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  Support AboutIslam.net. About Islam Search Toggle Menu Home Spirituality Why You Should Remember Death Always AAA Why You Should Remember Death Always Ads by Muslim Ad Network Khurram Murad 26 November, 2019 Allah has created everything with a fixed life span. The Quran states: {It is not given to any soul to die save by Allah’s permission, and at an appointed time. } (Aal `Imran 3: 145.) Indeed there is no certainty in life except death. {Every soul will taste death.} (Aal `Imran 3:185.) Why You Should Remember Death Always - About Islam Quraish Negotiates with the Prophet (Story) Not only is death itself inescapable, but the place and the very day and hour of death have been forever fixed: {No person knows what he will earn tomorrow and no person knows in what land he will die.} (Luqman 31: 34.) {When the time arrives they cannot tarry a single moment nor can they go ahead.} (An-Nahl 16: 61.) In death, we are compelled to return to Allah. In life, however, we can choose to draw...

 The true Muslim is the one who fears Allah; who practices good deeds and avoids committing sins and faults. He sticks to this and makes this a way of his life until he dies. Therefore, the seasons of the good increase his diligence in worship, his keenness on obedience and accustoming himself to the good. If these times are passed, their effects will be represented in his life as lively pictures, a tangible reality, and a perceivable concrete deed. Farewell Ramadan We have bid farewell to an honorable month and a great season. We fasted during daytime and prayed in nights, convenient to us. We recited the Holy Qur’an, increased our zikr (remembrance or Allah) and supplications and gave charity generously. Moreover, we got nearer to Allah through performing acts of closeness to Him, hoping for His rewards and fearing from His punishment. How much efforts we exerted, got our bodies tired, made our hearts filled with Allah’s fear, raised hands in supplication and shed tears. Ramadan ...

 Valid exemptions for not fulfilling the obligations of fasting Ramadan fall under five major categories. (This does not include menstrual and postnatal bleeding.) Anyone who breaks a Ramadan fasting day with a valid exemption must simply make up the missed day before the following Ramadan (or offer appropriate redemption if fasting is not possible). If someone breaks a Ramadan fast without a valid exemption, this entails a penalty of expiation known in Arabic as kaffarah, or “covering over,” such as fasting consecutively for two months, if one is able. Here is a summary of the five major categories of valid exemptions from fasting Ramadan. 1. THE FIRST CATEGORY OF VALID EXEMPTION: ILLNESS Illness is any condition that takes a person outside the bounds of health as the result of some indisposition. Ibn Qudamah (d. 1223ce) said: “There is consensus among the scholars regarding the permissibility of breaking the fast due to illness in general, as stated in the verse of the Quran: Yet...