The Ijtema.net team wish our readers a wonderful Eid! May Allah accept our good deeds, Ameen.
And just to help you keep up the Ramadan spirit all year round, insha’Allah, check out this awesome series of short posts on how to realise the true beauty of Salat. Eleven posts on, and I think it’s still being updated! Subhanallah.
Channel Title: Weekly Dhikr Gathering – Sacred Learning.org
Summary: An inspiring collection of talks to improve your Islam, given by Sh. Husain Abdul Sattar.
Abdar Rahman :Rain Gives Way to Light (click to read)
Beloved, when I look at myself I cannot see,
but when I look to You
rain gives way to light.
Rumi: Each Note (click to read)
Advice doesn’t help lovers!
They’re not the kind of mountain stream
you can build a dam across.
If I can be happy and comfortable without flipping through movie channels and serials (that have little practical good in them) in this month, then why not the rest of the year? Why give in to the false notion of “I need this kind of (switch-your-brain-off-and-laugh-yourselves-to-death) entertainment to be culturally educated and informed!” or “I need this to stay happy!”
Organic Muslimah also asks a similar question: Why only in Ramadan?
Take everything in the Qur’an as guidance for yourself because it is for all creation. When it talks about the oppressors, sinners, etc. look at your life, act on what’s implied relative to your life. “Fastaqim kama umirta,” be steadfast as you were commanded. Imagine how the Prophet, peace be upon him, applied the Qur’an to his life – his hair turned gray! His companions asked why his hair had turned white. He, peace be upon him, said, “Sura Hud and its sisters made my hair white.” He was upright and truthful in following the Qur’an. He took every address to apply to himself personally.
I read this entry a couple of days ago on bro Mushir’s blog, and i just knew i’d be posting it come Wednesday.
What exactly is the human spirit?… Call it the inner voice, or the part of you that urges you to keep fighting no matter how bad the odds are stacked against you. It is what makes you get back up, time and time again, after you have been dropped to your knees.
A beautiful poem which takes a look at this world in a spiritual, refreshing way.
How can we make the journey
  when we don’t know where we are starting?
They see this world as perfect
  I see its cracks.
In a world where we rarely achieve peace of mind, this post is a soothing reminder that it is achievable.
Peace of heart comes of a heart free of anxiety. Anxiety is caused by the weight of all that is material – the weight of food, of drink, of sleep, of idle talk. All this, like the gravity of the earth, pulls the ethereal heart downwards, and to free itself from this weight tires the heart.Â