Allah knows your eyes have cried a lot, He knows the pain behind your smiling face and how hard you try, Allah is seeing your efforts. Allah has not left you, He is preparing you for something great. Sometimes hardships are a blessing and sometimes a lesson.
After all the heartbreaks, there's a strange sense of relief in my heart. Not numbness. Not because I got what I wanted or the du'a I made. Just relief. A quiet contentment that comes from knowing Allah is in control, and I no longer need to carry the weight of the outcome.
Omar Suleiman in one of his Ramadan series episode said;
If Allah can be patient, waiting for you to return to Him and doesn’t punish you immediately after you commit a sin, why can’t you be patient with His plans and trust Him over your own desires?
The takbīrāt of tashrīq are to be recited once after each farḍ ṣalāh, starting from the Fajr of the 9th of Dhul Ḥijjah till ʿAṣr of the 13th Dhul Ḥijjah:
اَللهُ أَكْبَرُ اَللهُ أَكْبَرُ ، لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا اللهُ وَاللهُ أَكْبَرُ ، اَللهُ أَكْبَرُ وَلِلّٰهِ الْحَمْدُ
Brother Amin Abdullah was the guard at the mosque in San Diego for years. He was instrumental in stopping the shooters from reaching the children today. This was his final post on FB. On these holiest days, may Allah have mercy on him and accept him as a martyr. Ameen
if you're overwhelmed by what to do in these 10 days, let me share something simple to anchor your focus: the core of these days is to sacrifice attachments to other than Allaah. The more you give up in your heart for Allaah, the more He'll place in it of good. seek that
When Maghrib enters, don’t forget to make the du’ā for the new month:
اللهم أهله علينا بالأمن و الإيمان والسلامة والإسلام
Allahumma ahillahū 'alaynā bil-amni wal-īmān, was-salāmati wal-Islām
O Allah, let this moon appear on us with security and Iman; with safety and Islam.
BREAKING NEWS | The crescent moon for Dhul Hijjah 1447 has been sighted in Saudi Arabia. Subsequently, the blessed month of Dhul Hijjah will commence tonight, and ‘Eid al-Adha will be observed on Wednesday 27th May 2026, in shā Allāh.
May Allāh ﷻ grant the hujjāj a safe, accepted and spiritually uplifting Hajj, ease every stage of their journey, and return them home forgiven like the day they were born. Aameen.
May Allah ﷻ also allow us all to maximise the blessed first ten days of Dhul Hijjah through dhikr, fasting, du‘ā, charity and righteous deeds, and may He accept all of our worship and efforts. Aameen.
Al hamdulilah, Masjid Al-Aqsa will reopen tomorrow morning InshaAllah for Fajr after 40 days of its door being shut.
But it still remains under occupation, regular settler incursions, and under the threat of lunatics trying to force some sort of prophecy as an excuse to take it.
“I’m tired of waking up for tahajjud every night with no change in my life, Allah isn’t answering my dua”
I remember the nights I would wake up for Tahajjud, standing in silence and pouring my heart out in sujood.
I would pray and pray, try and try but nothing seemed to move in my life.
I felt stuck.
And slowly, a thought crept in:🧵