My six year old son was laying by me looking out the window at Fajr time on the 1 Ramadhan.

Answer

The white line your son saw was the „white thread‟ mentioned in the Qur‟aan. It heralds the beginning of Subh Saadiq. Try to sight this phenomenon for a few nights. This happens every night when Sehri ends. The time mentioned in the time table is precautionary because people have not fixed the times by physically ascertaining the phenomenon in the sky. Almost all timetables are deficient in this aspect. While the 4.50 a.m. appears to be correct, nevertheless, adhere to the timetable until certitude has been established.

THE TIME FOR FAJR SALAAT

Approximately 1 ½ hours before sunrise a dim whitish glow appears vertically in the eastern horizon. Soon after this vertical glow, a brightness appears horizontally in the eastern horizon. This horizontal glow spreads instantly along the horizon becoming larger and larger until after a short while it becomes light. The time for Fajr Salaat commences with the appearance of this horizontal glow in the eastern horizon. This time marked by the appearance of the horizontal glow is known as Fajre Awwal or Subh Sadiq (True Dawn). The time for Fajr Salaat lasts until sunrise.

Many brothers and sisters frequently write to us requesting dua for pious wives and pious husbands. In this regard, the Qur‟aan Majeed says:

Khabeethaat (immoral/filthy women) are for khabeetheen (immoral / filthy men, and khabeethoon

(immoral/ filthy males)

are for khabeethaat.

Tayyibaat (pure / chaste women) are for

Tayyibeen

(pure / chaste men), and tayyiboon are for tayyibaat."

(An-Noor, Aayat 26)

Girls and boys hooked to internet immorality should not expect pious husbands and pious wives respectively. Girls and boys who soil and putrefy their eyes, minds, hearts and souls with internet porn, immorality and filth should only expect to be married to khabeetheen and khabeethaat.

A girl who has destroyed her spiritual virginity with youtube and instagram porn/ immorality should not expect to find a genuinely pious husband. Similarly, a boy whose soul is rotten with internet pornography and the like should not expect a pious wife. Khabeeth should be contented with Khabeeth. The combination of two immoral persons will produce a marriage of „perfect‟ misery which is what the khabeetheen and khabeethaat deserve.

Understand well that today the niqaab and abaaya are no longer signs of piety nor is the beard and kurtah. Investigate proposals thoroughly. Marriage today has become a brutal joke. Talaaq has become the norm.

MORON OLD MEN

Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: "The worst of the old people are those who imitate the young." When a person is over 60 and added to this is sickly, then it is a stronger reminder of the imminence of Maut. But we see many or most old men of the dunya displaying appalling forgetfulness of Maut and the Qabr.

The stupid old men dye black their gray hairs while Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: "Do not pluck out white hairs, for verily these white hairs will be the Noor of the Muslim on the Day of Qiyaamah."

The morons, dressify themselves and pose in front of the mirror lost in the imagination of fictitious youth although they are bereft of physical vitality in all fields. The wrinkles, crinkles and general weakness are ignored by the jaahil old men. The naseehat for them is not to shove Maut out of the mind‟s view, and not to fool themselves with imaginary longevity of life. Their one and half legs are already in the grave. Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said:

"Meditate much on that

Entity which will sever your (worldly) delights), i.e.

Maut."

INTENDING ting a sin and is determined on When someone resolves to

its commission, but is prevent- commit sin but is prevented

SIN

ed by weakness (or some cir- from it by external circumcumstance), is in fact sinful stances, then it is as if he has Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi even if he does not practically practically committed the wasallam) said:

implement it nor speak about sin. Repentance (Taubah) is "He who intends commitit." necessary.

AN EVIL GLANCE

Once while Hadhrat Junaid Bagdhaadi (rahmatullah alayh) accompanied by a mureed was walking in the road, there appeared an extremely handsome young Christian lad. The mureed cast a gaze of lust at the lad. Then he asked Hadhrat Junaid (rahmatullah alayh): 'Will Allah cast such a beautiful form in the Fire?' Hadhrat Junaid (rahmatullah said: "Did you look at him? You will see its consequences."

Twenty years thereafter, the entire Qur'aan Majeed disappeared from the mureed. He had forgotten every word. This was the calamity which had befallen him as a consequence alayh)

of his evil glance and justification of the sin.

Sin never becomes old and is not forgotten. The only remedy for averting the punishment is sincere regret and Taubah. The consequences of sins committed decades ago during one‟s youth will be experienced even in old age if sincere Taubah was not made. Understand well that a sincere Taubah also requires abstention from the sin.