Salam Alaykum people,
I just discovered this brother from the US, who got me thinking about how we recite the Quran in our prayers and how we should be doing so. Do you ever feel as though in salah that your mind is drifting?
Maybe this could help you.
I was just looking through the internet and came across MYH (Muslim Youth Helpline)It's like a confidential non judgmental helpline for Muslim Youth who are experiencing the "down" of the ups and downs of life.
They have their bank details on the site and need regular donations. Something as little as £15 will help support one helpline volunteer for a whole month.
In my opinion, this is a really good organisation that should get the help and support of everyone which is why I'm setting up a standnig order this afternoon.BTW - £15 is not the minimum donation they take. According to the website it could even be a £1 one off donation (15 people do this and that's one volunteer supported for a whole month)
I was once told that we should all pay 2.5% of all our worldly posessions as like a charity tax every year.
My cashflow is usually a bit all over the place and I don't think I ever have 2.5% of what I own as liquid capital in my account at any point in the year.
I do however make regular donations (monthly ones to like Water Aid and NSPCC and one offs like to the chap whos doing the 10k to raise money for the Revival) throughout the year that amount to more than 2.5% of everything I own.
Does this count? Do I get let off the hook for not having made that one off donation last Ramadan?
What I've spent my morning thinking:
How can you help someone who doesn't want to be helped?
Sitting on the sideline is slowly but surely killing you both.
But any time you try to help - you get shot down, shut out. (because he's older than you so clearly "knows better")
It's not even like he's your child, so slapping him over the head and forcing him to do the right thing is out of the question too.
You're 100% certain he will benifit from the proposed changes and it will improve his life in countless ways. (not just this life)
Yet all can do is watch "what could have been" get flushed down the pan.
It taste great.
That is all.
Just not enough time in the day.
Its not going ot be anything article worthy. just a quick thought i had today.
why would you EVER date a guy in secondary school or college?!
they are soooo not worth it.
they're stinky, weird, sport crazy, acne ridden, did i mention stinky? they talk weird, they eat...no word to describe it. and MORE IMPORTANTLY. they are FRICKING BROKE!
its beyond me why any girl would date a guy still in school.
let girls be girls and develop into awesome girls. let boys be boys, get some confidence, some height, some muscles, lose the spots, learn to speak (again) and get a job.
then in uni or whatever let them meet and be happy. married.
Ms Curtis, my GCSE English Teacher, told me I should always check my work before submitting it. And since this is the first bit of work I’m doing since then, I thought I’ll act on her advice. When I did, by reading the title, I thought “well Duh..!! – clearly it is. But then I referred to scrap notes to remind myself why I started writing this article and remembered – doing the right thing is actually not always the right thing to do.
For example, if you’re driving along and see someone at the zebra crossing, you should stop as it’s the right thing to do? But what if you have a child in your car who you need to get to the hospital? Then the right thing to IS to stop, but also not to stop? Which one is righter? (if that’s even a word – but you know what I mean)
i think im going to TRY to go dormant for the next two months. i dont know how that's going to work out but im going to miss y'all.
especially all our cute lil newbies!
Me and Hummus and GD and... oh that's it. well y'all feel like an actual team but there's only three of you!
well, after exam we'll have fun coz Nasheedgirl said she's coming back inshaaAllah. you three are going to like her i think. She's fun like you.
and there's also Valkyrie and Lioness of Allah. If they come back you lot are going to take over loool
Ok there's this non-muslim who randomly got hold of my email address, and since then has not stopped talking to me about- religion.
I deleted her twice, yet she seems to be determined to pop-up and ask whether "I'm busy" so she can chat.. urgently 
The first topic of discussion was about 'covering up' and why muslims do it etc and then it was about 'consequences' and forms of 'punishment' if you don't adhere to a certain thing?!
One thing that is really REALLY ticking me off right now, is how would you go about explaining something to a non-muslim?
I mean the only ever response I get is "WHY" ..
