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| Adirondack Mountains NY: Retreat: June 11-21 |
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| jannah |
| 03/29/04 at 15:00:51 |
| :-* Hope some of you can come this year inshaAllah :-* Visit the offical Retreat Page @ http://www.jannah.org/albany/retreat.html [img]http://www.jannah.org/albany/img0.gif[/img] |
| 03/29/04 at 15:02:25 |
| jannah |
| Re: Adirondack Mountains NY: Retreat: June 11-21 |
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| sis |
| 03/29/04 at 19:35:32 |
| alsalamu alaykum wa rhmat Ullahi wa barakatuh:-) Jazaki Illahu khayra for posting this up :-X I just have one q. What's the difference between the lodge and the cabin? If you can, please list the pros and cons. Please take care and make dua' walsalamu alaykum wa rhmat Ullahi wa barkatuh |
| Re: Adirondack Mountains NY: Retreat: June 11-21 |
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| jannah |
| 03/29/04 at 19:41:59 |
| cabin = ghetto in the woods kind of thing lodge = cheap hotel type thing |
| Re: Adirondack Mountains NY: Retreat: June 11-21 |
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| tahirah |
| 04/01/04 at 16:44:15 |
| as salaamu 'alaikum, i thought i should post this archive here, for people who have the same questions that I had: http://www.jannah.org/cgi-bin/madina/YaBB.pl?board=archives;action=display;num=1049525268;start=0 |
| Re: Adirondack Mountains NY: Retreat: June 11-21 |
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| deenb4dunya |
| 04/06/04 at 21:04:18 |
| Assalamu Alaikum, Y'all should put it up on the frontpage for those who don't know how to cruise the Madina Board... (ie: on www.jannah.org) JazaakumAllaahu Khayran for all your hard work gals :) Wassalamu Alaikum, Mujahada |
| 04/06/04 at 21:04:41 |
| deenb4dunya |
| Re: Adirondack Mountains NY: Retreat: June 11-21 |
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| se7en |
| 04/07/04 at 18:28:42 |
as salaamu alaykum wa rahmatullah, If any of you like Dr. Mokhtar Maghraoui's style, you will *love* his Tazkiya Retreat in the Adirondacks. Check out some reflections below from a participant last year. :) ---- The stillness of the time before daybreak stands in sharp distinction to the turbulence inside me. I study the world before me, and though the lenses of my eyes and the synapses of my brain understand and recognize its beauty, I feel cut off from it. My tongue forms words like "SubhanAllah" and "Alhamdulillah" - and yet my Qalb feels disconnected. My dhikr is in need of dhikr. I wonder... how much of my life have I have tossed away.. finding a quick fix in a conscious ignorance, an easy escape, or shallow promises to my self, and neglecting the deepest part of me, thirsty for true happiness, in connection with the Source of happiness. I am under mental and spiritual occupation, and like a prisoner, I long for freedom from my oppression. Some words from a far away song flutter by, as I try to sort out my mind and heart: this is why they call me a sullen girl / they don't know I used to sail a deep and tranquil sea / but I'm washed ashore and I've lost my pearl / and now there's only an empty shell of me. Somehow, I've lost my way yet again, in the murkiness of dunyaa, in the ocean of shahawaat, that keeps me under the waves, immersed in ghaflah. Somehow, I've lost my Qalb, sick and hidden in veils of ignorance, heedlessness and dhunoob, and I cannot describe the yearning inside me to bring it life. SubhanAllah, how amazing the vessel of the Qalb - that it can house so much, and still feel such emptiness, void and pain. This because it longs and yearns for Allah, and without Him it suffers and rejects all imitations. How have I allowed such inner damage to occur? My devotion misdirected, my emotions scattered, my happiness mislaid. I have wronged myself more than anyone else - sold my soul for a cheap price and my servitude to a lowly master. I need to don the cloak of Ibraheem, alayhis salaam, and destroy these things inside my inner ka'bah. I need to clean out this Qalb, remove the carefully positioned images that have taken the place of my Lord the Most High, scrape clean the film of dhunoob that leave it murky and heavy. I need to resuscitate my inner being, bring life back to my Qalb with dhikr and remembrance of my purpose. Constellations beckon me to join them - come, be a neighbor to the stars, join us in our Remembrance of our Creator. The birds call to me in the stillness of early daybreak - come, release your wings, join us in our flight ascending towards the heavens. The grains of sand call me, come, humble yourself and Allah will exalt you, as the chosen of us are exalted, glinting in wondrous beauty encased in glass. The universe calls me - be in ubudiyyah to Allah. Join us in our happiness, in remembrance of Allah and our shared purpose. Maybe Allah will raise us together, the stars fashioned like jewels in the heavens, the birds swooping with the winds, the earth rich and fertile - and you, a human being, lost for a short while in the desert of dunyaa, but guided back to the Straight Path, like a lost camel brought back by a merciful guide. The universe calls me - and I yearn to answer this sweet adhaan, calling me to success and happiness. I long to find my place among Allah's creation, to reconnect my Qalb with my Creator, and to taste the sweetness of knowing Him, and being true to Him. I ask Allah to make this retreat an opening for me, for this movement of longing and desire to break through the heavy bonds my nafs has imposed on me, and that my returning to Him is thorough and accepted. I ask Allah for the sweetness of Jannah; and for enough consciousness of Him and remembrance of Him to keep me on the path towards it. Ameen, thumma ameen. wAlhamdulillahi Rabbil alameen. |
| Re: Adirondack Mountains NY: Retreat: June 11-21 |
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| Kathy |
| 04/07/04 at 19:32:36 |
| Do you guys want me to send this to everyone at our masjid? If so Im me and I will send you the masjid's e-mail and if you would send me an attachment that I could forward to our community. |
| Re: Adirondack Mountains NY: Retreat: June 11-21 |
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| sis |
| 04/07/04 at 20:58:57 |
| alsalamu alaykum wa rhmat Ullahi wa barakatuh :-) Se7en, please post up some more reflections. I feel like every one i come across helps me see more into myself. Subhan Allah, that reflection is overflowing with my own feelings. I have a favour to ask of those who read this post. Please make dua' that i may attend this retreat and that the benefits of it last throughout my dunya and akhira May Allah ta'ala grant all Muslims the opportunity to gain knowledge and action that will bring us closer to Him 'azza wa jal. wa alaykum alsalam wa rhmat Ullahi wa barakatuh. |
| 04/07/04 at 21:00:51 |
| sis |
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