Post Tagged with: "Ramadan"

20Aug
2011

How Not to Host Extravagant Iftar Parties

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How Not to Host Extravagant Iftar Parties

As a member of the South Asian community, I have attended numerous iftars that seem more like parties than iftar gatherings. If you’re a Muslim you’re probably thinking, “Iftar ‘parties’ and ‘gatherings’ are the same thing, dummy!” Sadly, our community has failed to distinguish between the kind of parties we host during most of the year and the kind of gatherings we should host in the blessed month of Ramadan. An extravagant iftar “party” ends up taking a big chunk of our [...]

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17Aug
2011

Success: A Test of Gratitude and Humility

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Success: A Test of Gratitude and Humility

Try to recall the last time you achieved something big, commendable, note-worthy. Straight A’s? A promotion? Election into a high position? Admission into a competitive university? Most of us have experienced the sweetness of success. Some of us view it as a blessing. Fewer of us recognize the Source of it and remember to thank Him. But it’s so easy to be blinded by the brightness of our achievements, to convince ourselves that it was our own hands that earned our accomplishments. [...]

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16Aug
2011

How to Stay Physically Fit in Ramadan

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How to Stay Physically Fit in Ramadan

The month of Ramadan can often become an excuse to not exercise and to overindulge in food. But this month is not meant to be used as a crutch for laziness or a reason to eat whatever we want. We forget that keeping our bodies healthy can be an act of worship and in turn, make us realize our goal of becoming even closer to Allah (swt) during this month. InshAllah with just a few easy steps (literally), you can [...]

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9Aug
2011

Ramadan Away from Home

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Ramadan Away from Home

Between attending classes and work and studying and an internship, finding the time to make food for iftar can be very difficult for Noor Teebi, a third year at UCLA who is spending her first Ramadan on her own. Being away from home for the first time, many other Muslim students face the same unexpected challenges of having to wake up for suhoor on their own without a parent to drag them out of bed or making it through an [...]

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4Aug
2011

The iPhone Effect: Overfeeding our Nafs

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The iPhone Effect: Overfeeding our Nafs

The month of Ramadan we have just entered  is a time when we purify ourselves from our physical and worldly desires.  While we curb our temptations in this month to detach ourselves from this dunya, this consumer society we live in, conversely, encourages indulging in the desires of our nafs, our ego. It’s really unfortunate that the best description of a consumer in these times would be ‘unsatisfied’. There’s always a newer version, a ‘better’ version we convince ourselves. The [...]

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16Sep
2010

What is Itikaf?

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Written by Sheikh Qazi Fazlullah of Islamic Center Northridge, Granada Hills The word “itikaf” is used in the Holy Quran in different forms such as “aakifun” or “al aakifeen”. Literally, it means confinement to a specific thing or place, or retreat and seclusion, while technically it means to confine oneself for sometime to a mosque in order to stay there to worship or at least to withdraw oneself from worldly business. This practice of seclusion is almost in each religion, [...]

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6Sep
2010

Some amazing shots by the Boston Globe on Ramadan

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Some amazing shots by the Boston Globe on Ramadan


Full gallery can be found here Full gallery can be found here http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/ramadan_2010.html

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3Sep
2010

myRamadan: An Islamic Center’s Strategy to Restore Order

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myRamadan: An Islamic Center’s Strategy to Restore Order

It is a Saturday evening and your racing endorphins put you on the edge as you prepare to attend your first ever Qiyam-Al-Layl, a Sunnah (tradition) of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and his companions to stand up in worship all night long. You napped during the day just to get the energy to stay awake during this night. You are excited and pumped up for what was promised to you in those emails. But what they didn’t advertise [...]

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29Aug
2010

myRamadan: Returning to Egypt

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myRamadan: Returning to Egypt

Amelia’s story |  Samina’s story | Hana’s story | Sumaya’s story |  Alia’s story by Alia Ghoneum When I was a child, I used to visit Egypt two to three times a year, so much so that I got an “excessive absence” warning on my first grade report card. As the years went by and after my grandmother Teta Dawlat passed away (Allah yarham), I have not been back for six years. Alhamduillah millioon mara, I was so fortunate to [...]

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24Aug
2010

Children Not Wanted in Mosques?

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by Sumaya Bezrati Today I read someone’s status message that was criticizing children’s misbehavior in the mosque (albeit jokingly) but it still struck a nerve with me. This would be the 4th status message about this very topic that I have read this Ramadan. When did the Ummah become this intolerant of children in the mosque? I love going to the mosque. It brings a sense of ease and peace over me that no matter how I hard try I [...]

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