As a Muslim youth, Ramadan rolls around every year, and it means certain things to each of us. For some, it means being able to go to the Masjid more often. For others, our families come together, and for some, it means a much needed diet. However, it seems that as each year passes, it isn’t able to affect us to a point where we try to change ourselves personally to an extent that this change might last past these thirty days. In a lot of our minds, Ramadan...
Saturday, July 25, 2010 IlmSummit, Houston, Texas Today was our first full day at IlmSummit, and I have to say, this was pretty intense. My roommate Hassan Rasool (a brother from Wisconsin) and I woke up at around 5:40am and quickly got ready for Fajr. We got to the hotel lobby in time Alhamdulillah, and we then prayed behind Qari Uthmaan Khan. His recitation was amazing Masha’Allah, and I felt myself relaxing as I stood there, letting the powerful words sweep by and sink through. After the prayer, we...
Editor’s Note: Alhamdulillah, we are excited to present that one of our MYM writers, Arif Kabir, will be live blogging from IlmSummit! Insha’Allah, for each day, he will be posting a brief recap of the day’s proceedings. You can view all of the IlmSummit posts over here. Friday, July 23, 2010 IlmSummit, Houston, Texas Preface – Alhamdulillah, Allah (subhanahu wa ta’ala) has blessed me with the opportunity to attend this year’s AlMaghrib IlmSummit. For those of you who don’t know, IlmSummit is a special summer program that AlMaghrib Institute...
The chorus was sung at MIST 2008 (please excuse the screaming crowd): (Verse one) I can’t escape, its everywhere I go In the news in the paper, in all that I know From state to state, shore to shore Plagued to the heart, down to the core Undivided and conquered we’re all torn apart This is coming from inside, straight from my heart This is all I’m thinking, day and night We seem to think we’re always right When I go to the Masjid, I don’t know who’s leading...
Ever wondered what was the difference between an ordinary person and an extraordinary person? It’s just that one remained ordinary, while the other went the extra mile, making him extraordinary. Sounds too simple to be true? Take a quick look at the famous personalities around us. Whether they are famous in the field of politics, sports, acting, or any other prolific career, they usually got there by simply putting in the extra time that others didn’t. In politics, anybody can theoretically run for an elected position, yet we only...
Ever since I was young, my parents never allowed me to get a game console. Never. Whether it be Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Sega Genesis, PS1, PS2, PS3, XBox, Xbox 360, or anything else, I was never allowed to play these at home. This made it really hard while in elementary and middle school because practically everybody at school had one type of game console or another, and most conversations pivoted on the newest games that would come out. I tried convincing my parents numerous times to let...
This is a question which has been lingering in the minds of many “Islamically-aware” youth in the Muslim community for a very long time. They may be the main volunteers in their Masjid, be active in their MSA, but cannot contemplate at why non-religious Muslim youth do not start practicing Islam after they tell them that their pants being too tight will cause them to go to hell :-/. My intention with this post is to shed some light as to the proper and most effective way of guiding...
All too often, we see individuals being raised up by their communities and then just leaving when they’re old enough. When they were younger, they used to attend the full-time/weekend school, spend hours at the playground with other children, attend the after-school Karate or sports program, participate in the community festivals, get scolded by their wizened elders, and get loved and spoiled by their uncles and aunties…They were being raised by the whole village, by the whole community. What do they decide to do?
When you look up at the night sky these days, in your own city, what do you see? For me, all I see are a bunch of gloomy clouds. MashaAllah it’s a beautiful picture, but tell me, do you see any STARs?
Just a few days ago, Algeria and Egypt had a neck-to-neck competition to see who would qualify for the 2010 World Cup. Players were stoned, people were held hostage, and there was general pandemonium…over a soccer game. What was most striking about this game was that these teams were both representing Muslim-majority Arab countries but yet, we saw so much enmity. Even putting all the hatred and enmity aside, it is amazing just to see the millions of Muslims that tuned in to watch the show. Shaykh Muhammad AlShareef...
