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	<title>Comments on: How Acts of Attaining Nearness to God Are Like Working Out: Abdul Sattar</title>
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		<title>By: AbdulSattar</title>
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		<dc:creator>AbdulSattar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Drinking protein shakes is done to feed the body and muscles so they can grow.

Fasting feeds the soul the so it can grow :)

Good vun bhaisab</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Drinking protein shakes is done to feed the body and muscles so they can grow.</p>
<p>Fasting feeds the soul the so it can grow <img src='http://www.suhaibwebb.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Good vun bhaisab</p>
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		<title>By: SaqibSaab</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What's the protein shake, then? Or creatine?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What&#8217;s the protein shake, then? Or creatine?</p>
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		<title>By: Miriam</title>
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		<dc:creator>Miriam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Assalamo'alaikom wa rahmatoALLAHi ta'ala wa barakatoh;

First off i would like to say baraka ALLAHO fik, may ALLAH reward you in this life and most importantly in the Akhira. 

This is deff something i will share with my husband during ta3lim this evening, your examples are trou and real. And you are right, we have to guard our iman, for our iman is our shield from this world and from anything bad that comes out of it. It is our shield against Iblis and anything that comes from him (May ALLAH protect us from him) 

It is important that every beliver knows that salat, thikr, recitation of Quran strengthens our iman, but what else does it do? It cleanses our hart from any dirt that would have come in it from this dunya, and puts noor in it. So it is crucial that we cleanse our harts every single day, for if we don't this dunya will make it black - Allahomma a3inni 3an thikrika wa shukra wa 7usni 3ibadatik. May ALLAH give us the ability to always remember Him, may ALLAH give us the ability to pick up the Quran and read it for a couple of minutes or more for ALLAH ta3ala. 

May ALLAH bless us, and give us a blessed month of Ramadan, may we work hard through Ramadan, may we increase our salat, our dua, our ibadah, our thikr, and may ALLAH give us the strength to pray Tahajjud during Ramadan and ask for ALLAH's blessings, ask for his Rahma, ask for his guidance and ask for his forgiveness. May ALLAH guide us, may He the MOST HIGH forgive us, may He bless us, may He increase our love for him and for our beloved prophet (saw) who when he was on his death bed said UMMATI UMMATI, our brothers and sister he was thinking about us when he was dying, let's ask our self's when do we think of him? And all the sacrifices he made for us? May ALLAH take away any love that we have for this dunya and replace is with love for akhira. 

Just another thing I would like to share with my brother and sisters in Islam, I just got married 2 months ago. I would recommend to any couple that is married to try to create a system in their lives. In the mids of work, stress, cleaning the house, paying the bills, dunya etc, it is crucial that together as a husband and wife that we try to create a system within our lives.

May husband allhamdolillah is a practicing muslim, i.e. he loves going to the Mosque to pray every salat for he knows that within every step that a man takes to the Mosque there is a blessing and reward in it. And then after Asr he goes Jawla with the brother from the Mosque, once a month he goes Khoroj fi sabili ALLAH, etc, so we barely have time for each other. And with Hikmah I always tried to tell him that it’s hard for me as a wife not to have my husband around as much as I would like, he would always say that ‘I’m doing this for ALLAH because I love him so much, and I’m doing this for us because I love you so much, and so when we sacrifice for ALLAH , ALLAH will reward us inshaALLAH’ Then he would say ‘Inna ALLAH ma3a sabirin’ So inshaALLAH as muslims we need to remember the importance of SACRIFICE and the importance of Sabr for ALLAH ta3ala. 

When realising this, we did Mashwara about it and decided that we would pray at least 1 prayer a day together (we decided Maghrib) and right after praying do Ta3lim together. ALLAH as my witness brothers and sisters so much khir and barakah from ALLAH has come into our house, the love and respect between us has increased, and our faith in ALLAH has increased. We learn about the sunnah of our prophet (saw) and inshaALLAH ALLAH will give us the ability to practice what we learn. 

The prophet (saw) said: Man a7ya sunnati fa 9ad a7abbani wa man a7abbani kana ma3aya fil’jannah. 


Hence I strongly recommend for any sister that is in my situation, to love her husband, to speak to him with hikmah, with love, to be sweet and soft, to support her husband in the path of ALLAH to back him up, to be his right hand, to be strong and to have sabr for ALLAH’s sake. Think about Aisha (radiaALLAHu 3anha), sister-do we not want to be like her? Think about Fatima (radiaALLAHu 3anha), do we not want to be like her? May ALLAH gather us in jannah with the pious woman of Islam. 

‘The Prophet (saw) said any beliving woman that dies while her husband is pleased with her will go straight to Jannah’

The prophet (saw) said: Man a7ya sunnati fa 9ad a7abbani wa man a7abbani kana ma3aya fil’jannah. 

Ya ALLAH, ya jabbar, ya Ra7im, Ya Kerim - Make us of ahlil'JANNAH

Wa ALLAHU lmosta3an.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Assalamo&#8217;alaikom wa rahmatoALLAHi ta&#8217;ala wa barakatoh;</p>
<p>First off i would like to say baraka ALLAHO fik, may ALLAH reward you in this life and most importantly in the Akhira. </p>
<p>This is deff something i will share with my husband during ta3lim this evening, your examples are trou and real. And you are right, we have to guard our iman, for our iman is our shield from this world and from anything bad that comes out of it. It is our shield against Iblis and anything that comes from him (May ALLAH protect us from him) </p>
<p>It is important that every beliver knows that salat, thikr, recitation of Quran strengthens our iman, but what else does it do? It cleanses our hart from any dirt that would have come in it from this dunya, and puts noor in it. So it is crucial that we cleanse our harts every single day, for if we don&#8217;t this dunya will make it black - Allahomma a3inni 3an thikrika wa shukra wa 7usni 3ibadatik. May ALLAH give us the ability to always remember Him, may ALLAH give us the ability to pick up the Quran and read it for a couple of minutes or more for ALLAH ta3ala. </p>
<p>May ALLAH bless us, and give us a blessed month of Ramadan, may we work hard through Ramadan, may we increase our salat, our dua, our ibadah, our thikr, and may ALLAH give us the strength to pray Tahajjud during Ramadan and ask for ALLAH&#8217;s blessings, ask for his Rahma, ask for his guidance and ask for his forgiveness. May ALLAH guide us, may He the MOST HIGH forgive us, may He bless us, may He increase our love for him and for our beloved prophet (saw) who when he was on his death bed said UMMATI UMMATI, our brothers and sister he was thinking about us when he was dying, let&#8217;s ask our self&#8217;s when do we think of him? And all the sacrifices he made for us? May ALLAH take away any love that we have for this dunya and replace is with love for akhira. </p>
<p>Just another thing I would like to share with my brother and sisters in Islam, I just got married 2 months ago. I would recommend to any couple that is married to try to create a system in their lives. In the mids of work, stress, cleaning the house, paying the bills, dunya etc, it is crucial that together as a husband and wife that we try to create a system within our lives.</p>
<p>May husband allhamdolillah is a practicing muslim, i.e. he loves going to the Mosque to pray every salat for he knows that within every step that a man takes to the Mosque there is a blessing and reward in it. And then after Asr he goes Jawla with the brother from the Mosque, once a month he goes Khoroj fi sabili ALLAH, etc, so we barely have time for each other. And with Hikmah I always tried to tell him that it’s hard for me as a wife not to have my husband around as much as I would like, he would always say that ‘I’m doing this for ALLAH because I love him so much, and I’m doing this for us because I love you so much, and so when we sacrifice for ALLAH , ALLAH will reward us inshaALLAH’ Then he would say ‘Inna ALLAH ma3a sabirin’ So inshaALLAH as muslims we need to remember the importance of SACRIFICE and the importance of Sabr for ALLAH ta3ala. </p>
<p>When realising this, we did Mashwara about it and decided that we would pray at least 1 prayer a day together (we decided Maghrib) and right after praying do Ta3lim together. ALLAH as my witness brothers and sisters so much khir and barakah from ALLAH has come into our house, the love and respect between us has increased, and our faith in ALLAH has increased. We learn about the sunnah of our prophet (saw) and inshaALLAH ALLAH will give us the ability to practice what we learn. </p>
<p>The prophet (saw) said: Man a7ya sunnati fa 9ad a7abbani wa man a7abbani kana ma3aya fil’jannah. </p>
<p>Hence I strongly recommend for any sister that is in my situation, to love her husband, to speak to him with hikmah, with love, to be sweet and soft, to support her husband in the path of ALLAH to back him up, to be his right hand, to be strong and to have sabr for ALLAH’s sake. Think about Aisha (radiaALLAHu 3anha), sister-do we not want to be like her? Think about Fatima (radiaALLAHu 3anha), do we not want to be like her? May ALLAH gather us in jannah with the pious woman of Islam. </p>
<p>‘The Prophet (saw) said any beliving woman that dies while her husband is pleased with her will go straight to Jannah’</p>
<p>The prophet (saw) said: Man a7ya sunnati fa 9ad a7abbani wa man a7abbani kana ma3aya fil’jannah. </p>
<p>Ya ALLAH, ya jabbar, ya Ra7im, Ya Kerim - Make us of ahlil&#8217;JANNAH</p>
<p>Wa ALLAHU lmosta3an.</p>
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		<title>By: Amany</title>
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		<dc:creator>Amany</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mashallah VERY NICE and WELL WRITTEN.  I could totally relate to this article since i workout for my sports, but i never knew that it could be so realated and the same foundation and techinques that i use to train could be applied to worshipping allah.  Jazakillahu Khariun brother.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mashallah VERY NICE and WELL WRITTEN.  I could totally relate to this article since i workout for my sports, but i never knew that it could be so realated and the same foundation and techinques that i use to train could be applied to worshipping allah.  Jazakillahu Khariun brother.</p>
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		<title>By: Lamya Arman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lamya Arman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Salam,

Great points!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Salam,</p>
<p>Great points!</p>
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		<title>By: Ummra</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ummra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Asalamu Alaykum,

MashAllah nice article</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Asalamu Alaykum,</p>
<p>MashAllah nice article</p>
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		<title>By: Sr. Aysha Khanom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sr. Aysha Khanom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Asalamu Alaykum,

MashAllah nice article, can relate well with this.

A hadith which can relate to this also;

Take benefit of five before five: 
your youth before your old age, 
your health before your sickness, 
your wealth before your poverty, 
your free-time before your preoccupation, 
and your life before your death.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Asalamu Alaykum,</p>
<p>MashAllah nice article, can relate well with this.</p>
<p>A hadith which can relate to this also;</p>
<p>Take benefit of five before five:<br />
your youth before your old age,<br />
your health before your sickness,<br />
your wealth before your poverty,<br />
your free-time before your preoccupation,<br />
and your life before your death.</p>
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		<title>By: Adam Bhakrani</title>
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		<dc:creator>Adam Bhakrani</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>assalaamualeikum brother abdul sattar,

this article was mashallah very good and indeed inspiring. i have had such similar thoughts too a few days ago, but haven't really took the time to expand them. alhamdulillah you put it to the point. this is the first blog post i have read and i am looking forward to read all your previous posts, as well as the posts that are about to come inshallah. may allah reward you for your efforts.

salaam

adam bhakrani</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>assalaamualeikum brother abdul sattar,</p>
<p>this article was mashallah very good and indeed inspiring. i have had such similar thoughts too a few days ago, but haven&#8217;t really took the time to expand them. alhamdulillah you put it to the point. this is the first blog post i have read and i am looking forward to read all your previous posts, as well as the posts that are about to come inshallah. may allah reward you for your efforts.</p>
<p>salaam</p>
<p>adam bhakrani</p>
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