"Jazak Allah OR Jazakallah Khair "?

Understanding Grammar Behind The word Jazakallah.

Jazaak comes from the root word Jazaa which according to the popular Arabic-English dictionary, Al-Mawrid, has two meanings that are completely opposite to eachother!

⚫Thus Jazaa can either mean reward OR punishment.

⚫So :"JazakAllah" can may either mean " May Allah reward you" or punish you, while "JazakAllah Khair" means ... " May Allah reward you with the Best / Good."

⚫So the correct way is to say Jazak Allah Khair & not just Jazak Allah. Though someone might say that the intention by saying Jazak Allah is the same like Jazak Allahu Khayran, if its so, then why not use the complete wordings as used by prophet(pbuh) and the sahabas?
which is Jazak Allahu Khayran !

⚫Jazak Allahu Khair depending on situation:
Masculine: Jazak Allahu Khair
Feminine: Jazaki Allahu Khair
Plural: Jazakum Allahu Khair.

Substitute for Jazakallah Khair is BarakAllahu Feek ( "May the blessings of Allah be upon you.").

⚫How to Reply to Those who says Jazakallahu Khair to you:

1⃣ Wa Antum Fa Jazakumullahu Khayran meaning "And you too, May Allah reward to with Khayr".
Evidence from Sunnah: Usayd ibn Hadayr (sahabi) says: I said: O Messenger of Allah ﺟﺰﺍﻙ ﺍﻟﻠﻪ ﺧﻴﺮﺍ Jazaakallahu Khayran.
The Prophet(pbuh) said: ﻭَﺃَﻧْﺘُﻢْ ﻓَﺠَﺰَﺍﻛُﻢُ ﺍﻟﻠَّﻪُ ﺧَﻴْﺮًﺍ Wa Antum Fa Jazakumullahu khayran (And you too, May Allah reward to with Khayr).
[Albaani has said that the Hadeeh is Saheeh in al-Saheeha 3096, al-Ta'leeqaatul hisaan al Saheeh ibn Hibbaan 6231].

2⃣ Wa Iyyakum (ﻭﺇﻳﺎﻛﻢ)” meaning “And goodness to you also”.
This is the one the common message used by people.
Muslims can use this phrase sometimes, and abandon it sometimes, but they must not cling to it as if it is an established Sunnah of the Messenger since there is no evidence related to it.

⚫Conclusion:

The correct sunnah is not to say thanks or shukran rather its to say Jazakallahu Khair or BarakAllahu Feek. And should be replied with Wa Antum Fa Jazakumullahu Khayran.
Lets revive this sunnah in our lives Insha Allah & motivate others to do the same.

And Allah knows best.

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My First Bus Ride Alone .....

I did my kindergarten studies in Holy Name High School near Regal cinema Mumbai. My eldest brother took me to school one day. It was one of the duties assigned to him by our father.

That day we travelled by the BEST bus to Dr Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Chowk which is a terminus near The Prince of Wales museum.

We walked a little and reached the lane leading to the school. At this corner my brother gave me 25 paise pocket money from which I bought some bubble gum.

I entered the school precincts and immediately felt amiss. It was deserted except for a security guard who came to me and said "Today the school is closed. It's a holiday. Why have you come?"

I told him  I did not know it was closed. Not losing my equanimity I firmly ensconced myself on the steps 

I started pulling out the chewing gum and stretching and rolling it back in. A few minutes passed and then the watchman came to me and indirectly suggested I should move.

"How long will you sit here."
"The school is closed" and so on.

I got up and walked to the bus terminus a little tentative and very  scared. I stood at the bus stop waiting for bus no.101

People started noticing me. Then one Gujarati elderly man asked me where I was going...why was I alone. The capped emotions suddenly welled up and I burst out sobbing with the whole story.

Thereafter I was taken care of extremely well boarding, seating embarking.... I remember buying my halfticket for the journey with the money I had. It cost  5 paise !

When I reached home everyone was pleasantly shocked. I was fussed about a great deal and given a reward too. I remember it was some money which I immediately put into my piggy bank.

I was attending the Senior Kindergarten class at Holy Name High School when this happened.  I was five then.

Origins

Worth Reading👇👇..

There is an old Hotel/Pub in Marble Arch, London , which used to have gallows adjacent to it.
Prisoners were taken to the gallows (after a fair trial of course) to be hung.

The horse-drawn dray, carting the prisoner, was accompanied by an armed guard, who would stop the dray outside the pub and ask the prisoner if he would like ''ONE LAST DRINK''.

If he said YES, it was referred to as ONE FOR THE ROAD. 
If he declined, that prisoner was ON THE WAGON.
So there you go. More bleeding history. 

They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot and then once a day it was taken and sold to the tannery.
If you had to do this to survive you were "piss poor", but worse than that were the really poor folk, who couldn't even afford to buy a pot, they "Didn't have a pot to piss in" and were the lowest of the low. 

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be in England.  Here are some facts about the 1500s: 

Most people got married in June, because they took their yearly bath in May and they still smelled pretty good by June.

However, since they were starting to smell, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour.

Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.
The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water,
then all the other sons and men,
then the women, and finally the children.
Last of all the babies.

By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.
Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water!"

Houses had thatched roofs, thick straw piled high, with no wood underneath.
It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof.
When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.
Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs." 

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom, where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed.
Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence. 
The floor was dirt.. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.
Hence the saying, "dirt poor."

The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing.
As the winter wore on they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside.
A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way.
Hence: a thresh hold.

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?) 

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight, then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while.
Hence the rhyme: ''Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot, nine days old''. 

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.
When visitors came over they would hang up their bacon, to show off.
It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "Bring home the bacon."
They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around talking and ''chew the fat''. 

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning and death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous. 

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top,
or ''The Upper Crust''.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days.
Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.
They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up.
Hence the custom of ''Holding a Wake''.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people, so they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house and reuse the grave.
When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realised they had been burying people alive.
So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, thread it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.
Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell;
thus someone could be, ''Saved by the Bell'' or was considered a ''Dead Ringer''.

And that's the truth.
Now, whoever said history was boring ! ! ! 
So .. . . get out there and educate someone !!!

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