Mu' meneen Brothers and Sisters,

As Salaam Aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.  (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you)

One of our brothers/sisters has asked this question:

Assalamu Alaikum,

I appreciate your generous and dedicated efforts of instilling the correct guidance of Islam. It is so nice of you to render your time, energy and concentration for this pious work. I supplicate Allah, the Almighty, to bless you with the best in this world as well as the hereafter. May your services make people follow Islam and have faith.

I have read about you, your history and the way you & your team manages this forum. You receive thousands of queries. So it would be unwise to make the matter lengthy. I have always been curious to know how you reply the questions in a very profession book language.

Best Wishes,

(There may be some grammatical and spelling errors in the above statement. The forum does not change anything from questions, comments and statements received from our readers for circulation in confidentiality.)

Answer:

How we reply

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

May Allah Subhanah reward you with the best of this world and the Hereafter for your kind comments of encouragement for our humble efforts in the propagation of the Truth. If our humble and modest efforts have helped even one brother or sister get closer to Allah and His Deen of Truth, then we would consider ourselves indeed fortunate to have been given this opportunity by the Lord Most Merciful to serve in His Cause. We hope, beg, and pray the Merciful Lord accepts our humble and weak efforts, forgives us our shortcomings, and saves you, us, and all the believers from the torment of the Hell Fire. Ameen.

Dear and beloved brother in Islam, if truth be told, before we were blessed and honored to serve our duty towards our brethren through this humble forum, none amongst us had any experience in writing on Islam, or its laws, or its jurisprudence, etc. Because the brothers who initiated this humble forum are almost all reverts to mainstream Islam, in our own search for the Truth and being away from each other, we used to ask and respond amongst one another …. and one day, one amongst the brother (may Allah bless him in this world and the Hereafter) came up with the idea that there might be scores of brothers and sisters all over the world who might be interested in joining our humble forum….and as Allah Subhanah would have Willed for us, He blessed us with the opportunity to assemble and moderate this humble effort into a forum in the propagation of His Noble Cause. Our only hope and prayer, in absolute humility and fear, is that our Lord Most Gracious accept our humble and weak efforts, forgive us our severe and several shortcomings in the service of His Cause, and save us all from the torment of the Hell Fire.

Your Statement: I have always been curious to know how you reply the questions in a very profession book language.

Beloved brother, if you have found the reply to the questions posed satisfactory, leave alone in a professional book language, we assure you in all humility that you have given your humble and fearful brothers and sisters moderating this forum more credit than they ever deserve or merit. Allah is our witness brother, neither is any amongst us a writer, leave alone a professional writer….nor do any of us have any experience in replying such questions on the deen or even moderating a web-site forum! All Praise and Thanks to Allah Subhanah Alone, Who blessed us with the opportunity to serve in His Noble Cause.

I leave you brother with one thought which I myself learnt from a very learned, pious, God-fearing, and truly humble brother and scholar who spent his whole life in the service of the deen…..

What is said or related merely by the mouth reaches only the ear….but what is said by the heart reaches the heart!

We would like to believe that we serve and reply the questions of our esteemed and respected brothers and sisters on the forum from our hearts…..perchance the Truth that we so earnestly try to propagate from the Quran and the Sunnah touches a nerve in the heart of one, and they come one step closer to their Lord and His Guidance. If our humble and modest efforts have helped even one brother or sister get closer to Allah and His Deen of Truth, then we would consider ourselves indeed fortunate to have been given this opportunity by the Lord Most Merciful to serve in His Cause.

As flattering as your comments are and we are indebted to you for your encouragement of our absolutely humble and weak efforts in the Cause, but Allah Subhanah is our witness brother, we do not deserve nor merit, not even in the tiniest least bit, any credit whatsoever….but we assure you that we shall tirelessly strive to redouble our humble efforts in the service of the Cause of Truth as long as we live in the ardent hope that our Lord Most Gracious have Mercy on us on that Inevitable and Tumultuous Day of Resurrection.

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

Burhan