La hawla wa la quwata illa billah
06 Feb 2012 2 Comments
in Family, Prayer, Reverts, Salafi
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
a busy week subhanaAllah, mentally busy! Lots of reminders of the Power of Allah and ‘His’ plans, mashaAllah. Du’as, du’as and more du’as for those brothers and sisters around me who have been tested, alhamdulillah ‘ala kulli hal!! Love you all for the sake of Allah!!
Whenever Allah Intends Good For Someone He Test ThemAbu Huraria narrated Allah’s Messenger said, “If Allah intends good for someone , He test them with trials”
ExplanationThis hadith points to the reward for demonstrating patience. “If Allah intends good for someone”, He test them with a calamity in order to reveal whether or not this person will respond with patience or discontentment. The words, “He tests them with trials” are general in meaning, but they are further explained by other aahadith more specific in their meanings.
Simply stated, for whomever Allah intends good for, He test the believing man or woman with adversity. If they are patient, in anticipation of a reward from Allah, the end result of their struggle is good.
In spite of being tested with many trials, there are many people who are not patient. As expected, their adversity reaps no benefit for them. Allah often test the disbelievers with calamities as well. However, during these trials, they continue along the path of disbelief and in the end they die in a state of disbelief. Clearly, Allah did not intend any good for them.
As Allah has decreed, struggle and hardship are atonement for sin and an elimination of bad deeds. To have one’s sins removed or bad deeds erased is without a doubt, a good thing for the believer. This is Allah’s intent in testing His servants with adversity. Most of the trials that you undergo deal with worldly matters that may last for days. However, as the days go by, your hardship eases. Not so in the Hereafter. The pain and suffering are permanent. We seek refuge in Allah from the Hell-fire. Whenever Allah removes your sins through these trials, then that is good for you.
Taken from the book entitled…
“Sabr (Patience & Tolerance)” Pages 51-52
From An-Nawawi’s Riyadus-Saliheen
With explanation by Muhammad Ibn Saalih Al-Uthaymeen
The Dress of the Woman in the Prayer
07 Jul 2011 8 Comments
in Dawah, Hadeeth, Islam, Prayer, Salafi, Women
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
here is something I want to share with you all insha’Allah:
WHAT IS THE DRESS OF THE WOMAN IN THE PRAYER?
Please, please, read it! BarakaAllahu fikunna!
My day… today!
20 Sep 2009 4 Comments
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
Day before ‘Eid, an happy but sad day at the same time… it’s such a mix of emotions when you find out that “tomorrow is ‘Eid”… stop fasting, stop “feeling” the Ramadhaan… isn’t it?
As soon as I found out that the day after was going to be ‘Eid (today) it started to rain subhanaAllah! I’ve noticed that this happens every year… Allahu Akbar! And with the rain, I started to plan for the morning after… Last night I couldn’t sleep… too excited!!!
Wake up, shower, get everyone ready (I’m always the last one 
), have breakfast and go to the masjid. The town was empty, Sunday morning, just Muslims all around… the prayer (and the only one masha’Allah) was at 8 o’clock. It was so nice to see all those happy faces… shaking hands, hugs… sweet moments masha’Allah! Sisters that you didn’t have the chance to meet for the whole month, we were all there 
Back home, to spend some nice family time and FINALLY make the tiramisu I’ve been talking about for days before ‘Eid By the way, I’ve just tasted it and it’s delicious masha’Allah! I wish I could give you a piece 
… taqabbalAllahu minna wa minkhum, insha’Allah!!! Eid Mubarak to all of you!!!!
Ameen!
07 Feb 2009 3 Comments
As salamu alaykum wa’ rahmatullahi wa’ barakatuhu!
I wanted to blog, I really wanted, but wasn’t sure about what. I turned my head then and saw my son sleeping mash’Allah and I thought “Subhan’Allah time is flying!” It seems yesterday that I gave birth to him and here he is mash’Allah. It seems yesterday that I was pregnant wishing that time was passing quickly! And now I wish the time goes slowly instead… ya Rabbi, I shouldn’t really think like this, as usual is all just dunya.
Every day I’m thinking about my future: my family, our Hijrah insh’Allah, homeschooling, memorizing Qur’an, learning more Arabic.. lots of plans but then I stop and think about the ibadah. If my acts of ibadah are enough. I really wish to do more but I guess it’s time for me to reflect and learn from this period of my life alhamdulillah! Insh’Allah Allah will accept my intentions… ameen!
When something like this happens to me, I mean living a “weird” period of dunya, I make lots of du’as alhamdulillah! And every time Allah shows me how much He is close to me mash’Allah! So, whenever I make du’a, I’m sure Allah is listening to me and, in a way or in another, He’ll deal with it …
“And your Lord said: ‘Invoke Me [i.e. believe in My Oneness (Islamic Monotheism) and ask Me for anything] I will respond to your (invocation). Verily, those who scorn My worship [i.e. do not invoke Me, and do not believe in My Oneness, (Islamic Monotheism)] they will surely enter Hell in humiliation!’” [Ghaafir 40:60]
“And when My slaves ask you (O Muhammad) concerning Me, then (answer them), I am indeed near (to them by My Knowledge). I respond to the invocations of the supplicant when he calls on Me (without any mediator or intercessor). So let them obey Me and believe in Me, so that they may be led aright”
[al-Baqarah 2:186]
Ready for the last ten nights?
19 Sep 2008 8 Comments
in Hadeeth, Islam, Prayer, Ramadhan
As salamu alaykum wa’ rahmatullahi wa’ barakatuhu!
Narrated by Aisha (ra), Allah’s Apostle (saws) said, “Search for the Night of Qadr in the odd nights of the last ten days of Ramadhan” [Bukhari n.1896]
Are you ready for the last ten nights then? I think I’m …. or maybe I’m not. You know, you often think you are not doing enough to please Allah and feel guilty if you forget to do something. So I’m planning this year, maybe trying to read some more Qur’an in arabic…(maybe only the Surahs that I know), doing more dhikr during those nights.. and most important thing, I think, it’s to go to sleep straight after taraweeh and wake up for the night prayer insh’Allah!
Narrated by Aisha (ra), “With the start of the last ten days of Ramadhan, the Prophet (saws) used to tighten his waist belt (i.e. work hard) and used to pray all the night, and used to keep his family awake for the prayers” [Bukhari n. 1903]
Narrated by Abdullah bin Umar (ra), “Allah’s Apostle used to practise Itikaf in the last ten days of the month of Ramadhan” [Bukhari n. 1904]
I’ve never met a sister who did Itikaf, I really wish to meet one insh’Allah. It must be a wonderful experience mash’Allah, you alone with Allah and nothing else to think about, nothing bothering you about the dunya. One day insh’Allah I hope to experience it myself!. Maybe we think too much about the world around us and our daily duties at home, so we don’t give ourselves a chance to try it, just following our imaan! Don’t know, I really think it shouldn’t be that difficult if planned in advance then Allahu a’alam!
So lets get started for our chance of Laylat al Qad’r, insh’Allah!
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