Archive for August, 2009
Monday, August 31st, 2009
Something from nothing.
Allah SWT has given us a great opportunity to make something from nothing. By this I mean, we have an opportunity at each instant in our lives to transform it from something that may be seemingly insignificant to something that can change our lives forever.
In short, we have a choice.
Why are some people […]
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Sunday, August 30th, 2009
Decluttering our spaces; Making room for light
Have you ever had a moment when you thought, “I could be like so and so if…..” or had an opportunity that you completely avoided, not because it was haram (prohibited), but because of an emotional scar or fear attached to it? What are the things that hold us back from achieving our fullest and […]
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
9. Travelers and Destinations
Oh dusty traveler, worn out by life’s trials, stand up and walk with us as we continue on this journey. Your journey is like my journey- short. For a small period of time we have been placed here to elevate our souls. Ask any traveler at the end of their journey, they […]
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
Making time matter
Our job, while important, is not supposed to be the focus of our lives. It’s easy to think, we work long hours to help our families. But when we get so tired that we hardly spend quality time learning and building our personal relationships with Allah, with our family members and we get too tired […]
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
The Balance of Time 1
Our lives have become filled with things, toys and stuff. We no longer work to live, we live to work. It seems that “work” fills up an extraordinary amount of our time. As we continue to live this way, time eludes us with her benefit and her blessings. We try to manage our families around […]
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Consciousness and Freedom
What are the things that pre-occupy your time and your mind? Is it work? School? Family? Friends? Good stuff? Bad stuff? In other words, what are you conscious of? If you were honest with yourself, how many times in a day do you remember Allah? God- the source of your life? The One Who placed […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Fashionably undressed brothers at Taraweeh
So the other night I was getting ready with the family for Taraweeh prayer. When I asked them, “where do you want to go for taraweeh today?”, Ayub, my younger son chimed in with, “Where is it shorter?” He has been having a bit of a tough time adjusting to the new sleep schedule […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
We are better, arent we?
Allah is the One Lord, the uncaused Cause of all things in this world. He calls us to free ourselves from the enslavement of things, the oppression and tyranny of others and the complete and total freedom of submitting to His will. It is only through this process that the soul is able […]
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
4. The guilt and shame of it all…..
As we engage in the process of reflection, it becomes more and more apparent to us the nature of our flaws and faults. Many times our many transgressions can seem quite overwhelming. We have so far to go and so little time to get there. However the station in which a traveller on this journey […]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
3. Material band-aids
As the second day of Ramadan has set, our bodies are getting used to the withdrawal from some or many of the regular habits in which we normally engage. Food and drink, something we always tell ourselves, we CANT go without, now seems to be something we are able to control instead of being controlled […]