Archives / 2009 / October

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Blogging. Islamified.

“OMG, my coffee spilled!” A few weeks ago, I had written about how my Gmail got hacked into and how you really don’t know what you got until it’s gone. Jawaad (another MYM blogger) commented, “MashaAllah a very insightful post indeed. I’m smiling at how you take such an irrelevant issue and relate it to your Deen.” For me, I wrote of that incident without much thought. Why? Because Islam is literally a way of life for all Muslims. The idea of ‘separation of and state’ is something...

31 October 2009 | Activism | , , , | 8 Comments
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Your Search is Over!

Have you ever gone through hundreds of Google pages trying to find a certain hadith or ayah, and have only been left with “Izlam is a violent religion” and other inaccurate information? I posed my thought and Alhamdulillah got some great responses.

31 October 2009 | Activism | , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments
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Editing with Excellence

For part 1 of this two-part article, which speaks about video taping, see here. As Muslims, we always have to try to do our best in anything we do. For, as stated by the Messenger of Allah (Salallahu ‘Alayhi Wasallam), “Verily, Allah has prescribed proficiency in all things.” (Hadith #17, An-Nawawi 40 Hadith). Therefore, whatever we produce, we must produce it with Ihsaan (translated as excellence or proficiency). Therefore, we can’t have those videos with boring titles, horrible audio and video quality, and a straight, one-angle shot of a...

21 October 2009 | Activism | , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments
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Divine GPS: Istikharah

Shaykh Hossam (who taught at the Islamic University of Madinah for over 10 years, has received many Ijaazaat, and is a senior scholar) has been teaching myself and others a beautiful Dua’ for a number of nights now, and I wanted to share it with you in this post. It is called the Du’aa’ of Istikhaarah, which the Prophet taught to his Companions. It is narrated in Saheeh al-Bukhari that Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) said, The Prophet used to sit and teach us the (Supplication of) Istikharah...

18 October 2009 | Worship | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment
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An Unstoppable Murder

By Arif Kabir Reading the Washington Post, I came across a first page article that really struck me; it was basically about an Amtrak engineer who had watched a dozen suicides happen in front of his eyes over the course of 20 years. People would be sitting in the middle of train tracks just waiting to be hit, and the train engineers would not be able to deter the person with their frantic horn blasts and their attempts to brake the 75-mph train. As the article mentions: “When I...

17 October 2009 | Activism | , , , , , , | 1 Comment