Prophet Yusuf, Beautiful Patience, Tafseer Surat Yusuf,AlMaghrib

 

 

This weekend I took the Al Maghrib Seminar titled, "Beautiful Patience, Tafseer Surat Yusuf"

and let me tell you Prophet Yusuf is not only described as a beauty but his story is also beautiful, and it represents beautiful Patience.

 

To be honest I never really read Surat Yusuf for fun, and now I see how interesting stories of the Prophets are. I dont even know details of many of Prophet stories.
Through this story you learn about
1. Beautiful Patience (Which is differnt from patience) from both Prophet Yusuf and his father Prophet Yacob
2. The improtance of counesling Allah and not people during times of need, when facing sins
3. Jealousy between families
4. Forgivness amongst family memebers, and others
5. Allah will ALWAYS reward the good doers, as long as they are patient.
6. The stories of the Quran are much more interesting when taken into details, tafsir teaches you how to think, reflect.
6. This list can go on, but here are my notes!

 

"the parts that are in green are based on the Quran, and the black notes are what the sheikh added"

 

The Quran has the best method for telling a story.

 

Surat Yusuf was revealed in a difficult time for the Prophet, in the year of sorrow Aaam Ul Huzn, because both Khadijah and Abu Talib passed away.

 

The story of the Prophet Yusuf is the best of the best.

 

Prophet Yusuf is the son of Jacob who is the son of Prophet Ishaq who is the son of Prophet Ibrahim. Prophet Yusuf has a long legacy of prophet hood within his family. He had the most highest lineage and he was described as a veryyyyy handsome man. Prophet Jacob (Prophet Yusufs father) had 12 sons.

 

In the class we went through all of the ayas and more detials.
 

 

Full Surat Yusuf http://quran.com/12 (open the link and read it while looking at the notes to understand)

 

The Quran has the best method for telling stories, and these first ayas capture your attention at the very beginning.  The setting of this story is in the desert of Palestine which was known as Kanan.

 

Aya 4-6 is when Prophet Yusuf goes to his father (Prophet Yacob) and he tells him about his dream. Prophet Yacob advises his son not to tell his 11 brother about his dream because he fears they will become jealous of him and create a plot against him. He tells his son that Allah has choosen you and favored you to interpret dreams.

 

These ayas teach parents the importance of having a good trustworthy relationship with their children so they can come and talk to them.

 

Aya 7-10

 

The story of Prophet Yusuf and his brothers is a sign to strengthen the eman of the believers and to increase us in patience. Prophet Yacob favored Prophet Yusuf  the most along with his other son benjmain amongst the other 10 brothers. The brothers recognized this and they are jealous. This shows us that a parent unintentionally favors a child.  The brothers create a plot to kill Prophet Yusuf or he take him to another land. One of the brothers suggests that  they throw Yusuf in the bottom of a well and eventually travellers will take him.

 

The objective of this plot is noble, because these brothers simply want their father to favor them.

 

Aya 11-15

 

The brothers told their father they are going to take Yusuf, but the father is worried. He tells them what if a wolf eats him. They tell him not to worry, and than they take him and they place him in the bottom of the well.

 

 

Ayas 16-17

After they returned at night they came to their father crying. And they told him that a wolf ate him, and "you would not beleive us, even if we are truthful" (the sheikh said they are telling their father that they are not saying the truth).  They showed their dad Yusufs shirt which had fake blood.

 

 

 

(Here the first aya appears about beautiful patience)

 

There is a difference between patience and beautiful patience

 

 

 In aya 18 in arabic Allah writes, "Fasubrn Jamil" beautiful patience

 

"Jacob  said, "Rather, your souls have enticed you to something, so patience is most fitting. And Allah is the one sought for help against that which you describe."

 

 

Sometimes we think something is bad in our life but it is really stregthing us for something better.

 

Crying does not mean that you are not patient. If you are crying and supplicating to Allah it is an indication of your ikhlas and your tawhid (faith, religion).  That is why Prophet Jacob cries and cries but to Allah. He is patient, beautifully patient.

 It is a beautiful patience in which he turns to Allah alone.

 

What is beautiful patience? Prophet Yacob describes it,

"Allah is the One I seek help from"

 

Beautiful patience:

1.  You are patient from the very beginning

2.  Brings you closer to Allah, return to Allah

3. Allah is the one you seek help from

4. Address your sadness and concerns to Allah, do not look for sympathy from the people. Dont cry to people.

 

3 Types of Patience in Surat Yusuf:

 

1. Patience in times of obedience of Allah

2. Patience in times of calamity

3. Patience in abstaining from sins

 

Prophet Muhmmad:

"Know Allah in times of ease and He will know you in times of hardship"

 

 

Ayas 19-20

 

After the brothers place Yusuf in the well, a group of travellers come to buy him as a slave. The brothers sold him quickly for a very low price.

 

The caravan is a mercy from Allah. Allah has better plans for Yusuf.

 

 

Ayas 21-29

 

The one who bought Yusuf was the minister of Egypt, and he told his wife to make him comfortable in their home, and he even wanted to adopt Yusuf. Allah tells us , "We established Jospeh in the land that We might teach him the interpretation of events (dreams)". Allah also tells us that after Yusuf became mature no longer a boy, "We gave him judgement and knowledge. And thus We reward the doers of good"( 23).

 

Yusuf was a very handsome man.

 

The wife of the minister wanted to seduce him, and she closed all the doors and she told him to come to her, but Yusuf was of the righteous and he said, "I seek the refuge of Allah. Indeed He is my Master who has made good my residence (24)".

 

Every time you think about committing a sin, do what Yusuf did:

1. Seek refuge with Allah

2. Remember all the good things Allah has bestowed upon you.

Allah made Prophet Yusuf of the chosen servants. So than Yusuf and his wife ran out towards the door and she teared his shirt from the back. Her husband was at the door, and she lied to her husband. She said, "What is the recompense of one who intended evil for your wife but that he be imprisoned or a painful punishment" (26).  Prophet Yusuf told her husband that it was she who was trying to seduce him, and a witness from their family came and say that if the shirt was riped from the front she was truthful, and Yusuf has lied. The husband that the shirt was ripped from the back and he realized it was his wifes plan, and he told Yusuf to ignore this, and for his wife to ask for forgiveness because she was sinful.

 

We complain about the fitnah we deal with in college, high school, and etc. Just remember Yusuf and his story. He is all alone with this women, and she is trying to seduce him but he stays strong.

 

 

Ayas 30-35

 

The women of the city started talking about the wife of the minister and how she was trying to seduce her slave Yusuf. They believed she was wrong. The wife of the minister heard about their talk and so she brought them to a banquet and she gave each of them a knife. She told Yusuf to come in front of them. They started cutting themselves without even noticing because of how handsome he is.

"Perfect is Allah! This is not a man, this is none but a noble angel"(32).

 

The wife of the minister told them "That is the one about whom you blamed me"(33). Meaning you see how handsome he is who can you blame me for wanting to seduce him.

 

She told him how when she tried to seduce him he firmly refused and she was going to put him in prison if he did not do what she wanted.

 

"He (Prophet Yusuf) said: "My Lord, prison is more to my liking than that which they invite me. And if You do not avert me from their plan, I might incline toward them and thus be of the ignoroant"(34).

 

In this aya Yusuf is  addressing his concerns to Allah.  This teaches us that when we are confronted with a sin, we should automatically counsel Allah and He can help you.

 

Allah responded to Yusufs concern and he averted the plan. The wife of the minister decided to imprison Yusuf.

 

 

Ayas 36-42

 

When Yusuf is placed into prison he meets tow young men who tell him about their dreams. Prophet Yusuf interprets their dreams and he tells them what they mean.

 

Prophet Yusuf is in prison but he is still making dawah, first through his character.

When one of the young men was about to be freed, he told him to mention him to his master (king)  and how he is innocent. But shytan made him forget to mention Yusuf to his master, and so Yusuf remained in prison for a couple of years.

 

If you tell someone to do something a favor for you, a responsibility, remind them, because the shytan will try to make the person forget so you can fight.

 

 

 

The story keeps getting interesting as Yusuf becomes a high and very imrpotant ruler of Egypt, he is reunited with his family, and so muchhhhh more, but to be continued!! InshAllah .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The Meaning of the Tashahhud" A Word Anaylsis

 

 

So I realized I cant pay full attention to lectures online without taking notes, and if I dont take notes I will for sure forget what I learned.

 

Heres what the sheikh said in this awesome video titled, "The Meaning of the Tashahhud"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IevbR3-SnSk#t=635s

 

I began the video at 10:30 and stopped at 27 minutes inshAllah I will continue it because I think it is REALLLY good to know these details.

 

 

Word Analysis: Each word needs to be appreciated

 

Altahayyatu Greetings

 

The 1st word is AlTahiyyatu , this is a plural word of the word tahiya Tahiya means greeting, to greet somone, altahiyyat is the plural form so it would mean the greetings. The word greeting tells the story of the orgins of this word. The word tahiya comes from the root word of haya. Haya means life. So why would the word greeting come from the word which means life? In pre-Islamic times, in the times of jahihlya, the Arabs would greet one another with supplication such as "Hayaik Allah" which means  I hope Allah gives you a long and prosperous life. It was a good supplication (sheikh qatani says it sometimes I noticed). They were making duaa for the life of the person through this greeting. 

 

 Later on when Islam came, the Quran and the Prophet taught us a different supplication and that is the greeting of Aslaamu Alkyaum. Even though the greeting itself changed, the word greeting remains the same, and that is in the Quran Allah said, "When somebody greets you with a greeting than return that greeting back to them better or at least return the equal greeting". In arabic the aya contains the word "Haya"

 

Altahayyatu lillah

 Royal compliments firt for a king are exclusively for Allah

 

 

What does it mean to greet Allah? There is a little story behind this. A scholar was interested in knowing what this means. He went to scholar named Alkasie, and I asked him what does "Altahiyaat laiAllah mean?" he said, it is like blessings, so the scholar said what does blessings mean? The scholar replied thats all I know. So he went to another scholar and the scholar said altahiyait is a word we use to worship Allah. Finally I came across Imam Alshafi who was both a scholar and poet which gave him a very unique perspective. Imam Alshafi said, why didnt you ask a poet scholar. Let me  explain something, when you enter the court of the royal king how do you enter the court? You offer royal complements, such your royal highness, etc. Its protocol. That is what the word "Altahiyat" So when we say althiyat laiAllah we are pronouncing royal complements which are exclusively for Allah.

 

 

Wa al salawat And Prayers

 

Plural of the word salat which is prayers. Our salawat are also for Allah.

 

 

Wa al tayyibat And beautiful character, conduct, etc is also for Allah.

 

Plural of the word tayba which means good. The beautiful conduct, character, our manners, our dealings with people. You treat people good not because of who they are but rather you do that for the sake of Allah.

The prophet in this statement is teaching us that the way we conduct ourselves social is based on Allah.

 

As Salaam Peace and Safety

 

Its very profound and comprehensive word. Islam comes from the root word of salaam. Islam means to submit because when you submit to Allah you achieve peace and safety.

 

Salaium in the arabic language refers to ladders and stairs, and it comes from peace and safety. Arent stairs and ladders kind of dangerous? The Arabs realized that stairs are dangerous so they named it safety, so people would think oh we have to becareful.

 

As Salaamu Alayka Ayyhua Al Nabi  Peace and Safety Upon you o Prophet.

 

This is a form of supplication. Now who is the you refering to you? The supplictaion tells us "Alayki Ayyhua al nabi" which means upon O Prophet

 

The word nabi means Prophet. This can come from 2 roots, which is naba which means news that is very important or very relevant to you (never knew that!). That means the nabi brings news that is important and relevant. Reflect on it. Words teach us lessons.  The second possible root of nabi is that it comes from the word nabawan, which means an elevation. The nabi is an individual is at a higher status. He is the messnger of Allah.

 

 

Wa Rahmtu llah Mercy of Allah Upon you

 

Wa Barkathu, Long Lasting Blessings of Allah also be upon you.

 

Barkathu which is the plural word of baraka which means blessings

 

The roots of baraka means blessings that are long lasting. That is why the Arabs would call a small collection of water  that has been sitting for a long time a bareeika ( as an Arab I know we call the pool barikaa). The word implies longevity.

 

 

Are we speaking about the Prophet or to the Prophet? It is to  the Prophet.

The Prophet used to teach the scholars the tashuhud just like how he taught the ayas.

This implicates the improtance of memorizing the tashuhud. Second it implicates that it must be read how he taught it, and it cannot be changed.

 

 

To be contunied inshAllah

 

 

 

Light Upon Light Allahs Light, Amazing, Going From Darkness (Hardship) To Light (Ease)

One of the most amazing ayas unbeliveable I love this, Oh Allah place your Light upon us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQfRF1MWvMI

Before you start reading this post I want you to hear these amazing ayas (the traslation is also with it)  which describes Allahs Noor, Light. Its simply unbelievable amazing....imagine Allahs Light? And imagine being guided to this Light? Think about when you go through a dark situation (hardship) and than you get to go through the ease, is it not a form of light?

 

One of the worst hardships a person can create for themselves is hob aldunya, love for this world. When you find yourself feeling sad because you dont have this or that , or you start to feel alone, or you start to feel bad for yourself than you know that you are falling for shytans worst traps. You are creating this hardship for yourself when you start to fall for the beauty of dunya. I fall for this sometimes, but I found that the best remedy is TRULY the remembrance of Alllah.

 

 

Verily in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest! Surat Al Rad Aya 28

 

 

SubhanAllah its seriouslly a feeling of darkness to light....but you see the sweetness is not going from light to light, the sweetness of the hardship or the ease is when you feel the bad and than you feel the good. And when you start to turn  your heart away from dunya and you turn to Allah looking for light you will find signs all around you. Open your heart, and  just go to youtube and randomly search a Quran recitior and you will probably find ayas directly realting to what you need(inshAllah), or go to radioquraan.com and you will probably find your favorite aya reciting, or go to your favorite muslim site, (for me its suhaib webbs virtual mosque) and you will find new articles on the homepage directly related to what you need. 

 

I found this one this time, humdAllah: and the following hadiths are was what I needed to hear:

Prophet said:

"“Satan threatens you with poverty, and commands you to evil, while God promises you forgiveness from Him and bounty.”

 

“Whoever makes the Hereafter his goal, Allah places abundance in his heart, and organizes his affairs, and the world comes to him despite its unwillingness. And whoever’s aim is worldly gain, Allah puts poverty before his eyes, and disorganizes his affairs, and nothing of this world comes to him, except what has been decreed for him.”

 

http://www.suhaibwebb.com/personaldvlpt/purification-heart/change-of-heart/

AlhumdAllah

 

 

 

Im All Over NJCU lol

So in alot of NJ City University  hallways (like 5) you will find a huge poster like lifesize poster of me .

You will also find me on the NJCU Youtube page, the NJCU App, and the Instgram page...

Although I don't really like the life size picture of me  ( when the Dean took the pic I did not expect this at all!) I hope it is a form of dawah and it proves a point: Muslim women are educated.

I show up in a NJCU YouTube video a couple of times

I dont like how my voice sounds nor was I prepared for this as I was told at that moment  lol but again I hope it serves as a greater purpose: to inspire other Muslim women and to show that Muslim women are educated and successful. Its a representation of our deen alhumdAllah

Ultimate Eid Celebration 2013 Coming Soon InshAllah!



Photo Credit: NHIEC Mosque

As December comes to an end I realize how much Muslims fall into the glitz and glam of the "holiday season". I have also fallen for this as I honestly enjoy seeing the lovely decorations, the gifts, etc. If Muslim adults are falling for this glitz and glam of the holiday season, imagine how the Muslim kids feel when they see their non-Muslim fellows talk about the awesome gifts they get or the awesome Christmas tree and then they compare it to the not so glitzy Eid. Although you may get angry when Muslims compare Eid to the Holiday season, you shouldnt....instead you should try to make Eid the ULTIMATE festival....let Eid live up to its name..
 

 Allah gave us the best Holiday: EID. What have we done to show appreciation of this holiday?
 

Its time for us to step up our EID. I had enough of hearing the "Oh I wish Eid was like Christmas".  Its true, you wont find the stores glowing with lights and lanterns for Eid in America, but we as a community are capable of creating this awesome Eid experience if we wanted to....I am ready to create the ultimate Eid celebration. And no it wont be an event that will only be fun for the kids! Its going to be appealing to all ages inshAllah, especially my age group (16-30) which seem to be losing the Eid spirit every time we get older.

 

You want this to happen? You want Eid to be the ULTIMATE EID CELEBRATION? Well then you gota do your part because you know what? Allah SWT says,

 

"Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves" Holy Quran

 

Through the ULTIMATE EID CELEBRATION:
 

We can bring back that Ultimate EID spirit the Prophet had

We can make this a unity event and bring the ummah together

We can exchange gifts to one another, Prophet said: "Give gifts and you will love one another."

We can visit the Muslims in hospitals, shelters, etc and share our ultimate Eid with them

We can celebrate ALL THREE days of Eid

We can bring back that excitement you used to get weeks before Eid as a child

We can do pre-eid giving through fundraising for zakat al fitr

We can make a big deal of reciting the besttttt holiday song, TAKBIR AL Eid (How can we compare this to anything!? Allahs name is constantly repeated!) 

We can DO SO MUCH

Allah SWT describes as the best, but why have we not made our Eid the best for ourselves?
"You are the best of the nations raised up for (the benefit of) men; you enjoin what is right and forbid the wrong and believe in Allah" Holy Quran
 

ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS  input effort and have trust in Allah...!
This is a simple formula that works for anything good you attempt to do in this dunya inshAllah if Allah wills.

 

 

ARE YOU READY? For the "The Ultimate Eid Celebration"Coming to a Masjid near you in 2013 inshAllah....lets make this happen! Are you ready to take on the challenge?

 

(If we want this Ultimate Eid Experience actually happen, we must start planning from like NOW) inshAllah.

 

Lets make this event go viral.

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And if anyone is interested in helping contact me!!

Dawah At Its Finest, Real Stories From me

(Read to the end for the amazing stories and a very important suggestion)

 

 

AlhumdAllah today was my last day as an undergraduate student. I am looking back at my personal statement I wrote in 2010 upon applying for colleges and alhumdAllah I think my whole college career revolved around this goal which is almost a form of dawah.

“I seek to redefine the image of Muslim-American women, just as Barack Obama has redefined the image of African-Americans. I am concerned about the negative stereotypes people hold of Muslim women. I will take advantage of the freedom and great opportunities I have been given. I hope that my choice of attending university will present a positive counter image to the prevailing stereotypes.” 

 

 I worked with so many people on campus, but only one was Muslim. Although you can argue it gets hard at times with so much fitnah around you, at the same time you can only imagine how many dawah opportunities I had.

 

Tip 1: Make an Annoucment

Tell Non-Muslims When You Have To Go Make Salat, Everytime You GO!

 

 

One tip I must teach everyone who goes to college, or works around non-Muslims is to NEVER be shy to say I need to a place to pray!  I want to tell you about the AMAZING stories I have when it came to practicing Islam openly in my non-Muslim workplace.

I dont think its okay to make up all of your prayers when you go home from school or work, and so I always pray at school and work. Although I must say its not very easy to concentrate as you feel like you must get back to class or work, I think its better than going home and praying duhr, asr, maghrib and aisha all at once which makes you even more lazy. There is a reason why the prayers are spilt into differnt times and not all at once.

Anyways I asked my job if I can pray in any of the empty rooms we had and they did not hesitate to say yes. I was given the work room as my own place to go to pray when I needed to.

One thing I would always do is make an annoucment that I was going to make salat. I would allow all those around me to hear me whether its the super boss, or my work study co workers. It was never embarrassing and in the end it was one of the best forms of dawah I was able to make during my years at the two offices I worked in.

Here are the cute small stories I have

Me: I am going to pray

Co Workers (plural,multiple): Please pray for me!

I think I heard that statement over 3 times!

Me: I lost my prayer rug =/

Office boss, and like everyone else around me: starts looking for the rug

Two days later,

Boss: Did you find your prayer rug? Me: Yes! Thank you for caring!!!

They reallly cared about my prayer rug!!!!

Me: praying in the workroom

Student Worker : Walks in and quickly apologizes, and apologizes again when I finished

The following three stories all happend in the same week (my last week)

Studnent Worker: You know Huda, I really like how you will stop everything just to go pray. You can be in the middle of an event,work, or whatever but when its time for you to pray you go!

Student Worker (upon driving her home): The thing I like most about you and Muslims is your  how you are serious about making your prayers. Our Pastor tells us how we should try to take out 5minutes every day to make a prayer.

Me: *Makes wudu in front of coworkers and explains what I am doing*
Student Worker: *Upon walking from the bathroom* I love your commitment to your prayers.

Do I need to say anymore?

 

 

Tip 2: Dont Let him hug you, touch you, or shake your hand!!

 

One common thing you will find in the non-Muslim workplace is that its okay when a guy hugs a girl and vice versa. If you tell them from the begining I cant shake your hand, hug you or whatever you willllllll recive so much respect! Explain why and move on its not that hard...here are some stories

 

 

 Man: *Tries to shake my hand*

Non-Muslim Classmate: No, she cant shake your hand!

Boss: *Tries to give me a high five*

Me: Sends an email explaining why I cant shake his hand or give him five

Next day Boss: *Air five!*

Co-Worker: Wow Huda you did great, and is about to air five me and then he stops

"I am so sorry I almost airfived you, but than I remembered you cant!"

Co Workers man and  women hug each other greet each other, than man co worker comes to me :

Verbally greeting only!

Tip 3: I tell them how I cant date, and I will get married instead...

Everyone dates in the non-Muslim environment, and thats okay, but for you, you must explain how you dont date and how you get married. Then the famous question of "Do your parents choose your husband"comes up and you get that awesome chance to explain how that is a cultural thing, and that is not apart of Islam.

Tip 4: BE KIND....no one is going to want to open dialogue with you if you are a rude person. And dont ever impose your beliefs on them, because you will see that they will come to you with all of the questions. I dont think a week passed in which I did not receive a question relative to Islam.

Tip 5: Be an ambassador of Islam...thats really all it is. REPRESENT !!! Easy as that...

And finally a tip I just learned upon my last day on campus (which I wish I learned A LONG time ago)

GIVE THE QURAN to people....after you have established a positive relationship with them.

I have a beautiful story for this tip:

Today I gave out the first Quran to  a Non-Muslim. He is one of my supervisors, and you wouldnt beleive his reaction...I did not expect that at all.

First of all I never gave him direct dawah  I like indirect dawah techniques such as being kind, showing that you are trustworthy person, doing a good job, etc. He would always ask me questions and he would always start dialgoues about differnt educational topics such as Palestine. I gave him an awesome lesson and resources for that.

Me: Hi, today is my last day at NJCU . I actually want to give you a book, it is realtive to the topics we spoke about such as history, and etc. Its the Holy Quran.

Him: WOW, thank you sooooo much Huda. This is great, I did not know that I am actually allowed to read this sacred text. I really appreciate this. This is a very nice gift.

Me: No probelm!! And than he starts talking about my great work ethics, and blabla

And than I go to the kitchen as I am leaving:

Him to other supervisor: "Look , Huda gave me the Quran!  Other supervisor: Wow!! Thats nice!

Me: *Sends message to mentor (VP of NJCU) saying I left a Quran on the desk because I know you liked to learn about my culture. I will never forget when you did not shake my hand the first time we meet! I learned sooo much from you!"

Mentor: "Huda, you have motiavted me to be a better person! I truly enjoyed meeting you. Thank you so much for the gift. I will read it to learn more about Islam."
 

 

I Graduated! AlhumdAllah

Through the Will of Allah, my efforts, my parents, and my trust in Allah I completed my last class for my undergraduate class. 

 

The coolest thing is that I completed my degree at the age 20 on December 20 =D

 

AlhumdAllah!!!
 

 Now its time to ask my reallllly kind former boss the Director of Admissions, alongside with my realllyyy kind mentor the Vice Presdient of Student Affairs if I can do some smallllll type of talk at graduation (dawah!).I would start off with some really nice hadith and then it would go something like this:

“I seek to redefine the image of Muslim-American women, just as Barack Obama has redefined the image of African-Americans. I am concerned about the negative stereotypes people hold of Muslim women. I will take advantage of the freedom and great opportunities I have been given. I hope that my choice of attending university will present a positive counter image to the prevailing stereotypes.”

As I look back at this personal statement I wrote in 2010 upon applying for colleges, I cant help but smile thinking to myself how my whole college career revolved around this goal. I think and I hope I have successfully attained this goal. At the same time I was also able to learn about others.
For multicultural week, my work-study office, the Office of Campus Life hosted a cypher. I walked in thinking oh okay ill go listen, but I found myself also participating. The stereotypes were totally shattered in that room when you had people of all cultures or religious backgrounds participates in this free style expression. This diverse environment NJCU provides is more than just a way in which the school markets itself. Diversity is not just a matter of having a bunch of people of different ethnic and religious backgrounds in the same place at the same time, but rather it is when you can get those people to respectfully exchange ideas and get along with one another.

And than inshAllah if I actually get to make this speech at graduation I can look back at this post  just like the post below: and say wow !!!

 

SubhanAllah I am looking back at this post  from August 2012 about how I was planning to graduate, wow that was fast!

 

This is one of my favorite pictures, and every time something successful happens I remember it.

Always remeber this aya when something successful happens to you! And be grateful to Allah, and dont give yourself to much credit.

 

http://hudawritess.blogspot.com/2012/08/class-of-dec-2012-inshallah-d.html 

 

Time to share this awesome picture for this awesome moment =D




"And my success (in my task) can only come from Allah"
-Holy Quran

How A Muslim Husband Treats his Wife, Dr. Islam ElFahymoui Notes

 

I am a little late but here are my notes from last Sundays class.

 Dr.Islam continued his lecture on the topic of marriage, he said:

 

 

Its not your job  your choose your roles in this life rather Allah chooses your roles.

 

The Prophet said:

"If a woman makes salat (prayer), fasts Ramadan, and obeys her husband she will enter all of the gates of Jannah"

 

Im sure you did not like it when I used the term  obey due to Western ideas, but the Western ideas are not working to secure marriages.

 

Your husband is your key to Paradise.

 

If you marry a man who believes in Allah and follows the religion, you can remind him accordingly to the Quran and Sunnah.

 

 

Tips on How A Muslim Man Should Treat His Wife (to be continued next Sunday)

 

1. Finical: In Islam it is a obligation for the man to provide his wife with food,shelter, clothes, costs of a child,  and any finances are all a responsibility of the husband.

 

Islam honors women:

Your husbands job or role is to spend on you, even if you are making money you get to keep that money for your own self and you dont have to spend it on anyone.

 

In the Prophets time there were woman who would come breastfeed orphan children, and etc. A man must support his wife so that she may breastfeed thier child. Breastfeeding is better than formula, the breast milk (scientific fact) changes as the baby grows. Allah provided you with this milk just to feed your child but instead you choose to give your child powder? This is Allahs gift to you. In the winter the milk is naturally warm and in the summer its naturally cool.

 

Husbands can support their wive through kindness during post birth.

 

 

When the woman is not home and out working her duties may not be taken care of, and in this case she should use her own money to manage her work at home.

 

Marry a man on your finical level or even higher.

 

2. Smile and Laugh (MY favorite =)

 

If you come home greet your wife with the greeting Asalaamu Alkaam.

 

A man should smile and laugh in his home.

 

Aisha was asked how was the prophet in the home? She responded: "he was the kindest of men, smiling, laughing all the time".

 

3. Kind Words

 

The Prophet said: The kind word is charity.

 

The Prophet said: A woman will remember every bad thing her husband did, but she wil not remember all of the good stuff he did. Dr.Islam started doing mocks of husband and wife arguments in which the wife reminds her husband of all the bad he did.

 

4. Small Frequent Random Kind Acts

 

 When the Prophets wife wanted to ride a camel he would have her step on him to get onto the camel

 

Small frequent acts of kindness are better than a large not so frequent act of kindness. For an example a man will spend over 6 thousand dollars to take his wife for a five day trip to Miami, as soon as they come back she soon forgets about this trip. Women appreciate daily acts of kindness. If you offered a women a rose every week vs a huge luxurious trip to Miami she would choose the rose every week.

 

The Prophet always used to kiss his wife before he went to the Masjid

 

 

To Be contunieeeed

My Weekends, Spirtual Uplift, We All Need To Recharge!

 

" Everyone is in need of spitrual uplifiting. The Masjid provides you with this spirtual uplifiting. Muslims are present in the Masjid to gain knowledge to protect themselves from the Shytan"

Iqraa Channel

 

 

 

Throughout the week my iman battery starts to run low, but than my weekend becomes my chance to reacharge. My weekend begins on the Muslims special day of AlJumaah, Friday. Although women do not have to attend Friday prayer, I make it a point not to miss the lovely Friday khutbah (lecture) which begins the lifiting of my spirt. On Saturday I try to attend MSA events, or any other type of lectures within the area, and on Sunday I make it a point not to miss my favorite spirtual uplift of the week which I always look foward to: the Dr.Islam ElFahymoui Guiding Light Series. If I was allowed to I would totally attend Fajr at the Mosque...you will see why within my next post which is about Fajr. Today I finally tried studying at the Masjid....it was awesome! My study buddies are angels !

 

I realized if it was not for this spirtual uplift I get every weekend falling into the haram would become so much easier. SubhanAllah, walhumdAllah. I encourage you all to spirtually renew yourselves whenever you can, and use the weekend as a form of preparation for the fitnah you face throughout the week!

 

 

"Seek forgiveness of your Lord and repent to Him"

Holy Quran Surat Hud Aya 3

 

 

Heres a great article which explains what I mean alongside with tips:

 

http://productivemuslim.com/re-charging-your-battery-how-to-deal-with-imaan-dips/

I highly recommend the first tip which is to take notes during any lectures you attend. If it wasnt for my notebook and typing my notes on my blog I would never remeber the awesome stuff I learn.

 

May Allah allow every Muslim to enjoy the benefit of attending the Masjid inshAllah.

I Dreamed About Makkah, Kabaah, SO Beautiful!

 

I had the bestttttt dream ever recently. I dont remember all details but I cant forget the LOVELY image I had of the valleys of makkah.

I think I was on some group trip and than from far I kind of saw the Kabah in like beautiful valleys. I begged someone to take me closer, and than I was so close, but I did not get there....may this be a sign that I will be visiting this beautiful spiritually site soon. I think one contributing reason why I probably had such a lovely dream is because of the duaas I made before I sleep.