The Way to Paradise

We are all in quest of true happiness. In this world, the idea of
true/perfect happiness is not feasible because this world is
inevitably doomed to total annihilation. True happiness is found only
in dwelling upon Paradise, and enjoying its blessings. However, none
would enter Paradise except the purified (those who are void of sins,
void of an atom of grudge or malignance). Since Paradise is created
only for the purified/pious, those who have evil looks (looking
lustfully at strange women, and vice versa), who envy others, treat
their fellowmen badly, hate mankind, or backbite cannot enter
Paradise. To conclude, none can enter Paradise unless totally
purified (sin-free).

Those who indulge in illegal talk (backbiting, using indecent
language, etc.), or have sinful hearts are denied entry to Paradise.
Allah (The sublime) said: "And those who kept their duty to Lord (AL-
Muttaquin) will be driven/led to Paradise in groups, and when they
reach there, its gates will be opened (before their arrival for their
reception) and its keepers will say: Salamun Alaikum (peace be upon
you)! How blessed you are (being sin-free and having done well), enter
here (Paradise) to abide therein eternally." Surat Az-Zumar/The
Groups: 73.

In another Surah, Allah says: "Those whose lives the angels take while
they are in a pious state (pure from all evil, and worshipping none
but only Allah) will be addressed as such: Salamun Alaikum (peace be
upon you) enter Paradise due to that which you used to do (during your
mortal life/in the world). Surat An-Nahl/The Bees: 32.

The above-mentioned verses set the condition that, in order to enter
Paradise, we have to be sin-free and void of an atom of guilt! One may
argue that since we are all sinners, it seems that none can enter
Paradise!

Well, it is true that only the pious can enter Paradise, but, Allah
(The Glorified), with His vast mercy, established eleven means to help
us be purified: 4 in this world, 3 in the grave, and another 4 on the
Day of Resurrection. These eleven means of purification aim at
enabling us to cross/walk on the straight path rather than to slip and
fall. This path is stretched over Hell fire and it is finer than a
hair and sharper than the edge of a razor/sword!



Knowing the nature of the straight path, one may question how people
would tread on that path! Well, some will cross/walk on it as fast as
the blink of an eye, others will be as fast as the light, others will
be as fast as the wind, others will crawl, and others will cling to
the path, then the angels will lead and/or encourage them onwards
(lest they should fall into Hell fire), while others will be snatched
by the hooks (attached to the path) to ensure/hasten their fall into
Fire.

4 Means/Standpoints of Purification in this World

1. Repentance:
Repentance is not limited to asking for forgiveness or invoking
Allah's mercy, rather, it is one of the greatest religious rituals to
win Allah's love/satisfaction and a means to get closer to Him. Allah
(The Sublime) says: "Allah loves those who turn unto Him in repentance
and loves those who purify themselves (by taking a bath and cleaning
and washing thoroughly their private parts/bodies (in preparation for
their prayers)". Surat AL-Baqarah/The Cow: 222.

Repentance removes sins, as Allah (The Sublime) says: "And verily, I'm
indeed forgiving to him who repents, believes in My Oneness, and
associates none in worshipping with Me, did righteous good deeds, and
then remained faithful to such belief and good deeds". Surat Ta-Ha:
82.

Repentance changes evil deeds into good ones. Allah (The Glorified
and The Exalted) said: "Except those who repented, believed in
monotheism, and did righteous deeds; for those, Allah will change
their sins into good deeds, and Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful
". Surat AL-Furqan/The Criterion: 70.

2. Asking for Forgiveness:
We (Moslems) should always ask Allah to forgive our sins (whether
remembered or not). Allah's Messenger (PBUH), though being the most
pious, endowed with the most knowledge of his Lord, and having had
both his past and future guilt pardoned/forgiven (by Allah), he used
to ask for Allah's forgiveness as many as a hundred times a day (an
action that won't take more than a minute of your time). In this
respect, the prophet (PBUH) says: "I swear by Allah, I do ask for
Allah's
forgiveness more than 70 times a day". This Hadith is quoted by AL-
Bokhari.

Also, Bin Omar (the son of Omar)-may Allah be content with them all-
said: we used to count for the messenger of Allah (in one session and
before leaving his place) as many as 100 times saying: "O Lord!
Forgive me my sins and accept my repentance, you are the One Who
accepts repentance, the Most Merciful". This Hadith is quoted by Abu
Dawoud and AL-Turmuzi.

3. Good Deeds Remove Bad deeds:
Change bad deeds with good ones because Abu Dhar Ibn Jundub and Abu
abdulrahman Bin Muaz Bin Jabal (may Allah be content with them all)
narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: "Fear Allah wherever you
are and be keen to always change your bad deeds with good ones, and be
nice to people." This Hadith is quoted by AL-Turmuzi.

Allah also said: "And perform As-Salaah (the daily five prayers) at
the two ends of the day and in some hours in the night. Verily, the
good deeds remove the bad ones. That is a reminder to those who
always remember Allah (in prayers, while standing, sitting, or lying
down on their sides)". Surat Hud: 114.

We must endeavor to do good deeds (no matter how simple they are).
For example, we can replace "Hi" and/or "Bye" (even these two simple
words are considered as "Good Deeds") with As-Salamu Alaikum and
utilize our leisure time by always remembering Allah at all times
(standing, sitting, eating, sleeping, working, driving, etc.).

The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) had always the desire to do a lot of
good deeds (on a daily basis). For example, he refused to accept a
present (a camel as a means of transportation) from his best companion
(Abu Bark) for free, and insisted that he share its cost, thus hoping
to be worthy of winning the reward of AL-Hijra (immigration to
Medina).

We, likewise, need to do good deeds (not in quantity but in quality).
Good deeds are best manifested in being wholly dedicated to your
parents (especially in their old age) praying in the late hours of the
night, praying in the early hours of dawn
time, wearing the veil, and performing work perfectly.

4. Purifying Calamities:
Allah puts His servants under severe tests (in this world) to
have them purified from their sins and to enter Paradise sin-free.
However, some people (not realizing the wisdom of such plights/tests)
lament their destiny by saying; "O Lord, why have You ordained us
(especially us) with such calamities?"

Those who did not repent, did not ask for forgiveness, did not do good
deeds, and/or were not put to tests (i.e., not purified) in this world
still have another chance for purification and that will take place in
their graves! Thus, missing purification in this world (while being
alive) will be completed in one's grave (while lying dead)! And that
shows how great this religion is, as you won't be left but sin-free
(either in this world or while lying dead in your grave).

To conclude, due to Allah's vast mercy and the simple demands for
entering Paradise, we can say that none (of the Moslems) will enter
Fire, (i.e., or more accurately, they will not abide there eternally).

3 Means/Standpoints of Purification in the Grave

5. The Funeral Prayer
In this prayer, it is not the number of those standing behind the
deceased (in a mosque) performing due funeral prayer that counts,
instead it is the quality of the true believers who are present in
this kind of prayer. The sincere supplications that come from such
believers (in such congregations) will benefit the deceased.
Though being dead, sincere supplication will greatly help the deceased
to be purified for Paradise.

6. The Trial of the Grave
Trial of the grave is best manifested in the questions asked by two
angels (immediately after lying the dead in his grave): Who is your
Lord? What is your religion? And what do you think about the man who
was sent amongst you? (Referring to Allah's Messenger, PBUH). Other
examples are: your fear facing these two angels, being alone in the
grave (nobody there to support you), the darkness of the grave and,
finally, your fear as you are enclosed therein. These trials are
other means to remove all of our sins.

Those who have already been purified (while alive in the world) will
not be subject to other trials (while lying dead in their graves.)


The prophet (PBUH) says: "A grave is either an orchard for Paradise or
a pitfall for Hell". To conclude, a grave is not (as it is thought to
be) a hideous dark place for beasts; on the contrary, it could be an
orchard for Paradise!

7. Contribution of the Living to the Dead:
When a Moslem dies, he can still have his sins removed by the good and
sincere deeds dedicated to him by the living (especially from his
relatives). The Ulamah (the religiously lectured of the nation)
unanimously agree that all good deeds done by the living such as
performing pilgrimage, Umrah (the visit to Al-Ka'ba in Makka), and
sincere supplications do reach the dead only to purify them and then
be sin-free.

In this respect, Abu Hurairah (one of the prophet's, PBUH, companions)
said: The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: "When the son of Adam dies,
nothing will benefit him except one of the following three good
righteous deeds: a non-stop Sadakah (charity), some kind of knowledge
he left behind (useful to society), or a sincere supplication of his
son." This Hadith is quoted by Moslim.

Therefore, if someone (who is really dear to you) is dead, you can
perform pilgrimage, do Umrah, or pay Sadakah on their behalf (so that
they become sin-free). Remember that the more useful the Sadakah to
society is, the more the reward is, (needless to say that you will
have your share as well).

To realize how merciful/great this religion is, it is important to
know that somebody (while lying dead in his grave) can be freed from
suffering/torment by the supplications of others who wish the deceased
to be purified and sin-free for entry into Paradise.

4 Means/Standpoints of Purification on the Day of Resurrection

8. Horrors on the Day of Resurrection:
Seeing the sun folded-up, the stars fall (after loosing their light),
the seas blown-up, and the earth shaken with its (final) earthquake
are all sin removers.

9. Standing Before Allah (The Glorified, The AL-Mighty):
Another means to purify us from our sins is standing humbly


before Allah in an attempt to answer/face His following questions/
blame: My servant, didn't I bestow you with My blessings? Didn't I
give you wealth? Weren't I the Watchful when you had illegal looks
(Men looking lustfully at women, and vice versa, or at whatever you
shouldn't)? Weren't I the Watchful when you used indecent language
(thus misusing communication with others? Allah then keeps addressing
His servant as saying: My servant, you have underestimated the day
when you stand before Me! Were you fearless of the notion that the
time will come when you stand before Me! You have put on beautiful
masks (before all people) only to come before Me with the worst in
you! My servant, what made you fall into deception (ignoring that I Am
the Watchful)?

10.Allah's Amnesty:
This is the greatest means in purifying us from our sins. Just as the
prophets have already interceded, as did His Messengers and as did the
believers, Allah (The Glorified, the Sublime) says: Wouldn't I?

Even knowing that we can all enter Paradise, there are still those who
will fall off the path (for they deserve it). Others will not be
purified even after passing through the above-mentioned eleven means
of purification! They will fall into Fire, as they are sinful as well
as guilty of committing foul/bad deeds, full of hatred and ever
holding on to grudges. And the only way to purify such sinners is to
let Fire do its job (similar to a piece of gold, which doesn't get its
purity unless it is put into fire for the period required to make all
other alloys vanish! In fact, the more it stays there, the greater its
purity gets!

Likewise, whoever eventually falls into Fire will stay there long
enough to become purified (depending on how sinful he is). Immediately
after being completely purified (after dwelling in Hell for some
time), the angels will greet him saying: "Peace be upon you, dwell
here (in Paradise) forever."

In conclusion, in this world we own three of the means of the above-
mentioned eleven purification standpoints: repentance, asking for
forgiveness, and performing good deeds to remove the bad ones.
Therefore, let's make as much use of them as we can
(while we are still alive/before it is too late).



Remember that if you are a true believer (paying duty to Allah,
believing in monotheism and associating none with Allah in
worshipping), you will not suffer the trials in your grave and/or the
horrors of the Day of Resurrection.

(May Allah Bless You All)

> "I am the way, the truth, and the life." -- LORD Jesus Christ
>
> Amen
>

Truth? You wouldn't know what the truth was if it drove a steamroller called
"the life" over your head slowly singing "I am the truth". Anyway
Chungfraud, getting back to some earlier questions that you keep dodging, am
I Satan? You can tell me, I won't be upset I promise & at least you'll be
doing the jebus thing by telling the truth (well in your own mind).

& another thing - since I commanded you to get your holy spirit thing to
convict me a week or so back, you haven't done so, not once. This can mean
only one thing Chungfraud, your holy spirit has no power has it? I mean, you
couldn't have it to convict an atheist on the orders of an atheist, because
that means your holy spirit has to do as I say & you can't have god being
told what to do by an atheist can you? On the other hand, since your
illusion is powerless to convict me, I win again since I cannot ever, ever,
ever be condemned by your silly illusion. To do so means you will have
complied with my orders to you!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am therefore unconvictable by you & your holy spirit chungfraud. Hang on,
if I can't be convicted by your silly illusion, does that make me god? I
think maybe it does!!!! That means you're fucked chungfraud. You'd better
improve your relationship with Satan, because somewhere toasty warm with
pitchforks is in your future!!!!!!! Or you could always become an atheist &
not worry about such trivialities.

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:16:08 -0800 (PST),
BusinessAccountEmail@gmail.com wrote:

>"Don't argue with an idiot. They will only drag you down to their
>level, and beat you by experience."

I'm not going to argue with that!

> "Don't argue with an idiot. They will only drag you down to their
> level, and beat you by experience."

Oh, I just couldn't help setting the fool up - my bad. It's been loads of
fun though seeing if he's going to grack & at least I'm bulletproof from his
silly illusions (not that it worries me)

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:49:36 -0800 (PST), abdo911
<jipksaman@gmail.com> wrote:

>do the world a favor and blow yourself up rather than wasting everyone's time spamming a religion that endorses murder, rape and torture.

<BusinessAccountEmail@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Jan 22, 6:39 pm, "kingdoodlesquat"
>> Oh, I just couldn't help setting the fool up - my bad. It's been loads of
>> fun though seeing if he's going to grack & at least I'm bulletproof from
>> his
>> silly illusions (not that it worries me)
>
> Sometimes I wonder just who is doing the setting up and who is being
> set up.

That sounds like a possible conviction in the offing??

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:08:20 -0800 (PST),
BusinessAccountEmail@gmail.com wrote:

>On Jan 22, 6:39 pm, "kingdoodlesquat"
>> Oh, I just couldn't help setting the fool up - my bad. It's been loads of
>> fun though seeing if he's going to grack & at least I'm bulletproof from his
>> silly illusions (not that it worries me)
>
>Sometimes I wonder just who is doing the setting up and who is being
>set up.


Thye internet can be a greewat cimmunication tool.

But there is no criteria to use it.
n zome casess it helps an abnormal person to finally fit in.

But isa allow abnornal people tto do thing that are unacceptable
to any community, anywhere.

As a diabretic It has hwlped so much, I can tolerate any thing.
here.

Where can you go where and not find nuts and idiots?

Remember , you are in the superior classs.

But being superior carries so many obligations.

You havc to prove it by taking mean hits at the weak


JUst watched "frointline".

"Michael Gray" <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:16:08 -0800 (PST),
> BusinessAccountEmail@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>"Don't argue with an idiot. They will only drag you down to their
>>level, and beat you by experience."
>
> I'm not going to argue with that!

Is that the 30 minute non-argument or the full hour?

Smiler,
The godless one
a.a.# 2279

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:11:51 GMT, "Smiler" <Smiler@Joe.King.com>
wrote:

>
>"Michael Gray" <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote in message
>news:bitcp3ts4n99v11het970lu8stt7c48hrs@4ax.com.. .
>> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:16:08 -0800 (PST),
>> BusinessAccountEmail@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>>"Don't argue with an idiot. They will only drag you down to their
>>>level, and beat you by experience."
>>
>> I'm not going to argue with that!
>
>Is that the 30 minute non-argument or the full hour?

I think I'll just the 5 minutes, please.

along at a rapid
rate; she was delighted to get away.

"The case was in court for some weeks, but the woman was afraid
to appear, and had no one to assist her but the lawyer, and as he
could not prove any good reason why the child should remain with
an immoral woman, we were given the guardianship."

No. 9. A young girl came to San Francisco from China as a
merchant's wife, and missionaries used to visit her at her home in
Chinatown. Once when they went they were told that the wife had
gone to San Jose, but she could not be traced at the latter place,
and the missionary was suspicious. A year passed, and one night
the door bell at the Mission rang, and when it was opened
a Chinese girl fell in a faint from exhaustion, across the
threshold. A colored girl stood by her holding her by the cue.
The colored girl said she saw her running, and divined where she
wished to go, and seizing her by the hair to prevent her being
dragged back, rushed her to the Mission. It was the merchant's
young wife. She had been confined in a brothel not two blocks from
the Mission, and often saw the missionary pass by, but had no
means of attracting her attention. The merchant told her one day
that he wished to take her to a cousin to learn a different way of
dressing her hair, and he would leave her there a day or two while
he was away from town on business. The young wife went without
fear, but never to return to virtue until she escaped to the
Mission. She was tied to a window by day to attract custom, and at
night tied to a bed, for she was no willing slave. When rescued
she was horribly diseased. Three days before her rescue, the
Chief of Police and an interpreter had gone through the house
questioning every inmate as to whether they

they are treated as criminals.... It will be
clear to you that this law is not for simple healing, as Christ
would have us to heal, caring for all, whatever their character
or whatever their disease. This law is invented to _provide
beforehand_ that men may be able to sin without bodily injury (if
that were possible, which it is not). If a burglar, who had broken
into my house and stolen my goods, were to fall and be hurt, I
would be glad to get him into a hospital and have him nursed and
cured; but I would not put a ladder up against my window at night
and leave the windows open in order that he might steal my goods
without danger of breaking his neck.

"You will see clearly, also, the cowardliness and unmanliness of
this law, inasmuch as it sacrifices women to men, the weak to the
strong; that it deprives the woman of all that she has in life, of
liberty, character, law, even of life itself (for it is a process
of slow murder to which she is subjected), for the supposed
benefit of men who are mean enough to avail themselves of this
provision of lust.

"Besides being grossly unjust, as between men and women, this law
is a piece of class legislation of an extreme kind. The position
and wealth of men of the upper classes place the women belonging
to them above any chance of being accused of prostitution. Ladies
who ride in carriages through the street at night are in no danger
of being molested. But what about working women? what about the
daughters, sisters and wives of working men, out, it may be, on
an errand of mercy at night? and what, most of all, of that girl
whose father, mother, friends are dead or far away, who is
struggling hard, in a hard world, to live uprightly and justly
by t

this supply was further added to from two sources, first,
Chinese residents attracted to Hong Kong had made money there rapidly,
and had fallen into profligate and luxurious manners of life,
and second, Chinese going abroad to Australia, Singapore and San
Francisco, created a demand for immoral women in these foreign lands
which called for supplies from Hong Kong, and at Singapore the demand
came also from the class of foreigners who resided there.

[Footnote A: Hong Kong was occupied by the British in 1841, but not
ceded until 1842.]

The system of management of prostitution was originally Chinese, and
differs much from anything known under Western civilization, in that
the women are never what we speak of as "fallen women," because not
the victims of seduction nor of base propensities that have led to the
choice of such a life. They are either slaves trained for or sold into
shame, or women temporarily held for debt by a sort of mortgage. To
this Chinese system of prostitution, however, there was soon applied
at Hong Kong a Government system of regulation or license under
surveillance. This modified the system, intensified the slavery, and
was the cause of reducing many women from the respectable ranks
of Chinese life at once and arbitrarily to the lowest depths of
degradation, as we shall explain and demonstrate in subsequent
chapters.

The native woman, rented for a monthly stipend from her owners was
called "protected" at Hong Kong. What charm this word "protection,"
and the title "Protector" has held for certain persons, as applied
to the male sex! "Man, t

Tanka women, and especially under the protection of these 'protected'
Tanka women, that private prostitution and the sale of girls for
concubinage flourishes, being looked upon as a legitimate profession.
Consequently, almost every 'protected woman' keeps a nursery of
purchased children or a few servant girls who are being reared with
a view to their eventual disposal, according to their personal
qualifications, either among foreigners here as kept women, or among
Chinese residents as their concubines, or to be sold for export to
Singapore, San Francisco, or Australia. Those 'protected women,'
moreover, generally act as 'protectors' each to a few other Tanka
women who live by sly prostitution."

When once a man enters the service of Satan he is generally pressed
along into it to lengths he did not at first intend to go. So it
proved in the case of many foreigners at Hong Kong. The foreigner
extended his "protection" to a native mistress. That "protected woman"
extended his name as "protector" over the inmates of her secret
brothel; and into that house protected largely from official
interference, purchased and kidnaped girls were introduced and reared
for the trade in women. The sensitive point seems to have been that
an enforcement of the anti-slavery laws would have interfered in many
instances with the illicit relations of the foreigner, exposing him
to ignominy and sending the mother of his children to prison. It was
sufficient for the "protected" woman to say, when the officer of the
law rapped at her door, "This is not a brothel, but the private
family residence of Mr. So-and-So," naming some foreigner,--perhaps
a high-placed official,--and the officer's search would proceed no
further.

It was claimed that this slavery, and also domestic slavery, which
sprang up so suddenly after the settlement of Hong Kong by the
British, was the outgrowth of Chinese customs, and could not be
suppressed but with the greatest difficulty, and their suppre

I shall deal with these people when I
shall have more fully considered the case."

During the proceedings of the trial of these two prisoners, the
Attorney General had declared his intention not to call the former
owners of the child, Wai Alan, the woman who beat the child, or Pao
Chee Wan, her husband. The Chief Justice now said:

"I now direct you, Mr. Attorney General, to prosecute these two
people, Pao Chee Wan and Wai Alan." Attorney General:--"My Lord,
I intimated before that this matter was under consideration; I do
not think I am at liberty to say under whose consideration."
His Lordship:--"I direct the prosecution, and will take the
responsibility. It is the course in England and I will pursue it
here." The Attorney General:--"You have publicly directed it;
and I will report it to the proper quarter." His Lordship:--"The
Attorney General at home is constantly ordered by the Court to
prosecute. On my responsibility alone I do this." The Attorney
General:--"May I ask your Lordship to say on what charge?" His
Lordship:--"Under Sections 50 and 51 of No. 4 of 1865, and also
for assault." The Attorney General continued to raise objections,
when the Chief Justice said: "I have said as much as I choose to
say, and I will not be put to question by the Attorney General. If
you have any difficulty, come to the Court in Chambers."

Governor Hennessy, in reporting the incident to the Secretary of State
at London, adds: "I sent a note to the Attorney General, saying I
thought that the prosecution suggested by the Chief Justice should
take place; but it was found that the accused parties we

<BusinessAccountEmail@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Jan 22, 9:21 pm, "kingdoodlesquat"
>>
>> > Sometimes I wonder just who is doing the setting up and who is being
>> > set up.
>>
>> That sounds like a possible conviction in the offing??
>
> Seems Chung has for a long time been successful in getting people to
> respond to his repetitive, absurd postings, so maybe he is having fun.
> He can be insane and still have fun being a troll and egging others on
> in their attempts to get him and respond to his "convictions" and
> accusations of others being Satan, pathologic liars, etc.
>
> That is why don't argue with or try to get the best of Chung. He will
> only drag you down to his level, and beat you by experience."
>
> Though, it can be fun watching it, so don't stop because of me.
> Though need to remember that there are some who do object to it as it
> decreases the usefulness of SMC and other groups.

I've have loads of fun with Chung & it appeals to my sense of humour (as bad
as it is) to continually bait him relentlessly, especially trying to get him
to spout his crap re: convictions & being called Satan. I know I shouldn't
respond to him, but it is fun watching what his next response will be. I
apologise to those who object, but you have to bear in mind, it is the OP
who cross posted his toilet (although I should maybe have responded on just
the one).