Go to any quotation site, and you’ll notice that most quotes come from only famous people.
However, whoever said that wisdom comes primarily from famous people?
The following is a compilation of true stories and conjured tales from MYM staff writers (as well as a special guest writer towards the end) that think otherwise and have encountered wisdom from unlikely sources. If you would like to submit your personal story, please leave a comment and we will add it to this post! So here goes:
Sr. Maryam: Go Down To Go Up
I remember going to a hospital for a meeting with a doctor. I got off the car, the hospital’s entrance door was a few steps away, and I was walking really fast towards it because I was a bit late but then I suddenly stopped. It wasn’t premeditated because I had other things on my mind at that time and I didn’t know why I had stopped walking.
But when I looked at my feet, I saw a chained fence just a feet above the ground and then I thanked God, because if I hadn’t stopped, I would have fallen in front of all those people and would have been laughed at, or perhaps I would have badly injured myself. As I carefully walked past the fence, I smiled because that incident made me reminisce something that happened ages ago, a time when I was in Grade 6.
Continue reading ‘Wisdom From Unlikely Sources’
The Battle of Badr took place in the blessed month of Ramadaan in the 2nd year after the Hijrah.
The Battle of Badr has been referred to in the Qur’aan as the “Day of Furqaan”. Furqaan in Arabic means to separate and to distinguish because on that day, Allah clearly distinguished truth from falsehood. On that day, He gave the believers a sound victory and vanquished the hopes and aspirations of the disbelievers who were attempting to bring an end to the growing Islamic Movement.
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When Imam Nawawi was young, he used to be pursued by the children of his town as they continually asked him to join them in their games.
They used to sneer, jeer, and try every conceivable method to get him to join, but he used to break away from them crying while saying,
“Allah did not create me to play”
Continue reading ‘The Outlook of Young Imam An-Nawawi’
New E-Book for all
Alhamdulillah, ProductiveMuslim.com has released an eBook entitled, Mission: Ramadan. It basically comprises of 30 bloggers each writing on one theme, this year being Qur’an, for the month of Ramadan. Go ahead and click the cover image to view the eBook!
In the book itself, there are two articles written by MYM staff writers – Day 2 has been written by Jawaad Ahmad Khan (personal website) and Day 28 by Yours Truly (also published on MYM).
Continue reading ‘MYM is featured in Mission:Ramadan!’
“Islam began as something strange, and will revert to being strange as it began. So give glad tidings to the strangers.”
-The Messenger of Allah (sallalahu ‘alayhi wasallam) (narrated by Muslim (145) from Abu Hurayrah)
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Are you a stranger? Or are you just an average Joe?
Are you DIFFERENT? Or do you fit in with the crowd just fine?
Below is a poem from spoken word poet Silent-K (Raa’id Khan) on the identity of Muslim youth.
Continue reading ‘Are You Different?’
OMG, my coffee spilt!
Picture by Lee Jordan via Flickr
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.”
Continue reading ‘Blogging. Islamified.’
Eid Mubarak to all of you from the MYM staff!
We’re very proud to give you an Eid gift this year – We’re very proud and grateful to Allah to announce that http://youthmusings.wordpress.com is now …MuslimYouthMusings.com!!
This project had began with one person but soon progressed to include writers from all over the nation. No longer is it a .wordpress blog, but a youth blog dedicated especially for the Muslim youth and for the Islamic revival all over the world. The MYM staff realized this change and thus upgraded to this new domain so that we can now have a unique identity in the Muslim blogosphere. We pray that Allah (subhanahu wa ta’ala) blesses this project and other projects that culminate as a result of this effort. Ameen…
If you’re interested in joining us and becoming a staff writer, please be sure to email us. JazaakumAllahu Khayran!
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