SPEED - A Dua'a to Him Who Settles All Affairs

Life is a mad rush. There are academic, household, physical, and emotional demands that make a person keep running one of those hamster wheels that do not stop unless the hamster is exhausted. I, for one, have also considered picking up some of those 5 hour energy drinks they advertise on television but kept myself from doing so because of the obvious risk of cancer! Coffee works, but fails after reaching its crescendo. Dua'a is the only thing that will get me through, I know.

Allah (swt) is Powerful over all things. His supremacy overrules time itself. Nobody is to question His beginning and end because there are none. I cannot imagine infinite beginning and infinite end, can you?

He will pull back the dimension of time altogether when the world would come to an end, it's called the End of Times for the same reason. So, He has this limitless store that He can grant me from. I ask for speed.

Mistakes are to Learn From - On Missing Fajr

Missing my Fajr prayer this morning, going horribly wrong after a dedicated struggle, was like falling into a gutter hole while running an Olympian marathon. It was clearly Shaytan's work when I woke up at 4:30am and, in a delusional frame of mind, switched off my 5:30am alarm.

Mistakes are to learn from and a person who does not accept his or her mistakes, can never learn. I have come across several individuals who are in active denial of their mistakes. They do not grieve about what they have done wrong, but they find excuses to justify the cause of the wrong they have committed.

I do not wish to be one of those, so I acknowledge my mistakes and humiliate myself for a long time about going wrong. That's the way to do it. If I embarrass myself in front of myself, I would be more accountable for my wrong.

Jumaah Approaches

The blessings of Jumaah begin as Thursday's sun sets and the moon rises. It's Thursday afternoon, as I type this, and it's pretty dreary so I would appreciate Jumu'ah's blessings as dusk falls, insha'Allah. This time I have decided to get a head start on the Surah Al-Kahf recitation