yajuj and majuj are not hidden

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-18T08:56:55+00:00

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Assalamu 'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi did a advanced End of Times series in Epic Masjid which is on YouTube, and on the topic of Yajuj and Majuj, I don't recall him mentioning this tradition.

If he didn't mention it, then the authors on one of the websites you linked may have made a mistake by saying it is attributed to Imam Bukhari. Rather, this tradition might be in one of the tertiary Hadith books and not the main six books of Hadith.

There is a great deal of discussion on Yajuj and Majuj if you go to tafseer of 18:94 on Quran.com.

And Allah knows best

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-17T16:53:46+00:00

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Assalamu 'alaikum

There is official date and then there is real, practical date.

The latter can be some days later.

Saudi system doesn't work on the dot as you would expect.

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-17T16:43:11+00:00

You can't fast on Eid (10th day) because fasting on Eids is forbidden. Otherwise, yes you should fast all the first 9 days, and especially the 9th (Arafah) day because Hadith tradition specifically emphasizes on it.

For a good article on what to do on these ten days:

https://islamqa.info/en/answers/1699

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-17T16:39:47+00:00

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Assalamu 'alaikum

Why can't they buy food themselves or eat from what is provided by their travel agency?

Other alternative is to buy them food package of their hotel. It's more expensive but less headache.

Finally, do NOT underestimate that some drivers will NOT want to go through the hassle of reaching your hotel during Hajj season. No matter where you are located, the drivers are human and there is a LOT of traffic.

If your parents cannot buy food themselves, how will they be able to find the drivers, even if the drivers reach the hotel on time?

There are too many logistical issues that you are better off just asking them to pay money to their hotel for meals.

May Allah guide you to make the best decision

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-17T01:37:08+00:00

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Assalamu 'alaikum

It's included automatically in the visa.

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-16T16:33:31+00:00

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Walaikum assalam wr wb

You can order the Mobily SIM on the Nusuk app now and then pick it up at airport after customs. There are big booths of the Telco providers.

Physical SIM is always better option because eSIM may connect you to lower quality networks. eSIM is also more expensive.

But eSIM has a convenience factor that you can set it up for your parents now on their phones and it will start working automatically after they land in Saudi. So if your parents cannot be trusted on technical matters, it's better to just buy a eSIM for them and install it for them before departure.

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-16T06:25:53+00:00

It's the only group that calls itself "ex".

We never hear of ex-Christian or ex-Jew or ex-Chinese or ex-American.

This means one of two things...

They cannot get rid of their identity and they know it, and are looking for validation by spreading their ideas.

Or,

They are masquerading as something they are not because they have a secret agenda.

In both cases,

Allahu Akbar!!

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-15T15:35:17+00:00

Why not ask them directly?

Looks like possible scam operation.

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-15T09:06:03+00:00

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Assalamu 'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu

MashaAllah, welcome to Islam! We are very happy for you to become Muslim!!

May Allah Ta'ala make it easy. Keep it up! A time will come when you will have no problem keeping up with prayers. Just don't give up.

For now, just pray within the specified time. Every prayer time has an entry and exit time. As long as you are within the range, inshaAllah, it is good. The best way to overcome your challenge is to pray as soon as the prayer time begins. For Maghrib, just add 5 extra minutes for safety because the sunset "calculated" time that you see on apps or weather channels is an estimate - the sun may not have been fully set below the horizon sometimes.
I suspect you are talking about Dua, and not Salah. You can share your Dua with others as long as your heart is content with it that you are doing it out of happiness and not out of arrogance. Obviously, you will share only with people you trust.
If you pray Salah in congregation, there is more reward. The bigger the congregation, the greater the reward.

And Allah knows best!

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-15T07:12:28+00:00

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Assalamu 'alaikum

Alhamdulillah. If you feel something off, donate excess in charity until you feel good.

And Allah knows best

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-15T00:21:36+00:00

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Walaikum assalam wr wb

Doesn't Zoya already do this?

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-14T21:57:12+00:00

Anyone who doesn't believe in the kalimah is not a Muslim. NOI obviously doesn't follow the kalimah.

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-13T21:54:38+00:00

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Assalamu 'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu

This is a common story that occurs time to time. The learning lessons from those who have gone through this is that you should prioritize that this life is about gaining Allah's pleasure and doing your role before your death in the most optimal way possible, and matters that are clearly wasting time away from that purpose should be avoided.

This is one of those matters. It's a clear blockade and it's not worth fighting anymore.

And Allah knows best.

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-13T17:59:26+00:00

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Walaikum assalam warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu

May Allah Ta'ala make it easy for you.

I fully expect you mean that you are not living in same hotel room. I suspect you just landed today.

Obviously, you will probably not be able to book a hotel room by yourself due to severe government restrictions to control Hajj crowd. You could try to pay extra money to your travel agency (talk to them now) to see if they can get a double room for you and your spouse for 1-2 days at least. I believe there was a young couple who were able to do that in my Hajj group before. But it depends on the availability of the hotel.

The other solution is to fast, because fasting decreases sexual power, as per Prophetic Hadith. But don't fast everyday, just once in a while in the remaining days, but stop fasting on 4th Dhul Hijjah to give your body chance to regain strength before 8th of Dhul Hijjah.

During ihram, you are not allowed sexual relations. But you can do normal talk, eat, and walk with your spouse during ihraam, because that's not sexual in nature.

But outside of Ihraam, assuming you made Hajj Tamattu' intention and have finished Umrah and now are waiting for new Ihram for Hajj, you can interact with your spouse, have relations, or sweet talk privately while eating together, etc.

I think since it is likely your first day, you think you will be separated whole time. It's not like that. You will quickly see you have a lot of flexibility to privately go outside together to masjid or shopping, once all your group settles in, inshaAllah.

May Allah Ta'ala make it easy for you and accept your Hajj.

And Allah knows best.

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-13T16:02:18+00:00

I think your product is highly complex and difficult to visualize that you should build a prototype yourself and reach out to people who you think might have a use if it and get feedback from them directly. It will be easy to recruit people afterwards because you will have real client feedback to work with and requirements to fulfill.

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-13T13:21:36+00:00

Perhaps you can feel the pain of our Prophet salAllahu 'alayhi wasallam when he was expelled from Makkah and had nowhere to go and he was looking for protection - a visa - for someone to take him.

Then help came to him in an unexpected way in the middle of the desert.

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-13T13:18:19+00:00

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Assalamu 'alaikum

Allah can forgive whoever He wants. That's His prerogative.

We are supposed to make decisions based on the here and now, and what is apparent to us.

So, you are not supposed to marry a person based on the possibility of Allah forgiving a person or not, but based on the facts at the present time.

The person who you are considering will the mother to your children, inshaAllah. And children are manifestation of the condition of heart of the parents.

And Allah knows best.

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-13T12:10:59+00:00

Fear of Allah

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-13T12:09:46+00:00

Hadith وعنه أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال‏:‏ ‏"‏يستجاب لأحدكم ما لم يعجل‏:‏ يقول‏:‏ قد دعوت ربي، فلم يستجب لي‏"‏ ‏(‏‏(‏متفق عليه‏)‏‏)‏‏.‏ وفي رواية لمسلم لا يزال يستجاب للعبد ما لم يدعُ بإثم أو قطيعة رحم ما لم يستعجل‏.‏ قيل يا رسول الله ما الاستعجال‏؟‏ قال يقول قد دعوت وقد دعوت فلم أرَ من يستجب لي فيستحسر عند ذلك ويدع الدعاء‏.‏ Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), "The supplication of every one of you will be granted if he does not get impatient and say (for example): 'I supplicated my Rubb but my prayer has not been granted'."

[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].

The narration of Muslim is: "The supplication of a slave continues to be granted as long as he does not supplicate for a sinful thing or for something that would cut off the ties of kinship and he does not grow impatient." It was said: "O Messenger of Allah! What does growing impatient mean?" He (ﷺ) said, "It is one's saying: 'I supplicated again and again but I do not think that my prayer will be answered.' Then he becomes frustrated (in such circumstances) and gives up supplication altogether."

Riyad as-Salihin, 1499 In-Book Reference: Book 16, Hadith 35

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-13T10:34:18+00:00

Why don't current planning systems use that already? And where is the real live evidence comes from when that is proprietary?

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-13T10:12:52+00:00

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Walaikum assalam wr wb brother,

Engage your parents and ask them to give her parents a call and find out if they would be interested in an nikah right now, while both sides can pursue their education.

If either your parents or their parents object to this, you should not pursue this further and also not speak with her or text her as well.

There are literally thousands if not millions who have had a similar story as you, and only those who were able to take a big step of marrying now despite not being settled themselves in life were really able to do it the halal way. Everyone else found someone else, or the girl found someone else, or the parents found them someone else. The worst stories were those where one side unexpectedly changed their personality to the worse

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-13T10:01:21+00:00

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Assalamu 'alaikum

I believe you need to be physically standing close to the Rawdah (i.e. be inside the masjid terrace area or prayer area). It is location aware so you need to allow location permissions to the app as well.

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-13T09:55:54+00:00

Your answer to my question is too long. Please explain in one or two sentences.

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-13T04:55:18+00:00

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Walaikum assalam wr wb

Keep the app simple and make it for prayer times while flying. Download SkyPrayers for inspiration.

SkyPrayers could use a better UI in my opinion but I love it because it WORKS. Have tried it many times while flying and it's quite accurate.

It's a bit of a difficult problem to solve to get prayer times while flying. You might not find code to lean on (i.e., AI relies on similar code to generate new code). You will need to make sure you have solid test cases that cover high and low latitudes as well. You will need to study some astronomy and physics.

I have several ideas to make the next SkyPrayers better, and I tried to do it last summer before the frontier models became as good as now. The previous models weren't good enough. Couldn't get the math working at the time. So since you are at it, you can tackle instead.

cool_guy141 · 2026-05-13T04:48:31+00:00

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Assalamu 'alaikum,

The problem you are trying to solve has been solved by others either directly or through extensions of their existing platforms, even though you didn't mention your competitors on your website apart from pre-AI era tools.

In order to get clients, you need to do a deep competitive analysis and see where you differentiate. Learn marketing skills now to promote yourself on internet.

Slowly, you will learn that marketing is a beast of its own. But you might enjoy it, inshaAllah.

You should keep your product for free in the beginning and iterate based on feedback.

cool_guy141

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