Al Matn al Ilmiyyah

1. Start off each day with 'azkar al-istiyqaz' (waking up supplications), thanking Allah for waking up in good shape. 2. Put Allah (swt) and then Prophet Mohammad (saw) before anything else in your life. 3. Broaden your horizons-learn 5 New verses from the Quran, travel to pray the Fajr in the mosque to brighten your day, take up a booklet having azkar-alsaba 7 (morning supplications) and read them. 4. Pray Salat Al-duha (after sunrise) and also the remaining 4 obligatory salaat of the day. 5. If someone says something mean to you, just shrug it off and dismiss it in a friendly, laidback manner, and pray that Allah shall forgive him or her. They will probably get the message that they're not triggering your anger and they will stop. 6. When you get angry, remember Allah, and how short and worthless life is to waste in being Angry. 7. Remember that you can never have too many friends, but you can have few quality friends that help you fulfil the purpose of your creation (i.e...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In regards to the length of heaven, it is mentioned that the space, whicheven the lowest member of the heaven will get in Paradise, will be equalto ten times the area of the world. Imagine the space allowed in the highestlevel of Paradise (Jannah). There is a tree in heaven whose shadow spreads so far and wide, that a rider would travel on for a hundred years and yet would not cross the extent of that tree. Heaven consists of a HUNDRED levels. Between each two levels there is a distance equal to the space between the sky and the earth. Firdawsis the name of the top most level of Heaven. Above it is the abode of Allah. Whenever asking anything from Allah, we should ask for Jannat-ul-Firdaws (admittance into the highest abode of heaven just below theThrone of the Almighty). Each faithful shall have a tent made of a pearl; itslength will be sixty miles. The abode of Paradise shall be built of bricks of gold and silver. And who shall ever enter this mans...