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| How was your Eid? |
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| Anonymous |
| 12/17/01 at 15:26:59 |
| So how was your Eid? What did you all do for Eid this year? |
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| se7en |
| 12/17/01 at 16:24:32 |
as salaamu alaykum wa rahmatAllah, My eid was *AWESOME*, alhamdulillah :) After the salah (with beautiful recitation), meeting and greeting everyone and their momma, and having the annual eid photo shoot :) some of the girls went to eat breakfast at a diner. While we were waiting for a table this older woman (you know how they are :)) came up to us and asked, "Are you all nuns?" Hahahahaha... then when we told her, no, we're Muslims, she said "We have to find you all some nice young men.. I have three sons myself.." Hahaha.. that was a trip :) Then, there was a little get together at my house :) It was *awesome*, alhamdulillah. The house was *packed*.. it was just really beautiful :) And the food was bombin, if I do say so myself :) (I cooked some of it.. no really! I made the chicken korma and the veggies and some other stuff) but there was biryani, beef korma, shami kabobs, etc etc.. Brother Mokhtar (an imam in this community) and another imam (br djaffar, like a father to me) came and I hear that they had a little dars with the brothers on Ghazali and Ibn Taymeeya that was "hardcore" and "covered all of knowledge in half an hour"!! .. which is just not right, because none of the sisters got to hear it and I was too busy playing hostess to know what was going on :( Also one of my friends brought some kittens for me to choose from as an eid present :) :) :) MashaAllah we chose this little black and white one.. soo tiny and adorable :) We named it Hiba, because Hiba means gift :) It's so little and it walks all goofy :) Then my sis (jannah) called and everyone at the party got to say salaam and eid mubarak to her :D There were just so many times during the day that I had to hold back tears :) When my brothers friend, who just recently became Muslim, put on a kufi for the first time.. when our imam made a dua for all the sisters.. when my friend brought me kittens because she knew I wanted one.. It was just beautiful, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah. I can't believe Ramadan is over, but man, yesterday was just a beautiful ending to it. Ok, I'm done :) take care :) wasalaamu alaykum wa rahmatAllah. |
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| Merimda |
| 12/17/01 at 17:56:33 |
| Salam, Alhamdillah I also had a wonderful Eid. This Eid I spent with my freinds and not family bc a couple of my freinds this year were spending Eid away from their families. One friend was spending her Eid for the first time away from her family in Turkey and another is only studying in this city and is still writing exams so she couldn't go back home to celebrate with her family.. My friend, my youngest brother and I went to the Exhibition Place together, to pray Eid. My parents, decided to go to the Islamic Center near our home to pray. Alhamdillah, at the prayer, I got to see people I haven't seen in ages. After the prayer and greeting ppl. My litte bro went off with his friend and family and I a bunch of friends went out to eat at an Iranian place...mmm Perisan food.. The food was awesome..^_^ At the restaurant we met up with a really sweet Iranian sister who I had met many years ago at the university but have not seen ever since. Her and her mom sat with us for a while so that nice.. We then went to a mosque to pray maghrib. After that, our Turkish friend invited us to a Turkish Eid party. But before the party, since we were near the Korean Business District, we went to a Korean bakery and tried some walnut cakes...those were good.. At the Turkish party I met, unexpectedly, a very good friend. So that was a very nice surprise. Turkish ppl are awesome masha-Allah they are so friendly and welcoming. At the party for entertainment they sang some Turkish nasheeds and poetry. I didn't understand it but it was nice anyway. Then after that we got to socialise over all manners of Turkish delights..they were tempting..but I was too stuffed to try all of them. We had an awesome evening all together and some good laughs over some things that happened on the street car and subway. The night was made even better when my bro ( not the youngest but second youngest) came back home. I got a few gifts these year. But the best one was from my bro. He had spent his eid money and eid day (after prayers) buying gifts for my parents and me. With a really sweet note on the wrapping he bought me a volume of the Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers). He wanted to buy me the whole set but didn't have enough money..I thought that was really sweet..^_^ Your Eid, Se7en sounded great..I would have really loved to listen to that Al-Ghazali-Ibn Taymiyya discussion..^_^ salam, merimda |
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| bhaloo |
| 12/17/01 at 21:12:24 |
| slm I had a nice Eid alhumdullilah. The Eid prayers started at 7:45 am, they were supposed to start at 7:30am. It was a pretty general khutbah about the events of 9/11, the khatib mentioned how on average 25,000 people convert to Islam in America, but since 9/11, there have been 24,000 conversions!!! People are really interested in learning about Islam, and we are all ambassadors to Islam. We must set a good example. My mom had some samosas, suhwenya, fruit chaat, chaana, mithai (kalakund and carrot halwa), and a plain cake. :) Oh after the eid prayers they had some mamoul cookies and date cookies (they had a cripsy shell). :) Afterwards there was an Eid picnic and I saw a few people there that I knew and there was some really good Arab dishes there that I have never had before (a lot of them were made with phillo dough and had meats or cheeses and brocolli in them) and there was some falafel, and halwa. Afterwards we went to my aunts house for dinner there were some other relatives there as well. It was the first time my father had gone out of the house to some place since he had his heart surgery about 2 weeks ago. Unfortunately the wound from a week ago from the surgery was leaking, so a cousin of mine who is a doctor re-did it and put some gauze on it. It stopped the leaking. We played this game called taboo as well, that was pretty funny, and tricky. Basically you have a time limit to get your team to say certain words, but they can't say words/or derivations of those words on the card. For example, let's say you want to get your team to say: BEACH but there are words on there like OCEAN, SAND, UMBRELLA, BLANKET, LIFEGUARD. So if you say any of those other words you lose a point. Its easier said then done. :) [quote] Also one of my friends brought some kittens for me to choose from as an eid present :) :) :) MashaAllah we chose this little black and white one.. soo tiny and adorable :) We named it Hiba, because Hiba means gift :) It's so little and it walks all goofy :) [/quote] :( That's like the 4th cat, isn't it? Insha'Allah the same thing that happened to the 1st 3 won't happen to this one. |
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| AbdulBasir |
| 12/17/01 at 23:41:28 |
| [quote] Brother Mokhtar (an imam in this community) and another imam (br djaffar, like a father to me) came and I hear that they had a little dars with the brothers on Ghazali and Ibn Taymeeya that was "hardcore" and "covered all of knowledge in half an hour"!! .. which is just not right, because none of the sisters got to hear it and I was too busy playing hostess to know what was going on :( [/quote] [slm] Eid Mubarak everyone :) Ok let's not exaggerate please...that spin (likely generated by the Albanyia mafia) goes a little too far...so let us set the record straight For a while, just after shaykh mokhtar arrived, there was this talk amongst all of us (i.e only one conversation, not like a bunch of conversations in different groups) that somehow turned from light-hearted joking about hospitality to a light-hearted (not hardcore) talk about Ibn Rushd, with both the imams pitching in...Actually the way it happened was we were talking about certain (hidden) Islamic origins in Western customs and someone mentioned Averroes and how no one would ever figure out it was Ibn Rushd from the name...it was totally impromptu, just natural extension of the conversation...very casual...Abu Khaled if you are out there, I thought about you during the talk, because I think you would have loved it! :) That was pretty short, then everyone went about in their own conversation amongst one another ya know...so a few brothers were talking here and there...a few brothers were having a deep talk in one part of the room with the imam about things Muslims could do about the state of affairs or something like that.. on the other side, one brother asked a quick question about al-Ghazzali to Shaykh Mokhtar...so then he started talking about him and his excellence in philosophy, and then Ibn Taymiyyah, then a little comparison between them etc etc... It wasn't a dars...nor was it "all of knowledge in half an hour"...it was really laid back, still beneficial...just natural conversation amongst the brothers; earlier in the day we were discussing the Trinity and aqeedah and stuff...i dunno, that's what the bros talk about... it is just this time we had some more knowledgeable company than usual in our little chat :) so it was even better :) [slm]:) |
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| ahmer |
| 12/18/01 at 00:35:59 |
| slm just to mention, that the purpose of my email is not to make you people feel bad. ofcourse islam is a natural way of life that allows the 'insaan' to enjoy life like it should be. It's just what i thought the whole day! but wallahi, this day of eid was the most heaviest day to bear for me!! A night before eid, we got the news of seizure of accounts of GRF and benevolence. this came down pretty hard on us, as we bros/sis worked alhumdolillah to collect money for 5 families on campus. A part of money was sent through GRF. When we got the news, the world seemed to fall upon us. As if we are not allowed to help them now! Then all during the eid day, i felt such hypocrisy thinking of the innocent Muslims killed in Afghanistan, i felt so humiliated as the ummah is right now! I thought if it was the ummah of the Prophet Mohammad(saw)? My family went out to meet people and then some place else but i felt so bad about it all, that i didnt go and just went to sleep and woke up in the evening. It was a helpless feeling. Not knowing what can i do to help fellow Muslims.I looked at the dining table in my house and i felt repelled!! Is it what we are supposed to eat? so much opulence!!! I felt hypocritical. This was not the way of Prophet(saw)!! :( This was such a sad sad day, I didn't find happiness wallahi!! I then wrote an email that i want to share with you. I wrote it in response to a sister who was very depressed when we got the news!! this will really sum up my day, i really really cried so badly at the state of Ummah!!! [color=red] salam alaikum I got this news at home, and it was soo moving to see my 11 year old nephew weeping at the news. After the initial reaction i told him, that we don't need to be scared cuz when the Prophet(saws) was forced out of the place he was born, he took refuge in the cave with Abu Bakr (r.a) , Abu Bakr was scared cuz they were after the life of the Prophet. Allah sent the Ayah in the Quran at that instant, "Do not feel scared, I am with you" Such a reassuring tone, subhan'Allah, Quran is soo clear on what they do 61:8 Their intention is to extinguish Allah's Light (by blowing) with their mouths: But Allah will complete (the revelation of) His Light, even though the Unbelievers may detest (it) they can never extinguish the light of Allah. these tribulations and trials are nothing. the reaction is ofcourse of sadness and outrage, but we shouldn't be acting stupid. We should be patient cuz the game is different here!! InshaAllah this deen will return as a stranger as the Prophet(saws) said!! We are a nation of hope not fear!!!! that's why the Prophet said, "despair is disbelief" Just keep in mind this ... there is a hadith of the Prophet(saws) narrated by Ibn hazm(r.a), his aunt Umme Haram(she fed him) was once with the Prophet and she was massaging the head of Prophet and he fell asleep, and he woke up and he was smiling, she asked him, O Prophet of ALlah(saws) why are you laughing, and the Prophet said, "subhan Allah I saw people from my ummah, they were riding on the ocean Fi sabeel'Allah, she said, "O Messenger of ALlah, pray to Allah to make me from one of those people", He made a dua for her, and then he fell asleep again and he was smiling again, and she asked, "O Messenger Of Allah Ma Adhakukha, What made you laugh?", and the Prophet said, "I see a second group from my ummah riding the ocean fisabillilah" and she said, "Make dua that i am from them", He said "You are from the first group, you are not from the second group!", (Now Umme Haram was on the expedition in the time of Usman (r.a) , she was on the trip to cyprus, as she was coming off the ship riding her horse, her horse tripped, she fell and died shaheeda, Ibn Hazm said that he had no doubt in his mind that the second group was of the Tariq Ibne Ziyad who crossed the straits of jibraltar and opened up spain. Now in a sound hadith of the Prophet(saws), Somebody asked"O Messenger of Allah which city opens up first , Constantinople or Rome?", He replied, "the city of herqul(constantinople), 800 years later, Muhammad Al Fateh when he was a young boy, studying this hadith ,read this Hadith and he decided to be that person, cuz the Prophet said, "what an excellent leader and what an excellent army will open constantinople?" Now the Prophet(saws) said, the city of rome will open next. InshaAllah we believe in this. and remember it will open up with dawah, there is no separate section of Dawah in the books of Fiqh, dawah is always in the section of "struggle"(translate) in the books of fiqh. this is what we should do , dawah, spread the word of ALlah, this is the only thing we do and continue doing this. i have heard a lot of bros/sis saying which makes me a lil depressed, "well rutgers/njit is too small to focus on!!, well imagine if thousands of people in njit say that they got the message of Islam on the day of qiyamah , we will be saved.. imagine!!! nothing should be unserious!! it's time to act and work peacefully!! and be smart..!! if we have to do something do it honestly and efficiently..!!! we should really stop wasting time on soft couches, and start to work seriously, i swear to you that even in a small place like 'njit' there are thousands of guys n gals that dont know anything about islam. this is such a time for humiliation for Ummah, and we should realize that it's time to go to work.!! we cant afford any unserious attitude, my local imam cried badly today at the khutbah, never has been ALLah's deen soo humiliated.. we should feel it and weep..!!! just like my 11 year old nephew wasn't able to sleep!!!! and he had soo much anxiety!!! May Allah help us all. inshaAllah Allah will help. these were my humble thoughts. May Allah correct me if i am wrong, spread it if u feel it's beneficial under 'anonymous' dont write my name , it's just a naseeha, and anonymous naseeha always helps:) (not that i am scared to put my name!) jazakaAllah khair salam alaikum ahmer [/color] May Allah help us all. jazakaAllah khair wlm ahmer |
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| se7en |
| 12/18/01 at 03:01:55 |
| as salaamu alaykum wa rahmatAllah, [quote]Ok let's not exaggerate please...[/quote] what a dis! that's what I heard from a brother that was *there*.. so :P [quote]It wasn't a dars...nor was it "all of knowledge in half an hour"...it was really laid back, still beneficial...just natural conversation amongst the brothers; earlier in the day we were discussing the Trinity and aqeedah and stuff...i dunno, that's what the bros talk about... [/quote] You know, a sister and I were just talking about this today. MashaAllah the brothers seem to have really deep, spiritual conversations from what I've been able to eavesdr-- I mean, learn about from various sources. I have a great deal of respect for you all because of that. Not to diss the sisters, but it's very rare and only on certain occasions that we're able to do that. And when we do, it seems forced.. it's not something natural. Our discussions tend to veer into two topics.. and if you're a sister you know what those two are ;) Guess that indicates a lot about our level of eman :/ but we're trying bro! We're trying.. take care :) wasalaamu alaykum wa rahmatAllah. |
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| AbdulBasir |
| 12/18/01 at 04:11:55 |
| [quote] You know, a sister and I were just talking about this today. MashaAllah the brothers seem to have really deep, spiritual conversations from what I've been able to eavesdr-- I mean, learn about from various sources. I have a great deal of respect for you all because of that. [/quote] This reminded me of something. When I was in high school I took a class about Islam, and the professor, who had spent much time in a Muslim country, tried to describe some unique aspects of the Islamic culture to the class. And one of them was that he said that Muslims just get together in groups of friends and talk like everyone else together. The thing though, was that they can just talk about God during the conversation. Everyone in the class of course just couldn't really understand it, because our conversations usually revolve around pretty much everything else. For me also, though I could appreciate that, I couldn't relate, since I was like the only Muslim around and didn't have the opportunity to have any Muslim friends at the time. Soon after getting to college and thereafter and getting to be around other Muslims, though, I can really relate to this now. It is something unique about the Muslims alhamdulillah... Hmm se7en what you say is all news to me, always thought it was the other way around, from *my* sources at least. Us brothers are just trying to live up to the mafia's example. And for goodness sake, every chance they get, the shaykhs here, consistently rip on the brothers and criticize us because we're not as good as the sisters, so we respect you guys a lot.:) [slm]:) |
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| kareema |
| 12/18/01 at 04:21:59 |
| Kinda sucked if you asked me. Everything was going well after the Eid prayer until we tried to decide what to do for Eid day. Some people didn't want to go anywhere, we decided to go to a good restaurant, the people who didn't want to be there sat at a table and only had a drink and waited for us to finish, sometimes sniping at us to get done. Finally, since we were in two cars, one car went home, but 1 person was left who wanted to go home, there wasn't enough room. This person sulked in the car(my little brother wanted to visit a store that we frequent) while we went to Speedzone(go karts+arcades) and when we came back 3 hours later, he sulked more and gave hostile stares. The people in my family are so 100% party poopers that I'm surprised we ever get out of the daily grind(my dad is adventuresome, though). And instead of meeting with Muslim friends, some near, most a half-day's car trip away, we played video games and ate candy amongst ourselves. Nice, for the first hour or so anyways. But I suppose it's a better Eid than they are having in Afghanistan and such places, isn't it? |
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| explorer |
| 12/19/01 at 13:47:40 |
| [slm] My Eid kinda sucked too. I don't normally look forward to Eid cuz nothing really happens for me. In fact I can't really remember any eid which I always look back at. Ramadan is the spectacle for me, not eid. In my family its all girls and hardly any guys so I'm always left out with the odd male cousin to chill out with which isn't for long since we have to move on. The male:female ratio is like 1:4 :o My friends are all to busy with their family stuff so we can't hook up until later. The only highlight is the food - chicken biryani, shami keebabs, lamb, mithai - which I take full advantage off ;-D and I just spend my spare time on the computer or sleeping :) You guys that have a fun Eid with all these islamic activities are lucky ;) [wlm] |
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| BroHanif |
| 12/19/01 at 15:00:56 |
| AWW, Well my kind was kinda good and bad... I was grateful to Allah and still am for making me alive for such a grand day. However when I went for eid prayers in the morning my heart was heavy like a rock, I looked at the many people from different nationalities, different cultures, brothers with beards, brothers without beards, some were tall, some were short all in all we must've numbered about 3 to 4,000 brothers. However, I could help think that as muslims we have one Allah, one Quran and one last prophet and we still couldn't resolve our differences. When the salaat started my mind started to drift to the plains of Afghanistan, I began to wonder that if everyone here were to pass away how would we feel, I would never see some of the brothers, likewise I guess will never see the shaheed whereever they are presently fightinhg for Allah in the world. Later on I met with some of the brothers, we talked, hugged and shared salaams, I even enjoined some of the food prepared, however, my mind began to flow again when I realised that how selfish I am that many of my brothers and sisters will be today without food on such a happy day. Overall it was a good day, yet marked with deep reflection. I later heard the news that my close friends dad passed away, for him eid was gonna be different from now on. Salaams Hanif |
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| ABD |
| 12/20/01 at 00:13:22 |
| Assalamu Alaikum waRahmatullaHi waBarakatuHu, Our EID was awesome as well, Alhamdulillah. The takbir started at 7:45 and continued until 8:30. I was late for the prayer b/c me and a friend were looking for safety pins, and didn't notice the time, Subhanallah. After the prayer, it was the traditional and very exciting and fun "congratulate everyone" period. We all said Eid Mubarak to each other and it was emotional for some, while joyous for others. There were some Malaysian sisters for whom it was emotional b/c they didn't get to spend it with their families. May Allah-u Subhana Wata'ala save their places in Jannah and grant them to be together insha'Allah. Well, after we hugged and kissed everyone (only sisters), we went and said Eid Mubarak to the imam's, Imam Djafer and Sheikh Mukhtar. I want to share some advice Sheikh Mukhtar gave me when I asked him how to protect myself from the Shaitan now that they are unchained. He said to always do three things; make dhikr of Allah-u Subhana Wata'ala, never talk unless we have to, especially nonsense talk, and to always keep our hearts in check, know what's going on in our hearts. So, Insha'Allah if we do these and our daily Salat and Tasbihat, then Insha'Allah we will be protected from Shaitan. We went home after the Eid prayer and it was time to kiss our parents hands and say Eid Mubarak to them. Subhanallah, it was such a commotion. For those of you who don't know, I have twin sisters that are 4 and a baby brother who's 3, Masha'Allah. After we said Eid Mubarak to the parents, it was time to give gifts, and you can imagine the excitement of the three little ones, Subhanallah. Well, that took quite some time and then Alhamdulillah it was time for b-fast. As we were about to finish b-fast, the first group of visitors came, and from 11 am til 11 pm, Subhanallah, it didn't stop. Masha'Allah we had visitors all day Sunday and it was very fun. Everyone was all dressed up and enjoying themselves, that it was all beautiful, Alhamdulillah. The second day wasn't as busy but Alhamdulillah it was still fun and the spirit of Eid was still in the air... Well, i guess that sums up my Eid. Alhamdulillah I enjoyed it a lot and Insha'Allah next year it will be even better. We enjoyed our Eid, but let's not forget our brothers and sisters in other nations who are suffering instead of enjoying their Eid. May Allah-u Subhana Wata'ala save their places in Jannah and give them so much better than what they have in this life. May Allah-u (SWT) help them get through their struggles and give them patience against the oppressors. Ameen. Wassalamu Alaikum waRahmatullaHi waBarakatuHu, Betul |
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