Posts by DiariesofaHafiz
Really, these type of sites are not safe at all. I’m sure we’ve all had our dramas from such social networking type sites. Yet, everyone does it and it’s one of the mainstream forms of communication.
At one point in time, we’ve all created one. It was our new toy for a few days. Maybe the fad lasted a few weeks. But then you decided it was time to quit. The days of hiding your friends list from your parents are over. But because you cannot delete your account due to facebook policies, you deactivate it.
The next day you wake up. Well, you got nothing better to do and you promise yourself you won’t take anymore wrong steps. So you login once again and your account is automatically activated.
…And you step in to the realms of darkness upon darkness, evil upon evil, temptations upon temptations.
Well, who am I to say? I have a Facebook myself. I say I use it for marketing. I logon maybe once a week to post a link to one of my sites. Is it effective? Iono.
Your opinions?
Life Experiences
There are certain things you can only learn through experience. Typically, we learn things from the difficult experiences. Only those of higher spiritual standing can derive lessons from both good and bad times. As humans, our natural tendency is to recognize reality only in times of pain and hardship.
We live to learn and that’s how we learn to live. There’s nothing more to it.
Just a short reminder. 
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Dua’s Requested!
Madressah Experiences: Part 2 / Brotherhood
Last ME post was a bit pessimistic, so I thought I’d write something more motivational this time.
The friends you make in Madressah are inseparable. You develop a sense of closeness. I’ve been to public school, and you lose that touch once you part in life’s paths. When I made the transition to college, I lost literally all my connections from my friends in school. But when I switched Madressahs, we found ourselves together again in some way or another.
I suppose that’s the brotherhood and bonding created when you strive together for righteousness!
Scolding the Scholar? Astaghfirullah!
I was walking down the stairs with a scholar. The Masjid is fairly complex, and it’s sort of confusing as to where you wear your shoes and where you do not. So a man was walking up the stairs and the scholar and I were walking down. The man said in a raised voice “No shoes here!!”
That disrespectful tone really disturbed me. Perhaps he did not know he was a scholar, but here’s how I look at it:
If it were a non-Muslim coming to visit the Masjid, would that man act the same way? Why is it that we are double standard? And this type of double standard is disgusting. At the end of the day, the Muslims are our brothers and sisters. We show mercy to everyone, but we naturally should have a special soft part for our brothers and sisters from the Deen.
Take the example during the time of the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhe Wasallam. Someone URINATED in the corner of the Masjid. Some of the companions were about to reprimand the man, but the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhe Wasallam prevented them from doing so and waited for him to finish. After the man completed his business, the Prophet gently explained to him that we should not do that.
Of course, the intention counts. I’m 100% sure the scholar did not mean any disrespect in wearing shoes. It’s the first time he’s been to the Masjid and the Masjid is really complex in design.
Just thought I’d share this bit…
Madressah Experiences | Part 1
I really don’t know where to start, so I’ll mention random stories.
With the public education system, the teachers will work and inject the information into you. In Madressah, the information is injected by the parents. The teachers are only there to set the cirriculum and ensure you are doing it in a correct manner. That is what parents fail to realize. They think it’s an extended babysitting session at a cheaper cost.
For example, I had one friend whose parents would drop him off at Fajr and pick him up at Isha. The class was initially 7:30am – 5:30 PM. As much as you need to put time in Qur’aan and school, you can’t dump your child there like that. Secondly, there should also be extra curricular activities so he doesn’t get burnt out. Preferably it should be a sport so we can destroy the stereotype that those who go to madressah come back as sumo wrestlers. But it could be anything the child enjoys doing.
I don’t mean to pick fingers at anyone. This is only for good advice purposes. Not really much of an experience, but a large part of my Madressah experience was with children with similar situations. It’s only until the last year of my Hifdh where I found an exceptional Madressah where I graduated from Alhamdulillah. I’ll go into details of that soon as well insha’Allah.
About Me
I'm your Muslim-American-Born-Teenager, but I'm far from being average or typical. I consider myself adventurous, but not in the sense that I'll go hunting for tigers in the rainforests of India (isn't that where you find tigers?) or attempt bungee jumping off the Empire State Building. Rather, my definition for adventure is to challenge myself in spiritual betterment...as monkish or Mullah Hullah as that may sound. But it really is an interesting adventure in its own weirdly and bewitched way. >Read More...
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