Archive for September, 2008
Monday, September 8th, 2008
The Perfect Plan
We exist in this world.
The question is do we live here?
By living, I mean do we live with purpose of being, with the understanding that we are a part of a Divine and Perfect plan. When we answered our Lord’s call “Who is your Lord?” and we replied “you Allah” we were placed […]
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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
8-Putting the cart before the horse
Sometimes, we become so enthusiastic about doing work for Allah SWT that we immerse ourselves in the opportunities that present themselves. Each time we turn, there is something great happening; something important; so important that we begin to give and give our time….sleeping less, going continually to try and do what will earn […]
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
7- Tools help us to achieve the goal
Q: “So, why have you been placed on this earth?”
A: “To worship Allah”
Q: “How do you know that?”
A: “Because in the Quran, Allah says He created man and jinn to worship him”
Q: ” So what does that mean?”
A: “Well, we should worship Allah”
Q: “But isn’t your whole life meant to be worship Allah?”
A: “yes it […]
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
6-We get what we give.
Have you stopped to consider the people in your life? your family, friends, neighbours, community members, strangers who pass us by.
the person at the check out aisle in the grocery store, the old lady carrying bags, the guy who drives badly and cuts you off in traffic, the people
who work for […]
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
5-Losing the present chasing the mirage of a future we dont know will even exist.
There are others who consume their lives by living in the future; they cannot exist in the the future but they also dont LIVE in the present. These people allow fear and worry to consume all of their time.
We know them, they exist in our lives; they may even be us. They claim to worry, […]
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
4-To live in the present is a mercy from Allah
The mercy of living in the present is sometimes lost to those who live between the past and the future but ignore the present altogether.
These are the people who immerse themselves living between regret of the past that they can no longer change and worrying about a future, they are uncertain will occur, that they […]
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Ramadan 3- When words can lead to destruction
The nature of our nafs is such that it seeks to pacify itself by distracting us, sometimes by making us feel that we are “on the right track” and “doing all we can”. The question to ask ourselves is “are we in fact doing OUR BEST?” One of the ways this becomes a reality is […]
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
2-In whose hands lies the change of our circumstances?
When we stop and reflect at all the challenges that face us; the problems that we are confronted with; the trials we must contend with, it is normal that we try to find the source of the problem:
If my mother and father did this differently, then I would be a better person.
If I had a […]