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“How to Make a Killing in the Real Estate Market” is a valuable resource to teach you how to identify key properties and go about the process of buying, renovating, renting and finally selling your property. In the process of doing that it will also teach you how to make more money than you ever dreamed of.

It answers all the important questions about investing in low costs homes and why you should do it with cash and how this is possible all over the United States.

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We will show you how to identify the hidden diamonds in the rough. We walk you through the entire process from finding foreclosure properties to picking the best deals.

Foreclosures are at a record high. Just think 23 banks in America closed their doors in July 2010 alone and the number of home foreclosures set a record in the second quarter of 2010, with banks repossessing 269,962 United States homes.

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Allah is Al Hakim (The Most Wise)

Salamu alaykum,
I found the most beneficial post on this sisters blog and I'm posting it here. Check out her blog though al hamdulilaah.

http://farhathashmi.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/whatever-allah-doesit-is-for-our-best/

Whatever Allaah does….it is for our best

by Asma bint Shameem

When my daughter was 2 years old, she loved to play with the water in the commode. Yes, that’s right….the commode. Yuck!! That’s nasty! You would say. But to her, that was the delight of the day! Splish…splash! To her there was nothing like it! And so when I would prevent her from it, she would scream and cry and wouldn’t want to stop. She didn’t understand how harmful that was for her. In her little mind, I took away something that she really enjoyed.

And when I would take her to the doctor to have her immunization shots, she didn’t understand either. She would howl at the top of her lungs at the first sight of the needle and would run the other way. It would take two of us just to hold her down! To her, frankly, it was plain torture! Her innocent little mind simply could not even begin to understand how, on earth, could being tortured by a needle, be good for you?!! She didn’t realize that this ‘needle’ will Insha Allaah protect her from certain illnesses and harm that is much more severe than the prick of this little needle.

So what’s the point here?

The point I am trying to make is that we, as parents sometimes do things for our kids, out of our great love and concern for them, which they may not understand. They do not see the wisdom behind it, although we do, and so we carry out those things because we know it will be better for them.

And for Allah is the Highest example. (Surah Nahl:60) وَلِلّهِ الْمَثَلُ الْأَعْلَىَ

So when Allaah Subhaanahu wa Ta’ala , in His Infinite Wisdom, tests us with a situation that we think is difficult or takes away something that in our mind was good for us, we need to remember that perhaps it may not be so. Perhaps if we had continued in our way, it might have been harmful for us and whatever Allaah decreed for us is actually better for us, for He is All-Wise and All-Knowing.

Allaah says:

“…and it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allaah knows but you do not know.” (Surah Baqarah: 216)

Al-Hasan al-Basri said: “Do not resent the calamities that come and the disasters that occur, for perhaps in something that you dislike will be your salvation, and perhaps in something that you prefer will be your doom.”

Remember that we are dealing with the One who is Arham ar-Raahimeen, the Most Merciful of all that show mercy. All the mercy that we have in this world from Adam (Alaiyhi Salaam) to the Day of Judgment is only one hundredth of the Mercy of the Most Merciful. And He is Most Wise. He knows and we don’t know.

So have faith in Him and trust in Him and although, sometimes we may not understand the reason behind certain things, know that as long as you obey Him, whatever He will do for you is, in fact for your betterment.

So if Allaah didn’t give you that big house, or that nice car you wanted or that big raise you were hoping for, know in your mind and believe in your heart that it is actually better for you. Who knows…..maybe that big house, that car or that money would have become a source of ‘fitnah’ for you….Perhaps you would have become arrogant and conceited because of it, and Allaah saved you from it. Because, you know that the Prophet (sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa Sallam) said:

“Any one in whose heart is even a mustard seed’s worth of pride will not enter Paradise.” (Muslim)

And if you have been sick and suffering, sure it is not easy. But again, know in your mind and believe in your heart that it is indeed better for you. For, if you bear patiently, it will be a means of expiation for your sins and a source of great reward. The Prophet (sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa Sallam) said:

“There is nothing that befalls a believer, not even a thorn that pricks him, but Allaah will record one good deed for him and will remove one bad deed from him.” (Muslim)

And: “On the Day of Resurrection, when people who had suffered affliction are given their reward, those who were healthy will wish their skins had been cut to pieces with scissors when they were in the world (when they see the immense rewards for the afflictions they suffered).” (Tirmidhi-Saheeh by al-Albaani)

If Allaah took away a dear, loved one, believe, from the bottom of your heart, that surely this was better. For, you never know, had the one who passed away lived longer, may be his life would have been one of sins and disobedience and Allaah, out of His Mercy, took him before that….in a state of Imaan.

And if life has been difficult, worries surround you and calamities after calamities befall you, hear the good news from the Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa Sallam): “Trials will continue to befall the believing man and woman, with regard to themselves, their children and their wealth, until they meet Allaah with no sin on them.” (Tirmidhi– saheeh by al-Albaani)

Subhaan Allaah! No sin?! And what is it from this world that you wouldn’t give up, just to meet Allaah with no sin??!!

Remember that the One Who is testing you is the Most Wise, the Most Merciful and the Most Loving…..and that He did not send this calamity in order to destroy you….or cause you pain or finish you off. Rather, He is checking on you, testing your patience, acceptance and faith; it is so that He may hear your du’a and supplication, so that He may see you standing before Him….seeking His protection….filled with humility and complaining to Him, alone. The difficulties you face is a reminder for you to return to Allaah and ask for forgiveness from Him. Who knows… if He didn’t give you the difficulty, maybe you would have strayed from Him far, far away….

Ibn Taymiyah said: A calamity that makes you turn to Allaah is better for you than a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allaah.”

Thus in our times of trouble, when we go through pain and suffering and in our times of loss, we need to trust Allaah. We need to keep in mind that as long as we fear Him and try our best to obey Him, He will never do us wrong. He will protect us and guide us and do the best for us, no matter what the situation apparently looks like. Allaah says in a hadeeth Qudsi:

“I am as my slave thinks of me and I am with him whenever he remembers me.” (Agreed Upon).

It is actually a sign of our weakness and shortsightedness, that we tend to focus on the calamities themselves, without paying much attention to the benefits that they may bring. We also forget to look at all other innumerable blessings that we enjoy and see around us.

Our minds, our logic and our senses cannot even begin to fathom the Wisdom, the Knowledge and the Hikmah behind Allaah’s decisions and verdicts. It is He who is the Wise….it is He who is the Just and it is He who is the Knower of the unseen. If we trust in Allaah, He will suffice and it is He who will grant us goodness in any situation and under any circumstances.

“And when someone puts all his trust in Allah, He will be enough for him.” (Surah at-Talaaq:3)

The Prophet (sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa Sallam) said:

“If you put your trust completely in Allah, He will arrange for your sustenance in the same way as He provides for the birds. They go out in the morning with their stomachs empty and return filled in the evening.” (Tirmidhi-saheeh).

So trust Him….for, there is much reward in trusting Him…..it is Jannah. And there is sin in distrusting Him. Calamities and disasters are a test, and they are a sign of Allaah’s love for a person. They are like medicine: even though it is bitter, yet, in spite of its bitterness you still give it to the one whom you love….

“The greatest reward comes with the greatest trial. When Allaah loves a people He tests them. Whoever accepts that wins His pleasure but whoever is discontent with that earns His wrath.” (Saheeh al-Tirmidhi)

Ramadan Mubarak

Extending greetings on the arrival of the month of Ramadhaan
*Please appropriately reference this fatwa to: www.fatwa-online.com, thankyou!*
Question: Upon the arrival of the month of Ramadhaan, we hear many people congratulating one another on its arrival by saying: "Congratulations to you on (the arrival of) the month of Ramadhaan". So is there any legal basis for this? Provide us with a fatwa, and may you be rewarded.

Response: There is no harm in extending greetings on the arrival of the month of Ramadhaan, because the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) would give glad tidings to his Companions on the arrival of the month of Ramadhaan, and he would encourage them to exert themselves with noble actions (during this month). And Allaah (Subhaanahu wa Ta'aala) says:

{Say: "In the bounty of Allaah, and in His Mercy - therein let them rejoice." That is better than what (the wealth) they amass}, Soorah Yoonus, Aayah 58

So extending greetings for this month and (showing) happiness at its arrival is indicative of the desire for that which is good. And the Pious Predecessors would give glad tidings to one another on the arrival of the month of Ramadhaan - following the example of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) as occurs in the long hadeeth of Salmaan in which the Prophet (sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) said:

«O people, a great month has overshadowed you, a blessed month...» and so on til the end of the hadeeth.

Shaykh Ibn Fowzaan
Fataawa Ramadhaan - Volume 2, Page 741, Fatwa No.750
al-Muntaqaa min Fataawa Shaykh Saalih Ibn Fowzaan - Volume 3, Page 123

Myra Morton pleads guilty to murdering her husband.

I posted this case several months ago and I wondered what had happened in the case of polygyny gone way wrong. Here is the end result. It's all so sad when you think about it. May Allah have mercy on everyone involved.


Myra Morton pleads guilty to murdering her husband.
By Derrick Nunnally
Posted on Fri, Apr. 25, 2008

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

Myra Morton admitted today she shot her bigamist husband to death hours before he was to fly to Morocco to meet his second wife.
Speaking quietly in a Montgomery County courtroom this morning, Morton, 48, pleaded guilty to a third-degree murder count that could have sent her to prison for decades for the slaying of handyman-turned-millionaire Jereleigh "Seddik" Morton. He was shot twice in his head Aug. 5 as he slept in their Whitpain Township mansion. At one point, Myra Mortonclaimed an intruder committed the murder.

No explanation for her changed story came in this morning's court appearance. In exchange for the guilty plea, prosecutors dropped charges she had filed false reports and agreed to ask that her minimum prison sentence be no more than 10 years.

The sentencing hearing is expected to be in about 90 days, Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Steven Latzer said.

Last month, Jereleigh Morton's second wife, a Moroccan named Zahra Toural, sued Myra Morton for defaming her and ruining her reputation. The federal lawsuit is still pending.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20080425_Myra_Morton_pleads_guilty_to_murdering_her_husband_.html

The Repentance of Maalik Ibn Dinaar (Ibn Qudamah)

I was a policeman and I was given to drinking. I bought a beautiful slave who gave me a daughter. I doted over my daughter and when she began to crawl on all fours I grew even more fond of her. Whenever I put a strong drink in front of me she would come to me and pull me away from it, or she would spill it from me. When she completed two years she died. I became consumed with grief over her loss.

When the night of mid-Sha`ban came; it was the night before Jummah; I stayed home and drank... I did not pray the `Isha prayer. Then I had a dream that the Day of Judgment had begun, the Trumpet was blown, the graves gave up their dead, mankind was gathered up, and I was among them. I heard something behind me. I turned around and saw a dragon of indescribable size, blue-black, rushing for me with wide open jaws. I fled in terror.

I passed by a Shaykh dressed in spotless clothes, exuding a fragrant smell. I greeted him and he greeted me back. I said to him: Oh Shaykh! Protect me from this dragon, and may Allah protect you! The Shaykh wept and said: I am weak and it is stronger than me, I cannot overcome it. Go quickly, perhaps Allaah will grant you something that will save you from it.

I turned and resumed my flight. I climbed up on one of the promontories of the Day of Resurrection overlooking the layers of Hellfire. I looked at the horror they contained and almost fell in for fear of the dragon. But a crier cried out to me: Go back! You are not among its mates. His words stilled my fears and I went back.

But the dragon again pursued me. I went back to the Shaykh and said: Oh Shaykh! I begged you to protect me from this dragon but you didn't protect me. Again he wept and said: I am weak, but proceed to this mountain. In it are kept the stores (wada'i`) of Muslims. If there is in something in store (wadi`a) for you, then it will help you.

I looked and saw a round-shaped moutain of silver topped with domes of hollowed pearl and hanging drapes, and every dome had two large gates of red gold encrusted with emeralds and pearls and overhung with drapes of silk.

When I saw the mountain I fled to it with the dragon in hot pursuit. As I approached the mountain one of the angels cried: Raise up the veils, open the gates, and look out! Perhaps this wretched one has something in store with you that will save him from his enemy. At this the veils were lifted, the gates were opened, and out of the palaces came children with faces like full moons. The snake was catching up to me and I was near despair.

One of the children cried: Woe to you! Come and see, all of you! His enemy is very near him. Whereupon the children came one wave after another, and among them was the dear daughter of mine that had died two years before. When she saw me she wept and said: My father, by Allaah! Then she leapt in a carriage of light and came near me with the speed of an arrow. She put her left hand in my right hand and I held on to her. Then she stretched her right hand towards the dragon and it turned around and fled.

My daughter bade me sit, then she sat in my lap and began to stroke my beard and said: Oh my father! "Has not the time come for those who believe, that their hearts become humble at the remembrance of Allah?" (57:16) I began to weep and said: Oh my daughter, you children know the Qur'an? She replied: My father! We know it better than you.

I said to her: Tell me about the dragon which wanted to destroy me. She said: Those were your evil deeds which you built up and strengthened, and they wanted to take you to Hellfire. I asked: What about the Shaykh I passed by? She replied: O my father, those were your righteous deeds, you made them weak until they were no match for your evil deeds.

I said: Oh my daughter! What are you all doing in this moutain? She said: We are the children of Muslims, we have been given this dwelling until the Hour rises. We await whatever you send forth to us, and we intercede for you.

Maalik (Ibn Dinaar) then said: Then I awoke in a start and saw that morning had come. I flung the potion from me and shattered the drinking-cups, and I repented to Allaah.

Source: Kitaab at-Tawwabeen (223-225)
Taken from http://abdullah3.multiply.com/

Death Strikes Without Warning

Please make sure to remember death and that there is a reckoning and that you will be called to account. Death can happen unexpectedly and you must be prepared. Return to the worship of your Lord and Sustainer the one who Created You and Everything in the universe. Remember that the hellfire is real and paradise is real. We all will be called to account on judgement day, the world will be made plain and then we will arise. The straight path is hard but it is worth it.

Reflect on surah Ikhlas, one of the shortest chapters in the Qur'an

Say: He is Allah, the One and Only! Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not nor is He begotten. And there is none like unto Him

And know that there is only One God, Who is Unique and Not like his creation. He has no children and is not in need of children. He is above His creation.

The pictures you see are from an accident that happened on my door step over the weekend.

On Friday afternoon at 7:30pm a young woman driver crashed into my mailbox then her car flipped over and hit my telephone pole. The telephone pole smashed into her and crushed into the passenger seat. My husband was praying Asr but when he heard the crash he broke his prayer. I quickly dialed 911 and told the police to come quick there was an accident and someone would definitely be injured as I knew from the noise it was bad. My husband ran out to help and tried to open the car door - but it had been crushed into the woman. She seemed dead - but when he started speaking to her she began breathing again. The car alarm was going off and music was playing. He turned the key to turn the car off and waited for the police and ambulance to arrive. When they came, they cut the car roof off at the front and lifted it back to take her out. They put a neck and arm brace on her and took her out by stretcher then flew her to hospital by helicopter.
My husband saw her open her eyes look up to the sky then close her eyes.



My husband thought that whoever she was, she will feel lucky to be alive and he thought he should find her in hospital and write her a letter about Islam and give her a qur'an so she can think about it.



That night my husband couldn't sleep at all - he kept seeing her face in the car looking dead and twisted over on the passenger seat..

The next day we rang the police and some hospitals to find her - but they wouldn't tell us anything as we didn't know her name and they said it was illegal to release information. Then at 6pm some Muslim sisters came by to see me. They wanted to visit where the sister had died because they knew her.

We found out then that it was a muslim sister in the car and she had died in the morning from the brain injury and internal bleeding. They had operated on her brain but blood just came pouring out everywhere. (inna lillaahi wa inna ilayhi raajioon).

We couldn't believe it - we were in shock - If we had known she was muslim we would have told her to say laa ilaaha illallaah.

The sisters who came by had just come from the janaza (funeral). The family followed the sunnah and had her buried the same day she died without delay even though the hospital said they would need a court order to release the body. Allah made it easy for them.

The sisters told me that she lived down the road and was 21 years old from a Nigerian Muslim family. They took us to see her mom. The girl's name was Aisha - may Allaah have mercy upon her.

Her mom was so proud of how obedient Aisha was - she said Aisha always listened to her and would spend her money on her mom and that she always prayed on time even if she was very tired. Her mom said that all the food in the house was what her daughter had brought for her. Whenever they went shopping together and the mother mentioned that she liked something her daughter would buy it for her. The mom said that the daughter always told her where she was and even if she stopped at a store on the way home from work, she would call her from the store to let her know where she was. The mom said that the daughter reassured her that she was keeping herself chaste and had no need for boys right now and she did not have to worry. She had been accepted into medical school and didn't want anything to distract her from her studies.

Aisha's dad is in Kuwait and the earliest flight to the US is Tuesday.

May Allaah have mercy upon Aisha, forgive her, and grant her jannah tul firdous - ameen

Narrow Escape ??? - Better said - Another Chance

By Y.Yilmaz

Since my childhood, I have been afraid of small, confined spaces and furiously fled such places. Later, I understood that this condition was known as claustrophobia, but I have never been able to master it. Now, unwillingly, I had to enter a closed narrow space. I was wrapped in a shroud and lying in a long coffin. I could hear the voice of the people around me quite well. And although my eyes were closed, I could see them clearly.

"He died so young," they said and added, "He had so many things to do."

It was true that I had left a great deal of work half done; I had not set up a good business for my son, completed the payment of the instalment of the car and TV. Winter was around the corner, but I had not prepared the leaking roof or bought the fuel. Now the dream to establish a big firm and employ my friends had dispersed to nothing.

Suddenly, I was irritated by a noise that, as if coming through a microphone, echoed in every remote cell of my brain:

"It is all over!"

I wished it had not been all over, I did not know why the accident happened. I was a good driver.

As I was trying to recall the events that had taken place, I realized that my friends surrounding the coffin were covering it by putting the lid over me. No matter how much I wanted to shout, I could neither move nor speak. I was in complete darkness and turned my eyes towards the light coming from the gaps in the coffin.

I said to myself in horror, "Oh my God! What am I going to do now?"

Seized with fear, I could think of nothing. Later, I was lifted onto their shoulders as they began to carry the coffin. Hearing the noise coming from outside, I understood that it was raining. The noise of the raindrops mingled with the creaking of the coffin. We must have gone to the mosque for the funeral prayer.

I remembered that although the mosque was so close to my home, I had never paid it a visit. I had planned to start prayers after the age of fifty and I would quit the bad habits everyone complained about. If the accident had not occurred, I would have been a good fellow.

The voice that I heard before repeated, "It is all over!" A little later my funeral prayer was completed. The imam was asking people's opinion as to "what kind of character I was." I knew that among them were some eight or ten persons who did not give an opinion. I accepted that I had given them some evil and harm, but if the accident had not occurred, I would have been pleased to make amends and duly compensate them for the equivalent of any harm done. After the prayer in the mosque was completed, I was lifted onto the shoulders again. Due to the inclination of the coffin, I understood that we were on the road uphill to the grave. I was aware that it was pouring rain and the rain was seeping through the cracks in the coffin onto the shroud, making it damp. Nevertheless, I tried to listen to the conversations coming from outside. Some of my friends were talking about the stagnation of the market, some were commentating on a Western film they had seen the previous evening on the TV. Another, carrying my coffin whispered, "What a bad day the deceased chose to die, we have got wet through and through."

I could not believe what I heard and I thought that I must have misunderstood. Were they not the ones for whom I had sacrificed my wealth and my health?

A little later my journey finished and my coffin was put down on the ground. The lid was removed again. The arms holding my weak and lifeless flesh put it into the hole where a little water had collected. Lying on the ground, I looked around:

"Oh my God, was it a grave?" I did not know why I had not thought until then that I would be buried in a grave. No one heard my silent cries, and my best friends seemed to be competing each other to cover my body with thick boards.

I was in complete darkness once more. I began to pray with all my cells, "Oh my Merciful God," I said, "Is there another chance to be a real servant of Yours?"

The same voice repeated, "It is all over, everything has finished."

I was shaken by the noise of the earth. With a final effort to get up, I opened my eyes. I was lying on my comfortable bed and it had all been a nightmare. One of my neighbours, a doctor, was standing at the bedside.

"It is all over," he repeated. "You are all right."

I sat up slowly from the bed. I was dripping with perspiration, feeling I had lost twenty kilos in weight. It was raining heavily outside and the whole house was shaken by thunder.

While I was trying to recover myself in front of the bewildered eyes of the others, I whispered, "Oh my Lord, a thousand thanks to You. What would I do if You had not given me another chance to be an obedient servant of Yours?

Remember death.

But our lives are such that we become so occupied with the things of this life that we forget that we are going to die. As Allah said, the gathering of wealth has deluded man from the realities of life and they only wake up when they end up in their graves.

At-Takathur 102: "The mutual rivalry for piling up (the good things of this world) diverts you (from the more serious things), until ye visit the graves. But nay, ye soon shall know the reality…"

This is a fearful statement, that if we live lives unconscious of our deaths and thereby be lost in trivialities, these are things that are really ultimately not going to benefit us in the next life.

And what happens on the Day of Judgement, when we stand before Allah and answer for each and every deed that we have done, when nothing escapes Allah, when the things that we have in this life will be of no benefit to us. The only thing that will benefit us is to stand before Allah with a pious and healthy heart.

'When we die, we leave behind all that we have and take with us all that we are.'

MAY ALLAH GUIDE US ALL ON TO THE STRAIGHT PATH.

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{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.}
(Holy Quran-16:125)

{And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33)

The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]

The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, "Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all."
[Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]

Watch Your Back

It's always amazing to many how these muslim brothers can get up to such mischief and the wife never knows.

How can a brother have a girl friend in another town and the wife never know? Well much of this happens when you have the husband living or working in another town or region seperate from the wife. So then it becomes easy to live this life especially if the husband has no expectation of the wife showing up unexpectedly and if the wife has no friends or associates in said town where husband is.

The question is though is it better not to know or would you want to know or be told - knowing that this may be the straw to break the proverbial camels back? Of course sometimes the wife does know and is just in denial and doesn't want to confirm what the reality is and would prefer to pretend. What's the point of asking a question when you don't want to know the answer or are not ready to deal with the inevitable fallout?

Solutions to this problem - well the men need to fear Allah and follow the rights of Allah upon them. The muslim brothers with friends like these should admonish them and not just go along with the program. How can you allow your muslim brother to commit a sin punishable with death by stoning and remain silent?

No one is infallible and without sin but how and why has the muslim community followed after the non-muslim to such a severe degree that even the phenomenon of girl friends on the side is becoming more and more prevalent?

The situation is very sad and yet another sign of the last days.