Comments on: Got My Acceptance Letter, Did You?

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:37:56 +0000

Simply amazing mA. May Allah Swt reward you Mohannad.

By: Abdulrahman Alhashemi

Abdulrahman Alhashemi — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:27:40 +0000

Salaam brothers and sisters,
Usually I try to get a core moral of such a piece, especially when it is talking about an individual incident!
Here, the lesson or the tip I came up with is the following:
To live with ALLAH, that is what Islam is all about. To always have HIM in my mind, even if I am falling short in obeying everything HE commanded me to do.
We all claim that ALLAH is number one in our life! But when it comes to applying this claim to our intentions and/or deeds, there we begin to fall short in proving it in reality!

Thank you brother Mohannad for such a decent and honest reminder.

May ALLAH love us to love HIM enough to prove it in our life.

Abdulrahman Alhashemi.

By: Abu Majeed

Abu Majeed — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:17:08 +0000

Salamu alaikum bro,

Good message and nice Quranic points. 🙂 One issue to be clear on though, Eid al-Fitr is only one day. The three days is a cultural custom which is fine, but from a Fiqh perspective you may fast the second of shawwal. Actually some scholars said that in order to get the reward for the 6 days of Shawwal you must start from the second.

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:19:19 +0000

In reply to Zaufishan. Well put Sr. Zaufishan - agreed this piece was a great, humbling reminder.

By: Abu Shoaib

Abu Shoaib — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:31:09 +0000

Salam-o-alaikum,

Interesting write, however I would like to quote certain things. I have heard some scholars differentiate between punishment and test. Every incident, not just hardship but some good happening too, can be either a test or punishment. The rule is simple (according to the ulemas) if you remember Allah SWT during that event then its a test, and if you forget Allah SWT and start cursing (if bad thing) or enjoying uncontrollably (without saying thanks if its good thing), then it is a punishment of Allah SWT.

Coming to the authors incident of making to the Fajar prayer is what I would consider as a I sign, although he watched movie but in his heart he was aware of the fajar prayer and had this feeling he might miss it. Allah SWT has said (according to scholars quoting hadeeth) if you take one step towards Allah, Allah SWT takes 10 steps towards you. If you walk towards Him, He comes running to you.

I have heard scholars say ask for two things only that are worth more than anything we can imagine, Hidayah and Maghfirah…

May Allah forgive and guide us all..

By: María M

María M — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:02:37 +0000

Assalamualaikom,
I don´t agree with the beggining completely, there is always a message behind everything that happens to us. And in my humble oppinion, you should notice that punishment and reward are both extremes of the human condition, it is showing us the duality of our humanity, and in this case (the lady´s friend), I see her flattering about how good she was, opposite to do I deserve that someone punish me this way, both are extremes of the same candle, both reflects our human condition, and it is something we have to solve inside of ourselves, if I do god, I´m not talking about it, it is something between God and me, and if I can not shut myself, “Astagfiroullah” and if I think I´m receiving wrong, “Astagfiroullah”, because we are not conscious of all our thoughts, words and acts, even when we are working to be as awake as possible, we are human. And asking for Pardon, Forgiveness doesn´t mean we are bad people or that we should punish ourselves, it means we are awake to the Right Path, where we know, He is the One above all, He sees all, and we are here to get closer to Him, bit by bit, living, and when I say living is living, not just surviving in fear of I am wrong or right, when we do the right thing, we know it from deep inside, we can try to lie ourselves, but we cannot do it.
Everything has a purpose, the energy is not wasted, …every human being is too precious, and, of course, each of our paths in life, it doesn´t matter who we are,
because we all have the opportunity while we are alive to wake up to Him, I do believe He love us all, and has the Infinite Patiente and Love to wait until everyone of us wake up to Him.
Thank you for helping me to grow.
Salamat
María

By: Zaufishan

Zaufishan — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:11:29 +0000

This has to be one of the most humbling pieces on the site; mashaallah – simple, humbling, a little nudge to wake one up from sleep.
Good omens exist in Islam, and all calamities are not punishments but rather invitations. If one test misses us, another will strike, if that one gets past, another, and this happens until we go back home.
An excellent question then: at which holy contact did we respond to like the muttaqin?

Ah, to be a travelling believer.
Jazakallah khairan br.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:47:49 +0000

Subhanallah with each hardship also Allah sends many ease, strength and cleanses us.We need to keep on asking Allah for the Tawakkal to be stead fast. InshAllah.