Hide the engagement, and announce the marriage.
Announce the arrival of your first child only after the baby is safely born
Announce your jobs after you have been accepted and have begun working.
Keep your projects private until they come to life, then share the joy of their opening with people.
Keep your travel plans to yourself, and let the memories speak after you return.
Keep your intention to buy valuable things such as homes, cars, and other possessions private, and rejoice in them once they are truly in your hands.
Not everything that is planned needs to be announced, and not every blessing should be spoken about before it is complete. Some things become more beautiful when they are surrounded by discretion until Allah brings them to completion in the best way.
Ibrahim waited Decades for a child.
Musa waited years in exile.
Yusuf waited in prison.
Yaqub waited with blind eyes.
Ayyub waited through pain.
Nuh waited a lifetime.
Their waiting wasn't wasted.
Waiting is one of the quietest forms of 'ibadah-because even in silence,
What a beautiful reminder Omar Suleiman gave at the end of his Ramaḍan series. Whoever worshipped Ramaḍan, Ramaḍan is over, but whoever worshipped Allah, Allah is alive & will never die. So don’t let this month close like a door but let it open to Him for the rest of your life
Eid Mubarak to the hospitalized, the unjustly imprisoned, the displaced, the refugees, the homeless, the grieving, the workers who had to spend it away from their families, and anyone who woke up to no one wishing them a blessed Eid.
May Allah lift all of your burdens.