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I received an Email from one of my dear friend Mr. Asim. In this Email that he forwarded to me, I found a very nice story ( no idea is it true or animated), anyway I really like it and hopefully you will also as well. There is a big lesson in this story for everyone. So without further do, here is for you named as : Wake Up For Fajr Salaah.

A man woke up early to pray the Fajr Prayer in the mosque. He got dressed, made his ablution and was on his way to the mosque. On his way to the mosque, the man fell and his clothes got dirty.

He got up, brushed himself off, and headed home. At home, he changed his clothes, made his ablution, and was again on his way to the mosque.

On his way to the mosque, He fell again and at the Same Spot!. He again got up, brushed himself off and headed home. At home, he once again changed his clothes, made his ablution and was on his way to the mosque yet another time.

This time, he met a man holding a lamp. He (first person) asked the man of his identity and the man replied ‘I saw you fall twice on your way to the mosque, so I brought a lamp so I can light your way’. The first man thanked him profusely and both start walk on their way to the mosque.

When they reached mosque, the first man asked him to come in and pray Fajr with him. The second man refused, the first man asked him a couple more times and again the answer was the same. The first man asked him, you looks like a very nice person, helped me as well, why you did not wish to come in and pray. Then second person replied.

I am Shetaan(devil/ evil)

The man shocked at his reply. Shetaan went on to explain, “I saw you on your way to the mosque and it was I who made you fall. When you went home, cleaned yourself and went back on your way, Allah forgave all of your sins. I made you fall second time and even that did not urge you to stay home but rather you went back on your way to the mosque and because of that, Allah forgave all the sins of the people of your household.

I was AFRAID, if I made you fall one more time, then Allah will forgive the sins of the people of your village, so I made sure that you reached here safely.”

Wow. What a story. Mashallah. Hopefully you really like it despite from the fact that it’s based on truth or just an informative story. There is a great lessons for all of us that do not let Shetaan benefit from our actions and do not put off a good that you intended to do as you never know how much reward you might receive from the hardships you encounter while trying to achieve that good.

Please let me know if you like this story and if you know any Islamic story, that boost our faith on Allah Almighty, you can also share that as well in here below comment section. May Allah give you fruit of doing that. Ameen!

There are too many people in our community who make there own rules. They do what they think that is right thing without any authorization. Women are marginalized, taking out of Islamic activities. You know Islam gave equal rights to men and women so how we stop them from doing any Islamic activity. This is totally against Islamic laws. How can women learn things if they don’t go to mosque because mosque is like a school for any Muslim.

If you don’t know what women did for Islam then read this below.

• First person who accepted Islam was a woman = Hazrat Khadija (Radi allah unha)
• First person who died (shaheed) for Islam was a woman = Hazrat Summiya  (Radi allah unha)
• Second most hadith reported by any person was a woman = Hazrat Ayesha (Radi allah unha)

And you can go on and on and see what women did for Islam in earlier days and still they are doing a leading role in various parts of the world.

back to topic! Actually there is not a single verse of holy Quran or hadith which prohibit women from praying in mosque. Infect there are several hadith which speaks the opposite. You know in Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) mosque (Masjid-e-Nabawi), when prophet was in mosque, women were also in that mosque. They kindly listen what He said and implemented on them and Prophet (PBUH) never prevent them from entering the mosque. That is the authentic mosque overview.

In Sahih Bukhari Vol.1: Hadith # 832: Ch # 84, it says : When your wife ask to go to the mosque, do not prohibit them.

In Sahih Bukhari Vol.1: hadith # 824: Ch # 80, it says : When the women ask you to go to the mosque at night allow them. (you can see even in night women can go to the mosque).

In Sahih Muslim Vol.1: hadith # 881: Ch # 175, it says : The best row for men is first row and worst is the last, and best row for women is the last row and worst is the first. (indicating that men and women can pray in the mosque). There are several other hadith.

In Sahih Muslim Vol.1: hadith # 884: Ch # 177, it says : Do not prevent servant of Allah to go to the mosque.

In Sahih Muslim Vol.1: hadith # 891: Ch # 177, it says : Do not take away the shade of mosque of the women.

Guidelines For Women & Mosque Administration:

This is clear till now that women can go to mosque, can pray in mosque, can do exact prayers as men but there are few guidelines that need to take care of from both sites: From women as well as from mosque administration.

There should be an equal and separate facilities for women in the mosque. There should be no enter-beginning of sexes, that how you have in other places of worship in other religions, if that so then chances are more for other things then worshiping Allah Almighty. There should be separate entering, separate ablution facility and such other things.

In various parts of the world, women allowed to pray in mosque and there are equal facilities for them as well. It is only in few countries like India and Pakistan that women are not allowed to pray in mosque or there should be only very less facility for women to go to mosque but this trend is changing now and hopefully women will go to mosque and take part in Islam like they are doing in other countries and they did in past.

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We three friends Taimour Hashmi, Ammar Azhar and Me (Umer Hayat) made plan that we should pray taraveeh in world’s beautiful “Shah Faisal Mosque” in this Ramadan. You know it’s hard to show patience if you are talking about such beautiful place. So without further delay, we went to Shah Faisal Mosque for 2nd Ramadan’s taraveeh. It was a great journey, as we all live in Rawalpindi, almost 30-40 kilometers from Shah Faisal Mosque (which is situated in Islamabad), so we sat in taxi at 9 pm and went start to the mosque without further wait in only 200 PKR equals to $2.50.

In the way, we were thinking that we are late and as usual blaming each other for cause, but when we reached at the mosque’s door we found that we are on time. Mosque is so beautiful, total marble flooring, very neat and clean. It was too big that we don’t even remember where were the place for ablution. We did inquiry for that. That person was so nice, he guided us. Finally we were at the ablution point.

Ablution place was so beautifully created with marble. It was like boxes in which water pore down. All in all that was quite beautiful and good looking. After that we went up to the mosque’s main hall. That was an awesome hall. If you go to that hall, I believe that you will say exactly the same as I said “O great Subhan-Allah”. Although it was not my first visit to Shah Faisal Mosque but still it was something really excited for me.

So we go in there and just sat on 6th row as there were 6 rows completed till then. After listening to mosque’s Imam for 5 min, we all started taraveeh. Imam was great in reciting Quran. We found great pleasure in listening the holy Quran.

Then suddenly after 10th taraveeh, I saw a new Imam took place. That person was also really nice even his speed of reciting Quran was too slow. So it was really easy in understanding the holy Quran.

All in all, we were quite happy. Prayer ended at 12:07 am. We did dua as well after finish. beg hundreds of things from Allah Almighty including the growth of this Islamic blog.

To summarize the story, we took another taxi and came back our homes at 2:00 am, that time driver took 230 PKR nearly equals to $2.90. bit nice though!

Hang on! Hang on!

If you think that I’ll only share my story with you and nothing else that you are completely wrong. This is not my style atleast. I want to share some very important fact and figures about the great “Shah Faisal Mosque” and it’s unique design with you as I’m a big fan of this quote “Everything at one place“.

Something knowledgable about Shah Faisal Mosque:

• Shah Faisal Mosque situated in Islamabad , capital city of Pakistan.
• Started building in 1976 and completed in 1986.
• Courtesy of Saudi King Shah Faisal as he gave this as a gift to Pakistan (you can see mosque is after his name).
• It is so unique in architecture, designed by world renowned Turkish architect “Vedat Dalokay”.
• Construction cost well over $120 million.
• The main prayer hall and courtyard can hold up to 1 hundred thousands people with total capacity of 3 hundred thousands.
• Each of the Mosque’s four minarets are 90 m (260 ft) high (the tallest minarets in South Asia) and measure 10 x 10 m in circumference.
• It was the largest mosque in the world from 1986 to 1993, now it’s on 3rd right after “Masjid al-Haram” and “Masjid-al-Nabawi”.
• One of the biggest mosque in the world with cover area of 53,821 square feet (5,000 sq m).
• The Islamic University is also located in the Mosque grounds and the first floor with facilities of Library, Conference Room, Printing Press and Cafeteria. An Islamic Research Institute is also associated with the University.

Click Here for a 3D view of this marvelous wonder.

Here are some great snapshots of “Shah Faisal Mosque”. Hopefully you will like it.

Here are some beautiful videos of that amazing mosque. Great to watch.

That’s it for now. Please tell us what you think about this story and especially about this great mosque. Looking forward to hear from you.:)