Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Eid Mubarak!
Asalamu Alaikum wa rahmatullah
On behalf of my family and myself, I would like to wish you all Eid Mubarak! May Allah SWT accept all of the good that you did during the past month of prayer and service. This month has been a blessing for us in so many ways: by being more conscious of […]
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
30-The message and the messenger
The month of Ramadan came quickly and now, she is leaving us. It has been a great opportunity for me to share these reflections with you and I thank you for any feedback or appreciation as it was always useful.
The other day, I was having a conversation with a sister who is in the middle […]
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
29-the departure of a beloved guest
Our beautiful guest is getting ready to depart from our company. This beautiful opportunity is about to slip away from our grasp. Will we live to see you again, oh beautiful one? Will we see the opportunity again when the gates of Paradise will be open to us and the one despised is chained. A […]
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
28-The laws of balance and reciprocity- beginning the process of change
We forget sometimes that Allah’s sunnah for this world is based on different laws. These include the law of balance and the understanding that what we put out will come back to us. We are supposed to be a nation of the middle way- not one of extremes. The idea is that life is a […]
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
27- Submission
The desert Arabs say, “We believe.” Say, “Ye have no faith; but ye (only)say, ‘We have submitted our wills to Allah,’ For not yet has Faith entered your hearts. But if ye obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not belittle aught of your deeds: for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” 49:14
We often say “we […]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
26- The best of you…
“The best among you is he who the people can hope for good from him and feel safe from any harm and the worst of you is he who people can hope to find any good from him and do not feel safe from his harm.”
One of the people whose faces will shine on the […]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
25- The things that pre-occupy us
The gatherings of dhikr (rememberance) are the gatherings of the angels and likened to the gatherings of Paradise.
If you want to know how much God remembers you, ask yourself, “How much do I remember Allah?” and that will help you to know.
There are angels who specially search for those who are remembering Allah. When […]
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
24- the Final Countdown
Now that we have entered the final days of Ramadan, it is important for us to reflect and to think about the transformative nature that this month should be for us. Should we live to the end of this month, what will it leave us with?
Will we go back to being the same persons we […]
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
A Rank above Allah?
Sometimes do we stop to consider that we may actually be placing ourselves as being equal to Allah or even more when we decide that we will purposely NOT do something that He has required us to do? In this case, I am not talking about the times we make mistakes or commit […]
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
22-The things we take for granted
Did you expect to receive a Ramadan Reflection last night? Did you stop to think why it did not arrive in your inbox? Did you even notice that there was none? For those of you who have been following the reflections regularly, what did you think was the issue?
So many times, we get […]