نور الهدى

[FLA Henrique @flahenriquebr]

Fizeram um compilado de 4 minutos mostrando os lances em que a Argentina foi favorecida contra o Egito.

Simplesmente um escândalo mundial. Quanta sujeira envolvida. 🤢

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Me whenever the stars are visible

[No Context Cats @nocontextscats]

Heavenly eepy

[Arab world @Arabbeau]

Eid prayers in Sudan

[MILO @Nero]

Extremely ignorant regarding Ramadan and fasting generally. Here are some notes based on my own extensive experience of fasting (I regularly do 5 days water only) and some knowledge of Islamic praxis.

There will always be people who perform any act of obedience mindlessly and as a check-box exercise. For those people, gorging on food morning and evening may come easily. Even so, they still achieve the benefits of self restraint for a period. The point of fasting in the Quran is to cultivate God-consciousness via self restraint, not just from food, but sex, smoking, etc.

It’s daft to say that a short fast is of insufficient duration to qualify as a fast because its purpose in the first place is twofold.

(1) Continuation of something previously prescribed to nations
(2) Attainment of God-consciousness

Even denying yourself two meals at their normal times or coffee or smoking is sufficient to begin to learn how to subordinate your desires to God’s will.

On the lunar calendar, there will be times when fasts will feel like skipping lunch, but even in that scenario the spiritual training persists. For a fixed period every day for a month, you train yourself in subordinating appetites, sexual and otherwise, to obedience.

Additionally, what a lot of these posts miss is the heightened and intensified obligations of prayer and recitation. Performed properly, there is no time to sit around eating endlessly once you break your fast. And who, realistically, is waking up at 5am and stuffing their face when they have work the next day?

After breaking fast, Muslims have to rush to pray and then there’s a 20 cycle prayer if you’re a man at the mosque every night that takes over an hour and can often go late into the night. Not to mention, most Muslims should finish reading the Quran at least once in the month, separate from the prayer.

Taken holistically, it’s hardly “hedonistic asceticism” when the day is structured so tightly as to leave very little time for indulging appetites. When fasts are long you might not break until 10pm, then rush to the mosque to do 20 cycles of prayer that can go past midnight, then you rush home to sleep and be up again at 3am and drink water and eat something hope you get enough rest in time for work in the morning… Sounds pretty brutal. Because it is.

And of course your stomach shrinks during fasting so you can’t stuff your face, even if you want to. It’s a blessing for Muslims that some years are shorter than others.

The videos you see are when people are hosting friends and family as there is a reward for that. Perhaps they are apt to go overboard but you can’t assume bad intentions.

[BelieversHubb @BelieversHubb]

The liberal and secular “muslims” claim to be the torch bearers of social change but the reality is that they are one of the main causes and drivers of colonialism in the Muslim world and liberal takes on classical Islamic fiqh and aqeedah have played a part in subduing the Ummah to genocide.

Many leftist muslim activists are not ready to face this reality.

[Moneem A Bindaikah @m20_el]

ميلودكم مبروك، وكل عامٍ وأنتم بخير. لوحة فنية للفنان الليبي عوض عبيدة تحاكي التراث الليبي في عادات وتقاليده خلال احتفاله واحتفاءه وابتهاجه بالمولد النّبوي الشريف في شوارع بنغازي.

[No Context Cats @nocontextscats]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Arafat PMP® @oil_shaeikh]

If not the Religion of Allah where will this happen so coordinated 😍

[Zeina @bluerevtard]

his dramatic ass would not survive the first day of ramadan in our house

[𓂆 نابلسية @nabulsiyathinks]

Why were these the most important thing in the world to me in 5th grade

[BelieversHubb @BelieversHubb]

Every year before Ramadan there are sisters coming online claiming pregnant women are exempt from fasting because they are pregnant.

I wanted to make a quick post to correct this. Pregnant women are obligated to fast. If the pregnancy causes a sickness, then she can break her fast due to the sickness. She can also break her fast if she fears for herself or her baby. Sisters should be sincere and have a real fear, Allah SWT knows what is in our hearts and minds. Lastly, if she delivers her baby or has a miscarriage and has nifas then it is haram for her to fast due to the nifas.

Pregnancy alone is not a reason to break the fast. Sisters who consider pregnancy as a “free pass” to skip the entire month of Ramadan are committing a grave sin. May Allah SWT humble us to submit to His rulings and protect us from ignorance ameen.

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

Tomorrow is one of the mid days of the month (the 14th of Shaaban) and a Thursday. Both reasons make it a day of Sunnah fasting.

And as we reach the middle of Shaaban, may we relinquish our grudges in pursuit of His reward.

Open your heart to forgiveness, extend your hand to reconcile, keep your door open so that the gates of the heavens remain open for you. May Allah purify our hearts before Ramadan, and unite them for His sake. Ameen

[Master Oogway @masteroogwgay]

You think burning a thousand Qurans will help?

Even if you burned a million, no even if you burned all of the Qurans on earth, Islam won’t vanish. 10s of millions of people have it memorised. We could recreate it within days. The Quran itself is a miracle that won’t vanish.

[maryam @luvm7r]

me after using the wrong personality with someone and they think I’m insane

[qalam writes @qalam_writes]

Advice from our beloved Uncle Khaled (رحمه الله)

[Dr. Shadee Elmasry @DrShadeeElmasry]

Nothing revives the heart more than witnessing a good death. Death is of the body only. The soul lives on, happily,* in a realm called Barzakh until we are goven bodies again on the Day of Judgement.

*if pious