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12 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
in Du'a, Event, Reverts, Salafi
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
As I have always tried to be honest with you all. I would like to say that you people ask us to teach. You say, “come back to the West and share that knowledge that Allaah has blessed you all with.” But when we come back we mostly get emotional support. And even in that, everytime some scandal comes wherein we are being tested many of you all leave us flat. You want us to sacrifice but you are not willing to even be bothered. You ask us to teach class and you only come half of the time or don’t even prepare. This has to change. The Prophet said that knowledge will disappear through the disappearance of the people of knowledge. Those possessing authenic old-fashioned Islaamic training and cultivation are rare in the world today and even rarer in the West. Get it before its gone. (Abu Taubah)
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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
Finally mine!
03 Feb 2011 7 Comments
in Islam, London, Muslims, Niqab/Burka, Reverts, Salafi, Sunnah, Uncategorized, Women
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
did it ever happen to you that the easiest of things becomes the most difficult one to do? Or, in my (and in this) case… to get?
Let me tell you the story….. make yourselves a cup of coffee or tea first 
Since my dh’s last visit to Dz, I’ve been asking for the book of Shaykh al-Albani (rahimahullah) “Al-Hijaab”, in arabic. None of the bookshops had it subhanaAllah! Well, apparently most (or all, Allahu a’alam) of al-Albani’s books have been banned in Algeria… la hawla wa la quwata illa billah! So we are playing the “waiting game” now LOL! Hopefully we’ll get one inshaAllah!
Not happy at all, astaghfirullah, I decided to order one on line, in english. “Come on, I saw it, it’s in english and I can buy it from darussalam with just one click!” – I thought – Checked the darussalam website and khalas, finito, no more that book! 
I’ve been searching and searching… subhanaAllah it seemed like when during Ramadhaan you run out of bread and are looking for some to buy just before iftar!
Then I finally googled the title and got the link of an english website… based in London! Allahu Akbar! I was sooo happy mashaAllah! I was expecting to receive it in few days… so I bought it! …. I received it after well… 10 days (???)
In case you are interested, I bought the book from HERE
Did anyone of you read it before? 
jazakhum Allahu khayran!
The brother nobody knew…
12 Jul 2010 10 Comments
in General, In my mind..., Islam, Muslims, Reverts
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh
Just here quickly to share with you this story. It just happened last week subhanaAllah!
My dh was walking with my oldest son, they were passing by the hospital road while a guy stopped them. He started to speak to my husband, he looked worried and desperate. He declared not to be a muslim but that his brother was. His poor brother was in the intensive care section at the hospital. He was asking help, he didn’t know what to do in that situation, what to pray and what to say since he wasn’t a muslim. My dh offered to help so later on he went to see the muslim brother.
Well, what to say, he was in a coma subhanaAllah and why? Because he tried to kill himself… ya Rabb! Allahu a’alam but it seemed he wasn’t practicing the religion in that period.
When my dh entered the room, all his family was there. They were all crying next to his bed. Apparently it all happened recently. My dh did what he supposed to do, du’as etc. alhamdulillah!
Dh informed the other brothers at our masjid, since it’s not far from the hospital. They all promised to go and visit insha’Allah!
22 pm that same night, a brother from our masjid called my dh telling him that he went to the hospital with some other brothers but that when they entered the room they found a “priest”! And the family was ready to switch off the machines that were keeping the brother alive! Plus, they said that they were going to bury him as a Christian! Naudhubillah!
Inna lillahi wa inna ilahy raji’oon! When I saw my dh face while talking at the phone, I felt something was going on, I asked him “what happened?” he replied “They have switched off the machines of the brother in coma!… his family!” …. I asked “did you say the shahada for him today?” he replied “yes!” … alhamdulillah! … wa Allahu a’alam!
Sorry to share this with you after a long absence but this story made me think a lot. It made me realize how important is to make hijrah and how it’s important for a revert to practice the deen properly….
Looking like a real “stranger”
03 May 2009 2 Comments
in Muslims, Reverts, Sisterhood, Sunnah, Women
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh!
I was thinking about what my dear friend and sister in Islam, Mujahida, wrote yesterday in her personal blog. The blog is in italian though I’ve been experiencing the same during the past weeks… days and hours subhan’Allah!
I don’t know, maybe I’m not “normal” as well. I love to follow the Sunnah in every single aspect of my life. Some little things, that need to be “fixed” to be really based on “Sunnah” , are taking shape, alhamdulillah! But in all this, around me, it seems I am alone, I have to count on myself only.
The best example I can give you is about the niqab, as mentioned by Mujahida. By the way, barakAllahu fiki, I couldn’t have read your post in a better moment … Well, yes, that little piece of cloth that makes other people look at you and think ”what’s that?… “why is she covering like that?” and all this kind of questions espressed, very well, by the face too 
This is not the point, when you are around, walking in the street or in a shop, you don’t really think about the kuffaar around you. Those looks just slip on your niqab, you are concentrate on more important and interesting things of your life. It’s those, around you, those that should support you, that don’t really understand “deeply”.
We should support each other, for the return of the “strangers”, insh’Allah! Not going back to wear a small scarf and a pair of jeans, astaghfirullah! We should ‘look’ like muslims and, wearing those “strange” things, would make you behave in a different way too! So please, if a sister doesn’t wear the jilbaab, show her the importance of doing so, if a sister is wearing a small scarf, show her the importance of wearing a bigger one and support her if she does so! I’m sure most of us started without wearing the jilbaab, the khimaar and the niqab. We all probably started with the small scarf I mentioned above and the jeans or trousers too… and maybe, looking at the sisters around us, we felt the desire to “improve” and look like them
May Allah guide us all insh’Allah!
To my dear sister…
02 Mar 2009 6 Comments
in Family, General, Muslims, Reverts, Sisterhood, Women
As salamu alaykum wa’ rahmatullahi wa’ barakatuhu!
Last Friday I had a long chat with a dear friend of mine and I was so happy to hear her thoughts alhamdulillah! It’s always relaxing to talk with her mash’Allah and spending time with her make you feel the real “sisterhood”. It was like this even before we came to Islam alhamdulillah but now, when we interact with each other, is something “fisabilillah” too
I don’t know if she will ever read this post… I hope so! Just in case I’ll email her and tell her about And maybe she will cry too while reading a post “for her” mash’Allah!
Our behaves are different in most of the aspects of our lives. When we talk we don’t really sit down, open a book or try to learn together about Islam. Our relationship I don’t think is for this. We learn in different ways: I do prefer learning by myself, she does so attending halaqas etc mash’Allah. We “learn” together about things that happen in our lives. And always refer to the teaching of the Qur’an and the Prophet (sallAllahu alayhi wa’ sallam). So alhamdulillah, we do our part insh’Allah!
We don’t live close to each other though, so it’s difficult to meet. I feel I can speak with her about “everything” without being worried to have a rough answer or listen to a rough thought from her mash’Allah! I hope it’s the same for her since I always try to be gentle and have the best manners…. she deserves so, she is always gentle with everybody mash’Allah
Well, I think I wrote enough about her and maybe you have enough too
Do you have the same kind of friend in your life?
jazakhum Allahu khayran
The Cab is here…is a woman!?
15 Dec 2008 6 Comments
in Dawah, General, Islam, Reverts, Women
As salamu alaykum wa’ rahmatullahi wa’ barakatuhu!
It took me some time to be back to blog subhan’Allah but here I am alhamdulillah! Important “tests” from Allah happened to me during this weeks alhamdulillah but I didn’t realize what was happening to me so far until I met a woman this Eid al Adha mash’Allah!.
Anyway, my dh and I had to take a cab and when it arrived I was surprised to see that the driver was a woman… don’t know why I was so surprised, I mean… women do all sort of jobs here… Allahu a’alam!
As soon as she saw us she said “As salamu alaykum, Eid Mubarak!” so I thought “a muslim mash’Allah!”. I thought she was a born muslim and maybe not a practicing one astaghfirullah but, when we had the chance to be alone for few minutes me and her, she asked me my back ground and she told me straight away to be a “convert” too mash’Allah! She went on talking about her story and the fact that she is not practicing etc etc, she seemed in need to talk with another muslim mash’Allah!
Well, she told me a bit about her “way to Islam” and at the end what I said?? I mean, what have I been able to say??… just “Insh’Allah..Insh’Allah”… what’s wrong with me? I mean, I didn’t say anything “bad” but usually, in situations like this, I’m able to say more, I always say that “Allah puts words of da’wah in my mouth” mash’Allah… now nothing…
I didn’t think about what happened until the night, while I was looking after my “mujahid” mash’Allah… why was that? I guess Allah wanted to send me a “message”, let me understand that maybe lately I’ve been too much “into this dunya”, rushing to pray and not being enough greatful to Him! Well, I thought about it again and again and it’s true! I have to take back “my way” to the akhirah insh’Allah! I have to try to finish to memorize the surah I started etc. Insh’Allah!!
I didn’t spend the past month and half doing “nothing”, just following my duties… but giving too much importance to my duties of the dunya!
So I thought about what the Qur’an says… so true…
wealth and children are the adornment of the life of this world. But the good righteous deeds (five compulsory prayers, deeds of Allâh’s obedience, good and nice talk, remembrance of Allâh with glorification, praises and thanks, etc.), that last, are better with your Lord for rewards and better in respect of hope. (Al-Kahf 18:46)
Bismillah…
11 Sep 2008 10 Comments
As salamu alaykum wa’ rahmatullahi wa’ barakatuhu!
I’ve finally decided to start this blog alhamdulillah!
I’m a revert living in London, Uk. Trying my best to be a good Muslimah, to please my Lord and gain Jannah insh’Allah! As I’m not in a muslim country everything is a bit “harder” to achieve. But it’s true that “If you help yourself Allah will help you insh’Allah” .. do u think it’s interesting to keep reading?… let’s see insh’Allah!
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