Why Adam (as) was expelled from Paradise?

Rasulullah (Peace and blessings be upon him) said
"Friday is the best of days. It was on this day that Sayyidina Aadam alayhis salaam was created, it was on this day that he was granted entry into jannah, it was on this day that he was removed from jannah (which became the cause for man's existence in this universe, and which is a great blessing), and the day of resurrection will also take place on this day. " (Sahih Muslim)

QUESTION:

"What wisdom does it spring from, Adam (as - peace be upon him) being expelled from Paradise and some of mankind, the sons of Adam, being sent to Hell?"

Are you ill? Read this.

Illness... Sooner or later, it catches us... 

Fever, flu, headache, toothache, and the like, 

if not cancer or AIDS. 

If somebody tells you that "illness itself is a medicine". 

What would you say to him? 

Illness is something we suffer from. Can it be a cure? Well, if you wonder how can an illness be a cure, let's read this article together, see different perspectives of illnesses and decide 

whether it is a gift or not. Here we go: 

Human lifespan is fairly short and in modern world we can't catch the time.... School, business, travel, sleeping, school, job, home, eating...Sometimes we can't understand how we spend many hours on a single task. Time of health passes so quickly but time of calamity is felt long and we have more time in those times of affliction. When you are in your sick bed, you do pray more and have time to ponder upon your life and self-criticism. It is also fruitful in terms of acceptance of prayers.

Illness is a gift.

Illness is a sort of worship. There are two sorts of worship. First one is active worship. They are the mostly known prayers like obligatory prayers, fasting, charity, pilgrimage and all others. And passive worship is the negative one, namely, when you are ill, you show patience and not complain. God rewards this and you become one of the sabireen (patient, forbearing people) as stated in the verse, thus your illness turns out to be worship.

Illness serves for the aim of the creation, that is, to worship God and manifest his names and attributes in the world. As a matter of the fact, when we are ill, God shows his name, “Healer” on us and we became a manifestation of the holy name of God Almighty.

Do we have any contribution in the creation of our body, and sustaining it? No. So, we do have no right to complain about what has happened to us. The body is an amanah (temporary belonging) and we do not own it. Using the illness as a means, we may understand God's names and the best manifested name is the name “The Healer’” in the time of illness.

History: "Ottoman Sultans and Royal Seals"

 BBC RADIO FOUR  on Ottoman Tughras:

 Listen to the programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00tn9vc

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See the wonderful tughra from British Museum Collection.

A tughra (Ottoman Turkish: طغراء; Ṭuğrā) is a calligraphic seal or signature of an Ottoman sultan that was affixed to all official documents and correspondence. It was also carved on his seal and stamped on the coins minted during his reign.                         

Sultan Suleiman's Tughra

The tughra was designed at the beginning of the sultan's reign and drawn by the court calligrapher or nişancı on written documents. The first tughra belonged to Orhan I (1284-1359), the second ruler of the Ottoman Empire and it evolved until it reached the classical form in the tughra of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1494-1566).

Have you heard this before?

Anything in the universe, from the leaves of trees to the wings of a butterfly, has not been created by chance. Likewise, any chapters, any verses and even any letters of the Glorious Qur'an, the Book of God, the interpretation of the Book of Universe, were not chosen and written by chance. There is an extraordinary correspondence and miraculous conformity (tawafuq) among those words and verses.

The Glorious Qur'an is a miracle not only from the aspect of its meaning but also from the aspect of its words and letters. The Book of

"I don't believe if I don't see" ?

People in modern ages started to say "I don't believe if I don't see". It is, in deed, the affect of materialism, and ignoring and rejecting the sprituality (ma'nawiyat). They innocently utter this and they do not believe in the Qur'an as they haven't seen any of its beauties.

Ustad Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, whose main aim in his very life was to serve the Holy Qur’an, wanted to show the miraculousness of the Qur’an not only with the meaning but also with script of the Qur’an even to those who do not believe in and who are suspicious about anything unless they see it with their eyes due to their idea of materialism.

In order to realize this aim, he asked his students to write the Qur’an in such a way that even the script of it would show the miraculous beauty to the eyes. In order to accomplish this aim he appointed ten eminent scholars of the time who were his students as well and gave them three
chapters (juz’) from the Holy Qur’an to write and reveal the tawafuqaat.


The Qur'an in Tawafuq : Bediuzzaman Said Nursi wanted them to take the previous famous copy of Calligrapher Hafiz Osman’s Qur’an as a mastercopy which has fifteen lines in every page starting with a verse and finishing with the end of the verse. They were asked to write it without interference from their own will and in a state of pure sincerity to gain Allah’s pleasure. He said: “Do not dare to use your own will while doing this. Do not disappear the ones which are already appearing in the Holy Qur’an!”

A Dedicated Life, A sacrificed Body, An Elevated Soul

AHMED HUSREV ALTINBAŞAK

It was just after the fall of the Great Ottoman Empire that there were gloomy days and nights many people were hesitant to struggle against. If they attempted to take any action for the sake of Islam, they were punished harshly.

Ustad Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (also known as Imam al-Nursi) and the Noor students around him were resisting intellectually. During that time, it was hard to find men willing to struggle. Thousands of innocent people were beheaded upon newly established government's rules. Thus so many were desperate to do anything but wait their end. However he was hopeful and looking ahead to the future with great determination. They were trying to save Muslims, especially the youth of the future, from the fataan (trials) of the end of time which were awaiting them.

Of course it was not easy to do that. For the sake of

A book everyone should read

The best seller ever, the world's mostly read and memorized book...

It is being read any time, any minute, any second in any place from east to the west... Millions have been reading, and most probably many more will be reading in the future. Tens of thousands have memorized it from cover to cover, word by word; and they can recite every page of it by heart as easy as their names. Interesting, isn’t it?This is a book reviewed thousands and thousands of times by its rivals to disproof and refute. This is a book whose principles and teachings affected the world most. This is the word of God. This is Qur'an...

For more than 14 hundred years or so, people have been studying it and applying to their lives. This is a magnificent success for simply a book and it is a challenging confrontation for the opponent who claims to question the Qur'an. Couple of lines about this challenge is:

“If the whole of mankind and Jinns were to gather together to produce the like of this Qur’an, they could not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up each other with help and support. (Isra, 88)

Of course, some of the most eloquent poets of their time tried to do that but failed to win in spite of massive travail as there is a perfect beauty in the simplicity and purity of the

The Trustworthy

Shall we remember him?

Shall we recall our primary knowledge about him?

Shall we remind ourselves of his good manners and etiquettes?

What do we know about him? Where shall we start?

In order to remember his life again and learn our lessons from his blessed life, let’s start with the following question…Who is He? And then go along with his birth for now.
He is Muhammad, son of Abdullah, son of Abdulmuttalib, son of Hashim, son of Abdmanaf, son of Qusay, son of Kilab, son of Murrah, son of Ka’ab, son of Lo’ay, son of Ghaleb, son of Fihr, son of Malek, son of Nadr, son of Kinanah, son of Khozaima, son of Mudrika, son of Ilyas, son of Mudar, son of Nizar, son of Ma’ad, son of Adnan.

The Holy Qur'an and Preserving the Islamic Letters

There were times that the bridge between generations, the bound between past and future, the relation between 20th century and 21st century had been broken out. The books in the libraries went in vain in one day. Millions of people were forced to leave the Qur’anic scripts away. The ones reading on and writing in Islamic letters were sent into jails and many suffered under the scrutiny of the then government’s so-called modernization rules, and the rest increasingly and honourably still preserve it.