Madinat al-Muslimeen Islamic Message Board
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| salaam |
| 11/19/00 at 11:59:41 |
| as-Salaamu 'Alaikum, What I love about Ramadan...hmm...I love going to Taraweeh prayer, especially when the imam recites beautifully. was-Salaamu alaikum. p.s. anyone else? :) |
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| Saleema |
| 11/19/00 at 13:22:00 |
| Assalamoalykum Yeah the Traweh, all 20 of them! well actually that's my goal each year but the stupid little brats running around the masjid make so much noise and the ladies talk so much that I give up after 4 or 8 of them. I'm not talking about the todlers, i'm talking about kids age 8 and up! other than that, i like waking up for eating. Why? Because I get to eat! no just kidding. It just feels good to wake up that early in the morning and especially in Ramadan. wassalam |
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| kiwi25 |
| 11/19/00 at 22:24:03 |
| assalamu alaikum everybody, my best part of ramadhan is also taraweeh, and having iftar with all ur muslim freinds, ect, its just a REALLY great month,no words can describe it, u just feel at ease and joy....... wasalam nouha:) |
| NS |
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| Kathy |
| 11/20/00 at 08:56:39 |
| slm My spiritual cleansing. What a blessing the Month of Ramadan is! |
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| Malika |
| 11/20/00 at 17:00:28 |
| Assalaam Alaikum InsahAllah this will be my 3rd Ramadan and the whole Holy month is wonderful!! I get to be around the sisters and we all pray together. Not that I want the month to end but just the sight from above when everyone comes together at the end of Ramadaan for the EID prayer. I can't really see from that angle but it must be AWESOME!!! My first EID I went to Coney Island and the sight of all my beautiful brothers and sisters had me weeping like a baby!!! I just kept saying thank you Allah for allowing me to be a part of this. There were helicopters above and I know they had to be saying WOW! Who you are and what you are didn't matter in the leastwe all have Allah (swt) in common and if I could have any one thing in common with someone MarshaAllah that would be it! |
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| widad |
| 11/20/00 at 22:58:41 |
| slm Yes,the best part is taraweeh,you meet all the sisters i islam,and they have a special place in the heart,because you love them for Allah 's sake. Saleema,why don't you talk to the little brats and tell them that a masjid is a place of worship and that Alalhmust see us all while we are worshipping and not playing. We had the same problem inour masjid and I kept talking to the girls every ramadan,sometimes I would approach the mothers (not much were helpful,but some got ashamed and held their kids next to them,sometimes I would use another approach,I would be real nasty and tell the girls that I will get them kicked out by the imam. |
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| Arsalan |
| 11/21/00 at 09:19:00 |
| Assalamu alaikum, The disturbance that children bring to the Masjid during the Taraweeh prayers is a universal problem in American Islamic Centers I think. We've tried to do several things in the past that have helped remedy the situation. One thing that can be done is to work with the Sunday School staff and come up with a Ramadan program for these kids. While the taraweeh prayers are going on, the kids should be in "class" engaged in various activities. Of course, this means that 3 or 4 people would have to miss taraweeh prayers because they would be taking care of the kids. However, if you rotate the task among several people during the week, and make the "teachers" realize the ajr that they are getting by allowing others to pray without being disturbed, I'm sure you will get plenty of help insha Allah. If you can't have these "classes" all 7 days of the week, have them 3 days at least. This is what we did - but we're a small community. I think kids older than 10 should pray the taraweeh with the adults. Anyone 6-10 should be in "class" UNLESS they want to pray and can prove to do so without disturbing others. Ages below 6 should be with babysitters. Wassalamu alaikum. |
| The Ramadhan Experience |
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| AbuKhaled |
| 11/23/00 at 05:46:59 |
| Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem, Assalam alaikum Beloved Brothers & Sisters. What a lovely thread, masha'Allah. For me Ramadhan is a time to reflect and grow. To look behind and look ahead and make sure that my future - bit'ithnillah ta'ala - will improve on my past. I love Ramadhan for all that it is (from Allah (awj)), and all that it can be (which is down to me, by His (swt) permission). For as far back as I can remember now I cannot recollect a Ramadhan where I could forget that which I am preoccupied with all year around that distracts me from Him (awj), and instead focus myself solely on this month and optimising the chances for reaping it's many and varied blessings. So many things intrude of the Dunya. Those who are students know what I mean, as do those who work for a living. Those Sisters whose husbands/families render their Ramadhan into kitchen duty, astaghfirullah. They are left with only their evenings to truly direct their energies towards Allah (swt). And sometimes not even that, for they are exhausted by activity which should be treated as marginal in this month. For example, elaborate delicacies for the time of breaking the fast- why is it that we treat Ramadhan as a month to make all those special things which we don't make during the rest of the year??!! This is not the time! So I figured to myself, I want at least *one* year in my life which I can spend a Ramadhan where nothing bothers me, and I can luxuriate in all that is Ramadhan, 24-7. So I made a concerted effort to create such a situation, and alhamdulillah- as I always say- Allah ta'ala never allows the efforts to be in vain. So, this year, I hope to spend the bulk of this glorious month in the company of some illustrious Ulema, imbibing their company, attending their classes during the day, and their taraweeh-led prayers during the evenings. To be around people who make me remember Allah (swt), and *want* to increase my ibadaat, and dhikr. Not people who treat this month as an excuse to eat nicer food in the evenings! Or who go to the masjid to socialise. People who stand for taraweeh only because they feel they must, rather than because they actually have the shawq [desire]. I want to be around people of excellence! People who affect me in a way which is good for my Deen, not people who leave me no better off than I was before, even if I am no worse off, wallahu a'lam. I want to *see* Ramadhan in the Muslims around me. Honestly, this is a time for excellence, not mediocrity. A time to excel as a Muslim, not just coast (and that doesn't mean we are mediocre, or coast, the rest of the year ;-)). I want to, for once, experience what it is like just losing myself in ibadaat, the pursuit of Sacred Knowledge, the suhba [accompaniment] of the inheritors of the Messenger of Allah (saw) - i.e. the Ulema - and concentrate on making it a month to remember with an outcome that for once won't fade, but will be indelible. I want to be able to start the day with a niyyah for Allah (swt), and not be coerced into forgetting Him (awj) by the demands and dictates of dunya. Just once, for I yearn to know such a feeling. I've felt for so long now that my Ramadhan's have never really truly yielded the full benefits that this Sacred Month has to offer, as I half-heartedly didn't give my all. Insha'Allah this year I want to change that, and pray that He (awj) will facilitate this for me. Enough of being satisfied with the same standard! Let us be like an athelete! Time to raise the bar! It's just a personal opinion, but I feel that if one isn't doing it always, then at least Ramadhan should be a time when we push the ibadaat boat out. Exceed ourselves and establish a new benchmark for our devotion to Allah ta'ala. Which we can then work on maintaining, habitualising, and then again at some point down the road, raising the bar yet again. I seek to rectify my affair from Ramadhan pasts, as I directed my half-hearted energies into a Ramadhan effort which was satisfied with doing not enough, and reluctant to do more than that, wal iyadhubillah. To doing so little in the month of much. I want finally to have a Ramadhan which when I look back in years to come (insha'Allah), I can say, "I want it to be like the Ramadhan of 2000, only more and better." Not like now, where looking to the past brings no memory of a Ramadhan spent the way it should have been, to the utmost, and where I feel as if I short-changed myself, astaghfirullah. I want to *experience* this month for what it is, not to just go through the motions of suhur, siyam and taraweeh, etc. I want to transport myself back to a timeplace where the best of mankind (saw) and his (saw) Sahabah (raa) walked and fasted and prayed and did so so much more. To awaken the proximity to Allah (swt) that they (saw & raa) must have realised through the excellence of their ibadaat. To give my utmost. Just to know what it is like. To create a psyhe, a mentality, a heartbeat, which pumps and functions for this month the way I've always felt it should, but never felt it did in years gone by. I want to change the oversight of neglecting the small things which when combined with the greater, and more obvious deeds we undertake during this month, make it into something so incredible, that words can but fail to express the sheer overwhelming power it can have if one can just create, through a holistic effort, pure niyyah, and altruistic ibadaat, the true sense of Ramadhan. The shukr to Allah (awj) for the one who makes our suhur, or the shukr to Him (awj) for giving us the energy to do so if we prepare it ourselves. The tawba to Him (awj) for missing an opportunity to do a good deed, even if that deed wasn't obligatory upon us, for this is a month in which the meritorious has thawab which is amplified, so it is plain foolhardiness to bypass such an opportunity. The smallest of deeds is magnified by His (awj) immense Graciousness, alhamdulillah. So let us avail ourselves of all that Ramadhan can be, and should be, rather than being satisfied with another year of mere mediocrity. Insha'Allah this is what I wish for myself, and you all. Pray for me please, for if we but realised it, at the onset of this month we stand at the edge of something great. And alhamdulillah for that, always. Abu Khaled |
| Re: Favourite thing about Ramadan |
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| SA |
| 11/22/00 at 15:03:38 |
| Assalaamu alaikum wr wb "Honestly, this is a time for excellence, not mediocrity." Well, said, bro Abu Khaled. One of my favorite parts of Ramadaan is seeing how we are affected by the fact that the gates of Heaven are open and the gates of Hell are closed, and the devils are chained. I'm always interested in seeing how this affects not only the behavior of myself & the Muslim ummah, but of the non-Muslims, as well...subhanAllah, whether willingly or unwillingly, we all submit to Allah. And sadly, some are just plain bad characters even w/o the help of the shayateen. But Allah is the changer of hearts. May Allah bless us with ihsaan this Ramadaan, aameen. |
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| jannah |
| 11/22/00 at 17:06:02 |
| slm, Great post Abu Khaled :) I think one of the greatest things about Ramadan is that everyone makes an effort to come to the mosque. The mosques are full and it is the way it should be. It's so welcoming to go to the mosque and find all the lights on and so many people there and excited to be there. Excited about deen and praying and reading Quran.. It's just an awesome feeling. |
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| Khathija |
| 11/22/00 at 17:28:53 |
| slm i can't believe ramadan is sooo close by. my favourite thing about ramadan is that every one seems so peaceful and everyone becomes closer to one another while getting closer to allah. |
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| widad |
| 11/25/00 at 07:13:59 |
| slm Arsalan Why should some people miss taraweeh ,while the parents of these children don't. The truth is that the parents should be spoken to,and asked either to let their own children pray next to them or that they(the parents)should stay at home and pray with their children.You know the parents' first duty is to teach children that this is a place of worship,it is the house of Allah and should be respected. Now if they were to visit some important personality like an ambassador or a governor or any rich guy,they would teach their children to speak in a low voice and to be very polite,isn't Allah's place of worship more worthy of such respect,subhanallah. Our imam actually asked the parents of very young children to stay at home if they couldn't control them,and was the masjid quieter,mashallah. |
| NS |
| Re: Favourite thing about Ramadan |
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| Safiya |
| 11/25/00 at 14:03:44 |
| [color=Blue] slm Abu_khalid: i pray that Allah gives you everything you desire of this blessed month and may he grant us the same, ameen. i too have not yet experienced a Ramadhan where i felt the closeness to Allah that we should. May Allah guide us all to the straight path,ameen. [/color] |
| Sister Safiya |
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| AbuKhaled |
| 11/28/00 at 11:02:36 |
| Wa-alaikum assalam wa rahmatullah. Dear Sister Safiya, Jazakumullahukhairan for taking the time to make a du'a for me, I am touched. I too reciprocate for you that this Ramadhan will be one which when you look back at it will fill your heart with joyous memories, and stand you in good stead for what is to come. May He (awj) accept all your sacrifice, effort and endeavour for His (awj) pleasure alone, shelter you, keep you safe and well, and grant you the company of the Elect in the Hereafter. May this month be a witness for your taqwa, muhabba and that you be a shining star for all who see you. Ma'assalam, Abu Khaled |
| Re: Favourite thing about Ramadan |
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| destined |
| 11/28/00 at 15:34:19 |
| slm, My favorite thing this year has to be Taraveeh prayers, even though it's only been 2 days. I still love it. Our Hafiz is amazing, he's 17 yrs old and I believe this is his 3rd of 4th time leading taraveeh. My dad was telling me yesterday that he recites suratul-Baqarah 20 plus times a day and in 20 minutes each time :o amazing... |
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