Eid Mubarak 2008

Lailat ul-Qadr, and Surah Ghafir

Tonight is the 27th night of the Holy Month of Ramadan.
Lailat ul-Qadr (”Night of Power”) marks the anniversary of the night on which the Prophet Muhammad first began receiving revelations from God, through the angel Gabriel. An entire chapter in the Quran deals with this night: “We have indeed revealed this (Message) in the Night of Power: and what will explain to thee what the Night of Power is? The Night of Power is better than a thousand months. Therein come down the angels and the Spirit by God’s permission, on every errand. Peace!…until coming of the dawn.” (Chapter 97) Muslims believe Lailat ul-Qadr is one of the last odd-numbered nights of Ramadan.

Following is Surah Al Fatiah and Surah Ghafir Verse 1 to 9. Listen and reflect the beautiful recitation, and May Allah give peace and forgive all of us.

Surah Al Alaq

There is no doubt that the first five verses of this surah represent the very beginning of the revelation of the Qur’an.

Although the exact date cannot be established with certainty, all authorities agree in that these five verses were revealed in the last third of the month of Ramadan, thirteen years before the hijrah (corresponding to July or August, 610, of the Christian era). Muhammad was then forty years old.

At that period of his life “solitude became dear unto him, and he used to withdraw into seclusion in a cave of Mount Hira [near Mecca] and there apply himself to ardent devotions” consisting of long vigils and prayers (Bukhari).

One night, the Angel of Revelation suddenly appeared to him and said, “Read!” Muhammad at first thought that he was expected to read actual script, which, being unlettered, he was unable to do; and so he answered, “I cannot read” – whereupon, in his own words, the angel “seized me and pressed me to himself until all strength went out of me; then he released me and said, ‘Read!’ I answered, ‘I cannot read. . . . ‘ Then he seized me again and pressed me to himself until all strength went out of me; then he released me and said, ‘Read!’ – to which I [again] answered, ‘I cannot read. . . .’ Then he seized me and pressed me to himself a third time; then he released me and said, ‘Read in the name of thy Sustainer, who has created – created man out of a germ-cell! Read – for thy Sustainer is the Most Bountiful One…’”: and so Muhammad understood, in sudden illumination, that he was called upon to “read”, that is, to receive and understand, God’s message to man

The Death, begining of the eternal Journey

The following post was written base on an email sent by a childhood friend who is a Muslim Revert. May Allah Bless him for having firm faith in Islam and reward all of us for spreading the concept of death in Islam.

The Death in Islam is not the end , just a  beginning of the eternal journey, and  home coming.

“To Allah (Almighty God) we belong, and to Him is our return.” (Holy Qur’an 2:156)

Multitudes of men have walked on the surface of this Earth. They all belonged to different nations and cultures. A few of them made history for which they were remembered, whereas others were never to be mentioned again. Although each one was personally different from another – their habits, thinking and tastes differed – they all had two things in common, first, they were all delivered from their mothers womb (birth) and second, they all tasted death. Who claims he has lived a thousand years?

May Allah give all of us to do more Abadah during the remaining days of the Holy month of  Ramdan.

Allah Knows the best

Kyaw Kyaw Oo

Did you ever stop for a while and asked yourself…
What is going to happen to me the first night in my grave?

What have I prepared for death?
Will I be in heaven or Hell fire?
How often do I remember death?
Think about the moment your body is being washed and prepared to enter your grave…

Think about the day peope will be carrying you to your grave..

Burmese Muslims get Zakat from Muslim brothers of Mei sauk

Following is the news in Burmese regarding the wealthy Muslims from the border town of Mae Sauk, Thailand, gave Zakat to their Muslim brothers on the other side, Myawadddy, Burma.

Estimated 2000 Burmese Muslims cross over the border to receive the money, and the clothes donated by Muslim  Business community of Mae Sauk.

The tradition of paying Zakat during the Holy Month of Ramadan from  Mei Sauk wealthy Muslims has been  going on for the last 20 years.

အစၥလမ္ဘာသာ၀င္မ်ား၏ (RAMADAN) ရာမာဒန္ဥပုသ္လတြင္ ဆင္းရဲခ်ဳိ႕တဲ့သူမ်ားကို ေငြႏွင့္အ၀တ္ အထည္မ်ား လႉဒါန္းပြဲကို ယေန႔ေန႔လယ္က မဲေဆာက္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ရာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ျမ၀တီဘက္ျခမ္းမွ ဆင္းရဲခ်ဳိ႕တဲ့သည့္ အစၥလမ္ဘာသာ၀င္ (၂,၀၀၀) ခန္႔ အလႉခံလာေရာက္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။

Hurricane Ike and Signs of the Creator

United States is the most powerful country of this earth. However, US State of Texas is facing the one of the biggest Hurricane which is filling the whole gulf of Mexico.

As a Burmese whose country was recently pounded by Cyclone Nargis that cause more than 100,000 dead and Million homeless, I could understand the fear, anxiety, frustration of the feeling of people staying on the path of Hurricane.

Those who do not believe in the Creator call Mother Nature. Atheist Scientists call Intelligent Design. We as believers know that that is the might of the Power of Creator.

At the same time Allah name is Rahman, the Most Merciful and All Merciful.

We will never understand the purpose,but one thing for sure is Allah (SWT) show his might, when people have forgotten him.

According to CNN news..

Residents along Galveston Bay in Texas “face certain death” if they don’t leave home before Hurricane Ike roars ashore, the National Weather Service warns.

Forecasters expect Ike, a Category 2 storm, to strengthen before its center makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday. The storm is so big that it fills most of the Gulf of Mexico.

Roughly 3.5 million people live in the storm’s impact zone, according to federal estimates.

The weather service painted a vivid picture in its warning of the destruction it expects: a towering wall of water, possibly up to 22 feet high, crashing over the Galveston Bay shoreline as the brunt of Ike comes ashore. That wall of water could send floodwaters surging into Houston, more than 20 miles inland.

Recently Scientists in Europe tried to re enact the Big Bang, and claimed that the test was successful to justify the billions of dollars they have spent.

To me there are Signs of Creator for those who reflect. However men will never be able to prove the existence of Creator by research, or equations and Instrument.

Only way to find the Creator is Submission to his will and follow his guidance.

May Allah (SWT)save the innocent lives of people of Texas.

Kyaw Kyaw Oo

Holy Quran cofirmed expansion of Universe, Scientists try to re-enact ‘Big Bang’

In the Holy Quran the beginning of the Universe is mentioned as

“Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, then We separated them, and made from water every living thing?  Then will they not believe?” (Quran 21:30)

In above  verse, the Arabic words ratq and fataq are used. The word ratq can be translated into “entity” “sewn to” “joined together” or “closed up”.  The meaning of these translations all circulate around something that is mixed and that has a separate and distinct existence.  The verb fataq is translated into “We unstitched” “We clove them asunder” “We separated” or “We have opened them”.  These meanings imply that something comes into being by an action of splitting or tearing apart.  The sprouting of a seed from the soil is a good example of a similar illustration of the meaning of the verb fataq.

With the introduction of the Big Bang theory, it soon became clear to Muslim scholars that the details mentioned with regards to the theory go identically hand in hand with the description of the creation of the universe in verse 30 of chapter 21 of the Quran.

And Allah also mentioned the Expansion of Universe in the following verses

“And the heaven We created with might, and indeed We are (its) expander.” (Quran 51:47)

“He (God) is the Originator of the heavens and the earth…” (Quran 6:101)

“Is not He who created the heavens and the earth Able to create the likes of them?  Yes; and He is the Knowing Creator. His command is only when He intends a thing that He says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is.” (Quran 36:81-82)

Now the Scientists try to re-enact ‘Big Bang’;Read the following story

By Pallab Ghosh
BBC News science correspondent at Cern

Nestling in the foothills of the Alps is Europe’s largest laboratory, the European Centre for Nuclear Research, or Cern.

With its vast labyrinth of tunnels and equipment stretching for miles, the complex has the feel of a cathedral to science.

And now the scientists here have embarked on their biggest experiment ever, the hunt for a particle which gave the universe its form.

Its scientific name is the Higgs Boson, but because it is so fundamental in shaping the universe, others have called it the God particle.

It is a particle that is supposed to endow other fundamental particles with mass. Without it there would be no gravity, no universe as we know it – no “let there be light” moment.

No-one has seen it, but physicists have invoked it because it is the simplest explanation for how the universe evolved.

Spark of divinity

Miracles of Quran, watch this youtube video and reflect

Quran is not a book of Science, however unlike other Holy books of Christian and Jews which are now no more original due to human’s modification, none of the Quranic revelation were  found contradictory to  Scientific finding of 21st Century.

Since the time of Galileo, who was punished by Church for saying the truth that “The Earth is rotating on its own axis and also rotating around Sun in its orbit”. There are so many in consistencies in Bible, because it has lost its authenticity due to human’s modification.

After more than three hundred years The Pope has just acknowledged Galileo’s finding but the wrong punishment of Galileo reminds all of us that the Bible is not an original as when  it was revealed to mankind.

However, in Holy Quran, which is real miracle, there are clear Signs of Creator, for those who are sincere and willing to submit to Allah to reflect and believe. The more you study Quran and the more you will find its authenticity.

Above you tube video is among the one from plenty of Signs of the Creator.

I feel sad for Islam bashing words seen in the Original You Tube site. Islam never deny existence of Isa ( Jesus) and Bible. However, Islam rectify the wrong perception of misled people that Isa (PBUH) is only a prophet, and Bible is no more original due to modification of human.

Islam teaches us to respect the different faith and even ask to protect their place of worships in Islamic States. Otherwise there will be no more Churches in countries like Egypt, Syria, Jordan to Palestine.

Islam means peace and submission to the will of Allah.

Read the Holy Quran with sincerity. Insha Allah ( God willing) you will find the Truth.

Kyaw Kyaw Oo

Surah At-Tur, The Mount, Quran recitation by Ahmed Saud [english translation]

A Beautiful Duaa for Holy Ramadan

Translation

Doa – Ahmed Saudwith English translation

Oh Allah, have mercy on me in the name of the great Quraan,
make it for me a guide and light,
And guidance and mercy,
Oh Allah, make me remember that of it which I have forgotten,
Make me know of it, that which I have become ignorant of,
And make me recite it in the hours of the night and day,
And make it an argument for me, O sustainer of all the worlds,
Oh Allah, set right my faith which is the safeguard of all my affairs,
And set right for me my world affairs wherein is my living,
An set right for me my hereafter on which depends my after life,
And make my life a source of abundance of every good,
And make my death a source of protection for me, protecting me from every evil,
Oh Allah! Make the best part of my life the end of it,
And the last of my deeds the best one,
And the best of my days, the day I meet you,
Oh Allah! I ask of you the best whilst living,
And ask for a good death,