assalamu alaikum wrwb everyone!
{Haj pilgrims pray during the annual Muslim pilgrimage in the holy city of
Mecca in Saudi Arabia}
i know late but had to say it 
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Ok i can’t even get into the details of the Umrah trip. All I can do is thank my dear Lord for giving such an opportunity.. swear cannot believe I was there and it all happened. (Allah swt please invite us all to visit your house and the beloved Prophet again and again!) will tell u abt it when we meet insha allahJ
There’s the hadith (or saying?) (correct me if you know it right) goes: Abu Lahab saw the Prophet, …..and the blessed Sahaba(companions) also saw the Prophet, but what one saw was entirely different from what the other saw. The Sahaba saw noor (light and guidance) while Abu Lahab saw his worst enemy.
For a Muslim it should b that when we see something bad we better see it as wrong, an something good, take it, benefit from it and appreciate its goodness. Likewise, some people may see the Kaaba and visit our dear Prophet and see and feel indifferent to it, just another tourist spot….whats so special? (Please Allah never let us become Ghafil!) And others see it for its reality. There is a hadith that says that those who believe see things through Allah’s Noor (light of guidance). If we stop seeing things through the light of Allah, we need a serious checkup. those thingies that electrocute a persons heart back to life. need some of those.
Oh Allah please make us love what you love and hate what you hate
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and the tongue can b the fastest pathway to hell .
So decided am going to make a chart where i write an X on it for every time i am offensive (to parents, to siblings, teachers, friends) or say something unneccasary (gossip, chat of rubbish for unreturning minutes etc).
if i get 10 X's have to show the paper to 5 people no matter how dippy it feels
And maybe record what i've done next to the X.
This way must bear the shame as others look upon my actions.........better now than on the day of Judgement!!!!! front of the entire planet, and most important in front of Allah swt. that wud b a shame. so can’t laugh this off. Seriously
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To help us all in getting better manners
Remember these hadith about respecting parents:
Narrated by Abi Abder Rahman Abdullah bin Massoud (May Allah be pleased with him) saying: I asked the Prophet (pbuh), "which deed is more liked by Allah?" He replied, "Prayers on time." Then I asked, "Which one is next?" He said, "Goodness to parents."
In Surah Al-Isra' (Children of Israel) there is a very beautiful description of how parents are to be treated. Allah (swt) says:
"Your Lord had decreed, that you worship none save Him, and (that you show) kindness to parents. If one of them or both of them attain old age with you, say not "Fie" unto them nor repulse them, but speak unto them a gracious word. And lower unto them the wing of submission through mercy, and say: My Lord! Have mercy on them both, as they did care for me when I was young." [17:23-24]
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it means don’t even say “uff” (fie, like a grunt), a sound that is rude to them, let alone a word!!! And it is considered a Major Sin to b rude to parents.
May we do our best to respect our parents, to honor them, to be kind to them, to help them, and to please them for the love of Allah.
O Allah! Accept our prayers and make us obedient servants to you.
O Allah! Help us to be respectful children to our parents. Ameen.
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then we talk about being rude to others and gossiping etc:
Rememeber the hadith about how one evil sentence may drop a person 70 years in hell.
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article on a most dangerous body part
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THE TONGUE
by Young Muslims
Pick your teeth!
It's one of the greatest sins and yet it's something we do day after day. Sometimes we don't even realize it. You're just chatting away with your friends and you begin to talk about somebody else. Our whole lives are based around soaps/shows based on lying, backbiting and cheating. But look at what the Prophet (saw) said about it:
The Prophet (saw) was sitting with his companions one day and one of them was speaking badly about someone who wasn't there. As the man got up to leave the Prophet (saw) said to him: "Pick your teeth!" "But I haven't eaten anything", the man protested. "No", the Prophet (saw) said "you have eaten the flesh of your dead brother!"
As Allah tells us in the Qur'an: "Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? No, you would hate it." [al-Qur'an 49:12]
But what if it's true?
The Prophet (saw) told us, "Backbiting is to say something about someone they wouldn't like said about them ... If what bad you said about them is true, then you have backbitten and if it is false then you have slandered them!" [Muslim]
If you're still not convinced of how big a sin backbiting really is, then look at the punishment Allah has in store for the backbiters. The Prophet (saw) described: "On the night of Miraaj (the Prophet's ascension to heaven), I passed by some people who had metal hooks in their hands and were clawing at their faces and their necks with them. I asked Jibraeel 'Who were these people?' He said 'These are the people who eat the flesh of human beings and disgrace them' " [Abu Dawud].
This is how big of a sin backbiting is looked upon and yet we continue to backbite without a second thought, next time you lie, talk about somebody, remember Allah (swt) and the Prophet (saw) and put them in front of you before you speak.
Just having a laugh!
May be we think it's all right to take the mick out of (make fun of) someone so long as we say it to their face. We'll make fun of the way someone talks, walks, or how they look. Allah warns us against such behavior:
"O you who believe, let not some men laugh at others, it may be that they are better than you. Nor let some women laugh at others it may be that they are better than you. Nor abuse each other, nor be sarcastic to each other by using offensive nicknames..." [al-Qur'an 49:11]
Don't forget that Allah made us the way we are, so how can you even think of making fun of his creation?
Cool to swear?
Listen to yourself and to your friends speaking one day - nearly every sentence will have a swear word in it, thinking it's cool and macho to swear, copying the idols of TV and the cinema. Is it really 'cool' to swear? The Hellfire is far from being cool. People will wish they were cool then rather than being cool in this world. Remember! That every time you speak , an angel writes down what you say, and that one day you will have to answer for every single word you ever uttered. So if you swear at someone then it's written down as a sin against you. You're only harming yourself. The Prophet (saw) said that "abusing a Muslim is a sin and fighting with him is disbelief" [Muslim].
But sometimes you just have to swear!
We've all been there - you're just so angry with somebody and the only way you can express yourself, is to swear at them. The solution? Don't get angry in the first place. A man came to the Prophet (saw) one day and said "Advise me". The Prophet (saw) said "Don't become angry. Don't become angry. Don't become angry... when one of you gets angry while he is standing up, he should sit down. Then anger will leave him, and if not then he should lie down" [Ahmad]. Another hadith says to make wudhu when you get angry.
So let us follow this beautiful advice of the Prophet (saw) and remember that anger is from Shaytan. If someone angers you or swears at you then don't harm yourself by doing the same but respond in a better way as Allah says in the Qur'an "Repel evil with what is better. Then he who was your worst enemy will become your best friend." [al-Qur'an 41:33]
It wasn't me who said it!
How often do we say such a phrase or say that "I was only joking". We treat lies as being trivial. However we are told that Allah's messenger did not hate anything more than lying [Ahmed]. The Prophet (saw) was once asked "Can a Muslim be a coward?" He (saw) replied "Yes". He was then asked "Can a Muslim be a miser?" and the reply was "Yes". The Prophet (saw) was again asked "Can a Muslim be a liar?" The Prophet (saw) replied "No! A Muslim can never be a liar".
Furthermore, he said "Truth leads to virtue and virtue leads to paradise... Lying leads to wickedness and wickedness leads to the hellfire" [Bukhari]. As we know that one lie leads to another ten lies which lead to bad actions. Remember you can lie and think that you have got away with it but on the Day of Judgment your hands, tongue and feet will bear testimony against you and tell the truth.
But it's only words!
One day, one of the Companions asked the Prophet (saw): "O Messenger of Allah, will we be called to account for what we say?" He replied "People will be thrown, faces down into the hellfire, only on account to what their tongues said!" [Tirmidhi]
Indeed the tongue controls the rest of your body. A well controlled tongue will keep us within Islam but a loose tongue will destroy us. The Prophet (saw) said: "When a person gets up in the morning, all the parts of his body make a plea to his tongue saying 'Fear Allah regarding us, because we follow you. If you are right then we shall also be right , and if you are wrong then we shall also be wrong'." [Tirmidhi]
Instead of swearing, lying and engaging in useless talk we can use our tongues in better ways and what better than telling people about Islam. Allah says: "Who is better in speech than one who calls (people) to Allah and works righteousness and says I am one of those who bow down in Islam" [al-Qur'an 41:33]
I must be doomed!
"I have lied, backbitten people, and swear all the time. I must be going to hell!"
No! Allah (swt) tells us in the Qur'an: "O my servants who have wronged themselves, never despair of the mercy of Allah - for truly He forgives all sins. He is the Forgiving, the Merciful." [al-Qur'an 39:53]
So if you really repent and turn back to Allah and promise not to commit the sin again then truly Allah's promise is true and He will forgive you. If you've backbitten someone - go and tell the person whom you backbitten and apologize sincerely and ask them to forgive you. But if you think that the situation will get worse then turn back to Allah sincerely begging for his forgiveness then to make up for what you said, go around and talk good of him.
The best example
As we know that the best person to have ever lived is the Prophet Muhammad (saw) and he is the best of example for mankind. If we follow him we can never go wrong. Aisha (ra), the Prophet's wife, described the Prophet's conduct as follows "He was neither an obscene talker nor a user of bad words. He did not shout nor did he repay evil with evil. He used to forgive people and overlook their sins" [Tirmidhi].
Final word of advice
A beautiful saying of the Prophet (saw) that will ensure the protection of our tongue.
Abu Hurairah narrated that the messenger of Allah said :
"Let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day either speak good or keep silent..."
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That is one good article.
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ok I miss sina. Sina seriously I rememebered u (an ur mom) 10 + times in my umrah and I made so much dua for u that i was jealous lol jk. but seriously 600,000 plus Egyptians were there for umrah!! And my itikaf sisters were all Egyptian and on my way to Medina I kept seeing this girl who looked just like u. good lord. I was like what is going on with sina. and Zahra I missed u an Nadine much too… mournfully I didn’t c any look-alikes but its k the Egyptians were enough J but basically I remembered all of u not just Egyptians (before we have the birth of a dozen cows lol) Ayah I rememberd u every time I saw a freakin camera coz of u telling me u saw me on TV w/ my blu dupatta when I went that other year heh miss u J the rest of u im not going name by name but I honestly rememebrd everyone even my xanga girls– including “naila” J May Allah swt guide us all!
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Here, are some interesting comics.
hmph
here's one way to excersize
this one is funny. but not.
that clarifies things
zahra this ones for u lol no pun intended heh love u    
thats so me
my aunt swears her phone is tapped lol so she calls the “tappers”(what do u call them) names in urdu which I dare not utter an refers angrily to the "Bushes" (they who musnt b named) in her backyard. She claims she hears the tappers breathing, and occasionally, clearing their throats, as she yaks with her comrades. 3 letters: LOL
and here is the best picture… weep at its beauty! harder! ok now pause.
gotta hand it to the saudi’s….. The amount of service they have done for Islam by taking care of the Haram Shareef is unreal…….imagine for hajj and for Ramadan they take care of 3 million plus people including the Eating, Hoteling, Sleeping, sickness, Funeral/Death, Praying, Iftaari of everyone. Not to mention the maintenance of the building. They have over 3000 people who come clean the masjid, refill the zam zam, take care of chaos, security, etc. Like Maghrib time, theres a huge mess in places after iftaari and by Isha they’ve wiped it clean. And if u’ve seen the sheer size of the place. u know that aint easy. May Allah swt protect the Haram Shareef and bless and guide those who strive for His cause in any way. May He forgive all of our shortcomings and may he make us sincere and constantly poking about for good deeds. May Allah swt make us overlook the faults of others and focus instead on perfecting ourselves.
Ameen
the center of the world
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k everyone please make dua for me coz I have a ton of homework but there’s no one there to do it
have the following to complete:
3 speeches to write / present
2 speech written exams
3 chapters of health to read, then take test
3 chapters of Business communication
4 Chapters of Microsoft Office stuff to do (each chapter has 17 lessons and each lesson has a 6-15 step problem in it.
5 Lessons of Math
-and once I do alll that, I will b caught up. i should b troubled.
see me write in Xanga u knw what that means. Me. Denial. and lots of homework. I need Maryam Khalil. I rememebr her (an every other teacher/student that existed in MIA heh) encouraging me to do my homework. u made me grab my text book and cling for dear life. the lovely girl wud b like "khadija im so proud of u ur finally studying!!" (*Shaitaan gasps an rustles about to find me a fresh new distraction*) an u all rememebr me an my scrapbooks. good lord were the teachers oblivious. or so it seemed. zahra rememebr me sneezing an falling out the chair in br abu abdullah's class *wistful*
i miss u all. snif
i’ll b off
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keep life simple my dears
dear MIA girl  is that dorky? a little right . but i do! an shall declare for all to witness. ok now thattt. was dorky. lol  .
imagine how long it took me to write this?? lol an all to avoid studying. i just washed the dishes an cleaned the house too. well at least by my definition of clean the house. and the worse part is that if i dont get a 4.0 in every class i will eat a cottonball. or at least feel like eating one.
45:3 (Surah Jathiyah)
”Verily in the heavens and the earth, are Signs for those who believe"
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saving the world with my strength of 4 and a half toothpicks. But they r too far to help so i can only pray and allah swt will surely answer our duas…. th day of judgement approaches my dears. wars earthquakes gays dajjal (to name a few)?. My papa told me scholars have debated that the tv is the dajjal's culture. it is kind of one eyed, and it is leading a whole bunch of people to the fire, be them actors sinning or people watching actors sinning (“to watch the sin is to do the sin”agreed?) some things need to b taken metaphorically, so may b true allahu a’lam!! is worth contemplating. i can't wait til Issa AS returns. check out this site, its good for dawah i think: 
