Eid Mubarak! Shawwal 1, 1430

Eid Mubarak!

This is good: Eid 101 by Muhammad alShareef

Jubayr ibn Nufayr said: “At the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allâh be upon him), when people met one another on the day of Eid, they would say, ‘Taqabbal Allâhu minnaa wa minka (May Allâh accept from us and from you).’” (Ibn Hajar. Its isnaad is hasan. Fathul Baaree: vol.2, p. 446).

“Taqabbal Allah minna wa minkum.”

Living in Beautiful St. Kitts

asSalaam ‘alaykum

Loooong time no blog post…..

Been traveling most of my summer and working and getting ready to move and stuff. I don’t live in Houston anymore…moved to St. Kitts and Nevis…..

It’s here …….

It’s a beautiful place…look below for a few pictures…..almost no fitnah here compared to the United States alhamdulillah. As long as you don’t go clubbing and don’t go to the bars or resorts and casinos…you’re fine. I love this place. there are a few Muslims here maybe about 200-300 max. but almost all of them are students at the Medical School here. The MSA is fairly big about 80 active members, it’s very open. And a few more people than that come to jumu’ah which takes place at the MSA President’s house (I think they call it the Jumu’ah House). If anyone decides to come here then holler at me.

Insha’Allah i plan on posting more often now that I might have frequent access to the internet.

until then enjoy-

This is the main mountain (i think), the highest peak ont he island…a dormant volcanoe…

 

The view from my place in S. Kitts. I came here with two other friends and it’s been really chill. We live in a fairly big villa, it has a huge patio facing th Atlantic ocean. The waves down at the beach are pretty rough, you can drown and I almost did. they’re crazy strong.

 

 

The beach across the road from our place –

 

 

The black thing at the bottom right is my head –

 

Lyre Bird: One of Allah’s Most Interesting Creations!

asSalaam ‘alaykum wa rahamtullah,

SUBHANALLAH!!! I actually saw this video about a year ago, and thought about putting it on my blog but totally forgot. But this has got to be the most amazing and interesting of creatures, that Allah has put upon this earth. The first time I saw this I had just finished a course in Evolutionary Biology. I was actually with a group of friends studying for the MCAT. And my first reaction after watching the video was a verbal outburst that came to me without any thought, and I said “Let evolution try to explain that!”. And I thought about what i had said and tried a little bit to look for an evolutionary explanation, I haven’t found one yet. But I was able to see that other’s have brought this example as a point of weakness for certain aspects of the theory of evolution. I keep saying SubhanAllah over and over and over again watching this video. And after this I think David Attenborough is one of my favorite show hosts/shows! May Allah Guide this man to Islam! When you get a chance try to watch this other videos online, insha’Allah. SubhanAllah! Allah’s Creation is so expansive and perfect. I can’t even begin to fathom the magnanimity of the number of species of living things on earth there are estimates around 14 million species in the world, and only about 2 million of them have been named. And the estimates I have read are even higher as to how many of them we have discovered. I remember reading in a textbook that it is very likely that we have only discovered about 5% of the species on earth. Can you Imagine that?? Well what I feel when I watch this video can not be put in word entirely, so just watch it! I just lock my eyes and drop my jaw every time!!!

SubhanAllah!!! Alhamdulillah!!! Wa Allahu Akbar!!!

People who didn’t study….

This is hilarious, cracks me up…lol

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Muslim Matters: New Website

asSalaam ‘alaykum wa Rahmatullah,

It’s been a while since this website has been launched. I guess I am kind of late at doing this. I am backed up on a lot of my emails. So Muslim Matters is a new website about “Discourses in the Intellectual Traditions, Political Situation, and Social Ethics of Muslim Life”. Also I would like to mention that I happen to know half the Writers on the Editorial Staff and Guest Writers. Please visit, read, and enjoy:

Muslim Matters

Imam Isam Rajab on PBS

asSalaam ‘alaykum wa Rahmatullah,

UPDATE: VIDEO IS POSTED HERE!

I got this email that Amad referred to here about Shaykh Isam Rajab coming on ‘The Connection‘ on PBS – KUHT. I happened to check my mail last night at around 8:15 PM and realized it was on now. So I ran to the TV told me brother to turn off his game and turn to Channel 8 and called for my entire family to watch Shaykh Isam on PBS. My mom came down real quick and she was hooked to the TV. It was a nice show alhamdulillah, couldn’t catch the entire show because I had to leave to go to Family Night at Mission Bend, but took pictures of Shaykh Isam on TV. The show itself was about the concept of “Good and Evil” in different religions and philosophy, as there was a professor of philosophy present there as well, along with a Jewish Rabbi and Christian Priest. Shaykh Isam is an awesome guy masha’Allah, and I love him for the sake of Allah. The pictures aren’t that clear because I was snapping pictures of the TV with the camera on my phone.

UPDATE: VIDEO IS POSTED HERE!

 

How Bad do You Want to Go to Hajj?

Will you ride a bicycle for two and a half months through 13 countries to go to Hajj?? (Special thanks to Abu Eesa and SisterinIslam for finding this. )

Source: IslamOnline.net and Yahoo!

Epic Bicycle Ride

URUS-MARTAN — Seeking the greatest spiritual experience in a Muslim’s life, a 63-year-old Chechen criss-crossed 13 countries on his rusting bicycle to join nearly three million Muslims from across the world in performing hajj.

“I was only afraid, and am afraid, of God — and that I might not reach my goal,”

Dzhanar-Aliyev Magomed-Ali told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Monday, January 29, after retuning home from the spiritual trip.

Magomed-Ali finished a 10-week trip on his old bike from Urus-Martan, a small village in Chechnya, to the holy city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia.

The distance between the capital Grozny and Makkah is nearly 5,000 kilometers but the aging Chechen clocked up nearly 12,000 kilometers in his circuitous route.

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He said the inspiration came from his mother who visited him in a dream.

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Incredible Journey

Determined to make the journey, Magomed-Ali took the precaution of training for his tough road, taking short cycle-rides around Chechnya’s war-ravaged landscape.

The elderly Chechen also equipped himself with 11 spare bicycle chains and six replacement inner tubes for his bicycle.

He recalled the unprecedented route he made through 13 states on his mud-splattered “iron horse” as he calls his old bicycle.

He left his village on November 8 heading to neighboring Azerbaijan, where he camped outside the Saudi embassy hoping for a visa.

“The consulate’s employees took me to be abnormal and couldn’t understand how I planned to get to their country by bicycle,” Mogomed-Ali told AFP, wearing his traditional sheepskin hat and woolen jumper.

After 18 days of relentless efforts with the consulate officials, he gave up and headed south across the border into Iran.

But later came the hardest leg of his journey when he reached war-ravaged Iraq, where he faced a dilemma with the US soldiers.

“Because I hadn’t got a visa, they broke my bicycle, smashed it against the ground and called me a Russian pig,”

Mogomed-Ali recalled.

“I told them I wasn’t Russian but a Muslim and they seized my passport and pointed to the crosses on the cover.”

He was then forced to turn around and head back to Iran and around Iraq through Armenia and Georgia, down through Turkey, Syria and Jordan.

Finally, after further border wrangles, the Chechen faithful reaches Saudi Arabia to seek his cherished destination, Makkah.

In the holy city, Mogomed-Ali was well-received and offered prayers for his family and homeland, before turning round and heading back home.

Despite the hardships he encountered, the old Chechen is now counting his blessings.

“I did the hajj in order to fulfill the will of my mother, who gave me life and taught me love for my homeland, which for me is priceless,”

Mogomed-Ali said, standing beside the bike adorned with the emblem of Chechen independence fighters.

The small mountainous republic of Chechnya has been ravaged by conflict since 1994, with just three years of relative peace after the first Russian invasion of the region ended in August 1996 and the second began in October 1999.

TDC, ‘Eid and everything around it!

Bismillahir Rahmaan arRaheem
asSalaam ‘alaykum wa Rahmatuallaah

Wow, what a long and drawn out TDC (Texas Da’wah Convention) it has been and what a long week it has been with ‘Eid and everything. SubhanAllaah. So ‘Eid Mubarak to everyone. Well anyway, I think I am back to blogging now and perhaps some of the events of this crazy weekend might find their way onto this blog. TDC was a blast, met some of the greatest brothers ever from all across the nation. Not to mention one of the best lectures at TDC was probably the most controversial, so controversial it wont even be produced to be sold in the market, not only that no one has even recieved copy of it, not even the organizers of TDC, and it was given by none other than our brother – Abdul Rahman Chao, ask him what it was about through his blog or sign up at Crescent Youth Forums to discuss. Watching Shakh Hasan Khalil play table tennis was a sight, he is really really good! Met loads of people from multiple forums (specially alMaghrib), bloggers in the Islamoblogsphere, and people I just talked to over the phone or heard of. The best time we had was goign out to Katz’s (kosher food place) with liek 30 brothers was probably the best time I had at the conference. Not to mention staying up late till liek 3AM in the morning witht he brothers chilling, and managing to wake up for Fajr and staying up the entire day!! YES!!! Thats hwo exciting TDC is!!! It is worth sacrificing your sleep and getting only 16 hours of sleep in a periods of 4-5 days. You can’t even go to sleep int he lectures because they are really good, and once you leave them you cant even think about going to your hotel to sleep because you might miss something exciting. Followed by listening to the same jumu’ah khutbah two weeks in a row by Yasir Qadhi and then not to mention the ‘Eid khutbah by Yasir Qadhi as well, yes 3 khutbahs and 4 talks by Yasir Qadhi in a period of 10 days. Everything from slaughtering goats and skinning them, meeting some of the MSA brothers again, and also some of the UH-MSA alumni to pulling pranks on cousins and getting talked into doing some of the stupidest things ever, watching one of our popular da’ees in the West run after goats trying to get it ready for Udhiyya to distributing Qurbani meat to the Somali Refugee Camp in Houston. This has got to be one of my best weeks ever, and the good thing is, its not yet over, alhamdulillaah. I will start updating soon insha’Allah. But until then make du’aa for the muslimeen.

wasSalaam ‘alaykum wa Rahamtullaah

GONE TO TDC VI!!!!

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YES!! GONE TO TDC IV! PROBABLY CHILLIN’ WITH NUQTAH A.K.A. sleepless longing… AND Synkronyzer AND Lota Enterprises. AND OF COURSE THE LOCALS CLEAROUT AND HANI K AND IRITZA AND AMAD (actually now NY) and MUSLIM VIDEO. AND NOT TO FORGET THE alMaghribites FROM ACROSS THE NATION. ALSO NOT TO FORGET THE COOLEST BOOTHS EVER – ilmQUEST AND MuslimAudio/ChinarLeaf AND DAR US SALAM and MIJBookstore Back after the 26th, isnha’Allah.

 

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Texas Da’wah Convention 2 Days only!!! Can’t Wait!!

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

asSalaam ‘alaykum wa Rahamtullaahi wa Barakaatuh

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allaah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful

 

Texas Dawah Convention VI
presents

Islam: A Light for The Ages

رسالة الاسلام تواكب تعاقب الازمان

Dec. 22-26, 2006
George R. Brown Convention Center & Hilton Americas
Houston, Texas
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Featuring some of the most Motivational and Knowledgeable speakers across the nation like:

 

Ahmed Sidky
(ex-MSA National VP)

 

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi
(Ph.D. Candidate – Yale U. & alMaghrib Instructor)

 

Kamal elMakki
(How to get a Shahaada in 10 Mins.)

Dr. Ibrahim adDremali
(PhD-Geology, Ph.D. candidate in Fiqh at alAzhar)

 

Shaykh Yasir Birjas
(alMaghrib Instructor)

 

Shaykh Salah asSawi (Arabic)
(ex-Professor of Fiqh at alAzhar in Egypt, General Secretary of Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America)

 

Muhammad Faqih
(Istructor at alMaghrib Institute)

 

Shaykh Isam Rajab
(Founder and Instructor at Arees Institute)

 

Shaykh Waleed Basyouni
(Instructor at AOU, alMaghrib Institute, Arees Institute, Director of Texas Dawah Conference)

 

AbulRahman Chao
(youngest Medina Univ. graduate, Qur’aan teacher at DarusSalam)

 

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