A reminder to my self

MashaAllah, i havn't posted anything since february, blame it on final year projects and the easter break.hehe. Food pics still in the hard drive. I've been blogging about food for a year now. Quite irregular posts i might add. I've realised that cooking is a hobby but Islam is a way of life subhanAllah. So from now on it's going to be food posts and bits of knowledge to share inshaAllah. I hope it'll work inshaAllah.
Anyways, just a reminder to myself so that i don't have to keep looking back to my books, i'm going to post it instead.

A good opening post would be about our intention or niyyat InshaAllah. Cooking is a "harus" thing, but if you incorporate niyyat to do it for Allah and to help feed the hungry as sadaqqah,inshaAllah you will get rewarded.

Aishah RA narrates Rasulullah SAW said: "An army was advancing in order to attack the Ka'bah. When they reached an even plain, all of them were swallowed into the earth." I asked :" O Messenger of Allah! How could all of them be swallowed up when among them are merchants who were not part of them(the army)?"

He SAW replied." All of them were swallowed up, and they will eventually be resurrected according to their intentions."( Al-Bukhari & Muslim)


Abdullah ibn Abbas RA narrates from Rasulullah SAW who narrates from Allah SWT:

Whoever intends doing a good deed but does not carry it out Allah SWT records it as a complete good deed. But if he intends doing a good deed and carries it out, Allah SWT records it as 10 good deeds to 700 good deeds, and even more. Whoever intends doing an evil deed and does not carry it out, Allah SWT records it as a good deed. But if he intends doing an evil deed and carries it out, Allah SWT records it as one evil deed. (Al-Bukhari&Muslim)