ 4:41], I raised my head, or a man who was beside me nudged me and I raised my head, and I saw his tears flowing.. 

So what is best is to do that which is in his best interests and will have the best effect on him, whether it is reading or listening, because the purpose of reading is to ponder and understand the meanings and act upon what is indicated by the Book of Allah, as Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“(This is) a Book (the Qur’aan) which We have sent down to you, full of blessings, that they may ponder over its Verses, and that men of understanding may remember”

[Saad 38:29]

“Verily, this Qur’aan guides to that which is most just and right”

[al-Isra’ 17:9]

“Say: It is for those who believe, a guide and a healing”

[Fussilat 41:44]. 

End quote from Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn Baaz, 11/364 

And Allah knows best.

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Kaaba key keeper passes away at 82

Makkah, November 08: Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Sheibi, the keeper of the Holy Kaaba’s key, passed away Sunday morning. He was 82. His body was buried in the Maalla cemetery after funeral prayers at the Grand Mosque in Makkah.

Al-Sheibi family has been holding the position of the Kaaba key keeper since the time of jahiliya (pre-Islamic period). It was inherited by the eldest member of the family and did not transfer from father to son. Age was the basis for the key’s inheritance.

All Muslim rulers have respected Al-Sheibi family being the custodian of the Holy Kaaba and its key. The family of the present custodians is linked with Sheiba bin Othman Abitalha who lived during the time of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

Al-Sheibi family has been holding the position since the time of Qusay bin Kilab who lived before Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). King Faisal gave the Kaaba key to Sheikh Ameen, brother of Abdulaziz. Sheikh Abdulaziz has been keeping the key for the last 16 years. Al-Sheibi family has been serving the Holy Kaaba for the last 15 centuries. There are 370 members in the family and most of them live in Makkah.

The Holy Kaaba is cleaned twice a year; once in the middle of the lunar month of Shaaban and the second in the middle of Dul Qaada using Zamzam water mixed with rose water and perfumed with Oud.

According to Abdulaziz, the Holy Kaaba was kept open three times a month for people to enter and pray inside. But when the number of people seeking to enter the holy edifice increased it was stopped.

The key of the Kaaba does not change with the change of its door. During the time of King Khaled, the door was changed but the key remained unchanged. The Holy Kaaba’s door is 2.40 meters high and 1.70 meters wide. The present door is made of pure gold.

First 10 Days Of Dhul-Hijjah

Among the good deeds which the Muslim should strive to do during the first ten days of Dhu’l-Hijjah are:

1. Fasting. It is Sunnah to fast on the ninth day of Dhu’l-Hijjah,And also the first nine days, because the Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) urged us to do good deeds during this time, and fasting is one of the best of deeds.
2. Takbeer. It is Sunnah to say Takbeer ("Allahu akbar"), Tahmeed ("Al-hamdu Lillaah"), Tahleel ("La ilaha ill-Allah") and Tasbeeh ("Subhaan Allah") during the first ten days of Dhu’l-Hijjah, and to say it loudly in the mosque, the home, the street and every place where it is permitted to remember Allah and mention His name out loud, as an act of worship and as a proclamation of the greatness of Allah, may He be exalted.Men should recite these phrases out loud, and women should recite them quietly.
3. Doing more good deeds in general, because good deeds are beloved by Allah and will bring a great reward from Him. Whoever is not able to go to Hajj should occupy himself at this blessed time by worshipping Allah, praying (salaat), reading Qur’an, remembering Allah, making supplication (du’aa’), giving charity, honoring his parents, upholding the ties of kinship, enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil, and other good deeds and acts of worship.
4. Sacrifice. One of the good deeds that will bring a person closer to Allah during these ten days is offering a sacrifice, by choosing a high-quality animal and fattening it, spending money for the sake of Allah.
5. Sincere repentance. One of the most important things to do during these ten days is to repent sincerely to Allah and to give up all kinds of disobedience and sin.

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World's Oldest Women Will Perform The Holy Hajj

Born in 1890, Going for Haj in 2010: India's Munni Begum ready for pilgrimage.


Munni Begum is 120 year old and is all set to go for Haj, after special
permission as her name didn't figure in the draw of lots.

The old woman who gave birth to eight sons and daughters, heads a huge
family that lives in Kho Nagorian locality of Jaipur.
Family members say that Munni Begum was born in August 1890. She has 52
grandsons and granddaughters apart from 96-odd great grandsons and great
granddaughters other than two dozen great-great-grandchildren [and even
their kids.


The elderly woman has seen three centuries. And now she is all set for
the pilgrimage she has waited for all her life. On Saturday she reached
the office of Haj Committee to fill the form. The Central Haj Committee
officials from Delhi gave her special permission.
The Rajasthan Haj Welfare Society has requested the Saudia Arabia
government that special attention should be paid to her because of
Munni's age.

Munni Begum is perhaps the oldest woman on record to embark for the holy
journey. She says that she had the wish to go for Haj ever since she was
married in her teenage, and thus her wish is going to be fulfilled after
over a century.
One wonders if there is a tendency among the Rajasthanis, particularly,
the Jaipur residents to live longer.

Earlier, Habib Miyan had gone for Haj at the age of 134. He had suddenly
drawn international attention after it was found that he had been
drawing pension for over 65 years.

Habib Miyan had retired in 1938. He went for Haj in 2004 when he was
134. Though birth certificates were unknown in the olden days, the bank
records proved his age.

As per the pension papers, Habib Miyan was drawing pension since 1938.
The documents clearly showed him as born in 1878 and this made him the
world's oldest man alive until his death at the age of 138 in 2008. The
bank officers delivered his pension at his home.


Now it's Munni Begum's turn though she is not a 'Munni' in the literary
sense. [Munni means little in Urdu] In India, it was the tradition that
mostly older persons went for Haj, after they had fulfilled their
worldly responsibilities.

In recent years the pilgrims have begun going at a comparatively younger
age, still a large number of Indians who go to Hejaz [Arabia] are over
sixty. And Munni Begum clearly beats them as well. One hopes that along
with other Hajis, she also manages to perform the Haj and returns
safely. Ameen.


Munni Begum to visit Haj at 120

120 year-old Munni Begum is all set to fulfill her life-long wish, a
trip to the Haj.