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December13

here are some links:

1. Recitation

2. Remember to Pray

3. Recitation - Mohammad Taha

4. Touching Story - Abdulmohsin

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Away for Hajj..

December3

لبيك اللهم لبيك،، لبيك لا شريك لك لبيك

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As soon as the alarm clock went on, I jumped out of bed and headed towards the bathroom. I was too busy wearing my make-up and fixing my camel hump that I didn’t realize I haven’t prayed al fajr prayer. I rushed out of home, because I was worried that I may miss my first class because our professor has warned us about being late in his class. I drove as fast as I could, almost causing an accident and almost being caught by the radar. At that time, I didn’t care if all of the radars caught me. I just wanted to be in class before the professor. I reached class, it was my break time, should I pray or sit with my friends , gossip and chit chat about new movies and songs. Oh, it’s al duhr prayer, unfortunately I can’t pray my class will start in 5 minutes. I need time until I make my wudu’ and put back on my make-up.

Well, It’s 5 pm now and it’s time to go home. I just want to reach home and relax before studying; I will pray all what I missed as soon as I reach home. “Allah Akhar, Allaah Akbar…….” Oh , it’s now al maghrib time, when will this traffic jam. “La ilaaah ila Allaaaah..” “Our poor girl, she was a hard worker. She always wanted to be the first in everything, her studies, fashion and even in the world of gossip. She was the first in everything except her prayers, who knew she would die so young.”

Down under, lying in a dark place, she could hear the footsteps of the people who she expected would always be around her. She could hear them talk about her, whisper her name and walk away from her, leaving her all by herself to face the angels in the grave questioning her about her faith and actions. Her death was unplanned; she was too busy living her life that she forgot about her prayers and about the hereafter. Now, she is left with her deeds and actions, but would the ~~gossips~~, ~~negligence of prayers~~ and ~~music~~ do her any good? Believe me, it wouldn’t. This is just a reminder to Myself and all Muslims that our Prayers come first.

Remember, Death doesn’t come knocking on your door.

May Allah forgive all muslims

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Ramadan Kareem

September3

Alhamdulillah Ramadan came, the beauty of this month. Unfortunately, people don’t look at its beauty as much as they look at the food that they will be eating and the series that they will be watching. I believe that we have the wrong concept of ramadan. Many believe that ramadan is about watching the T.V series, eating and eating and eating. Lately, the supermarkets have been out of chicken and other things. Why do people consider ramadan as a month that requires making all kinds of new recipes and cookings. InshaAllah people get aware of the ajir in Ramadan and not waste this month on things that will not benefit them in the hereafter..

Ramadan Kareem to all..

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Masha’Allah (Malaysia)

July21

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Lowering Your Gaze

June11

In the world we are living in, the temptations in life make us vulnerable. You find yourself either drowned or surrounded by fitnah. Some of us give up and let the dunya play us around, while the others stand still and try to fight back and as we know it isn’t an easy task. Temptations in life aren’t all tangible, some could lead you to punishments in the hereafter by only listening or evening speaking.. Sometimes even by gazing. That is why islam has encouraged and ordered us to lower our gazes. Some of us may not take this into serious consideration, neglecting its actual drawbacks. Instead of thinking more about the consequences, we tend to apply the opposite action. In some situations, we think that if we keep gazing at the floor rather than the “non-covered” person, people may consider us close minded or we may think that one look shall not affect us; this is when satans whispers tend to invade our mind and ears. It doesn’t matter what people think, what matters the most is that we work hard to achieve the things that would lead us to a safe Haven in paradise and avoid us from getting punished. Some of us think that it is ok to look at a woman who is fully covered but wears makeup? However, we seem to forget that this is considered as a fitnah and could sicken our hearts. We are all exposed to fitnah, whether it was a male or a female because nowadays , unfortunately, all what “was and still is” forbidden became acceptable by us with weak hearts.
Since we were kids, we used to hear the phrase “what comes around, goes around” which tells us that if we do not abide by Allah’s rules and lower our gaze, this may come back at us and slap us in the face in an unexpected way.
We should lower our gaze in order to avoid falling into satans trap, to avoid ourselves from being burnt in hell and to avoid causing harm to our families.
Lowering our gaze is not only directed to males, but also females. So this is a reminder to myself first and you all that we should work harder in lowering our gaze to protect ourselves and our loved ones.

29 قُل لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَغُضُّوا مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِمْ وَيَحْفَظُوا فُرُوجَهُمْ ذَلِكَ أَزْكَى لَهُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا يَصْنَعُونَ 30 وَقُل لِّلْمُؤْمِنَاتِ يَغْضُضْنَ مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِنَّ وَيَحْفَظْنَ فُرُوجَهُنَّ وَلَا يُبْدِينَ زِينَتَهُنَّ إِلَّا مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْهَا وَلْيَضْرِبْنَ بِخُمُرِهِنَّ عَلَى جُيُوبِهِنَّ وَلَا يُبْدِينَ زِينَتَهُنَّ إِلَّا لِبُعُولَتِهِنَّ أَوْ آبَائِهِنَّ أَوْ آبَاء بُعُولَتِهِنَّ أَوْ أَبْنَائِهِنَّ أَوْ أَبْنَاء بُعُولَتِهِنَّ أَوْ إِخْوَانِهِنَّ أَوْ بَنِي إِخْوَانِهِنَّ أَوْ بَنِي أَخَوَاتِهِنَّ أَوْ نِسَائِهِنَّ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُهُنَّ أَوِ التَّابِعِينَ غَيْرِ أُوْلِي الْإِرْبَةِ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ أَوِ الطِّفْلِ الَّذِينَ لَمْ يَظْهَرُوا عَلَى عَوْرَاتِ النِّسَاء وَلَا يَضْرِبْنَ بِأَرْجُلِهِنَّ لِيُعْلَمَ مَا يُخْفِينَ مِن زِينَتِهِنَّ وَتُوبُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ جَمِيعًا أَيُّهَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ 31
May Allah strengthen our Iman..
Ameen

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So you think you know me?

May4

People are not always given the chance to prove themselves, neither are they given the chance to show who they really are. We jump to conclusions and assumptions acting as if we know how the person is thinking or what their intention is behind their actions. Unfortunately, we don’t always know how people think or what people have in mind. It’s just that we don’t allow ourselves to listen to them or try to understand them. We have this image of that person in our head and it stays with us as long as we live, but we don’t try to understand that person more. This behavior leads to a lot of misunderstandings and a lot of hard feelings. That is why, we should try our best to hear what the other person has to say and not make our own assumptions. One major drawback of this behavior is that it leads to “bad assumption” which is known as “so’u al than” and we know that this is not welcomed in our Religion, we as Muslims. Not all people are aware that this behavior lies within them and not all know how this affects the other person, the person who is THOUGHT to be understood but the truth is that they know little about them. We should try to get to know people better before jumping to conclusions in order to reduce the chances of a conflict occurring and hard feelings.

This advice I give to myself and to all the readers,

May Allah forgive all Muslims

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True Happiness

April21

You cry your eyes out, you believe that everyone around you is against you, they are taking away your freedom and you feel that no one listens to you. You put your head on your pillow and drown your self with your warm tears asking yourself why are you surrounded by this injustice. You feel as if someone is choking you and you’re trying hard to gasp for air… Then you wake up the next day and go on with your regular schedule. Neglect the fajr prayer, listen to music, wasting your time in malls and then complain at the end of the day about how lousy your life is. why don’t you take a moment and ask yourself , maybe all of this depression you’re going through is because of the barrier you built between yourself and your complete inner satisfaction?

Believe me all this depression will fade away once you get closer to Allah…
Once you get over this phase and increase your faith, you will realize that all of the “depressing days, the injustice and loneliness” was not worth going through…. It was because you were away from Allah and forgot the crucial factors that lead to inner happiness.. I give this advice to myself first, then you all, that in order to overcome the problems in our life we should strive harder to become better hard working Muslims..

May Allah Forgive us all…

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My Pen and Eraser

February27

Can you imagine life with an eraser, in which every time you make a mistake in life you would pick up your eraser and simply wipe it off? Or if it was like your computer screen, in which whenever you make a mistake you can simply erase it by click on “delete”. Unfortunately, life isn’t like that. Anything we do shall remain in our memories and thoughts, it shall haunt us every where we go.. Of course Allah knows what is best for us and probably by wiping off your mistakes easily, you may not learn from them.. However, sometimes there are some things which you wish deeply that you can erase from your history, people whom you wish never existed in your life and sins which make you feel ashamed whenever you remember… I sometimes wish that i can pick up a pencil and start drawing my past in a more decent way, but when i think of it.. Without my mistakes in the past i would not be who i am now. Not that i do not do mistakes now, but at least i have learnt alot from my past, and i have started to appreciate being a Muslim…
It is not easy to overcome your mistakes and sins, and i assure you that not only you and I suffer from this but also other Muslims. But we should remember that Allah knows what’s best for us. We do not know what our future hides and we do not know what Allah has planned for us. All what we know is that we should learn from our mistakes in the past and avoid walking in the same unpleasant path…
We need to gain our strengths and not let Satan make us say “if only i could erase my past” because by saying that we shall encourage Satan to overpower us..

All what i am trying to say is that what’s done is done, whether we like it or not.. Now we should start to focus on improving our life by getting closer and closer to Allah and following the Sunnah of our Beloved Prophet – Peace Be Upon Him-

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Our Goodbye’s

February3

The hardest thing to go through in life, is when you are obliged to say goodbye to the one’s you love. Even if the good bye isnt forever, but still just by saying it you find yourself drowned by your tears and surrounded by sadness. You start realizing that a crucial part in you shall vanish or shall drift away from you after holding on to it very tightly. But when you come to think of it again, you ask yourself “what about those who leave their loved one’s to battle for islam?” or “those innocent people who have been killed and their families were forced to say good bye to them?”
how do you expect them to feel when they say good bye?
Many people tell you that you should be strong, yet you find yourself no matter how strong you try to be a tiny part in your heart remains vulnerable then this tiny part overpowers your heart and you find yourself fully weak.
Although not all goodbye’s mean death, or a negative separation. Some good bye’s could mean “see you next weekend” or “see you after the vacation”. However because of how close a person is to you, you refuse to give them up and let fate join you back again.

This is just a reminder to us all, that someday sometime we may lose a close person either voluntary or involuntary so we should seize every moment we spend with them..

May Allah forgive all Muslims

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GoodBye

January10

I will be away for sometime..
Maybe weeks or months..
Only Allah himself knows til when..

Don’t forget me in your Dua’a Please

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Birdie & Hope

December20

Birdie shed a tear and looked around her, looking at the people who have lost hope. She felt their pain and sorrow through their eyes, but she knew that If only they believed strongly that hope still existed then they wouldn’t be as sad as they are right now. Birdie walked like a lost child, wandering, not knowing where she was heading to. Everywhere she went she found a person crying, cursing hope and trying to stop themselves from dreaming. Birdie felt sad, so lost and so confused. Why are people so pessimistic? Why can’t they be optimistic about life? Why can’t they just let time tell?

As birdie walked quietly, between the crowds, she found a women holding onto something with her eyes closed so tightly. It was a weird moment.
Birdie moved closer to her and bent down, she kept looking at the woman, trying to figure out what she was focusing her mind on. She touched the woman so gently, the woman opened her eyes and looked at birdie and smiled so calmly. Birdie, out of a sudden, felt so secure, so ease inside and so calm. The woman’s eyes were glowing with happiness, joy and h hope.

Birdie and the lady just stared at each other for minutes, then the lady whispered “go.. You don’t belong here” Birdie didn’t want to let go of the woman’s hand. But she had to because the woman kept on repeating so gently “just go.. Hope is waiting” Birdie got up and walked away slowly, Then turned back to look at the woman because her existence there was so inevitable. As the time birdie turned to look at her, the last was gone, simply not there. Birdie smiled then shrugged and went on to the path that the woman had told her to take. The lady was like a beautiful diamond lost in a huge sea. As birdie kept walking, people around her kept looking at her strangely. Birdie paid them no attention and went on. She head people around her shout “there’s no hope! Give up!” Bride smiled sarcastically and continued walking. She believed deep down that hope is just one step away. She knew that her dreams will all come true; it is all just a matter of time. Life is like a battle field, in order to live, you should be able to compete and that was what birdie was doing. She learnt the art of war in order to fight people who try to let her lost hope. She knew that now nothing could stop her from fulfilling her dreams. She believed strongly that her Creator – Allah- would make her dreams come true, she only has to believe it more and more and hopefully her dreams will get fulfilled. Written on : 27/11/2005

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People Within Our Country

December10

I noticed that alot of the people donate money to people from abroad, neglecting the fact that we have alot of people within our country who suffer from famine, poverty and sicknesses.. It’s heart breaking to hear people from our Muslim country call the talk shows and complain about what they are going through in order to live , whereas we play around with our money and spend thousands of dirham’s on useless things.. we sometimes try to act generous by donating abroad and saying our country does not have poor people.. Who said that we do not have needy people?
There are some people who are in deep need for money but are too shy to ask for help, or they do not want to show others that they have no money..
I am not saying that we should not donate money to the people abroad who are in desperate need for our help, but we should also keep a portion of our money to the people in our country, who struggle in order to fight the unbelievable inflation that is invading our country..
Maybe, what triggers people to donate abroad is that they tempt us by putting really heart touching pictures of the poor children.. Whereas, you do not find a picture of an Emarati Child struggling to find food or medical treatment in any donation advertisements..
We need to start focusing on helping the people in our country, in addition to the people in other poor countries.. Not to forget that الأقربون أولى بالمعروف This is a reminder to myself first then to all other Muslims to contribute in providing help, care and financial support to the Muslims in our country.. حدثنا آدم حدثنا شعبة حدثنا معبد بن خالد قال سمعت حارثة بن وهب قال سمعت النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول : (تصدقوا فإنه يأتي عليكم زمان يمشي الرجل بصدقته فلا يجد من يقبلها يقول الرجل لو جئت بها بالأمس لقبلتها فأما اليوم فلا حاجة لي بها). رواه البخاري Hadith No. 1345

إِن تُبْدُواْ الصَّدَقَاتِ فَنِعِمَّا هِيَ وَإِن تُخْفُوهَا وَتُؤْتُوهَا الْفُقَرَاء فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لُّكُمْ وَيُكَفِّرُ عَنكُم مِّن سَيِّئَاتِكُمْ وَاللّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرٌ 271 (Al Baqara)

Note: thanks to my husband for inspiring me with these thoughts

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