Ramadan, Reflection

Eid Day: Enjoying Good and Forbidding Evil.

Human mentality puzzles me. How can we expect to be rewarded without knowing the beauty that lies behind our many acts of worship? How do we expect to be rewarded when our sole intent is to exit the month of Ramadan to resume sinning? This apparent ignorance is disastrous. In this time of day, ignorance… Continue reading Eid Day: Enjoying Good and Forbidding Evil.

Ramadan

Tahajjud Every Night!!

For those of you who do not know: Tahajjud is a lengthy prayer preformed in the last third of the night. In Ramadan, we Muslims tend to pray in congregation in search of the night of power which is found in the last ten days of this blessed month. This all started 4days ago, when… Continue reading Tahajjud Every Night!!

Ramadan, Reflection

11/11/2012; A Death Within A Community.

I’d like to begin this post with a reminder, a verse from the Quran: يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنتُم مُّسْلِمُونَ "O you who believe! fear Allah as He should be feared and die not except in a state of Islam." 3:102 I pray for Taqwa(Taqwa is a high state… Continue reading 11/11/2012; A Death Within A Community.

Ramadan

A Different Day. A Different Mosque. The Perspective: Strive in the Way of Your Lord.

Written on the 13th day of Ramadan. 12 days and inshAllah on-going and I am head over heels in love with taraweehlengthy Ramadan night prayer. Note this is my first time praying this prayer in full. And from day one –well two- I have been on a mission. Still am. So we live like a… Continue reading A Different Day. A Different Mosque. The Perspective: Strive in the Way of Your Lord.