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Jummah Salah

Penge Mosque & Islamic Centre

First Jummah Salah Time: 12.00pm
Second Jummah Salah Time: 1.00pm

We are open for the 5 daily prayers & Friday Jummah prayers (x2).
Jazakallah Khairan

We are also having Jummah Salah at:

The South East London Islamic and Cultural Centre

Preston House, Clevedon Road, SE20 7QE.
(opposite Topps Tiles, car park entrance).

Jummah Salah: 12.30pm (Maximum capacity 140-150).

Beckenham Public Hall

4 Bromley Rd, Beckenham BR3 5JE.
Azan: 12.35pm
Kuthbah: 12.45pm
Jummah Salah: 1.00pm

Jummah Salah for brothers and sisters

For further imformation please contact brother Mukhit on 07885 829 870

Hadith of the Week

Death

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

"Remember often the destroyer of all pleasures (death)."

And also:

"The grave is but a garden from the gardens of paradise or a pit from the pits of hellfire."

Tirmidhi, Bukhari, Muslim

“Alhamdulillaahil-ladhee anzala ‘alaa ‘abdihil-kitaaba…”
Allah, subhaanahu wa ta’aala, praises himself for revealing his mighty book to his noble messenger (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam), which is the greatest blessing that Allah has granted the people of this earth.

Through the Qur’aan, He brings them out of darkness into light.
“..wa lam yajallaahu ‘iwajaa. Qayyiman..”
He has made it a Book that is straight, neither distorted nor is there confusion therein.
It clearly guides to the Straight Path, plain and manifest, giving a warning to the disbelievers and good news to the believers.

“Whoever recites Surah al-Kahf on the day (or eve/night) of Jumu’ah, it will illuminate him with light (guidance) from one Friday to the next.” [Irwaa’ 626]
“Whoever memorises ten Aayaat from the beginning of Surat al-Kahf will be protected from the Dajjaal.” [Muslim]

Purpose of Life and the Prophets

In Islam everyone is born pure without sin (and as a muslim). God has given each soul a conscience (the knowledge of what is right and wrong), and free will.

The prophet Mohammed is known to have said,
Righteousness is composed of good behavior. And sin is what you don't want people to know, despite the fact that it eats away at your heart (Muslim, Birr 14-15)

This short transitory life is then simply a test within ourselves to recognise and praise God, and outweigh our righteous actions over our bad. Thus proving worthy on the on the Day of Judgement in front of Almighty God. To ultimately gain entry to paradise to live forever in bliss.

To reinforce this and show the clear way to worship God, prophets were sent as a guide to the right path.
"Say: We believe in Allah (God) and that which is revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, Ishma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the tribes, to Moses and Jesus and the other prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and to Allah we have surrendered ourselves." (Qur'an, 2:136)

"It is not devotion to turn your faces towards the East or the West. Rather, true devotion is believing in Allah and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and the prophets. (Quran 2:177)

In addition: "Anyone who rejects Allah and His angels and His Messengers and the Last Day has gone very far astray." (Quran 4:136) Mohammed (P.B.U.H), was the last of the prophets, who reaffirmed the same message, removing any distortions that may have crept in over time.

Present day Sources of Guidance

As no more prophets are to come God has left two sources of guidance:

a) The holy Quran, the final testament.
A summation of all the holy books of the past. The literal word of Allah, which Allah has promised to keep unchanged. This challenge by the Almighty is witnessed by the oldest Qurans being exactly the same as the newly printed ones 1400 years later. One billion muslims around the globe read the same one Quran.

b) The Hadiths (sayings and actions of the Prophet).
The prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) was the living interpretation of the Quran, his every action and saying was a mirror reflection of the Quran with the guidance of Allah(swt). So for muslims, and non-muslims, the study of the Quran and Hadiths is of utmost importance. Preferebly with the aid of an Islamic scholar as a guide to gain a deeper understanding.