Alhamdulillah

I’m so delighted, so grateful to Rabbul Alamin..that Islam is spreading fast in Russia. It has been nicely planned by Allah, He makes this path easy for us. MasyaAllah…

Alhamdulillah..

Alhamdulillah…

Alhamdulillah…

Their pure, innocent faces come reeling in my mind..one by one..

Maryam.. embraced Islam 4years ago, had been steadfast despite the wrath of the mother whom she still lives with.

Khadeeja.. young girl, young muslimah ages only 2weeks! Stay devoted by reading Quran, like Allah is talking to her..she already joined our usrah! Subhanallah.

Olesya..an adult with strong belief..

Jameelah.. searching for Qudwah in all the born-muslimahs..never feels withdrawn by being a hijabee around russian friends

Ainur and Darrya..born-muslims, never practiced before but, like a slip of fate fell in love with Malaysian muslimahs.. Subhanallah, Thank you Allah for His hidayah..wal-inayah..

Alina.. our 7th housemate.Why you graduated so soon..we miss you so much already!!

Salma.. we want to see your mixed arab-russian son!!=’)..Egypt must be so serene that you don’t wanna come back..

You sisters, opened our eyes. You treasure Islam more than we could do. You spend time learning, while some of us prefer day-dreaming. You perform daa’wa.. while some of us feel safe, just by wearing hijab and pray 5times a day.

Been dreaming about seeing them all-together, it touches my heart and I feel like crying..
Then I remember, I have only 2years left here in the city of Heroes-city of mujahidahs..
Suddenly it strikes me and I feel like crying more..
Because I don’t wanna cease seeing all of you sisters!!

- emotional,i am

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peduli-ummah

 

Assalamualaikum

 

Regarding the fact that I was actually assigned as one of the writers of this blog long time ago, but eventually only today I feel responsible for it.. please accept my apology. Primarily for protracting the efficacy of the blog for the community, and- for our imminent islamic centre at Kirovsky, which we all know, needs a lot of supportive collaborations from the entire muslim residents in Volgograd. Spiritually, maybe physically and most essentially, in the form of financial aid.

 

What I am trying to convey here is, despite our hectic daily errands which are basically encoded and they repeat every day, our mindset and sensitivity should be switched and directed towards more peduli-ummah one. Ummah, in the context of the whole muslim community notwithstanding their race, nationality, skin colour et cetera. Ummah, in the perception that we wish they would have the same sovereignty to practice Islam as we do, they could learn about this religion-as-way-of-life like we all do, and they see Islam not only by the ritual endeavors but the syumul one.

 

Malaysia has abundant of mosques, surau, Islamic centres. Some of them are sited only few steps from our domiciles, we get reminded five times per day during each solah time. We even have a crystal mosque which forbids entrance of our own families to perform daily prayers.

 

Ok, without a hitch.

 

Ironically, they have one here in Volgograd. The one which is congested every Friday prayers (as I was told) and apparently, during eid prayers. The one they use for every possible occasions- some Muslim kids live there, undergo their daily routines in the mosque- sleep, eat, quran recitations, and so forth.

 

“There is a mosque whose foundation was laid from the first day on piety; it is more worthy of the standing forth (for prayer) therein. In it are men who love to be purified; and God loveth those who make themselves pure” At-tawbah (The repentance);108.

Yes, I can say it was laid from the first day on piety (taqwa). Some Palestinian students felt sorry for the Volgograd Muslim community who had no particular place for collective ritual practices hence they earnestly spent their annual allowance for the sake of the mosque. Subhanallah, may their rewards increase manifold.

 

So. Basically this is the main purpose of the construction of this blog. We are, by all means trying to decrease the burden and load carried by the Russian muslims in building up an Islamic centre- which, maybe is of no use (literally) by most of us who are graduating soon in this year or in few years time. Well, we are talking in the sense of the incessant rewards by Allah swt as long as the Islamic centre is being used by our brothers and sisters of Russian citizens or of our future generations themselves. Allah told us in the Quran ..

 

“For those who give in Charity, men and women, and loan to God a Beautiful Loan, it shall be increased manifold (to their credit), and they shall have (besides) a liberal reward” Al Hadid; 18

 

I believe, we have even more stipends than they did (the Palestinian students). Why they spent their money for enduring rewards but we don’t? Why we choose to let the money flows en route for unimportant, self-satisfaction stuffs than concluding some portions of it in our bargain with Allah? Recall At-taubah ayah 111..“God hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise)”

 

When we say we are broke, we are pseudo pathetic. Maybe we should check the authenticity of the outflow of our money, the management of our economic status. Perhaps we say we had given up our money last year (back then there was a massive collection for Kirovsky) but I remember one of our brothers said; “We cant be satisfied for just our charity given in history but we should ask what we gave yesterday, it’s an istiqamah deeds” well, something like that.

 

InsyaAllah..what we can do now, we are organizing sort of a peduli-ummah period. There will be extensive money collections in lecture halls, classes, even rooms, hostels and houses. U will be handed in the Kirovsky-money-boxes, tabung (or whatever they call it) today and maybe tomorrow.. cum the day after tomorrow. This project, I hope is ceaseless, because as we all know, our charity can’t be ceased. Furthermore, insyaAllah we will upgrade the progression of the Islamic centre from time to time.

 

One more thing, should I mention this? Roughly, the Islamic centre lacks nearly RM 2million- a big number which of course, an amount out-of-reach for us, students. We still need help from other possible truthful people who can make the Islamic centre feasible, but at least we could have our smallest credit in it as long as we do this for the aspect of Islamic charity (sadaqah), in the cause of Allah and to gain His bless.insyaAllah

 

Abu Musa Al-Ashari reported that the Messenger of Allah, Rasulullah s.a.w said; “Every Muslim is obliged to give charity” They said “But what if one does not have anything to give?” He said “Then let him work with his own hands so he (first) benefits himself and then gives in charity”.They said “But if one is unable to do that?” He said “So let him call (others) to do good”. They said “But if he is not able to do that?” He said, “So let him abstain from doing evil, for even that will be counted as his act of charity”

-Al Bukhari-

 

Wabillahi-ttaufiq

 

 

 

 

 

Love Story of A Muallaf

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Love Story of A Muallaf

This story has been published in volgo. Jus putting it here for orang di luar kawasan volgo. hehe. its sweet. ke touching. or sad. entahla. even salma herself wept reading it.=p. -aniza

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I am truly grateful for being a muslim. Embracing Islam is something I would never regret.My name was Anna. I was born in a religious- Christian practicing family, and I still remember how I never missed going to the church every weekend for the so called Sunday prayers. I could say that my journey to Islam began before I was even aware of it ..Hamid. This was the guy who first showed me the beauty & simplicity of Islam. I knew him by chance, who knows a short conversation at the hostel kitchen connected me with him through bait-al muslim, plus more important thing connected me to the oh-so-syumul Islam! Alhamdullilah.. Thanks to Allah who made the impossible feasible..who showed me this path.

Initially, it was just a coffee-talk (I call it this way because I wasn’t the kind of girl who easily got into friendly conversation with guys). But, the modesty of him somehow gave me a picture that he was so not like any other Russians or Arabs or other foreigners who mingle around girls. I even drank his coffee despite the truth that I never had even a sip of coffee before!

It was a snatch of the conversation when I suddenly became frantically worry, having such talk with someone who was not in the same beliefs with me. Hence I inquired him ‘What’s your religion?’, hoping that he was a Christian-or if he wasn’t, I was gonna make him one. Then Hamid said “Islam!”which made me frown. I didn’t have any idea what Islam was! Some pictures reeled in my mind bad perception about Islam, and the ideas gradually percolated through my empty mind. Good God, Hamid corrected me by explaining about Islam.. a bit and a bit and a bit.. Without realizing it…our chemistry worked right away.

I once invited him to the church, purposely to bring him to Christianity cum testing his Iman. To my shock, I was astounded by the way he agreed-without any doubt. I asked him why, and I became more astonished when he told me “My religion is inside me, it’s in my heart and I am going to prove to you that NOTHING will change my Islam”..and that was the point that changed my perception towards this deen.The Great Islam.

Eventually on that day, we bought a book entitled ‘Christian and other religions’. The book wrote lousy and perverted logic about Islam, our prophet Muhammad p.b.u.h. and the muslims. It brought me to a state of shock and shame, regarding the fact that Christian draws massive misconceptions about Islam, but in contrast.. Hamid said that “We respect other religions”. Without any hesitation, I tore the book to shreds.

Since then, I didn’t go to church anymore. Hamid and I discussed Islam, and faith in God, in general, and everything he said made sense to me. Hamid had the patience of angels to deal with my slow thinking and silly questions, but he never gave up hope in me. I asked him what I have to do if I want to convert to Islam. He replied with only one simple word”Syahadah!” . I was surprised, because if we want to be a Christian, we would have to pay to the church, and so the ‘heavenly’ priest can shower us with the so called Holy Water for the baptism ceremony. Furthermore, we even have to pay to get married, and we have to buy the ‘Ikon’ for praying. Basically it’s all about money!!! $$

I asked Hamid how the muslims perform their prayers. He replied, saying that the muslims can pray anywhere they want. It was something really new to me, I learned that this is a sacred land created by Allah The Almighty, it’s not a big fuss bowing on the ground worshipping the God. Compared to Christian, we can only pray in church, or else we have to have the ‘Ikon’ for praying in our own crib!!

Slowly, my mind started to agree with my heart, and I started to picture myself as a Muslim. Eventually, Hamid asked me about the concept of trinity which I was anxious to answer his question because it was something I had been holding for such a long time. I carefully started putting my knowledge into words.. I explained to make him understand-but suddenly I came to an abrupt halt!! My mouth was locked and I couldn’t find the key because my heart finally objected my previous faith..and I didn’t believe in my wisdom anymore. I was completely flummoxed by the whole thing. Subhanallah..

“No, I will not proceed to tell you..” I said, turned away and ran bursting into tears.

From that point, we started to discuss more and more about Islam. About the Holy Quran, The Prophet p.b.u.h I still remember learning ‘Alhamdulillah’ as my very 1st Arabic word. It was still crystal clear in my mind how I wept reading the translation of the Al-Fatihah for the first time. Islam is a religion of peace. It is the natural religion of mankind and has existed since the beginning of time.

I found the truth in myself sooner than I had expected. One day, I read Sura Maryam and felt so near as it is about The Jesus and his mother Mary. At that time, I knew there was no turning back. I could wait no longer . . Trembling, I knocked on Hamid’s door and made the best decision I had ever done in my whole entire life-

“Hamid, I want to embrace Islam”.. and so my mouth was wet with Syahadah for the first time Alhamdulillah~

Story of : Salma Al-Masry, Volgograd State Medical University, Russian Federation

Note:

Alhamdulillah.Salma married Hamid.She’s now living in Cairo,Egypt with him after numerous of tests that only a true believers of Islam can withstand.A true example of Muslims to follow.We pray that Allah will always bless them…

Kirovsky…

Hadrat Ilias

It was -20 degrees and last Monday Jimi,Usen,Ete and me went to the mosque in Lingaranskaya to meet up with Volgorad’s mufti, Hadrat Ilias to give him another collection of donations for the building of Kirovsky mosque.

The mufti offered us to see the site in Kirovsky after that, at first by van(mashrutka)but alhamdulillah, when we’re leaving a man came to pray in the mosque who coincidentally is a taxi driver working in Kirovsky(what are the chances,it was like more than 20kms away),so we waited for him to finish praying and he took us there for free.

Taxi

It was the first time that I rode a taxi in Russia that plays a ceramah(in Russian) and Quran recitations (actually I never rode a taxi in Malaysia playing a ceramah), but better was the story of the cab driver..how he worked in socialist factory without missing a solat (it seems that driving a cab is the profession of choice for Muslims here so that their prayer time will not be affected)

The mosque

After 40 minutes (of me sitting on Ete’s superior anterior iliac bone and Usen sitting on mine) we arrived at the site. It was a good site indeed, before this we thought that it’d be further ahead, around Firuz’s(our Tajikistani friend) but it’s actually near the main road. It can be reached by almost every “C” (anyone in Volgograd will know what this mean) mashrutkas.

The foundation

Hadrat Ilias showing the site

with Hadrat Ilias

Mr Nazim

Then we went to Mr. Nazim’s Kvartira(apartment),the project manager for the Kirovsky’s mosque, a man in his 60-70s.he told us that they need approximately 15milllions roubles to build the whole mosque and now they have collected around 2millions,spending 1.5millions just for the plans and foundations.

The project is now on hold because of the weather, why? because to mix cement with ice is impossible.Volgograd had been frozen(under -20) for the last few weeks. So until the temperature is at least 10 degrees the project will be postponed.

Malaysians had donated around 200 thousand roubles until now.

Wallahualam

ps: -RM1 is around 7.3Roubles now

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