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 

A Few Square Feet

As I offered my Salaam at the end of the Maghrib prayer this evening and sat down to recite a few words of Tasbih (Glorification of God), I pondered over the reality of that moment. I compared how my prayer and its feel has changed over the past couple of years. Alhamdulillah, a wave of satisfaction washed over me. I thought of the few square feet of rug, the prayer mat, that I was sitting on and then the few square feet of the grave that I'd be buried in. These are the two only real places that we are supposed to think about and prepare for while we are alive because they form the foundation of our next life for us. 

The world is a very attractive illusion that offers all forms of fortune and entertainment. It seeks to pull us away from preparing for these two places that we are to remember always: prayer and the grave. Shopping, food, events, shows, and the big show that the world puts up blind us to the extent of forgetting that the real deal of being alive is to bow down to the One who gifted us all this to begin with.

We prepare, in fact over prepare, for the most common of worldly things: a dinner party, a job interview, an assignment, an exam, and even before receiving a phone call we brace ourselves to face it. The real preparation is that for offering one's prayer and to prepare for one's death. 

Preparing for prayer is underestimated to be only the performing of Wudu (ablution). You need to ask yourself, "Am I worthy of facing my Creator?" and the very answer would suffice to bring you down on your knees.

Dua’a Request for My Grandma in Her Last Stage of Life

My beautiful, brave, and beloved grandmother, Firdaus Yousufi is in her last stage of life. She’s been fighting Multiple Myeloma, cancer of the bone marrow, for 6 painful years. She’s journeyed this far with countless blood transfusions and Allah’s Will. Now, her body’s given up. Blood transfusions are not working, she cannot swallow food and water, kidney functions are impaired; she’s urinating via a catheter tube, and severe bed sores on her entire body have undergone countless surgeries. Doctors say it is time for her to pass whenever Allah wills. Please, take a moment to make dua’a that she doesn’t suffer any longer and pass into the next world with ease and peace, inshAllah.

Love and Dua'as from Muslim Brothers and Sisters
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• Hubbal Jadeed sicknes is frm Allah and cure is frm Allah, may Allah gv her sabr and a reward 2. Amin amin.
  

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  Taking Muslim Initiative Insha'Allah she will be in my dua'as. I'A this hadith will make you feel better.
  
  Narrated Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri and Abu Huraira (R.A): The Prophet said, "No fatigue, nor disease, nor sorrow, nor sadness, nor hurt, nor distress befalls a Muslim, even if it were the prick he receives from a thorn, but that Allah expiates some of his sins for that." (Bukhari: Volume 7, Book 70, Number 545)

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• Du'a Request Line https://www.facebook.com/DuaRequestLine#!/photo.php?fbid=223182784380053&set=o.215438011281&type=1&comments
  

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  Hijab Hippie Ameen
  

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  Abu Khalid Mack May Allah give her life as long as there is good in it for her, and may He gave her death when there is good in that for her!

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• Hanaa Elba I'm so sorry to hear that may Allah help her and ease her from her pain and suffering and may she be granted paradise Inshallah and may Allah give you and your family paciance take care sister
  

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  Anum Ali InshAllah ta'ala! May Allah reward your effort to share my feelings and make dua'a
  

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  Hanaa Elba thank you sister may Allah reward you also Inshallah :)
  

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  Aqua Pari i'll pray for her nd i'll make spl dua for her... insha allah...allah help her nd ease her frm her pain nd suffering nd may she be granted paradise Inshallah nd may Allah swt giv u and ur family sabar...
  

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  Denise Dobyns may Allah make her transition easy
  

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  Kaylynn Lee Strain may Allah give her peace in the grave and forgive her sins
  

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  Sadaf Bashir i pray to ALLAH (swt) to give her peace and keep her on a bed of rose petals.
  

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  Assia Mustafa My prayers are with her and you all xx
  

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  Anum Ali My grandma is the luckiest... she's receiving dua'as from my sisters in Islam. mashAllah.