{"id":205,"date":"2011-01-12T16:16:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T14:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=205"},"modified":"2012-10-09T15:30:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T13:30:49","slug":"two-sunnats-became-the-cause-of-embracing-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Two Sunnats became the Cause of Embracing Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\tHadhrat Mufti Ebrahim Salejee Saheb <em>(Daamat Barakaatuhu)<\/em> mentioned: &ldquo;Once I met a person who related to me the cause of him embracing Islam.&rdquo; He explained: &ldquo;I took a liking for the topee which I would see the Muslims wearing. So I also started wearing the topee though till then I had not yet embraced Islam. Not long thereafter I met a Muslim who greeted me with salaam &ndash; Seeing the topee on my head, perhaps he thought I was a Muslim -. I asked him to explain to me the meaning of Salaam. Thereupon he translated the Salaam for me, which translates as &ldquo;May peace, mercy and the blessings of Allah Ta&#39;ala continue to be showered upon you&rdquo;. I was so emotionally touched by the greeting of Islam that I immediately embraced Islam.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\tHadhrat Mufti Saheb thereafter explained: &ldquo;After analysing this incident, I concluded that it was just two Sunnats that became the cause of this person embracing Islam. The first was the love for the topee and the second was Salaam. Nabi <em>(Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) <\/em>said:\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/laa_tadkulul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"laa_tadkulul\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-206\" height=\"27\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/laa_tadkulul.jpg\" title=\"laa_tadkulul\" width=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/laa_tadkulul.jpg 627w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/laa_tadkulul-300x12.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<em>&ldquo;You will never gain entry into paradise unless you accept Imaan, and your Imaan will never reach perfection unless you have true love for one another. Should I not show you a formula which will generate love amongst yourselves? Make salaam a common practice amongst you.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hadhrat Mufti Ebrahim Salejee Saheb (Daamat Barakaatuhu) mentioned: &ldquo;Once I met a person who related to me the cause of him embracing Islam.&rdquo; He explained: &ldquo;I took a liking for the topee which I would see the Muslims wearing. So I also started wearing the topee though till then I had not yet embraced Islam. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[16,410,17,21],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-mufti-ebrahim-salejee","category-malfoozaat","tag-anecdotes","tag-malfoozaat","tag-mufti-ebrahim-salejee-2","tag-sunnah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}