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5 Tips on How To Be Sincere To Allah
Source: muslimlinkpaper.com
By: Abdul Rahman Chao
Every Muslim knows that sincerity is the core factor for one’s actions to be accepted. The question is how one should go about in being sincere. Here are some tips on how to be sincere to Allah the Almighty:
1.Sincere Supplication
Guidance is in the hands of Allah only. Whomsoever Allah guides will never go astray. The hearts of believers are in hands of Allah. He controls it fully. Why not directly ask the one who controls your heart to make you sincere in all of your actions? Omar Bin Khattab (RadiaAllahu Anhu) used to say: Oh Allah! Make all of my actions for your sake only!
13 STEPS TO MEMORIZE THE QURAN BY YASIR QADHI
Source: muslimmatters.org
By: Yasir Qadhi
Realize it’s a spiritual AND physical project. It’s a miracle and blessing from Allah 
that you’re able to absorb the Qur’an. If you want to take advantage of this blessing, you should be in a position to receive it and therefore strive physically to achieve it and strive spiritually to get the maximum benefit.
1. Sincerity. The first matter you have to pay attention to is your intention (if you intend good you will get good). Make sure that the intention you are making is only for the sake of Allah 
, to seek His Pleasure so that insha’Allah, with His Mercy, we will be rewarded in the Aakhirah. It is not to show off in front of others that you have memorized a lot. Sincerity is not a one time factor rather it’s a continual battle that you always have to renew.
Hijab: What Is It All About?
Hijab, My Choice, My Right, and My Freedom
Source: onislam.net
The status of women in Islam is often the target of attacks in the secular media.
The hijab or the Islamic dress is cited by many as an example of the “subjugation” of women under Islamic law.
Yet, the truth is that 1400 years ago, Islam recognized women’s rights in a way that grants them the utmost protection and respect, a combination other systems fail to offer.
Islam granted them freedom of expression, political participation, business and financial rights, and asked the rest of society to hold them in high esteem and offer them due respect as mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters.
What is it about hijab? Why are Muslim women still wearing it?
How can a piece of cloth attract so much attention?
How to Remove Depression and Worries
Source: sunnahonline.com
By: Salim al-Hilali
INTRODUCTION
Mankind comes across many afflictions and trials, sometimes in overwhelming sequences. Removing the darkness of these worries, distresses, depression and grief is a very important matter to which Islam gives serious attention …
Indeed the greatest darkness to envelope mankind and surely his greatest affliction is disbelief in Allah and to associate partners with Him in any form (kufr and shirk).
Gratitude, dua, and acceptance
By: Haqqseeker
Source: muslimvillage.com
BISMILLĀHIR RAHMĀNIR RAHĪM
Glory to Allāh and Salutations on Rasulullāh Sallallāhu ‘alayhi wasallam
This Dunyā, with all its glitter and glamour, is a very enticing place. At times we get so carried away by it that we become its slave and forget our Rabb. We start living a life that is totally against the commands of Allāh Ta’ala and the Sunnāh of Rasulullāh (Sall-Allāhu ‘alayhi wasallam).
Omar Suleiman: Statement of Sincerity (La ilaha illallah) (Video)
What makes it so different from the other words of remembrance?
Sincerity (Ikhlaas)
Ikhlas (sincerity) is to do everything, internal and external, only desiring the pleasure of Allah. It is to forget the eyes of the people, and whether they view your deeds or not, with the only thing on your mind that Allah is watching you. There are beautiful verses in the Quran in this regard, where Allah describes the righteous in Paradise:
{They [are those who] fulfill [their] vows and fear a Day whose evil will be widespread. And they give food in spite of love for it to the needy, the orphan, and the captive, [saying], “We feed you only for the countenance of Allah. We wish not from you reward or gratitude} (Al-Insan 76:7-9)
Sincerity needs to be performed according to the Sunnah of the prophet,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace.
“And they have been commanded to worship only Allah, being sincere towards Him in their religion.” (98; 5)
There are three things that strengthen the heart, and whoever distinguishes should feel no enmity and malice;
- Devoting ones actions to Allah,
- Giving counsel to the Imams of the Muslims,
- Being loyal to the majority2
These three things stated is meant the strengthen the heart, and whoever distinguishes
A servant can only free himself from shaytan through sincere devotion. Devotion is when one starts to purify the heart form all impurities, whether small of big few or many. Allah says in the holy Quran
“Except those of your servants who are sincere” (38.83)
Such a person should be devout in all their actions this can only come from the love of Allah. Actions such as eating, drinking and answering the cause of nature.
With rare expectations, anyone who is not like this will find the door of devotion closed in his face.
The everyday actions of a person who is overwhelmed by his love for Allah and the akhira are characterised by this love and they are in fact pure devotion. In the same way, anyone whose soul is overwhelmed by love for and preoccupation with this world, or status and authority, will be it prayer or fasting, will be acceptable except in very rare case.
“And something will come to them from Allah which they had never anticipated, for the evil of their deeds will become apparent to them. (39; 47-48)
“Say; shall we tell you who will lose most in respect of their deeds? Those whose efforts were astray in the life of this world, while they thought that they were doing food works.” (18; 103-104)
This is referring to sincere devotion only for Allah’s sake and not for the eyes of the people.
It has been related that man was used to praying in the first row in the mosque. One day he was late for the prayer and had to pray in the second row. Feeling embarrassment when people saw him in the second row. People were admiring him for being in the first row. He realised his satisfaction of the heart that he used to gain from praying in the first row were due to his seeing him there admiring him for it. This is a subtle and intangible condition and actions are rarely safe from it. Apart from those who Allah has assisted, few are aware of such delicate matters. Those who do not realise it only come to see their good deeds appearing as bad ones on the Day of Resurrection.
Yaqub said; “A devout person is someone who conceals things that are good, in the same way that he conceals things that are bad.”
Ayyub said; “It is much harder for the people of action to purify their intentions than it is to execute any of their actions.”
Some people have said; “To be devout for a short while is to survive forever, but devotion.
Written by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah,
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