Healthy Eating in Ramadan

Question: What should be observed for healthy eating and drinking in Ramadan?
ANSWER
The answer that a physician friend of ours has given is as follows:

It is witnessed that people who have an unbalanced diet in Ramadan develop many health problems, such as lack of energy, depression, stomach ache, indigestion, and blood pressure drop. Just as it is wrong not to get up for pre-dawn meal (sahur) or to consume excess fatty foods during it, so it is wrong to overindulge and to eat a wide variety of foods
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Minor signs of Doomsday

Question: What are the minor signs of Doomsday (Qiyamah)?
ANSWER
In the time period near Doomsday, the minor signs will occur first, and the major ones will follow them. Some hadith-i sharifs about the minor signs of it are as follows:

(Doomsday will not come until people boast about mosques and decorations in them.) [Ibn Maja]

(Doomsday will not come until a man satisfies his sexual need with another man and a woman satisfies her sexual need with another woman.) [Hatib]

(Doomsday will not come until fitan [pl. of fitna] increase.) [Bukhari]

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What does belief in the Last Day mean?

Question: What does belief in the Last Day (al-Yawm al-âkhir) mean?
ANSWER
The fifth fundamental of îmân is the belief in the Last Day. The expression wal yawm-il âkhirî … wal-ba’thu ba’d-al mawt haqqun in the Âmantu teaches the belief in the Last Day and in the Resurrection after death.

This time begins on the day when a person dies and continues till the end of Doomsday. The reason it is called the “Last Day” is because there is no night to come after it, or because it comes after the world. The “Day” mentioned in this hadîth-i sharîf is not like the day or night we know. It denotes some time. It was not made known when Doomsday will occur. No one could estimate its time. Nevertheless, our master the Prophet pointed out many of its harbingers and precedents:

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What would happen if all people were equal?

Question: There are people who say, “Allah has created some people healthy and some others disabled, some people tall and some others as dwarfs, some people beautiful and some others ugly, some people rich and some others poor, some people as Whites and some others as Blacks, some people sane and some others insane. Would it not have been better if He had created all people equal?” I replied, “Allah creates what is the best. If it had been better, He would have created them equal. It means that behind it there are things that are unknown to us.” But they have not been satisfied with my answers. What should I say?
ANSWER

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About the book “Endless Bliss”

Question: Why is the book Endless Bliss (titled Se’âdet-i Ebediyye in its Turkish original) so valuable?
ANSWER
The reason why it is so valuable is solely because it is based on naql [conveying the religious knowledge that has been communicated by Islamic scholars without making any changes], not on personal thoughts.

It is a compilation from hundreds of precious religious books, and these source materials are available in many libraries.

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Whoever is for Allah, Allah will be for him

Question: Is the hadîth, “Whoever is for Allah, Allah will be for him,” which is written in Forty Ahâdîth by Sadraddîn Konawî, authentic?
ANSWER
Asking this is much absurder than having an elementary child check a mathematical operation done by a professor of mathematics. Did

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Allah bas bâqi hawas

Question: What does the expression Allah bas bâqi hawas mean?
ANSWER
Bas means “adequate, sufficient”. Bâqi means “the rest, that which remains.” Hawas means “the longing of the nafs, an ephemeral desire.” Those who say, “Allah bas,” have put their tawakkul in Allahu ta’âlâ. Tawakkul is to put someone else in one’s place to do something or to transfer one’s work upon someone else. In Islamic context, it means to trust in, rely on Allah.

Tawakkul is to accept as being predestined in the eternal past and not to be reduced to sorrow in the face of sad events that cannot be changed by human power. It is to welcome them with open arms in the knowledge that they come from

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The Angels of Compassion

Question: I said to a neighbor of mine who rejects most of the rules of Islam, “Do not keep a dog at home, for angels do not enter a place where there is a dog.” He, in turn, said, “Well, then so much the better because the archangel Azrâil will not enter, either. Thus, I can live for 250 years.” Is it appropriate for him to utter such a statement?
ANSWER
A person who does not know Islam is a religiously ignorant one. The Angels of Compassion, the Angels of Haphaza, and the Angel of Death

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Angels have reason

Question: It is said that angels are not responsible because they do not have ‘aql (reason), that they are not pious since religions are for humans and genies, that they are beings who carry out only what they are commanded, like robots. Some others claim that angels are male. Do such statements not mean disbelieving one of the six fundamentals of îmân?
ANSWER
The fact that angels are neither male nor female is written in all

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