There’s a part in Surah Kahf that we read but never ponder over. It’s where Khidr عليه السلام destroys a boat by cutting a hole in it. This boat belongs to a poor family who need it for their livelihood, to fish and to travel.
I liked how Omar Suleiman said that just as how people can be a test for us, we can also be a test for other people but we don’t see it this way and oftentimes we worry so much about how we have been harmed by others that we don’t see how we have been treating them.
Fasting on ‘Ashura:
Fri 28th Aug - 9th Muharram
Sat 29th Aug - 10th Muharram
Sun 30th Aug - 11th Muharram
It’s recommended to fast on the 9th and 10th or the 10th & 11th of Muharram.
The Prophet ﷺ said, fasting on Ashura means the sins of the previous year are forgiven.
I get so emotional when Allah answers my du’as and i’m not even deserving of it. It’s such a beautiful gift that Allah has blessed us with where we can directly ask Him for our needs and no other nation has been given this blessing than us.
It’s amazing how beautifully the Prophet ﷺ portrayed emotional intelligence. He not only understood his own emotions and the emotions of others, but he validated them, provided solutions and took away their pain with the utmost compassion and mercy.
Sksksdhdjsksfhjkkkk my husband’s going to be back home in a few hours because he sat in i’tikāf and now my stomach has butterflies that grew into birds🤣because we’re going to be reunited soon and I’m so excited and nervous and excited and nervous 😅😅😭😭
Pre-Ramadhan checklist:
- Pray salah on time
- Start building a relationship with the Qur’an from now so it’s easier in Ramadhan
- Make a du’a list and spend a few mins each day to make du’a.
- Fast the sunnah days
- Try to wake up for Tahajjud
Feel free to add to the list.
I’ve been making du’a for something desperately, especially in these last 10 odd nights. I wasn’t seeing a way out but subhanaAllah, today Allah facilitated it for me in the most beautiful of ways. And it’s just things like this that Allah does for you that make you feel loved
You always have those pangs of regret the last day of Ramadhan knowing you could have done more and not knowing whether you’ll make it to the next Ramadhan 😔 may Allah accept the little we have done and multiply them to make them weigh heavy on our scale of good deeds.
In juz 29, Surah Qalam, Allah makes mention of a family who were blessed with many favours, but they were ungrateful to Allah, and so these favours were destroyed.
The story goes that there was a garden which was set up by a very pious man. Whenever he would harvest or pick up
Surah Rahman has to be one of the most beautiful surah’s in the Qur’an. The way it describes the blessings Allah has given mankind and then poses the question each time,
فَبِأَيِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ
“So which of the favours of your Lord can you deny?”
Idk who needs to hear this but it says, “the One who sent this diver to the depth of the sea so that he reaches the distressed fish, is able to take away your grief and is enough for you on the surface of His earth. So have faith in your most generous and merciful Lord.”
Idk who needs to hear this but, if your Ramadhan did not start off well, don’t despair. You still have time remaining of this blessed month. The doors of Mercy are still open. The doors of repentance are still open.
The older i get, the more i realise the meaning of, “I only complain of my grief and sorrow to Allah.” [12:86] Truly, no one can understand or comfort you the way Allah can.
I will never understand weddings that have Qur’an recited, du’as made and then straight after have music playing, like it’s something so normal? I feel like it’s such a mockery of the deen. May Allah truly guide us and protect us 😞
I‘ve adopted that “if Allah wants it to happen and it’s khair for me, it’ll happen” mood towards everything and it just puts my heart at ease knowing i’ve left it in Allah’s care because nothing left in His care is ever lost or wasted.
Allah tested Ibrahim عليه السلام in the most difficult of ways. It is mentioned in Juz 23, Surah Saffat, how, the only son he had longed and prayed for, had to be sacrificed due to a command of Allah. This was a test that would prove Ibrahim’s عليه السلام love for Allah was more
All you see is what is broken in front of you. But know that Allah will help you fix it. He will help you find a way. Look beyond the destroyed boat. You are loved by Allah. So so loved by Allah. And just as how a child doesn’t understand why his mother won’t
In Juz 22, Surah Yasin, Allah makes mention of a beautiful story of patience, forbearance and mercy. A man, by the name of Habib, used to worship his gods for 70 years until Allah sent some messengers to his city. By the will of Allah, he accepted Islam & Allah cured his leprosy.
There is always those pangs of regret at the end of Ramadhan. The regret that we could have done more, that the deeds we did do, maybe they weren’t to the best standard. But we hope & pray to Allah that He accepts our Ramadhan & makes our good deeds weigh heavily on our scales.
To you who weeps at night out of regret and guilt. To you who remembers the past and is hopeless of Allah’s Mercy. To you who thinks ‘how can i ever be forgiven when my sins fill up the heavens and the earth.’ Allah says, “O My servants who have transgressed against themselves
Children are so so pure subhanaAllah. I started nursery 2 days ago and one girl straight away had come up to me and asked, “what’s that on your head?” pointing to my hijab. I told her it’s part of my religion. Today, as i walked in, i saw her wearing a hijab with a beaming smile.
Istikharah really does help solve everything. If you feel stuck or can’t seem to make a decision, pray 2 rak’ah Salaatul Istikharah and sincerely ask Allah to guide your steps and put khair in it. Place your full trust in Him and He will, for sure, facilitate a way for you.
let him have a fizzy drink for breakfast, remember that Allah loves you more than a mother loves her child.
Continue making du’a and finding new doors to walk through. He will never allow your deeds, effort and your du’as to ever be lost or wasted.
Lemme tell you a story guys. A friend of mine knew someone who used to be in a haram relationship. They dated for almost a year before the girl broke it off because she knew it was wrong. And even though she liked him a lot, she chose to obey Allah over her desires.
Imagine getting married to someone who makes you feel unloved. The worst thing is being around someone but still feel alone, may Allah protect us from that and grant us a loving spouse who will respect and value us and bring us closer to Him ameen
When Omar Suleiman said how Allah placed a light on our forehead that wasn’t all the same & the Ummah was presented to the Prophet ﷺ on the night of Mi’raj & he saw our lights. Still has me thinking, how much light did i have? Did he see mine? Was my light beautiful to him? 🥺
and so he wouldn’t have been interested, but the poor family could fix this boat and use it once again.
Your boat may also be broken. It may not make sense to you right now. You cannot see the oppressive King, you cannot see what Allah is protecting you from.
Omar Suleiman really does the best series in Ramadhan. This year’s about the Prophet ﷺ and it’s so beautiful the way he describes it because you literally feel like a Sahabi witnessing the Prophet ﷺ. It makes you long for him, take practical lessons on how to be like him and
Starting your chapter later than others doesn’t mean you are behind. You are on time. You are exactly where you are meant to be. Allah’s plans are perfect.
Had a really interesting discussion with my father-in-law yesterday about the use of phones, and he was saying how much the young and old generations have become so hooked onto it that it’s become their whole life. They’ve forgotten the importance of salah and relationships
May the help of Allah come for the Palestinians just like it came for the muslims in the battle of Badr. They were 313 against 1000 disbelievers and Allah sent His army of angels to aid them
I think one of the most beautiful verses in the Qur’an is
اَللّٰهُ لَطِيۡفٌۢ بِعِبَادِهٖ
“Allah is kind and gentle to His Servants…”
[42:19]
The word لَطِيْفٌ has 2 meanings:
1. Allah is Kind and compassionate to His servants.
2. Allah keeps in mind even the minutest needs
If anyone wants to learn arabic, wallahi, these books are a good starter. They’re short, concise and has vocabulary that are used in everyday life as well as the Qur’an and sunnah so you start to understand ayaat, ahadith and arabic poetry all together in a beautiful way.
To the newly weds and the not so newly weds:
Something that my husband mentioned to me after we got married is that marriage is like an empty box. Once you marry, it’s then up to both the spouses to fill that box with things that build their love and companionship.
This was the fastest Ramadhan i’ve ever experienced. Can’t believe it’s the last Jumu’ah of this blessed month already. May Allah accept it from us and allow us to carry on with the good deeds we did.
A person dies, and a friend builds a masjid for him as sadaqah. Another performs Hajj on his behalf. Yet another puts up water tanks for him. And in all of this, i wonder, will there be anyone who makes du’a for me tirelessly after i am long gone and forgotten.
One of my favourite ayaat. You get to know the depth to which arabic goes just through this one verse. Allah used the word لباس here instead of ثوب when both mean “clothes”. Why? Because ثوب means you return to something. You wear it for a while, take it off & return to it again.
I think a lot of us tend to forget that along with making du’a and relying on Allah, we should also take the necessary steps to make things happen. The Prophet ﷺ taught us this in a beautiful hadith when a bedouin left his camel untied and went somewhere. The Prophet ﷺ asked
Too many sisters have gone into marriages that have no love and respect or the men don’t value them at all and it’s so heartbreaking to hear. May Allah keep us safe and grant us spouses who will be the coolness and comfort to our eyes. Ameen
I need this grade, this promotion, this job, this spouse. I need this du’a to be answered. How can you destroy my boat Allah? Why not take the boat of those who are ungrateful? Or who sin without caring? Did i not worship You enough? Did i not pray my salah? Did i not fast?
My husband and i are in Mauritius rn & this lady ran up to us when we were leaving a restaurant. I thought i’d left something behind but she said, “I’m so sorry, you probably don’t hear this often about your niqab but seeing you wearing it made me so happy & im so proud of you.”
You have to have reached a level of independence and self-love before you get married. Yes, your spouse is there to love you, and it’s okay to depend and rely on them sometimes, but not to the point where they’re the answer to every problem. They’re not. You have to love yourself
My teacher mentioned something so profound today. There’s an ayah in Surah ‘Ankaboot that says, “There are many animals on earth that do not worry about provision at all. Allah gives them their rizq, and He will give it to you too. And Allah is All-Hearing & All-Knowing.” [29:60]
But Musa عليه السلام didn’t know there was an oppressive King — if that boat hadn’t been destroyed, the King would’ve taken it leaving no means of livelihood for the poor people. Allah, in His infinite love, mercy and Wisdom knew a broken boat would be of no use to a King
When the timing is right, you’ll meet the person destined for you, in the most beautiful of ways. You’ll see how they ease the pain in your heart and make you feel whole with the love they give. They’ll remind you of why the others didn’t work. Why you had to go through heartache
One of my favourite ayaat in the Qur’an is,
وَلَسَوۡفَ يُعۡطِيۡكَ رَبُّكَ فَتَرۡضٰىؕ
“And very soon, your Lord will give you so much that you will be satisfied.”
[93:5]
It brings such comfort to the heart knowing that, maybe it will take time but my Lord will bless me
Musa عليه السلام doesn’t understand why. He asks Khidr عليه السلام why he destroyed that boat? What did they ever do to him for him to treat them so harshly? Put yourself in that poor families shoes. Imagine you are them with a boat & it gets destroyed. You wonder to Allah, why?
My mother in law and i discuss this almost every other week. There is such a need for female scholarly presence both online and locally. Alhamdulillah, men have access to male scholars, where they have their numbers saved and message them whenever they need.
I’ve been getting a lot of questions regarding this so i thought i’d do a little thread:
Questions you can ask a potential 📌
I’ve divided them into 10 sections to make things a little easier. These are just general and not something you feel you have to ask. You can take out
One of our goals in Ramaḍan should be to increase our khushū in our ṣalāh. To pray our ṣalāh with utmost humility and turning and focusing our mind and heart fully on Allah ﷻ. Only when we experience this, will we find sweetness in our ṣalāh.
When i was young, I always used to think after you get married, you live happily ever after with the love of your life. But growing up, i started to realise marriage can be a test for some, your love can be a test, children can be a test, not having children can also be a test.
Twitter really isn’t a place where we publicise our family matters. It’s a breach of trust if we come on here and tell strangers what goes on within our home. These things are meant to be dealt with in private so it saves those involved from being talked about by strangers.
We take so much for granted subhanaAllah and we don’t realise the blessings we’ve been given until we see someone who doesn’t have that. May Allah bless this child and his parents
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Blind kid experiences his first curb by himself.
In Juz 19, Surah Furqan, Allah makes mention of a powerful verse. “The day the wrongdoer will bite his hand saying, ‘I wish i had taken the path of the Messenger. Woe to me! I wish i had not taken so & so as a friend.’ Indeed he led me astray from the advice after it came to me”
Brothers should try getting married under 25.
Trust me once you get past this age, you stop getting proposals and worse you get rejected, unless you belong to a super rich family or you earn well
Other than that no woman will really be considering a guy past this age.
This is a lesson for us to never look down on others and to always remember that our wealth, ultimately does not belong to us. It’s something that has been given to us by Allah so give thanks to Him by way of sadaqah and He will only grant barakah in what we have.
I once saw my teachers praying salah in the dark, and I didn’t understand why. Then i tried it for myself, and subhanaAllah, it reminded me how dark my grave will be. It reminded me of how dark the day of judgement will be and my salah has never been the same since then.
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Camera man: Mashallah at the boys for helping their dads.
Boy: Who’s the guest?
Guests: Me
Boy: You’re not welcome.
Guests: Why?
Boy: Mum’s been in the kitchen since yesterday. So you can eat and go straight back home
Tahajjud really does make you feel more content and tranquil. Even if things don’t make sense to you, you know that everything is in the hands of Allah and that, in itself, is reassurance enough.
Absolutely terrified about what is going to happen. The only thing comforting me rn is the fact that nothing goes unnoticed in the eyes of Allah swt. They will have to answer for every pain, every suffering, every tear and anguish they put the people of Palestine through.