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  1. Heylo!

    Thursday, June 9, 2011

    Salaam everyone :)
    I know I've not been posting anything here lately. I've kinda been doing that cuz of some strangely unexplainable reasons. My blog is not all that anonymous as I'd intended it to be (blame my daftness). But because I have a strong- and probably unhealthy- relationship with my blog, here I am! :)

    So.. Uni is over, final exams over. They went much *much* better than I'd expected. Alhamdulillah X infinity! I really expected- and vaguely even wanted- to fail. Self-fulfilling prophecy failed, thank God! My brother is getting married next week, which makes everyone at home pretty much nerve-wrecked. Inshallah it all goes well. Had a few emotional meltdowns, fell off my stairs, ignored my Persian language lessons, got a fabulous dress for the wedding, burnt my expensive dupatta for the Nikah while ironing it, and broke (into infinitely small pieces) the aqeeq stone thingy with the names of the Ahlulbayt (a.s) set in it- which was to be worn by my bro during the Nikah- which just happened to be passed down the family from five generations! If you think I'm having a bad time, you've not even started to hear it all! Anywho, now is not a time for my negativity.

    Will leave for Iran early next month, Inshallah.
    It's weird thinking about how I'm going to live there. I don't know how badly I'll miss my family, friends and the city. Mostly family though. I try not thinking about it cuz.. I have a lot to work on anyway at the moment. I've absolutely no idea how the people would be like there. Would the girls in the hostel be mean? Would I get along with them? Would I find someone to hang out and talk with? I hope I get internet connection on my phone soon when I get there. Also, I hope I find some good trench coats and summer tunics while I'm in  Tehran :P Seriously though, main problem is the language barrier. I know how difficult it can be to express yourself without having access to a decent vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation.

    Today was Laylatul Raghaib- The Night of Hopes. It's comes on the first Thursday of the month of Rajab. There are some *highly* rewarding prayers to be performed today. I had intended to offer them, but then mood swing attacked and i didn't end up offering them. What a great loss. I pity me! Instead i read a poem by Rumi about death and what a dying person's real grief is. It was so amazingly deep and insightful. If I remember the title, I'll post it Inshallah.

    I'm off now. Will shortly be closing this blog, (as in discontinue writing here) and starting up a new one. Inshallah :)

    Bonne nuit! :)

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  2. The covert and disguised hypocrisy, cruelty and mind-numbing oppression of the Saudi regime and its KING is open and out in the public. So...why pretend there isn't a problem?? The media doesn't cover Bahrain, nor does the US, who is very vocally "against terrorism".  Please watch these videos and try spread awareness about the pressing issue the entire Muslim Ummah is facing.

    The Prophet (S) has said- One who wakes up and is not aware of the situation of his Muslim brothers and sisters is NOT a Muslim.

    Lets condemn and forbid evil the way it is supposed to be condemned and forbidden.



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  3. God's Mysterious Ways.

    Tuesday, May 10, 2011

    Sometimes there's just too much of mystery. Mystery that baffles you and leaves you without any answers.

    I believe in Ghaib. But...sometimes i feel i wish i was in on some of it. Especially that which concerns me and the direction of my life.

    Its like...till yesterday you thought THAT was what you were supposed to be doing, THAT was where your life was naturally headed, and THAT was what Allah had planned for and allotted for you. Except that those things just suddenly changed course and started going to this unknown, new, and unchartered opposite direction. A direction you have no idea leads where. No clue what is expected of you now. No clue how you're supposed to behave in this new, unfamiliar, uninhabited situation.

    It's like you were flying to a known destination, but your flight just lands somewhere else. And now you're in transit. And have no idea when you'll resume, or where you'll be heading off to next, or even if you'll resume at all...

    How do you be content with not knowing? How do you calm your perplexities? I know the answer is in tawakkul to Allah SWT. But what if you aren't there yet? What if you know what to do but don't know how to do it? What if you end up failing to recognize your new purpose, your new direction? What if you fail your test? And what if you're on sick leave and don't want to appear for it?

    I know. I couldn't get more vague.
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  4. Iran's intelligence minister says the country has reliable information that former head of the al-Qaeda terrorist group Osama bin Laden died of disease some time ago.

    “We have accurate information that bin Laden died of illness some time ago,” Heidar Moslehi told reporters on the sidelines of a Cabinet meeting on Sunday.


    He questioned Washington's claim that bin Laden was killed by American troops in a hiding compound in Pakistan on May 1.
    “If the US military and intelligence apparatus have really arrested or killed bin Laden, why don't they show him (his dead body) why have they thrown his corpse into the sea?” Moslehi asked.


    “When we apprehended [former Jundallah ringleader Abdul Malik] Rigi, we showed him and also aired his interview,” ISNA quoted the intelligence chief as saying.


    By releasing such false news, he said, the White House seeks to overshadow regional awakening.


    Moslehi said US officials resort to such PR campaigns to divert attention from their domestic problems as well as their “fragile” economic situation.


    US President Barack Obama claimed that Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces on May 1 in a hiding compound in Pakistan.
    A US official later announced that bin Laden's body was abruptly buried at sea, falsely boasting that his hasty burial was in accordance with the Islamic law, requiring burial within 24 hours of death.


    However, burial at sea is not an Islamic practice and Islam does not have a timeframe for burial.
    (PressTV)


    Gee, I wish they would publish the accurate inside info they have on the matter. I know you'd think Hey, Iran's always against USA but then it's not just Iran but practically the whole world speaking the same language hehe!

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  5. The daughter of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (peace be upon him and his progeny), was born on 20 Jamadi al-Thani. She was named Fatima, meaning "the weaned one". It is said she was given this name because she was weaned from the fires of hell, and the same would be true of her followers.

    Everyone who adopts the title of Shia claims by this title to be a follower of the Ahlul Bayt (peace be upon them), including Fatima (peace be upon her). To be someone's follower requires more than love and more than sharing grief. It requires knowledge of what that person said and did to be followed, and then application of that knowledge to the self. Followers of Fatima must learn whatever is possible about her true character and behaviors and sincerely endeavor to apply them in their own lives. It is a worthy endeavor because the supreme character and infallibility of Fatima makes her an ideal role model.
    As I read about the Lady Fatima, one characteristic rings loud and clear above all others; it emanates so strongly from her every act and word that she embodies this trait perfectly as an example for her followers. That defining trait is that she preferred Allah Almighty to the world in every instance. Never once did Fatima do or say anything to prefer this world. She weaned herself from it totally, and this is how she weaned herself from the fires of hell. Her whole life was for the message of Islam, not ever for herself. She rebelled against her personal needs, however simple, for the sake of the principle of Truth, while most people choose the comfort of the self.
    Her life was never one of ease. She spent her early years suffering from the blockade of the Muslims that would lead to the death of her mother Khadija and take the last of her wealth. After this, her father's protection through his uncle and wife were gone, and Fatima endured the suffering of her father. While they abused him, she never tried to protect herself from this hardship or became embarrassed about her father; instead, she was his comfort and helper, earning her the epithet she valued most: "the mother of her father".
    Throughout her short life, she endured extreme poverty for the sake of Islam. She did not have nice clothes, home furnishings or jewelry. Her garment was worn and patchy. On the day of her wedding, she had a new garment but learned that a lady had no garment to wear and thus could not leave her house, so she gave it away to her. When Imam Ali (peace be upon him) gave her a necklace, after her father saw it she realized that being the daughter of the Prophet (saw) and the connection between him and the pure progeny that came from her, she could not keep it for herself. She gave it to charity immediately. Her home furnishings were simple and few; when the Prophet called upon her and Ali while they rested, their thin bed cover could not reach their feet, and they had nothing else.
    When she and her family fasted, they had only bread and water to break their fast – yet when a needy person came to them, they gave away their bread and went hungry for three days. And she labored as hard as the poorest women of the Muslims, grinding grain for her family and for the helpless. Her fingers bled from the grinding, and her neck was permanently marked from a strap for carrying water. Her husband felt for her suffering so much that he encouraged her to ask the Prophet for a helper. But the Prophet knew that Fatima's destiny was that she was weaned from the world, and so he gave her instead the Tasbih that we now recite after our daily prayers.
    She was satisfied with this Tasbih over any worldly help or comfort. She took her joy from her praying, and she prayed so much that her feet would swell, but she never asked for herself. Instead, she praised Allah and prayed for the benefit of Islam and the people.
    After the Prophet died, she came out of her house and used her deep religious knowledge to remind people of the Truth and urge them to put their allegiance with Imam Ali and to fight for her right to Fadak. She angered not for her husband or her self, and she was not fighting for their personal rights. Rather, she expended herself to her last, because she knew the future of Islam was at stake. By denying her right to the administration of Fadak and her husband's right to the succession of the Prophet, the people were losing Islam, and they were giving away all the Prophet had done for them in favor of the world.
    Fatima was called Siddiqah, because she was the most truthful. She always sided with the Truth, preferring it to anything else no matter the cost, as the above examples show. A lesson the believers today should take from her is the uncompromising dedication to the Right Path and purity of intention in all acts – we can make our acts for Allah. She never sinned, and we can learn from her to avoid sin by taking care to know the Islamic Fiqh (jurisprudence) and adhere to it carefully. She lived simply, and we can learn from her to strive for the Hereafter rather than accumulating too many useless things in this world, so that on the Day of Judgment, we won't be questioned about how many outfits were in our closet, how many pieces of jewelry we owned, or how nice a car we had while people who had left rights of our neighbors, family, believers, or brethren in humanity unfulfilled.
    Without Fatima, Islam would be lost, and we would be lost. But Islam is not a body that stands alone in itself, preserved. Islam is action and not just thought. Therefore if we wish to love Fatima, grieve for Fatima, be followers of Fatima, and receive the gift of her intercession, we must learn how she lived and what she said as far as we are able, and then change ourselves to be more like Fatima.
    Taken from Islamic Insights

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  6. The dude died? Really??

    Tuesday, May 3, 2011


    Disclaimer- I couldn't care a tiny rat's ass if Osama Bin Laden was living or dead, hibernating or flying on a gigantic bird. Call it insensitive or un-Muslim like, whatever.

    So I don't think Osama Bin Laden is dead. I may be wrong of course, but I can at least tell you what I think and why.

    Firstly, the absolute covertness, secrecy and super quickness of the "operation" would definitely arouse suspicions. Lets go step by step, shall we. 

    1) The Operation-
    The operation was conducted by an all-American troop making the evidence seem shaky. Now I don't know about you, but a lot of people (including me) do not have much faith in American military operations around the world. Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine are not exactly the shining glory of American military operations. 
    No other nations' authorities or the UN were even informed on the pre- and post- operation detailed evidence. It was only Prez Obama which interacted with the intelligence agency in charge of the coup. America intended to and successfully did keep the affair "to themselves."

    2) The Evidence and DNA-
    I would like to see some non-manipulated photos, or DNA results which confirm his death. Actually, even if I do end up taking a look at these, I have no reason to believe with conviction that they are genuine and true. I'm sorry America, your political history just doesn't allow me to trust you! 

    Apparently, Osama's DNA results "confirmed" it was him. But so far, no one knows which samples were used or even what type of genetic tests were conducted. Comparing Osama's DNA to that of his parents or children would produce the second strongest results. Some sources state that Osama's son was also killed in the raid. Now even if his DNA was compared with this son, still it doesn't produce sure fire results since "Osama"'s DNA was collected only *after* his death. Sooo, you cannot use a DNA to tell it's Osama, you need Osama's DNA to tell its Osama!! Because you have no evidence of his "son" really being his son in the first place! This might sound convoluted but it makes sense in my head at least.

    3) The quick burial- 
    Now, this is my favorite part.
    Nobody got to take a sniff at Bin Laden's body (not that anybody would want to, but still). "Senior US officials said that his body would be disposed of in accordance with Islamic tradition, which involves ritual washing, shrouding and burial within 24 hours, and burying at sea is permitted in Islam in rare circumstances"- reports the Guardian.

    Seriously?? So, THATS why the burial was so swift? Because they wanted to respect Islamic death traditions for a killer and terrorist nobody (including Prez Obama) called Muslim! So, why were Saddam Hussein's two sons preserved for 10 days before letting them out? (Both parties are absolutely loathsome, and I couldn't care less of how they died or were disposed. This is just to point out the stark hypocrisy.) 

    Now I said I could be wrong with my speculations, but I just don't have faith in Obama and his military operations. He claims he's at war with terrorism, and then in the same breath joins hands with Israel supporting it against Palestine, butchering and unsheltering thousands of innocents!

    It had been a long long time since his awe inspiring "Yes We Can" speech crying for "change" materialized. And this, was just the feather he needed in his cap.

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  7. :) Thankyou for the free gifts.

    Monday, May 2, 2011

    This morning I received a parcel from the Egypt Post :) It contained five underscarves that I won from 2hijab.com. The contest was announced by Sister Rabia from Muslimah Bloggers Directory. It was a little parcel of sunshine! I loveee scarves and underscarves too cuz they come in so handy! The material was very soft and comfy! It was so generous of them to send five my way and even pay for shipping! JazakAllah you guys! :) :)

    I never win anything, so you can imagine how excited I was when this arrived. The last thing I won was a knife when I was in 3rd standard when I came in third in a salad dressing competition in school :P
    Here is what all I won. Oh, and get this, I could actually CHOOSE which five underscarves I want! How awesome is that! Mashallah, that was just soo kind!

     Two of these- one for me and one for my mom.
    this and another one of this in brown
    and my favorite!
    The Al amira style ones are going to come in handy for wearing under my chadors, which I will soon be needing, Inshallah.
    Once again, a very big thankyou to Sister Rabia from Muslimah Bloggers Directory and 2hijab :)
    JazakAllah!

    P.s- I guess I'm gonna stick around here after all :) Old habits die hard. Part of keeping me sane is writing, and thats just what I'm going to do. <3

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