THE MUSLIM HOME (Episode 3)

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THE MUSLIM HOME

(Episode 3)

Thursday, 1st October 2026

21st Rabi' al-Thaani 1448 AH

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🔹 Protecting her from evil and blocking all avenues through which it could reach her, by keeping her away from bad companions and bad places.

🔹 Creating an atmosphere of faith in the home.

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▫️ Making the Home a Place for the Remembrance of Allaah ‎ﷻ

The Prophet ‎ﷺ said:

“The likeness of a house in which Allaah is remembered and the house in which Allaah is not remembered is that of the living and the dead, respectively.”

We must make our homes places where Allaah is remembered in all kinds of ways—whether in our hearts, verbally, during prayer, by reading the Qur'aan, by discussing Islaamic issues, or by reading different kinds of Islaamic books.

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How many Muslim homes nowadays are dead because there is no remembrance of Allaah, as mentioned in the Hadeeth?

What must they be like when all that is heard therein is the music of Shaytaan, with instruments and singing, along with backbiting, slander and gossip?

What must they be like when they are filled with evil and sin, such as the unlawful mixing of the sexes and wanton display between relatives who are not Mahram to one another, or with neighbours who enter the home?

How can the angels enter a home like this?

Revive your homes with all kinds of Thikr, may Allaah have mercy on you!

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▫️ Make Your Homes a Place of Worship

What is meant by taking the home as a place of worship?

Allaah Says:

{And We inspired Moosa and his brother [saying]: ‘Take dwellings for your people in Egypt, and make your dwellings as places for your worship, and perform al-Salaah, and give glad tidings to the believers.’}

[Qur'aan 10:87]

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Ibn ‘Abbaas, may Allaah be pleased with them both, said:

“They were commanded to take their dwellings as places of prayer [lit. mosques].”

Ibn Katheer, may Allaah have mercy on him, said:

“This—and Allaah knows best—was because of the intensity of the tribulation that they were facing from Pharaoh and his people. They were commanded to pray much, as Allaah Says: {O you who believe! Seek help with patience and prayer…} [Qur'aan 2:153], and as it was reported in the Hadeeth that the Messenger of Allaah ‎ﷺ, when he was distressed by something, would pray.”

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This explains the importance of worshipping at home, especially at times when the Muslims are in a position of weakness, as happens in some places where the Muslims cannot pray openly in front of the non-believers.

In this context, we may think of the Mihraab (prayer niche) of Maryam, may Allaah exalt her mention, which was her place of worship, as Allaah Says:

{…Every time Zakariya entered the mihraab to visit her, he found her supplied with sustenance…}

[Qur'aan 3:37]

The Companions, may Allaah be pleased with them, used to be keen to pray at home—apart from the Fardh or obligatory prayers, which they prayed in congregation in the mosque.

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▫️ Spiritual Training for the Members of the Household

‘Aa’ishah, رضي الله عنها, said:

“The Messenger of Allaah ‎ﷺ used to pray Qiyaam at night, and when he prayed Witr he would say: ‘Get up and pray Witr, O ‘Aa’ishah.’”

(Reported by Muslim, Muslim bi Sharh al-Nawawi, 6/23).

The Prophet ‎ﷺ said:

“May Allaah have mercy on a man who gets up at night and prays, then he wakes up his wife to pray, and if she refuses he throws water in her face.”

(Reported by Ahmad and Abu Daawood. Saheeh al-Jaami', 3488).

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Encouraging the women of one's household to give charity is another means of increasing faith. This is something very important which the Prophet ‎ﷺ encouraged, when he said:

“O women! Give in charity, for I have seen that you form the majority of the inhabitants of Hell.”

(Reported by Al-Bukhaari, al-Fath, 1/405).

One of the new ideas is to have a box at home for donations to the poor and needy. Whatever is put in the box belongs to them, because it becomes their vessel in the Muslim home.

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If the family members see an example among them fasting on al-Ayyaam al-Beed (the 13th, 14th and 15th of each Hijri/lunar month), Mondays and Thursdays, Taasoo'aa' and 'Aashooraa' (the 9th and 10th of Muharram), the Day of 'Arafah, and frequently in Muharram and Sha'baan, this will motivate them to do likewise.

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END OF TODAY'S EDUCATION.

Subhaanaka Allaahumma wa bihamdik, ash-hadu an laa ilaaha illaa Anta, astaghfiruka wa atoobu ilayk.

Correction: On Page 3 of Episode 3 of our lesson on “Types of Salaah,” we gave Qur'aan 8:84 as the verse relating to the story we discussed. Actually, the correct reference is Qur'aan 9:84, which relates to ‘Abdullah ibn Ubayy.

May HE strengthen us and make us steadfast in faith. May HE accept our ‘Ibaadah and grant us good in this world and the Hereafter.

May Allaah, ‘Azza wa Jalla, forgive us and grant us Jannah.

AAMEEN.