Taraweeh Experience

So yesterday my family and I decided to pray at a faraway mosque except that we didnt check the weather forecast before we left. While i was driving a huge storm and rain was pouring non-stop it was really dangerous because i could hardly see my way and plus it was really dark, the worst part was that my brothers as usual sitting in the back were fighting with each other and arguing with me (they are very immature considering that they arent babies and actually teenagers) and that decreased my concentration on the road. Lets just say my driving experience was a nightmare but Allhamdillilah we reached there safely :).

When we finally reached the mosque there were no parking space so i had to park a bit far, so on my walk to the masjid i was drenched i was praying while dripping water :S.

The good thing was that after Isha prayer the mosque was collecting donation money and alhamdillilah they collected about $20,000, incredible right!! plus this sister in the mosque donated $10,000 Masha Allah, may Allah grant her Jannah.

Anywho, the weirdest thing was during Taraweeh i saw this lady at the back praying dressed like this:

( Just minus the hand bag, the boots, the sunglasses and the scarf around her neck)

Basically she was dressed in skinny jeans and a hat to cover her hair except that all her hair was showing, the sister was not even young she was like in her thirties maybe. I was in shock i was going to talk to her but someone came up to her in the end.

So yeah today we are planning to go to the same mosque since we heard there serving free Iftar!! Free Food Yay..which means no cooking :)

Love these Quotes :)

"Iman is like an airplane ride. The higher up you go, the smaller the things on Earth look."

and another one...i think its a hadith, im not sure:

"Iman is like a leaf it sways high and low"

and

"Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again" - Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah

and

The whole world is a provision, and the best provision of benefit in the world is the pious woman.
-Prophet (saw)

Funny Al-Qaeda

Accidently bumped on to this video and it made my day :)

warts ughh

Got plantars warts ughhhhh

and its a pain to remove :( at the time being im using compound w, and if it doesnt work ill just go for the liquid nitrogen treatment

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Finally, Alhamdillilah the awaited blessed month has arrived. So as muslims we should be fasting from Sunrise to Sunset and refr

ain from eating during that time period for a month and ofcourse that includes not backbiting, lying, cheating etc. (which means avoid all kind of sins) and working hard on making good deeds and p

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ying to Allah and asking for forgiveness and praying

Taraweeh. It also helps that shaitan is locked up.

Some Muslims think of Ramadan as a time to eat!! :O (I know shocking right, considering the fact that they are not eating the whole

day). At iftaar time they have so much food infront of them and while waiting for the Adhaan al-Maghrib they salivate at the dishes infront of them (not a good image). Oh yeah, its Samosa time. And contrarily to what a lot of people would believes, some people gain weight instead of losing it in Ramadan.

Also in many Islamic countries in Ramadan the greatest TV soap operas/dramas come on during the time of Taraweeh prayer, So its either you pray or miss the amazing show..hmm…that’s a hard one right?? :S Maybe not!!

At the same time there are many Muslims around the world who try to make the most of the Holy Month by reading Quran daily and praying Taraweeh and Tahajjud they also go for Ihtikaf during the last 10 days of the month. May Allah reward those people Insha Allah.

There is a phenomenon during Ramadan that I am very sure a lot of you have noticed or do. Everynight when people go to pray at the mosque they miss praying jamaa for Salat ul-Ishaa but make it in time for Taraweeh, this is terribly wrong considering the fact that praying Ishaa is obligatory(Fard) and Taraweeh is only sunnah. Another phenomenon is that the mosque is filled with worshippers that you have no place to pray during the first days of the month and the last 10 days especially the 27^th because people want to get a chance at praying on Lailatul-Qadr. Ummm…who said that Lailutul Qadr is on the 27^th it could be on any day of the 21,23,25 or 27…Go figure. And it makes you wonder what happens to the muslim population halfway through Ramadan for some reasons the mosques are empty.

So Ramadan Kareem Y'All and may Allah Subhanahu Wa ta3ala accept your fast (siyam)...Amen

Muslim Girl’s Guide For Dealing With Guys

A friend sent me this email the other day and i just thought it was hilarious but also very true so i decided to share it :) it is pretty long though.. enjoy

Life is full of crazy obstacles, but the one that will probably bug you the most and always be getting in the way is the opposite gender. Here, from one sister to another, is a Muslim girl’s guide for how to deal with guys.

No Touching! Muslims are forbidden to touch any non-Mahram (Mahram is your dad, brothers, father-in-law, husbands, grandfathers, and the siblings of your parents) person of the opposite gender. That means no patting on the back, no hand shaking, no pushing, no shoving, no holding hands, and obviously no kissing and all that. If you’re in a difficult situation where you think someone will try to shake your hand, the best thing to do is just smile and say, "My people don’t shake hands" and then explain why. And why, is because we believe a woman’s touch is a privilege and she doesn’t just share it with anyone.

No Flirting! Not even with Muslims, not even in an Islamic school, especially not in a masjid! Flirting means that you’re saying or doing things on purpose that make the other person attracted to you. There’s no set criterion for what flirting is, but any girl knows what is and how to do it.

Muslim women are supposed to behave better than the average woman, who has to be beautiful for all the men around her all the time, who are trapped behind their looks and only judge themselves to be worthy if half the men they know are in love with them. A wise dude once said, "Don’t start the mower unless you intend to cut the grass". If you don’t want a guy’s advances, then don’t do anything to earn them. There’s no point in throwing yourself all over guys and trying to seduce half the world. You really only want to marry one guy, and you want to spend the rest of your life with him, and chances are he isn’t going to be some dork you fluttered your eyelashes at in high school.

No Boyfriends! As a Muslim, you know that having a boyfriend is haraam because it counts as Zina - fornication. Fornication, in easy English, means ‘sexual sin’. Allah expressly forbids romantic or sexual relationships outside of marriage. When people go against that rule, then you get the typical western society where people play sexual merry-go-round with each other, giving each other STDs, using and abusing each other, and destroying the sacredness of marriage as an institution. You can’t even be sort of engaged to a guy, and then "date" to get to know each other. In Islam, non-Mahram men and women aren’t allowed to be alone together (that includes talking on the phone!), to touch (not even shake hands), or even gaze at each other. It doesn’t matter if the guy you like is Muslim, a great guy and the Prince of England, you can’t date him.

No Boy—friends! The easiest way to ensure that you don’t end up falling in love with some guy before you’re ready to get married is to avoid making friends with boys. Of course in school you have to interact with boys all over the place, but that doesn’t mean you should be best buds with them. Probably 90% of relationships begin from friendships. Chances are you’re not ready for marriage, your parents aren’t ready to let you get married, you’re still in school and your crush is not the sort of fellow you want to spend the rest of your life with, so just avoid being friends with him in the first place. It really is the best formula for saving yourself from needless temptation.

When you have to talk to boys in school as teammates, lab partners, group members, and peers, it's best to maintain a distance. That means that you don’t confide in them, you don’t let down your guard, you don’t unnecessarily engage them in needless conversation, don’t joke around, and never flirt. Yeah it may be a little hard, but this is your afterlife we’re talking about. So many great sisters have put themselves in really sticky situations because they allowed a boy to get to know them, and either ended up liking the boy, or having the boy like them. once that happens you either end up becoming a pair (which is HARAAM!), or having to end your friendship. Instead of letting it get to that point, and then having to kill a friendship that you probably worked hard on cultivating, you should just stop it before it begins. There are plenty of great girls all around who can be your friends and if you really think only a guy will understand your problem, then talk to your REAL brother, or your father, or an uncle.

No Talking on the Phone with Boys! In Islam its forbidden for non-related guys and girls to be alone together because there is the chance for physical zina, vocal zina, and zina of the eyes. That means, with no one there to watch you guys except that boogery shaitaan, then you might be tempted to actually DO something, or say gross things, or just stare at each other all lustily. With that in mind, it’s also a safe bet to assume that talking on the phone with non-Mahram guys is a no-no too. Why? Because unless you’ve both got it on speaker-phone and you’re chaperoned by a responsible person, then you’re still kind of "alone" with him. The people in your house can’t hear what he’s saying to you, and his family can’t hear what you’re saying to him. There’s a chance for some bad stuff then, so just avoid it. Not to mention, having some dude saying things into your ear that no one else can hear would be gross in real life, why is it okay for him to talk into your ear via the telephone? For the most part it’s just too intimate.

Be Disaffected! What does that mean? Disaffected means un-affect-able. That means that nothing a dude can say can hit your nerves, make you blush, or get a reaction out of you. It also means that you are uninterested in what they do as well. Imagine yourself being in an airplane looking down on the scenery below. You’re a little interested in what’s going on down there, and it may look really nice, but you know that to get to the scenery you have to jump off the plane. Like the scenery miles below you, the guy may look really nice, but you know that to get him you have to jump off the plane ...errr...commit spiritual suicide, and though the fall may be fun, you will eventually hit the ground 600 meters below and go -splat– on Judgment Day. Maybe even sooner.

Short of becoming an ice-princess, being disaffected involves putting up a mental wall between you and all of male-kind. They don’t know your thoughts and you don’t care for theirs. You can interact with guys at school within the bounds of Islam, but always maintain a formal distance. Don’t ask a guy how his infected toe is doing. Don’t give him a hug when he looks down. Don’t offer to help him with his homework. Don’t go out of your way to remind him that you exist, and that you’re not half bad looking. Even if you don’t feel like behaving, make yourself behave anyway, your afterlife is important enough to discipline yourself for.

The safest philosophy when dealing with guys is remembering this "He’s not what I want, so why should I do anything to make him interested in me? That’ll just make for a painfully awkward situation and it’s not worth the sin anyhow."

Remember that you’re always being watched! Would you act all giggly and stupid with boys if the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) could see you? No, right? Because you’d feel like an ungrateful idiot for disregarding the religion that Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) took so much pain for just to deliver to you. Well, imagine how ungrateful it is to act like a supreme idiot when Allah can see you all the time, and it’s really stupid to disregard the religion that Allah prescribed, the favors He’s bestowed upon you. How dumb is it to take the eyes that Allah gave you and do things with them that He told you not to? (like goggle at boys?) How much stupider is it that He can see you doing this, and you know it!

You have no secrets! Not because Big Brother (whoever that is…) is watching you, but because every single thing you ever did will become public domain on the Day of Judgment, and you’ll be brought to trial to defend what you did. Just don’t do anything that you wouldn’t want your parents, your siblings, your teachers, your friends, and the whole world to know about, ok?