Learn about the Qur’an and its Sciences!
In this two day seminar you will study principles related to the science of the Qur’an looking at the need for revelation, how revelation began and continued, how it was transmitted and preserved, details regarding its language, style and form and aspects of how it is to be understood….
The major sins are those acts which have been forbidden by Allah in the Quran and by His Messenger (SAW) in the Sunnah (practise of the Prophet), and which have been made clear by the actions of the first righteous generation of Muslims, the Companions of the Prophet (SAW).
Allah Most High says in His Glorious Book:
If you avoid the major (part) of what you have been forbidden (to do), We will cancel out for you your (other) evil deeds and will admit you (to Paradise) with a noble entry. (al-Nisa 4:31)
Thus by this verse, Allah Most High has guaranteed the Garden of Paradise to those who avoid the major sins. And Allah Most High also says:
Those who avoid the greatest of sins and indecencies, and forgive when they are angry (al-Shra 42:37) Those who avoid the greatest sins and indecencies, except for oversights, (will find that) surely your Lord is ample in forgiveness. (Al-Najm 53:32)
By Ishrath Farhana
There was a death in the family, made no less small by all the death and destruction spewing out of our TV screens in a neighboring country. “…Was playing carom with us only last night, chatting and laughing… so young…” the disembodied voice droned on the phone.
I was at an utter loss for words in the face of tragedy, as usual. What is the right thing to say? What could anyone say that would make small the pain of the bereaved? If he had needed money, anyone could have helped him tide over. If he were sick, then he would have been looked after. Hunger or pain could have been made tolerable to him while he lived.
But what does anyone wish for the dead, who is beyond the reach or help of anyone? Out of habit, the cliches rise to my lips - what Allah gives returns to Him, and may Allah forgive him and give him peace. The familiar words comfort me, reconcile me to the loss more than to whom they are said.