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’
“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?’
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.
Continue reading ‘iTech: Your Search is Over! Islamic Search Engines’
Sometimes, many of us feel that we have really become engrossed, or in fact absorbed by this world and its hustle and bustle, and its glamour and so on. But a lot of us never get that feeling, or ever come to that moment of reflection. We’re soo engulfed by whatever it is that we’re doing in this world, that we don’t even sit back for a while and reflect. Many people lose sight of reality, and they only realize it when their time is up.
Mu’aadh Ibn Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet Muhammad (may Allah send peace and blessings on him) said:
لاَ تَزُولُ قَدَمَا اِبْنِ آدَمَ يَومَ القِيـمَةَ عِندَ رَبِّهِ حَتَّى يُسْئَلَ عَنْ خَمْسٍ: عَنْ عُمْرِهِ فِيمَا أَفْنَـاه. وعَنْ شَبَابِهِ فِيمَا أَبْلَـه. وعَنْ مَالِهِ مِنْ أَينَ اكْتَسَبَه, وفِيمَا أَنْفَقَه. وعَنْ عِلْمِهِ ومَاذَا عَمِلَ بِه
That, a human being, will not move forward (in other words, he’ll just be fixed standing – and will not be able to move forward) on the Day of Judgment, with their Lord, unless and until they’re asked about 5 things. 
Continue reading ‘You will not Move Forward!’
By Abdul-Basit Khan
We have just recently begun a new year, in the pages of history. 2009, according to the Gregorian Calendar. And 1430, according to the Islamic Calendar. As the subject has been brought up, I want to share with you the story behind the Islamic Calendar and its importance in the life of every Muslim. Continue reading ‘The New Year – 1430′
Many of us feel left out. We feel deprived. We feel depressed. We feel very sad at heart. This is because many of us did not get the opportunity to go and visit the Sacred House of Allah this year. Some of us may have already gone for Hajj, but yet we miss the Ka’bah already. Many of us have never gone for Hajj, and we feel extremely disheartened.
But don’t feel sad, and don’t feel deprived. Continue reading ‘Sad you missed out on Hajj?’
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