This Beautiful Hadith is about Allah and the Decree Reported by Ibn Abbas (RA): One day, I was riding behind the Prophet (PBUH) when he said, “O boy! I will instruct you in some matters. Be watchful of Allah (Commandments of Allah), He will preserve you. Safeguard His Rights, He will be ever with you.… Continue reading Contentment with predestination
Overthinking spoils most things. Hiba Magazine has this notebook with “plugged into patience” on the cover. Me, I’d like to unplug my mind and plug into my heart. I’m not disregarding the mind altogether, just saying that I’d like to tune into what my heart is feeling, for a change. In a society that worships… Continue reading Heartbeats over brainwaves
Originally posted on Little Miss Mirthril's Playground:
This might not be the ideal way to kick start this blog, but, by the time you reach your twenties (like I have), you have encountered more than a few bumps along the road. The result is that, if you were a crayon, you would have been…
For a university Muslim young man or a woman on campus faces a number of special difficulties that no other Muslim around him faces. The first difficulty that a young Muslim man or a woman faces on campus is what we call the force of secularism. Secularism is a philosophy that teaches you to remove everything about… Continue reading Islam and secularism–(from Zaynab Academy)
Why then do you call yourself a lover,
If you can’t turn yourself over?
Originally posted on Youth Club Blog:
By Umm Ibrahim So, for 11 months, we did as we chose. We broke the promises we made last Ramadan. We undid all our efforts. We corrupted our hearts and polluted our minds. We put the dunya in front of us and chucked the akhirah behind. We forgot the…
Originally posted on Youth Club Blog:
Myth: Whine for more لَٮِٕن شَڪَرۡتُمۡ لَأَزِيدَنَّكُمۡۖ This snippet is from one of the most beautiful verses of the Quran on gratitude from surah Ibrahim (v. 7). And I wrote just the Arabic text here for you guys to read it and comprehend it better when I expand on it. In…
Originally posted on Musings of A Musafir – The Journey:
Just because a person is young, it doesn’t mean they’re stupid or incompetent. Al-Khatib (may Allah have mercy on him) mentions in his book, ‘Tarikh Baghdad’ that Yahya ibn Aktham (may Allah have mercy on him) was made judge over Basra when he was about…
I got to know about the Zohayma Montaner Designs Ramadan Journal through a friend’s Facebook post. The colourful pictures of the pages of the journal captured my interest immediately. I went ahead and ordered it. It arrived in the first week of Ramadan. The journal has quotes, activity pages and thought-provoking messages in it. A balanced… Continue reading REVIEW: First look at ZMDesigns Ramadan Journal
Going on a binge diet of reminders makes us *feel* good and productive, but really, we should be digesting each thing individually.
Bintay Khan 