Planning for Success: Ramadhaan 1436

Bism Illah wa assalaamu alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.

For major events in life, we usually make plans so that they will be a success. Well the "Month of the Year" is coming up, a month that can turn hearts, set lives in order or back on track, repair broken connections with our Creator, and be an expiation for all that has gone before it. Ramadhaan deserves planning - planning for success!

Something I find very beneficial in Ramadhaan is to have a study plan, or lessons, that fit the month -
30 days:30 lessons. Here are some suggestions for your Ramadhaan study plan.


SISTERS ONLY CLASSES: Making the most of Ramadhaan and The Qur'aan: A Light and a Mercy

This 29-day course consists of two daily classes during Ramadhaan:
Making the Most of Ramadhaan:
Using the book Fasting from Alif to Yaa, compiled by Umm Mujaahid, Khadijah bin Lacina Al Amreekiyyah, and
Sittings during the Blessed Month of Ramadan By Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Saalih Al-Uthaymeen
The Qur'aan: A Light and Mercy:
This interactive class will cover a Surah a day from the Surahs of Juz Amma as well as Suratul-Fatiha. It will include: Tafseer, rules of Tajweed and evaluation of recitation, tips on memorization and review, the importance and benefits of learning and reciting the Qur'aan, especially within the month of Ramdhaan, and much more.

Disciplining the Soul by Ibn Jawzi, raheemahullah. This is truly a self-help/self-improvement book for Muslims, maashaa Allah, with 30 short, life-changing chapters. We have recently read it as part of our Islamic Studies curriculum, so we are not including it in our Ramadhaan study plan, but it is something I plan to revisit yearly bi idhn Illah, ta'ala either in Ramadhaan or in preparation the month.

30 Lessons in Fasting, Shk Saalih Al Fawzaan
We are doing these this year, inshaa Allah.

Shk Uthaymeen's Daily Sittings in Ramadhaan
We did these for 3 or 4 Ramadhaans in a row, maashaa Allah, and they are wonderful!

Bitesize Articles 2011
Short lessons for each day of Ramadhaan by Abbas Yahya, found on Al Miraath Publications website.

Bitesize Articles 2013
A different set of short lessons for Ramadhaan by Abbas Yahya, found on Al Miraath Publications.

Our family will be having a very international Ramadhaan, bi idhn Illah ta'ala, with the first week spent in Madinah, the second in Makkah, the third England, and the last traveling across the USA from Washington DC to New Mexico inshaa Allah. We are planning a course of study that can be done on the road, on the run, offline, and pretty much wherever we find ourselves. This year, we are focusing on tafseer of the Qur'aan. We seek greater understanding and connection with Allah's perfect words. What more appropriate time to do that than the month the Qur'aan was revealed?

We have found some wonderful technology to assist us, an application called Quran Tafsir Pro. This application has the Qur'aan ayah by ayah by a huge range of qaaris, including Ibrahim al Akhdar, the qaari we learn our recitation from exclusively. It also has the translation, and at one touch, the tafsir of each ayah. Not only that, but it has an ayah test and random ayah test feature where you are shown an ayah and have to chose the translation/meaning of each word and are scored at the end. On the touch of a word it will give you the grammatical information about it, maashaa Allah. Now that's beneficial entertainment we can all happily indulge in bi idhn Illah ta'ala! And lastly in my promo for this application (ha ha ha!), it has a feature where you can see the du'a from the Qur'aan - beautiful, wal hamdul'Illahi Rabbil aal ameen!

We will be tapping in to Umm Mujaahid's class, Making the Most of Ramadhaan whenever we can inshaa Allah. We are also planning to use the interactive Qur'aanic Arabic Quiz Programme, www.80percentwords.com These things, along with our goal to complete the recitation of the complete Qur'aan over the month, will be our plan for Ramadhaan 1436 bi idhn Illah ta'ala.

We seek Allah's success for our family, your family, and our whole ummah in reaching and exceeding our goals this  Ramadhaan - ameen!

Subhaanaka wa bihamdika laa ilaaha ilaa ant, astaghfirukah wa atoobu ilayk.

Ramadhaan Notice

BIsm Illah wa assalaamu alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.

I have previously posted questions for each day's juz of Qur'aan during Ramadhaan. I didn't, however, find time to post answers to them all. Al hamdul'Illah for that, as Allah has saved both you readers and me. We have been using the Sahih International English translation of the Qur'aan for our children this past few years, due to it's ease of reading. However, my husband's friend and colleague is just embarking on a PhD dissertation on the mistakes in that translation of the Qur'aan...maashaa Allah. It was done by an American revert sister, who made a very good attempt but missed some key grammatical points that change the meanings This is a good reminder for us all that just because something is published in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and has been checked by certain institutions, doesn't mean it is completely correct or free of mistakes.  May Allah guide and protect us all - ameen!

As for the questions I posted, most certainly you can use the questions and find the answers in The Noble Qur'an by Hilali-Khan, inshaa Allah. However, I will not post the answers from the Sahih International translation. I will edit the posts, replacing the reference to the most unanimously approved Hilali-Khan translation, inshaa Allah.

As for the Ramadhaan program this year, we will be at our farm, Healing Earth, bi idhn Illah ta'ala. We should have another family with us for much of the summer, so al hamdul'Illah this will be our first year of including others in our lessons.

As many of you are aware, Ramadhaan is a very intense month for us, where we focus the majority of our time on ibaadah in its different forms. This year we will be covering the following: bi idhn Illah, ta'ala.

• Reading the Qur'aan tranlation in English - one juz per day (for each individually) with a few questions to be answered on the daily juz.
• Reading the Qur'aan in Arabic - one juz per day (for those who can do so) and for the younger members of the family then a goal such as reading Surat-ul-Baqarah and the last two or three ajzaa.
• Lessons read each day from Shk Uthaymeen's Daily Sittings for Ramadhaan.
• Lessons read each day from Ramadhaan 2011 Bitesize Articles
• Fasting from Alif to Ya for the younger children 
• Tahajjud/Qiyaam ul Layl

I am posting about this now to encourage you all to get your Ramadhaan program organized if you haven't already done so inshaa Allah. Inshaa Allah, I will be posting again before we leave on 10 June for the summer, but over the summer if I do post it will be mainly on Healing Earth, bi idhn Illah, ta'ala.

Barak Allahu feekum!

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 30 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 30 Questions

An-Naba:   

1. What will the kuffar say on The Day?

 An-Nazi'at: 

1. What ayah tells about the angels who take the souls of the people going to hellfire called (in Arabic).
2. What about the angels that take the souls going to Jennah?
3. Who is racing and for what?

'Abasa: 

1. Who did the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam frown at?
2. Who did he pay special attention to?
3. Which ayah tells us that the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, can only give the message but not guide anyone to Islam?
4. What will be on the faces of the disbelievers?

At-Takweer: 

1. What are the first 13 ayaat describing? 
2. What does Allah mean when He asks, "So where are you going?"

Al-Infitar: 

1. Which ayah tells us that the people of hellfire will stay there forever?

Al-Mutaffifeen: 

1. What is the record of the wrongdoers in?
2. What is the record of the righteous in?
3. Who will have the last laugh?

Al-Inshiqaq: 

1. What does ayah 6 mean?

Al-Buruj: 

1. Did the burning of the people of the trench happen during the time of Prophet Muhammad? Give your proof.

At-Tariq: 

1. Why does Allah tell us to leave the disbelievers for a while?

Al-'Ala: 

1. What will the wretched one do?
2. Who will succeed?

Al-Ghashiyah: 

1. What is unsuitable speech?

 Al-Fajr: 

1. Why did Allah send upon the Aad, Iram, Thamud, and Firawn great punishment? 
2. What does it mean, that people use up inheritance, "devouring it altogether"?

Al-Balad: 

1. Who is the father?
2. What is the difficult pass?

Ash-Shams: 

1. Which ayah proves that we can tell what is bad and good in ourselves?

Al-Lail: 

1. What are the conditions of giving wealth so that it purifies you?

Ad-Duha: 

1. What reminders does Allah give the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, that He has always taken care of him.

Ash-Sharh: 

1. What does Allah promise us? 
2. What should we do when we have completed our daily tasks?

At-Teen: 

1. What happens to man when Allah returns him to the lowest of low?

Al-'Alaq: 

1. What do the angels of Hell do?

Al-Qadr: 

1. What is sent down on Lailat al Qadr?
2. Which nights to we seek it?

Al-Bayyinah: 

1. What was everyone commanded to do?

 Az-Zalzalah: 

1. Where will the people depart?

Al-'Aadiyat: 

1. What are man's bad qualities? How does he prove them?

Al-Qari'ah: 

1. What do we do in our home to help us think whether our scales are heavy or light?

At-Takathur: 

1. What does it mean that we will be asked about pleasure?

Al-'Asr: 

1. How can we avoid being in loss?

Al-Humazah: 

1. Which ayah talks about being selfish and stingy?

Al-Fil: 

1. Who led the army with the elephant?

Quraysh: 

1. What city is the home of the Quraysh?

Al-Ma'un:  

1.  Who are not really worried about their prayers?

Al-Kawthar: 

1. What is al-kawthar?

Al-Kafirun: 

1. What is the special benefit of reciting this surah?

An-Nasr: 

1. What victory is this surah talking about?

Al-Masad: 

1. Who was Abu Lahab? 
2. Why is his wife going to be punished as well?

Al-Ikhlas: 

1. Name two special benefits of this surah.

Al-Falaq & An-Nas: 

1. Which times of day is it sunnah to recite these surahs? 
2. Why do we recite them?

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 29 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 29 Questions

Al Mulk:   

1. Why did Allah create life and death?

Al Qalam: 

1. Who did Allah forbid the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, to obey? 
2. When the companions swore to cut the fruit in their garden in the early morning without exception, what does that mean?
   
3. What is the situation of the people who didn't pray/prostrate to Allah in this life, on Yawm al Qiyamah?
   

Al Haqqah: 

1. What is another name for Al Haqqah? .
2. What does it mean when the one who is given his account in his left hand says he wishes his death had been the decisive one? 

Al Maarij: 

1. Who will be in gardens honored? 

Nuh: 

1. What are the different ways that Nuh, alayhi salaam, invited his people to Islam? (These ayaat are scattered throughout the surah.) 
2. What dua' did Nuh, alayhi salaam, make against his people? Why? 

Al-Jinn: 

1. What did the Jinn do before the time of the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam? 

Al-Muzammil: 

1. Why is it better to pray at night (tahajjud)? 
2. What does it mean, "loan to Allah a goodly loan"? 

Al-Muddathir: 

1. Who is Allah talking about when He says, Leave Me with the one I created alone."?
2. What did he deliberate about? 
3. What will Allah do to him? 

Al Qiyamah:   

1. What etiquette do we learn about reciting Quran?.
2. Which ayah/ayaat tell us that after the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam memorized the Qur'an, Allah made it's meanings clear to him? 
3. Who does Allah say woe to? 

Al Insan: 

1. What is this surah mainly telling us about? 
2. When does Allah tell us to pray? 

Al Mursalat: 

1. What is the main message of this surah? (Please do not write the ayah that repeats itself, write something in your own words - no more than one or sentences.) 

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 28 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 28 Questions

1. Is is liked by Allah for men to pronounce thihar (a type of divorce common before Islam) on their wives? If they take the pronunciation of thihar back, what do they have to do to make up for it?
2. What do we learn about private conversations?
3. What is the situation of people who take as companions and friends people Allah is angry with?
4. What does it mean that the liars "think they are standing on something"?
5. If you like people who are against Allah and the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, are you a real believer?  What if they are your family members? Give the proof.
6. Who did Allah expel from their homes and why?
7. What does Allah command the believers?
8. Which ayah/ayaat in this surah, when recited in the morning or evening, have the reward of 70,000 angels praying for the reciter for the day or night?
9. Can a Muslim woman be married to a non-Muslim man? Give your proof.
10. Who are we told not to make our allies?

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 27 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 27 Questions

1. Why are we here?
2. What did Allah advise the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam?
3. Who brought the revelation (the Qur'an) to the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam? How is he described?
4. Will the angels' intercession (asking Allah for forgiveness) help us?
5. What does it mean, "And you laugh and do not weep, while you are proudly sporting" mean?
6. What should we do?
7. What ayah is proof against anyone who says it is hard to memorize the Quran?
8. Do the salt and fresh water oceans mix?
9. Do we get coral and pearls from the salt water sea or the fresh water sea?
10. Why won't men and jinn be asked about their sin on that Day?
11. If you want good, what do you have to do?
12. Will many of us be forerunners?
13. Will many of us have our account in our right hand?
14. Will many of us have our account in our left hand?
15. What will be the reward for each of the above categories of people?
16. What do these names of Allah mean?  The Ascendant and The Intimate
17. What is the life of this world?
18. What should we compete with each other for?
19. What is the reward for fearing Allah and believing in His Messenger, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam?

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 26 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 26 Questions

1. What is the Prophet's - salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam - challenge to the unbelievers?
2. What book from Allah came before the Qur'an?
3. Who are the ones Allah will accept the best of their deeds and overlook their misdeeds? What dua' do those people make?
4. What is the situation of those who say "uff" to their parents?
5. What does Allah say about the people who are killed fighting for Islam? What is their reward?
6. Why is it that some people sat with the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, and listened to him, but couldn't understand what he said?
7. Who does Allah expose? How can we know those people? What will Allah do to them?
8. What is Surah Al Fath about?
9. What manners are we taught about speaking?
10. What are the believers told to do if an unbeliever tells them some news?
11. Why shouldn't we make fun of others?
12. What are we told about calling people nicknames? Do you use follow Allah's command regarding this? Think of one example of a name you have called someone that isn't nice.
13. What are we told about assuming bad things about someone else?
14. What does it mean, when the two receivers receive?
15. Do the angels only record what we do?
16. What are the driver and the witness?
17. What are some of the actions of the righteous?

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 24 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 24 Questions

1. When does Allah take our souls?
2. What makes the hearts of the unbelievers turn away? What makes them happy?
3. What does Allah tell the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, to tell the people who have done sins?
4. What happens when the Horn is blown the first time? What happens when it is blown the second time?
5. What do the Angels say to Allah about the believers?
6. Will the wrongdoers be able to see the fire in their graves? Give your proof.
7. Which was the bigger job, creating man or creating the heavens and the earth?
8. What does Allah say to us all?
9. If the unbelievers say that they believe in Allah after they see the punishment they will have, will it be accepted? Give your proof.
10. What did Allah create in 4 days?
11. How long did it take for Allah to create the seven heavens?
12. Who is best in speech?
13. How do we erase our bad deeds?
14. How do we protect ourselves from, and repel, shaytaan?
15. How do we know that the Quran is protected by Allah?

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 23 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 23 Questions

1. What did the man advise the People of the City?
2. When the unbelievers face Allah, what will speak and tell what they did in their life?
3. What happens the the companion of the believer who asked if they really believed they would be rewarded after death?
4. The matter of the sheep, why did David (Dawood) seek forgiveness after ruling between the two men?
5. What did Allah tell Dawood about judging?
6. For what quality did Allah chose Ibrahim, Ishaaq, Yaqoob, Ismail, Elisha, and Dhul Kifl?
7. What is the Quran?
8. What are the two reactions and emotions of the believers to the Quran?

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 22 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 22 Questions

1. What does Allah command the wives of the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam?
2. What were the manners for going to the home of the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, for a meal?
3. Was anyone allowed to marry the wives of the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, after he died?
4. Which ayah commands us to say, "salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam" after the Prophet's name?
5. Who are commanded to bring down over themselves their outer garments? What does that mean?
6. What is the "Trust"? Why is man unjust and ignorant? Why did Allah give man the Trust?
7. Do the Jinn really know the unseen?
8. Does Allah accept the intercession of the angels and the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, for everyone?
9. If your father, mother, sister, brother, or child asks you to take the blame for some of their sins,  can you?
10. Who can we warn?
11. What advice did the man give to the people of the city?

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 21 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 21 Questionss

1. What is the example of those who take friends and helpers other than Allah?
2. What does prayer do? Does it do those things for the people who don't believe or don't pray properly?
3. What are some of Allah's signs? 
4. What won't increase with Allah?
5. What are the multipliers?
6. What advice did Luqman give to his son?
7. How does Allah describe only the believers? 
8. What is the Prophet more worthy of that ourselves?
9. What is the best example for us to follow? (copy the ayah) 

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 20 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 20 Questions

1. Describe the Day the Horn will be blown?
2. How did Firaun plan to see Allah?
3. What did the people who believed in Allah before Prophet Muhammad, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam,  say when they heard the Qur'an?
4. Did the Prophet, salla, Allahu alayhi wa sallam, guide people to Islam?
5. Was Qarun a believer? Give your proof.
6. What was the total number of years Nuh was sent to his people?
7. What are the messengers supposed to do? Will they be blamed if their people don't believe?

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 19 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 19 Questions

1. What will the kuffar do and say on Yawm al Qiyamah?
2. What did the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, say about his people? What does it mean?
3. What are the full  descriptions of the servants of the Most Merciful?
4. What is the Chamber?
5. What punishment was sent to those who rejected Prophet Musa, alayhi salaam?
6. What punishment was sent to those who rejected Prophet Nuh, alayhi salaam?
7. What punishment was sent to those who rejected Prophet Lut, alayhi salaam?
8. What punishment was sent to those who rejected Prophet Shu'ayb, alayhi salaam?
9. When will the mujrimoon believe in the Qur'an?
10. What does Allah say about those who don't believe in the hereafter?
11. What was the dua' of Prophet Sulaiman, alayhi salaam?
12. What was the Queen of Sheba's reaction, when Sulaiman sent her the letter of invitation to Islam?
13. What did the Thamud think of Salih, alayhi salaam?
14. What did Salih, alayhi salaam,  explain to them?

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 18 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 18 Questions

1. What did the rich people of Prophet Hud, alayhi salaam, believe about life?
2. What did Allah tell His messengers?
3. At the time of death, when the disbelievers ask Allah for another chance, do they mean it? Give your proof.
4. What are the manners for visiting others?
5. What does Allah mean when he says that the believing men and women should reduce some of their vision?
6. The believing women are told not to expose their adornment. What is the meaning of "their adornment?"
7. Who are the believing women allowed to show their beauty to?
8. Do all Allah's creatures pray to Him? Give your proof.
9. What do the true believers say?
10. What are the three times of privacy for adults?  Who has to ask permission before entering your room/home at those times?
11. When children have reached puberty, when do they have to ask permission before entering upon adults?
12. What are the manners of the believers when they meet with the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam?
13. What was Muhammad, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, commanded by Allah to say to those who disbelieve in the Qur'an?

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 17 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 17 Questions

1. When new messages and reminders come from Allah, what is the reaction of most people?
2. What has Allah done about all the cities who were unjust (didn't believe in his Message)?
3. What did Allah make every living thing from?
4. What was Ibrahim's lie?
5. What did Allah give Lut?
    
6. What did the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, say to invite mankind to Islam?
7. What did he say to those who rejected his invitation?
8. What will be the state of the people in the final Hour?
9. What are the people of Jennah guided to in this life?
10. During the time of which prophet was Hajj to the Ka'aba established?
11. Who are the humble?
12. What did shaytaan do whenever a prophet or messenger spoke?
13. What did Allah do in response to shaytaan's actions? Why?(there are 2 reasons)
14. Did Allah only call the followers of Prophet Muhammad Muslims? Give your proof.

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 16 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 16 Questions

1. Why did Khidr damage the poor men's ship?
2. Why did Khidr kill the boy?
3. Why did Khidr rebuild the wall without asking for any payment?
4. Could Jesus (Isa, alayha salaam) speak when he was a baby?
5. Which prophets (alayhum as salaam) named in this surah? Write them in the order they are written.
6. Why did Allah send us the Qur'an?
7. What did Allah command the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, about the Quran?
8. What will happen to the person who turns away from Allah?

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 15 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 15 Questions

1. What does it mean when Allah tells us that for every person he has imposed his fate upon his neck?
2. What will be said to us when we are given our record?
3. What does it mean when Allah says, "Whoever should desire the immediate"? What do those people get in the end?
4. Does Allah give to the people who want the enjoyments of this world and also the people who are striving for the hereafter (Jennah)?
5. How should you treat parents?
6. What does the expression "uff" mean?
7. What is the dua' to make for parents?
8. What does Allah say about the wasteful?
9. What will Allah do to every city before the day of resurrection?
10. Can shaytaan have any power over the true believers?
11. What can those who pray at night (tahajjud) expect from Allah?
12. Who did Allah command the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, to be patient with and who should not to obey?
13. What happened to the man who thought his garden would stay alive forever?

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 14 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 14 Questions

1. When will the disbelievers wish they had been Muslims?
2. What things has Allah given us so that we may be guided?
3. Why did Allah send the Qur'an down to the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam?
4. What ayaat in this surah tell us about milk and honey?
5. Why did Allah give us hearing and vision and intellect?
6. What does Allah order us to do and what does He forbid us to do?
7. Is it better to punish someone who has harmed you or not? Give your proof.
8. Who is Allah with?

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 13 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 13 Questions

1. Yusuf's parents prostrated to him. Are we allowed to prostrate to other people? Give your proof.
2. Are the majority of people believers?
3. Who will have a good result (consequence of) from this home? 
4. What is "this home"? 
5. Who are in extreme error?
6. What is purulent water?
7. What is the example of those who disbelieve in Allah?
8. What will shaytaan say to all the people he led astray who will be thrown in the hellfire?
9. Are we usually grateful for Allah's blessings and favors?

Ramadhaan 2012: Juz 12 Questions

Bism Illah wa as salaamu alaykum wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakatuh.

Juz 12 Questions

1. Where was Allah's throne before He created the Heavens and the Earth?
2. Who are the companions of Paradise?
3. What did Noah say to the animals and people who boarded the ship?
4. What did Allah tell Noah about his son? What does it mean? (Read the tafsir here:http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2899&Itemid=66 to be able to answer this question.)
5. When  the angels said they were sent to the people of Lot, what did Ibrahim's wife do? Why?
6. Which ayah or ayaat show us that there is no point in begging for mercy or forgiveness of the people who do major sins?
7. Was Lot's wife of his family?
8. What ayah shows us that Firaun's last words to Allah (in Juz 11) were not accepted?
9. What does it mean that the people of the Fire will be exhaling and inhaling?
10. Why does Allah tell us these stories of the messengers?
11. What lie did Yusuf's brothers tell their father?
12. Did he believe them?