RAMADAN – CAN I PRAY TARAWEEH PRAYER AT HOME?

(All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the Realms; and Prayers and Peace of Allah be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his family and companions)

Ramadan is the blessed month in which we are required to perform and work the desired way as expected as this month is said to be full of blessings, mercy and forgiveness, every believer tries to acquire the maximum benefits possible and this is where today we would stress upon a matter which requires attention:

(Some believers are not sure that are they allowed to offer special Taraweeh Prayer of Ramadan at home and are there any special rules which shall be known to acquire the best practice)

For your knowledge Taraweeh prayers are ideal to pray in a Mosque with a Jama’ah and for those who are not in an easy access to the Mosque or for any other good reason you cannot join a Jama’ah, you are allowed to pray at home. Now comes the rules stated below which will help you to select the person who is more likely to be the Imam.

The Prophet (s) as you would know instructed us in an authentic hadith that the order for choosing the Imam for salaat is as follows:

1. The one who reads the Quran the most, i.e. the more someone has memorized the Quran the higher the choice of him leading a Jama'ah. This includes that the person should be able to recite the Quran properly with Tajweed rules. In the time of the Prophet (SAWS) and thereafter initially, this also included the one who had the most knowledge of the Quran as memorizing and knowledge of the Quran went hand in hand back then.

2. If they are same in that respect, then the one who has the most knowledge of Sunnah, i.e. scholar or most knowledge of the whole of Islam.

3. If they are the same in that respect, then the one who is the oldest in migrating for Islam, or highest in obedience to Allah, piety etc, should lead the prayer or the eldest in age if all other aspects are the same.

4. In a particular Mosque or a person's house, the person of the house or the Imam of the Mosque has the first right to lead the prayer even if another person has more knowledge etc about Islam. But if the local person allows the person of most knowledge to lead prayer in his house then that is fine.
However, remember that it is still ideal, more rewarding and advised to acquire more rewards and determination to pray Taraweeh in a Mosque.

Online Penny Auction - Benefits and Risks

With the introduction of the new Penny Auctions, there have been speculations and critical reviews that made some think that’s it’s a faulty way of doing business and others thought its beneficial so lets give it a try.  The truth is that the bidding websites have their benefits and risks.

We would enumerate some benefits and risks for Penny auctions that have manifested the thoughts of the public.

Benefits:

·         There is a minimal fee that is charged for these auctions. These charges filter out competition to the buyers who are serious enough to bid for the product.

·         Online auctions provide convenience to the customers that they can shop online and they don’t have to worry about the traffic or the crowds in the mall.

Risks:

·         The name can be a bit deceiving. The name Online Penny Auctions might sound like a dollar store which it is not. So we have to get our stats straight. Penny auctions seem like its cheap and the stuff that is being sold is being sold for peanuts so people might jump in thinking that it’s a good deal. Who wouldn’t? Despite how it sounds, the mechanism has to be studied.

·         The next risk is the miscalculation of the cost. On penny auctions every bid cost a minimal amount say $0.50, so every bid you are posting is costing you 50 cents. The total end price of the product must be added with these costs and that’s how much you got the product for.

One cent Online Auctions

Online auctions are more popular than regular auctions today. With a huge consumer market, online auctions are being used by both sellers and buyers for the sale and purchase of goods of different shapes and sizes and types.

Auction sites are just like regular retail websites, with one difference amongst them. The merchandise is sold based on the mechanism of an auction. To create a thrilling variance amongst the users online, who prefer the online bidding, there are auction online websites that are known as penny auctions, reverse auctions, unique bidder auction etc.

Penny auctions or in other words, One cent auctions, are a unique auction type that amplifies the experience of the user over the bidding website. The mechanism is simple for the auction site. Let’s break it down to understand it in a much better way.

·         Bids for sale

Penny auctions have bids for sale. Different Penny Auction websites have bid packs that you can choose to buy that use the bids for constructive posts.

·         Post bids for One cent

In the rules of the website, the bids that are to be posted have to be of One Cent. The bid is no more or no less than a Cent. This feature hastens the competition and the winner might get the product for a very small price. 

·         Tick-timer

Tick timer is a small feature that makes it more exciting, for people that cant wait for weeks and months for an auction to finish, they can try to get a hold of this. A tick timer is a count-down timer which is set for a time, say 5 min, and it resets every time somebody rises up the stakes by one cent.  

One Cent Auctions are a new thrilling way of playing your favorite game, bidding, with a new game plan.

Tax Services can simplify business activities

Business tax services are prosecutors commonly performed in the job description that includes the preparation of taxes for you. To prepare for the tax is always an obstacle to business activities smoothly. That is how it is important, of course it is.

Tax preparation is a major step that includes the manufacture and preparation of accounting data for filing in. IRS is the institution in which these returns are in. Failing to file such records makes the IRS to impose penalties that are too heavy for small businesses.

With the help of the employees working in the services business tax, the tax preparation process is carried out by a remarkable manner. In this way the company is directly in contact with the IRS and they handle all questions and inquiries and complaints, etc. Either way, it saves time for business.

The reason why most business men who choose business tax services that accuracy would get in return. Business services employ qualified tax professionals and have a great amount of ions of experience catering to the need for different types of businesses. Over time, identify the needs of the company. Although not required too, but to create a good working relationship is healthy. In any case, business requirements are taken into account when the taxes are being presented in.

And experience makes the job longer is quite accurate and error free. This is one of the most important aspects that become the reason for the designation of the business tax service.

RAMADAN – 18 Reasons of Fasting (PART 3)

(In the Name of Allah (SWT), Most Gracious, Most Merciful, all praise and thanks are due to Allah, Lord of the Realms and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger (SAWS) and upon all his family and companions)

When it comes to understand the religion and have the appropriate faith it is the ultimate duty of every believer to seek the knowledge that leads one to glory to justice and forgiveness. The following Reasons of Fasting would help you to make the real difference in this special month of Ramadan:

9.      Fasting helps to satisfy you, it helps you to conquer the biggest enemy of mankind “anger” controlling ones anger is like conquering oneself to make the real difference and this is where self-control is to be practiced by one and wish for a better reward by willfully going in a state of hunger and thirst one is to control and its character.

10.  As said fasting helps the entire mankind to practice and understand the aspects of tolerance in oneself and do not make others victims of his/her desires to the wrath of his desires that the fasting teaches you the very basic needs of one’s life and how to be patient and eliminate the adverse conditions of wants.

11.  Fasting makes immense differences in the character of a man by mellowing the character down and the jolt provided to the instincts allow to experience a different pride, ambition, haughtiness and envy.

12.  Fasting exposes man to the limit of his actual self as in the context of fasting and two other things 1) a man who deprives food and drink fails to the spirit of submission and 2) those who ignore prayer and humility shall be considered as ignorant and arrogant men. Thus, we as believers shall seek refuge at all times from our Lord, Allah (SWT).

Accounting services gives you help during taxation

Accounting services are firms that are composed of professional accountants that manage your accounts information for you. To simply understand it, let’s put it this way, accounting is the back bone of the company. The organization depends on the accounting transactions to carry out its business and to move from one deal to another.

A lot of departments are depending on the information that the accounting reports have to offer because the information is used to make crucial decisions. Accounting services understand the applicability of the accounting information, so they have a preset formation of ideas that they can use whenever needed.

Business Tax is one crucial area where accounting services are very helpful. To calculate taxes, the accounting record has to be flawless, and any small error can result in bigger problems.  

Calculating taxes include applying a tax rate on all the income heads and then calculating the sum total that is further listed down and verified with some IRS documents and filed in as required. Failing to do so, you can get penalties for ignoring the tax filings. If you plan to do your taxes alone, it would almost be impossible to take care of them since they are not very easy.

Accounting services on the other hand are quite skilled in the task and better yet, they normally arrange all the accounting records in a way that preparing taxes seems like a walk in the park. Either way, its not hard to understand that accounting services really can help you with your taxes and more.

FASTING & ITIKAF INTERCONNECTED

(In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful, all praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger)

Fasting month comes to us with great opportunities and this is where if thought that what can one want in the Month of Ramadan? Well, it is the time where one is provided with enormous options that can help a believer to purify its belief and make the real difference, while evading from all the evil thoughts which distracts him away from the Creator, ALLAH (SWT).

Yes, that is right Fasting and Things To Avoid During ITIKAF helps you to understand and make the real difference where one is given the option to devote their will and submit to the One & Only, Allah (SWT). Well, Itikaf is an act of worship that helps you to devote your time and attention to make the real difference and this is where you are told that:

Hence the Salaf regarded it as mustahabb to combine fasting and I’tikaf. Imam Ibn al-Qayyim said: “It was not reported that the Prophet, sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam, ever did I’tikaf when he was not fasting. Indeed, ‘Aa’ishah, may Allaah be pleased with Her, said: ‘There is no I’tikaf except with fasting.’” (Abu Daawood(

Thus the above contributes to the above that our Beloved Prophet (SAWS) did not performed Itikaf without & Allah (SWT) did not mention Itikaf except in conjunction to fasting and this is where we are affirmed that fasting and Itikaf are interconnected to be performed while making it the most ideal worship to perform in the special month of Ramadan.

Holy Quran-Solution for every problem of the world

When we were young life seemed very tension free and fun, but as we grow old we begin to face the realities and hardship of life which were transparent before. People need to do a careful study in order to conclude the problems faced by the world. Even the so called developed countries of the world have so many unresolved problems which they don’t have a solution and are unable to present a solution. Islam presents solution to all the moral and social problems faced by the west.

The number of homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault is at rise every year in the west (developing countries). The Holy Quran presents solution for all these, if west imply the Islamic dress code there will be a drastic change in the number of rapes, if the punishment of chopping hands is implemented there will be a massive decrease in robbery and burglary, same goes for homicide and all other problems like depression, poverty etc. The system of zakat if implemented properly that can eradicate poverty. Holy Quran is the last book revealed to mankind from the God of this universe. In order to understand this divine book one must use our intellect.

One’s intellect has to be applied in the understanding of this Book. This is something that the Quran itself has commanded us to follow at every step of life. For instance, in Al-Baqarah, Quran talks about spending in the way of Allah and how Satan motivates man into spending elsewhere for these worldly wishes. And then in the middle of this discussion, Allah says

"But none will grasp the message except the men of intellect." (Quran 2:269)

We can have a better world if we follow the teachings of Quran and authentic Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).