May Allah azza wa jall guide us all to the best of this blessed month, may He give is the strength and focus to fast with our eyes, tongues, ears, and hands as easily as with our stomachs, and may He bring us closer to Him and His Mercy. Amin.
Category Archives: Islam
Dua for forgiveness and mercy
We all need it from time to time: وَقُل رَّبِّ اغْفِرْ وَارْحَمْ وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ الرَّاحِمِينَ rabbighfir warham wa-anta khayru arrahimeen My Lord (rabb), forgive (igfir) and (wa) have mercy (arham), and (wa) You are (anta) the best (khayru) of the merciful (arrahimeen). Surah Al-Mu’minūn, ayat 118
الصلوة خير من النوم
الصلوة خير من النوم (assalatu khairun minan naum) translates, roughly, as “Prayer is better than sleep.” Alhamdulillah, my darling wife agrees.
Brother Osama reads the Alphabet
Just as the title says, this is a recording of brother Osama Saleh reading the Alphabet. May Allah bless brother Osama for his efforts: he’s teaching an Arabic 101 class at ICI. We’re using Dr. Imran Hamza Alawiye’s Gateway to Arabic, book 1. In the above recording, brother Osama says the name of the letter, makes …
Udhiyah (part 4: dinnertime)
My wife is an amazing cook. MashaAllah. After the skinning and gutting, I took four big pieces to a local halal butcher, where a nice young guy cleaned and butchered the animal. The whole sacrifice, start to finish, took about 4 hours. Alhamdulillah, Allah made it easy for us. Thanks again to brother Suhaib, without …
Udhiyah (part 3: cleaning and gutting)
After selection, the goats and sheep were driven further out into the back part of the farm. Brothers collected their animals, marched them off some ways away, out of sight of the other animals, made the sacrifice, and then some seeming professionals stepped in and did the skinning and gutting for a small fee. I …
Udhiyah (part 2: selection criteria)
Going into this, I hadn’t spent much time around goats since that one died in the backyard under rather mysterious circumstances back when I was a kid. So, as you might imagine, I didn’t know much about choosing a goat to sacrifice. Islam has some rules about this: the animal must be of a certain …
